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I think secure photo viewer just doesnt need an update. It displays a picture on the lockscreen, nothing more.

There is no alternative, and in most cases people wont hack you but might scroll through your phone. So that app is brilliant!


Weather apps are often really location dependend.

Additions:

Add F-Droid basic as appstore. All the others are no stores as they either have too little apps, or none at all.

F-droid basic is modern and really optimized. If you trust the packaging, F-Droid is actually better than downloading random APKs that include whatever dependency that FOSS devs may get loaded in their Android IDE.

F-droid builds are reproducible. And also you can just use the app as a feed and add a ton of repos. Then copy the source URL and use obtainium if you want


For anonymization, add RethinkDNS and I2P. Rethink also has Tor, I2p is better for actually being anonymous.

For chat, add conversations for XMPP.

The mail client could be updated to thunderbird, it is already released with that Branding. Tough one, likely not your power.

Not sure if binary eye has QR code generation. This is what I currently use "secuso qr scanner" for.

For cloud, obviously Syncthing (maybe Syncthing-Fork, the main one is no longer maintained) as that works with no servers at all. And Nextcloud, which you can rent

For PDF, "MJ PDF" has more features and also uses Vanadium Webview.

As local music player, anrimians music player is nice.

In social networks, Grayjay and Jerboa are missing!

In Calendar, DAVx5 is essential to sync with a good mail provider. Not private at all though.

    Productivity, you could add Googles Snapseed, works offline. Also Ankidroid. And maybe CollaboraOffice but that has no features.

    StirlingPDF is awesome here but needs hosting.

    Open Videoeditor maybe.

    OSS Document Scanner for scanning stuff.

    Streetcomplete to improve OpenStreetmaps!

    For navigation, adding NeoStumbler is essential. The app allows you to collect wifi, cell towers and bluetooth beacons with the GPS location. You can upload it to beacondb.net which offers a database you can then download and in the future use offline for network location positioning in GrapheneOS.

    For navigation, TTS is essential too. Sherpa onxx is brilliant here, awesome quality, all local.

    Wormhole for file transfer P2P over the internet.

    YetCalc for a nice calculator with conversion stuff.

    ConverterNOW for more conversion stuff.

    IMHO Rethink > NetGuard:
    Rethink is fully free and supports the same features as NetGuard (DNS and application logging, DNS filtering, etc.) except without a paywall (yes, you can access the locked NetGuard features if you have some programming knowledge). Moreover, Rethink works well in user profiles and can even allow you to connect to a VPN like ProtonVPN (and still use the DNS logging/filtering features)

    ianonymous3000 Yes, I have heard a lot of good stuff about it but why need a DNS when the VPN already takes care of it? (at least the ones on my list)

    Wouldn't it be redundant? Or what am I missing here?

    Because Rethink DNS (despite its name) isn't just a DNS stub resolver. This has been discussed previously: https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/7930-rethinkdns-needed-on-grapheneos/8

    Of course, Rethink DNS + Firewall isn't anywhere close to a must have but it also isn't made redundant by other VPN apps.

    ianonymous3000

    Yes these are not relevant for it's use as an App Feed (i.e. Store, you have no idea what you miss otherwise) or when using it with external repos, or if you dont trust the build system of random app developers, or if you fear they might include malware in their binaries (like with xz) but not in the code (which F-Droid then builds).

    F-Droids builds are also reproducible which is a big benefit

    ianonymous3000 great list, here's my feedback:

    • The developer of Syncthing recently announced that development will no longer be continued. I'd remove it from the list as it will become insecure over time.
    • For music streaming I'd recommend InnerTune over RiMusic as it's nicer to navigate and follows Material Design.
    • For YouTube Clients I'm missing LibreTube as the easiest to navigate frontend experience (I'm personally using GrayJay and Tubular, but my beginner peers prefer LibreTube for its design and ease of use).
    • I'd probably remove Zcash (and consequently Zashi) as it's not a "privacy by default" coin and harder to set up in a private way compared to Monero. It's also far less adopted by private services such as Mullvad.

    That's all. Thanks for your work and research!