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[–] gabe@literature.cafe 40 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Libby, freaking love audiobooks.

[–] KingJalopy@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

Easily the most used app on my phone

[–] DogMuffins@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Adding voice and audiobookshelf, for non-DRM books.

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[–] mim@lemmy.sdf.org 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Wallabag.

I self-host my own instace, save articles I want to read from my laptop, and then they sync with the app on my phone. I read them offline when I have some time to kill

[–] techguy86@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That looks exactly like something I’ve been looking for. I’m going to spin up an instance tonight and take it for a test drive. Thanks!

[–] mim@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 year ago

You're welcome!

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[–] EthicalDogMeat@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago

Xmanager, newpipe, Firefox with ublock origin and dark reader extensions.

[–] NENathaniel@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

TickTick would be hard to replace. Ive yet to find another cross-platform reminders app that's so good

Most of my other fav apps (Voyager for Lemmy, Bitwarden, NextCloud, NeoStore) could be replaced if I needed pretty easily (altho itd be a downgrade)

[–] Nusm@lemm.ee 15 points 1 year ago

I didn’t read close enough and thought you said TikTok. I thought to myself, “TikTok has reminders?!?”

[–] demystify@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

May I recommend Tasks? Not only is it open source and doesn't collect nearly as much information as TickTick apparently does (according to Play Market), but it's packed full of features, and also interfaces with a bunch of other apps, like Google Calendar and Google Drive for backups.

Edit: it also is still maintained and updated regularly

[–] NENathaniel@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I will check it out but, unless I'm just missing it, it doesn't seem to have an iOS/iPad app. That unfortunately might be enough to be a dealbreaker

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[–] d13@programming.dev 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A few I haven't seen mentioned:

  • Moon+ Reader - My favorite ebook reader of all time.
  • Tea Time - Simple timer widgets
  • Simple Time Tracker - Track what you do
  • NES.emu, Snes9x EX+, M64+ FZ - Emulators
  • Thunder - Lemmy
  • Root Explorer - file explorer
  • Lichess - Chess, free of ads, no fees. Almost entirely FOSS.

Also +1 to the usual favorites: Firefox, Termux, Nova, etc.

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[–] MrZee@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago

Alarmed (iOS only, unfortunately). It allows you to set nagging reminders with notifications and has great features for snoozing a reminder or setting up routine reminders.

It’s great for ADHD. I basically use it for my schedule I’ll have it remind me the morning of something (or the day before depending on the event), when the reminder comes up, I’ll snooze it to to just before I have to leave.

I had been using apples “reminders”, which just seem to disappear into the ether if you happen to miss the notification.

[–] kratoz29@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Sync for Lemmy, Voyager and Summit, if I need to narrow it down to three Lemmy clients.

Google Photos with Pixelifly 🏴‍☠️

Telegram to discuss about custom ROMs and talk with my gf.

Spark Mail because I love Inbox Zero, also has some nice team features.

Spotify for music, ViMusic as a close second.

Google Chrome (looking to replace it with Ice Raven, Firefox when it gets full extension support).

Feedly and Feeder, the one to discover and manager plus multi platform, the second because I think it is a superior RSS app, used along with Discovery Killer to replace cringe Google Discover.

Bitwarden (Vaultwarden) for password management.

Showly synced with Trak.tv to manage my TV shows/Anime and Movies.

Todoist (looking to replace it with Tasks.org, but I really need this to be multiplatform, just as with Feedly), also testing with Ruppu for simpler stuff.

Droidify to handle all these awesome Open Source mess ;)

Smart Dock

Classic PowerMenu

Ice Box and App Manager/SD Maid

Franco Kernel Manager and Magisk.

Runners up:

Download Progress ++ and Media Bar

I think this would be the summarized list.

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[–] jay@jaybit-u6846.vm.elestio.app 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Google Calendar - I live my life by this calendar. If it's not on the calendar, I'm not doing it

Audible - Audiobooks by Amazon (I know they suck, but it's a really decent service)

Tachiyomi - Manga and Comics manager and reader

Libby - Books and Audiobooks for free from your local library

Youtube - I use this way too much. I learn everything from here

[–] pretzelise@mlem.me 2 points 1 year ago

+1 for Tachiyomi. Absolutely incredible app to manage my collection digitally :)

[–] FrankTheHealer@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Joplin - general note taking and to do lists

Feeder - my favorite RSS app. I also use it to save my YouTube subscriptions

Sync For Lemmy - The best Lemmy app out there rn IMO

NewPipe - YouTube app with built in ad blocking, background play, download function etc no login required.

Proton Mail - Emails

Proton Calendar - Calendar

Proton Drive - Cloud Storage

Proton VPN - VPN

AntennaPod - Podcast app

Spotify - Music

VLC - playing local video/ audio files

Firefox - Web Browser

Waze - Navigation

Signal - Messaging

Jellyfin - Accessing my movies and TV shows

Tailscale - What I use to access my Jellyfin when I'm away from home.

CamScanner - Very handy for scanning/ digitizing physical documents.

Speedtest from Ookla - I use it a lot to check my internet connection

Shazam - Music detection

PhotoScan - one of the only Google apps I use, let's you easily scan/ digitize old photographs

Bitwarden - Password Manager

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[–] akp@beehaw.org 7 points 1 year ago
[–] sibloure@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago

LibreTube for Android. YouTube just has too many ads.

[–] ICE_WALRUS@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Jalapeño Poppers Wings Clams half shell Drunken clams Calamari Potato skins

[–] la508@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Translation for the non-yanks: Americans call starters "appetisers" and then shorten it to "apps"

[–] UdeRecife@literature.cafe 6 points 1 year ago

jumpapp. A run-or-raise application switcher for any X11 desktop.

