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What are some FDroid tools/apps you regularly use and enjoy?

8d 4h ago by sh.itjust.works/u/funkless_eck in asklemmy@lemmy.ml

AntennaPod is The best podcast app I've come across

Delta chat is chat over email infrastructure

Linklater is a client for my selfhosted linkding bookmark app

Tusky is my mastodon app of choice

Unciv is Civ5 scaled down to pixel graphics

Termux is my terminal emulator for android

Weechat-android I use for chatting on IRC

Kahon I use for reading manga and comics

But my instinct is to first check on fdroid before I look for something on Google play

Another bump for antennapod, haven't found a better podcast app yet and I have tried a few just to see.

Also Delta Chat, I have recently been trying it out through the Arcane Chat app (same dev, Arcane seems to be his feature testing grounds) and I love it so far. It's easy enough to use I was able to get my mom on it, can't say that for XMPP or Matrix! I'm sure it's got its own problems, no forward secrecy, metadata (which to my knowledge every messaging app has by virtue of how "messages" work, even snail mail, it has to know who to go to), but then again Delta wasn't started as an Amdocs (mossad associated company that infiltrated US telcom) product like the Matrix Foundation, so I trust it more for now. And Delta/Arcane uses so much less battery than Conversations does when running GrapheneOS, like by a LOT. I just checked, Conversations has eaten 20% of my charge since full, Arcane Chat has used less than 1% despite having the same screen/background times and same number of messages sent/received on both.

Bump for AntennaPod. Ditched Spotify for good last year and this has been a great replacement. I used to use PocketCasts back on the day, but that app switched to a subscription model and now my one time premium purchase means nothing. AntennaPod is better anyway!

Breezy Weather
CoMaps
Gadgetbridge
Seal

I switched from Breezy to Overmorrow. Check it out :)

Sadly it doesn't seem to have a feature I need, which is gadgetbridge data sharing, so I can get the weather in my wearable. Breezy has it.

I can't find it on f-droid.

Whoops! You have to add the "izzyondroid" repo.

Vector pinball, lol

It's great for killing 10 minutes at a time

Thx, great recommondation!

I also enjoy the Fruity Game

Forkyz (Crossword puzzles)

Insular (aka Island) for using the work profile without a corporate log in.

K-9 Email A Thunderbird fork Picked up by Mozilla to become the new Thunderbird

Open Camera A camera app with some missing features from the built-in camera app.

Voyager for Lemmy

K9 is not a Thunderbird fork, it was created as it's own thing. Recently it's been picked up by Mozilla to become Thunderbird for android with the original creator still on board.

Oh I misunderstood then! I thought I read somewhere that it was a fork.

It's actually the opposite, TBirdMobile is a fork of K9 (and it's basically just reskinned blue for now lol), they currently have feature parity but at some point (supposedly already, but I guess they delayed it because K9 got an update a couple months ago) K9 is set to stop receiving updates as they fully switch over to TBird.

I also love K9, been using it since ~2012.

At least for now, it is just blue K9, but so help me if Mozilla hurts my sweet app I'm gonna throw a fit lol.

I tried to like OpenCamera, but the pictures just look awful compared to Pixel Camera, so I'm using that with network permissions denied. Maybe I'm doing something wrong or Google is just doing some post processing magic.

The mic is broken on my Pixel 6 and the Pixel camera resets to use the internal mic every time it starts, where Open Camera will save the setting to use an external mic. I may have had to tweak settings initially to get good quality but it's been fine for a long time. Black Magic would auto switch to external mic (as does Samsung, btw) but the video was absolute unusable garbage on Black Magic on the Pixel. I don't know if they've fixed it yet but there was something terribly wrong with it. All of that led me to using Open Camera by default.

wX for weather.

Does it depend on a non-free service?

Isn't it just NOAA?

I don't know. FDroid said it promoted or entirely relied on a paid service. That's why I asked.

Yeah I think they're counting NOAA as non-free since you couldn't run their servers yourself. Which like, NOAA is doing the data collection and analysis themselves. I'm not sure that's a fair classification. Maybe I'm missing something

I believe so.

Not in any particular order.

