Title says it all. I’ll go first:
I don’t really have any on my computer (all I use that for is Vim, Firefox, and Git), but on my phone: Orbot (basically Tor as a VPN on your phone).
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Organic Maps for … maps.
FluffyChat as chat client for matrix.
Joplin for note taking on any device.
AntennaPod for podcasts.
100% with you on Joplin, I use it all the time. I love it. I haven’t yet found anything I like more.
I tried Obsidian recently and was turned off because the notes aren’t encrypted in place like with Joplin. To me that’s just a really nice privacy feature that I don’t like the idea of sacrificing, especially not to a not open source project.
Organic Maps
Looks like it has supper detailed maps, has OpenStreetMap really gotten that good!?
I don’t know about general maps but any footpaths or off-road stuff is really good there and better than on Google or Apple Maps.
OpenStreetMap is amazing. I always use the maps when I want to know details about some place. Much more detailed than Google Maps.
ETA: Especially when you want to go somewhere on foot or by bike, because Google Maps kinda sucks at showing footpaths etc.
How does Organic Maps compare to OsmAnd?
Better UI and UX, but a few less features.
I’ve recently discovered Organic Maps that allows offline viewing of open street maps. I’ve been using it since maps.me has completely gone down the drain with premium subscriptions and paid download limits (for the same open street maps data lol).
SyncThing - to sync my files between devices and avoid the big corporations cloud (use it for notes, Keepass database, photos, etc)
Logseq - super advanced note taking with tagging and relationships between notes (all store locally)
Authpass - opening my Keepass password database on my phone
GrapheneOS Camera - just to avoid the Google camera app as I have Google Photos disabled on my phone and needrd a good app that doesn’t break when going to view the gallery (since it tries to open Google Photos)
Simple Gallery - to view my photos on my phone
Signal - I have it but I have very few friends that use it unfortunately
AntennaPod - for podcasts, I’m thinking of self hosting a podcast tracker to sync my listening habits across my devices, we’ll see if that happens
Vinyl Music Player - to play my local mp3 files and playlists (I use MusicBee to manage what I sync to the phone as my mp3 library is quite large, and SyncThing to actually copy stuff over)
SyncThing - to sync my files between devices and avoid the big corporations cloud (use it for notes, Keepass database, photos, etc)
Amen, sibling.
Logseq - super advanced note taking with tagging and relationships between notes (all store locally)
Quite nice, although I’m still struggling to integrate it with my workflow. I just haven’t taken the time to learn how to best use it.
Authpass - opening my Keepass password database on my phone
Do you trust it? Why?
I’m really cautious (nervous) about the program(s) I give access to my kbdx. On the desktop, I’ve actually code audited the tool I use; I can’t as easily do that on Android.
GrapheneOS Camera - just to avoid the Google camera app as I have Google Photos disabled on my phone and needrd a good app that doesn’t break when going to view the gallery (since it tries to open Google Photos)
I’ve been using OpenCamera for this, but recently started using PhotonCamera - it has a great UI.
Simple Gallery - to view my photos on my phone
That’s a good one. I ended up with Aves because it allows fairly complex filtering, and the UI is nice.
Signal - I have it but I have very few friends that use it unfortunately
A few years ago, I talked my wider family into using Wire, and now we’re all stuck on it. It keeps getting progressively worse with each release, and sooner or later I’m going to have to pick something to replace it. I don’t know what that will be, but it will be federated, and it won’t mandate IDs tied to a phone number.
Vinyl Music Player - to play my local mp3 files and playlists (I use MusicBee to manage what I sync to the phone as my mp3 library is quite large, and SyncThing to actually copy stuff over)
God, I seem to change music players every couple of months. I guess I’ve been using Metro for a while and haven’t found the thing that irritates me and sends me on a search for a new player, so maybe it’ll stick. That’s interesting about MusicBee, though - I’ve been looking for something like that, so thank you!
I’ll add to your list:
- PhotoBackup, which is a reliable and fantastic replacement for Photos syncing. This is then tied into PhotoPrism on the server, for web access and sharing. I had to cobble it together, mostly b/c of limitations in PhotoPrism, but it does replace the whole Goog Photos workflow.
- NewPipe, which is superior to the YT app in all ways, and is one of the best OSS all-around mobile apps.
- QKSMS, which I keep coming back to. I haven’t found anything better yet, in any case.
- DAVx⁵. Unseen, but does some heavy lifting. One of the apps I make sure to support; replaces 1/3 of the critical “core” Google Android services
- Wireguard, which Just Works, and is always on.
