My top android apps are :
1.Local send for file transfer
2.Bitwarden for password manager
3. Antennapod for my podcast
4.Seal for YouTube download
5.Boost for lemmy
6.Rimusic for YouTube music
7. Poweramp for local music on my phone
8.Lichess for chess
9.protonvpn for vpn
10.fairmail for email
My “Top” apps are what I think are cool, not necessary what the most useful apps are to me.
Briar its a peer to peer communications app that can communicate via wifi, blutooth, or through the internet via Tor. It can form a sort of mesh network with devices in proximity. Hypothetically, with enough users, you could spread information across a long distsnce even with a nationwide shutdown of the internet like some authoritarian countries do.
There’s already some public forums on there by connecting to random people around the world via Tor, although, these forums doesn’t have much activity now. But it exists and thats so cool. Its like a secret corner of the internet, even more obscure than the “dark web”
Wasted Remember those news about iPhones randomly restarting in police storage lockers? This app does something even better. Amongst many functions, this app can let you set your phone to auto-wipe itself if not unlocked for X amount of time, ranging from 5 minutes to 7 days. (Warning: You may get in legal trouble for using this, if you get arrested and the phone auto-wipes, you could get a “Destruction of Evidence” charge. I am not a lawyer. You might wanna consult a lawyer before using this)
OpenKeychain Just a PGP tool for Android, pretty straightforward. Very cool to have a digital signature right in your pocket to validate your online identity with other internet users. Potentially useful for secret drug tradesahem just kidding lol, don’t do drugs, kids. (Seriously, don’t)
Or alternatively, don’t even mention you have such an app and when they ask if you had anything to do with the phone getting wiped, you say “hmm that’s odd, it must been some sort of hardware failure, I’ve heard that [Phone’s Manufacturer] have had some issues with quality control, perhaps that’s the reason”
You’re not lying, you’re just suggesting a possible reason: hardware failure. And every manufacturer had quality control issues, it wouldn’t be odd for you to have heard about such news, or even just rumors amongst people about a company’s quality control issues.
BuzzKill, Gives you total control over your notifications. I use it to auto clear apps that think they need to have a persistent notification like VPNs, Smart Watches, etc.
DuckDuckGo, For their very useful, (In my opinion) app tracking protection proxy that they have built into the app.
GAMEYE, For tracking my physical games collection and my extensive Amiibo collection.
Grayjay & Revanced , For when I want to watch YouTube on mobile.
Image Toolbox, Great for doing a whole bunch of different things. Works especially well for image related tasks, but does more stuff than that too.
LocalSend, Airdrop but cross platform and open source. Really good.
Privacy, An app that links to your bank account and lets you make virtual cards to obfuscate your real debit card. Super useful as well for setting up with subscriptions so you can just turn the individual card off instead of having to go find the subscription cancel option for each service.
p!n, A very simple app that adds a quick actions menu button to pin a notification. I use it to essentially add reminders and notes to my notifications real quick.
rdx, A simple Reddit viewer for when I have to view a Reddit link for any reason. shudders
Shortcut Maker, Super useful app for when I’m not using Niagara Launcher. Let’s you make home screen app like shortcuts for a wide variety of things, including going to specific settings, launching specific sets of apps, and way more. Used to be my favorite app before I got into Niagara.
URLCheck, Acts as a middle man after I click a link, telling me a bunch of info about it before letting me pick which browser I want to open it in.
Niagara Launcher, my launcher of choice. Not for everyone, but I have found it makes navigating my phone super fast. I have tried so many different ones, but the fact that the app drawer is always on open on the home screen and I can navigate to each letter quickly made it the best for me.
Anyway yeah, those are some of the ones I use frequently. Sorry for not linking to them, but it would have taken forever lol.
I thought buzzkill was just for sound notification and how do you use Grayjay when you already have a YouTube account?
How can you sync your subscribed list to it?
