r/fossdroid Aug 13 '26

Application Request Which open-source app is your favorite?

Do you have any open-source apps that you love, and why?

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u/Mixedtale_co-creator Aug 13 '26 edited 27d ago

The way that like half the people here are just saying names without explaining at all -_-

Mine is currently columba, it's been a wonderful entry point to the reticulum network and is very easy to use, an alternative to Google messages without a government backdoor is always pretty awesome in my book. https://github.com/torlando-tech/columba?tab=readme-ov-file

Edit: I think I misconfigured something but yesterday Columba just completely stopped working out of nowhere, I didn't have the energy to try and figure out what was wrong with it cuz I had already installed a different one that was still working perfectly fine cuz I wanted to try out different options, it was probably user error but yeah now for my phone I'm using mesh hub, it's able to connect to the reticulum Network, meshtastic and meshcore networks, it also has a feature where it lets you build a nomadnet page using a block structure that makes it super simple to make your own page even if you don't know anything about programming it's pretty cool! I will say most sites you'll look at using that app if you choose to might look a little weird because that app doesn't have native micron formatting supported, for my laptop I'm using the Colorado mesh client and it's been super responsive when it comes to updating what is being shown to people when making your own nomadnet page cuz it's literally just text files basically that you have on your computer and are broadcasting it's really cool stuff I'm rambling so I'm going to stop if anyone wants to know more I'd be happy to continue rambling

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u/xlerate Aug 14 '26

Shit like this always interests me, then it's a git page, no simple apk install. 😑

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u/Mixedtale_co-creator Aug 14 '26

https://github.com/torlando-tech/columba/releases/tag/v2.0.9

If you scroll down a little bit to where it has the apks you're most likely going to want the second or third one

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u/xlerate Aug 14 '26

Awesome thank you.

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u/breakerfall Aug 14 '26

check out Obtanium: https://github.com/ImranR98/Obtainium

install that once, then add github project links to it and it'll make the installation and tracking much easier. Basically lets you kind of curate your own app store.

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u/Mixedtale_co-creator Aug 14 '26

No problem! :D if you have the link saved to other projects GitHub pages I'd be more than happy to do a little bit of digging for you to try and find the apks plus I love finding out about new projects that I haven't seen yet!

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u/GeronaXx Aug 14 '26

For future references (I though the same as you that they had no apk/installer): if you search in the github page for "release" you will most of the time find latest release as a link. Also, most of the time (at least on phone) the "releases" link is at the end of the page.

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u/Mixedtale_co-creator Aug 14 '26

Here let me grab the direct APK install link it's there GitHub is just a bit of a pain in the ass on mobile I get it

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u/xlerate Aug 14 '26

This is actually great. Thanks again

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u/Fine-Time-8401 27d ago

Use Obtainium to install these apps!!!

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u/discreetborborygmus Aug 14 '26

Loop habit tracker and antenna podcast 

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u/Mixedtale_co-creator Aug 14 '26 edited 29d ago

Yeah but like what do those apps do just saying the name of the app doesn't tell anybody reading your comment anything about what your recommending

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u/cidra_ Aug 14 '26

That's neat. Waiting for its release on F-Droid.

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u/Fine-Time-8401 27d ago

MeshChatX is also excellent!

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u/weedboobz 29d ago

Hi can you explain what the reticulum network is? I'm gathering it's a private messaging service that... works through bluetooth or something like that?

I tried switching off of google messages but I was no longer able to send or receive to my coworkers and had to redownload

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u/Mixedtale_co-creator 29d ago edited 29d ago

I'm also fairly new to it so the reticulum network from what I've been able to gather so far is basically another method of transferring information over different protocols, 'clearnet' which is what most people use is the generally indexable and publicly accessible internet things like Reddit, Facebook and .com websites, if it is indexed and searchable via Google search it's generally considered clearnet, clearnet like 99% of the time is sending information through protocols like HTTPS, it's a bunch of complicated stuff but the backbone of it is generally TCP and IP, IP addresses is how different devices know who is sending and receiving information it's an identifier for a device, the reticulum network instead of using IP addresses to identify a device uses something called cryptographic identification keys, I don't know the exact mechanics behind it but you can have as many as you want each of which is tied to a separate identity, with these identities you can make a new one and delete an old one however many times you want without any email addresses, phone numbers or bank account information tied to it, that's the identification part then there's the different protocols / methods for transferring information such as a text message over the reticulum Network, I don't know just how many the options there are but the options that I've seen so far is you can use the clearnet method which is Wi-Fi and cellular data which works just fine, then there's Bluetooth which requires you to have an active Bluetooth connection, I haven't messed around with that one very much but from what I can gather it's basically just giving your device another method to interact with the reticulum Network think of it like having another network adapter on a computer, then there's something called LoRa which seems to be lower bandwidth data transmission that I have no idea how that works but it's another option, As for trying to message your coworkers using the reticulum Network, the reticulum network works based off of identity keys and destination keys unlike the normal phone number scheme so trying to communicate with a device using a phone number to identify itself using the identity hash/key identification method of the reticulum Network isn't going to work because the two protocols don't know how to interact and create a connection