- M.A.L.P., for when I’m playing music on the house system
- openScale, a quite nice OSS weight tracker that supports a lot of off-brand smart scales, without phoning home
- KDE Connect, what for sending stuff to/from other computers amd phones. Works great, even without KDE (mconnect is an alternative desktop service)
- Etar, as my calendar app. Been using it so long, I’ve forgotten it’s not stock.
- ntfy replaces so much notification on my phone, and it does so reliably and well. Worth a shout out.
- SimpleTask, the best to todo.txt Android app. Another app that I’ve been using so long it seems almost stock.
- I’ve been using FlorisBoard for several months now. It has no text prediction, but has a ton of features I use. I try other keyboards every once in a while, but end up back on Floris. The only thing I miss is prediction, and with it better (any?) correction. Still, aside from DAVx⁵, it’s probably the most used app on my phone, so…
- Geometric Weather! Such a great weather app.
- Material Files replaces the stock file manager. Great program, and while remote FSes are limited to ftp, it does the job.
- Wormhole William is a good between-devices file transfer tool.
- Termux, of course. Are there any real competitors?
Thing is, I’m running OEM Android, b/c I have a flip phone and don’t want to lose the outside screen support by flashing. So I uninstall or disable nearly every built in app, and replace them with F-Droid apps (via Droid-ify). It’s not much, but it’s an honest living.
Edit MusicBee… oh, Windows. Oh, well. The search continues.
I never really saw the need for Termux, but now that I selfhost at home and on a VPS, i couldn’t go without it!
Also, I just recently started switching as much as I can to a self-hosted ntfy instance from pushover. I’m really loving it so far!
I sponsored it on github because I see myself using it a lot. Plus, the dev deserves it. The documentation alone is great, let alone the software itself.
I really dislike typing on my phone, but termux has saved my bacon a couple of times when picom has frozen up on me, so it stays.
Ntfy is really nice software!
Off the top of my head
- Signal
- VeraCrypt
- LibreWolf
- BitWarden
Oh shoot! I forgot about Bitwarden, I feel like I use it so much that it just fades into the background now!
Surprised no one’s mentioned NewPipe yet
Everyone knows about VLC but I don’t think many people know it has a really good Android app! I use it as my primary music app and it’s great. Even has android auto support and a surprisingly sleek interface.
Threema
Where Signal is secure - Threema is private and secure (e2e encrypted, uses PFS but doesn’t need your phone number for sign ups. You can be 100% anonymous should you wish)
I can share files, links and clipboard items between my phone and my computer. Use my phone as remote control while watching stuff. I see phone notifications on my computer and don’t miss calls when my phone is in silent mode while I’m at my PC. It has made my life so much smoother.
Out of curiosity can KDE Connect act as a Find My alternative?
I’m not sure, because I don’t really know, what Find My can do (I think it’s an Apple app, right?) What you can do with KDE Connect is make your phone ring to locate it. You can’t access the phones location. I hope that was remotely helpful.
Out of curiosity, is this linked to a PC running a Linux distro, or Windows/MacOS?
Edit:
To clarify, I meant this as, “Are you using this with a PC running Linux?” vs. whether it was available across different OSes. Sorry for the confusion, but thanks for the replies that address both interests!All of them. You can even connect between multiple computers.
Habits !!
Edit: replaced gplay with fdroid link. The proper way
Are there any in app purchases? It looks pretty neat
I just replaced the gplay link with the fdroid. On github it says ;
No limitations. Track as many habits as you wish. Loop imposes no artificial limits on how many habits you can have. All features are available to all users. There are no in-app purchases.
That’s pretty rad I think :)
Everything search app is easily my most used on my Windows PC. Instant, as-you-type file search by name with detail sorting and wildcard support. I set a keyboard shortcut as well. It puts Explorer search to shame. As good as Spotlight, which I was missing from when I had a Mac in 2008.
LaunchyQT - modern fork of Launchy that actually gets development. App launcher, dead simple.
FanControl - Fan curve software with all the features I want including hybrid temp sources, sensible automatic settings, visual graphs with an intuitive interface.
AutoHotKey - Hotkey scripting language that I can use even as someone who barely codes.
Transcribe! - Not open-source but it’s a reasonably priced audio and video slow down app for transcribing.
If you use the 1.5 beta version of Everything Search, you can even sort videos by their image/video width and height, audio bitrate, video bitrate, duration of audio/video and such parameters you find in Windows Explorer’s custom file attributes section.