I use Android as my secondary phone, my primary is an iPhone. Though for the past six months, my use of Android has surpassed iOS as the latter is now only for calls, messages and reading emails. For replying to emails, I use a computer.
I have removed as many Google apps as I could using Canta, as long as the phone is able to boot and function.
The apps, in no particular order (read: the order in which I can recollect):
App
Notes
Droidify
F-Droid client
HeliBoard
General keyboard
Unexpected Keyboard
Programmer’s keyboard
Fossify Calendar, Gallery, Music
Self-explanatory
Voyager
Lemmy client, although not a native Android app
Eternity
Native Android Lemmy client, although not as good as Voyager
Tubular
PeerTube and YouTube client with QoL niceties
Calculator++
Calculator with QoL niceties
Cromite
Chromium based browser with QoL niceties
Termux
Terminal emulator
Rethink DNS + Firewall
To block ads and monitor network activity
Orbot
For accessing TOR
Emacs
Still setting it up on Android, only to browse my Denote repository (which seems the only way I can browse it on any mobile device)
Aurora store
To install Apple Music
Apple Music
To use the music subscription from my primary phone
I sometimes watch IRL streamers from parts of the world I’ve never been to. I’ve never been to New York City but due to watching streams from a bike messenger I feel like I know the city quite well.
Firefox is absolutely horrendous on mobile. A lot of websites don’t render properly, or when scrolling everything jumps around. Browsing Facebook is especially bad. Also UX is a lot worse than competing browsers.
I disagree about the UX but that is probably just my preference. I use Facebook marketplace sometimes and it seems fully functional, no jumping around or whatever. Every now and then I have to use desktop mode but only on like government sites. Maybe it’s because I use an ad blocker that I don’t notice the problems you report.
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Proton mail with a proton account?
Yea? You can only use Proton Account on Proton mail.
I presume you also have a Gmail for your Gmail account
No I don’t use Gmail. I have degoogled device. That Moon+ Pro Reader is 🏴☠️
I know moon+ pro reader but I don’t know how people enjoy reading books on their mobile
I use big screen tablet. It’s better for me.
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In my list everything is open source
I think I need try out Keep Ass DX
Of course you can keep ass there 🤣
Are you just using only FOSS apps? Heliboard is not that great compared to swiftkey? how do you get on with mastodon?
Heliboard is lite and does everything for me. I use moshidon for mastodon.
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I tried switching to Aurora, but apps updated through there no longer appear in Android Auto for some reason (Spotify, Smart Audiobook Player)
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Just started using Image Toolbox a few weeks ago, shits fucking dope.
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My “Top” apps are what I think are cool, not necessary what the most useful apps are to me.
Briar its a peer to peer communications app that can communicate via wifi, blutooth, or through the internet via Tor. It can form a sort of mesh network with devices in proximity. Hypothetically, with enough users, you could spread information across a long distsnce even with a nationwide shutdown of the internet like some authoritarian countries do.
There’s already some public forums on there by connecting to random people around the world via Tor, although, these forums doesn’t have much activity now. But it exists and thats so cool. Its like a secret corner of the internet, even more obscure than the “dark web”
Wasted Remember those news about iPhones randomly restarting in police storage lockers? This app does something even better. Amongst many functions, this app can let you set your phone to auto-wipe itself if not unlocked for X amount of time, ranging from 5 minutes to 7 days. (Warning: You may get in legal trouble for using this, if you get arrested and the phone auto-wipes, you could get a “Destruction of Evidence” charge. I am not a lawyer. You might wanna consult a lawyer before using this)
OpenKeychain Just a PGP tool for Android, pretty straightforward. Very cool to have a digital signature right in your pocket to validate your online identity with other internet users. Potentially useful for
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Or alternatively, don’t even mention you have such an app and when they ask if you had anything to do with the phone getting wiped, you say “hmm that’s odd, it must been some sort of hardware failure, I’ve heard that [Phone’s Manufacturer] have had some issues with quality control, perhaps that’s the reason”
You’re not lying, you’re just suggesting a possible reason: hardware failure. And every manufacturer had quality control issues, it wouldn’t be odd for you to have heard about such news, or even just rumors amongst people about a company’s quality control issues.
