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What are your Android hidden gem apps (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by cheese_greater@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I'm back! This is a continuation of my series on platform-specific hidden gem apps that you have discovered that are the best in their class for your usecase.

We've done iOS+MacOS so far so lets get universal and share our Android hidden gems.

For mine, I would say NewPipe for YouTube... Lets do it!

Edit: Please try to avoid apps that cannot be purchased (subscription apps) since it is important that the creator cannot cut you off once you've taken time/effort/money to integrate it into your workflow and dependance. No Apollos, which have that fatal flaw + relying on an external API that they additionally cannot gurantee

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[–] d3lta19@lemmy.ca 38 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Aegis is a FOSS, local only 2 factor TOTP generator. Essentially a Google authenticator without the Google.

[–] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I feel like KeePass is a preferable portable format that you can do everything any TOTP app can do without being tied into non-standard apps. Like .kdbx is a standard that works in any KeePass app

[–] fireye@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

I'd be concerned about storing both authentication factors in the same location, maybe if you kept passwords in one db and passwords in another. Not sure how well mobile apps support multiple dbs though

[–] Nath@aussie.zone 6 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Local to the Device? Google already did that to me. Then my phone died and I had the world's worst time trying to convince some of my vendors that I really was me. Like, I had to get my ID notarized in person and sent that paperwork off by international post in one example.

I wouldn't want to go through that drama again. I moved to Authy, they keep my tokens encrypted on a cloud service. I could potentially be convinced to move to something self hosted, but never local-only again.

[–] fuster93@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

Aegis can do automatic encrypted backups to a cloud provider or locally.

[–] zzzz@lemm.ee 5 points 11 months ago

That's why you back up your shit.

[–] gunpachi@lemmings.world 2 points 11 months ago

Aegis is what I have used for 2fa for quite some time now, but I think I should also mention Authenticator Pro . The feature set is similar to Aegis and, it's got a design that some people may find attractive.

P.S: It also has Wear OS support, so that you can see 2fa codes from your watch (I can't tell how well this feature works as I don't own any wearable devices)

[–] DemBoSain@midwest.social 2 points 11 months ago

Authenticator Pro works with my Samsung Wear OS watch. I get the codes on my watch instead of switching between apps on my phone to get codes.