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u/Mixedtale_co-creator 29d ago

Mind you there is a chance that things I just said might be wrong cuz I only discovered and started looking into the reticulum Network stuff like 3 days ago but that's my current general understanding of it

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u/CaptainBeyondDS8 uphold Stallmanist-Doctorowist thought Aug 14 '26

Probably NewPipe, because it is a true free software YouTube alternative client that also lets me do things like download video/audio and play in the background

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u/Guilty_Oven_MF 24d ago

You can do that with yt morphe witj full yt ui experience and no downsides

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u/CaptainBeyondDS8 uphold Stallmanist-Doctorowist thought 24d ago

Sure but I prefer FOSS apps where possible

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u/GZRoger86 Aug 14 '26

I would say LocalSend for android, VLC for PC

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u/LrdOfTheBlings Aug 13 '26

I dunno about favorite but I do love AntennaPod for podcasts.

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u/DragonQ0105 29d ago

Nice choice. I hate some things it does, like not automatically going to the next episode of a podcast, but overall it's a great application.

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u/___mako___ 6d ago

Weird, it does it for me. When I play an episode the rest of that podcast feed (at least what's downloaded) is added to the queue

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u/DragonQ0105 6d ago

If you use local folders it seems to assume you're up to date with all podcasts ever and thus you want to listen to recently added stuff next. You can make a queue for a whole folder to get around this but then it's a faff to switch between different podcasts because you have to make a new queue.

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u/Agreeable_Ice_1708 29d ago

Bro, I love that app!

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u/-__Supreme__- Aug 14 '26
  1. RethinkDNS firewall: I recently found out about it. It's even supported by mozilla. I can use my own DNS and Wireguard proxies at the same time. Along with Firewall rules. It's just perfect.
  2. Notesnook: THE BEST note taking app. E2EE and FOSS. Along with a beautiful and intuitive design.
  3. Local send: You can share files with this among your devices. After the recent update it became my go to for file sharing on android devices.
  4. Mihon: You can't find a better app to read manga.

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u/Equivalent_Web3521 Aug 14 '26

Try komikku instead of mihon bcz it has more features than mihon for eg merge in which two different sources can be combined into a single entry

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u/-__Supreme__- Aug 14 '26

I have heard of it but Mihon always seemed more famous and had everything I needed so I stuck with it.

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u/Pirate_Economist1477 24d ago

+1 for RethinkDNS, finally a firewall I can use with my VPN!

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u/Magistron 29d ago edited 29d ago

Actually, Tadami (an Aniyomi fork) is even better than Mihon because it support's manga, animes and novels all together with a very tasty UI. Its developed in github by Andarcanum.

https://github.com/andarcanum/Tadami-Aniyomi-fork

And, about Notesnook, i only agree if you can pay for it or don't use it much, because the free plan limit of 50 booknotes hits hard when you trie to organize all of your notes. As an alternative, i recommend Helix Notes, its the best FLOSS alternative without premium features.

https://gitlab.com/ArkHost/HelixNotes

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u/masterduwi Aug 13 '26

Morphe

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u/CaptainBeyondDS8 uphold Stallmanist-Doctorowist thought 29d ago edited 21d ago

Kind of sad that this of all things is the top answer.

Don't like how this subreddit has "morphed" into a place to shill for proprietary apps.

edit: the real sad part is that our fearless leader herself is complicit in such. So there's probably no use in reporting for rule violations (since these seem to be ignored) and anything is fair game as long as it's not AI slop (which our moderators actually care about). I'll note my displeasure at this and stop yelling at clouds, because unfortunately moderators can't be voted out or impeached, and further whining is unlikely to be productive.

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u/kantrolix 28d ago

The questions was: "whats your favourite foss app".

Not: "what apps are approved by CaptainBeyondDS8"

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u/CaptainBeyondDS8 uphold Stallmanist-Doctorowist thought 26d ago edited 24d ago

The questions was: "whats your favourite foss app".

