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this is Etar, my favorite calendar app. i use davx5 to sync my calendar from my e-mail provider to get it on my phone. i prefer using calendar (as in creating detailled days and shuffeling appointments around) in the browser on a real pc or laptop but it's nice to have on the phone to just peek again at what i wrote in there or add a single event that i might otherwise forget.

the etar is minimal but works good for my primitive calendar usage.

this is osmand, a valid alternative to google maps i believe. i use a fraction of it's capabilities. this is packed full of potentially useful stuff. i use it in the car to type in a location and have it calculate a route. this has always worked for me. i never know any road name but always arrive where i want to go. i sometimes use it to search for supermarkets nearby.

i messed something up and the text to speech doesn't work on my phone, otherwise osmand would talk to me and say stuff like "in 500m go right". but even without that, i think it is great, i am glad this exists and i get to use it.

this is k-9, my favorite mail app. i don't use it currently because i don't want email on my phone. i hate getting emails and rather just use email on my computer. getting notified of a new e-mail i hate this. i don't like to be notified of anything, fuck notifications.

this is draw, a nice app that i found when i searched for something to draw that doesn't insult me when i try to save a picture i drew:

it lets me choose format, filename and location.

other then that i appreciate the simplicity. there is just one tool, a circular brush that i can make as thin or thick as i want and then i can choose a color. also i can choose the color of the canvas and there is an undo button.

i very much like it. i don't use it often though.

i liked to play sudoku on paper back in the day but this is so much better.

this is a game that reminded me of factorio. as if factorio and tower defense had a baby. it is packed full of dozens of unlockable buildings. the first few missions are no problem but then it becomes difficult quick. it feels a bit like programming. worth a look no doubt but probably too overwhelming for most people. i keep wanting to play it but the small display of my phone and the limited precision of a touch screen make it even harder. i once connected a bluetooth mouse to the phone and that helped but it was still complex.

this i found when i was looking for an app that can make a picture every few seconds so that i can have a time lapse of melting ice. it can probably do a ton more but i don't know and don't care, i hate camera, i think the camera ruined humanity and seldom use it.

when podcast were new and edgy i liked to listen to them but these days i have not bothered to look what new podcasts exist in a long time. my favorite podcasts either moved to spotify, become too commercial otherwise, stopped making episodes or became parents and stopped being cool.

the app is nice, helps to keep track of different podcasts and allows for streaming or downloading and listening without buffering, which is useful when wandering the woods or places where the connection is weak.

this is qr reader. i use it when there is a complicated URL i have on the computer that i want on the phone. i go to the browser, search for "url to qr", paste the link and scan it with this app to have the url without having to type a bunch of jibberish.

i often ask myself which direction i am currently looking at and then somewhat with the help of sunset or sunrise get an idea.

this app in theory uses the compass of my phone to show me what direction i am looking at but it doesn't work too well with my phone. i wish it did but it doesn't. i instead use the osmand and walk a few steps and compare to the map and then i know the direction. if it was as simple as just opening this app, that'd be cool.

This is ProgressBars (not Progress Bars, if you write it together, you wont find it on the f-droid).

i've seen some people use it to help with fasting. they would program a start and an end time into it and then had this nice bar that would tell them exactly how many days, hours, minutes and seconds left until they can eat crap again. i used it with fasting but i didn't have to digitally remind or track myself, this didn't help one bit. i went by feeling and went way longer then i originally declared.

i thought this was nice but so far i have found no other opportunity to use it.

this is the allmighty newpipe. i found it when i was searching for a way to play a youtube video for the music with my display turned off so i don't waste battery. the youtube app as well as watching youtube in the mobile browser refused to do this, they simply pause the video when the display is off. i don't agree with youtube knowing when my display is on or off…

so i found this, i think it is way better, i think it prevents many of the evil telemetry that google build into youtube.

