phone
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The “Fri, 7 Mar” and “16:17” at the top of the image is the stock android “Clock / Digital” widget, in Transparent style.
The “Black Bins” / “Green Bins” is Todo Agenda
Below that is Suntimes
The “Home” is a todo list, Simpletask. (now that i look it up, it’s removed from f-droid and an archived repo… might want to find an alternative.)
The wallpaper is “fall traveller” from cloudy
Other useful apps I use are
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A fork of NewPipe that implements SponsorBlock and ReturnYouTubeDislike.
A youtube client (also supports soundcloud/bandcamp). Been using NewPipe for years.
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Get Android app updates straight from the source.
Basically an automatic APK downloader from various sources.
Useful for getting faster updates than fdroid provides, or for things that fdroid doesn’t package.
IzzyOnDroid is also good for publishing APKs from github and the like as a fdroid repo, but I prefer Obtanium since it has less of a middleman, and I need to use it anyways to handle apps like Steam.
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An unofficial FOSS client to Google Play with an elegant design and privacy
I don’t use a google account with my phone, so Aurora Store is the only way to download apps from gplay that I can’t get anywhere else (I try to avoid this, but Discord and my banking app I can’t really get elsewhere).
It also can handle updating builtin apps, but google play also will update system apps, even without an account.
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A simple, rational music player for android
The best music player I’ve used on android so far. VLC is fine as a music player, but this handles MusicBrainz tagged metadata a lot better, like grouping albums by type.
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Global Mobile Map Viewing & Navigation for Offline and Online OSM Maps
Good map application. Somewhat “power user“y, but once you get used to it, it’s rather good. Can download all map data ahead of time (and even cache satellite view tiles and download them ahead of time, but I don’t use that).
If you want a simpler OSM program, Organic Maps is also reasonable, but I’ve not used it much.
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Syncthing-Fork - A Syncthing Wrapper for Android.
Tragically, syncthing-android was discontinued so the fork is now your best bet for using syncthing on android.
I use this to sync music to my phone, as well as a general “sync” folder that is shared across all my devices.
Note that syncthing is not a backup. You can tell it to keep around older copies of files, but by default, if you delete something on one device, it will replicate that to others, without history being saved. Keep your own backups, and/or enable file history for files you care about.
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Aves is a gallery and metadata explorer app, built for Android with Flutter.
A damn good gallery app. No comments here, it’s just solid and clean. I use the “Aves Libre” build from fdroid.
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Lightweight vault and password manager for Android, KeePassDX allows editing encrypted data in a single file in KeePass format and fill in the forms in a secure way.
It’s a keepassxc client. I hardly interact with the app itself, it provides autofill for websites/apps. No comment, is good.
I did “pirate” the pro version by reading the source code to see how to unlock it. Not that it really gives me much other than custom themes. (steam guard code generation is also locked behind pro, but i just use the real steam app for that)
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Android application, which vibrates the current time on power button double click
I use it to easily check the time without taking my phone out of my pocket.