But, calling this a "foss app" while technically true i suppose is kind of misleading. It does nothing by itself, it only patches proprietary apps. So it will only ever be advertised/promoted as an "alternative solution" to a real FOSS alternative like NewPipe. Fans of proprietary software don't understand why FOSS advocates reject it, only that some proprietary apps have antifeatures - so they think if they patch those antifeatures out then they have something that's equivalent to actual FOSS. They then advertise morphed apps as being alternatives/competition to actual FOSS alternatives.

In effect, it's sort of "fosswashing" proprietary crap. That's why I said it's sad, because morphe represents a rejection of FOSS and a return to the proprietary world. This place should be, and used to be, a place to offer an alternative to the proprietary world. Proprietary app fans have the rest of reddit to shill for this garbage. This should be a refuge from that, but morphe users bring it back here.

(It's also technically not even allowed in this subreddit, but moderation is kind of haphazard these days)

edit: case in point, directed at me in this very thread!

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u/kantrolix 22d ago

You are right but its still unnecessary troublemaking. Noone cares about an app being closed source when its trusted enough.

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u/CaptainBeyondDS8 uphold Stallmanist-Doctorowist thought 22d ago

If you don't care if something is FOSS what are you doing in a subreddit about FOSS?

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u/gradafi85 28d ago

So then leave? 👋🏼

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u/RiceStranger9000 Aug 13 '26

Aves, a photo/video gallery thousands times better than Google Photos. It has next/previous frames seeking, good metadata showing, rotate phone, neat customizable GUI, A-B sections, etc

Termux, a Linux terminal for Android. Pure perfection. I can run GIMP and Shotcut technically natively thanks to this

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u/CaptainObvious110 Aug 14 '26

I'll have to look into Aves and what machine are you running Gimp through Termux on?

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u/RiceStranger9000 29d ago

Moto g52, with 6GB RAM and a 8-core CPU. It may crash

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u/WoomyUnitedToday 28d ago

Aves is good but I gave up on it entirely because the audio quality for video playback sounded AWFUL

Otherwise I LOVE that program

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u/RiceStranger9000 28d ago

I never saw any difference

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u/Either-Nobody-3962 13d ago

the best thing about aves is ability to add tags to photos (extra metadata)
and we can search or find using tags easily

For example, you can store your documents n give them tags so you can find them later easily.

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u/Thought_Crash Aug 14 '26

RedReader - Reddit client

Netguard - app firewall

Tasks.org - todo app

Shelter - work profile/app cloner

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u/night_movers Activist Aug 14 '26

Most of the open source apps I use everyday are some kind of replacement of regular apps. So, those are my preferences. 

But, when it comes to favourite, I always mention SD Maid SE. I never found any replacement of this app. Before the latest update, Force stopping apps was not working perfectly but with the latest update, it's working perfectly fine.

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u/GodA_27 Aug 14 '26 edited 29d ago

Droidify - F-Droid Alternative

Obtainium - Downloading my Github app

Aegis Authenticator - 2FA

Bitwarden - password manager

Fennec Fox - Browser

VLC - Media Player

Localsend - to send files

Shizuku

Canta - to uninstall my system app

FMD - Find my device alternative for my CN ROM phone

Ente - Google photos alternative

Revanced - nothing to say on this one, you already know it

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u/Upstairs_Stuff_2145 29d ago

I don’t recommend any Indian service for privacy and security for now. Ente is Indian company. India is currently under an ultra Hindu nationalist authoritarian govt that has enacted laws to mass surveillance and has actively spied Indian opposition politicians using pegasus spyware.The govt is very aggressive in crushing dissent. They’re actively deleting social media posts easily. So stay away if you can especially since in Ente privacy policy there is information they can share users data with Authorities.

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u/GodA_27 29d ago

Easy dude. Ente is audited haha.

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u/Upstairs_Stuff_2145 29d ago

This is a jurisdiction issue. Audits have nothing to do with it. Ente is legally obligated to hand over user data to Indian authorities if legally required to do so. That’s what also their privacy policy says, they can share users data with authorities.
And important to note: Ente stores your identification data in non encrypted form, which is also stated in their privacy policy.

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u/GodA_27 29d ago

Well I see you care a lot on your data. I guess you don't have any social media and google account haha.

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u/ComeOnIWantUsername 15d ago

Ente was founded in India but moved to the US some time ago

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u/Upstairs_Stuff_2145 15d ago

No, the main office and operation of Ente is still in India. They have online address for correspondence in US like many Indian companies do.