It's THAT good.

[–] Jtee@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Nextcloud (connected to self hosted instance), Obsidian (combo with FileSync app for free syncing to my other devices), Wifiman by Ubiquiti

[–] techgearwhips@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

So many:

afwall+

joplin

proton vpn

protonmail

davx5

tasks.org

nova launcher

simple gallery

simple dialer

simple contacts

simple calendar

nextcloud

mega.nz

dropbox

aniyomi

buzzkill

voyager

infinity for reddit revanced

fdroid

mixplorer

xmanager

youtube revanced

the score

foss telegram

bitwarden

adaway

kde connect

tailscale

remote desktop client

nzb360

instander

ibraodcast

bubble upnp

nextcloud

localsend

syncthing

native alpha+

Librera FD

Feeder

Magic Earth

obtanium

seal

termux

unchained

premiumized

shelter

youcut or capcut

picsay pro

idm+

xbrowser sync

fennec

ocr

neo backup

magisk

imgur viewer

gptAssist

freebiealerts

aftership

de-bloater

fairemail

hypatia

[–] SpaghettiYeti@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

That's cool, but can you maybe provide a one-sentence summary of what each does for you?

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[–] Mugmoor@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Plexamp and NewPipe for sure. Especially now that Plexamp doesn't require a Plex Pass.

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[–] Unsustainable@lemmy.today 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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[–] Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 year ago

On my android phone: keepassDX - password manager w/ autofill Aegis - 2 factor authenticator Joplin - markdown journal

Great thread btw!

[–] brandneworld@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago

I can't live without music, so SomaFM it is.

[–] Anti_Weeb_Penguin@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Swift Backup, i just can't imagine using my phone without that app.

[–] kratoz29@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

+1

Google solution is not a solution at all, one of the biggest reasons I root as well.

[–] joneskind@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago (6 children)

For my GTD routine

  • Reminders
  • Notes

For my feeds

  • Reeder
  • WefWef (can’t find an as good native app for the moment)

For my diary

  • DayOne

For photo editing and graphics

  • Photos
  • Preview
  • Affinity Designer

For my work

  • Safari (I just love WebKit’s developer tools)
  • WebStorm
  • XCode
  • Calendar

For music practice (hobby)

  • GarageBand
  • Stave’n’Tabs

For 3D printing modeling (hobby)

  • Shapr3D with an edu account from a friend

I tried tons of third party apps (Omnifocus, Ulysses, Agenda, Things, Fantastical, Pro Tools…) but always end up using Apple’s stock apps because I love simplicity and I discovered that with my overthinking bad habit, having a good but simple/limited app is more efficient than an overkilled one.

[–] Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

WefWef as in the Lemmy client? It's been renamed to Voyager, and I believe there's an iOS app too. I'm using it on Android now, and it's great 👍

[–] joneskind@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thank you very much for the tip! I just installed it

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[–] richieadler@lemmy.myserv.one 4 points 1 year ago
  • Syncthing
  • AntennaPod
  • NewPipe
  • Army Knife
  • Sync for Lemmy
  • Telegram
  • Tusky
[–] CalcProgrammer1@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

LibreWolf

Terminal

VLC Media Player

Visual Studio Code

Qt Creator

gcc

Home Assistant

OpenWRT

OpenVPN

Steam

Bottles (manage Wine installations/run Windows software)

Squeekboard/phosh (Linux phone UI/onscreen keyboard)

Hacker's Keyboard (Android onscreen keyboard)

OpenRGB

[–] miss_brainfart@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago
  • Newpipe
  • Mull
  • Signal
  • OpenCamera

And Librewolf on the Desktop

[–] filister@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Weawow - the greatest weather app ever created. No ads 4.9 review in the Play Store, highly recommend it.

Termux

Tasker

Homeassistant

ChatGPT

Files by Google - actually it is pretty good and allows you to transfer files peer to peer with other devices

Anytype - Notion alternative

DuckDuckGo - for app tracking and blocking of tracking requests

Wireguard

ZeroTier One

ReadEra

TradingView

JustETF

Infinity for Lemmy

The rest were already mentioned here

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[–] dosse91@lemmy.trippy.pizza 3 points 1 year ago
  • Syncthing
  • Nextcloud
  • Jitsi Meet
  • FreeTube
[–] ittu@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Librera Reader Bromite/Cromite adaway

[–] orizuru@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 year ago

SearXNG.

It's a metasearch engine (aggregates results from several engines and feeds then back to me). It also filters out sites I don't want, and redirects Reddit to the old interface.

[–] florge@feddit.uk 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
  • Iceraven
  • Newpipe
  • Foxy Droid
  • Bitwarden
  • Termux
  • RVNC
  • Showly
  • Librera
  • Simple File Manager
  • Simple Gallery
  • Syncthing
[–] anon6789@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

Top for me have to be the combo of Aniyomi and WVC.

Aniyomi is a Tachiyomi fork that adds anime extensions. Tachi is great as is, but after Anyme shut down, I needed something to watch and track anime with MAL integration. Plus if you read manga, I'd assume you watch anime too. App and extensions receive regular updates.

WVC aka Web Video Caster. Chromecast any video. I have watched soooooo much stuff on my TV through this. Great controls and features, frequent updates, and they're on Reddit to talk to directly if you have issues or feature requests. Great team of people and wonderful app. First premium app I bought.

Bring! is a close third. Works on Android and iOS so me and SO can both share a shopping list every since Google screwed theirs up. Was great when Google Assistant was linked to it, but Google broke that too. Still a great app though. We get notifications when the other person adds an item in case one of us is running errands already.

[–] pseudozero@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Firefox Focus

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