Finally installed F-Droid

GutsBerserk@lemmy.world to Android@lemmy.world – 259 points –

Since simple mobile tools will soon become a spyware and I use 3 of their apps regularly, yesterday I installed F-Droid after reading many Lemmy recommendations.

Wow, I'm pleasantly surprised.

A new app I've tested is Spotube (Spotify open source alternative; edit: apparently it uses Spotify metadata but it streams from YouTube. My bad.).

Any other underrated app y'all recommend?

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Obtainium - update manager for FOSS

Droid-ify - a nice and simple F-Droid frontend

Seeker - SoulSeek downloads music

ViMusic/BlackHole/InnerTune - Youtube Music

Antennapod - for podcasts

Florisboard - a keyboard, great for basic use (no predictive text/autocorrect) and has swipe function

Breezy Weather

Material Files

OpenCalc

Acode - text editor

Bitwarden - password manager

Librera - pdf/ebook reader

Kvaesisto - Launcher thats similar to Niagara, but FOSS

Mull - a privacy centric browser

K-9 mail

Read You - RSS reader

Simple Notes - not related to Simple Mobile Tools btw

Newpipe x sponsorblock - youtube but less annoying

Lemuroid - almost any emulator you would want (except GameCube and Wii, use Dolphin)

Tachiyomi - Read manga

AL-chan - keep track of watched anime/manga with AniList

Showly - keep track of movies and shows with Trakt

Do I need Droid-ify, Obtaniun, and F-Droid Basic? Feels like there's a lot of overlap there, no?

If you want them, but you don't need but one of them. I like Obtainium the most as it updates from Github and F-droid, but i find Droid-ify makes it easy to search for new apps so i like to have it. I never liked F-droid Basic, but i would pick between that and Droid-ify for the best looking front end

Is Florisboard still being developed? Hasn't been updated in 18 months according to F-Droid. Some buttons generate a TODO pop-up when pressed and the predictive text still uses placeholder values.

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