It can play videos in fullscreen mode, in just a tiny stamp-sized window on top of other apps (nice for playing sudoku and watching youtube at the same time) or just in the background in audio-only.

also allows for downloading videos or even just the audio.

lovely app, if you don't use something like this for watching youtube on the phone i question your intelligence. i don't care about what your IQ test said, if you accept this behavior from youtube then you are a fool to me.

this one is nice to help start doing things, the loop habit tracker. i used this to encourage better breathing as well as special muscle exercises i wanted to do daily. mixed results, sometimes i stick to it good, sometimes it bothers me too much.

either way it is an interesting tool to create reminders.

this is nice for audio testing purposes, it just puts out a single note. that's one of those apps i have installed and like but i never use it for anything.

this is a simple ebook reader that i think is good, it's called book reader. it has this feature that just cuts off all the empty space from a book and enlarges the font so that reading is bearable on a small mobile device.

Appreciate the thread OP

>>302164

i think i only have a few apps left

i recently found out i can just use spotify with a 10 minute mail (that's a nice website to create throwaway mails for registrations) and this app. i dunno i hate spotify, i hate the idea behind it, i hate the blue-haired transvestites who work there, i hate the business model and overall think humanity would be better without. then i thought i was being silly for not using this cornucopia of music but i didn't feel good about using it, and only made sure it worked and then never touched it.

i dunno just feels gay and bad to me.

i used this a few time to test the speed of internet connections. i mean to use this when i am outside in places where the connection is weak to measure how weak. so far i have always forgotten i have this app. i guess it is useless. either it works good enough of not. still i like that someone bothered to make this.

this is nice for when some service requires 2FA. when this 2 factor authentication stuff started, there was only one app by google that was recommended everywhere. i don't know if alternatives didn't exist back then but i am glad they exist now.

another game. i played this a few times. i think this is worth a try. it is like civilization but more to the point. it is less mysterious, more essential and more transparent to what is happening when and why. civilization tries to be like a movie and this tries to be more like a game. surely fun for an evening.

this is a keyboard i very much like. it has shenanigans like dragging the delete key to delete multiple characters at once or using the spacebar to move the cursor left or right.

i'd hate to use a vanilla keyboard app after having felt how much nicer this functions.

this app makes it easy to blurr faces. i used it once and then totally forgot about this until 3 minutes ago.

i believe this to be the best music player that has ever been programmed. however it is not free and open source. it's unrivaled superior quality has convinced me nonetheless! it is so good that i betrayed my principles.

it lets me just point it to folders i want to have searched and leaves the structure of those folders intact.

i have all my music and audiobooks as files in folders. and so far this is the only music player i have found that doesn't try to create it's own database. it also has a nice sports and car mode where there are just a few gigantic buttons on the screen. there are 2 forwards and 2 backwards buttons to skip. i set those myself within the app to 2% of the entire track and 7 seconds. the 7 second skip is nice for a short 3 minute file. the 2% of the entire track is nice to navigate through 3 hour long mixtapes. i have found no other music player that allows me this precise satisfactory control over my audio files.

i don't accept anything else. i don't collect spotify playlists or any of this shit. i want my music whenever i feel like it without having to depend on some software or server to exist and grant me my request. i have dignity, i can't live in this shit world that wants me stream on demand and then sometimes deletes and censors certain content and then says "oh well, we realize this is frustrating, there is nothing that can be done about that, try one of our other million songs" no i actually want to own the files and play them whenever i please. don't try to look me in the eye if you accept anything less.

