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Look ma, no proprietary apps! (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 days ago by monovergent@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] FriedRice@lemmy.ml 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Thank you. Most of thoese i even dont know. Can you make a list?

[–] monovergent@lemmy.ml 39 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (5 children)

Of course

Accrescent: Store ~~run~~ (edit: advocated) by the GrapheneOS team for third-party apps
Aegis: 2FA TOTP code generator
AirGuard: Scans for persistent AirTags in the vicinity, notifies if I may be victim to AirTag tracking
AntennaPod: Podcast manager, also supports importing local folders of podcasts
AudioMonitor: Measure sound level
Binary Eye: Support for many types of 1D and 2D barcodes
ByeDPI: routes internet traffic through the DNS port to bypass certain types of filtering
Canvass: doodle app, useful for mid-conversation diagrams and clarifying things visually in the absence of pen and paper
ClassiCube: Minecraft Classic clone
Conversations: XMPP client
Editor: raw text editor
Elementary: periodic table
SimpleEmail: minimalist e-mail app that does not automatically fetch linked images. Refereshes in the background every 15 minutes and sends notifications without need for Play Services or equivalent
FakeStandby: for edge cases when I want something to keep running in the foreground, but don't want to keep the screen on
Feeder: RSS client
Fintunes: Jellyfin client optimized for music
FlorisBoard: customizable keyboard
Fruity Game: Suika but with MS-Paint art style
Graph 89: Graphing calculator emulator
Invizible: Tor and DNS client
Kiwix: Offline Wikipedia (you can download just the parts useful to you, e.g. medical articles without storage-hungry media files)
Lemuroid: GBA emulator
LocalSend: instant P2P filesharing over WLAN
Markor: notes app with markdown
Material Files: files app with SMB share support and various handy features
Molly: Alternative Signal client
Fossify Messages: I use it over the default messages app since it is easy to block numbers by pattern
Notally: notes app with nice checklists
Open Camera: as easy to use as the regular camera, but with a bunch more features below the surface
OpenContacts: saves contacts as individual .vcf files to a directory for easy backup and allows dropping unknown callers without bothering me with a notification
Organic Maps to be replaced with CoMaps later
OSS Document Scanner: best FOSS scanning app I've found so far. Includes auto-cropping (given enough contrast) and adjustable B&W filter to eliminate off-white background colors.
phyphox: view output of sensors like the barometer, magnetometer, accelerometer, etc.
PipePipe: NewPipe but better (except for the occasional memory leakage)
QDict & QuickDic: offline dictionaries and bilingual wordbooks
RadioDroid: IP radio client. Can tune in to international news, music, sports broadcasts
RHVoice: TTS app
RiMusic: NewPipe, but for ~~Spotify, etc.~~ YT Music
SecScanQR: QR scanner and generator with history, useful to save QR addresses for later use since I don't want to fill out forms or read documents on my phone
SuperTuxKart: the only [edit: other] game on my phone
Symphony: Music app with a slick UI
Trail Sense: Compass with various goodies useful for outdoor activities
Breezy Weather: weather app and homescreen widget with a slick UI
MicroMathematics: Math engine, but I never learned how to use it

[–] FriedRice@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago

Thank you!

[–] somerandomname@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Cannot find canvass on f-droid, got a link?

[–] monovergent@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago

It's on the IzzyOnDroid repo: https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/apk/com.cyb3rg0d.canvass

Fossify Paint does the same thing without adding the IzzyOnDroid repo, I just happen to have Canvass since it was the first thing that showed up when I searched.

[–] ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That TI calculator app is the shit. I am in the generation who used those in engineering school. Goddamned things were like $150.

[–] irmadlad@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Ahhh....I am of the generation that remembers when there were no calculators. When they started becoming available, yes they were quite expensive. All my teachers would say 'what do you think? You think you're just going to have a calculator in your pocket all the time?' Well, yes Mr Mizelle in engineering, I will be walking around with a calculator in my pocket that links to a satellite in outer fucking space.

[–] ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 days ago

And it has autocorrect on it, so then I'll forget these spelling words

[–] nathan@piefed.alphapuggle.dev 5 points 2 days ago

Btw Accrescent isn't run by the GrapheneOS team, they just advocate for it's use

[–] solrize@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Spotify

You had me going til that one.

[–] monovergent@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 days ago

My bad, misremembered that RiMusic fetches from Youtube music instead of Spotify