Useful android apps you are using?

As in title, preferably open-source, but doesn’t have to, I will start:

KOReader - Amazing reader app, and being able to use the same app across various devices, even non-android ones, is pure bliss. Japanese support is pretty good too, which makes me happy. Though… Sadly no vertical text support :c

Syncthing-fork - Being able to keep a library of books, and some files, and easily keep the shared folder across various devices, is mega comfy. Tachiyomi - Cute manga reader.

NewPipe - Really pleasant youtube client, that i sometimes use to listen to things in the background.

Kaku - An useful Japanese OCR app, that works… quite decently for when I encounter kanji that I do not recognize, and is not text.

EinkBro - A web browser, that on e-ink devices, is quite comfy. Has few… quirks, but works well on e-ink

throws_lemy,
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  • microG
  • Liftoff
  • Jerboa
  • Infinity
  • AuroraStore
  • NewPipe
  • Tachiyomi
  • Binary Eye
  • Currencies
  • Unit Converter
  • K-9 Mail
  • Etar
  • DAVx5
  • OsmAnd
  • PersonalDNSfilter
  • DNSCrypt
  • KDE Connect
  • OpenBoard
  • NeoBackup
  • App Manager
  • Aegis
  • ImagePipe
  • Insular
  • VLC
faintwhenfree,

Are you me, I have every single app on this list.

mojo,

What do you do with Infinity now that it’s shut down

perishthethought,

KDE Connect

“Shared clipboard: copy and paste between your devices.”

What the what?!? That’s so cool!

swapnilmj,
  • Florisboard - FOSS keyboard with support for glide typing
  • KISS Launcher - Lightweight, search based, customizable launcher. Also
  • MuPDF - PDF viewer
  • Logseq - Notes. TODO list. Ideas
  • Syncthing - For syncing across devices
  • Newpipe - Youtube clilent
  • K-9 mail - For email
  • Feeder - RSS feeds
  • Tusky - Fediverse
  • Mull browser
  • Brave browser
  • Organic Maps - For maps and navigation.
  • GMaps WV - For maps and navigation.
  • Auxio - music player
  • Bitwarden
  • Termux
  • Mega-android - Cloud storage

And ofcourse, F-Droid with additional repos (IzzyOnDroid, Newpipe etc.)

mckean,
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List made using List My Apps

Wilshire,
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Autosync for Google Drive - Syncs folders in Google Drive to your phone. I use it for music files.

Swarfega,

Sync for Lemmy!

Nyoelle,

Ooh, nice to see more lemmy clients

Laticauda,

Revanced, it’s the successor to vanced and just as good. I tried newpipe but I didn’t like that I couldn’t log in among other issues.

DraStic. I like playing older pokemon game roms on it.

Kanji tree, a great way to practice kanji.

Island, let’s me use different accounts on apps that don’t allow account switching. For example, it lets me access both my regular amazon account for kindle and my Japanese account that I use to buy manga and books in Japanese occasionally, without having to log in and out all the time. It basically clones apps and let’s you open the clone version as a separate app, so you can have the same app open twice with different accounts.

AI enlarger. Just an app that does a good job enlarging images. I usually use it for art so idk how good it is for photos, but I imagine it’s pretty good. It does an amazing job with art. Better than most other image enlarging programs or apps I’ve tried, except for one paid one that I tested with the free points you get for signing up, which was still about the same in quality.

Kiwi browser, works like chrome but let’s you use extensions on mobile. I usually prefer Firefox but there are some sites or activities where I really want to be able to use certain extensions and Firefox doesn’t have the ability to use the equivalents on the mobile browser. I think Kiwi provides privacy options that help with chrome’s privacy issues though, but don’t quote me on that.

Nyoelle,

Oh, I do it a bit differently. I just buy on PC, download azw3, deDRM, then convert to epub with calibre, and yoink onto the devices with syncthing, to read on koreader Also, AI enlarger seems nice, so I will check it out

mojo,

Moshidon for a Mastodon client

Droid-ify as a much better fdroid client

Another Notes to plan world domination

InnerTune as a great YouTube music ripping app

Feeder for RSS feeds

Xtra as a Twitch client

Tutanota for email/contacts/calendar

Fennec (or Mull) for a demozilla’d stable Firefox with all tracking/analytics/proprietary stuff removed

Mostly stock AOSP apps from my custom GrapheneOS rom.

Every one of those apps are on fdroid, except the built in stock apps obviously

wagoner,

Since you clearly have an eink android device, what other eink-friendly apps do you recommend? Would love to hear of any.

Nyoelle,

I would say… Termux/SSH clients, as they are text based… Tachiyomi, with disabled animations… But beside that, not much. I just abuse the fact that e-ink devices that I do have, do refresh the screen at decent speed (e.g Hisense A9, Onyx boox Tab Ultra), so… most apps are actually useable, even if… the experience on other devices would be pure misery.

Sorry for not being able to be much of help #_#

wagoner,

No, this is good, thank you

JillyB,

Torque. It allows you to connect to your car’s OBD2 port via a cheap Bluetooth adapter. From the app, you can read and clear diagnostic codes, setup custom gauges, and log data. It was very helpful when my alternator was dying and when my car was overheating. I don’t have voltage or coolant temp gauges.

fuzzzerd,

Is there a specific Bluetooth dongle/adapter you use?

anon6789,

I’ve been using this one since 2016.

