Awesome Android Apps
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Hi all,
for 2 years, sporadically, I’ve been adding awesome FOSS apps with the following:
Rules
- Open Sourced
- Free of charge (on F-Droid and source code repository releases)
- Free as in Freedom
- Ad-free
- Installed and tested by me or by contributor
- Privacy-friendly aware
- Easy to use
- Still in development or polished experience
- Does not lack features compared to proprietary app
- Does not need an account (the only exceptions are self-hosted) apps)
- Has dark theme
…tested by my and then later by contributors. I think many of you will appreciate this simple README.md repo, and I would love some help with it.
I hope you will find it useful! 🤩
Whobird under AI, nice.
Might be good to add descriptions for a lot of these also, I’m not sure what a lot of them do.
Browsers could list more than Brave.
But… there is more than Brave. :)
- 2 Firefox based
- 2 Chromium based
But these smaller ones are scary to follow because they’ll always lag behind on security updates.
“Early bird alarm clock” has it under the repeat menu you can set a date/dates for alarms.
Sorry, looked for it but I guess it is not open source :( I tried many apps and this one was the only one I found with a date alarm schedulde. weird how such a basic feature is so rare. Maybe try some tasks apps that have alarms? Please let us know if you find something useful
Anyone got a suggestion for a clock app that lets me set an alarm for say three days from now? They all seem to only let you set it for the next time that time comes around, or on repeat. Is that an OS limitation?
I don’t think it’s Open Source (sorry) and it does have (non intrusive, can prob be blocked) ads in the Freemium, but Sleep As Android by Urbandroid has this and much more.
I bought an unlocker years ago and have not looked back.
I didn’t read the rules. My bad.
I’m not OP and not trying to get things added to the list so don’t mind suggestions that don’t meet OP’s criteria, but I would prefer something open source if possible.
But now you mention it, I think I may have bought Sleep as Android many years ago, so I might still consider it. Thanks for the suggestion!
Sometimes we find those gems. I know, for example about Niagara Launcher that is not open source but excellent. Just the original author wants to keep this app for himself. Also, nothing wrong with it same for making money with open-source apps. Yet, I intend to be FOSS and that’s all.
Unfortunately I do not have an app. I deal with this by adding an entry in my calender with a notitication. It’s annoying but works
I think it’s not OS limitiation, more like proper access to Android API functions that are easier on harder depending on the Android ROM. I can set an alarm to 4 May and it’s clock functionality.
I’m running GrapheneOS if it makes a difference. What clock app are you running?
The stock one can do it and others on the list. Let’s say I want 11 AM at Tuesday - 3 days from now.
- New alarm
- 11 AM
- Tuesday only
That’s it.
Nice! Thanks a lot, found some I hadn’t heard of before
Glad to hear that! That was the main purpose of this list. :) And that is why I need contributors so maybe they found or heard something that I have not.
Ok, here’s my contribution
Selfhosted
Wallabag - Save and classify articles, read them later, freely
https://f-droid.org/en/packages/fr.gaulupeau.apps.InThePoche/
Gelli - Native music player for Jellyfin
https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.dkanada.gramophone/
Ntfy - Send notifications to your phone from any script using PUT/POST requests
https://f-droid.org/en/packages/io.heckel.ntfy/
Clipious - Client for Invidious, the privacy focused YouTube front end.
https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.github.lamarios.clipious/
Linkdy - Linkdy is a Linkding client sorry, google play, no ads, has github page
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jgeek00.linkdy
https://github.com/JGeek00/linkdy
Language learning
Language transfer - great language resource, sorry google play, but no ads, has github page
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.languagetransfer&hl=en_US&gl=US
https://github.com/language-transfer/lt-app
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Thanks!
I would like your contribution to be in Pull Request, nonetheless I will comment on what you suggested ;)
- Wallabag - I know it and used it, but through official wallabag instance, I never self-hosted it. Did you?
- Gelli - looks cool, but last commit was 10 months ago compared to official Jellyfin app which commit was 7 hours ago.
- Ntfy - that looks astonishing for automation. Where would you put it, under what category?
- Clipious - already added. ;)
- Linkdy - looks nice, but Privacy Policy is meh and I need a IzzyOnDroid or F-Droid link. Otherwise, I cannot add it.
- LT-app - looks cool but yet again I don’t see F-Droid or IzzyOnDroid link. I want my list to be 100% FOSS compatible with F-Droid / IzzyOnDroid repos.