What are your Android hidden gem apps

I’m back! This is a continuation of my series on platform-specific hidden gem apps that you have discovered that are the best in their class for your usecase.

We’ve done iOS+MacOS so far so lets get universal and share our Android hidden gems.

For mine, I would say NewPipe for YouTube… Lets do it!

Edit: Please try to avoid apps that cannot be purchased (subscription apps) since it is important that the creator cannot cut you off once you’ve taken time/effort/money to integrate it into your workflow and dependance. No Apollos, which have that fatal flaw + relying on an external API that they additionally cannot gurantee

tinwhiskers,
@tinwhiskers@lemmy.world avatar

OruxMaps is an awesome alternative to Google maps. It does require some configuration to get Google imagery working since they were required to remove it, but there’s also a huge variety of other online sources it can use (wmts etc), plus off-line maps, overlays. You can use your own maps from qgis or other gis software, and there’s multiple navigation options. Tracks, routes, way points, and so much more.

cheese_greater,

MagicEarth’s amazing too

heyazorin,
@heyazorin@lemmy.ml avatar

Read You, probably the best RSS reader available on Android. The bad: still in beta and no sync with Feedly (yet).

Sync for Lemmy, also the best client for Lemmy in Android by far. Design and user experience are delightful. Bad: ads with an expensive subscription. Good: with adguard DNS ads disappear.

cheese_greater,

What do you think about Voyager?

heyazorin,
@heyazorin@lemmy.ml avatar

Great app but maybe too similar to the rest of Lemmy apps.

cheese_greater,

I mean, they’re kinda all based on or inspired by Apollo, the 3rd party Reddit app. That was arguably the biggest most violent stcking point for many new Lemmy users

Voyager is the closest carbon-copy and therefore many’s fave (certainly mine ;)

AstralWeekends,

AnyList. I’ve tried many list apps and this one is easily the best. Not FOSS disclaimer. The free version has very minimal ads, it has a great, intuitive UI, you can create custom list types and item categories, it has built in quantity and unit of measure fields, and you can share/sync a list with others by email address. The amount of features included in the free version is uncommon in the market without getting more harassed by advertisements. I hope it doesn’t change in the future; it’s remained relatively unchanged for the 3 years I’ve been using it!

hakunawazo,

HiPER Scientific Calculator:
A good calculator with unit conversion (there is a free version with ads and a pro version).

Total Commander:
Good file-manager in connection with plugins for LAN, WebDAV and FTP

WireGuard:
Easy VPN Client

VLC media player:
Nice gestures for brightness/volume/skipping. Many supported file formats.

Perfect Viewer:
CBR/CBZ viewer with customizable gestures

Xodo:
PDF viewer

sxan,
@sxan@midwest.social avatar

+1 for the WireGuard app.

Onsotumenh,

Voice - Audio book player Minimalistic audio book player that supports folders with “.nomedia”. Great if you want to keep your audio books and music library separated.

cheese_greater,

On the subject of audio(books), check out SpeechCentral. Turns anything into same ;)

Commiunism,

Shattered Pixel Dungeon - a pretty good FOSS roguelike, gets updated every month or so. Can be a bit hard to learn and beat the game for the first time but trying to go farther and farther each run is really fun.

sxan,
@sxan@midwest.social avatar

I got frustrated by the difficulty curve. It’s easy for a few levels, and then suddenly impossible. There are enough easy levels at the beginning that it quickly becomes tedious to grind through back to something interesting.

That said, I’m not a huge fan of the monotonous nature of rogue-like games, and Shattered Pixel is well-done and good-looking. I just wish the level difficulty scaling were more linear.

enshu,

Feeder an RSS feed reader. It is amazing, reading all the news I care about without leaving Feeder. It saves me a lot of energy declining cookies. It is available on F-Droid.

FireWire400, (edited )
@FireWire400@lemmy.world avatar

YouTube Revanced Extended - No ads, almost endless customisation options, built in Return Dislikes and Sponsorblock

SmartTube Next - Same thing for Android TV devices

Boost for Lemmy - The best Lemmy client as far as I’m concerned, highly customisable too

AIMP - No nonsense music player with a clear UI

kuneho,
@kuneho@lemmy.world avatar

Tachiyomi is a brilliant manga reader and tracker. Or you can get its fork, Aniyomi which has anime support and sources as well, not just manga.

ezures,

Been using tachiyomi for years and its been great, maybe I should give a try to aniyomi

root,

Leon, the URL cleaner. Use it to remove tracking links either before opening them or before sharing them.

github.com/svenjacobs/leon

polarpear11,

Minimalist phone. If you have ADHD and/or want to increase productivity or get anxiety about your phone notifications, look into this app. It’s been sooooo beneficial for me.

monsterpiece42,

In this vein I also recommend the KISS launcher on F-Droid. It’s super clean. Highly recommend if you like focused phone usage.

kellenoffdagrid,
@kellenoffdagrid@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

Oto Music (Play Store link) has been my mp3/offline music player of choice for years now. Stable, pretty, performant, and has tag editing features built in. Still gets updates at least once or twice a year, which is all ya really need for an offline player.

Megalodon (Play Store link) is my Mastodon client of choice, tons of little ease-of-use improvements over the official client. Some people might already be familiar with this if they’re on Lemmy, but maybe someone looking for a better Masto client will get something from this.

EddoWagt,

Oto music is really good, but not open source unfortunately. Replaced it with Retro music player and to be honest it’s just as good

kellenoffdagrid,
@kellenoffdagrid@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

Ah yeah it would be nice if it were open source. Retro is pretty good, I remember having stability issues with it when I used it a couple years ago, but if those got ironed out that’s awesome.

oldfart,

Genius Scan. A shameful exception in my otherwise fully FOSS phone.

It scans multi-page documents with the camera, OCRs them, then uploads them automatically to Nextcloud (or manually to any other app, like Paperless).

ohlaph,

I like Weather Warbler because it’s simple. Not perfect, but free, simple, no ads.

fujiwood, (edited )

Just Run Zero to 5K.

For me it’s the Golden Age of apps. Easy to use, minimal, good UI, no ads with the ability to buy premium, all the features that you need and non that you don’t.

If you want to start jogging I highly recommend it. I think it’s perfect.

Edit: I went from barely able to jog an exhausting half mile to jogging 4.5 miles in 13 weeks. It wasn’t easy and I think I “failed” a jog twice but having a clear goal with the encouragement of seeing a timer motivate you really helped me.

DeltaTangoLima,
@DeltaTangoLima@reddrefuge.com avatar

Yeah - I followed the Couch to 5K program a couple of times. It’s a really good program to build you up to a 5K run.

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