I’ve recently decided to switch out my Playstore apps for Open Source Apps as they’re usually Ad Free and much less bloated. Can we use this thread to help people find open source android apps?

I’ll start

K-9 mail, a great email alternative that let’s you have multiple users logged in

Red Moon - A customisable night light app which lets you adjust the colour and settings including Colour, opacity and Darkness

Swift Notes - Note taking app

  • @INeedMana@lemmy.world
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    Aard 2 - translator that takes you to wikidictionary
    andOTP - offline OTP with easy option to encrypt your backup with your PGP key
    AnyMemo - very nice flashcard app. Creating your own (with Tatoeba for example) is very easy
    Carnet - simple notes app
    FairMail - great mail app. IMO better than K-9
    Feeder - RSS watcher
    Ghost Commander - file manager. UI is a little bit clunky but much better than enything else
    KeePassDX - password manager
    Librera Reader - IMO the best PDF/epub/mobi reader there is
    monocles translator - nice translator similar to DeepL
    NewPipe - youtube and bandcamp
    Ning - local network scanner
    OCR
    Odyssey Music Player
    OpenCamera
    OpenKeychain - PGP
    OsmAnd~ - navigation and maps in general
    CV Project - Mozilla projecton capturing voice recordings
    QKSMS - for sms
    RCX - cloud client
    Shelter - the “work profile” manager
    Simple Calendar - calendar with very nice widgets
    Sky Map - you can point your phone in the direction of a star and see it annotated
    Weather Widget - for the weather
    WebMediaShare/WebApps - discontinued unfortunately, but it’s great at appifying an URL, so you don’t have to use official app

    I use more, but these are the ones I think might be most interesting to others. I don’t know if all of these are absolutely 100% open source (and that depends on definition) but all of these are in F-droid.

  • @ryuko
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    Bitwarden or KeePass as open source password managers. KeyPass is entirely local, unless you sync your password database on the cloud, and Bitwarden is cloud based but with the option to self host the server (I recommend Vaultwarden, it’s lighter and written in Rust).

    Joplin for note taking, especially if you use Markdown.

    KDE connect for sharing files quickly between desktop and mobile - it’s better than the proprietary fast share protocols I’ve tried.

    Termux, for shell access and running Linux distros, albeit heavily limited.

    Fritter as a Twitter client alternative, though I’m already avoiding Twitter for the most part.

    • Tanka
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      310 months ago

      Fritter as a Twitter client alternative Does fritter still work after twitter cut the APIs?

      • @ryuko
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        110 months ago

        Some of the functionality was lost, such as clicking through the trending section to see trending tweets:

        For the most part though, it works for reading tweet threads and viewing media, which is all I use it for now. If you’re installing Fritter through F-Droid, you have to install the beta- the old stable version was completely broken by Twitter’s API changes.

        • Tanka
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          110 months ago

          Do you need to login with a Twitter account? Or is it still possible to just ‘lurk’? I uninstalled fritter when the APIs were turned off.

          • @ryuko
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            110 months ago

            You can still use it to just read tweets, but I’ve never been a heavy Twitter user in the first place so I’m not sure if anything major is broken in Fritter beta.

    • lori
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      Love Joplin, use it on desktop and mobile both.

    • @HiddenTower@lemmy.world
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      110 months ago

      Bitwarden, KeePass, how good are these at auto-filling in the user & pass on apps & sites? I need to ditch LastPass D-:

  • @shortwavesurfer@lemmy.ca
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    Here are mine

    Antennapod

    Batterybot pro (for charge/discharge notifs)

    Simple calendar

    Droid-ify

    Element

    Feeder

    Fennec

    Simple files

    Simple gallery

    Jitsi

    KeepassDX

    Librespeed

    LocalMonero

    molly (fdroid Signal fork)

    NewPipe

    Simple notes

    Ntfy

    Odysee

    Osmand+

    ProtonMail and ProtonVPN (IzzyOnDroid repo)

    Quickweather

    Simple recorder

    RedReader (reddit client) (dev is considering porting to lemmy)

    Session

    Termux

    Tor browser

    Tusky

    Unstoppable Wallet

  • @limeaide
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    910 months ago

    I wanna piggy back off this thread if that’s okay. What image gallery do y’all use?

    I’ve been using aves or simple gallery for a while but I’ve never felt quite satisfied with them

    • @Akasazh
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      610 months ago

      Piggybacking onto this, also on simple gallery, curious about alternatives.

  • @CalcProgrammer1
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    I don’t really use Android much now that I daily drive a Linux phone, but when I do these are my go-to apps:

    F-Droid: FOSS app repository/“store” where I get most of my FOSS apps.

    Aurora Store: FOSS app that interfaces with Play Store, allows downloads without account or tracking

    NewPipe: FOSS YouTube alternative with the ability to download videos

    Fennec: Fork of Firefox in F-Droid

    VLC: Media player that plays almost anything

    Hacker’s Keyboard: My long-standing favorite on-screen keyboard of any platform

    Terminal Emulator: Before I got into Linux phone, for running Linux distro chroots

    • @googlycoffeemea@beehaw.org
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      210 months ago

      How’s your experience with a Linux phone? Any major issues or minor annoyances? Do you use waydroid for any Android apps? I’m considering switching but I’m not sure yet.

