Been using a degoogled LineageOS phone with all apps being exclusively FLOSS. My favourite free alternatives to proprietary apps and services must be Lemmy (Jerboa) for Reddit, ArcaneChat and Matrix (Extera) for Telegram, Fluxer for Discord.
Which ones are your favourite?
Comaps instead of gmaps, mastodon instead of X, bitwarden
Trying out WebLibre browser right now and really like it. Based on Gecko engine. There’s some unnecessary ~ “AI” ~ (opt-in) but a few features make it worth it.
- Real rules for tab containers. There’s even automatic isolation and baked-in tor per container, and easy per URI rules
- Real plugins. ublock origin out of the box, even an option to force enable desktop Firefox plugins if you choose.
- Real PWA support. There’s an option to force add sites as a PWA even if the site doesn’t officially support it. On grapheneos it means I don’t need NativeAlpha to make my tiny bank’s site appear as a PWA.
feature #1 is interesting.
how does it deal with fingerprinting?
OpenCamera
If there’s better or similar, please advise me as I’m always interested in discovering
My main ones right now are OSMAnd + BRouter for maps, Spotube + ListenBrainz for music, Etar and Tasks.org + DAVx5 for calendar/tasks, Cheogram for texts/calls, Bitwarden for passwords/passkeys, F-Droid for downloading apps.
LibreCuts for video editing Droid-ify as a lightweight F-Droid client Iris Keyboard as a lightweight yet extremely customizable keyboard Pur.ili as a search engine with its own index OpenNavBar for a fully-customizable navigation bar Fossify File Manager for managing files Prism Gallery for viewing photos and videos Lune as an offline music player Pocket Paint for photo editing and paint CoMaps for navigation GeoLibre as an altermative to Google Earth Yagni Launcher as an Android launcher Pimi Widget for weather widget Offline Translator for translating and OCR
Wow, I didn’t know of many of those. Thanks! A FOSS search engine with its own actual index is especially intriguing.
Oh wait, sorry. Pur.ili doesn’t have a source code. Sorry. Use Mojeek or Marginalia instead
How is purili FOSS? I see no links to any source code on their site. It actually seems like someone’s vibe coded solo project, based on the blog posts.
Okay, taking my words back. I just assumed everything people recommend here is FOSS because that’s what I asked for. If it is proprietary and even vibe-coded, I’m not interested.
Really? You do not even know Fossify? They got a whole suote of apps! Not just file manager, and they are the most famous FOSS Android app suite beside Proton
I didn’t say everything from your post was new to me. Fossify I do know and their apps look pretty decent although somewhat barebone. I usually need more features so I ended up using other FOSS apps.
If you want a more advanced file manager, try Material Files. They’ve been revived now. If not, then maybe Amaze File Manager. If you really wanna go crazy, WM Keyboard has a built-in file manager aswell
Thanks! Material Files is the one I use most of the time. I also have
Prism File Explorer +installed, but it’s vibe-coded so I try to use as little as possible
Fossify and LibreOffice
Unexpected Keyboard and Thumb Key for two-hand and single-hand typing respectively.
Qalculate! for calc.
Thumb Key is my favourite! Using it right now. Very interesting to see its idea of using swipes to type additional characters implemented in traditional qwerty layout. Thumb Key isn’t the best for terminal, so it might be a good compromise.
