what is your favorite f-droid app?

m0darn , 10 months ago

I wouldn’t want my boss to know how much time I’m spending using Feudal Tactics.

saegor , 10 months ago

• tracker control
• libretube
• qksms
• etar
• mastodon
• podverse
• forecastie
• organic maps
• tracker control
• tracker control

Cris_Color , 10 months ago

For anyone looking for tracker control, it’s called trackercontrol on f-droid, and only showed up for me when typed as one word.

Thanks for the recommendations!

UdeRecife , 10 months ago

Pie launcher + faster. The lightweight minimalistic combo for a distraction-free phone.

jadelord , 10 months ago

• Antennapod, podcast
• DAVx5, calendar and contacts sync
• DuckDuckGo
• Element
• Fedilab, mastodon
• Fennec, firefox
• Florisboard, gboard alt
• Imagepipe, image privacy
• Jerboa, lemmy
• KDE connect
• KeepassDX
• KISS launcher
• Nextcloud
• Noice, ambient noise generator
• Ntfy, UnifiedPush notifications
• Organic Maps, openstreetmaps
• Read You, rss reader
• Shelter
• Simple calendar, contacts, sms etc
• Syncthing-Fork
• Transistor, radio
• Transportr, public transport
• Tuner, music instrument tuner
• UntrackMe Lite

art , 10 months ago

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.

scarilog , 10 months ago

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?

linearchaos , 10 months ago

According to some post on Reddit it’s actually using the Android kernel

www.reddit.com/r/…/is_termux_a_virtual_machine/

ICastFist , 10 months ago

TrackerControl

The in-app search of f-droid sucks, tho.

jerkface , 10 months ago

I haven’t explored the other options too much yet but 90% of the time, my pad is running Librera FD 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.

ZeeratheZesty , 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

I used to make a lot of use of Newpipe, and probably should get back to using it more, but I’ve admittedly been preferring to use the mobile site with adblock for a while now, only switching to NewPipe for video downloads, due to how often NewPipe was having issues (presumably caused by frequent Youtube updates). Is that better these days? I sure hope so, it’s a lovely app otherwise that I’d love to use more.

As for my own favorite, it’s hard for me to pick, because there’s several I make use of daily. In no particular order:

• Simple Keyboard - Has been my main mobile keyboard for years now.
• Editor - Just a simple text editor, comes up surprisingly useful.
• Diary - I personally use this as a dream journal, and it works well.
• Simple Calculator - Does exactly what it says on the tin. For some reason, my new phone I got last year doesn’t even come with a calculator, lol.
• Simple Calendar; Simple Gallery - I prefer these to the default Android apps.
• Simple Voice Recorder - I make music sometimes, so this is useful to hum a quick tune before it leaves my head.
• TimeR Machine - I use this during daily exercise as a HIIT Timer.

I’d also recommend RedReader, but I can’t in good faith do that anymore because of what’s going on with Reddit these days. Haven’t used it or the site much since June.

I’d say my favorite is probably Simple Keyboard just due to how often I use it (read: literally all the time, because it’s a keyboard), but I’ve gotta give mad props to TimeR Machine. It’s genuinely a really polished app, and even gives you a quick walkthrough on how to use it on first startup that’s pretty helpful. It’d be neat to see more apps with those options.-

jet OP , 10 months ago

Newpipe has been very stable lately.

nudnyekscentryk , 10 months ago

• 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

RvTV95XBeo , 10 months ago

Thanks for this list! Breezy Weather and Tasks.org just made it into my rotation

randint , 10 months ago

I like Termux (terminal emulator) and Xeonjia (fun little game)

mapletree , 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

TLDR:

• NewPipe for YouTube playback
• OsmAnd+ for great offline maps with lots of customisability
• Termux for terminal emulation and ssh
• StreetComplete to easily contribute map data to the OpenStreetMap project, which also powers OsmAnd+ without knowing anything about OSM
• KeePassDX for convenient and secure password storage including autofill (combined with Syncthing for syncing your databases this is a fully fledged password manager across platforms)
• AdAway as a reliable adblocker for all applications which doesn’t require root, but can use the benefits of rooting your device to increase its usefulness even more

+1 for all the NewPipe mentions, as it’s extremely useful especially for background playback

Also OsmAnd+ is incredibly useful if you don’t want to give your location data to Google constantly. The maps are equally as good as those of the tech giants and it gets expanded regularly with actually useful features, like most recently, weather data. Its biggest strength however is the customisability in my opinion, because you can style everything according to your needs, starting at the overlay and the style of the map and going on at the specific level of detail and custom navigation modes. Additionally, you can download maps of the entire world for free and they get updated regularly. Only downside: There is no traffic data as of now, probably because it would be difficult to implement without processing user data. It’s also on the Play Store, but there the “+” version costs money and because the project in itself is commited to being open source I think it’s important to list

Lastly, Termux really is the best terminal emulator for Android out there. It is extremely powerful, even allows sh hooks into system utilities like brightness and biometric login, and has great styling and widget support. You can even install full Linux-OS’s in a sandbox via proot!

edit: add even more great apps

Pssk , 10 months ago

Handy reading

choroalp , 10 months ago

NewPipe for Sure. Normal YouTube apps is bloated as hell + NewPipe is very nice to listen music

Scrollone , 10 months ago

NewPipe has only one problem: the inability to log into your Google account and keep your subscriptions and watch later playlist synced.

ArcaneSlime , 10 months ago

“Problem.”*

Those of us who degoogled see this as a pro not a con.

I’d also blame youtube, iirc there is no way to export your playlists to a .csv, which could then be imported to something like newpipe easily. Of course, youtube doesn’t want to let you do that because the only thing keeping people from newpipe is really this “sunken cost” aspect to it.

grue , 10 months ago

I want to degoogle, but I also want to keep track of which videos I’ve watched already across devices. Maybe Newpipe and similar apps need a self-hosted server companion app. Or maybe a plugin for existing server software, like I dunno, Jellyfin or Nextcloud or something. Maybe using RSS? I’m just brainstorming here…

ClemaX , 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

There are piped and invidious to do exactly this. You can host the server yourself or use a public instance. Subscriptions can be exported using google takeout and imported into piped when creating an account.

I don’t know if the history can be imported too, but at least it synchronises keeps track of new history across devices.

piped.video

ASK_ME_ABOUT_LOOM , 10 months ago

I’m not in any way de-Googled, but I’m an old person who just wants to watch the occasional youtube link without all of the extra bullshit, and newpipe is perfect for that. Not having subscriptions or being able to login to my Google account is absolutely a feature, not a bug.

Also, quick plug for NewPipe x SponsorBlock which can be added to F-Droid (I’ve since switched to Obtanium for it)

ArcaneSlime , 10 months ago

And of course, though you can’t import your old playlists, you can still create new ones to use with newpipe.

Hell, you might be able to just make your old playlist on youtube “public” and access it with newpipe, and then bookmark that whole playlist, now that I think about it.

ClemaX , 10 months ago

You can export YT and YT music subscriptions in CSV format on google takeout: takeout.google.com/settings/takeout/…/youtube

ArcaneSlime , 10 months ago

Good to know, thanks!

cokane_88 , 10 months ago

I haven’t been on fdroid in years but I and mostly my kid used use play this silly matching game called Doda the Explodad or something, themed after Doria the explorer

maiskanzler , 10 months ago

Simple Gallery and Simple Filebrowser are awesome! Also KDE Connect, Davx, Catima and Etar, my favourite calendar app!