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the title says it all ๐Ÿ˜€

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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (21 children)
  • Audile: offline, trackerless music recognition.
  • Keepassdx + Heliboard: both excellent apps in their own right that create a smoother experience of mundane phone use, but they also integrate rather well together and Heliboard will often pop Keepassdx in to its suggestion bar when you enter a log in page. It's been really nice for me.
  • FUTO voice input: speech to text for those who don't want to use Google speech services. Frankly, the FUTO app works better than googles app anyways, it always handles grammar correctly as long as you speak relatively clearly, and integrates with Heliboard nicely.
  • Tailscale: for those who need VPN access to their other devices.
  • Thunder : a Lemmy client with compatibility with Lemmy's recent server side changes and also has a decent UI/UX tasks.org: fantastic, customizable to do app with various syncing options. Magic Earth: privacy respecting maps/directions for those who don't want google maps.
  • Myne: e-book downloader.
  • Markdownr: convert webpages to markdown. Great option for mobile, if I'm on desktop I use the Joplin web clipper plug in for Firefox.

Seconding Newpipe, excellent app.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I tried Tailscale instead of Zerotier on my Ubuntu server but it was causing crazy CPU spikes

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[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

Wow, most of these were new to me. I'm testing them for a few minutes and so far they're working great. I've been avoiding Google's voice to text for a while, and hadn't found a good maps app either.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

KeePassDX (and its associated keyboard, Magikeyboard)

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Trackercontrol, obtainium, openboard, and newpipe

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[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

Most of mine relate to my home network/server/services. Like Wireguard, connectbot, netanalyzer.

But outside of that, KDE Connect/GSconnect for phone to desktop stuff.

Carrion is a recent add. Additional spam call filtering.

Also still using the f-droid versions of the Simple apps suite.

Clipeus is also nice for purging your clipboard.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Obtainium Note calendar Newpipe or Pipepipe

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[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The Power Off button gives a great quality of life experience.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Which qualities would you like to improve?

I use a regular Pixel 6 pro, but there are a few things I keep around to improve the q.o.l. for using android itself.

  • Nova launcher to simplify things a bit and give me more search engine options

  • Firefox as my default browser with ad blocking add-ons to maintain some sanity

  • Solid Explorer to do file system stuff

Built in stuff:

  • Bedtime mode is a nice reminder to stop and go to bed

  • Focus mode is nice to stop casual social app usage according to a schedule

  • Flip to Shhh is great for... shushing. When flipped.

  • Do Not Disturb is my default mode. Only to be turned off when I'm actively awaiting interaction.

  • Notifications turned off for almost everything, always.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Notifications turned off for almost everything, always.

Best QoL feature IMHO. My husband and bestie can get through with calls, everyone else gets called back.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (3 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

Didn't Solid get sketchy too? I remember feeling obligated to migrate to Material Files.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

Are you me? That's such a similar setup.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Better Open With: because recent Android versions forcing you to just select one app to open each type of link sucks balls. With this, you can go vack to the way it was before - having a choice of app every time you tap a link. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.aboutmycode.betteropenwith

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[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

p!n will pin a note to the notification tray for a set amount of time.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (2 children)

blokada, dailyyou, antennapod, feeder, ntfy.sh, geometric weather, openboard :3

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I think Geometric weather is abandoned but Breezy Weather is a newer fork that's maintained. I recommend it!

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

oh wow thanks this looks great meowz!!

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (2 children)

The Openboard fork just renamed itself to Heliboard. Great app.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

oo i guess it hasnt come thru on fdroid yet mrowz?

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

I think the new version broke multilingual autocorrect, or at least I don't get any suggestions for my secondary language. That's really the main thing that sold me on the fork originally since other FOSS keyboards suck at this, so I hope it gets fixed soon.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

the title says it all ๐Ÿ˜€

The titls is fairly incomprehensible

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

That's a bit of a stretch. Might not be perfect but can easily deduce that this person wants recommendations of Android apps to improve their quality of life. Seems, though this is conjecture on my part, that they have purposely left it broad because there are a lot of apps that fit this category and they are hoping for a broad selection of recommendations.

Unfortunately I don't have any to offer. I came to this thread for the same reason the op posted it. I too am hoping to find some new apps, and want to see what's out there that others use on a daily basis.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago
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