Libby, freaking love audiobooks.
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Adding voice and audiobookshelf, for non-DRM books.
Also podcasts, with progress sync across devices.
Easily the most used app on my phone
Same. And Manga too!
70 audiobooks, Manga volumes, and more already this year—All free through my library, and all so much easier to find, categorize, tag, and use than something like Audible.
Every book marketplace I’ve used is focused on selling you what they want to sell you, not what you want to get. Libby just lets me keep track of books on my own terms in my own way. It’s a better experience and through my library. It’s great.
I self-host my own instace, save articles I want to read from my laptop, and then they sync with the app on my phone. I read them offline when I have some time to kill
TickTick would be hard to replace. Ive yet to find another cross-platform reminders app that's so good
Most of my other fav apps (Voyager for Lemmy, Bitwarden, NextCloud, NeoStore) could be replaced if I needed pretty easily (altho itd be a downgrade)
I didn’t read close enough and thought you said TikTok. I thought to myself, “TikTok has reminders?!?”
May I recommend Tasks? Not only is it open source and doesn't collect nearly as much information as TickTick apparently does (according to Play Market), but it's packed full of features, and also interfaces with a bunch of other apps, like Google Calendar and Google Drive for backups.
Edit: it also is still maintained and updated regularly
I will check it out but, unless I'm just missing it, it doesn't seem to have an iOS/iPad app. That unfortunately might be enough to be a dealbreaker
I've tried to get into Tasks.org a few times, and I really like just about everything about it, but the deal breaker for me is that is seems like it doesn't have any collaboration features - can anyone tell me otherwise?
My partner and I have been making really good use of Todoist and its (admittedly limited) collaboration features - we have a 'household' project, and anything on that list is visible to both of us and can be assigned to a person.
I'd really love to get on a proper FOSS solution, but so far many of them are missing collaboration. Vikunja is really cool and has collaboration, but doesn't have any widgets atm (important for my scatter-brain). Still on the hunt!
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A few I haven't seen mentioned:
- Moon+ Reader - My favorite ebook reader of all time.
- Tea Time - Simple timer widgets
- Simple Time Tracker - Track what you do
- NES.emu, Snes9x EX+, M64+ FZ - Emulators
- Thunder - Lemmy
- Root Explorer - file explorer
- Lichess - Chess, free of ads, no fees. Almost entirely FOSS.
Also +1 to the usual favorites: Firefox, Termux, Nova, etc.
Sync for Lemmy, Voyager and Summit, if I need to narrow it down to three Lemmy clients.
Google Photos with Pixelifly 🏴☠️
Telegram to discuss about custom ROMs and talk with my gf.
Spark Mail because I love Inbox Zero, also has some nice team features.
Spotify for music, ViMusic as a close second.
Google Chrome (looking to replace it with Ice Raven, Firefox when it gets full extension support).
Feedly and Feeder, the one to discover and manager plus multi platform, the second because I think it is a superior RSS app, used along with Discovery Killer to replace cringe Google Discover.
Bitwarden (Vaultwarden) for password management.
Showly synced with Trak.tv to manage my TV shows/Anime and Movies.
Todoist (looking to replace it with Tasks.org, but I really need this to be multiplatform, just as with Feedly), also testing with Ruppu for simpler stuff.
Droidify to handle all these awesome Open Source mess ;)
Smart Dock
Classic PowerMenu
Ice Box and App Manager/SD Maid
Franco Kernel Manager and Magisk.
Runners up:
Download Progress ++ and Media Bar
I think this would be the summarized list.
Just as an FYI - tasks.org and iOS Reminders are compatible if you use a CalDAV provider as the underlying source. EteSync also works, but not very well, so I’d suggest CalDAV.
I saw something like that when I knew about tasks.org, unfortunately I don't have my Mac right now to test it, but I will once I get it back!
I have had it set up and working, let me know if you need help :)
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Alarmed (iOS only, unfortunately). It allows you to set nagging reminders with notifications and has great features for snoozing a reminder or setting up routine reminders.
It’s great for ADHD. I basically use it for my schedule I’ll have it remind me the morning of something (or the day before depending on the event), when the reminder comes up, I’ll snooze it to to just before I have to leave.
I had been using apples “reminders”, which just seem to disappear into the ether if you happen to miss the notification.
Google Calendar - I live my life by this calendar. If it's not on the calendar, I'm not doing it
Audible - Audiobooks by Amazon (I know they suck, but it's a really decent service)
Tachiyomi - Manga and Comics manager and reader
Libby - Books and Audiobooks for free from your local library
Youtube - I use this way too much. I learn everything from here
+1 for Tachiyomi. Absolutely incredible app to manage my collection digitally :)
Syncthing
Plexamp and NewPipe for sure. Especially now that Plexamp doesn't require a Plex Pass.
Thanks for the plexamp reco! I didn't realize there was a music app by Plex.
