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

ggnoredo,

MiX

Very good file explorer and server

gunpachi,
@gunpachi@lemmings.world avatar

I have used MiXplorer since 2016, it’s really good. Although I wish it got the new Material Design UI (but that doesn’t stop it from being a good application).

For the people who want to try it out first or don’t want to get it from the play store, here’s the link to it on Apkmirror.

ace_garp,
@ace_garp@lemmy.world avatar

Aves Libre - Image Viewer

Just tried it 30mins ago. Super slick and feature packed. Available on Fdroid too.

Deconceptualist,

Buzzkill for control over notifications.

Musicolet is the best audio player I’ve found.

Send_me_nude_girls,
@Send_me_nude_girls@feddit.de avatar

Into the breach. One of the best mobile games there is. Sadly you can’t get it legally anymore without Netflix subscription.

Fubarberry,
@Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz avatar

You couldn’t get it at all before Netflix paid to port it to Android could you?

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.

ohlaph,

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

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).

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.

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.

root,

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

github.com/svenjacobs/leon

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

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

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.

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.

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 ;)

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