Wilshire, (edited )
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The cheap Bluetooth ones work as well as the expensive ones

aboutscientific,
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Joplin is one of the most important apps I use daily on my Android phone. The desktop version for Linux, an Appimage, synchronizes with the shared database used by the Android app. One can use common cloud services or pay a small fee (now about 18 euros/year) for a specific cloud synchronization service (1Gb).

bunkbed,

I’ve started using LibreTube, its a lot like NewPipe, but I much prefer the UI. Check it out! (Its in F-Droid, of course)

Nyoelle,

Ah, I will, thanks :3

cymor,

Some I haven’t seen listed yet:

Librerian,
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I stopped using Nova Launcher when it was aquired by an analytics company, since launchers usually have access to a lot of permissions, and I don’t trust a company dealing in analytics to operate in good faith with that access. I have used Lawnchair 2 and recently switched over to Neo Launcher.

cymor,

Good to know!

serial,

How would you compare nova to neo, analytics aside? Is it far enough along to be a practical competitor?

Librerian,
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I find that Neo covers most of my needs. Although there is one thing in particular that I miss: swiping actions on seperate icons to launch another app/action. I haven’t used Nova in a while, but it had nicer previews inside the options, and I find that Neo has a few minor bugs that annoy me at times. But Neo has the things that are most important to me: multiple pages, tabs or folders in the app drawer, icon pack support, search and gestures (not on each icon, as noted earlier). I also miss the ability to place icons between the defined grid as in Nova.

Psythik,

YouTube ReVanced - YouTube with adblocking, SponsorBlock, and Return YouTube Dislike built-in. There is also ReVanced for YT Music.

NetGuard - Firewall that doesn’t need root. Works on system apps too so you can help curb the amount of spying done by system apps and apps that don’t need an internet connection to function.

Connect - Most functional Lemmy app I could find (and I literally tried them all). Still not as smooth of an experience as Relay, but /u/DBrady has announced no plans to port it to Lemmy so Connect will have to do.

Stremio - Any show or movie you want from any streaming platform (Netflix, Hulu/D+, HBO, Apple TV, etc.), all in one place. The app runs on TVs too. Requires plugins to work, but costs as little as $3/mo or even free, depending on what plugins you use. You’ll never need to subscribe to any other streaming platform.

Splitwise - Easily split bills with your SO/roommate(s). Stop arguing over expenses.

Google Rewards - Answer surveys, get Google Play credit. Paid apps are now free!

renard_roux,

I’ve also tried all the Lemmy apps I could find, and must say I’m still the most fond of Voyager. Almost every single time I launch, there’s a new update, and new features are showing up extremely fast. Now that there’s customizable swipe gestures for all use cases, it’s become so awesome to use. I even had an issue with comments getting deleted if I swiped too far while composing, opened a ticket on GitHub, and dev had it fixed within a day. They’ve just started submitting app versions to to both the Apple and Android store, if you don’t want to use the web app.

I second Google Rewards, I also haven’t paid for an app for quite some time now. A small note - if it asks if you’ve visited a specific store recently, the reward is a lot bigger if you say yes, say you bought something, and how you paid. Even if you didn’t 😁 There’s always (at least) one plausible option, a store you were near, and then a few that look to be fillers. I personally only pick the plausible ones, just in case it’s some sort of test. They also rolled out uploading receipts where I’m located recently, and must admit I don’t mind Google knowing what I purchased at whatever supermarket.

Psythik,

My problem with Voyager is that it’s a web app. It’s extremely laggy/unresponsive and the keyboard doesn’t work. Firefox doesn’t play nice with web apps and I refuse to use any other mobile browser cause I need UBlock Origin and NoScript.

fuzzzerd,

I’ve been using it with Firefox and haven’t had any issues with lag or speed on a regular pixel 6. I’m curious what issues you’ve had or if you’ve used the most recent versions?

I’m typing this from the new sync, because it’s more familiar to me and I prefer it’s ui.

Psythik,
  1. It’s very laggy and unresponsive. Have to tap on things multiple times to get them to work.
  2. The keyboard won’t come up. It pops up for a few milliseconds then immediately disappears.

I have a Z Fold 3 so I don’t think the phone is the issue. Regardless, I’m using Sync too now.

Lifebandit666,

I’ve been using Voyager as a web app on Firefox since I left Reddit in the blackouts and had zero issues with it. I’ve only moved over to Sync today because it’s the app I used for Reddit

can,

They have done tests in the past but they wet obvious. People got caught saying they went to a waterpark that didn’t exist.

itsmikeyd,

Sync for Lemmy will be available soon. It’s much nicer than Connect.

deBaron,

It’s available now! I’m commenting this from Sync.

NENathaniel,
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Last.fm to track my listening habits, pretty entertaining

nIi7WJVZwktT4Ze,

I use ListenBrainz for a libre alternative.

igorette,
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I use Pano Scrobbler to feed last.fm and listenbrainz

Ilandar,

I use Carnet for simple note taking and Catima as a digital wallet. Wavelet can be used to apply AutoEq to headphones. The presets are generally really good and make smaller and cheaper earphones sound a lot better than they do by default.

wreleven,
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  • 1 for wavelet. They make my Bluetooth headphones so much better. Because it sets a standard EQ it actually makes all my headphones consistent with eachother.
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