What is your must have open source application available on fdroid?
New pipe - the YouTube front end is absolutely critical for my lifestyle.
I use Libretube, newpipe x sponsorblock, Liftoff, Aegis, all the Simple apps (Gallery, Draw, File Manager, etc) I use too many
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Little File Explorer – Simple. Android 1.0+. 40KB apk.
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Music Player Lite – Fast and simple. Sleep timer. Dark/Light themes. Shuffle and queue.
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Endless Sky – cool space sandbox trading & exploration game.
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Greentooth – Automatic Bluetooth disabler.
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Tachiyomi – Manga Reader.
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Lemuroid – All in One emulator. Not the best UI. Simple, yet quite powerful.
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Librera Reader – Book & PDF reader.
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Quillpad – Markdown notes, task lists, Nextcloud sync and more.
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KeePassDX – Secure and open source password manager.
Thank you for putting descriptions
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Probably KeepassDX, Syncthing and Mull. Newpipe is also a good one, especially since it also supports PeerTube.
Edit: Oh and I forgot about Jerboa.
I haven’t explored the other options too much yet but 90% of the time, my pad is running Librera FD https://f-droid.org/packages/com.foobnix.pro.pdf.reader/ which I think you have to pay money for at the Google store. It’s a great document reader and I really like the musician mode.
Dont really use fdroid as much since I moved to obtainium but If I had to choose one app it would be keepassdx, my favorite password manager file editor. Its just laid out nicely and I love that it just works.
Subtracks, its an client app that plays music that’s streamed from your self hosted music server.
I wouldn’t want my boss to know how much time I’m spending using Feudal Tactics.
Termux: It makes Android closer to a real computer. I can SSH into machines, rsync files to my NAS, and build and compile applications.
It’s usually the first thing I install.
I’ve always wondered, how exactly does termux work? Is it fully emulating the terminal, or does it somehow accelerate processing by tapping into the underlying Linux kernel on Android?
According to some post on Reddit it’s actually using the Android kernel
https://www.reddit.com/r/termux/comments/y7yqls/is_termux_a_virtual_machine/
Tusky
Tailscale
Home Assistant
Geometric Weather
Feeder
2048
AntennaPod
ConnectBot
DiskUsage
K-9 Mail
Paperless
Telegram
Check out Breezy Weather! It is a fork of Geometric with a lot of updates! It’s still in beta but it’s better already. Currently available on IzzyonDroid
- Droid-ify (I prefer it to F-droid)
- Immich
- Syncthing
- Paperless Mobile
- WireGuard
- Joplin
- VLC
- Aegis Authenticator
- Obtainium
- Shelter
- Catan Dice Game
Immich seems cool! Its website warms it’s under active development, what do you think of it? What do you think of it compared to other gphotos alternatives?
Until recently, I was using Photoprism. I’d donated via Github a couple of times, as they were promising multi-user capability. They delivered it - behind a paid subscription model. Immich makes it available as is.
I finally took the plunge with Immich a couple of weeks ago, and I love it. I haven’t really experienced any major bugs - the facial recognition is… OK. Not (yet) Google Photos good, but getting there. The machine learning has also done a recent job on object recognition. I can usually search for the main object in my ~15k of photos, and get a small enough set of results that I can reasonably quickly find the exact photo I was looking for.
I’m about to onboard my wife onto it, now that I’m satisfied (and have my backup strategy in place). That will be the next test.
The dev is very active and responsive - I posed a question in the tech support channel on the Immich Discord server, on a weekend, and he responded in about an hour with a couple of suggestions. Colour me impressed - he’ll be getting my next tech donation, for sure.
Keen to see where he plans on taking it - the app definitely needs some additional features to get closer to parity with Google Photos. Auto-sharing of recognised faces would be great (so my wife and I can auto-share pics of our daughter with each other), plus some basic search filters - dates, places, faces all in a single search would be a good place to start.
Thank you for the detailed response!
We need a way to save comment and posts for personal usage later… Nice list. Yoink.
We have it. There’s a save option
Oh yes Aegis Authenticator. Its so essential, I forgot. Plus Bitwarden Passwordmanager
- AdAway – system-wide ad-blocker, works with and without root, but Adguard DNS work well enough so don’t bother if you can’t root.
- Aegis – clean OTP app
- AntennaPod – best podcast player with lots of customisation
- Breezy Weather (requires IzzyOnDroid repo; fork of the abandoned Geometric Weather) – brilliant, beautiful, ad-free weather app with Accuweather data
- CloudStream (IzzyOnDroid) – 🏴☠️ video streaming from all over the web
- Doodle Live Wallpaper – FOSS recreation of Google’s Pixel wallpapers with some extra customisation
- Frost for Facebook – pretty web wrapper for browsing Facebook
- LibreTorrent – FOSS, ad-free torrenting app
- OsmAnd+ – OpenStreetMap client with navigation, offline maps and loads and loads of customisation
- Antimine – infinite minesweeper game
- Neo Backup – root-based app data backup
- SimpleAppDowngrader – root-based, allows downgrading apps without uninstalling and retains data files
- Tasks.org – best tasklist available, self-hosted but also works with Google Tasks
- ViMusic – free YouTube Music client, works flawlessly and is very pretty
- Wave Lines Live Wallpaper – customisable wave lines live wallpaper
Thanks for this list! Breezy Weather and Tasks.org just made it into my rotation
Handy reading
There’s so many I could list, I’ll just mention 2 underrated ones I don’t see mentioned as much:
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LibreTube - Best YouTube client imo, has a very nice and modern interface, proxies videos through Piped for maximum privacy (No direct connections to Google are made), No ads/tracking, SponsorBlock + Return YouTube Dislikes, support for downloading videos, etc. It’s everything I’d want and more out of a YouTube client.
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URLCheck - Excellent app that allows you to preview what a URL is before you click it, includes tons of features such as scanning for malware, removing any tracking parameters, upgrading links from HTTP to HTTPS, etc. I can’t recommend this app enough for the security, privacy, and general peace of mind it gives you.
URLCheck is extremely underrated!
It also prevents other apps from knowing what app the URL originated from (by acting as a proxy), and lets you customize the activity flags too
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I use KeePass and Syncthing, but for mild fun I like Lexica and StreetComplete.
Lexica is a word finding game on a grid with a timer, and it’s very customizable (size of grid, min length of words, length of timer, etc). Words can and often do cross over themselves and run in all directions. Invariably I will miss stupid obvious words, and I’m always interested to see the list of missed words at the end. They provide definitions for the ones you just don’t believe and have to click.
StreetComplete is a way to update Open Streetmap with goals and badges and all that gamification jazz. For an additional personal challenge, try updating house data without making homeowners look at you funny and/or call the cops.
Oh yeah, I use IITC-CE too, because Ingress is life. And Niantic can take a flying leap.
Neostore (I prefer that to f Droid) LibreTube/NewPipe Sponsorblock Aves Libre for gallery Aegis authenticator for 2fa Bitwarden Fairmail Doodle - live wallpapers Liftoff for lemmy Antimine - minesweeper Mull/Bromite/Fennec/Chromium for browsers
