Hey, there!

To get things going here and also because I’m interested in what kind of fun stuff you’re running on your phones, I’ll post a list of apps that I’m using daily or that are part of my Android experience.

To start it all off, I’d like to emphasize that I try to run FOSS apps almost exclusively and I also don’t use Google Play Services whatsoever (not even MicroG). I do run some very few closed source applications in a separate profile with Insular, but I plain out refuse to run them if they flat out require Google Play Services.

Feel free to tell me what YOU are running in the comments!

My installed Apps

• AdAway | Blocks ads by utilizing root access or by acting as a local VPN**
• Aegis | Provides 2-factor authentication codes, includes a repository of icons for your services
• Aurora Services | Required for background installations with Aurora Store****
• Aurora Store | Alternative client for the Google Play Store**
• AVNC | Remote desktop client
• CIFS Documents Provider | Access shares (SMB Windows Shares, for example) through file manager
• ConnectBot | Access SSH servers
• DAVx⁵ | CalDAV / CardDAV client (synchronizes calenders, contacts and tasks)*
• flutterhole | Adjust Pi-Hole settings quickly and inspect stats
• Fox’s Magisk Module Manager | Can install Magisk modules from several repos and let’s you manage them***
• Geometric Weather | Weather app (with widgets)
• Infinity for Reddit | Feature-rich Reddit client (future uncertain due to Reddit’s API-pocalypse, however, you can compile Infinity with your own API, as described here)
• Insular | Creates a separate (work) profile where you can install “big brother” apps**
• Jerboa for Lemmy | Lemmy client*
• Joplin | Note-taking application with sharing capabilities*
• K-9 Mail | Modern e-mail client with multiple inboxes, etc.*
• KDE Connect | Control your computer from your smartphone and vice-versa (also share files, notifications, clipboard, etc.)
• Kore | Remote for the Kodi media center
• KurobaEx | 4chan client
• LibreSpeed | Tests connection speed*
• LibreTube | Client for Piped, a private YouTube frontend with SponsorBlock support*
• Magisk | Systemless root solution***
• mLauncher | Text-based launcher that looks good and keeps things simple
• MuPDF mini | Opens PDFs quickly and renders them perfectly, nothing else
• Mull | Firefox-based browser, deblobbed and hardened for privacy
• Nekogram X | Client for Telegram with more features
• Neo Backup | Powerful backup and restore solution**
• Neo Store | Alternative client for F-Droid**
• Noice | Create and play back profiles of overlapping noises to drown out environmental noises (use version 1.3.3, version 2.x requires internet access and an optional subscription)
• ProtonVPN | Client for the popular ProtonVPN service
• Raiden Tweaks | Configuration tool for the Raiden Tweaks Magisk module****
• Simple Gallery Pro | Nice gallery app for viewing pictures and videos
• SlimSocial for Facebook | Wrapper for Facebook’s website, so you can interact with people that refuse to use any kind of messenger, but are still present on Facebook
• SuperFreezZ | Freeze applications that you’re not using***
• Tasks | To-do app with recurring tasks support*
• Translate You | Translates texts between languages*
• Tusky | Client for Mastodon / Pleroma and forks*
• VLC | Powerful media player
• Wallme-Wallpaper | Provides a set of nice-looking wallpapers
• WateryDroid | Reminds you to drink water
• WireGuard | Client for the popular and powerful VPN solution WireGuard*
• Yet another Call Blocker | Uses a community blockist to block fraudalent callers
• Öffi (Offi on F-Droid) | Powerful app for checking public transportation schedules and more (Mostly Europe and some other places)

Apps not available on F-Droid

These are apps that aren’t available on F-Droid, due to either containing non-free dependencies or other reasons.

• Bitwarden^(GPL-3.0) | Powerful cloud password manager with auto-fill capabilities*
• boum^(MPL-2.0) | Client for listening to music on Jellyfin*
• Brave^(MPL-2.0) | Web browser based on Chromium with privacy in mind (I use it when Mull breaks something)
• Record You^(GPL-3.0) | Record your voice or your screen

Honorable Mentions

These are apps that I wholeheartedly recommend, but don’t use any more, because I replaced them with something else.

• NewPipe for SponsorBlock^(GPL-3.0) | Private YouTube client with SponsorBlock support
• Open Camera | Feature rich camera with Camera API v2 support, usually the best FOSS camera on 3rd party ROMs

*CAN be used as a client for self-hosted services
**Offers additional features if root access is present
***Requires root access to be present
****Part of a Magisk module

Edit: Added some links and changed Infinity’s description