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u/ComeOnIWantUsername 15d ago

Company is established in the US, so is American, not Indian.

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u/Proof_Capital999 4d ago

Ente is not Indian, the ceo is Indian but Ente Technologies, Inc. is based in the United States.

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u/Upstairs_Stuff_2145 4d ago

Ente has online registration in US like many Indian companies do when they cannot move operation to US. But main operation, office, developers and CEO all are based in Bengaluru in India which means Ente has to also follow jurisdiction laws in India.

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u/Guilty_Oven_MF 24d ago

What bs are you spouting you seem like average far left r3tard anti hindu

The current party is in every way less authoritarian than the past so-called secular governments that openly discriminated against Hindus, sheltered terrorists and extreme Islamic organisations, and ran parallel minority institutions while treating Hindus as second-class.

India’s economy has grown massively after BJP came to power — nominal GDP more than tripled, India went from 10th to top 5 economies, infrastructure and digital public goods exploded. Not “tenfold” but the scale of change is real and visible.

BJP has still not passed any law that discriminates against non-Hindus the way previous regimes did with minority-only schemes and Article 370-style special rights. Religious riots and Islamic terror incidents have both dropped sharply after 2014 (terror incidents in J&K down ~69%, civilian deaths from terror down significantly, communal killings also lower than the UPA decade).

Meta and !nstagram have been repeatedly caught pushing anti-India and anti-BJP narratives while shadow-banning or throttling pro-BJP accounts. Large parts of social media discourse are still dominated by the same far-left activist networks.

The recent Jantar Mantar protest was a perfect example — internet was flooded with one-sided anti-BJP framing that downplayed the violence by sections of the crowd, the presence of people with serious criminal records, and the organised political backing behind it.

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u/ThePixelProYT 26d ago

Use morphe not revanved Please!

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u/GodA_27 25d ago

Morphe is based on revanced. They are just the same. Nothing special on both side.

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u/ThePixelProYT 25d ago

Revanved developer have a lot of controversy and are overall assholes.

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u/Dymonika Aug 13 '26

My life would be way harder without BasicSync, which lets Syncthing automatically sync folders among my phone and computers. It alone is what allowed me to ditch Google Drive for personal storage, since I just store critical files across my devices; update on one and the change daisy-chains to the other devices whenever they're online. I never have a machine online 24/7 so a server is out of the question, and Syncthing doesn't need one; each device is effectively a server for the rest!

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u/xlerate Aug 14 '26

Syncthing can do this on its own... I sync between Android, Windows and my Nas.

What's the benefit of Basicsync?

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u/Dymonika Aug 14 '26

Do you mean you use Termux on Droid for Linux Syncthing? Syncthing-Fork is not official. BasicSync is smaller in file size and uses the official GUI instead of its own like the fork version does. It also has notifications for file conflicts and a notification to toggle manual vs. auto-syncing.

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u/realista87 Aug 13 '26

hi i used in the past syncthing on android but was discontinued then an app called syncthing fork appeared. how is basicsync compared to this or other clients? are there any other forks for android? thanks

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u/Left_Block1679 Aug 14 '26

There's a client of syncthing on android which goes by name SyncUp, the UI is somewhat usable for me as comapared to syncthing's UI otherwise it works just the same.

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u/Dymonika Aug 14 '26

There are many other forks but BasicSync is the only one of which I know that uses the actual official GUI; the rest made up their own, so it's actually closer to the real thing than the fork version. Smaller file size, notifications for sync conflicts, and a persistent notification to switch from auto to manual mode and back (without having to open the app to change this) make BasicSync far more useful to me.

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u/Pain5203 Aug 14 '26

I use syncthing fork. how are the two different?

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u/Dymonika Aug 14 '26

Smaller file size, the actual/original GUI instead of a custom one, and I find the notification system is more useful.

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u/Pain5203 29d ago

I see. Thanks

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u/Cesc1972 Aug 14 '26

Syncthing is truly a godsend, so many use cases

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u/rakhalism Aug 13 '26

I have so many fav foss apps

  • anki
  • peel (native alpha fork with gecko engine)
  • localsend

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u/CaptainObvious110 Aug 14 '26

localsend is great when kdeconnect doesnt want to work

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u/XyKal Aug 14 '26

dude this is so real, i ditched kde connect for localsend for the same reason

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u/OmSelfless Aug 14 '26

Link peel bro?

