As in title, preferably open-source, but doesn’t have to, I will start:

KOReader - Amazing reader app, and being able to use the same app across various devices, even non-android ones, is pure bliss. Japanese support is pretty good too, which makes me happy. Though… Sadly no vertical text support :c

Syncthing-fork - Being able to keep a library of books, and some files, and easily keep the shared folder across various devices, is mega comfy. Tachiyomi - Cute manga reader.

NewPipe - Really pleasant youtube client, that i sometimes use to listen to things in the background.

Kaku - An useful Japanese OCR app, that works… quite decently for when I encounter kanji that I do not recognize, and is not text.

EinkBro - A web browser, that on e-ink devices, is quite comfy. Has few… quirks, but works well on e-ink

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StreetComplete. It’s an easy way to improve openstreetmap wherever you are. https://f-droid.org/en/packages/de.westnordost.streetcomplete/

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Your link is broken, the address it leads to is “url”. [link text](https://f-droid.org/en/packages/de.westnordost.streetcomplete/) would be the correct way.

Here is the working link

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Thanks for that. I will have to test my links in the future

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Ooh, cute app, thanks :3

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Merlin - It’s a birding app and can identify birds by picture or by their song.

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Oh how cool though, I didn’t realize they had anything out there that can identify birds by song like that. Is it pretty accurate?

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Its really good in North America given that it is from Cornell. Gets probably a bird or two wrong out of hundreds

When I’m in India, its a kinda of a swing and a miss, but they’re constantly improving it.

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I use BirdNET, I had more luck identifying birds by song than with Merlin. But both are impressive.

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I’ve found auditory ID quite reliable, photo ID is pretty good and questionnaire ID not very.

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NetGuard Pro - Allows you to see and control traffic from all apps, so you can prevent data flows to 3rd party hosts like the ones from Google or Facebook. The pro edition is paid and necessary, but it’s all open source, just not gratis

Aegis Authenticator - open source 2FA authenticator

LibreTube - alternative, privacy-respecting, open source YouTube frontend using the Piped API

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Oooh, I will check out Aegis and LibreTube, thanks :3

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Aegis is fantastic

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I swapped to Aegis not long ago and 100% recommend it.

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Not quite wrapping my head around aegis, what’s the point? It seems like a password manager, more or less

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Is netguard still maintained? I seem to recall seeing the developer freeze development maybe a year or two ago? Hopefully I’m wrong.

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Looks healthy. There was activity and new releases in 2021, 2022 and June 2023. Also, the app might be near feature complete, and if that’s the case there will only be sporadic work left like keeping it updated/compatible or fixing security ssues.

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I use Carnet for simple note taking and Catima as a digital wallet. Wavelet can be used to apply AutoEq to headphones. The presets are generally really good and make smaller and cheaper earphones sound a lot better than they do by default.

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  • 1 for wavelet. They make my Bluetooth headphones so much better. Because it sets a standard EQ it actually makes all my headphones consistent with eachother.
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Moshidon for a Mastodon client

Droid-ify as a much better fdroid client

Another Notes to plan world domination

InnerTune as a great YouTube music ripping app

Feeder for RSS feeds

Xtra as a Twitch client

Tutanota for email/contacts/calendar

Fennec (or Mull) for a demozilla’d stable Firefox with all tracking/analytics/proprietary stuff removed

Mostly stock AOSP apps from my custom GrapheneOS rom.

Every one of those apps are on fdroid, except the built in stock apps obviously

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