I try to avoid them as much as possible, generally because there are better alternatives, but sometimes there are things that either you download the closed source app or you don't have it at all.

The applications of popular services like my bank, food delivery, google stuff. All closed source

God forbid anything related your employment or education requires an app of some kind, those are always closed source and does who knows what....

9 months later

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PatzEdi Zarchiever is not closed source.

    Magic Earth
    Niagara Launcher and Nova Launcher
    Discord
    CityMapper

    Endless frontier (Vidya)
    Planet Fitness
    Rumble
    PlutoTV (Solely for Sailor Moon and Degrassi)
    Bandcamp
    Seeker (not sure if this counts)

    4 months later

    I avoid Closed Source apps as much as possible.

    Unfortunately, however, there are no Open Source banking apps. Unfortunately, I have installed this garbage (with Sandbox Google Play Services)

    I love to gamble on the stock market. My friends love Xbox, and I gamble on the stock exchange just like in Casio. Unfortunately not very good for privacy either.

    Total Commander
    Spotify
    Vivaldi
    Google Camera

      Discord
      Deezer
      Spotify
      Magic Earth (my favourite)

      freezet Google Camera

      Why?
      In GOS there is already a camera feature. It produces good pictures

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          I have two closed-source apps on my phone but neither are my favourite.

          Headphones - Sony, for my BT headphones. This is required to change headphone settings. It's disabled until I need it which is perhaps once or twice a year.

          PC Financial / PC Optimum. Credit card/loyality. I cash in the points for "free" groceries. Invasive as F but I can't afford to not have those points.

          For Android:
          Total Launcher
          MiXplorer
          Vivaldi
          Poweramp
          Flud

          For MacOS:
          StopTheMadness
          Little Snitch
          Downie
          MailMate
          Serial 2
          RedFox AnyStream (RIP)
          Transmit
          Audiobook Builder

          Typewise keyboard bruv. Or Niagara launcher as well

          • Google Messages (for RCS)
          • SMS backup & restore
          • WhatsApp (gave up on converting people to signal)
          • Google Drive (for encrypted WhatsApp backup since local backup attempts have been unreliable)
          • Google Maps
          • Google Voice (mostly use it for SMS codes and I give it out to some businesses instead of my personal line)
          • Pixel Camera
          • My gym's app
          • vizpin smart (i'm required to have it to unlock doors and gates)
          • Yahoo! Finance (real time market alert notifications and portfolio tracking)
          • ComicScreen (best cbz/CBR app I've found)
          • Weawow (provides dark sky weather, which breezy weather doesn't)
          • Upside (fuel savings)
          • Yuka (scan a food/toiletry/cosmetic product barcode and it gives a nutrition breakdown and lists additives with a breakdown about what is known about that additive)
          • Streaming apps
          • Google speech recognition (mostly for text to speech. I use FUTO voice for voice typing).

          I'm open to alternatives for everything, I just haven't found good enough alternatives yet.

            Scott thanks, I'd be looking for something for mobile though. I'm an active investor and don't want to be glued to my screen all day. So I need some sort of notification/alert to tell me that something is happening in the market or with one of my holdings and that I should stop what I'm doing to look at it. Its saved me a bunch of times. Yahoo! Finance does miss some things, but it's free and does notify me for things like announcements, earnings, major news, and large price changes. Yahoo! Finance works OK as a PWA, but I really need the notifications so I have to keep the full app installed on a profile with play services.