What are your favourite FOSS mobile apps?

I’m looking for alternatives for everything, from messaging to ebook readers to RSS readers to podcast players and so on.

Particularly interested in music players that can handle m4a files from when I was buying music from Apple not realising how blockheaded that was.

Hopefully apps that care about user privacy.

I’m on Android, but feel free to share iOS options for anyone who might be helped by those tips, too.

Can I get a boost, @opensource?

  • Evkob@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago
    • rozPierog@lemdro.idEnglish
      14·
      1 year ago
      • Coffee brewing timer: Cofi

      Author here, many thanks! It means a lot to see my app being mentioned in posts like these

      • Evkob@lemmy.ca
        3·
        1 year ago

        My pleasure, thank you for nice little piece of software! I had to try a couple of coffee timers before randomly seeing Cofi while scrolling through F-Droid. It’s simple, lightweight, and does what it says on the tin, which is my favourite kind of app. I’ve been much more diligent in keeping track of my V60 recipes.

    • paradox2011@lemmy.ml
      10·
      1 year ago

      This is pretty much my same set up as well, it’s refreshing to see a fellow firefox derivative user standing on principle 🤩. Here’s a few more mentions that are daily drivers for me that I really respect:

      • Tasks.org: highly configurable to do list app.
      • Doodle: high quality live wallpapers for degoogled devices.
      • KDE connect: iOS/MacOS like integration for your mobile and desktop devices. Share files, copy clipboard contents, sync notifications and a ton of other stuff I haven’t gotten in to myself.
      • Photok: encrypted vault for your sensitive photos.
      • Shattered Pixel Dungeon: a fun top down RPG to kill time with. Very difficult and dynamic.

      Lastly, the music app: I would actually suggest an audio converter instead of trying to find something that can play m4a. I’ve used this linux app (soundconverter) and its been great for getting my files changed to either mp3 or ogg. If you’re on Windows I’m sure there are other apps that would do the same thing, but if you happen to be a penguin user definitely check that app out.

        • paradox2011@lemmy.ml
          2·
          1 year ago

          Yeah it can be legit frustrating 😅 but all the things that make it that way help to deepen the gameplay. The only class I’ve made it far with is the mage, I can’t get in to the rest of them.

    • SatyrSack@lemmy.one
      1·
      1 year ago

      Web browser: Mull (I refuse to use Chromium-based browsers mainly out of spite, but for those inclined I’d recommend Cromite)

      Being that you use Mull, is there a reason why you recommend Cromite over Mulch?

      • Evkob@lemmy.ca
        1·
        1 year ago

        From what I can gather, Cromite seems to have similar goals in terms of privacy to Mull, whereas Mulch focuses on security.

        I’m sure Mulch is a great option as well, but for my personal use case I prioritize privacy.