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Nova launcher (super customizable and clean and you can unlock premium with revanced Manager)

KWGT (allows you to create custom widgets for your phone and has a very good editor so you can jam pack all the info you want into one widget)

Revanced Manager (ad free YouTube with extra features like return dislike and sponsor block and more)

Xmanager (free Spotify premium)

Vlc (best way to play video and audio files)

Fdroid (alternative app store which allows you to basically find a clone of most apps but open source and privacy friendly, plus a ton of other privacy respecting apps)

Aurora store (Google Play store but more customization and less Google tracking stuff attached)

Seal (allows you to download videos and stuff from basically any big site)

steam, moonlight, newpipe/freetube, mullvad (vpn and browser), bitwarden, signal

Apollo :(

• Markor - amazing android text editor.
• Symfonium - music player that I can use with my selfhosted navidrome.
• Vivino - wine rating app.
• Deedum - gemini browser.
• Fluffychat - matrix chat app.

On Windows, my absolutely vital stuff on the gaming rig are:

• Discord
• Firefox
• Keepass - KeepassXC in my case, but that's because I also use it on other OSes and well, same UI; otherwise on Windows itself I'd recommend the actual Keepass.
• MPC-HC, a media player that has a tiny install size and easily outperforms VLC without even breaking a sweat
• Playnite, a multi-library game launcher.

Musicolet my local music player. It has the fondamental feature of switching between playlists without losing the position of the last played tracks. A feature that no othercplayer has

Audiobook Shelf - self hosted Audiobook server with a really excellent UI and very reliable

Tody - a habit tracking app specifically built around house chores, with functionality for multiple family members sharing the load

Sync for Lemmy - self explanatory

Tusky - also self explanatory

Steam.

• Sleep as Android
• QP-Gallery - QuickPic, modded to be good again
• Tachiyomi - Manga and Comics manager and reader
• Audiobookshelf - Self hosted podcasts and audiobook player with progress sync
• FolderSync - Just filesyncing, since the nextcloud app sucks at it

I use Slidepad on my Mac every day. I have it mapped to a button in my mouse. It’s an embedded browser thing for web apps. But you can also put files there like pdfs and stuff which is handy when when you need to review something and don’t want another window always on your screen.

F-Droid

Jellyfin, nextcloud, Conversations for Android paired with Prosody, Joplin, auxio, and homeassistant.

Apple Music, YouTube, and my online banking app.

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