I used this for my mothers phone because she loses it - it worked better than any from the play store
https://f-droid.org/en/packages/de.nulide.findmydevice/
Allows you to whitelist numbers who can request the phone location via sms, and some other functions. Gives gps, cell tower
Worked when I’ve used it

>>302174
>Allows you to whitelist numbers who can request the phone location via sms, and some other functions. Gives gps, cell tower

interesting, so you install this on her phone and then whitelist your number on her phone and when she loses it you write her a textmessage containing "fmd" and then you hope she had location services turned on and get coordinates sent back to your phone?

this i started using once when all other methods of transferring files from my phone to my computer failed and then this worked for some reason.

it connects to a linux computer in the same wifi that uses the glorious KDE Desktop Environment. it can do a few little useful things. it can share notifications which i don't care about. what i thought was cool is that i can use the phone as my touchpad. it works way better then any touchpad on any laptop i have ever felt.

probably has a whole bunch of new features since i last played with it.

this scared me a bit. it just displays what is going on in the phone. it is just an endless scrolling horror of applications wanting something. there are applications that try some shit once every second and fail. this seems like there is quite a lot of wasteful behavior going on inside the phone. this seems rather idiotic and crude and kind of makes me lose respect for developers. another good example of an app that i install and use once and poop my pants and then never look at it again.

i tried this keyboard as well ~2 years ago and thought it was good. not as good as the others, still good though.

this is a app that i use to keep track of all the subreddits i use without having to have a garbage reddit account.

i don't visit reddit often anymore, kind of got sick of the culture there.

theoretically this can be used to block stuff but i have not quite gotten the hang of it and the excessive amount of transsexuality on reddit as well as all just pictures of succubi doing nothing started to annoy me so i don't use it anymore.

i used it for a while though and it has a download button, which is nice. i collected like 2000 funny pictures and videos from it with ease. when i was browsing reddit in firefox and i would want to save a video, i would always use an external website and paste the link, which was so much worse then just pressing one button in the app. nice app, reddit is cancer though.

>>302175
Yes, fmd and command. User definable I think. She only uses basics of phone so never turns off location services, but she doesnt pay for any mobile-data services. If your phone is rooted I believe it can enable location/gps/mobile-data and so on.
I know your focus is privacy so I can’t speak to it, but for general android use it was something I had to find after multiple crappy apps that didn’t work.

Gallery apps I tried:
- didn't have trash bin
- couldn't pin the folder on top
- couldn't change the sorting order to "by alphabet" and "ascent"
- had too much ads
- couldn't change display format from big thumbnails to lesser thumbnails
- couldn't delete multiple images or were very slow with images from big folders

Enter Simple Gallery Pro from F-Droid (support paid elsewhere if you can). Old ~5 minutes to delete 30 images and get only 1 deleted vs new 500 images getting deleted from the same folder (only thing necessary is to wait for the folder to refresh and that's still faster than on Gallery from other developer). Also when deleting, you can accidentally press the checkmark on the window after which deletion notification is turned off. However, images still go to the trash bin (unless turned off manually in the settings). I notice it, then go to clear cache and deletion notification is back again. There can be some problems if you decide to change the icon color and menu color. Some official recommendations exist, didn't try myself yet.

>>302180
nice, this might be useful i made a screenshot and saved it in a recommended apps folder. when i put all the apps on the phone for my father i put a custom rom on his phone and made everything big so he doesn't need glasses to use it 😎

>>302181
that's my favorite gallery as well. i think i tried 3 different ones and the orange one from the simple pro family of apps beat all the two others and the pre-installed gallery.

when i look at camera apps i am always surprised how little i can adjust the quality.

they ones i have seen usually gave 3-5 options that don't even say anything about resolution.

they say
>low
>medium
>high

and that's it. i would have expected that when i buy a decent modern phone that i can just choose resolution and fps from a list but apparently this is too complicated for the average smartphone user.

this app doesn't work too well with my camera but i like the approach of it. when the screen is swiped to the side then this UNBELIEVABLE AUTISM MENU opens up where all these little details can be adjusted. maybe my custom rom ruined this and other phones can make better use of it, i'd very much appreciate if this worked on my phone.

this one fascinates me but i have a bad feeling about it. not only because it has anti features but because sometimes using the internet to share good things in the world just attracts a lot of evil who look for good things to destroy.

