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

  • Stomata@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    2 months ago

    In my list everything is open source

    1. Moshidon (for mastodon)
    2. Eternity (Lemmy)
    3. KeepassDX (pass manager)
    4. Local send
    5. Heliboard (keyboard)
    6. Droidify (fdroid)
    7. Fossify gallery
    8. Multi calculator
    9. Cromite ( chromium browser)
    10. Mull ( Firefox )
    11. Rethink DNS, firewall
    12. SD maid se ( cache cleaning )
    13. Tubular ( for yt sometimes)
    14. Fossify calendar
    15. Conversation (xmpp)
    16. Molly(signal)
    17. Markor (notes) At last URLcheck
  • squirrel@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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    2 months ago
    1. Voyager for Lemmy
    2. AntennaPod
    3. Firefox
    4. YouTube ReVanced
    5. Signal
    6. Xtra for Twitch
    7. Thunderbird
    8. Medito
    9. KeePassDX
    10. Aegis 2FA
    • Alphamars@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      2 months ago

      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

      • squirrel@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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        2 months ago

        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.

  • sbv@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I’m pretty basic:

    1. Sync
    2. Chrome
    3. Reddit
    4. Antenna Pod
    5. Guardian newspaper app
    6. Google Play Books
    7. Libby
  • Kaboom@reddthat.comEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I don’t think I even use 10 apps, I use like 3 of them

    1. Jerboa for Lemmy
    2. Firefox w/ unlock origin
    3. WriterP for note taking
    4. Message/Gmail/other system apps
  • AusatKeyboardPremi@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    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
    Proton VPN Self-explanatory
    Bitwarden Password manager
    P.S.

    I finally found a chance to use tables on Lemmy.

      • Hyrulian@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 months ago

        Not original commenter, but I got the hell off of Swiftkey after Microsoft bought it for privacy purposes. That could be why.

      • AusatKeyboardPremi@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 months ago

        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.

          • AusatKeyboardPremi@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            2 months ago

            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?

            • Alphamars@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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              2 months ago

              Better than Heliboard by a mile. Privacy oriented Keyboard The autocorrect works well and the crazy part is the voice keyboard. Everything is offline

    • Matriks404@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      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.

      • michael_palmer@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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        2 months ago

        The only browser that supports proper extensions such as Ublock origin (which is much more advanced than the built-in adblockers in other browsers).

      • WhiteOakBayou@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 months ago

        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.

  • Hyrulian@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    If I had to pick some of my favorites:

    • 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.

  • kratoz29@lemm.eeEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I am gonna cheat and name multiple apps with the same/similar purpose:

    1. Boost, Summit, Eternity, Voyager (Sync for Lemmy is out of this place… I still use Sync for Reddit Revanced though)
    2. Feedly/Feeder
    3. Firefox Beta
    4. Bitwarden
    5. Obtanium/Droidify
    6. Nekogram
    7. YouTube/YT music Revanced/Pocket Casts
    8. Spotify
    9. Obsidian/Syncthing
    10. Material Files

    Honorable mention to Kinestop, finally being able to use my phone on a vehicle? It was the last place where I would dare to doom scroll!

    I seriously could go on… I have too many apps.

    • Cyclohexane@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      2 months ago

      About the racoon recommendation have you tried other Lemmy apps? Curious what made you choose racoon

    • kratoz29@lemm.eeEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Racoon for lemmy

      This is the 1st time I decided to check about this (I have heard that name before here), after a 1st glance it looks a lot like Boost for Lemmy, and since Boost seems to be the best working client for me at this moment (image and posts load for example is way faster than Summit, Voyager and Eternity), in terms of speed Sync for Lemmy is faster, but it is so broken with my current instance that is not worth to use it anymore.

      I might install Raccoon soonish :)

  • Luca@feddit.itEnglish
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    2 months ago
    1. AntennaPod for podcasts
    2. LiftLog to track gym progress and weights
    3. Raccoon for Lemmy
    4. FUTO Keyboard.

    those apps are all open source.

  • Gregor@gregtech.euEnglish
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    2 months ago

    (In no particular order)

    • Threema
    • Brave
    • Bitwarden (using a self-hosted vaultwarden instance)
    • SpMp
    • Notesnook
    • Voyager
    • LocalSend
    • DeepL