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[–] 40 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Libby, freaking love audiobooks.

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    [–] 22 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

    Wallabag.

    I self-host my own instace, save articles I want to read from my laptop, and then they sync with the app on my phone. I read them offline when I have some time to kill

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    [–] 21 points 2 years ago

    Xmanager, newpipe, Firefox with ublock origin and dark reader extensions.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    TickTick would be hard to replace. Ive yet to find another cross-platform reminders app that's so good

    Most of my other fav apps (Voyager for Lemmy, Bitwarden, NextCloud, NeoStore) could be replaced if I needed pretty easily (altho itd be a downgrade)

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago* (5 children)

    May I recommend Tasks? Not only is it open source and doesn't collect nearly as much information as TickTick apparently does (according to Play Market), but it's packed full of features, and also interfaces with a bunch of other apps, like Google Calendar and Google Drive for backups.

    Edit: it also is still maintained and updated regularly

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    A few I haven't seen mentioned:

    • Moon+ Reader - My favorite ebook reader of all time.
    • Tea Time - Simple timer widgets
    • Simple Time Tracker - Track what you do
    • NES.emu, Snes9x EX+, M64+ FZ - Emulators
    • Thunder - Lemmy
    • Root Explorer - file explorer
    • Lichess - Chess, free of ads, no fees. Almost entirely FOSS.

    Also +1 to the usual favorites: Firefox, Termux, Nova, etc.

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    [–] 10 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    Sync for Lemmy, Voyager and Summit, if I need to narrow it down to three Lemmy clients.

    Google Photos with Pixelifly 🏴‍☠️

    Telegram to discuss about custom ROMs and talk with my gf.

    Spark Mail because I love Inbox Zero, also has some nice team features.

    Spotify for music, ViMusic as a close second.

    Google Chrome (looking to replace it with Ice Raven, Firefox when it gets full extension support).

    Feedly and Feeder, the one to discover and manager plus multi platform, the second because I think it is a superior RSS app, used along with Discovery Killer to replace cringe Google Discover.

    Bitwarden (Vaultwarden) for password management.

    Showly synced with Trak.tv to manage my TV shows/Anime and Movies.

    Todoist (looking to replace it with Tasks.org, but I really need this to be multiplatform, just as with Feedly), also testing with Ruppu for simpler stuff.

    Droidify to handle all these awesome Open Source mess ;)

    Smart Dock

    Classic PowerMenu

    Ice Box and App Manager/SD Maid

    Franco Kernel Manager and Magisk.

    Runners up:

    Download Progress ++ and Media Bar

    I think this would be the summarized list.

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    [–] 10 points 2 years ago

    Alarmed (iOS only, unfortunately). It allows you to set nagging reminders with notifications and has great features for snoozing a reminder or setting up routine reminders.

    It’s great for ADHD. I basically use it for my schedule I’ll have it remind me the morning of something (or the day before depending on the event), when the reminder comes up, I’ll snooze it to to just before I have to leave.

    I had been using apples “reminders”, which just seem to disappear into the ether if you happen to miss the notification.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Google Calendar - I live my life by this calendar. If it's not on the calendar, I'm not doing it

    Audible - Audiobooks by Amazon (I know they suck, but it's a really decent service)

    Tachiyomi - Manga and Comics manager and reader

    Libby - Books and Audiobooks for free from your local library

    Youtube - I use this way too much. I learn everything from here

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    Joplin - general note taking and to do lists

    Feeder - my favorite RSS app. I also use it to save my YouTube subscriptions

    Sync For Lemmy - The best Lemmy app out there rn IMO

    NewPipe - YouTube app with built in ad blocking, background play, download function etc no login required.

    Proton Mail - Emails

    Proton Calendar - Calendar

    Proton Drive - Cloud Storage

    Proton VPN - VPN

    AntennaPod - Podcast app

    Spotify - Music

    VLC - playing local video/ audio files

    Firefox - Web Browser

    Waze - Navigation

    Signal - Messaging

    Jellyfin - Accessing my movies and TV shows

    Tailscale - What I use to access my Jellyfin when I'm away from home.

    CamScanner - Very handy for scanning/ digitizing physical documents.

    Speedtest from Ookla - I use it a lot to check my internet connection

    Shazam - Music detection

    PhotoScan - one of the only Google apps I use, let's you easily scan/ digitize old photographs

    Bitwarden - Password Manager

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    [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    LibreTube for Android. YouTube just has too many ads.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    Nextcloud (connected to self hosted instance), Obsidian (combo with FileSync app for free syncing to my other devices), Wifiman by Ubiquiti

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Jalapeño Poppers Wings Clams half shell Drunken clams Calamari Potato skins

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    jumpapp. A run-or-raise application switcher for any X11 desktop.

    It's THAT good.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Plexamp and NewPipe for sure. Especially now that Plexamp doesn't require a Plex Pass.

