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I'm the other way arround, 2-3 things from playstore and the rest from f-droid. Here is my list: Acode (text editor) Aegist (2FA) AntennaPod (podca

• szszrk 2y ago
  F-Droid Basic is cool. Same thing, just without some sharing options etc., you probably don't use anyway. It was the first one to get actual background updates on modern android. Barcode Scanner is decent, it even searches for products online, if you scan something that looks like a food label etc. Casio G-Shock Smart Sync if you are tired of official Casio app in a casio bluetooth watch. DuckDuckGo is there... FadCam - if you ever need a recording without tracking attention (while phone is locked). Could get you out of some legal trouble... Futo Keyboard is interesting project. GadgetBridge saves some old devices. I use it for some Xiaomi eink devices that overwise require... to be connected to chinese datacenter to be discovered and sync. Which is insane, as some versions discover and can be synced on EU servers... Grayjay for videos on many platforms. So many HackerNews clients - I'm on Hacki currently. Home assistant, Jellyfin, Joplin, Mullvad, Telegram, Nextcloud, Organic Maps, Osmand~, Tailscale or Yubico authenticator are all there. I like them better from f-droid. Street Complete is an awesome way to contribute to OpenStreetMap. Thunderbird (!) which is a fork of K9 (still active), and looks and runs great. Highly recommend.
• nanoxide 2y ago
  It's super annoying though, that installing an app from F-Droid sometimes appears as installed from Play Store as well. For example, I have VLC installed from F-Droid, but it also appears in the Play Store update list and _can't_ be updated from there.
  • crtasm 2y ago
    Yes, I wish Google would fix that.
  • idle_zealot 2y ago
    Does someone know why this is? I assume it's Google just assuming it's the only app source and not bothering to check the installation source associated with apps when pulling them into its update check list. Or is there no way on Android to check whether you're the one that installed an app?
• dizhn 2y ago
  Librera is an awesome ebook reader. The version on fdroid is the same as the paid app on the play store.
  • Coolbeanstoo 2y ago
    I hadnt checked it out in a while, but it seems to support OPDS now which is nice, I can browse my ebook library remotely now
    • easyKL 2y ago
      Librera FD (F-Droid) has OPDS stripped out. https://github.com/foobnix/LibreraReader/issues/1335 https://github.com/foobnix/LibreraReader/issues/1335 But you can get the Play Store version through Obtainium. It's the PRO version (also available with Obtainium) the one with OPDS support. Kore reader also can open OPDS collections.
      • easyKL 2y ago
        *KOReader
• bramhaag 2y ago
  Great list, some of the apps I commonly use you did not mention: Aves Libre (Gallery) Breezy Weather (Weather overview) Fossify Calendar Immich (Self hosted Google Photos alternative) K-9 Mail (E-Mail, to be rebranded to Thunderbird Mobile at some point in the future) NetGuard (Firewall and logging) Nextcloud (Self-hosted cloud storage) Unexpected Keyboard (Keyboard that works nicely with Termux)
  • philipwhiuk 2y ago
    > K-9 Mail (E-Mail, to be rebranded to Thunderbird Mobile at some point in the future) They decided not to rebrand but instead to publish two versions of the same app. See https://github.com/thunderbird/thunderbird-android https://github.com/thunderbird/thunderbird-android for details The Thunderbird download is: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/net.thunderbird.android/ https://f-droid.org/en/packages/net.thunderbird.android/
    • bramhaag 2y ago
      I must've missed this somehow, thank you!
  • JFingleton 2y ago
    Breezy Weather: how have I missed this gem for all these years?? Thank you
• never_inline 2y ago
  Fennec is still maintained? Also KDE connect can be alternative to sending files if you use linux on desktop.
  • camel-cdr 2y ago
    Yes, although there were problems arround patching the the recent vulnerable version 129.0.2, because the build script broke: https://forum.f-droid.org/t/fennec-vulnerability-recommended-to-uninstall/28826 https://forum.f-droid.org/t/fennec-vulnerability-recommended... The fennec app was last updated 10 days ago, so it's now on a very recent version. (134.0.0 vs the latest 134.0.2)
• tetris11 2y ago
  From me: WifiAnalyse (hidden camera scanner) AdAway (block adds) HomeAssistant (automation) LocalSend (easy LAN send) OrganicMaps (nice OSM)
• Gormo 2y ago
  I thought I'd just point out that KeePassDX can itself do 2FA (as can KeePassXC on the desktop, so you can keep your TOTP keys synced too).
• ubertaco 2y ago
  I recently swapped from the F-Droid version of AntennaPod to the Google Play Store version so that I could use Chromecast, which they strip from their F-Droid builds because the underlying library isn't open-source and is deemed "impure" by F-Droid (it gets you a "This app has features you might not like" banner, when honestly it's a feature I specifically want). A similar thing is true of Tempo (a Subsonic-client music player), where the F-Droid builds have Chromecast support stripped out, but the GitHub-published builds have it (so I also have to install Obtanium to get those updated). "I want to listen to my audio on my devices in my house" is a weird thing to exclude in the name of open-source purity. Otherwise, I love F-Droid. I just wish they had a bit more nuance to recognize that Chromecast support isn't the same as "constantly reports your location in the background to corporate servers", and so those shouldn't have the same severity of warning banners applied.
  • nosrepa 2y ago
    Weird, I can can stream antennapod's audio to any of my Google home devices and I assumed it'd work the same should I want to use my Chromecast.
    • ubertaco 2y ago
      You probably have installed it from the Google Play store rather than from F-Droid, I'd bet.
  • nosrepa 2y ago
    Also another odd thing to note, the droid version of antennapod has android auto support and the play version doesn't!