For my GTD routine
- Reminders
- Notes
For my feeds
- Reeder
- WefWef (can’t find an as good native app for the moment)
For my diary
- DayOne
For photo editing and graphics
- Photos
- Preview
- Affinity Designer
For my work
- Safari (I just love WebKit’s developer tools)
- WebStorm
- XCode
- Calendar
For music practice (hobby)
- GarageBand
- Stave’n’Tabs
For 3D printing modeling (hobby)
- Shapr3D with an edu account from a friend
I tried tons of third party apps (Omnifocus, Ulysses, Agenda, Things, Fantastical, Pro Tools…) but always end up using Apple’s stock apps because I love simplicity and I discovered that with my overthinking bad habit, having a good but simple/limited app is more efficient than an overkilled one.
WefWef as in the Lemmy client? It's been renamed to Voyager, and I believe there's an iOS app too. I'm using it on Android now, and it's great 👍
If you’re on iOS I’d give Memmy a shot. It’s very similar to Apollo, and I’m really liking it. The devs are great too
Thanks for the advice but I already tried Memmy and a bunch of others and I always ended up back to using WefWef webapp, so I’ll stick to Voyager
That’s fair. It all comes down to preferences in the end.
- Syncthing
- Nextcloud
- Jitsi Meet
- FreeTube
On my android phone: keepassDX - password manager w/ autofill Aegis - 2 factor authenticator Joplin - markdown journal
Great thread btw!
- Syncthing
- AntennaPod
- NewPipe
- Army Knife
- Sync for Lemmy
- Telegram
- Tusky
So many:
afwall+
joplin
proton vpn
protonmail
davx5
tasks.org
nova launcher
simple gallery
simple dialer
simple contacts
simple calendar
nextcloud
mega.nz
dropbox
aniyomi
buzzkill
voyager
infinity for reddit revanced
fdroid
mixplorer
xmanager
youtube revanced
the score
foss telegram
bitwarden
adaway
kde connect
tailscale
remote desktop client
nzb360
instander
ibraodcast
bubble upnp
nextcloud
localsend
syncthing
native alpha+
Librera FD
Feeder
Magic Earth
obtanium
seal
termux
unchained
premiumized
shelter
youcut or capcut
picsay pro
idm+
xbrowser sync
fennec
ocr
neo backup
magisk
imgur viewer
gptAssist
freebiealerts
aftership
de-bloater
fairemail
hypatia
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LibreWolf
Terminal
VLC Media Player
Visual Studio Code
Qt Creator
gcc
Home Assistant
OpenWRT
OpenVPN
Steam
Bottles (manage Wine installations/run Windows software)
Squeekboard/phosh (Linux phone UI/onscreen keyboard)
Hacker's Keyboard (Android onscreen keyboard)
OpenRGB
Steam.
SearXNG.
It's a metasearch engine (aggregates results from several engines and feeds then back to me). It also filters out sites I don't want, and redirects Reddit to the old interface.
Tasker
- Sleep as Android
- QP-Gallery - QuickPic, modded to be good again
- Tachiyomi - Manga and Comics manager and reader
- Audiobookshelf - Self hosted podcasts and audiobook player with progress sync
- FolderSync - Just filesyncing, since the nextcloud app sucks at it
Firefox Focus
Nova launcher (super customizable and clean and you can unlock premium with revanced Manager)
KWGT (allows you to create custom widgets for your phone and has a very good editor so you can jam pack all the info you want into one widget)
Revanced Manager (ad free YouTube with extra features like return dislike and sponsor block and more)
Xmanager (free Spotify premium)
Vlc (best way to play video and audio files)
Fdroid (alternative app store which allows you to basically find a clone of most apps but open source and privacy friendly, plus a ton of other privacy respecting apps)
Aurora store (Google Play store but more customization and less Google tracking stuff attached)
Seal (allows you to download videos and stuff from basically any big site)
Top for me have to be the combo of Aniyomi and WVC.
Aniyomi is a Tachiyomi fork that adds anime extensions. Tachi is great as is, but after Anyme shut down, I needed something to watch and track anime with MAL integration. Plus if you read manga, I'd assume you watch anime too. App and extensions receive regular updates.
WVC aka Web Video Caster. Chromecast any video. I have watched soooooo much stuff on my TV through this. Great controls and features, frequent updates, and they're on Reddit to talk to directly if you have issues or feature requests. Great team of people and wonderful app. First premium app I bought.
Bring! is a close third. Works on Android and iOS so me and SO can both share a shopping list every since Google screwed theirs up. Was great when Google Assistant was linked to it, but Google broke that too. Still a great app though. We get notifications when the other person adds an item in case one of us is running errands already.
- Newpipe
- Mull
- Signal
- OpenCamera
And Librewolf on the Desktop
- Iceraven
- Newpipe
- Foxy Droid
- Bitwarden
- Termux
- RVNC
- Showly
- Librera
- Simple File Manager
- Simple Gallery
- Syncthing
- Markor - amazing android text editor.
- Symfonium - music player that I can use with my selfhosted navidrome.
- Vivino - wine rating app.
- Deedum - gemini browser.
- Fluffychat - matrix chat app.
Audiobook Shelf - self hosted Audiobook server with a really excellent UI and very reliable
Tody - a habit tracking app specifically built around house chores, with functionality for multiple family members sharing the load
Sync for Lemmy - self explanatory
Tusky - also self explanatory
joplin
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