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    [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    "FitNotes" the workout app, because i've been using it for 7(?) years now to track my workout progress over the years and love the data/analytics. pretty user friendly, not super powerful, but great for tracking exercises.

    and since google no longer supports music player apps outside of youtube, i guess Spotify, cuz that's the only way to listen to music nowadays. shout out to a friend who added me to his premium years ago

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

    So many:

    afwall+

    joplin

    proton vpn

    protonmail

    davx5

    tasks.org

    nova launcher

    simple gallery

    simple dialer

    simple contacts

    simple calendar

    nextcloud

    mega.nz

    dropbox

    aniyomi

    buzzkill

    voyager

    infinity for reddit revanced

    fdroid

    mixplorer

    xmanager

    youtube revanced

    the score

    foss telegram

    bitwarden

    adaway

    kde connect

    tailscale

    remote desktop client

    nzb360

    instander

    ibraodcast

    bubble upnp

    nextcloud

    localsend

    syncthing

    native alpha+

    Librera FD

    Feeder

    Magic Earth

    obtanium

    seal

    termux

    unchained

    premiumized

    shelter

    youcut or capcut

    picsay pro

    idm+

    xbrowser sync

    fennec

    ocr

    neo backup

    magisk

    imgur viewer

    gptAssist

    freebiealerts

    aftership

    de-bloater

    fairemail

    hypatia

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    [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Swift Backup, i just can't imagine using my phone without that app.

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    [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    I can't live without music, so SomaFM it is.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago*

    LibreWolf

    Terminal

    VLC Media Player

    Visual Studio Code

    Qt Creator

    gcc

    Home Assistant

    OpenWRT

    OpenVPN

    Steam

    Bottles (manage Wine installations/run Windows software)

    Squeekboard/phosh (Linux phone UI/onscreen keyboard)

    Hacker's Keyboard (Android onscreen keyboard)

    OpenRGB

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    For my GTD routine

    • Reminders
    • Notes

    For my feeds

    • Reeder
    • WefWef (can’t find an as good native app for the moment)

    For my diary

    • DayOne

    For photo editing and graphics

    • Photos
    • Preview
    • Affinity Designer

    For my work

    • Safari (I just love WebKit’s developer tools)
    • WebStorm
    • XCode
    • Calendar

    For music practice (hobby)

    • GarageBand
    • Stave’n’Tabs

    For 3D printing modeling (hobby)

    • Shapr3D with an edu account from a friend

    I tried tons of third party apps (Omnifocus, Ulysses, Agenda, Things, Fantastical, Pro Tools…) but always end up using Apple’s stock apps because I love simplicity and I discovered that with my overthinking bad habit, having a good but simple/limited app is more efficient than an overkilled one.

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    [+] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)
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    • Syncthing
    • Nextcloud
    • Jitsi Meet
    • FreeTube
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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    On my android phone: keepassDX - password manager w/ autofill Aegis - 2 factor authenticator Joplin - markdown journal

    Great thread btw!

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago
    • Syncthing
    • AntennaPod
    • NewPipe
    • Army Knife
    • Sync for Lemmy
    • Telegram
    • Tusky
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    [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    Librera Reader Bromite/Cromite adaway

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    SearXNG.

    It's a metasearch engine (aggregates results from several engines and feeds then back to me). It also filters out sites I don't want, and redirects Reddit to the old interface.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago
    • Newpipe
    • Mull
    • Signal
    • OpenCamera

    And Librewolf on the Desktop

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    • Iceraven
    • Newpipe
    • Foxy Droid
    • Bitwarden
    • Termux
    • RVNC
    • Showly
    • Librera
    • Simple File Manager
    • Simple Gallery
    • Syncthing
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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago* (3 children)

    Weawow - the greatest weather app ever created. No ads 4.9 review in the Play Store, highly recommend it.

    Termux

    Tasker

    Homeassistant

    ChatGPT

    Files by Google - actually it is pretty good and allows you to transfer files peer to peer with other devices

    Anytype - Notion alternative

    DuckDuckGo - for app tracking and blocking of tracking requests

    Wireguard

    ZeroTier One

    ReadEra

    TradingView

    JustETF

    Infinity for Lemmy

    The rest were already mentioned here

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    Nova launcher (super customizable and clean and you can unlock premium with revanced Manager)

    KWGT (allows you to create custom widgets for your phone and has a very good editor so you can jam pack all the info you want into one widget)

    Revanced Manager (ad free YouTube with extra features like return dislike and sponsor block and more)

    Xmanager (free Spotify premium)

    Vlc (best way to play video and audio files)

    Fdroid (alternative app store which allows you to basically find a clone of most apps but open source and privacy friendly, plus a ton of other privacy respecting apps)

    Aurora store (Google Play store but more customization and less Google tracking stuff attached)

    Seal (allows you to download videos and stuff from basically any big site)

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