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My top android apps are : 1.Local send for file transfer 2.Bitwarden for password manager 3. Antennapod for my podcast 4.Seal for YouTube download 5.Boost for lemmy 6.Rimusic for YouTube music 7. Poweramp for local music on my phone 8.Lichess for chess 9.protonvpn for vpn 10.fairmail for email

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (3 children)

In my list everything is open source

  1. Moshidon (for mastodon)
  2. Eternity (Lemmy)
  3. KeepassDX (pass manager)
  4. Local send
  5. Heliboard (keyboard)
  6. Droidify (fdroid)
  7. Fossify gallery
  8. Multi calculator
  9. Cromite ( chromium browser)
  10. Mull ( Firefox )
  11. Rethink DNS, firewall
  12. SD maid se ( cache cleaning )
  13. Tubular ( for yt sometimes)
  14. Fossify calendar
  15. Conversation (xmpp)
  16. Molly(signal)
  17. Markor (notes) At last URLcheck
[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I think I need try out Keep Ass DX

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Of course you can keep ass there 🤣

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (5 children)
  1. Kotatsu for Manwha
  2. Grayjay for YouTube
  3. YouTube Music for Music
  4. RunnerUp for my Jogs
  5. WallFlow Plus for automatic wallpapers
  6. Akakçe for finding best prices from multiple store fronts
  7. KDE Connect for clipboard and file share
  8. Pano Scrobbler for Last.fm tracking
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

You need to put a space after the period after your numbers to make a numbered list. Your list is all jumbled up into a paragraph. Doing it the right way also means the numbers you use don't actually matter, which is nice because inserting an item near the top doesn't mean you then have to edit all the numbers under it. They can all be 1. and the list will be numbered correctly.

My list:

  1. Mull (Firefox fork)
  2. Signal
  3. Google Messages
  4. Pi Music Player
  5. Shattered Pixel Dungeon
  6. Thunder for Lemmy
  7. YouTube
  8. Google Camera
  9. Fossify Gallery
  10. KeePassDX

For giggles, view the source of my comment. Oh shit, I broke it by adding a 10th item. At least in Thunder. It doesn't support 1000000000 as a number for an ordered list.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (2 children)

This is Jerboa. Wtf are you using? Lol

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago (1 children)

How do y'all forget KDE connect?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (2 children)

We don't really use kde to enjoy kde connect

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

KDE Connect doesn't require the use of KDE otherwise. Check it out, it might be worth your while.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Neither do I

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Nova Launcher

Edge Gestures as an alternative to android gestures

Quick Cursor for easy one handed usage

Panels as a sidebar based quick launch / app switcher

AccuWeather for weather and minute by minute forecast

Google Fit for basic quiet step counting - can also measure your heart rate with the camera

Outdoor Active or AllTrails to show you walking routes

Street Complete to contribute to open street map in a much friendlier way

Spark for multi account email

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

I am gonna cheat and name multiple apps with the same/similar purpose:

  1. Boost, Summit, Eternity, Voyager (Sync for Lemmy is out of this place... I still use Sync for Reddit Revanced though)
  2. Feedly/Feeder
  3. Firefox Beta
  4. Bitwarden
  5. Obtanium/Droidify
  6. Nekogram
  7. YouTube/YT music Revanced/Pocket Casts
  8. Spotify
  9. Obsidian/Syncthing
  10. Material Files

Honorable mention to Kinestop, finally being able to use my phone on a vehicle? It was the last place where I would dare to doom scroll!

I seriously could go on... I have too many apps.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Racoon for lemmy Grayjay for video Antennapod for podcasts

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

About the racoon recommendation have you tried other Lemmy apps? Curious what made you choose racoon

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I have tried one other app which was Jerboa for lemmy but found Racoon easier to use so I stuck with it ever since.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

I'm using Thunder.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

Racoon for lemmy

This is the 1st time I decided to check about this (I have heard that name before here), after a 1st glance it looks a lot like Boost for Lemmy, and since Boost seems to be the best working client for me at this moment (image and posts load for example is way faster than Summit, Voyager and Eternity), in terms of speed Sync for Lemmy is faster, but it is so broken with my current instance that is not worth to use it anymore.

I might install Raccoon soonish :)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)
  1. AntennaPod for podcasts
  2. LiftLog to track gym progress and weights
  3. Raccoon for Lemmy
  4. FUTO Keyboard.

those apps are all open source.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

I'm using FUTO Voice, but I wasn't aware of the keyboard. Installing.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago
  1. Anylist
  2. Catima
  3. Shake and strain cocktails
  4. RadioDroid
  5. Lawnchair launcher
[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)
  1. Jerboa
  2. Firefox
  3. Feedly
  4. Home Assistant
  5. Ghost Commander
  6. Joplin
  7. Moon+ Reader Pro
  8. Avenza
  9. Kodi
  10. Twilight

Honorable mentions to Newpipe and Termux.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

Firefox is absolutely horrendous on mobile. A lot of websites don't render properly, or when scrolling everything jumps around. Browsing Facebook is especially bad. Also UX is a lot worse than competing browsers.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago

Compared to any browsing experience without uBlock, Firefox wins by a very large margin.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

The only browser that supports proper extensions such as Ublock origin (which is much more advanced than the built-in adblockers in other browsers).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

I disagree about the UX but that is probably just my preference. I use Facebook marketplace sometimes and it seems fully functional, no jumping around or whatever. Every now and then I have to use desktop mode but only on like government sites. Maybe it's because I use an ad blocker that I don't notice the problems you report.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

(In no particular order)

  • Threema
  • Brave
  • Bitwarden (using a self-hosted vaultwarden instance)
  • SpMp
  • Notesnook
  • Voyager
  • LocalSend
  • DeepL
[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Why brave browser? They look sketchy because of their crypto affliction

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

To be honest if you disable crypto stuff in brave it's a solid browser. I recommend it to those people who are still using chrome .

[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yeah but you're still using Chromium :/

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Musicolet
Memorion
Comic screen
Lastfm. Vivaldi

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I'm pretty basic:

  1. Sync
  2. Chrome
  3. Reddit
  4. Antenna Pod
  5. Guardian newspaper app
  6. Google Play Books
  7. Libby
[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You still using chrome.... 😮

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Why sync over the other lemmy apps?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

I like:

  • customizable swipe left/right gestures,
  • swiping to close a post,
  • being able to set the font size of the different parts of the post list,
  • different display formats for different communities,
  • switching between accounts easily,
  • the markdown hints in the editor,

I don't think any of these are unique. I just like this implementation.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 4 months ago

I don't think I even use 10 apps, I use like 3 of them

  1. Jerboa for Lemmy
  2. Firefox w/ unlock origin
  3. WriterP for note taking
  4. Message/Gmail/other system apps
[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (2 children)
  1. Voyager for Lemmy
  2. AntennaPod
  3. Firefox
  4. YouTube ReVanced
  5. Signal
  6. Xtra for Twitch
  7. Thunderbird
  8. Medito
  9. KeePassDX
  10. Aegis 2FA
[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

I see you're a person with great taste in Android apps. Thanks for introducing me to Medito! I need to chill.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Just curious how people really enjoy twitch. I can't spend time just watching people play games or doing stuff while I could be doing things

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I sometimes watch IRL streamers from parts of the world I've never been to. I've never been to New York City but due to watching streams from a bike messenger I feel like I know the city quite well.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

That's actually nice

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