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Everyone probably knows of Izzy -
His Neo Store is pretty awesome as an fdroid replacement for diff repo's etc (a lot even included, just enable or disable what you want/dont)

ffshare is my goto for quickly reducing image sizes when you just want to send a photo quickly.

Cams is a brilliant actively developed rtsp viewer (spare tablet + cams = light weight at a glace monitoring etc)

Saw Markor above, it is fantastic - Quilpad is my 2nd choice for markdown..

Vivaldi is a decent cross platform browser - I do have it installed on my phones though Vanadium is the best by far - Vivaldi can be useful though when you want to sync browser sessions to your laptop etc (*nix in my case)

Bitwarden is nice too - on *nix can try Goldwarden (made by one of the main devs of Bitwarden - he very good at crypto as well)

    intron Everyone probably knows of Izzy -
    His Neo Store

    Do you mean Izzyondroid? Neo Store isn't his. It belongs to machiav3lli.

      Dumdum

      Ahh - Didn't know that - My apologies :)

      N1b liked to use exodus as well (and still do within neo store) but it's very imperfect as it uses badness enumeration.

      Try https://beta.pithus.org/ (by same engs who built Exodus) which simply does an extensive static analysis on the APK (it does "badness enum" in that it highlights things it finds concerning, which isn't a bad thing).

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      UndercoverBozo
      Any trick to add Mullvad Leta as default search engine on Vanadium ?
      Not just Menu > Add to Home Screen !

      Thanks!

        matchboxbananasynergy I used to use ReadYou but it gave me a few issues

        Oh don't get me started, it's a shame because Feeder is really inconvenient to use a lot of the time and apps on my device have issues running in the background. I'm planning on trying Cappy Reader in addition to Twine

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          I found Openreads, an open source app for keeping track of book collections and reading progress, all locally. I have rarely seen it mentioned here, but I think it's pretty great for its purpose. I miss the ability to add custom fields such as series info, but it's a planned feature. The latest release was 4 months ago, but development will be picked up again soon according to the developer. (4 months is not a very long time anyway).

          If anyone know of any alternatives (preferably also open source) to Openreads, would be happy to hear about it.

          Termux for a Linux shell on Android, it can be used for SSH, running python programs on Android files etc. It can be customized as well. Has some weird hickups but I have yet to find a proper alternative.
          Auxio is a very polished and comfortable music player for local music. Does everything it needs.
          Lichess and Libresudoku for easy games.
          Organic Maps is really awesome but I still use OsmAnd for some functions, since it's still modern and has much more functions (which makes it a bit bloated but still).
          Material Files is a great alternative for bloated native file managers, it supports SFTP, FTP, SMB and WebDav mounts. Shame it doesn't have some kind of recycle bin function.

            ticklemyIP but I have yet to find a proper alternative.

            Some people like https://github.com/markbirss/vmConsole

            Many people await vm support in android and on Pixels to mature further and ithe eventual arrival of vms to GrapheneOS. Its something we'd like to add to make tablets and desktop mode (once Googles work on that is also more complete) more useful.

            Google developers have been recently working getting ChromiumOS and Debian vms running under android
            https://cs.android.com/android/platform/superproject/main/+/main:packages/modules/Virtualization/docs/custom_vm.md

            The GrapheneOS dev team is watching and testing this work. We are still some way away from being ready to focus on getting any of this work polished and production ready for inclusion in GrapheneOS.

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            Barcode Scanner

            My favorite barcode scanner, because of the UI, an optional history feature that makes sense, a good barcode generator, extra info about barcode types and the option to (automatically or manually) fetch product info via Open Food/Beauty/Pet Facts and MusicBrainz. F-Droid, GitLab

            MixPlorer

            Still the most feature rich and customizable file manager available, especially when it comes to networking and cloud support. Unfortunately not open source. Free via XDA (direct download via official Google Drive), or support the author via MiXplorer Silver (Play Store).

            Smart Task Launcher

            I'll probably never find a proper open source quick launcher like this: appoint actions to gestures in a hotspot region of the screen and open a launcher over other apps to quickly reach other apps, shortcuts or actions. Play Store

            Tranquil Stopwatch

            A new and reliable stopwatch for timing very long sessions. Doesn't use any service and has a nice OLED-friendly always on display. Really simple and just customizable enough. F-Droid, GitHub

              I absolutely love the dynamic wallpaper feature of BreezyWeather. The app as a whole is quite stunning for any app, especially so for a completely FOSS app. All of the animations and the great graphic design is very pleasant. I also really enjoy, how according to the weather it changes the core material colors. Such a good app.

                SovereignCopper

                SovereignCopper MixPlorer
                Still the most feature rich and customizable file manager available, especially when it comes to networking

                I just recently replaced it by Material Files that even has proper WebDAV- and multi-window-support.
                Unfortunately no direct cloud support. But I've read there are third party solutions to bridge Drive to WebDAV 🤷

                Speaking of Clouds: If that counts as "feature", when not relying on my own server I'm a user of Infomaniak's Kdrive that I can connect to via WebDAV and therefore mount it to my phone directly.

                  manugraph Well, yeah, I'm not a user of any commercial cloud protocols anymore for years now, but I did consider it a unique selling point of MiX in the past (because it allowed to keep away from the proprietary apps). But apart from the obvious WebDAV, I do still use SMB, FTP and MiXplorer's FTP(S,ES)/Share Server and sometimes its HTTP/WebDAV Server.

                  Apart from that, it's got great view modes, (file type) filtering and detailed recursive search, a decent RegEx (multi-)renamer, great operation queue management, quick shell command execution and overall exhaustive customizability. Material Files isn't there (yet), but I'm sure that if you use it for a while, you eventually won't miss the stuff you've gotten used to in MiX anymore.