    • @constantokra@lemmy.one
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      210 months ago

      What Linux phone and os are you running and how is your experience? I have a pinephone convergence edition, and I jump back in every few months to see how things are progressing, but i’ve not seen anything nearly ready for daily use for my needs.

      • @CalcProgrammer1
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        I’ve used several. First, PinePhone Convergence Edition (Manjaro CE) running Manjaro, Arch, Mobian, and postmarketOS. It’s too slow for my needs and for the first year or so it was pretty unstable as well. I had it for over a year before attempting to daily drive it. Soon after I started, the PinePhone Pro came out and I managed to get a PinePhone Pro Developer Edition. That’s what I’m daily driving now, after settling on postmarketOS after using Arch for a while. I also used a OnePlus 6T with postmarketOS for 6 months or so but got tired of the modem issues, so I’m back to the PinePhone Pro. The biggest issue with the Pro is battery life, but the keyboard case makes it a lot more tolerable. It seems call audio issues have been mostly taken care of and I can take calls fairly reliably on the Pro now. Texts work. The modem occasionally drops out but I can reset it by restarting the eg25-manager service (using the open firmware).

        As for apps, I never liked using apps on Android anyways. I try to use the web version of everything I can to avoid having to install apps that just take up space. I can do pretty much everything I need on a browser so I don’t have Waydroid. Probably the biggest thing I’m missing is a good GPS/maps app. One thing I did use app for was ChargePoint for EV charging stations, but I was able to get a standalone card for that. My banks have good online websites. I can use SMS or phone calls for 2FA.

        On the plus side, I can use actual applications I use on my PC, especially with the keyboard case as a mini-laptop. I have some 3D printing tools, Visual Studio Code, Qt Creator, and a whole bunch of command line tools available that I just would not have access to on an Android phone. I have proper tunneling VPN without having to root or do any stupid hacks so that I can connect to my home network from anywhere. Overall, I’m happy with this setup. I always wished smartphones would’ve just adapted desktop OSes for pocket use rather than becoming the limited toys they did and Linux Phone finally is achieving what I always wanted.

    • moonleay
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      10 months ago

      Is there a way to import accounts from Google Auth into Aegis using QR Codes or smth like that?

      • @AnomanderRakeOP
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        510 months ago

        I just did this, you have to export from the Google Authenticator app, it’ll give you two QR codes.

        You have to scan both these codes into the Aegis app and it’ll transfer over.

  • FarmerDrone
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    There is a bunch of apps on F-droid (and also playstore) which start with “simple…” all opensource. My list: simple calendar pro, simple contacts pro, simple dailer, simple draw pro, simple filemanager pro, simple gallary pro, simple notes pro, simple SMS messenger. No ads on any of them, and free. I have a total of 39 f-droid (so opensource) apps on my phone… So start with F-droid

    • @bbigras
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      I think they are free today on the play store

  • Elbullazul
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    I’ll try to list a few I haven’t seen mentionned elsewhere

    • Glider: Hacker news viewer
    • GitNex: gitea client
    • Scrambled exif: scramble photo metadata before sharing/uploading it
    • Saber: handwritten notes, works pretty well with my android tablet
  • KelsonV Old Account
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    610 months ago

    If you use a Nextcloud server, there’s a good collection of apps (some official, some third-party) that work with it. The ones I use:

    Nextcloud - main app, does authentication, file access, optional auto-upload photos Nextcloud Notes - kind of like Google Keep, but simpler. (IIRC Carnet is more like Keep, and also open) Nextcloud Talk - instant messaging, supposedly can do voice but I’ve never used it for that Nextcloud News - RSS reader that syncs your feeds and read/unread through your Nextcloud server

    Plus these apps that aren’t Nextcloud-specific, but work with it and other sync methods:

    OpenTasks - ToDo list (needs Dav5x to sync) DAVx5 - Syncs contacts, calendars and to-do items between any CalDav, CardDav or WebDav servers and your Android system, so you can access them with any local contacts or calendar app. (For instance: K-9 Mail can use contacts from my Google account and my Nextcloud account, and Simple Calendar can do the same with my calendars.) Floccus - Bookmarks manager that can sync across multiple desktop browsers and the mobile app, using any of several sync options including Nextcloud

  • @chickenwing
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    510 months ago

    Vimusic is awesome. It’s YouTube music without paying or ads.

    Quillnote is great for taking notes.

    Metro as an offline music player.

    • @HiddenTower@lemmy.world
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      110 months ago

      How is Metro for managing playlists? I need to get more MP3s on my device and VLC is good for basic playback but tough for playlist I’ve found.

      • @chickenwing
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        210 months ago

        It works pretty well for playlists. I can only compare it to musicolet which is the proprietary app I used before I found metro but I was able to import all my playlists pretty easily. I mostly like it because it has the best looking UI out of all the open source music apps I’ve seen.

  • @milltertime_3227790@midwest.social
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    310 months ago

    Loop Habit Tracker pairs nicely with Atomic Habits or any other foray into productivity.

    Stellar stat-tracking and usability. It’s twice as great when you look at the alternatives and see mostly month-to-month subscriptions for similar features