Free and Open Source Software

NewPipe and FireFox, at minimum.

Firefox and VSCodium

Jerboa might be added to the list soon.

Bitwarden, Signal, Firefox, Sumatra PDF, Standard Notes, andOTP, and VLC Media Player

Assuming I'm using Android:

• Mull or Fennec
• SkyTube
• Tusky
• Jerboa
• UntrackMe
• Orbot
• SicMu Player (or any good music player app)

For me it's ViMusic. I was stuck with a shitty Spotify subscription that I couldn't afford until I found Vi. It has pretty much all the bands I like and it passed my moms rigerous examination (she listens to all of of really obscure stuff) so when her Amazon subscription ran out, I got her to start using that instead. Suck it jezzy b!

The humble grep.

• KDE Connect
• LibreTorrent for Android
• Droid-ify for F-Droid
• Orbot for Android (I use it mainly for running the snowflake proxy)

Recently id say OsmAnd~. GPX tracks are great for long bicycle trips and the drinkng water overlay is a lifesaver!

• Fennec
• Xtra
• Kde connect
• Seal
• Tachiyomi
• Newpipe/ newpipe x sponsorblock
• Aegis
• MJ PDF
• Easy xkcd
• Shattered pixel dungeon
• Unciv

Osmand - I use this along Google maps, but it's nice to have entire regions downloaded and it shows more information than Google maps, specifically for back country stuff where you need to see every type of trail

Home Assistant

Wireguard - I love that the protocol is lightweight and secure, makes it really easy to access my home network without needing to expose self hosted stuff to the internet

Bitwarden - self hosted with vaultwarden/SQLite, changed my life and it's really easy to share logins with my partner

Immich - self hosted, the first real replacement for Google photos I've found. It has autobackup and it's really easy to share albums.

Kiss Launcher - I like how simple it is. My home screen ends up disorganized anyway so it's honestly just faster to have a recents list and a quick search feature.

• Quillpad (offline notes)
• MuPDF mini (Great simple PDF reader)
• Unit Converter Ultimate (lots of various conversions)
• Retro Music (fdroid repo for pro version, best music player hands down)
• OSMAnd (Great for fancy mapping features)
• Mull (hardened Firefox with the quickest updates of all Firefox based browsers)
• AntennaPod (best podcast app)
• Obtanium (install apps easily from sources such as Github)
• Droid-ify (better fdroid)

Linux, Qtile, Firefox, Bitwarden, neovim, espanso, and others. So many great tools for those willing and able to do a little digging.

These two are now the first apps I install on any new device:

• Kiss launcher (simple and fast)
• Articons icon pack

Basically, my approach is to (mostly) prioritize text over icons, and reduce the colors I need to process.

Other apps:

• Brave browser (for YouTube and built-in anti-tracking features.)
• Librera (ebook/PDF reader with lots of features)
• Odyssey (local music player optimized for speed. My library is so large that all the other players were having trouble finding songs.)
• Graph 89 (TI graphing calculator emulator)
• Feeder (RSS feed aggregator)

• Firefox
• Signal
• FFUpdater
• Red Moon

KDE Connect means that I can ping my phone that's usually presumably somewhere behind my bed or on a counter somewhere, without having to sheepishly walk to the nearest person and ask "can you call my phone I lost it :c"

Firefox
libre office
obs studio (free, not 100% sure if os)

jtx board for tasks and notes

The list is too long. If I'm forced to choose 5, I guess they'll be,

1. Linux
2. Syncthing
3. Firefox
4. Neovim
5. PhotoPrism

My top Must have FOSS app:

• Bitwarden - password manager

Other indispensable FOSS apps:

• FairEmail and Proton Mail - email
• SimpleLogin - email aliases
• Joplin - notes
• Aves Libre - image gallery
• Droid-ify - FOSS app store
• FediLab - Fediverse client
• Medilog - health metrics log
• OctoDroid - GitHub viewer/manager

Antenna-pod if you like podcasts is fantastic relative to google podcasts (but maybe that's a low bar)

Firefox and Helix