Asklemmy

There's a lot of good recommendations here but I haven't seen anyone recommend Trail Sense yet. I use it to keep track of my steps without worrying about my levels of activity being monitored by anyone else. It also notifies me an hour before sunset since I actually go hiking.

Newpipe, for watching youtube videos without ads or tracking

Openboard keyboard for the one feature I can never be without again: moving the cursor by swiping left or right on the spacebar, it's a godsend for selecting stuff with my wide fingers

Catima - for saving arbitrary barcodes and stuff that are hard to integrate into other wallets. I keep my local library card in there, and it works wonderfully

Nonocross - fun little game that has zero frills and distractions. Also very responsive on their github to suggestions and improvements

Termux - when I need to get into things from afar, this is how I do it

Box, Box! - Formula 1 news, schedules, standings, etc

Coffee - Sometimes I want to keep the display awake, so this comes in handy

We have similar lists, so some considerations:

• Helium314 fork of OpenBoard for keyboard
• Simple Gallery for your gallery (just purchased but there is an emerging fork I'm blanking on the name of)
• Matrix with a Signal bridge so you can use tablets and other devices with Element, which has a wider range of devices
• NeoLauncher is like OL, but with more configuration
• Thunder for Lemmy. Great client, and only one with 2 column tablet support

Material Files - the best files app I've ever used! Clean, material design and has everything I need. It can even run an FTP server

F-Droid, Voyager, Eternity, Libretube

Keyboard:

• AnySoftKeyboard good all around keyboard, good language support, decent though messy customizability
• Unexpected keyboard more specialized, provides easy access to app (printable) ASCII characters and some others, allrght customizability
• 8Vim Cool factor, great customizability, decent language support but you need to learn it

Games:

• Pirate Solitare nothing much but I've been playing it a lot lately
• Simon Tathman's Puzzle Collection a cross platform puzzle collection, has a lot of different puzzles in a uniform style
• Antimine minesweeper with nice ui

System:

• RethinkDNS: DoH provider and firewall Easy to use, especially nice for those non FOSS apps you need to have to maintain a social life, not that powerful though
• Obtainium: FOSS app downloader Downloads apps from releases or equivalent, therefore can have faster updates than fdroid, but no discovery, aside from search on some platforms
• ffupdater: FOSS browser downloader Like obtainium, but for browsers (mostly) and has list of browsers
• Droid-ify: fdroid client better ui than the default app, comes with a list of repos
• Shizuku: ADB shell api not useful if you have root (see SUI, which is the root implementation for the same api, though shizuku will also work I think), but can give a bit more access if you don't supports wireless debugging on A12+
• Neolauncher: launcher nice ui but nothing special
• SD Maid SE: storage cleaner okish ui, doesn't stop me from having 302 (not including system) apps on my device. Yes I have a problem
• Package manager: app manager Shizuku support, powerful, though limited if you don't have root
• Inure: app manager [freemium (8$), but GPL licensed?] pretty must like Package manager but with amazing ui

Media:

• LibreTube: Piped (youtube) client Nice ui, no ads, sponsor block support, kinda unstable
• Innertube: YouTube music client doesn't use piped/invidious, no ads, nice ui
• Tusky: mastodon client nice ui, quite stable, multiuser support
• Jerboa: lemmy client ok ui, up to date with lemmy updates
• Liftoff: lemmy client nicer ui then Jerboa but doesn't work since .15 (?) and had issues with rendering markdown properly
• LibreTorrent bitTorrent client for downloading all those isos and public domain works, nice ui

Misc:

• Mull: ff based browser not much to say, "security oriented and deblobbed", upstreams some features from Tor
• Calculator++: A scientific calculator A lot of functionality while remaining easy to use
• RPNcalc: A Reverse Polish Notation calculator best RPN calculator I've found on fdroid, less powerful than Calculator++, but RPN based calculators are more efficient^[citation needed]^
• Simple Apps: suit of apps providing basic functionality great ui and customizability, I don't use simple keyboard, simple launcher/drawer however
• OpenCamera: a camera app advanced features

Just the apps I thought of, as I, as mentioned in the SD Maid entry, have a lot of apps installed :P

https://text.tchncs.de/czars-blogs/apps-i-use The blog itself is foss software writefreely

Obsidian isn't FOSS. I highly recommend Logseq but keep in mind they require CLA signing for contributions

Anyone uses InnerTune?

Here are some not mentioned in this thread yet.

• App Manager - App manager on steroids
• Calculator++ - Have used this calculator forever
• DiskUsage - Storage analyzer
• J2ME Loader - Emulates old JAVA games
• Jellyfin - Client for Jelyfin media server
• PCAPdroid - Network sniffer
• UnicodePad - UTF char explorer

Nextcloud News I like for RSS since it fetches the full text article. Obtainium lkke others mentioned is a must have for me.

I'd recommend Mull instead of Firefox or Fennec (the deblobbed version) since it's hardened.

It's basically a Librewolf analogue for mobile

2FAS, Bitwarden, Firefox are my most used FOSS on Android for me.

Obtainium is pretty good

Here's a few I enjoy using that I haven't seen mentioned yet:

• Phonograph Plus: elegant music player using Material UI design
• Etar +ICS² : Etar is a nice-looking calendar app that uses Material UI design, and ICS² enables me to sync the Holiday Calendars provided on Thunderbird.net.
• Etar+ DAVx² + NextCloud : enables syncing my local Etar calendar(s) with any NextCloud instance (using CalDAV). DAVx² also allows for syncing my Android contacts to NextCloud (using CardDAV)
• AnySoft Keyboard: extremely customizable, varied keyboard layouts, for those who want all punctuation marks and quote signs built-in.
• Irregular Expressions: alternative keyboard for goofing around with unicode textstyles (🅒🅘🅡🅒🅛🅔🅢, 𝕺𝖑𝖉 𝕰𝖓𝖌𝖑𝖎𝖘𝖍 𝕭𝖔𝖑𝖉, Ｅｘｔｒａ ｗｉｄｅ, etc.)
• Simple Notes : minimalist "note to self" memos.

megladon for mastodon

Seriously guys, no one saying Nextcloud?

• The main app for photo backup.
• Nextcloud Notes for well, notes you can also use from the desktop.
• NC Passwords for well, passwords
• Phonetrack to record your phone to Nextcloud Maps.
• Deck for the Kanban.

OpenBoard + predictive text binary

Ente Auth is nice for OTPs, it looks nice and I like that it shows the next code in case it's about to switch.

Neo Store for browsing fdroid

Moshidon for Mastodon