Kickstarting this community; let’s discuss our favorite apps on Android & iOS.
For iOS:
Fully FOSS:
- Organic Maps - Offline Maps
- Yattee - YouTube Frontend
- BookPlayer - Audiobook Reader
- NetNewsWire - RSS Reader
- Signal - Encrypted Messaging
- Element - Matrix Client
- OrBot - Tor VPN Alternative
- Swiftfin - Jellyfin Client
- VLC - Media Player
- Metapho - Remove EXIF Data
- Privacy Blur - Blurring Photos
- Raivo - 2FA
- Firefox Focus - Web Browser
- Mastodon - Official Mastodon Client
- PixelFed - Official PixelFed Client
- Sync - Reddit App (RIP?)
- Mlem - Lemmy App (currently testing)
- KDE Connect - Airdrop Alternative
- Berty - Encrypted Messenger with Offline Capabilities
FOSS, but with a paid tier:
- KeePassium: Offline Password Manager
- Slide for Reddit - Reddit App (RIP)
- AdGuard - Content Blocker
- Bitwarden - Password Manager
- Joplin - Note App
- Podverse - Podcast App
- NextDNS - DNS Filtering
- Invoice Ninja - Invoicing Software
- SimpleLogin - Email Aliasing
- ProtonMail - Encrypted Email
- ProtonCalendar - Encrypted Calendar
- Proton Drive - Encrypted Cloud Storage (Testflight is Full)
- ProtonVPN - VPN
- Standard Notes - Encrypted Notes
- Notesnook - Encrypted Notes
- Tutanota - Encrypted Email & Calendar
Paid Only, but Open Source:
Privacy Friendly, but not FOSS apps:
- QuickScan - Document Scanner
- Hello Weather - Weather App
- MySudo - Phone Number Aliasing
- Mobius Sync - Syncthing Client
- Privacy.com - Virtual Credit Cards
Edit: Added ente Photos, Mullvad, IVPN, Tutanota, Standard Notes, Notesnook, and Berty
Starred this reply, thank you!
Just mentioning the tools I had not seen on other posts:
Selfhosting
- https://github.com/wallabag/wallabag - Instapaper/Pocket alternative. Has mobile clients and hosted version as well
- https://github.com/paperless-ngx/paperless-ngx - Great document management system, has multiple apps by third party developers
- https://grocy.info/ - ERP for your household (food inventory, grocery list, chores) - there are multiple open source clients for it as well
Android
- https://f-droid.org/en/packages/net.osmand.plus/ - Routing based on OpenStreetmaps
- https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.oxycblt.auxio/ - Audio player
- https://f-droid.org/en/packages/ws.xsoh.etar/ - Calendar
- https://ntfy.sh/ - Pushbullet alternative, can be selfhosted as well. Works as a - https://unifiedpush.org/users/apps/ provider.
Darktable is a great photo editor (similar to Lightroom).
What benefits does it over GIMP? I’ve honestly never heard of it before
It is just different. GIMP is a general image editor. Darktable is for developing, retouching, and organizing photos. GIMP does a lot of things that Darktable doesn’t. But for processing RAW photos, adjusting light, color, contrast, removing spots, it is much easier to do with Darktable.
If we’re talking about mobile apps only then ntfy, Fluffy Chat, KDE Connect, Nextcloud, Tuta, Protonmail, Session, Conversations, Organic Maps, Fedilab, Mull, DAVx and KeePassDX.
aria2 is a lightweight multi-protocol & multi-source command-line download utility. It supports HTTP/HTTPS, FTP, SFTP, BitTorrent and Metalink. aria2 can be manipulated via built-in JSON-RPC and XML-RPC interfaces.
I have neck issues and emulating my phone on screen is a must! I cant get enough of ‘guiscrcpy’ Open source Android screen mirroring! Multiple phone support, works perfect! https://guiscrcpy.srev.in/
