Saturday APPreciation thread (Jul 1 2023) - Your weekly app recommendation/request thread!

Obtainium is one that I have been using for over a week now. It keeps all my FOSS apps up to date. I have 30 apps added now, and 80% of them are now updated directly from their github page!

https://wefwef.app/ advertised as mobile-first client for Lemmy

https://lemmy.world/post/367599

Things are moving fast. Let’s see how it turns out to be atleast until we get Apollo/Boost/Thunder etc with multi-platform feature parity.

Connect for Lemmy has a sync for reddit feel and is working quite well for me as I make the switch from reddit

Here's my personal list of recommended apps for a few things:

• Aegis (Play Store / F-Droid / GitHub) - 2FA FOSS app that's minimal and simple
• Auxio (F-Droid / GitHub) - No-nonsense music player for local files
• ConnectBot (Play Store / F-Droid / GitHub) - Simple SSH client
• K-9 Mail, soon to be Thunderbird (Play Store / F-Droid / GitHub) - No-nonsense e-mail client
• NewPipe (F-Droid / GitHub) - YouTube client for privacy, has no ads, supports background playing, local subscription lists, and ability to download videos
• Techmino (GitHub) - FOSS Tetris clone with no ads and multiple modes, definitely my favourite
• Waistline (F-Droid / GitHub) - Calorie counter app that stores all data locally. Need to add products yourself but have full control.

Antennapod is a Free Open Source Software (FOSS) podcast app. The app is well designed with great features. You can also use it for playing audio books locally as well.

With all the social media corps going full ham on advertising, I'm going to make the switch from Chrome to Firefox with ad-blocking add-ons. However, I'm at a crossroads since there are many variations ranging from the official Firefox app to Firefox Nightly and even Fennec or Fenix.

Any recommendations?

I've been using Trunks as my go-to Mastodon client for a couple of weeks now and I'm really liking it.

Medito is a free meditation app that's developed and run by a dutch non-profit.

I think Birday is a great app because it's so simple, just reads birthdays from your contacts and notifies you a preset time before.

Does anyone have recommendations for an app that does heart/step/etc health tracking but is FOSS supporting WearOS watches.

For self hosted music lovers, I would like to introduce you to Tempo, an open source and lightweight music client for Subsonic, designed and built natively for Android.

Looking for a good Lemmy and/or KBin app.

Musicolet is my favorite local music player because of the ability to switch between queues without losing the position of the last played track. I don't understand how not all music player have the same feature

Komoot - great bike route planner and gpx recorder.

Mapy.cz - great hiking navigation with trails colors/indications. Mosty Europe I guess.

Fdroid ->Catima - simple loyalty cards / barcodes instead of supermarket apps

Fdroid -> StreetComplete very easy contributing to osmMaps. You know your neighbourhood? Answer questions if that trafic lights have sound indication for blind people or about the type of surface that bike line has.

Any app with mark as read or mark as read on scroll?

Moshidon is a fantastic Mastodon Client. Kotatsu is my personal favorite Manga reader on Android. Image Toolbox is a great choice for an open source mobile image editor with a good amount of features.

Just a few of my personal favorites right now.

Pocket paint

I'm looking for a Mastodon app. The official app and website really sucks for viewing threads. I prefer the comments to be nested like on Lemmy, but the official one stacks them all. Are there any recommendations?