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The apps from Fossify, Aves gallery (it’s even better and prettier than your phone’s gallery app), Session, Tubular, Baby name, Wallabag, Smart Dock and Floating Stickies.
KDE Connect! Share files, clipboard, links from one device to another, use your phone as a mouse or laser pointer.
When you use the KDE Desktop Environment it will also show notifications from your phone and sync media controls (e.g. stop playback when you get a phone call). It’s great!
Now if the remote mouse control could show a 128x128 area of the screen under the mouse pointer on the phone…Sure I could get my ass up and read what the video title is then but… No.
accrescent is a great appstore with limited apps, my favourite is beautyxt and DNSnet, give it a try!
Note that, although (AFAIK) the Accrescent client is free software, it’s hardcoded to only support their own store which last I checked had no guarantee that it only offers free software. Its marketing seemed to rely a lot on spreading FUD about F-Droid even though it fundamentally serves a different purpose than F-Droid.
rquickshare This is not an app for the phone because it uses the app you already have by default (nearby share/quick share), it enables you to use it with your Mac or Linux computer on the same lan so you can share your clipboard and files. I like it a lot.
HeliBoard, don’t want google to get everything I type on their keyboard. KeePassDX - offline password manager
Tabs Lite let’s you search for songs, fetches lyrics and tabs, chords from the web and stores them offline on your device. You can organize all the songs in playlists as well.
Edit: It’s in IzzyOnDroid repository
Also not found searching the in f-droid store app.
Ah, it’s on IzzyOnDroid repo. I’m using Neo Store.
Neo store is empty after installing and syncing repositories. Why would an app not be on f-droid but appear on an f-droid client app? Seems like an unnecessary extra layer.
Thanks!
Hum I get a 404 page not found and f droid can’t find it as well.
Me, too. Too bad, I was excited to see a guitar app.
Strange, my Neo Store opens it fine
Edit: It’s IzzyOnDroid repo
Metro - A Music Player For Android
Very, very nice music app for those with a local library.
https://f-droid.org/packages/com.trianguloy.urlchecker
url checker works as your mobiles default browser to easily edit links before opening them in a browser of your choice, I love this thing, I have given up trying to tell people about url hygene
CoMaps. Google Maps alternative. Can save paths and do navigation with TTS. Gets its data from the amazing OpenStreetMap.
Why use this app instead of OsmAnd?
ETA: Rereading, I realize this could have sounded very rude and sarcastic, I apologize - it was a genuine question.
On-device routing and the map rendering is way faster in CoMaps.
OsmAnd has way more features.
If you just need basic navigation, I tend to go to CoMaps
OsmAnd is a great app for powerusers. CoMaps is a simpler, and more user friendly.
I was a long time OsmAnd user, I loved that app. After a couple of years I realized, I really liked the cusomizability, but in the end, I use like 5% of it’s features. I gave Organic Maps a try (now Co Maps after some community drama) and it was love at first sight. It’s the opposite is OsmAnd, a lightweight and super simple app to look for places and navigation. I miss like one, maybe two features, but I the usability is great and I won’t look back.
Thank you, I’ll give it a look.
For me, I have both of them.
co-maps I use when I need to add a place to open street map, and OSMAND I use for features that co-maps doesn’t have.
Basically, co-maps is easier to use for things that it can do and OSMAND is harder to use but can do more things/different things.
That sounds cool. I’ll give it a look.
How would you say the OSM editor is better in CoMaps than Osmand?
There is one big friendly button to add place to osm in comaps
I use davx5 to sync my caldav calendar (radicale) with my Android.
This helps with Apple Calendar too so you can share with Google Calendar or some other
yeah, this one is less known and most useful
FindMyDevice. Alternative to Google’s find my device. You send a text from a different phone number, and you can do things like get the GPS location, lock the device, erase the device, ring the device, or have the device take a picture of its location.
Yikes
I agree. Ability for a third party phone text to wipe my phone? No thanks
And also track your location
You can configure which features you want to have enabled. I have this running with just the gps locate functionaly enabled in case I misplace my phone or my wife wants to check to see if I’m almost home yet or something.
Mindustry: one of the few great games on f-droid (tower defense)
Mindustry is a great FOSS game, period. There’s also Shattered Pixel Dungeon.
And pirate solitaire
https://codeberg.org/svewa/MedicalCalendarLog
I use this every day to keep track of my medication, remind me of stuff I want to do regularly (measure weight, take specific meds but also chores). Disclaimer: I’m the author, could not find anything alike.
That looks cool, though I can’t seem to find the “releases” section to download the apk…
I’ve been looking for a tracking app to replace one I use called Tickmate. It’s so old and needs upgrades, but I’ve been using it for years and can’t seem to find a better replacement
I also can’t find releases on mobile. I see a bunch of f-froid publishing stuff at bottom or readme. Doesn’t seem to be on f-froid now, but maybe will show up there eventually.
osmand~ – frontend to openstreetmap with included pathfinder.
obligatory shilling for LocalSend, it’s airdrop except open-source and completely cross-platform!
Yup, used this a lot until I started using KDE Connect more.
Are there any alternatives that are decently fast for large files? My computer and my phone both get at least 300 mbps from the router, and I have yet to find a local file transfer application that will be anywhere near that fast for large files (destiny, local send, kde connect, might have tried others, I don’t remember)
I have used Copyparty on my LAN (with nginx as a reverse proxy), and remember it being fast enough to saturate a gigabit connection. I would probably believe the numbers quoted here: https://github.com/9001/copyparty?tab=readme-ov-file#reverse-proxy-performance
fantastic for someone like me who doesn’t know shit about networks and file sharing yet has a mix of windows and linux machines
Use it, love it, has a great http webserver fallback option too
Didn’t know about the plain HTTP option! I’m using Sharik for this
