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Awesome Android Apps

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Hi all,

for 2 years, sporadically, I've been adding awesome FOSS apps with the following:

Rules

  • Open Sourced
  • Free of charge (on F-Droid and source code repository releases)
  • Free as in Freedom
  • Ad-free
  • Installed and tested by me or by contributor
  • Privacy-friendly aware
  • Easy to use
  • Still in development or polished experience
  • Does not lack features compared to proprietary app
  • Does not need an account (the only exceptions are self-hosted) apps)
  • Has dark theme

...tested by my and then later by contributors. I think many of you will appreciate this simple README.md repo, and I would love some help with it.

πŸ”οΈ Codeberg version

I hope you will find it useful! 🀩

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Ahem. I don't see the Lemmy app on there.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Prolly cuz there aren't any awesome ones

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (4 children)

You’ve never used voyager I see

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Browser list doesn't include Firefox?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Just because it's not on the list it does not mean it's bad :) Also there are Firefox forks like Mull, Iceraven and Fennec

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Very customizable. :)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Firefox isn't FOSS. It requires proprietary APIs like Google Safe browsing and others. See the Fennec's deblobbing scripts and build repo for a more details: https://gitlab.com/relan/fennecbuild

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Yeah, that is why I mostly have Firefox's forks and even on my desktop I much prefer LibreWolf instead of Firefox.

[–] starman 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Nice list!

I would add RiMusic (ViMusic fork, since ViMusic haven't been updated in a long time) and maybe InnerTune

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

RiMusic (ViMusic fork, since ViMusic haven’t been updated in a long time)

I didn't know that! Thanks!

InnerTune also looks very promising!

EDIT: Replace ViMusic with RiMusic

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (5 children)

Also this goes to show that F-droid needs a rating system IMO 🫠

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Awesome list. Have you found any app for recording calls? (I live in Hungary and receive calls in Hungarian sometimes and would like to record them to translate and understand what the call was about.)

Also, I don't see anything for audiobooks. I use Smart Audiobooks, but was wondering if there are more open source options.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I use Voice by Paul Woitaschek (available on F-Droid). It has a nice, simple interface and a few really useful features. I've gone through dozens of audiobooks in various formats with it and haven't had any problems yet.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Yeah, it looks superb. However, I have only one issue with it. Why is it so big - almost 80 MB?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Thank you!

I see... quick search and I found this beauty, try it out, I haven't yet, but keep in my first sentence of it:

MOST PHONES DOES NOT SUPPORT CALL RECORDING. Blame Google or your phone manufacturer not me!

I've seen many stars coming in to this Voice Audiobook Player repository.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Any mastodon client? Also can I recommend the Right apps collection from Goodwy and Voyager as Lemmy client (I think they match the requirements to figure on your list).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I thought of Mastadom but I have never used it yet and that's why no clients. Thanks for suggestions. I know about Voyager but not Right apps collectiom from Goodwy. I will add Voyager soon but I cannot find this Goodwy collection.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Great. If you search for Goodwy in Aurora for example you'll find a bunch of apps starting with "Right". Here is the list on GitHub as well: https://github.com/Goodwy
I may have additional suggestions if you're interested.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Goodwy in Aurora

Ah, I see it now. Yeah, also a good suggestion, very minimalistic guy, though. πŸ˜†

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (3 children)

That's why he get me: minimalism is my motto ;)
Another suggestion: Magic Earth for navigation Also curious to know if we'll see you on mastodon one day? (my client is Yuito btw)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

whoBIRD was an interesting find

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

One of the most interesting apps I found.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Thanks! Many people insistet on deleting it and now can be replace same as Bromite and Cromite not so long ago.

EDIT: Replace QKSMS with QUIK SMS

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Thank you for this awesome list! I had terrible experience with OSS Document Scanner and Image Toolbox though.

The scanner would just distort every image like crazy!! Would 100% of the time utterly fail to detect the paper edges even against high contrast backgrounds without any patterns and under very good lighting. I did like 20+ photos and immediately deleted the app, it didn't produce a single usable result.

And image toolbox was just a pain to use. If you compare how you apply filters in e.g. Instagram to this app, the UX is purely frustrating :( Though the app looks nice and has lots of features :)

Sorry for all the negativity πŸ˜… I'll try to be more positive by sharing my favorite Spotify alternative, which is basically a YouTube music client with premium features. The service remains proprietary but the same applies to discord. InnerTune

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[–] shiftymccool 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

When Authy dropped their desktop app, I picked this up for 2FA: https://2fas.com/

EDIT: oops, just realized this isn't listed on f-droid...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Looks wonderful despite not being on F-Droid... I get more and more apps that are open source but not on F-Droid. It's a weird constraint now, I see... However, I wanted this list to be as DeGoogled as possible (without Aurora Store or Google Play). At least there is .apk file in releases.

[–] shiftymccool 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I use Obtainium for all apps with no f-droid presence, I just forget which ones sometimes. It's the browser extension that makes this one great. I wanted something pretty easy after losing the convenience of Authy desktop

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

True, Obtainium is a fix for this problem if .apk in the releases is present... just not only Google Play. Yeah I understand, I use Aegis only on my smartphone.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

F-Droid has high inclusion standards (not high enough IMO but apparently too high for many Android developers). If a project isn't in F-Droid and has no interest in being in F-Droid I consider it a red flag, but it's crucial to find out if an issue has been opened and what the project's response on that issue is. Sometimes it's just because the developer(s) haven't gotten around to it yet, but other times it's because there's a proprietary component that can't be easily removed.

For example on this app (2fas) the reason it's not on F-Droid is apparently because it uses Google cloud messaging (FCM) and there's no interest in developing a version without. https://github.com/twofas/2fas-android/issues/14

Unfortunately with the security FUD against F-Droid peddled in part by PrivacyGuides and other organizations (which Obtainium and its fanbase happily help spread) there is decreasing interest even in using, let alone developing for, this repository.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Yeah, it mostly depends on the let's say GitHub issues that are maybe understandable and living without F-Droid and with this app or having a suspicion. Occasionally, what's not on F-Droid is on IzzyOnDroid. I try to have F-Droid over IzzyOnDroid, though.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Thanks for the list!

Γ–ffi (transport) shows up under the podcasts heading.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

No problem!

Oh... Yeah you're right. How did this happen? πŸ€”

EDIT: Fixed

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