qBitController - Control qBitTorrent servers from your phone. UI is really great; I use it regularly to download some media on my server (an always on old laptop) when I’m at work.

Pano Scrobbler - Connects to Last.fm to scrobble any music I listen on my phone. Also nice UI.

Rush - Fetches and shows lyrics for songs you search or whatever is currently playing. Can handle synchronized lyrics and sync with your player.

Auxio - Simple music player. Of the few I’ve tested, it handles metadata the best, which makes it work very well with other music apps (Pano and Rush).

Keysh - Assign custom actions for the volume buttons. I use the default script which makes the buttons turn volume up/down on short presses, and skip forward/backward a song on long presses. I use it pretty much daily to control music without unlocking my phone (and not using the broken controls on my headphones).

MJ PDF - PDF reader, simple UI, very fast.

Material Files - File manager, nice UI and feature set.

Ruler (Privacy Friendly) - On-screen ruler. Comes in handy sometimes.

Binary Eye - QR and barcode scanner. Can preview and copy the text before handling it.

https://f-droid.org/packages/com.trianguloy.urlchecker/

url checker is an app working as a broswer, when you open a link, it allows you to edit the link before it loads in a browser of your choice

Aegis - an authenticator app.
CoMaps - like Google or apple maps
ConnectBot - let’s me ssh into my PC and laptop from my phone, that’s nice for me if I just need to do something quick and am in another room.
FluffyChat - this is the matrix client I prefer, other than sending video, that sucks with this one.
Léon - this cleans up URLs to remove the tracking stuff.
Seal - this downloads videos or audio files. I use it because I like to download videos i send people, instead of just sending them a link.
Shelter - this clones apps to a work profile on your phone, which somewhat limits what those apps have access to from your standard profile.

Droidify to fix the horrible F-droid interface

If you like newpipe checkout tubular, it’s a fork that adds some improvements.

Qr scanner. I like that it saves a history of scanned QRs and shows you a warning that scanning qrs can be dangerous

Money wallet, to keep track of expenses

Joplin, for note taking

Addy.io, for anonymous emails aliases

Shelter, let’s you create a work profile to keep things separated on your phone

Thunderbird, email reading

Seeneva, to read comics

Not a favourite, but interesting https://f-droid.org/packages/com.fauxx.full/

Generates internet traffic noise to ruin attempts to profile you

• AntennaPod - podcast player
• Aves - great gallery app
• Catima - stores loyalty cards
• DAVx5 - syncing calendars and contacts via CalDAV.
• FairEmail - very secure and feature-rich email client
• OSS Document Scanner - clean and private document scanner.
• SD Maid 2/SE - good for system cleaning and clearing cache.
• Tasks.org to-do list with good sync options.
• Breakout 71 - a roguelike brick-breaker game

Organic Maps

I use:

• Droid-ify for better F-Droid

• Aegis for 2FA

• Capy Reader for RSS

• Broccoli for recipes

• FluffyChat for Matrix

• Gadgetbridge for smart band

• Breezy Weather for weather

• Heliboard for keyboard

• IronFox as browser (you need to add its repo though)

• KeePassDX as KeePass vault

• Kitsune for Kitsu interaction

• Librera Reader for ebooks and PDFs

• LibreSudoku for occasional sudoku

• Standard Notes for personal notes

• Joplin for general notes

• Markdownr for downloading articles as markdown, then I pass them to Joplin

• Molly for Signal client

• mpv for videos

• NetGuard for firewall

• CoMaps for general map/GPS needs

• PipePipe for Youtube and PeerTube

• RustDesk for remote access

• SD Maid 2 for system cleaner

• SicMu Neo for music player

• SimpleLogin for email aliases

• Sky Map for stars

• Stocks Widget for stock market

• Sumire for Japanese keyboard

• Termux for terminal needs

• Track & Graph for habit tracker

• Trail Sense for outdoor activities

• Tuta Mail for email

• Voyager for Lemmy

• Yet Another Call Blocker for blocking calls (even though it doesn’t get updates for a long time still works for me)

• And core apps from Fossify

These threads come up every so often and I read them all, every time, just in case there’s a gem I haven’t heard of. Thanks y’all.

Hey, great post, really interesting to read other people’s app recommendations.

The ones that I use frequently are:

Material Files - I use this solely to access/browse my local NAS

SimpleReminder - Super quick and easy to set reminders without needing go into my calendar and create a new event etc

Thanks :)

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Fennec web browser.
Compass for well, a compass.
Voyager in case Connect breaks again

I geocache and hike a lot so there’s one app that is fantastic for this, c:geo. I can import my trail map via gpx format, highlight the route, and download the geocahes before I hop on the trail.

https://apt.izzysoft.de/packages/cgeo.geocaching

I’ve also been messing around with Trail Sense, a lot of various tools for hiking. It has stuff like satellite tracking and an astronomy tool for finding where the stars and constellations are.

https://f-droid.org/packages/com.kylecorry.trail_sense

For exercising, I use an interval timer, I find Timer does this the best

https://f-droid.org/packages/io.github.deweyreed.timer.other

I just picked up Daily You. Having fun logging every day so far. (Its only been a week, but still fun)

https://f-droid.org/packages/com.demizo.daily_you

https://f-droid.org/packages/org.fairscan.app