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Awesome Android Apps

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Hi all,

for 2 years, sporadically, I've been adding awesome FOSS apps with the following:

Rules

  • Open Sourced
  • Free of charge (on F-Droid and source code repository releases)
  • Free as in Freedom
  • Ad-free
  • Installed and tested by me or by contributor
  • Privacy-friendly aware
  • Easy to use
  • Still in development or polished experience
  • Does not lack features compared to proprietary app
  • Does not need an account (the only exceptions are self-hosted) apps)
  • Has dark theme

...tested by my and then later by contributors. I think many of you will appreciate this simple README.md repo, and I would love some help with it.

πŸ”οΈ Codeberg version

I hope you will find it useful! 🀩

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[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Ahem. I don't see the Lemmy app on there.

[–] delirious_owl@discuss.online 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Prolly cuz there aren't any awesome ones

[–] steal_your_face@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago (4 children)

You’ve never used voyager I see

[–] NickwithaC@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Browser list doesn't include Firefox?

[–] Psyhackological@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Just because it's not on the list it does not mean it's bad :) Also there are Firefox forks like Mull, Iceraven and Fennec

[–] exanime@lemmy.today 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Psyhackological@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago

Very customizable. :)

[–] Lemongrab@lemmy.one 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Firefox isn't FOSS. It requires proprietary APIs like Google Safe browsing and others. See the Fennec's deblobbing scripts and build repo for a more details: https://gitlab.com/relan/fennecbuild

[–] Psyhackological@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago

Yeah, that is why I mostly have Firefox's forks and even on my desktop I much prefer LibreWolf instead of Firefox.

[–] starman@programming.dev 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Nice list!

I would add RiMusic (ViMusic fork, since ViMusic haven't been updated in a long time) and maybe InnerTune

[–] Psyhackological@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

RiMusic (ViMusic fork, since ViMusic haven’t been updated in a long time)

I didn't know that! Thanks!

InnerTune also looks very promising!

EDIT: Replace ViMusic with RiMusic

[–] rainerloeten@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Also this goes to show that F-droid needs a rating system IMO 🫠

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[–] crudenipster@lemm.ee 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Awesome list. Have you found any app for recording calls? (I live in Hungary and receive calls in Hungarian sometimes and would like to record them to translate and understand what the call was about.)

Also, I don't see anything for audiobooks. I use Smart Audiobooks, but was wondering if there are more open source options.

[–] Old_Jimmy_Twodicks@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I use Voice by Paul Woitaschek (available on F-Droid). It has a nice, simple interface and a few really useful features. I've gone through dozens of audiobooks in various formats with it and haven't had any problems yet.

[–] Psyhackological@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago

Yeah, it looks superb. However, I have only one issue with it. Why is it so big - almost 80 MB?

[–] Psyhackological@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago

Thank you!

I see... quick search and I found this beauty, try it out, I haven't yet, but keep in my first sentence of it:

MOST PHONES DOES NOT SUPPORT CALL RECORDING. Blame Google or your phone manufacturer not me!

I've seen many stars coming in to this Voice Audiobook Player repository.

[–] RandomStickman@kbin.run 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] Psyhackological@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago
[–] wwwgem@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Any mastodon client? Also can I recommend the Right apps collection from Goodwy and Voyager as Lemmy client (I think they match the requirements to figure on your list).

[–] Psyhackological@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago (6 children)

I thought of Mastadom but I have never used it yet and that's why no clients. Thanks for suggestions. I know about Voyager but not Right apps collectiom from Goodwy. I will add Voyager soon but I cannot find this Goodwy collection.

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[–] delirious_owl@discuss.online 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

whoBIRD was an interesting find

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[–] Lemongrab@lemmy.one 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Psyhackological@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Thanks! Many people insistet on deleting it and now can be replace same as Bromite and Cromite not so long ago.

EDIT: Replace QKSMS with QUIK SMS

[–] guillem@aussie.zone 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Thanks for the list!

Γ–ffi (transport) shows up under the podcasts heading.

[–] Psyhackological@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

No problem!

Oh... Yeah you're right. How did this happen? πŸ€”

EDIT: Fixed

[–] shiftymccool@programming.dev 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (5 children)

When Authy dropped their desktop app, I picked this up for 2FA: https://2fas.com/

EDIT: oops, just realized this isn't listed on f-droid...

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[–] rainerloeten@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Thank you for this awesome list! I had terrible experience with OSS Document Scanner and Image Toolbox though.

The scanner would just distort every image like crazy!! Would 100% of the time utterly fail to detect the paper edges even against high contrast backgrounds without any patterns and under very good lighting. I did like 20+ photos and immediately deleted the app, it didn't produce a single usable result.

And image toolbox was just a pain to use. If you compare how you apply filters in e.g. Instagram to this app, the UX is purely frustrating :( Though the app looks nice and has lots of features :)

Sorry for all the negativity πŸ˜… I'll try to be more positive by sharing my favorite Spotify alternative, which is basically a YouTube music client with premium features. The service remains proprietary but the same applies to discord. InnerTune

[–] Psyhackological@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago

No problem, I'm glad you like it! I had with OSS Document Scanner too, but not with Image Toolbox.

The basic edit is fine in many Gallery apps if you're looking for it. The Image Toolbox is fine with UI even modern, but when you look for quick edit I understand.

No worries, we all know that FOSS software is imperfect and not polished like some enormous alternatives like you've mentioned edit on Instagram... It's mostly 1 main contribution up to 10 - 20 vs many very well-paid developers that were working on it until it works perfectly with spying. πŸ˜†

I added to suggestion of apps project InnerTube, thanks. ;)

[–] Psyhackological@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago
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