What do you use on desktop for your youtube frontend?
Not OP, but I personally use FreeTube. The design is not perfect, but you can add subscriptions and separate them between multiple accounts (those are all local), change themes and it even has support for SponsorBlock. If you prefer web apps, there's Invidious.
I use WSA to run NewPipe on my Windows tablet - it's a bit of effort to install everything, but it works better than using the website in Firefox. I haven't tried it yet, but it should also be possible to use it with Waydroid on Linux.
Newpipe for YouTube.
Yes. I especially love the Newpipe x SponsorBlock fork
I use Syncthing to sync my phones photo library with a Google Pixel running on my server rack. If you didn't know, the first model of Google Pixel still gets unlimited full quality photo uploads to Google Photos for free, so its a great way to keep those backed up, even if I don't particularly enjoy the company they're hosted on.
There are quite a few of them:
Ooh! Nice picks!
There's so many:
Almost everything what I use is already listed here (Termux, NewPipe, Joplin, etc), so, here's a few small apps that no one has mentioned yet:
ViMusic - a tiny accountless app to stream music from YouTube music.
HTTP Shortcuts - an app that allows you to create home screen shortcuts that execute arbitrary http requests, it supports JavaScript, so, you can write even something pretty complicated.
ViMusic's design looks so cool and creative from the screenshots! I will have to give it a try.
Updater for apps released through GitHub, F-Droid, GitLab, etc.
Patcher for YouTube which adds AdBlock/Sponsorblock/Other various features. Also supports other apps, such as YouTube Music. This is a must if you use YouTube on your phone.
GUI for yt-dlp, which supports so many websites. It can download videos and/or audio, implement sponsorblock to skip intro/outtros, and much more.
Installer for modded Spotify. Includes AdBlock, unlimited skips, and the ability to play any track on demand, using a free Spotify account. (The installer itself includes an ad that plays when downloading the patched APK, but this can be disabled in the settings of xManager)
Feature rich manga reader that can pull from various sources. Some people may recommend using one of the various forks.
Non-root/root system-wide AdBlock solution
FOSS & Privacy friendly call blocker that includes support for blacklist/whitelist with wildcard support.
Storage utility/manager that's actually good, unlike 99.99% of cleaner apps on the play store. Pro version is free on GitHub, make sure to support the developer if you like the app.
Feature rich 4chan app
Feature rich ebook reader. Pro version is free on GitHub, make sure to support the developer if you like the app.
Thank you for all the great recommandations !
KISS is the best launcher. Fast and light.
So, I cannot (read: not allowed to) say exactly what I am using (it is a prototype Android device) but it isn't rooted at all. So, maybe it is 70% FOSS. I used ADB to remove and disable everything Google I could (I left keyboard, dialer, contacts, webview) and everything I use comes from F-Droid.
KeepassDX, newpipe, tusky, open board, Firefox, infinity(not for long sadly), jerboa, jellyfin, si gnal, f-droid, exodus, binary eye. All that on my phone. My computer runs fedora and I'm not changing anytime soon.
edit : forgot KDE connect on the phone as well.
Antennapod, KDE Connect, ... way too many to name. F Droid (in my case Neo Store) is a great place to search. If I search for a certain use case, I check out this Github Repo that lists very good FOSS apps
On Windows:
Android:
Probably missed some, but the above are essential to my everyday use.
For sync a la Dropbox, check out Syncthing! I run it in Windows, Linux, Mac, my Synology NAS, and Android. Works amazingly well.
Sounds good, I'll check it out - thanks!
Helix? on your android phone? is it a comfortable experience to use a modal text editor on a phone screen ? i kinda wanna try it now. i’m using helix on my desktop.
I won’t be using Android for a few years till my Apple device dies (best phone is the one you have, right?). However, there is one app that you can use cross platform that I endorse completely: KeePassium .
