AcidDemon The most important part for me is the ability to sync bookmarks. Are those sync transfers E2EE?

"Brave Sync v2: Enforce client side encryption"
See https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/wiki/Brave-Sync-v2#current-status for more details

AcidDemon RSS Reader
I'm usingFeedly on my main device. I like the simple layout. What I really dislike is the expensive monthly price ...
...Suggestions?

Check out https://github.com/Ashinch/ReadYou

Note: May edit this later to add more if/as time permits.

        You don't need Play service to use Nova launcher, just download the prime app via aurora store if you paid for it.

        I don't use public transportation at all, but for everything else the Organic Earth/ Osmand combo is fantastic.
        Organic Earth for quick driving directions, Osmand for hiking and map geeking.. I'm amazed by those two apps.

        If you need radar alerts, CamsSam works alright without Play services. Using the paid version, I guess free works just as good.

        I always come back to Fx file explorer, so much so that I never used any other explorer for more that an hour or two since I have a smartphone. Sleek desktop look (should you be into such thing), strong privacy policy.

        Tried many keyboards.. Alas, nothing ever came close to Gboard usability. I think I red a Graphene admin saying such app without network access should be ok from a privacy standpoint so I bit the bullet. I don't use it on the profiles where I installed Play services out of barely informed paranoia though. Same for Gcam.

        Breezy weather is indeed awesome.

        Mullvad is the only VPN I have ever used and I got no complaint whatsoever, almost as fast as no VPN where I live. They disabled port forwarding a while ago but I never found torrent DL really handicapped by that. I don't download much though.

        Brave is probably the most advanced/easy android browser.. Tried to stick to firefox + modules but it's not even close.

        Tubular is the fastest New pipe fork I tried.

        Vimusic (YouTube music frontend) is awesome.

        No strong opinion other than that.

          Canardo_Sanchez

          I also use Organic Maps and OsmAnd for my navigation needs. works really really well :-)

          A couple years ago before switching to GrapheneOS I even bought OsmAnd+ for 6 bucks instead of 20 when they had a sale :-D

              Aeon Organic Earth Maps lol, got that mixed up.

              Same here for Osmand, I find 6€ rather obscene considering the marvel this app is and how often I use it :)

              With GrapheneOS I'm Using the FDroid version though, so no legacy account without Play service.
              It's basically the pro version without cloud functionality.

                First I want to thank everyone for helping me out. I really appreciate it!

                Canardo_Sanchez You don't need Play service to use Nova launcher, just download the prime app via aurora store if you paid for it.

                That's good news.

                Canardo_Sanchez I don't use public transportation at all, but for everything else the Organic Earth/ Osmand combo is fantastic.
                Organic Earth for quick driving directions, Osmand for hiking and map geeking.. I'm amazed by those two apps.

                What I'm missing are live traffic updates based on how much the roads are frequented. Thats probably where the big userbase of apps like Google Maps comes into play.

                But I will invest more time in those two the next days.

                Canardo_Sanchez I always come back to Fx file explorer, so much so that I never used any other explorer for more that an hour or two since I have a smartphone. Sleek desktop look (should you be into such thing), strong privacy policy.

                Thats good news that there are alternatives which have a strong privacy policy.

                Canardo_Sanchez Vimusic (YouTube music frontend) is awesome.

                I took a look at the project. It hasn't been updated since two years. I have experienced some issues when using the app: Searching for a song, selecting it and then when trying to open the album it's from doesn't show anything. It keeps loading forever. But overall it's nice and clean. Fast etc.

                          AcidDemon you may try Magic Earth, I think it have some sort of online traffic functionality. Personnaly I didn't like the UI that much and thought it wouldn't compete anyway with casual Maps/Waze navigation, so I have a secondary profile for this.

                          Fx file explorer is just great if you dig the desktop aesthetic, I don't understand why it has a rather low score on play store.

                          I encountered the same bug on Vimusic when I installed it on a dinosaur smartphone with bad internet.. No issue on my pixel 8. Maybe clear cache etc. It's old and probably won't get any update, but still the best YouTube music frontend I tried by a long shot.

                              Canardo_Sanchez It's old and probably won't get any update, but still the best YouTube music frontend I tried by a long shot.

                              Give InnerTune (which has been mentioned here) a try. It's really worth checking out.

                                  AcidDemon

                                  Did you mean Shorts as in the page that lets you scroll random shorts? If so, then I misunderstood.

                                    I have been using Heliboard for my keyboard. There's no swipe or glide or whatever, but I never learned how to do that anyway. It has text prediction, clipboard history that auto-expires at a customizable time and they are pinnable to make them permanent. Also has an undo/redo button and nifty controls like swiping from the spacebar to move the cursor or swiping from the backspace button to select and autodelete backwards from the cursor's position. Has a one handed mode that can switch sides, and you can customize the height and put dead space underneath the spacebar to raise the whole thing up higher on the screen if you're like me and tend to grab the middle of the phone and can't comfortably reach the bottom with your thumbs. If you want to go deep, you can even make custom keyboard layouts.