  • OpenFoodFacts
  • OpenPetFoodFacts
  • Newpipe
  • Vespucci
  • StreetComplete
  • Every Door
  • Organic Maps
  • Unciv
  • PySolFC
  • Simple Text Editor
  • Cuppa
  • Fossify Clock
  • Emotic
  • Joplin
  • SolXpect
  • Obtanium

Although I use Obtanium when possible, but all are available in F-droid.

https://github.com/Futsch1/medTimer

DNS66, it blocks ads on a dns level so I never see them on my phone

  • AntennaPod: Podcast app
  • CoMaps: OpenStreetMap client
  • StreetComplete: Fun and easy way to contribute to OpenStreetMap
  • Immich: Google Photos replacement
  • Infomaniak Mail: Mail client for Infomaniak
  • Jellyfin: Official Jellyfin client
  • Kvaesitso: Android launcher
  • MuPDFmini: Pdf viewer
  • ntfy: Self-hosted notification service
  • Paperless Mobile: Paperless client
  • whoBIRD: Recognise birds by their sounds

GPSLogger, the GOAT.

Not only recording GPX daily and uploading them to the cloud for me to record walks, rides and all movements, but also sending location data to a selfhosted Traccar server. Disappeared off Google Play due to problems keeping it listed there, but still available on Fdroid.

Gallery (org.fossify.gallery).

  • articons, amazing. An icon pack that is simple and suports almost every app you likely have installed.

  • aves libre. Probably the best photo gallery for android.

  • breezy weather. My main weather app, beutiful ui.

  • chrono, nice clock app that beats the default provided by oneui.

  • evmap, if you have an ev.

  • find my device (fmd) currently what I can see as the only available option for finding my phone with foss software.

  • Goodtime, pomodoro timer i use.

  • jerboa, I think you know.

  • local send, foss airdrop

Port Authority, it's not been updated in ages but still works and is super useful for checking open ports on your network.

Image Toolbox

Antenna Pod

Catima

Super Productivity

OpenTracks, Etar (calendar app), Tuner, Audile (like Shazam), QuickWeather, PySolFC (zillion solitaire variations), URL Radio, KDE Connect, IronFox, SunTimes, Moon Phase

Trying to replace the bad apps placed on the phone by the manufacturer and google with these:

  • YTDLnis
  • mpvExtended
  • Librera Reader
  • CoMaps
  • Image Toolbox
  • Mastodon
  • Aves Libre
  • ShowCase
  • Healthy Battery Charging
  • floccus bookmark sync
  • Voyager for Lemmy
  • Fossify Voice
  • Fossify Phone
  • Fossify Calculator
  • Caffeinate
  • Weather master
  • ProtonVPN
  • HeliBoard
  • KDE Connect
  • Audire
  • Material Notes
  • Tubular (Newpipe with extra functionality)
  • Droid-ify
  • Termux
  • Localsend
  • Audio Share
  • Open Video Editor
  • FocusPodcast

My next phone is gonna be a degoogled one in the first place.

i use librera for reading!

CAPod - AirPods companion

Aves Libre - Gallery

Dicio - Basic voice assistant

Neo Backup - App (and app data) backup/restore

App Manager - Block trackers, package installer, disable system apps, etc.

PipePipe - NewPipe fork with sponsorblock, returnyoutubedislikes, etc.

SimpMusic - YouTube Music client

ExifEraser - Deletes metadata from images

FfShare - compresses video/images before sending them over MMS

RHVoice - text to speech engine

Droid-ify - F-Droid client

BitWarden - password manager

ProtonMail - email

Quik - SMS/MMS

A bunch of games but also

  • Leon - URL cleaner
  • Acode - code/text editor
  • syncthing - file sync
  • automation - simple task automator
  • redmoon - darkens and tints screen in runup to bedtime

Which games do you play? I've been out of mobile gaming for a while

From Fdroid?

  • IED
  • Simon Tatham's puzzles
  • Luanti
  • Endless Sky
  • Gurgle
  • Gridle
  • unciv
  • Mindustry
  • Tessel

I also have Mitch for itch.io games and Lemuroid for emulating older systems. There are a lot of fun things to emulate.

+1 for Luanti and Simon Tatham's Puzzles.

I used to use Lemuroid too, but now prefer RetroArch. Both use the same libretro "cores" (plugins/emulators/programs). RA has many more features, but is mainly gamepad oriented (though its default UI is quite usable via touchscreen). Lemuroid has less features but it's easy to setup.

Shattered Pixel Dungeon is also quite nice if you like roguelikes.

Vector Pinball is also cool.

SpamBlocker - helps reduce spam phone calls, blocks spoofs STIR, setup rulea as needed

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.farmerbb.notepad/ Every app I kept finding on play store had ads or added functionality it just did not need. This now is even cleaner than Microsoft's notepad app which used to be hailed as simple. I legit just need an app to take notes with no special support or features.

Candle

Uses your display as a flashlight, with customisable colors/brightness.

Being able to have it set to a dark red for night vision without disturbing my partner is fantastic.

Pirate Solitaire