Hello, I’d like to know your top open-source apps that you use every day. Here are mine:
Signal AntennaPod RadioDroid Which ones do you use most often?
Here is a short list.
Pc: Cachyos(Preformant linux distro based on arch),Cinnamon (fork of Gnome 3),Librewolf (web browser)
Android phone:F-Droid(Appstore),Clipious(YouTube client but network is nonfree),aurora store(replaced Google play store with this and network nonfree),Iceraven (Web browser,Can be hardened as much as mull.),
Cross platform: Localsend(Airdrop for any device),Vlc media player
Yeah that’s it,here is my major apps I use
Matrix (element on mobile, cinny on pc), materialious (linux app for invidious, alternative yt frontend), gzdoom (foss engine for doom & mods), luanti (a minecraft-like engine for playing minigames and shit), zen browser (firefox fork with a pretty skin), xfce as desktop environment, wine for playing windows games
Android Custom ROM itself
-Adaway -App Manager -Audile -Audio Recorder -Aurora Store -BiglyBT -BitmaskVPN -Bitwarden -Calyx VPN -Capy Reader -Cromite -De-Bloater (i translated it to hungarian) -easyNotes -eduVPN -Eternity -F-droid -Android Files -Android Recorder -FlorisBoard -Android FM Radio -freeDictionary (Owl) (i also translated the menu to hungarian) -FTPClient -FUTO Keyboard -Gadgetbridge -Android Gallery -Android Game Space -HeliBoard -Human Benchmark -Breezy Weather -Image Tools -Invizible Pro -Jerboa -Lagrange -LavSeeker -Magisk -microG -Namida Music Player -Fossify Calendar -Fossify Contacts -Next Player -Obtainium -OCR -Odyssee -OnionShare -OpenCamera -OpenVideoEditor -Android Clock -Forkgram -Organic Maps -Orion Viewer -OSS Document Scanner -Pachli -QR Scanner -Racoon -Revenge Discord Client -Root verifier -SD Maid -Seal -Setter -Shitter -SlimSocial -Spotube -StrongSwanVPN -NumberHub Calculator (i also translated this to hungarian) -Fossify Phone -Termux -Thunder -TranslateYou -UPnP Explorer -Fossify Messages -Vernet -ViperFX Material UI -Voyager -Warden -WikiReader -Xtra
And this is only my phone…
On my laptop:
- Void Linux
- GNOME (desktop environment)
- gThumb (image viewer that can do simple edits)
- Firefox (the famous web browser)
- uBlock Origin (content blocker that blocks ads, trackers, etc. out of the box)
- SponsorBlock (automatically skips sponsor segments in YouTube videos)
- Betterbird (fork of the Thunderbird email client, with various QoL tweaks)
- GIMP (image editor)
- Kdenlive (video editor)
- virt-manager (manage QEMU virtual machines)
- Celluloid (media player)
- yt-dlp (command-line utility for downloading YouTube videos, and the basis of some graphical apps as well)
- Bottles (if you want to use Wine to run Windows apps, without too many headaches)
- Foliate (.epub ebook reader)
- OBS (for screen recording and livestreaming)
- Code - OSS (code editor, “clean” version of Visual Studio Code without “Microsoft-specific customizations”)
- Tenacity (fork of the Audacity audio editor without opt-out telemetry)
On my Android phone:
- F-Droid (app store with FOSS apps only)
- Obtainium (auto-updater for apps hosted on GitHub, GitLab, etc.)
- Heliboard (simple keyboard app)
- Material Files (file manager)
- Metro (local music library player)
- Iceraven (Firefox fork with a few tweaks)
- Voyager (mobile client for Lemmy, similar to the obsolete Reddit clients Apollo and Slide)
- Fedilab (client for Mastodon and similar Fediverse services)
- Termux (run Linux CLI applications on Android)
- Thunderbird for Android (simple email client for Android and the successor to K-9 Mail)
- MJ PDF Reader
- Binary Eye (simple QR code scanner)
Cross-platform:
- LocalSend (simple file transfer between devices on the same network)
- Bitwarden client apps (to manage passwords. I use the Vaultwarden instance @ tchncs.de)
- Mullvad VPN client
If we can count FOSS modifications of proprietary apps:
- YouTube Revanced (the official YouTube app, but you don’t get ads, you can play videos in the background, you get SponsorBlock, etc.) (follow this guide for auto-updates)
- Vesktop (desktop client for Discord, has Vencord preinstalled and supports Linux screen sharing)
- Prism Launcher (Minecraft: Java Edition launcher that allows you to easily manage different “instances” of the game. Good for playing with different mods and/or versions)
- Fabulously Optimized (modpack for Minecraft: Java Edition, that improves performance and adds some minor QoL features)
addendum: I’d like to use Matrix (via the Element client) and Signal more, but most of the people I know are on Discord and WhatsApp instead.
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