Favorite FOSS apps - favorite finds of 2024
Favorite FOSS apps - favorite finds of 2024
What are your favorite FOSS app finds of this year?
- StreetComplete: Help complete the OpenStreetMap database by answering simple questions wherever you go
- HeliBoard: Keyboard add with multilanguage support and user-use learning-prediction
- RustDesk: RemoteDesk app for PC/Android
Fossify apps (like finding new friends that look and feel exactly like your old friends 🤷
- FairEmail
- NetGuard
mull 😢
- antennaPod
- newpipe
localSend (we're not brand or os loyal. This helped us a lot with our machine salad
- AnySoftKeyboard
- lawnchair
- Drinkable
- Grayjay
- Thunderbird
- Voyager for Lemmy
- Podcini.R
- Emotic
- LinkDroid
Grayjay isn't FOSS.
Can you explain? It's part of the FUTO project and has it's source available here: https://gitlab.futo.org/videostreaming/grayjay
And has releases available to F-Droid through the FUTO repo.
I see the license heavily restricts commercial endeavors with the code, but otherwise seems quite permissive?
IMO the best way to keep one's apps up to date.
Is there a good way to verify signatures while using Obtainium? I haven't done it yet but I was thinking about it and it seems quite reckless of me to not do it
StreetComplete and Eternity (for Lemmy)
Both great apps I cherish and use.
Quillnote
I literally rely on this for every note / writing books I do
Just checked out Quillnote, they've archived the repository as it's inactive. Quillpad looks to be the main fork. I'll check it out, thanks for sharing
ah right, I use Quillpad.. not Quillnote.. I've used the old one for months before switching, I still get them messed up
OP, thank you so much for Weather Master! I was using Clima but they lack so many things I would always check websites.
My list:
- ExifEraser - Erase metadata from pictures
- Catima - Loyalty Card & Ticket Manager (alternative to Google Wallet)
Even though the android version of it has been discontinued, Syncthing remains my top FOSS app. Not sure how it will behave in the future but v1.28.1 works well for now.
Kind of. Synthing-fork is alive and well.
Was easy to switch from syncthing to the fork too importing the configuration from syncthing into it.
Markor - markdown notes that just works
Organic Maps - someone found a way to make open source maps not terrible, and it isn't.
K9..derbird - mine still says K-9 even though it updated, good mail client.
OSS Weather - tells you the weather, and literally nothing else. Perfection.
Organic maps
Also it looks like the foss AOSP SDK was readded into sid. (It was removed from bookworm since it has no maintainers) https://packages.debian.org/sid/android-sdk-platform-23
Image toolbox is so complete that allowed me to disable google photos: smooth rotation, filter, perspective correction, resize and much much more.
Pipepipe has been my go to YouTube app. I like it has sponsor block, and that I can also log into a Gmail account with it that it uses only for age restricted videos so I don't need the YouTube app.
I can't totally remember when I found these, but they're relatively fresh on my phone. Couldn't live without them now.
- Audile - song recognition
- Findmydevice - lost phone recovery
- Metro - visually pleasing music player
- Paperless Mobile - manage and interact with paperless-ngx servers
- Photok - secure photo storage for sensitive media
Thx for the paperless mobile share, didn't had an idea about it's existence!
Fossify gallery, FreeOTP, Markor text editor, and maybe Jami if I can get it to work on other phones. FreeOTP might have been late 2023 when I got my current phone, but close enough. I'm not sure whether I used Termux before that, on my old phone. Oh yes, Flash Alert, I'm surprised if that isn't standard in Android. It flashes the camera led when the phone rings. That makes it much easier to find the phone if you're not sure where it is, and it is face down. It would be great if it also flashed the screen.
Power Ampache 2 + Ampache/Nextcloud. It's a client for the Ampacheb music server, looks gorgeous, works great and has excellent support.
I'm late but thank you so much for making me aware of Obtainium! I'm trying to pull away from Google as much as one can on a Samsung device, which means apps from all different sources.