Been using a degoogled LineageOS phone with all apps being exclusively FLOSS. My favourite free alternatives to proprietary apps and services must be Lemmy (Jerboa) for Reddit, ArcaneChat and Matrix (Extera) for Telegram, Fluxer for Discord.
Which ones are your favourite?
@myszka
- Fossify calendar, message and gallery
- NerdCalci : calculator
- Fennec : browser
- Markor : markdown notes
- Syncthing-Fork : sync my notes
- Acode IDE
- LibreOffice Viewer
- Librera Reader : PDF reader
- CapyReader : RSS reader
- Helliboard
- Termux
- Material Files : support browsing termux storage & more
- OpenCamera
- Image Toolbox
- NewPipe
- TrackerControl : track and block app data
- SherpaTTS
- Proton VPN
- CoMaps
- VLC
- Lawnchair : home screen
- Obtainium : apk downloaderThanks!
Material Files : support browsing termux storage & more
How do I do this? Can’t seem to find the right button 🤔
@myszka on the left menu, add an external storage and then you should see termux
@myszka you can also go to parameters and then something like “favourite folders” (my android is in French so I don’t know the exact translation) and there you can add Termux path.
Don’t have Termux in both places for some reason…
@myszka Sounds like a Termux config issue. Have a look at this page maybe:
https://wiki.termux.com/wiki/Termux-setup-storageStill no Termux in “storage” options, weird…
@myszka I’m lost and don’t see what’s wrong, sorry. Maybe search the Termux Wiki. I did this on two different phones (Pixel 6a and Motorola g86) without issue. I’m not root either. Termux recommends Material Files as file browser and I have tested several others without success.
Trying out WebLibre browser right now and really like it. Based on Gecko engine. There’s some unnecessary ~ “AI” ~ (opt-in) but a few features make it worth it.
- Real rules for tab containers. There’s even automatic isolation and baked-in tor per container, and easy per URI rules
- Real plugins. ublock origin out of the box, even an option to force enable desktop Firefox plugins if you choose.
- Real PWA support. There’s an option to force add sites as a PWA even if the site doesn’t officially support it. On grapheneos it means I don’t need NativeAlpha to make my tiny bank’s site appear as a PWA.
Finally got around to installing it. Did the initial setup and I’m absolutely amazed! So much customization. I really like it. Way more powerful than Fennec which I usually use.
Almost everything I use is FLOSS, with some exceptions that can’t be helped.
System:
Droid-ify, Bitwarden, Termux, Ente Auth, Fossify (File Manager, Clock, Voice Recorder, and Gallery), Proton (Mail, Calendar, VPN, Drive), CalcYou, KDE Connect, Tailscale, Offline Translator, Rain (Weather), Brave, Vanadium, Tor, Addy.io (email aliasing)
Media-Based:
Notesnook, Librera FD (e-reader), Collabora Office, OSS File Scanner, Image Toolbox, Ente Photos, WizeStream (YouTube, PeerTube, and SoundCloud client), MetroList (YouTube Music), Jellyfin, Libre Librivox Listener (audio books), Audire (Shazam client), Auxio (local music player)
Social:
Signal, Element X (Matrix), Cheogram, Mastodon, Interstellar (Piefed), Red Reader (Reddit), Slim Social (Facebook)
Thanks so much! Librivox, Image Toolbox and audire are a fantastic discovery!
Btw, I just found Audile which is more feature-rich and developed more actively than audire.
WizeStream (YouTube, PeerTube, and SoundCloud client)
Is it vibe-coded? The sync feature is a dream come true, but I usually don’t use vibe-coded projects
You’re welcome. I will check out Audile.
Not sure, it is downstream from NewPipe so I’m not sure how much vibe coding would even be necessary. But I haven’t checked.
FUTO Keyboard I mainly use swipe typing, and it works better for me, than google keyboard.
Not FLOSS though. Only source available.
OpenCamera
If there’s better or similar, please advise me as I’m always interested in discovering
Fossify and LibreOffice
LibreOffice? For Android?
libreoffice viewer maybe?
https://f-droid.org/packages/org.documentfoundation.libreoffice/DOOOOOD!! Thank you!!
OK here’s what it is, it’s legit LibreOffice devs which I wasn’t sure of before.
LibreOffice for Android and iOS
The Document Foundation offers a viewer app for LibreOffice documents, with experimental editing support, for Android devices:
To edit documents, there is a LibreOffice-based product in app stores from Collabora, one of our certified developers and ecosystem members:
(On the Collaboration website)
Now available for F-Droid!
Regularly users have asked us about the availability of Collabora Office for F-Droid, the community driven platform focusing on free and open source apps for Android. And now it’s here! Currently we provide two versions: the 4.2.x release – already longer existing, and the snapshot of the unstable 6.4 line. With the latter you can help us test the latest and greatest features! Something we really appreciate, so do contact us!
However, searching in the F-Droid site app list, you will not find it:
- Add the repo using the F-Droid community How To Guide.
- Add the following third party repository: https://www.collaboraonline.com/downloads/fdroid/repo/.
- Apps installation: Obtainium for most, directly install apk from GitHub, gitlab,… ; Droid-ify for store-like function
- Keyboard : FUTO, find it the best, includes swipe typing and good dictionary
- Galery: AVES
- Loyalty cards: Catima
- SSH, mosh, sftp, local term,… : Haven, two available version, one with only terminal based and one with remote desktop capability
- File transfer (local network) : LocalSend, easy way to transfer files to people on the same WiFi network, installable through official play store, on windows, Linux,… which allows to use even with non-Foss enthusiasts
- TOTP codes generator: Stratum
- Text editor: Xed-editor
- Calendar: KashCal
- IRC client: HexDroid
- Calculator/Unit converter: Unitto
Mind that FUTO is not FLOSS, just source-available.
I mean… for a keyboard app, should it be a concern that it’s not “free” to redistribute for commercial purposes?
Does this comment mean you would not use the app for this reason?
Personally, yeah.
To me, it’s a matter of: It is not open-source, so if the FUTO company starts enshittifying it, then no one’s going to fork it to undo that, because no one wants that proprietary license on their project, whether they intend to distribute it commercially or not.
Obviously, I could just switch to a different keyboard app, if that happens, but in my experience, it also means that no one has their eyeballs on the source code to notice them enshittifying and they’re just generally more likely to sneak shit in, because they know no one’s going to fork.
But I’m also not either a fan of open-source software when it’s developed by a company, for similar reasons. For example, Google puts so much dev capacity into Android and has the infrastructure to uniquely benefit from it, so at best you’ll get soft-forks. No one can afford to do a proper hard-fork and fix the permission system, for example.
LibreCuts for video editing Droid-ify as a lightweight F-Droid client Iris Keyboard as a lightweight yet extremely customizable keyboard Pur.ili as a search engine with its own index OpenNavBar for a fully-customizable navigation bar Fossify File Manager for managing files Prism Gallery for viewing photos and videos Lune as an offline music player Pocket Paint for photo editing and paint CoMaps for navigation GeoLibre as an altermative to Google Earth Yagni Launcher as an Android launcher Pimi Widget for weather widget Offline Translator for translating and OCR
Wow, I didn’t know of many of those. Thanks! A FOSS search engine with its own actual index is especially intriguing.
How is purili FOSS? I see no links to any source code on their site. It actually seems like someone’s vibe coded solo project, based on the blog posts.
Unfortunately a lot of people these days tend to conflate “private” or “not google” with “FOSS.” It’s one of the reasons I’m very adamant about not watering down the definition of FOSS, free software, or open source.