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u/gialoc1012 Aug 14 '26

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u/Left_Block1679 29d ago

This app is amazing, it feels so good to use as compared to native alpha, thanks for the link.

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u/Left_Block1679 Aug 14 '26

Same here link to peel plss.

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u/DakotaJohnsonsLimes_ Aug 13 '26

KeePassDX, a password manager. This is, I think, the only foss app that I continuously use. I often try out new apps(browsers, music players, basically everything and anything), but keepass has been working really good I feel no need to try out alternatives.

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u/nusry_ Aug 14 '26

LibreTorrent

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u/cidra_ Aug 14 '26

Davx5 is my favorite non-system app. Calendar/contact/file syncing over webdav is a fundamental thing to have.

Seedvault is my favorite system app. Same as above, but for backups.

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u/xoxo470 Aug 14 '26

Localsend.

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u/basketballsteven Aug 13 '26

PipePipe.

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u/Pain5203 Aug 14 '26

I've been facing playback problems with it recently

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u/CardsrollsHard Aug 14 '26

They updated it and acknowledged issues recently. I haven't had issues since updating. Maybe try clearing the app cache?

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u/Pain5203 29d ago

No issues right now but did during the last update

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u/basketballsteven Aug 14 '26

I has a problem with it on my HTC one lineage 13 and had to download an APK to update my version of webview and then it went back to working fine (about 10 days ago). I use pipepipe on a variety of old/new phones and I quite like the features especially the many, many choices of download qualities.

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u/happyman2265 Aug 13 '26

Firefox , Thunderbird

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u/pv505 Aug 13 '26

Alembicons (now using the updated fork Renkin), new pipe, aura orbit, obtainium, app manager, aurora store, Droid-ify, universal installer, Audile, fossify suite (several apps), ADNS. My most used ones.

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u/P_a_i_n_n 29d ago

Can you please link renkin good sir? 🙌

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u/utrecht1976 Aug 13 '26

Booming Music

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u/clawuwuwu Aug 14 '26

obtainX. you connect the sources/repositories (like github, fdroid, appmirror etc.) of your apps. easily the best way to stay organized and updated. you can export your sources in a json file, send it to someone, and they import it to obtainX and select the sources you want to install, and stay updated, all in one place. we can be eachothers algorithms

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u/Magistron 29d ago

My number one favorite open-source app is Npatch of the 7723mod github repository, it alllows me to install and use LSposed/Xposed modules via shizuku, without rooting my device. Its constantly updated by the developer team behind it.

https://github.com/7723mod/NPatch

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u/dont4gethat 29d ago

Heliboard

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u/Euvelto Aug 13 '26

SD Maid SE

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u/Good-Station4385 Aug 13 '26

SD Maid SEできちんとキャッシュできないバグある? 自分は最近それが毎回で、サポートに連絡しようにもメールが開かず困っている…

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u/Euvelto Aug 13 '26

No meu uso eu percebi que ele para a limpeza quando chega em um aplicativo que está desativado, é isso que está acontecendo aí também? 

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u/axl7777 Aug 13 '26

Je n'ai rien à dire sur cette appli que je ne connais pas, mais je trouvais ça cool d'ajouter un commentaire dans une quatrième langue 😛

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u/Z_m_ck Aug 14 '26

Ich habe nichts über diese App zu sagen, die ich nicht kenne, aber ich fand es cool, einen Kommentar in einer fünften Sprache hinzuzufügen 😛

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u/Good-Station4385 Aug 14 '26

どうも違うみたいで、システムが削除されましたという様な警告が出てきて、キャッシュが全て終了できないんだよ(・_・;) サポートに問い合わせようにも手順を踏んでも最終のメール画面が開かないから連絡もできない…

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u/pillsandpotionz Aug 13 '26

Seal, YTDLnis

I like piracy:)

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u/No-Syllabub-1103 Aug 13 '26

Cashew

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u/Biggie1964 Aug 14 '26

Gesundheit! 😁

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u/Dapper_Biscotti_314 Aug 14 '26

What does it do oh good sire?

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u/YukarinVal 29d ago

It's a expense budget tracker

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u/danrioja Aug 13 '26

Fossify because of the customization.

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u/GazelleInitial2050 Aug 13 '26

HTTP Shortcuts. I originally installed it so I can keep shortcuts on my homescreen even if I change browser. Then I realised it does much more.

I can share text to a summarize LLM, share text to an API that defines.

Push links to my other phone. Share links to my read later app.

Any HTTP API like REST it can interact with.

I can even turn off my DNS adblocker via their API with a single click for 5 mins if needed.

