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.

      Sbpr Google Drive (for encrypted WhatsApp backup since local backup attempts have been unreliable)

      How did you get it to backup WhatsApp? I'm stuck in a loop of it asking me to login.

      • Sbpr replied to this.

          RRZishe did you install play services + Google drive (and login to your Google account) first before you installed WhatsApp?

              Sbpr Just logged out from my Google account, then relogged in when selecting it for Whatsapp backup and it worked!! Thanks! Now I just have to figure out how to backup mysudo

                3 months later

                Sbpr 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)

                Barcode Scanner should do the same for you: F-Droid, GitLab. I'm not sure if the "breakdown about what is known about that additive" is specific to Yuka, though.

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                    • Gboard
                    • Google Camera
                    • Moon+ Reader
                    • Obsidian
                    • Shortcut Maker

                    No network access for any of these; no Google Play/Services/Framework installed.

                    Sbpr Google speech recognition (mostly for text to speech. I use FUTO voice for voice typing).

                    I don't get this? FUTO works just fine without google services? Could you elaborate? I don't have any google apps other than Gboard (no network permission) and FUTO for text to speech. Works great.

                        SovereignCopper Thanks, yeah I've tried open food facts before, which is the API that app you linked uses. It's not as feature complete as Yuka unfortunately. Open food facts doesn't really tell me that much more than I could already figure out by looking at the packaging.

                        When you scan something in Yuka, it not only lists the additives and nutrition info, it assigns a health risk rating to each ingredient and then includes summaries of what international research studies have said about it so you can understand the rating. The summaries also often inform you about current regulation about the additive such as whether it's been banned somewhere. It's both useful and educational.

                        I'm in the US which lags behind other developed countries in terms of food safety and basically treats its citizens as lab rats, so this app has been a life saver (maybe literally).

                        Funny enough, Yuka is the only app I have installed that requires SafetyNet. The Play Store wouldn't even let me install it saying my device isn't compatible so I had to grab it from the aurora store.

                          Designed1668 apologies. That's what I meant. Please ignore previous comment.