Personally paid for Niagara launcher as I find that to be the far superior launcher to any other I’ve tried. My second one is Symfonium, the most feature rich and well developed audio player.
What are yours?
NZB360 for managing my *arr services for downloading movies and TV shows
WOW I had no idea this existed, but I’ve been wanting it for a long time. Thank you so much.
:D I’m so happy I could introduce you to it! It’s made my life so much easier.
Is this something like the overseerr but for phones?
Not quite… this is like a general manager app for all those sorts of services. You can use it to manage your overseer, as well as all the other *arr apps. I got my app set up with sabnzbd, sonarr, radarr, tautulli, overseer, tachidesk, tdarr, and prowlarr, I use it to monitor my upcoming movies and TV shows with the built in calendar, or see what recently downloaded. I can also manage my imports. Say a tv show requires manual importing, I can check and add it through the app. It’s got a really nice interface and allows me to monitor my active downloads, and I can manually add things to download, or delete directly with my services.
Is there any Lemmy android client with the push notifications?
Thunder has local notifications and is completely free.
Eternity has notifications. It is free as in beer tho
Niagara launcher
Sirin audiobook reader.
Heads up: Nova launcher got sold out to a shady company - Branch Analytics.
Thanks for the warning, I didn’t know about that. That’s disappointing news.
Are there any good free software alternatives?
I used Nova forever. It was great.
I switched to Total launcher and now I don’t miss nova.
And laid off all but one person. Source: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/08/nova-launcher-savior-of-cruft-filled-android-phones-is-on-life-support/
Someone in Ars comments linked this:
https://f-droid.org/en/packages/fr.neamar.kiss/
Any experiences?
I like Neo Launcher.
Surprised they still update it to work considering how old it is.
Sd maid Se . worth paying
Tasker. Pretty much programming your Android to automate things. Such a powerful app.
I got recommended Macrodroid, so I’m going to try that as well as a comparison for my needs
I have purchased both. I prefer Tasker but not as many things work as in Macrodroid in Android 14. So a big +1 for Macrodroid from me.
I bought blackplayer EX a while ago because it was a great music player but now it seems to be abandonded with the last update being a year ago and I have started encountering some issues.
Poweramp still going strong ten years later.
Might have to look into it after blackplayer dies on me
RealCalc
It’s a really nice calculator.
I have this one. It’s the best Android calculator I’ve used.
I love the widget feature. You can add a whole calculator to your home screen, I have it taking up my second page, so whenever I need a calculator I swipe across once and it’s there.
Stardew Valley.
The only other app I have paid for that wasn’t a game is “iVCam” so I can use my phone’s camera as a webcam that isn’t limited to some stupidly small resolution or have a watermark, can do more than 30fps, and also works as a source in OBS. I mostly use it for full body tracking in VR with the April tag system. But I wouldn’t say it’s my favorite.
Android has webcam support in USB mode and has for like 3 versions now, though?
When it asks you what you want your device to do when plugged into a PC you get options like "file transfer (ftp)”, webcam should be on the bottom
Works flawlessly for me in both Linux and Windows for OBS
To be fair, I bought the app years ago when that wasn’t a thing. But I also don’t see webcam as an available option when plugging it into my PC. I have a carrier branded Pixel 8 rn, so it might not have everything a regular stock android would. :/
I can actually just use some FOSS thing I found on GitHub to basically remote access my phone now via ADB, which is also handy in VR as I can use a VR version of it without taking off the headset.
Torque Pro. Extra gauges for your car, like oil temp, timing, fuel trim, air-to-fuel ratio, tire pressures, MPG, and so much more. Also you can use it to see if you’ll pass emissions before you even go in for testing. (Requires OBD-II Bluetooth dongle.)
Also if you’re willing to answer a couple of surveys a month, you can get paid apps for free forever using the Google Opinion Rewards app.
Google Opinion Rewards app.
Unless Google Googles you. I used to use this, but I have apparently been permanently silently banned from it with no explanation and no recourse. I did nothing wrong or disingenuous as far as I can tell; It simply kept asking me – presumably based on my location – how my experience was with retailer X, Y, or Z was. Always stores which I had not visited but simply gone near, and I truthfully answered that I did not go to those places and it’d give me thirty cents or whatever, but then one day it just stopped offering me surveys at all, apparently forever.
So I guess this flags the magic Google algorithm that I am worthless as a consumer and the app no just longer does anything on any of my devices anymore. It loads, it displays, but it never presents me any surveys. It squatted there on my phone completely silent for six months, so I uninstalled it. What a crock.
Also, I’m sure they’re spying on you all the time through that app. Obviously it tracks your location, and Satan himself only knows what else it reports back to them. I think I’d give it a miss at this point. I’d rather pay $2 of real money for some app versus having Google snooping around behind me all the time just to get something for “free.”
But yeah, Torque Pro is worth it. I use it all the time. So is Alpine Quest. Those are the only two paid apps I ever use on my phone.
First time I heard of Google Opinion Rewards. Skimmed through the Terms of Service, and they indeed tell you that they use your location and gather information tied to your Google account.
But hey, at least this time they are paying for selling your privacy!
Google don’t need an app if they want to spy on you.
Unless you’ve switched to a rom without google play services, they can essentially do anything they want on your phone without you knowing.
Buzzkill! Perfect to remove distracting notifications during work hours or to not see some notifications altogether
Buzzkill is very nice. I’m in a group chat that gets huge bursts of activity (like a hundred messages) and then goes dormant for a bit, so I set buzzkill to only give me at most 1 notification every 30 minutes, and keep the rest of them silent. That way I can still keep up with it without my phone blowing up
Slay the Spire
Also Balatro
Not today, Satan.
I’ve been playing it and it’s definitely fun but it’s not as sticky as StS imo. There’s too much randomness and not enough control. At least compared to sts
Give it some time, you might just get there.
The randomness is basically a variable to be controlled for in the same manner that it has to be controlled in Slay the Spire.
I wonder if it ever goes on sale. I added it to my Google playstore wishlist to keep tabs.
I don’t think it goes on sale ever, but $10 is effectively a permanent sale compared to Steam
Don’t tell me this! I have it on my steam deck and it is addictive enough. I had no idea it was available on android. I am going to try and pretend I didn’t read this.
You could also turn your steam version into the mobile version using this. It was created before the official apps but still works and transfers your save data too!
The Royal Spanish Academy’s dictionary, most likely. While I can easily have conversations in Spanish, the similarities with my mother language every once in a while make me get words confused, specially in conjugation (why does B and V need to sound so similar…). I’ve had it for a while, and although it was a bit pricey, it has saved me quite a few times from awkward mix ups. Also bonus points for working completely offline (looking at you, Yomiwa dictionary…), and having no problems being sideloaded into vanilla Android systems.
