What's your favourite open source app and why?

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Syncthing. I frequently ROM my phone, and the first app I always grab is Syncthing.

Obtainium. Such an awesome peace of software for tracking app updates. Many sources available. Search through them. Notifications about updates. Just. Too. Good. ❤️
- Can you get Obtainium to scan a simple HTML page full of links to APKs and extract the latest versions of each APK in the page? It seems to work fine on Git repos, but I can't get it to watch simple pages listing APKs.
  
  From GitHub description. "Any other URL that returns an HTML page with links to APK files (if multiple, the last file alphabetically is picked)". I assume yes.

Termux for ssh, scripting and other terminal goodness, Antennapod for podcasts, NewPipe for Youtube, Fennec for web browsing with extension support, Fedilab for Mastodon, Mupdf for a no-nonsense PDF viewer.
- Mupdf would be much more usable if it had an ability to copy text, and a recents page to quickly open documents.

That is a hard question for sure. I think Thunder, Tusky, and AntennaPod are my favorites, but i can't choose just one out of them.
- AntennaPod is a godsend. Powerful, very performant and with a very clean UI.

For me it's gotta be immich, it replicates Google photos SO well and it's all local and self hosted, absolutely floored by how great it is
For browsing my photos on my device I use Aves which is also a great app, especially since it's the only app I've ever found that handles Sony burst format properly
- Oh wow thanks for this! I've been trying to find a viable alternative to Google photos a my wife and I get space anxiety both on our phones and our cloud storage. This looks great.

KeepassDX. The best password manager IMHO. It supports saving passwords, ability to open them with biometrics and is seamless and offline. I have been using it since 2019. Redreader for reddit provides the best offline reddit experience. Also using it since 2019. Personaldnsfilter, pretty much a fire and forget app. No setup required at all. These are some of my favorite apps and I have more.
- Keepass + Syncthing = 👌
- I really like the keyboard feature so you don't need to copy paste or auto fill.

Joplin for End-to-End Encrypted markdown-based note-taking.
- I had some issues with Joplin with encryption. After losing my notes, I went with quillpad instead

GNU Coreutils. Without it pioneering the way, nothing else in this thread would've been likely to exist.

~~FreshRSS - self hosted, snappy, plenty of themes, works with multiple mobile clients and has a bunch of powerful features to get RSS-like updates out of any website.~~
Edit: My bad, we're talking about open source Android apps

Tachiyomi. TachiyomiSY to be exact.
For all not knowing what the app is, its a (imo the best) manga reading app on android.
The SY fork has some features for more adult centered sites.
- I discovered Tachiyomi the other day on Lemmy and absolutely love it. No way I can ever go back to using bookmarks on my mobile browser.

Nextcloud News, Nextcloud Notes, Nextcloud, and DAVx5/ICSx5. I also really like FairMail; it's one of the best email clients I have tried.
The former set of apps allows me to ditch most of Google's services.

Picking one favorite is hard, but probably SDR++. No other app for SDR gets even close to this. It's pretty much a full desktop experience. I just wish there were more drivers so I could use it with SDRPlay RSP1 that I have and not just RTL-SDR.
But hey it's open-source. My bad I can't program.

Kvaesito launcher. I was using Niagara before because most open source launchers just felt dated, but this one looks modern and feels good to use. It's not very customizable but it works for me
- Kvaesito launcher
  also try out kiss launcher

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