Here are a few of my faves:
- Breezy Weather - Nice weather app.
- Diatronome - Tuner, metronome, and synth
- NewPipe / NeuTube - I haven’t found my fave tube app.
- Suntimes - Information and widgets about the sun and moon.
I’m just looking for some recommendations. It’s difficult browsing through apps with F-Droid. Thanks!
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.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
Thanks for the rec!
This is great, use it all the time. It can automatically strip tracking and is endlessly customisable
In what ways have you customized it? Curious about what I’m missing out on… the coding menus seem overwhelming to me to try to do anything with…
First time installing this app, but I’d also be interested to hear how people have customized it.
Hey thanks, this is great
Fennec web browser.
Compass for well, a compass.
Voyager in case Connect breaks againConnect broke?
Organic Maps
Droidify to fix the horrible F-droid interface
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
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
Tubular by polymorphicshade hasn’t been updated in a while, there forks tho Feuerswut has one that works but package name is the same.
TrackerControl for blocking apps from connecting to the internet
Simple apps for Gallery and File Browser
Markor for mardown note taking
JustPlayer for watching videos
I’ve yet to find a good music player, since f-droid’s search sucks - it only searches in the name and short description. I’ve tried Apollo and Odyssey, but neither has a fucking folder whitelist/blacklist setting and end up filled with audio from telegram and whatsapp. Also, most players completely ignore .opus format
I’ve yet to find a good music player
I’ll be honest, I haven’t really used these so not sure of their features, but figured I’d mention them.
Auxio
PixelPlayer
Not a favourite, but interesting https://f-droid.org/packages/com.fauxx.full/
Generates internet traffic noise to ruin attempts to profile you
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 :)
Edit: Formatting
I just installed PlugBrain yesterday. It gives you increasingly difficult math tasks every x minutes the longer you use Social Media / addicting apps.
- 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
Second AntennaPod. Best podcast app I’ve found so far
I just picked up Daily You. Having fun logging every day so far. (Its only been a week, but still fun)
Same, I didn’t know why but it’s actually working as a journal better than any other app I’ve tried for me. Maybe just feeling like it’s not going to try to sell me something or steal my data.
LibreFind scans your installed packages locally and queries their community-submitted database to identify proprietary software and find FOSS alternatives.
https://f-droid.org/packages/com.jksalcedo.librefind
It’s a bit inconsistent with what it thinks are “equivalent”, but when it works, it’s a great way to find FOSS alternative to apps you have