if i was a homeless and i was hungry, this would be amazing. of course contemporary hierarchies thrive by preventing nice things from existing. if it was easy and comfortable to be homeless, nobody would work in a bank so there is cultural incentive to destroy free things. you can see this is more then me being conspiratorial if you just read accounts of people online who tried to do something nice for random people and were treated bad and attracted harm and hate in their life, only to come to the conclusion "this is the last time i ever did something nice like this". i am afraid a database of free edible food is too exciting of a target to destroy for organized evil…

still i should try this.

interesting there seems to be an free open source people meeting app in development

that's it. these are all the apps i have, mostly free ones. the one important non-free one i am using is the folder music player and other then that i found that i can do without all the proprietary nonsense.

there are so many apps i have never used or seen that i have no ambition of trying out: ride sharing, car sharing, vehicle renting, food ordering, digital tickets, amazon and ebay and all these other websites that would prefer to be apps to being websites; i have no desire to ever sink so low as to use these soulsucking services.

i think humanity was meant to get technology that becomes better and simpler but instead humanity gets technology that is dumb, convenient, more profitable for the owners and turns the users into cattle. fuck all that.

if i think or more apps, i will post them. would love to hear some wizard recommendations for nice apps. there might be cool stuff i have no idea about.

the wikipedia app is pretty good

>>302185
>if it was easy and comfortable to be homeless, nobody would work in a bank so there is cultural incentive to destroy free things.
if you are young and mobile, it actually is pretty decent if you can make it to a rich coastal liberal city like nyc, sf, pdx, sea, etc

>>302151
Hey wizzie can you teach me how to git gud at sudoku?

>>303005

yeah, use this app and play on a difficulty that is just slightly too hard for you. back when i was doing sudoku on paper i could never solve the very hard ones. now it is no problem.

the app has the ability to make a checkpoint, basically like you can make a savestate in an emulator. you play until you have exhausted all moves. means you have filled everything in and made the little numbers everywhere. then you activate the checkpoint and just make a guess. the ideal guess is a 50-50; you take one cell where you know it can only be one of two little numbers. after a few such guesses you become good at finding places to guess, you would want a place that triggers a chain reaction that cascades into solving large part of the board or even the entire thing.

so you decide on a 50-50 cell to guess and then you make the checkpoint and then you fill in your guess. remember your guess in case it was wrong so you can do it again with the other number! you either solve the puzzle easily because the guess was correct or you encounter a mistake. when you encounter a mistake you revert back to the checkpoint and then you can safely assume that your guess was wrong so it has to be the other number you didn't fill in. on paper this always took me a while and made the puzzle very messy, but with the app it becomes simple.

Default file manager can't handle a folder with more than 7,000 .eml files. Google Files, one popular file manager, and CX File Manager can't either. Using WinRAR for a folder is kinda successful except for constant crashes. Total Commander can do it, but often tapping in icons fails, it takes hours to transfer about 200 files to a different folder. WinRAR extraction from 1 folder from 1 Gb rar file took almost 5 hours. Total Commander takes some time to load, yet the files are visible immediately just like for WinRAR folder opening.

>>305951
*Cx File Explorer.

>>305952
>>305951
I have this problem with Raw image formats such as DNG and NEF. Too many in a folder and the whole computer shuts down. They transfer much slower than other files of the same size too.

any good open source music players? i unironically use mpv, but it's not as comfy on phone as it is on pc. it's pretty dumb honestly, but nothing else wants to play .m3u files! not even vlc which i considered to be good like 10 years ago but rediscovered it to be utter shit recently.

>>305951
Current 6,100 files are shown in the default file manager now although upon some waiting. Total Commander deleted 90 files within a minute or two. Previous attempts with gradual decrease were not so successful. One thousand makes a difference.

>>305955
Try elisa.