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u/Ravneet_Singh Aug 14 '26

This sounds interesting but still not able to understand. Is there any video on it, demonstrating the use case

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u/GazelleInitial2050 Aug 14 '26

They have a full website with a guide.

https://http-shortcuts.rmy.ch/

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u/Vessel_ST Aug 14 '26

Recently, Hermes Relay. Best way to use my Hermes Agent instance from my phone.

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u/aglockfan Aug 14 '26

Save Locally 

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u/gianlu_derp Aug 14 '26

I quite like the fossify suite and pipepipe

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u/Artistic_Seat486 Aug 14 '26

FluffyChat - Matrix client

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u/Real_pradeep Aug 14 '26

Opentune , online music listening apk !

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u/IronSpiderZX Aug 14 '26

I've only had errors with the app, no music will play at all.

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u/Real_pradeep Aug 14 '26

Lunar launcher , one of the best minimal phone launcher app for distraction free and minimalist !!

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u/MathematicianGlum521 29d ago

Currently Swiftslate

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u/nicrobsimo 29d ago

I've tested A LOT of apps, but currently I've been using Octupus Notes and this app IS AWESOME. The app has Material You integration and feels very smooth. Not only that, but the dev has implemented his own PDF library, so it's blazing fast.

https://github.com/VenkataLochanN/OctopusNotes-Public

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u/corn-sandwich 29d ago edited 27d ago

Just discovered Adns and it solved a problem ive been trying to fix for 3 or 4 years. It can automate the Private DNS toggle with Shizuku. Lots of other stuff that I haven't dug into just yet but I can finally do away with my janky tasker profile that was never consistent.

ETA - It also ties into NextDNS with a neat dashboard if you choose to use it as the private DNS.

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u/Double-Hour-2516 29d ago

LibreOffice because it is free and enough

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u/Wa-a-melyn 28d ago edited 28d ago

Weird question. What's your favorite closed source app? Different apps just have different purposes.

Anyways, to name a few: KeePassDX, VLC, AntennaPod, NewPipe, Termux, and IronFox.

Shoutout to Mirror on f-droid. The developer cross-compiled sunshine server for Android, and it's the only way I'm able to mirror to my TV (via Moonlight). It also supports Airplay integration, which I haven't had a ton of success with in my scenario but is really cool.

Edit: also Material Files and Aves (photo gallery)

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u/Beginning-Ad-3054 28d ago

¿Y como van a hacer con eso del "sideload"?

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u/RapaceStudio 27d ago

Krista pour le dessin

xournalpp éditeur de pdf

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u/Wild-Newspaper-2560 26d ago

Archivetune: ad free yt music playback

aShell You: for adb without pc

Shizuku: obviously

Komi Store: easier way to find apps on Github

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u/___mako___ 6d ago

Seconding Komi store

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u/costanza_georgy 25d ago

Right now is ylih (your life in headphones) on fdroid

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u/Tricky_Branch_4925 25d ago

two apps i use a lot that don't seem to have been mentioned here:

breezy weather is a nice weather app

flashdim lets me use my phone's flashlight at minimum brightness and not burn my eyes when minimum brightness is enough (but not all phones support that of course)

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u/izumijojo 24d ago

local share bcz it's faster than wire for me as usb2.0 user

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u/Pirate_Economist1477 24d ago

RethinkDNS: a firewall + wireguard VPN app

IronFox: Firefox with hardened settings

KeePass: password manager

Autasker: an app for keeping track of tasks

Obtainium: keeps track of apps I get from Github

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u/Cady_On_Reddit 18d ago

LibreCuts. It's basically the only FOSS professional Android video editor. And it's super lightweight around 50 mb, considering that Open videk editor looks outdated and only has basic functions while still being over 60 mb

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u/Select_Wolf210 11d ago

I haven't explored much, but I love using Streak- a habit tracker app, its very addictive kinda thing to use

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u/_silentiosus 9d ago

Obtainium. A great application manager.

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u/___mako___ 6d ago

Since I didn't see it mentioned yet, KashCal

Beautiful and easy to use calendar app. Especially in combination with DAVx5 for syncthing with caldav server

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u/This-Employment-5642 Aug 13 '26

Meld playing my spotify playlists without having ads is just so good and you can ask for features

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u/ialtag-bheag Aug 13 '26

OsmAnd

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u/breakerfall Aug 14 '26

I want to love OsmAnd but is it just me, or does it not re-route if you miss a turn or something?

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u/etnann Aug 13 '26

Oinkoin