Awesome Android Apps - my curated list of ~250 apps (github.com)

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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.

🏔️ Codeberg version

I hope you will find it useful! 🤩

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[-] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 17 points 6 months ago

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

[-] Psyhackological@lemmy.ml 9 points 6 months ago

How about now? :)

[-] delirious_owl@discuss.online 2 points 6 months ago

Prolly cuz there aren't any awesome ones

[-] steal_your_face@lemmy.ml 3 points 6 months ago

You’ve never used voyager I see

[-] delirious_owl@discuss.online 3 points 6 months ago

I have.

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[-] NickwithaC@lemmy.world 11 points 6 months ago

Browser list doesn't include Firefox?

[-] Psyhackological@lemmy.ml 8 points 6 months ago

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 3 points 6 months ago

Iceraven for the win!

[-] Psyhackological@lemmy.ml 3 points 6 months ago

Very customizable. :)

[-] Lemongrab@lemmy.one 3 points 6 months ago

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 3 points 6 months 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 6 months ago

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 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months 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 6 months ago

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

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[-] crudenipster@lemm.ee 5 points 6 months ago

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 6 months ago

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.

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[-] Psyhackological@lemmy.ml 3 points 6 months 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 5 points 6 months ago

Awesome work!

[-] Psyhackological@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 months ago

Thank you!

[-] wwwgem@lemmy.ml 4 points 6 months ago

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 2 points 6 months ago

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 6 months ago

whoBIRD was an interesting find

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[-] Lemongrab@lemmy.one 3 points 6 months ago

I recommend QUIK SMS as an maintained fork of QKSMS. https://www.f-droid.org/en/packages/dev.octoshrimpy.quik/

[-] Psyhackological@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months 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

[-] shiftymccool@programming.dev 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

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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[-] guillem@aussie.zone 2 points 6 months ago

Thanks for the list!

Öffi (transport) shows up under the podcasts heading.

[-] Psyhackological@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

No problem!

Oh... Yeah you're right. How did this happen? 🤔

EDIT: Fixed

[-] rainerloeten@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

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 😅 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 6 months 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. 😆

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