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Saturday APPreciation thread (Jul 1 2023) - Your weekly app recommendation/request thread! (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 years ago by sure@lemmy.ml to c/android@lemmy.world

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Saw some users commenting that we should have these megathreads in here as well.

Recommend and/or request an android app in the comments!

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[–] matt@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Here's my personal list of recommended apps for a few things:

Aegis (Play Store / F-Droid / GitHub) - 2FA FOSS app that's minimal and simple
Auxio (F-Droid / GitHub) - No-nonsense music player for local files
ConnectBot (Play Store / F-Droid / GitHub) - Simple SSH client
K-9 Mail, soon to be Thunderbird (Play Store / F-Droid / GitHub) - No-nonsense e-mail client
NewPipe (F-Droid / GitHub) - YouTube client for privacy, has no ads, supports background playing, local subscription lists, and ability to download videos
Techmino (GitHub) - FOSS Tetris clone with no ads and multiple modes, definitely my favourite
Waistline (F-Droid / GitHub) - Calorie counter app that stores all data locally. Need to add products yourself but have full control.

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (4 children)

K-9 Mail, soon to be Thunderbird

Wait, what.

[–] engineer@infosec.pub 6 points 2 years ago

K-9 has joined Thunderbird family. Development speed has increased and it will be officially renamed to Thunderbird Mobile soon.

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[–] burgersc12@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Obtainium is one that I have been using for over a week now. It keeps all my FOSS apps up to date. I have 30 apps added now, and 80% of them are now updated directly from their github page!

[–] jcrabapple@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I would love to know what apps you have added to it!

[–] burgersc12@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

Heres the list

And I just added AntennaPod, Vinyl Music Player, Lawnchair, and Liftoff to the list as well!

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[–] DigitalPortkey@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

I use Obtanium to keep Liftoff and Thunder up to date, since the updates come faster than they do from the Play Store :) Very easy to set up...even if you originally installed from the Play Store, you can still use Obtanium to update going forward.

[–] retro@infosec.pub 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The easiest way is to look at your Installed apps through F-Droid as it will show both apps installed through F-Droid and apps from the Play Store that are available through F-Droid. You can copy-paste each source link into Obtainium.

[–] jcrabapple@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

No I know, I was asking what apps they're updating through Obtanium.

[–] SoulSkill@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

https://wefwef.app/ advertised as mobile-first client for Lemmy

https://lemmy.world/post/367599

Things are moving fast. Let’s see how it turns out to be atleast until we get Apollo/Boost/Thunder etc with multi-platform feature parity.

[–] AlmightySnoo@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'd love for wefwef to have a Material Design theme automatically applied when using an Android phone, but other than that it's right now the perfect Lemmy app and it's extremely fast when you install it with Chrome!

[–] SomeRandomWords@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I want to use wefwef but I just can't get past the fact that it looks like a single page app designed exclusively for iOS. I think it's the permanent back button which you basically never see on Android because it has a dedicated back button/action.

[–] Chilinutz@lemmy.fmhy.ml 5 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Connect for Lemmy has a sync for reddit feel and is working quite well for me as I make the switch from reddit

[–] Mog_fanatic@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I think I like connect the best so far but the logo for it changed today and the change is horrible lol I miss the goofy mascot lol. 1/10

[–] Today@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (3 children)

On connect i can only choose all or local for scrolling. I can't get subscribed.

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[–] erre@feddit.win 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Connect has been my favorite Lemmy app as of late. Jerboa is my old reliable one though 😅

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[–] feecoomeeq@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Komoot - great bike route planner and gpx recorder.

Mapy.cz - great hiking navigation with trails colors/indications. Mosty Europe I guess.

Fdroid ->Catima - simple loyalty cards / barcodes instead of supermarket apps

Fdroid -> StreetComplete very easy contributing to osmMaps. You know your neighbourhood? Answer questions if that trafic lights have sound indication for blind people or about the type of surface that bike line has.

[–] SomeRandomWords@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I've never heard of StreetComplete before but I'm always up for another crowdsourcing app. It looks like it's this one on GitHub and I think this is their website?

Really dumb question, but do they have an anonymous/unregistered mode or do you also need an OSM account?

[–] feecoomeeq@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

I checked right now and I'm logged in and I think it's necessary to contribute. But it's a simple form to register and you should try. It's pretty addictive to answer questions about your surroundings :)

[–] antoniocappiello@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

For self hosted music lovers, I would like to introduce you to Tempo, an open source and lightweight music client for Subsonic, designed and built natively for Android.

[–] curioushom@lemmy.one 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Antennapod is a Free Open Source Software (FOSS) podcast app. The app is well designed with great features. You can also use it for playing audio books locally as well.

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

+1 for capability to sync to gpoddersync on Nextcloud

[–] curioushom@lemmy.one 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

💯

Also, I recently learned about this standalone server but haven't had a chance to try it out: https://github.com/bohwaz/micro-gpodder-server

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

I like that. I did have an issue with the NC addon but managed to get it working, but I'll keep this in mind if it becomes an issue.

[–] MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 years ago

I think Birday is a great app because it's so simple, just reads birthdays from your contacts and notifies you a preset time before.

[–] TOUnail@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (6 children)

With all the social media corps going full ham on advertising, I'm going to make the switch from Chrome to Firefox with ad-blocking add-ons. However, I'm at a crossroads since there are many variations ranging from the official Firefox app to Firefox Nightly and even Fennec or Fenix.

Any recommendations?

[–] matt@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Just get the regular Firefox with uBlock Origin if all you're concerned about are advertisements. The default settings out of the box are fine for most users.

Get the Mull browser if you're concerned about privacy as well, as this is a hardened Firefox similar to LibreWolf. Not sure if this is on the Play Store, but it's definitely on F-Droid.

[–] nocivius@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Using since few months Iceraven Browser with ublock origin and no-script addons

[–] seang96@spgrn.com 1 points 2 years ago

I use Fennec it disables telemetry and updates pretty quickly from Firefox upstream releases. Also supports custom sync server and add-ons collection without having to run nightly builds.

[–] Qualanqui@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Before jumping ship from Chrome completely try Vivaldi, it's built on the Chrome engine (so you can continue using your extensions and what nots) but it's made by one of the guys that created Opera but jumped ship before it got sold off to big money.

So like old Opera there's a huge emphasis on not only pushing what a browser can do (Opera pioneered speed dial for instance and tabs too iirc) but privacy and security as well.

I've been using it for a while now with Firefox really not being able to scratch the itch left by Opera and I'm really impressed with just how good it is for being built on Chrome.

[–] skipperwannabe@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

If you are trying to switch from Chrome, then just use regular Firefox with the ublock extension (and maybe some of the other privacy extension officially supported). If you are a "power user" and want modify/access about:config and other settings then you need Firefox Nightly. The Fennec and Fenix (iirc) are just stripped down Firefox that either only have private mode or additional settings for privacy (that are already present in regular version, but way not be enabled by default). Hope that helps.

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[–] falkerie71@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I'm looking for a Mastodon app. The official app and website really sucks for viewing threads. I prefer the comments to be nested like on Lemmy, but the official one stacks them all. Are there any recommendations?

[–] Angius@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

I use Fedilab, since I prefer a native app to a PWA

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[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 years ago

Pocket paint

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