[HN Gopher] Best F-Droid Apps
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       Best F-Droid Apps
        
       Author : Gedxx
       Score  : 38 points
       Date   : 2022-02-04 16:46 UTC (6 hours ago)
        
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       | _-david-_ wrote:
       | Some additional good programs are Antenna Pod and Termux.
        
       | fortyseven wrote:
       | Rather enjoy the Transistor streaming music app.
       | https://f-droid.org/packages/org.y20k.transistor
        
       | zppln wrote:
       | I'd like to recommend Fast N Fitness as a simple enough app for
       | weight lifting.
        
       | uhtred wrote:
       | OSMAnd - maps and navigation Fritter - browse Twitter without
       | needing an account AndOTP - 2fa client
        
       | chasil wrote:
       | Rather than just Fennec, the FFUpdater app will pull a number of
       | Mozilla applications and keep them current. The list appears to
       | be: Focus, Klar, Lockwise, Beta & Nightly, plus Iceraven, Brave
       | and Vivaldi, and an unGoogled Chromium. It also seems to want to
       | maintain my Bromite.
        
       | wingmanjd wrote:
       | My favorites, in no particular order:
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       | * Nextcloud Synchronization client (File sync) * Syncthing (File
       | sync) * KeepassDX (Keepass app) * Aegis (TOTP Generator) *
       | Element (Matrix client)
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       | * Simple Gallery Pro (Image gallery and editor) * KDE Connect
       | (mobile companion app for connecting to a desktop via KDE
       | Connect) * KOReader (ebook reader) * Antenna Pod (Podcatcher)
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       | My kids also enjoy Shattered Pixel Dungeon (Rogue-like game) and
       | RetroArch (game console emulator)
        
       | mikece wrote:
       | While a discussion of the best F-Droid apps is nice, explaining
       | to people the benefit of never using the Google Play Store would
       | go a long way to increasing the demand for F-Droid apps. Of
       | course... this means making people care about the privacy of
       | their personal data and if that ever became popular then the use
       | of mobile phones would plummet.
        
         | fsflover wrote:
         | There are other benefits of F-Droid, e.g. the lack of malware
         | and adware. You can be sure that anything you install will
         | respect you and behave.
        
           | marto1 wrote:
           | this and a sane pipeline for publishing apps.
        
       | mikece wrote:
       | The best F-Droid apps aren't in the stock repository but only
       | available once you add a repo to the app. My personal favorite is
       | BitWarden.
        
       | jhot wrote:
       | I highly recommend adding the IzzyOnDroid repository. It's mainly
       | FOSS apps that don't have an f-droid build and new releases are
       | pulled straight from GitHub/GitLab releases, adding over 800 apps
       | to F-Droid.
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       | https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index.php
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       | Some other honorable mentions I haven't seen yet
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       | - Fennec (Firefox) - DAVx5 - Gotify-UP - Joplin - Link Eye -
       | Wormhole William
        
         | psanford wrote:
         | If anyone wants to help shepherd Wormhole William through the
         | f-droid submission process, that would be appreciated!
        
       | philonoist wrote:
       | I came across two which blew my mind away.
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       | 1. https://anotherpass.jepfa.de/
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       | 2. https://f-droid.org/en/packages/io.oversec.one/
       | 
       | Droid-ify showed me how much I missed out when I was depending
       | only on F-droid and its default repositories.
       | 
       | Thanks HN!
        
       | brnt wrote:
       | * FOSS Browser * VLC * Davx5 * Openkeychain * K9Mail * Tasks
       | (tasks.org) * simple agenda * OrganicMaps * KeepassXC * Tor
       | browser * Antennapod * Markor * Mupdf * Tiny Weather Forecast
       | Germany * Newpipe * Puzzles * Chess * Transportr * KDE connect *
       | Binary eye * habits * Gadgetbridge * Baldphone
        
       | encryptluks2 wrote:
       | So, these are some good apps for the most part but Binary Eye
       | definitely seems like a better QR scanner. I prefer Password
       | Store for passwords, which can also handle 2FA.
       | 
       | Some others...                   Infinity for Reddit
       | Fritter              Wikipedia              Telegram FOSS
       | Termux              Tasks.org              SimpleLogin
       | PCAPdroid              OpenKeychain              Mullvad VPN
       | LBRY              i2pd              DuckDuckGo
        
         | seanw444 wrote:
         | +1 to Binary Eye. Good scanner.
        
       | URfejk wrote:
       | dvd - video downloader app powered by yt-dlp:
       | https://f-droid.org/packages/org.yausername.dvd/
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       | RethinkDNS: Fast, private, and safe DNS + Firewall:
       | https://f-droid.org/packages/com.celzero.bravedns/
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       | InviZible Pro - protect your device from dangerous sites, get rid
       | of annoying ads and tracking ...:
       | https://f-droid.org/en/packages/pan.alexander.tordnscrypt.st...
        
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