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Neo store - F-droid frontend
Sympathy - music player
Libretube - Youtube frontend that proxies through Piped
Material files - file manager
Aegis authenticator - TOTP 2FA app
Bitwarden - frontend for the FOSS bitwarden password manager
Magisk - The only non spyware root app
Cloudstream: Piracy movie streaming that supports multiple sites
I wanna piggy back off this thread if that's okay. What image gallery do y'all use?
I've been using aves or simple gallery for a while but I've never felt quite satisfied with them
Piggybacking onto this, also on simple gallery, curious about alternatives.
There is a bunch of apps on F-droid (and also playstore) which start with "simple..." all opensource. My list: simple calendar pro, simple contacts pro, simple dailer, simple draw pro, simple filemanager pro, simple gallary pro, simple notes pro, simple SMS messenger. No ads on any of them, and free. I have a total of 39 f-droid (so opensource) apps on my phone... So start with F-droid
I don't really use Android much now that I daily drive a Linux phone, but when I do these are my go-to apps:
F-Droid: FOSS app repository/"store" where I get most of my FOSS apps.
Aurora Store: FOSS app that interfaces with Play Store, allows downloads without account or tracking
NewPipe: FOSS YouTube alternative with the ability to download videos
Fennec: Fork of Firefox in F-Droid
VLC: Media player that plays almost anything
Hacker's Keyboard: My long-standing favorite on-screen keyboard of any platform
Terminal Emulator: Before I got into Linux phone, for running Linux distro chroots
Aard 2 - translator that takes you to wikidictionary
andOTP - offline OTP with easy option to encrypt your backup with your PGP key
AnyMemo - very nice flashcard app. Creating your own (with Tatoeba for example) is very easy
Carnet - simple notes app
FairMail - great mail app. IMO better than K-9
Feeder - RSS watcher
Ghost Commander - file manager. UI is a little bit clunky but much better than enything else
KeePassDX - password manager
Librera Reader - IMO the best PDF/epub/mobi reader there is
monocles translator - nice translator similar to DeepL
NewPipe - youtube and bandcamp
Ning - local network scanner
OCR
Odyssey Music Player
OpenCamera
OpenKeychain - PGP
OsmAnd~ - navigation and maps in general
CV Project - Mozilla projecton capturing voice recordings
QKSMS - for sms
RCX - cloud client
Shelter - the "work profile" manager
Simple Calendar - calendar with very nice widgets
Sky Map - you can point your phone in the direction of a star and see it annotated
Weather Widget - for the weather
WebMediaShare/WebApps - discontinued unfortunately, but it's great at appifying an URL, so you don't have to use official app
I use more, but these are the ones I think might be most interesting to others. I don't know if all of these are absolutely 100% open source (and that depends on definition) but all of these are in F-droid.
Here are mine
Antennapod
Batterybot pro (for charge/discharge notifs)
Simple calendar
Droid-ify
Element
Feeder
Fennec
Simple files
Simple gallery
Jitsi
KeepassDX
Librespeed
LocalMonero
molly (fdroid Signal fork)
NewPipe
Simple notes
Ntfy
Odysee
Osmand+
ProtonMail and ProtonVPN (IzzyOnDroid repo)
Quickweather
Simple recorder
RedReader (reddit client) (dev is considering porting to lemmy)
Session
Termux
Tor browser
Tusky
Unstoppable Wallet
If you use a Nextcloud server, there's a good collection of apps (some official, some third-party) that work with it. The ones I use:
Nextcloud - main app, does authentication, file access, optional auto-upload photos Nextcloud Notes - kind of like Google Keep, but simpler. (IIRC Carnet is more like Keep, and also open) Nextcloud Talk - instant messaging, supposedly can do voice but I've never used it for that Nextcloud News - RSS reader that syncs your feeds and read/unread through your Nextcloud server
Plus these apps that aren't Nextcloud-specific, but work with it and other sync methods:
OpenTasks - ToDo list (needs Dav5x to sync) DAVx5 - Syncs contacts, calendars and to-do items between any CalDav, CardDav or WebDav servers and your Android system, so you can access them with any local contacts or calendar app. (For instance: K-9 Mail can use contacts from my Google account and my Nextcloud account, and Simple Calendar can do the same with my calendars.) Floccus - Bookmarks manager that can sync across multiple desktop browsers and the mobile app, using any of several sync options including Nextcloud