Obtainium is one that I have been using for over a week now. It keeps all my FOSS apps up to date. I have 30 apps added now, and 80% of them are now updated directly from their github page!
this post was submitted on 01 Jul 2023
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I would love to know what apps you have added to it!
I use Obtanium to keep Liftoff and Thunder up to date, since the updates come faster than they do from the Play Store :) Very easy to set up...even if you originally installed from the Play Store, you can still use Obtanium to update going forward.
Heres the list
And I just added AntennaPod, Vinyl Music Player, Lawnchair, and Liftoff to the list as well!
Bitwardens auto sync uses push notifications through Google services, so I'd recommend play store for that one if you use multiple devices.
I don't use bitwarden for much besides copying/pasting my passwords on my phone. I figure its better than memorizing a single password like I used to!
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The easiest way is to look at your Installed apps through F-Droid as it will show both apps installed through F-Droid and apps from the Play Store that are available through F-Droid. You can copy-paste each source link into Obtainium.
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Connect for Lemmy has a sync for reddit feel and is working quite well for me as I make the switch from reddit
I think I like connect the best so far but the logo for it changed today and the change is horrible lol I miss the goofy mascot lol. 1/10
On connect i can only choose all or local for scrolling. I can't get subscribed.
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Connect has been my favorite Lemmy app as of late. Jerboa is my old reliable one though 😅
I just switched from Jerboa to Connect and have ~~no~~ few regrets so far. Still feels like the wild west out here.
Can't wait for Sync though!
EDIT: I do have at least one regret, no easy way to report comments on Connect, AFAICT. Guess I need to keep exploring my options.
To be fair, most apps other than Jerboa didn't exist a few weeks ago 😅
Seconding this, Connect for Lemmy also feels a lot like RIF.
Same here, besides the pack of animations it's really getting me used to using Lemmy. Till sync for Lemmy comes out, that is. I can't wait
Here's my personal list of recommended apps for a few things:
- Aegis (Play Store / F-Droid / GitHub) - 2FA FOSS app that's minimal and simple
- Auxio (F-Droid / GitHub) - No-nonsense music player for local files
- ConnectBot (Play Store / F-Droid / GitHub) - Simple SSH client
- K-9 Mail, soon to be Thunderbird (Play Store / F-Droid / GitHub) - No-nonsense e-mail client
- NewPipe (F-Droid / GitHub) - YouTube client for privacy, has no ads, supports background playing, local subscription lists, and ability to download videos
- Techmino (GitHub) - FOSS Tetris clone with no ads and multiple modes, definitely my favourite
- Waistline (F-Droid / GitHub) - Calorie counter app that stores all data locally. Need to add products yourself but have full control.
K-9 Mail, soon to be Thunderbird
Wait, what.
K-9 has joined Thunderbird family. Development speed has increased and it will be officially renamed to Thunderbird Mobile soon.
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Antennapod is a Free Open Source Software (FOSS) podcast app. The app is well designed with great features. You can also use it for playing audio books locally as well.
Neat! Gonna have to give it a shot, looks polished.
I really like it, solid app.
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https://wefwef.app/ advertised as mobile-first client for Lemmy
https://lemmy.world/post/367599
Things are moving fast. Let’s see how it turns out to be atleast until we get Apollo/Boost/Thunder etc with multi-platform feature parity.
I'd love for wefwef to have a Material Design theme automatically applied when using an Android phone, but other than that it's right now the perfect Lemmy app and it's extremely fast when you install it with Chrome!
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With all the social media corps going full ham on advertising, I'm going to make the switch from Chrome to Firefox with ad-blocking add-ons. However, I'm at a crossroads since there are many variations ranging from the official Firefox app to Firefox Nightly and even Fennec or Fenix.
Any recommendations?
If you are trying to switch from Chrome, then just use regular Firefox with the ublock extension (and maybe some of the other privacy extension officially supported). If you are a "power user" and want modify/access about:config and other settings then you need Firefox Nightly. The Fennec and Fenix (iirc) are just stripped down Firefox that either only have private mode or additional settings for privacy (that are already present in regular version, but way not be enabled by default). Hope that helps.
Just get the regular Firefox with uBlock Origin if all you're concerned about are advertisements. The default settings out of the box are fine for most users.
Get the Mull browser if you're concerned about privacy as well, as this is a hardened Firefox similar to LibreWolf. Not sure if this is on the Play Store, but it's definitely on F-Droid.
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I've been using Trunks as my go-to Mastodon client for a couple of weeks now and I'm really liking it.
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I think Birday is a great app because it's so simple, just reads birthdays from your contacts and notifies you a preset time before.
For self hosted music lovers, I would like to introduce you to Tempo, an open source and lightweight music client for Subsonic, designed and built natively for Android.
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Does anyone have recommendations for an app that does heart/step/etc health tracking but is FOSS supporting WearOS watches.
I have no idea if it works but you could try your luck with Gadgetbridge
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Medito is a free meditation app that's developed and run by a dutch non-profit.
I had no idea that it was a Dutch app! It's really great, I've been using it on and off for a year now to great success.
Musicolet is my favorite local music player because of the ability to switch between queues without losing the position of the last played track. I don't understand how not all music player have the same feature
Looking for a good Lemmy and/or KBin app.
I'm personally waiting for Sync for Lemmy to come out, but in the meantime, Liftoff for Lemmy and Thunder have been pretty good for me
Connect is working really well for me, but I prefer jerboa. Unfortunately that isn't working right now with lemmy. World being on an older version. Once they go to 18.1, I should be able to use it again.
Connect, liftoff, thunder, jerboa are the best ones at the moment
Wefwef, truly amazing and polished experience!
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Komoot - great bike route planner and gpx recorder.
Mapy.cz - great hiking navigation with trails colors/indications. Mosty Europe I guess.
Fdroid ->Catima - simple loyalty cards / barcodes instead of supermarket apps
Fdroid -> StreetComplete very easy contributing to osmMaps. You know your neighbourhood? Answer questions if that trafic lights have sound indication for blind people or about the type of surface that bike line has.
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Any app with mark as read or mark as read on scroll?
Moshidon is a fantastic Mastodon Client. Kotatsu is my personal favorite Manga reader on Android. Image Toolbox is a great choice for an open source mobile image editor with a good amount of features.
Just a few of my personal favorites right now.
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