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
Considering “top” as meant to be “most used”, I’d say:
- Voyager, which I’m using right now, a Lemmy client.
- Tusky: a Mastodon client.
- Mull: Firefox fork.
- Firefox (yeah, I have two Firefox installations)
- Sketchbook: a drawing app, I even paid for the additional features.
- Google translate: when I don’t remember how to say something specific in English, or when I want to experiment with multiple languages, especially Latin (and Google translate is the only translator app to have Latin support)
- Noto (I was previously using Notesnook): text editor with folder capabilities. I use it to write poetry, free from distractions
- Acode: source code text editor. I use it to create Node.js snippets which I run with…
- Termux: a kind of a “Linux emulator”, it emulates a terminal environment within Android with additional programs compiled to arm architecture. One of those programs is Node.js (both the REPL, the runtime and the npm package manager)
My “Top” apps are what I think are cool, not necessary what the most useful apps are to me.
Briar its a peer to peer communications app that can communicate via wifi, blutooth, or through the internet via Tor. It can form a sort of mesh network with devices in proximity. Hypothetically, with enough users, you could spread information across a long distsnce even with a nationwide shutdown of the internet like some authoritarian countries do.
There’s already some public forums on there by connecting to random people around the world via Tor, although, these forums doesn’t have much activity now. But it exists and thats so cool. Its like a secret corner of the internet, even more obscure than the “dark web”
Wasted Remember those news about iPhones randomly restarting in police storage lockers? This app does something even better. Amongst many functions, this app can let you set your phone to auto-wipe itself if not unlocked for X amount of time, ranging from 5 minutes to 7 days. (Warning: You may get in legal trouble for using this, if you get arrested and the phone auto-wipes, you could get a “Destruction of Evidence” charge. I am not a lawyer. You might wanna consult a lawyer before using this)
OpenKeychain Just a PGP tool for Android, pretty straightforward. Very cool to have a digital signature right in your pocket to validate your online identity with other internet users. Potentially useful for secret drug trades ahem just kidding lol, don’t do drugs, kids. (Seriously, don’t)
Warning: You may get in legal trouble for using this, if you get arrested and the phone auto-wipes, you could get a “Destruction of Evidence” charge
One could defend itself alleging that they had the app in order to prevent themselves from being blackmailed and/or extorted by robbers which could try to access the phone contents in order to extract information from banking apps, photos, social networks and personal information.
Defending oneself from malicious actors (such as robbers) shouldn’t be a crime.
Or alternatively, don’t even mention you have such an app and when they ask if you had anything to do with the phone getting wiped, you say “hmm that’s odd, it must been some sort of hardware failure, I’ve heard that [Phone’s Manufacturer] have had some issues with quality control, perhaps that’s the reason”
You’re not lying, you’re just suggesting a possible reason: hardware failure. And every manufacturer had quality control issues, it wouldn’t be odd for you to have heard about such news, or even just rumors amongst people about a company’s quality control issues.
| App(s) | Use |
|---|---|
| Should I Answer? | Call Spam Blocking |
| Droidify | F-droid Client |
| Obtainium | Github Access For Apps |
| AnySoftKeyboard | Keyboard |
| Macrodroid | Automation |
| KDE Connect | Desktop Integration |
| FairEmail | |
| QUIK | SMS |
| Open Camera | Camera |
| KeePassDX | Password & 2FA Management |
| Breezy Weather | Weather |
| VLC | Music |
| Tubular, YouTube Revanced | Youtube |
| F-Stop | Image Library |
| Amaze | File Manager |
| Syncthing | File Synchronization |
| Organic Maps | GPS/Maps |
| Markor | Notes |
| Aliucord | Discord Client |
| Tusky | Mastodon Client |
| Eternity | Lemmy Client |
| Telegram | Messaging |
| RDX | Reddit Read-only Client |
| URL Check | Link Filtering For Sharing |
| Binary Eye | QR Code Scanning |
| Pushbullet | Info Passing |
How does “should I answer” app staked up with truecaller? How good is anysoftkeyboard with autocorrect?
I use Android as my secondary phone, my primary is an iPhone. Though for the past six months, my use of Android has surpassed iOS as the latter is now only for calls, messages and reading emails. For replying to emails, I use a computer.
I have removed as many Google apps as I could using Canta, as long as the phone is able to boot and function.
The apps, in no particular order (read: the order in which I can recollect):
| App | Notes |
|---|---|
| Droidify | F-Droid client |
| HeliBoard | General keyboard |
| Unexpected Keyboard | Programmer’s keyboard |
| Fossify Calendar, Gallery, Music | Self-explanatory |
| Voyager | Lemmy client, although not a native Android app |
| Eternity | Native Android Lemmy client, although not as good as Voyager |
| Tubular | PeerTube and YouTube client with QoL niceties |
| Calculator++ | Calculator with QoL niceties |
| Cromite | Chromium based browser with QoL niceties |
| Termux | Terminal emulator |
| Rethink DNS + Firewall | To block ads and monitor network activity |
| Orbot | For accessing TOR |
| Emacs | Still setting it up on Android, only to browse my Denote repository (which seems the only way I can browse it on any mobile device) |
| Aurora store | To install Apple Music |
| Apple Music | To use the music subscription from my primary phone |
| Proton VPN | Self-explanatory |
| Bitwarden | Password manager |
P.S.
I finally found a chance to use tables on Lemmy.
Not original commenter, but I got the hell off of Swiftkey after Microsoft bought it for privacy purposes. That could be why.
It is the only decent AOSP-like keyboard I could find.
I am just not comfortable using a proprietary keyboard when I know that I have other options. On iOS, I do not have an option, at all!
Having said that, I do miss the better swipe gestures and autocorrect ability of the proprietary ones from time to time.
I haven’t seen anyone mention Gboard yet so I’ll say Gboard. Best keyboard on Android.
