qBitController - Control qBitTorrent servers from your phone. UI is really great; I use it regularly to download some media on my server (an always on old laptop) when I’m at work.

Pano Scrobbler - Connects to Last.fm to scrobble any music I listen on my phone. Also nice UI.

Rush - Fetches and shows lyrics for songs you search or whatever is currently playing. Can handle synchronized lyrics and sync with your player.

Auxio - Simple music player. Of the few I’ve tested, it handles metadata the best, which makes it work very well with other music apps (Pano and Rush).

Keysh - Assign custom actions for the volume buttons. I use the default script which makes the buttons turn volume up/down on short presses, and skip forward/backward a song on long presses. I use it pretty much daily to control music without unlocking my phone (and not using the broken controls on my headphones).

MJ PDF - PDF reader, simple UI, very fast.

Material Files - File manager, nice UI and feature set.

Ruler (Privacy Friendly) - On-screen ruler. Comes in handy sometimes.

Binary Eye - QR and barcode scanner. Can preview and copy the text before handling it.

https://f-droid.org/packages/com.trianguloy.urlchecker/

url checker is an app working as a broswer, when you open a link, it allows you to edit the link before it loads in a browser of your choice

Aegis - an authenticator app.
CoMaps - like Google or apple maps
ConnectBot - let’s me ssh into my PC and laptop from my phone, that’s nice for me if I just need to do something quick and am in another room.
FluffyChat - this is the matrix client I prefer, other than sending video, that sucks with this one.
Léon - this cleans up URLs to remove the tracking stuff.
Seal - this downloads videos or audio files. I use it because I like to download videos i send people, instead of just sending them a link.
Shelter - this clones apps to a work profile on your phone, which somewhat limits what those apps have access to from your standard profile.

Droidify to fix the horrible F-droid interface

Organic Maps

Not a favourite, but interesting https://f-droid.org/packages/com.fauxx.full/

Generates internet traffic noise to ruin attempts to profile you

Fennec web browser.
Compass for well, a compass.
Voyager in case Connect breaks again

• AntennaPod - podcast player
• Aves - great gallery app
• Catima - stores loyalty cards
• DAVx5 - syncing calendars and contacts via CalDAV.
• FairEmail - very secure and feature-rich email client
• OSS Document Scanner - clean and private document scanner.
• SD Maid 2/SE - good for system cleaning and clearing cache.
• Tasks.org to-do list with good sync options.
• Breakout 71 - a roguelike brick-breaker game

TrackerControl for blocking apps from connecting to the internet

Simple apps for Gallery and File Browser

Markor for mardown note taking

JustPlayer for watching videos

I’ve yet to find a good music player, since f-droid’s search sucks - it only searches in the name and short description. I’ve tried Apollo and Odyssey, but neither has a fucking folder whitelist/blacklist setting and end up filled with audio from telegram and whatsapp. Also, most players completely ignore .opus format

I geocache and hike a lot so there’s one app that is fantastic for this, c:geo. I can import my trail map via gpx format, highlight the route, and download the geocahes before I hop on the trail.

https://apt.izzysoft.de/packages/cgeo.geocaching

I’ve also been messing around with Trail Sense, a lot of various tools for hiking. It has stuff like satellite tracking and an astronomy tool for finding where the stars and constellations are.

https://f-droid.org/packages/com.kylecorry.trail_sense

For exercising, I use an interval timer, I find Timer does this the best

https://f-droid.org/packages/io.github.deweyreed.timer.other

I use:

• Droid-ify for better F-Droid

• Aegis for 2FA

• Capy Reader for RSS

• Broccoli for recipes

• FluffyChat for Matrix

• Gadgetbridge for smart band

• Breezy Weather for weather

• Heliboard for keyboard

• IronFox as browser (you need to add its repo though)

• KeePassDX as KeePass vault

• Kitsune for Kitsu interaction

• Librera Reader for ebooks and PDFs

• LibreSudoku for occasional sudoku

• Standard Notes for personal notes

• Joplin for general notes

• Markdownr for downloading articles as markdown, then I pass them to Joplin

• Molly for Signal client

• mpv for videos

• NetGuard for firewall

• CoMaps for general map/GPS needs

• PipePipe for Youtube and PeerTube

• RustDesk for remote access

• SD Maid 2 for system cleaner

• SicMu Neo for music player

• SimpleLogin for email aliases

• Sky Map for stars

• Stocks Widget for stock market

• Sumire for Japanese keyboard

• Termux for terminal needs

• Track & Graph for habit tracker

• Trail Sense for outdoor activities

• Tuta Mail for email

• Voyager for Lemmy

• Yet Another Call Blocker for blocking calls (even though it doesn’t get updates for a long time still works for me)

• And core apps from Fossify

LibreFind scans your installed packages locally and queries their community-submitted database to identify proprietary software and find FOSS alternatives.

https://f-droid.org/packages/com.jksalcedo.librefind

It’s a bit inconsistent with what it thinks are “equivalent”, but when it works, it’s a great way to find FOSS alternative to apps you have

These threads come up every so often and I read them all, every time, just in case there’s a gem I haven’t heard of. Thanks y’all.

I just installed PlugBrain yesterday. It gives you increasingly difficult math tasks every x minutes the longer you use Social Media / addicting apps.

Hey, great post, really interesting to read other people’s app recommendations.

The ones that I use frequently are:

Material Files - I use this solely to access/browse my local NAS

SimpleReminder - Super quick and easy to set reminders without needing go into my calendar and create a new event etc

Thanks :)

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