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Firefox. Shouldn’t need introduction.
Yes there are forks that may be better to use but let us not forget the one main browser family who’s been giving us a chance at fighting against
Malwarebrowsers with zero respect for our privacy.Neo launcher
AntennaPod Podcast player with awesome ui
Thumb-Key is a keyboard with an input method that tries to reduce the odds of typos, reducing the need for fancy autocomplete. It takes some time to get used to, but I’m happy with it.
Breezy weather. It plays nice with gadget bridge and if you use the git version you can choose all kinds of weather sources, the fdroid one is a bit more restrictive. Also it just looks great and is easy to interpret at a glance.
WifiAnalyzer, great for finessing your own WiFi channels by providing a scan layout of all 2.4Ghz and 5/6Ghz channels in your area.
You can see bandwidth, signal strength, overlapping networks, everything.
I use it to diagnose deadspots in my home, or to search for hidden wireless cameras in hotel rooms
Aegis - Google Authenticator compatible 2FA
Also Stratum which is another open source authenticator app.
I like it because it has a Wear OS companion app.
Heliboard - With the addition of a widely available-but-technically-proprietary library it allows gesture typing without Google seeing everything you do
Also, FUTO.
careful, people might burn you at the stake for saying that futo stuff is open source because they use their own custom license that says “don’t put malware in ur forks of this” and stuff like that
for saying that futo stuff is open source
he did not say that
custom license that says “don’t put malware in ur forks of this”
you severely misinterpreted what the criticism is about.
keep fighting that strawman, you got this!
he did not say that
But he did so heavily imply it to the point that it should be assumed by any reasonable reading.
Isn’t this post about open source Android apps?
which is the point of criticism you tried to misinterpret. this argument is not going to play in your favor.
maybe don’t try to confuse people and let them decide for themselves?
Obtainium. Lets me install and track apps that aren’t on fdroid yet, or are in alpha release.
Fossify apps.
Replace your phone, calendar, and more standard apps with foss apps
Shelter - isolate and run multiple instances of apps using Work Profiles.
Similar to Island and Insular.
NewPipe — Lightweight YouTube front-end: background playback and downloads without Google Play services.
Or if you dislike all kinds of ads like me, you may also like the NewPipe fork Tubular, which provides SponsorBlock integration.
Me like PipePipe
pipepipe is a way better app for me. they tend to fix stuff much more frequently than the newpipe app devs.
newpipe had bugs that still hadn’t been fixed for years. so I switched and pipepipe is much more reliable.
I feel like NewPipe would be awesome if it weren’t just for Android. Like if you could run it on PC/Mac/Linux. iOS wouldn’t be entirely out either, since you can sideload up to 3 apps with a free developer account. If you have an iPhone or iPad, you already have an Apple account, so you can just make it a developer account, and all that really does is add you to the developer mailing list, which isn’t that annoying.
Of course, on the computer I just use Firefox + uBlock Origin, but I can do that on Android, too. I’ve never tried watching YouTube on my Android phone (my iPhone has a bigger screen, but I’d just rather use a computer) but I bet I can block the ads in the browser. I think the app comes with it. My iPhone doesn’t even have the YouTube app. I never see ads in Safari using uBlock Lite, which is a DNS filter, which is exactly what Android users without root are doing, AFAIK (or VPN-based blocking e.g. PiHole that’s platform independent).
(So basically I prefer a solution that works on all my devices from various vendors. But a good option for Android, especially since Google backed down on canceling sideloading!)
there’s freetube for desktop, i hate how it’s an electron ‘app’ though
I think there’s technical reasons for that. It looks like (and I may be wrong) they grab the YouTube website and show you a modified version of that, instead of requesting just the video from the server. This may be useful because YouTube changes how its API works sometimes to throw off 3rd party clients.
There is an experimental version floating around that does run on linux through the very new android translation layer. Very buggy though currently. Its in flathub.
Capy Reader - RSS reader. Not only a cute capybara icon, but a really nice reader with regular updates.
KISS Launcher - blazingly fast launcher focused on search
Seriously you don’t know what you’re missing if you’re not using this.
Every now and then I try a new launcher, but I always come back to Trebuchet. It just works, it’s light, and I’m only one or two taps away from anything
FairScan to scan documents.
Is it good with handwriting?
It doesn’t do OCR. It just automatically cleans up the pages for archival or sharing. (I use it to archive my handwritten notes and sketches, so technically yes ;-)