Adobe Scans cropping with better movable barriers also strengthens and deskew the scan image very good. Like it was tilted too much before. Filters are bad for text. And they're put automatically with cropping so I put original filter and crop myself manualy. No threshold for text to be blacker, at least on Android. Plus registration is compulsory although free and premium asking only for some other features.

>>306755
*straightens.

I use Bromite, a Chromium fork focused on privacy and performance. Free as in beer and freedom. In my opinion, hands down the best web browser performance-wise for android. It also does, always did the background youtube playing (even with the screen off), plus bandcamp and spotify. It is so fast that it allows me to keep using my Nexus 7 2013. It also comes with a builtin adblocker, I think some versions even have or will have experimental addon support.

I also use Shelter for app privacy sandboxing, downside is it can only clone one app, it relies on Androids built in work-profile feature, so it is pretty solid and has almost no performance hit.

K-9 for email, it's simple and reliable. Aurora Store for downloading apps without GoogleServices and PlayStore (haven't used it in a while tho, but it should still work, hopefully)

I suppose if you're into android and free software you've been aware of Xposed and later Magisk, they're not the same class but both are very powerful and Xposed has been kind of revived through some Magisk modules. I miss Appsettings, it allowed you to, as the name says, customize the way an app ran, bypass screenshot restrictions and othet stuff, I used it for custom dpi settings. It's worth the hassle.

>>302166
Wasn't aware of this, I'll give it a try and hope it works despite google s antiadblock threats.

>>305951
Haven't experienced your problem just want to say TotalCommander is awesome, it's been my only filemanager for android since 2015.

>>306759
Bromite is GOAT.

I like Fairemail and use Blokada 5 for a system-wide adblocker. The developer of Fairemail also has a similar app, Netguard, which I thought worked well until it didn't and I sent back to Blokada. I think it's been updated and should probably try it again.

>>302187
Great thread OP! I already use a couple of these apps myself, my favorite being antennapod, which is my go-to for late night listening.
Thank you for the newpipe recommendation, I am amazed at just how good it works right out of the box.
For a good while I had removed all google services on my phone and installed a custom OS in an attempt to increase my privacy. I enjoyed it for a while, but my big problem was the open source maps app you recommended, osmand. It seemed to work fine in cities and busy areas, but, like… I lived in a rural area and I knew for a fact Walmart was down the road from me, but when I put in Walmart, it would INSIST on the Walmart headquarters in another state. Osmand always kinda pissed me off, and I need maps because I move a lot, so that served as an impetus to switch back to using Google services.

Some of my recommendations for good open (mostly) apps:

ChromaDoze for white/brown noise generation. It's simple and looks neat. No ads whatsoever.

Pulsar for music. You can make playlists. I torrent all of my music or download from YT, and what's neat is Pulsar searches the internet for good pictures of the artists if a picture isn't already included in your torrent file.

Noteworthy for tuning instruments (I use it for guitar).

Joplin (in conjunction with Dropbox) is a great note taking app that allows you to share notes between devices. It's easy enough to set up, and it has a robust library of features that allow you to take really nice notes.

Xodo is an app I use for PDF manipulation. PDFs are notorious for just being an absolute ass to deal with, and Xodo makes it tolerable. Idk if Xodo is FOSS, but it's a great app nonetheless.

KeepPassX is what I use for storing passwords. This is a powerful app and should only be used if you trust YOURSELF and ONLY YOURSELF to keep up with your passwords. If you forget your master key your fucked. But, it's worth it if you don't want your passwords in the hands of a private company.

Anyway, that's all I wanted to share. Thanks again OP, this thread is quality and I enjoy seeing things like this on the board. RIP arisuchan.

I've look and the most comfy and useful apps are paid.
Aside from phone, messages, alarm clock and camera, I use:
>moon reader
>smart audiobook player
>poweramp
That said, I only actually bought the latter one.

Right now I'm looking for a "journal" app that lets you make a single entry with both text and a voice recording.

Great thread ✔️
Thanks OP