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Move to iOS: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.apple.movetoios&hl=en-US
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kek
iOS hasnt got my must-have apps, and developing for iOS is the worst experience I ever had working as an intern
Ios is just too caged for me.
I haven’t seen anyone mention Gboard yet so I’ll say Gboard. Best keyboard on Android.
Heliboard kicks Gboard out of the park
Did you say HOOOOOOB?
I may be missing a reference. Or you’re just making HooooooB out of heliboard. Enlighten me!
Look at the app icon
Privacy and not too good autocorrect issues
If I had to pick some of my favorites:
Anyway yeah, those are some of the ones I use frequently. Sorry for not linking to them, but it would have taken forever lol.
I thought buzzkill was just for sound notification and how do you use Grayjay when you already have a YouTube account? How can you sync your subscribed list to it?
I use Android as my secondary phone, my primary is an iPhone. Though for the past six months, my use of Android has surpassed iOS as the latter is now only for calls, messages and reading emails. For replying to emails, I use a computer.
I have removed as many Google apps as I could using Canta, as long as the phone is able to boot and function.
The apps, in no particular order (read: the order in which I can recollect):
P.S.
I finally found a chance to use tables on Lemmy.
I am kinda of curious, why do you use heliboard over swiftkeys?
It is the only decent AOSP-like keyboard I could find.
I am just not comfortable using a proprietary keyboard when I know that I have other options. On iOS, I do not have an option, at all!
Having said that, I do miss the better swipe gestures and autocorrect ability of the proprietary ones from time to time.
You can try FUTO keyboard
Thank you. I did come across it, back when I was looking at alternatives. Though I don’t remember why I didn’t try it out.
How is your experience with the keyboard? How does it compare with the alternatives?
Better than Heliboard by a mile. Privacy oriented Keyboard The autocorrect works well and the crazy part is the voice keyboard. Everything is offline
Thank you. I shall try it out as a secondary general keyboard.
Not original commenter, but I got the hell off of Swiftkey after Microsoft bought it for privacy purposes. That could be why.
What do you use instead? Autocorrect is a very big issue with the other keyboards
The tables are actually helpful
Just curious how people really enjoy twitch. I can’t spend time just watching people play games or doing stuff while I could be doing things
I sometimes watch IRL streamers from parts of the world I’ve never been to. I’ve never been to New York City but due to watching streams from a bike messenger I feel like I know the city quite well.
That’s actually nice
I see you’re a person with great taste in Android apps. Thanks for introducing me to Medito! I need to chill.
I don’t think I even use 10 apps, I use like 3 of them
Musicolet
Memorion
Comic screen
Lastfm. Vivaldi
(In no particular order)
Why brave browser? They look sketchy because of their crypto affliction
To be honest if you disable crypto stuff in brave it’s a solid browser. I recommend it to those people who are still using chrome .
Yeah but you’re still using Chromium :/
Thousand times better than chrome :-) I don’t use it btw
Honorable mentions to Newpipe and Termux.
Firefox is absolutely horrendous on mobile. A lot of websites don’t render properly, or when scrolling everything jumps around. Browsing Facebook is especially bad. Also UX is a lot worse than competing browsers.
I disagree about the UX but that is probably just my preference. I use Facebook marketplace sometimes and it seems fully functional, no jumping around or whatever. Every now and then I have to use desktop mode but only on like government sites. Maybe it’s because I use an ad blocker that I don’t notice the problems you report.
The only browser that supports proper extensions such as Ublock origin (which is much more advanced than the built-in adblockers in other browsers).
Compared to any browsing experience without uBlock, Firefox wins by a very large margin.