Might be helpful to f-droid users to know what others are installing so here’s some of mine.

Web & email

  • Fennec basically firefox for android with proprietary blobs removed

  • K-9 Mail

social networking apps

  • Fedilab to browse mastodon, find it’s long press options really convenient for accounts across multiple instances. You can also use it for stuff like friendica but I find that awkward since it’s still using a UI meant for twitter-likes.

  • lemmur for lemmy and RedReader for Reddit

media/document viewers

  • NewPipe to stream youtube.

  • AntennaPod to subscribe and listen to podcasts

  • VLC, the Swiss army knife of media playback. Can play pretty much any local file and supports streaming(IPTV and the like) via m3u files.

  • Librera PRO for epubs, PDF, cbz ect

Misc android utils

  • AnySoftKeyboard virtual keyboard/ime with suggestions

  • Apk Extractor

  • Aurora Store to update webview

  • G-Droid an f-droid client with a UI I like and it supports reviews via a mastodon account.

  • KDE Connect for various linux desktop integration things

  • Lawnchair is what I use as my home screen app

  • Material Files file manager, find it to be more stable than amaze and it can extract several varieties of tar.* files as well as compressing 7z/tar.xz/zip.

  • RHVoice tts engine with English and Russian support and TTS Util which I can input text which RHVoice will use

  • Termux terminal emulator with packages

Games

Post made using List My Apps and Markor

    • DessalinesA
      6·
      4 years ago

      Was just about to recommend tusky, I like it a lot better than fedilab.

      • speedmaker_5
        3·
        4 years ago

        why do you like Tusky better than Fedilab? I’m trying to decide which of the two to use.

        • DessalinesA
          2·
          4 years ago

          I don’t really remember because it was a while since I tried fedilab. I just remember tusky being a lot cleaner and lighter, and better notifs.

  • samuraikid
    101·
    4 years ago

    Bromite browser and bromite webview you should use it

    • fossddM
      3·
      4 years ago

      Bromite is a good Browser, if you like Google’s UI. The bromite webview requires root. That’s why I don’t use it.

  • Rugged Raccoon
    8·
    4 years ago

    KOReader is pretty good in terms of usability and features. Haven’t had any major issues so far.

  • Ratoeira547
    8·
    4 years ago

    Conversations is a great XMPP client, most android clients are based on Conversations.

  • cheer
    8·
    4 years ago

    For email, FairEmail’s gotta be my favorite mobile client. It’s much more polished and has a better interface than K9 imo.

    I don’t really like the interface of the official F-Droid app or Aurora Store, so I use FoxyDroid instead.

    To help me study Japanese, I use Hibi to keep a journal, and Goodtime as a pomodoro timer. I also use AnkiDroid when I’m away from my computer.

    I use Husky to keep up with my Pleroma account, and Infinity to look at Reddit. QKSMS and Simple Gallery replace my stock apps.

    There’s also the Arch Forums app and Deedum, used for browsing gemini sites, that I browse from time to time.

    • SeerLite
      4·
      4 years ago

      Foxy is really great! Has worked on most of my devices without trouble (whereas F-Droid and Aurora always had some bug). I haven’t tried G-Droid from OP though.

    • talkinwhip
      3·
      4 years ago

      Speaking of Gemini. I’ve heard of it but never came around to use it. What are good places for one to start them off?

        • talkinwhip
          2·
          4 years ago

          Thanks for the Tipps. It’s fun and feels quite personal (just like the fediverse, I see why its liked in here), feels very web 1.0. I also quite enjoyed your personal capsule.

  • ihaphleas
    7·
    4 years ago

    You should list messengers, maps (I assume OsmAnd+) how you access Google Play Store … since neither WhatsApp nor Signal are on F-Droid … Telegram is though.

    Also, so you use something like Samsung Secure Folder for the work profile, to sandbox certain apps, files, etc.?

      • ihaphleas
        1·
        4 years ago

        Says it’s not available…for now, I would trust the Signal code more, more eyes on them

  • DessalinesA
    7·
    4 years ago

    Dsub is an excellent open source android music player that works with subsonic.

  • NotAGinger
    6·
    4 years ago

    adaway to block ads. insular to seperate/randomly delete work profiles. hacker’s keyboard for keyboards. materialistic for hacker’s news. infinity for reddit. frost for facebook.

    • Ephera
      7·
      4 years ago

      With K9-Mail, you should mind that they’re working on a major UI overhaul, and you can manually select the overhauled version for installation by scrolling down on the F-Droid page and choosing one of the 5.7xx versions.

      I assume they’re still polishing things up, but yeah, it’s been stable enough for my daily use for a few months already.

    • dm9pZCAq
      6·
      4 years ago

      because k9 has a cleaner interface and doesn’t impose purchase of pro versions

  • rish
    4·
    4 years ago

    I just use the website for Lemmy and Reddit.

  • AverageGoob@lemmy.world
    3·
    1 year ago

    Lemmur does look much better but it seems that development has stalled on it? Otherwise I would make the switch.

  • Elbullazul
    3·
    4 years ago

    Good list. I like having a separate music app, but VLC can do it well enough that I don’t mind

    • onlooker
      6·
      4 years ago

      Give Vanilla Music a shot. I install it on every Android phone I own, even if the phone came with a default music app (which is usually shit). It also has a couple of add-ons you can install through F-Droid like plugins for lyrics, cover fetcher, etc.

  • Blackdoom
    2·
    4 years ago

    I’m trying Thor as a web browser. Some options are missing but I really like it. Blokada to block ads without root.