Has a simple interface, supports password sharing between self hosted servers via standardized KeePass libraries, and has TOTP which eliminates the need for a second app. I use keepassXC on Fedora and it syncs wonderfully. Took a second to setup, but it’s the best password experience I’ve had thus far.
I like Voice for my audiobooks. Also Newpipe and of course Signal :).
Analyser and display of phone storage space. Extremely useful for me as I tend to take a lot of stuff with me everywhere.
Many of my favourite apps are already listed here, so I won't repeat them
My Expenses: pretty much the best expense tracking and budgeting android application I've had the pleasure of finding, It has some paid plans to enable cloud hosting, a local web server, among others, but the free one was more than enough to me for years.
an open source notes app of course, an opensource keyboard app, there are a lot of good things in those categories. also, back when i read ebooks on my phone i found a really good app called comfort reader that automatically reads books for you and stuff, and there are also other great reading apps
which app for notes and which keyboard ?
I use and recommend OpenBoard.
For notes, I use Orgzly for longform notes because you can easily set a custom repo to have backups sent to, and I use Notally for short notes, to-do lists, and grocery shopping lists.
OONI Probe
Great for detecting censorship on public WiFi
This is a fascinating project!
My most useful is probably ntfy & my matrix client, Element. I self-host ntfy & a matrix dendrite server with some bridges. I am able to receive notifications from all of my chats without Google services installed, as well as notifications from Tusky thanks to Element and Tusky's support for UnifiedPush.
I have lawnchair and the Papirus icons and I also have some of the Simple App suite to replace the propietary file manager, camera, etc.
I also have a reminders app called Habits, as well as Revanced, Infinity for Reddit (RIP), and Jerboa.
And for games I have Lichess, Mindustry and Shattered Pixel Dungeon
Aegis, Bitwarden, OrganicMaps, VLC, Jellyfin, Signal, Infinity, Jerboa, StandardNotes and Tutanota
The one I am using and not already mentioned :
qBitController to remote manage qBittorrent
Transistor a very basic app to listen to radio over internet. Previously I was using RadioDroid which is more advanced but for what I do a simple app is largely enough and better
This is going to be a long list.
VLC, for playing videos and other media.
Auxio, for playing music and organizing playlists and such.
ConnectBot, for SSH.
Shizuku, for apps that support it.
RootlessJamesDSP, for audio stuff. Powered by Shizuku.
aShell, for stuff that requires root permission.
Aurora Store, for the few apps I need from the playstore.
KISS Launcher.
Droidify, for everything I need from F-Droid. Also powered by Shizuku.
Feeder, for RSS feeds.
FTPClient, for SFTP connections.
LibreTorrent, for torrenting and such.
Mull, for web browsing.
VLC, for playing videos and other media.
I'm surprised nobody mentioned this, but I use mpv for the same. It barely has an interface, but it's light and extremely configurable, and what I did was turn it into a picture-in-picture player (small, no border, etc, show subtitles if possible...). I use it to watch everything, including Youtube videos (it has builtin yt-dlp integration).
Tachiyomi is clutch for manga. Best manga app across Android and iOS.
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This got to be the lightest Android application I ever install. 40Kib... Unbelievable number in the realm of bloated mobile apps.
Right now, Infinity for Reddit, but with the Reddit API debacle, I guess it's either Jerboa for Lemmy or Firefox Focus.
Favorite would probably be either Material Files file explorer or K9 or Proton Mail for email.
Standard Notes, if you're ok with just text notes it works good
Also I really like Joplin for open source note taking if you need some richer text
My most used is probably Lawnchair, but I don't really use it as much as see its work. Also Notally for notes.
Probably Open Note Scanner OsmAnd and Password Store.
On my Android tablet, my most used app has got to be either Mull (web browser, based on Firefox), NewPipe (YouTube client), or Tusky (Mastodon client).
My favourite app, however, is probably UntrackMe.
vlc has an android app too! try it out !
Revanced isn't open source. the patches are, but the base client is closed.
thanks for using Leebra!
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