Hello everyone! This is my list of FOSS software I use ๐Ÿ˜ƒ

Android FOSS alternatives to proprietary apps

Google Board -> FlorisBoard
Google Play -> Aurora Store^[1]^
Termius -> ConnectBot^[2]^
Discord -> Element
Xiaomi Fit -> Gadget Bridge^[3]^
Google Gmail -> K-9 Mail
YouTube -> LibreTube
Google Authenticator -> Mauth
Google News -> Nextcloud News^[4]^
Google Drive -> Nextcloud^[4]^
Google Keep -> Nextcloud Notes^[4]^
Spotify -> SubTune^[4]^
YouTube Music -> ViMusic
Google Chrome -> Mull

^1^- You need a Google account.
^2^ - The UX is not as good as Termius.
^3^ - The UI looks like garbage, but does it's job.
^4^ - You need to selfhost a server.

Android FOSS alternatives to FOSS apps

Jellyfin -> Findroid
F-Droid -> Droid-ify

Desktop FOSS

Windows -> Fedora 38 Workstation
Firefox -> LibreWolf (telemetry free, hardened firefox)

Other software

Android -> Lineage OS
Linux server -> Debian (without GUI)
Smart home -> Home Assistant
SMS -> Signal
DNS -> Adguard Home (selfhosted)

Other services

Google -> Qwant (it's so good!)
YouTube (desktop) -> Piped

Suggest me:

  • Google Maps
  • Shazam

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    [โ€“] 30 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Just a small note that K-9 is slowly bring turned into Thunderbird

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  • [+] 27 points 3 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)
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  • [โ€“] 27 points 3 years ago* (3 children)

    Instead of using Gmaps. You can try

    1. Organic Maps (Simple and clean app that just works)
    2. OsmAnd (Full of great features but it may be too much for you). Supports realtime map update in pro version or the fdroid version.
    3. Magic Earth but i think it is not foss
    4. Mapy.cz uses Openstreetmap but it also does not seem to be foss. But the map is updated in real time.
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  • [โ€“] 23 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    Signal does not support sms

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    [โ€“] 23 points 3 years ago* (4 children)

    Just wanted to mention ViMusic doesn't seem to be getting updated anytime soon. The status is mentioned in this push request.

    Consider trying out InnerTune instead which has several more features and active development :)

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    [โ€“] 16 points 3 years ago (7 children)

    whats the point of discord alternative if none of my wow friends will get off discord?

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    [โ€“] 15 points 3 years ago

    Google Maps - OrganicMaps

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  • [โ€“] 12 points 3 years ago* (2 children)

    Try open street maps. It's better than Google maps in some locations and worse in others. So ymmv based on where you live.

    Open Street maps has a bunch of Android frontend apps, I use organic maps which is available on fdroid. You can use street-complete (also fdroid) to contribute to open street maps if you wish to do so.

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  • [โ€“] [S] 3 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I've already tried Organic Maps and OsmAnd, but they fall behind Google Maps :/ OsmAnd has super old UI and Organic Maps is buggy as hell.

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  • [โ€“] 12 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Is Floris Board still maintained? Latest stable release was in June 2022 and latest beta in September 2022.

    Their GitHub says that stable versions are released "1 release per 1-5 months" and beta "up to 1-2 releases per week".

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    [โ€“] 5 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Share Me/SHAREit - localSend

    Stock apps - Simple mobile tools

    book reader - librera

    Video Downloader - seal

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    [โ€“] 2 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Does anyone here have problems with K-9 background sync? I always have to manually sync the folders so I can get the latest emails

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  • I prefer to use Fcitx 5 for Android instead of GBoard, not FlorisBoard. Because f5a has much better Chinese input experience than FlorisBoard, and I use Chinese.

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