I love the Infinity Reddit app (but gonna miss it).
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F-Droid for FOSS apps
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Aurora for Google Playstore apps
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OSMAnd for navigation
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Oeffi for public transport
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many Simple Mobile Tools apps
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K-9 Mail
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Tor browser
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Shelter for isolating apps
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Tusky for Mastodon
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Jerboa for Lemmy
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Nunti for RSS feeds
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Molly for Signal
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Telegram FOSS
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Aegis for 2FA
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QickDic (dictionary)
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TinyWeather
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Threema Libre (not free)
For the map I prefer Organic Maps, it has a cleaner UI
Just having a look at it, ty.
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Ankidroid— Create, share, borrow and study with flash cards
Firefox— Web browser
Rethink Firewall— Best firewall for android
Infinity— Gonna miss this one (Reddit client)
Libretube— Modern Youtube client using Piped
Obtainium—Keeps track of all my foss apps from their git repositories + them
Gnu IMP— Desktop photo editor
Aurora Store— Download apps from the play store
Thanks for recommending Libretube. I just switched to GrapheneOS and was looking for a FOSS revanced replacement without the need for Play Services or MicroG. Libretube is absolutely perfect.
No problem! I love it so much. The devs are constantly adding new features too
cant choose one because i enjoy using a lot of them:
- bitwarden
- inkscape
- kdenlive
- nextcloud
- organic maps
- signal games
- shattered pixel dungeon
- openttd
Emacs, that’s all I need!
Bitwarden
I’ve seen Bitwarden show up in this thread a few times. I’ve been a longtime user of KeePassX. Is there any particular reason I should consider switching?
What made me choose bitwarden is the emergency access feature.
It allows to designate someone as an emergency contact. This person can request access to your vault and if you don’t deny the request then they will have access after x days.
This way, if something happens to me then someone in my close family can still access my account.
I got the case recently with my brother in law who got into an accident and thanks God his laptop was not locked so my sister could access his accounts.
Because if not it can be a nightmare ! Having to deal with all the utilities company, harassing you because you did not pay the bill that arrived on a locked email account, then not being able to pay the bill anyways because you have to connect on they website … on top of getting your husband and the father of your child in the hospital in a coma.
This is a very good point. I’ve often wondered about a safe and secure method of getting my important passwords to a family member in the unfortunate event that something should happen to me.
That said, I’m very sorry to hear about your brother-in-law.
IMO KeePassX’s UI is way better than Bitwarden’s, but Bitwarden has very convenient syncing and a browser extension that actually works with almost any website.
I used to use KeePassXC and KeepassDX on my phone, syncing them through Syncthing. But depending on Syncthing and the clients always making the right changes to the one database file without destroying something never felt good and always having to run Syncthing in the background on my phone probably didn’t do its battery life any favors.
Add to that some frustrations with the browser extension and that’s why I decided to switch to Bitwarden in the end.
A big benefit for me (as a person using their cloud hosting option) is that the Organizations feature is free for up to 2 people so my fiancee and I can share logins and credit cards without a subscription.
There is a new maintained fork of keepassx called keepassxc as well if you want to stick with keepass
FairEmail is a great email client. Also everytime I reinstall my phone, I get the SimpleMobileTools line of apps, their apps like gallery or calendar are nice-looking and useful.
Seconding Fairemail! It’s great, though it was a bit challenging for me to set up as a newb to foss apps. I also use signal, bitwarden, aegis, and newpipe a lot.
Blender
Godot
Gimp
Probably the nicest Foss stack for game development.
@tiring7616 firefox
emacs
YyyyyyyyyyuuuuuuuuuuuuuP.
Yes, ++. Emacs is by far the App I use the most. While my system runs, I never close it. I live in it.
vim
Blender and Firefox for me have always been the apps that have their shit together the most. Both I perceive as insanely complicated pieces of software with a lot of features that work really well and compete with for profit corporations with way more resources.
I’m really impressed with how far Blender has come. Some seriously good stuff. Doesn’t feel like it has stagnated at all, good UI changes, cool new tools… I’m not a big user of it lately, but it’s cool to see how much progress it has made over the years.
Firefox.
Also:
Thunderbird Gimp Audacious
- KDE Connect
- LibreTorrent for Android
- Droid-ify for F-Droid
- Orbot for Android (I use it mainly for running the snowflake proxy)
- Syncthing - for sycing what pretty much amounts to /home between my mobile and laptop
- Bitwarden - password manager
- ProtonVPN - VPN
- Trail Sense - Hiking tools, most frequently for barometric readings
- Proton Mail - email
- Coffee - keeps the screen on through a button in my notifications. Mostly used when cooking for recipes
- NewPipe - YouTube and downloading
- Droid-ify - Better UI for fdroid
- Aegis - OTP manager
- VLC - needs no introduction
- Kore - remote for Kodi
- Geometric Weather - simple weather app
- Noteless - markdown notetaker. I’ve mostly moved everything over to Obsidian, but I like my grocery list here still…
These are some great suggestions, I use several of these already but I hadn’t heard of Coffee, Droid-ify or Geometric Weather and all three have been added to my phone. I really appreciate Coffee because I’ve been manually updating the screen timeout each time I cook and it’s a pain to switch it each time, this quick toggle is a definite quality of life improvement. Droid-ify and Geometric weather are slick and I really like their look. Thanks!
Cool! I use coffee all the time and can’t imagine cooking without it now.
- Fedilab for Mastodon (an alternative to Tusky)
- Jerboa for Lemmy
- LibreTube for usable YouTube without an account
- FluffyChat for Matrix (an alternative to Element)
- FairEmail for mails
- Molly for Signal (pretty much the same as the original app)
- Forkgram for Telegram (also pretty much the same as the original open source version)
- Aurora for PlayStore apps
- F-Droid
- Fennec for browsing (the opener version of Firefox)
- Aegis for 2FA (an alternative to Google Authenticator)
- KeePassDX for passwords (an alternative to Keepass2Android)
- OpenKeychain for PGP Keys
- Orbot for connecting to Tor and running a Snowflake proxy
- RethinkDNS as DNS with blocklists, firewall and routing to Orbot via Proxy for all TCP connections
- Tutanota as synchronized calendar
- Osmand~ for navigation (an alternative to Google Maps)
- Transportr for public transport (an alternative to DB Navigator in Germany)
- In general the “Simple …” apps on F-Droid are also nice
I’ll be in Germany next month, so I’ll have to try out Transportr
Transportr is not covering all cities in Germany, while DB does. So do have both :)
