Calibre-Ebooks managment Libre Office- instead of MS Office Bitwarden- password manager Mozilla Firefox- browser IceCube, Pixefed app and Mlem for Fediverse Joplin- notes BookPlayer app for Audiobooks Nextcloud for storage
Bitwarden-password manager Joplin - notes Kde Connect- laptop connections for file transfer, notifications etc Syncthing- file syncing
All of these are available of F-droid.
- Syncthing - for sycing what pretty much amounts to /home between my mobile and laptop
- Bitwarden - password manager
- ProtonVPN - VPN
- Trail Sense - Hiking tools, most frequently for barometric readings
- Proton Mail - email
- Coffee - keeps the screen on through a button in my notifications. Mostly used when cooking for recipes
- NewPipe - YouTube and downloading
- Droid-ify - Better UI for fdroid
- Aegis - OTP manager
- VLC - needs no introduction
- Kore - remote for Kodi
- Geometric Weather - simple weather app
- Noteless - markdown notetaker. I've mostly moved everything over to Obsidian, but I like my grocery list here still...
- LibreWolf (+UBlock Origin, SponsorBlock, and many other extensions)
- Visual Studio Code
- VLC Media Player
- KDE Connect
- LibreTorrent for Android
- Droid-ify for F-Droid
- Orbot for Android (I use it mainly for running the snowflake proxy)
Joplin, Aegis, Bitwarden
KDE Connect means that I can ping my phone that's usually presumably somewhere behind my bed or on a counter somewhere, without having to sheepishly walk to the nearest person and ask "can you call my phone I lost it :c"
For me it's ViMusic. I was stuck with a shitty Spotify subscription that I couldn't afford until I found Vi. It has pretty much all the bands I like and it passed my moms rigerous examination (she listens to all of of really obscure stuff) so when her Amazon subscription ran out, I got her to start using that instead. Suck it jezzy b!
Some more I did not see others mention. For Linux:
- Geany
- Python
- Meld
- Nextcloud
- Reminna and TightVNC
- Thunderbird
- Zim
For Android:
- Just Weather
- Joplin
- OpenSync
- Tasks
- OSMAnd
- Nextcloud
- SMSBackp
- Connect Bot
I also recommend the site: https://alternativeto.net/ . You can just search and it will tell you the most used FOSS apps in any category you want.
Sometimes it feels like I'm the only one using geany. Nice to see it mentioned.
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Signal
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vinyl for music
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AnkiDroid for flashcards. I use it for languages, but i believe there are repositories for other subjects.
- Quillpad (offline notes)
- MuPDF mini (Great simple PDF reader)
- Unit Converter Ultimate (lots of various conversions)
- Retro Music (fdroid repo for pro version, best music player hands down)
- OSMAnd (Great for fancy mapping features)
- Mull (hardened Firefox with the quickest updates of all Firefox based browsers)
- AntennaPod (best podcast app)
- Obtanium (install apps easily from sources such as Github)
- Droid-ify (better fdroid)
Osmand - I use this along Google maps, but it's nice to have entire regions downloaded and it shows more information than Google maps, specifically for back country stuff where you need to see every type of trail
Home Assistant
Wireguard - I love that the protocol is lightweight and secure, makes it really easy to access my home network without needing to expose self hosted stuff to the internet
Bitwarden - self hosted with vaultwarden/SQLite, changed my life and it's really easy to share logins with my partner
Immich - self hosted, the first real replacement for Google photos I've found. It has autobackup and it's really easy to share albums.
Kiss Launcher - I like how simple it is. My home screen ends up disorganized anyway so it's honestly just faster to have a recents list and a quick search feature.
have you tried Organic Maps? it uses OSM as well, but the UI is much more pleasant to use than OSMAnd's.
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Mull
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K-9 Mail
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LibreTube
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Quillpad
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Droid-ify
NewPipe and FireFox, at minimum.
- Firefox
- Signal
- FFUpdater
- Red Moon
Firefox
libre office
obs studio (free, not 100% sure if os)
The O in OBS stands for open :)
OBS is open source!
ok cool. that what I thought the "open" in open broadcaster studio meant lol
Recently id say OsmAnd~. GPX tracks are great for long bicycle trips and the drinkng water overlay is a lifesaver!
trips can be planned and saved as gpx with https://gpx.studio/ !
Ive been using brouter.de but i will check out gpx studio
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