Here are a few of my faves:

  • Breezy Weather - Nice weather app.
  • Diatronome - Tuner, metronome, and synth
  • NewPipe / NeuTube - I haven’t found my fave tube app.
  • Suntimes - Information and widgets about the sun and moon.

I’m just looking for some recommendations. It’s difficult browsing through apps with F-Droid. Thanks!

UPDATE 2026-06-09:

Thanks for all the recommendations!

I’ve been trying them out. Here are a few that I’ve started using:

  • Trailsense - I had this before but people reminded me how it’s awesome. It has a compass so I don’t really need the Compass app (but I have it anyway because it’s small and nice).
  • Survival Manual - Fun to browse.
  • LibreFind - This app motivated me to replace several proprietary apps with open source.
  • Material Files - My fave of the file apps.
  • Clock - My fave of the clock apps.
  • Octal Sun Time - I found this while looking at the clocks. It’s a base 8 solar clock. I’m a huge fan of sun based time. This goes well with Suntimes app.
  • AntennaPod - I didn’t realize that I needed exactly this app for podcasts.
  • Games - I added a few games but I haven’t played yet: Beat, BlockDrop, Breakout71, Drum On!, DuckRun, Freebloks, GameMaster Dice, Lato, Pixel Wheels, Unciv
  • OSMand - I’ve had this but forgot to mention it. Top tier mapping.
  • StreetComplete / Vespucci - My fave apps for editing OSM. StreetComplete asks questions about missing data. Vespucci is a more standard editor.
  • LavSeeker - This is a nice little app for finding toilets but I can accomplish same in OSMand with custom POIs.
  • Neutube / Tubular - I’ve been using Tubular for anon youtube and Neutube for when I need to login. Neutube seems to crash very often so I mostly use Tubular for playing music.
  • Waistline / Open Food Facts - I’m very stoked on Waistline since MyFitnessPal is extremely enshittified. This has led to Open Food Facts where I’ve started uploading food facts.
  • OpenTracks - I haven’t used this yet because I have a Strava account. But I want to try it out. It solves the problem of recording split/overlapping exercises (eg. bike to run to bike) which Strava doesn’t handle.
  • OpenTune - Great app for music playlists.
  • ReFra Gallery - My fave of the gallery apps.
  • Weather Radar - Nice app focusing on maps, radars, etc.
  • Network Scanner - Useful for quick LAN info.
  • Daniel Quinn@lemmy.caEnglish
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    4 months ago

    I couldn’t abide such a wall of text, so I reformatted everything into a Markdown table:

    Name Description
    LocalSend Send files on a local network easily
    Obtainium Alternative to F-Droid, allows installation from more sources
    Aegis 2FA manager
    CoMaps OpenStreetMap client
    Tasks Astrid was a popular cross-platform productivity service that was acquired and discontinued in 2013. The source code from Astrid’s open source Android app serves as the basis of Tasks.
    ZipXtract A fully open-source Android application designed for comprehensive archive management. It allows you to effortlessly extract and create a wide variety of archive files directly on your device.
    disky Find your biggest diskspace thieves!
    WallFlow Plus (Alpha) A wallpaper app for Android with beautiful wallpapers from wallhaven.cc, Reddit. Designed with Material Design 3 and supports wide screen devices like tablets.
    Droid-ify Alternative to F-Droid, allows installation from more sources
    Aves Libre A gallery and metadata explorer app. It is built for Android, with Flutter.
    Phone It’s a phone dialer
    OpenTracks A sport tracking buddy that respects your privacy.
    Eden A free and opensource (FOSS) Switch 1 emulator, derived from Yuzu and Sudachi
    DAVx⁵ CalDAV/CardDAV synchronization for Android (and other features)
    Open Camera A feature rich camera application
    Obsidian Alternative store for Android. Not FOSS.
    kitshn An unofficial multiplatform client for the self-hosted Tandoor recipe management software
    Calculator It’s a calculator
    Jellyfin Official Android client for Jellyfin
    Nextcloud A safe home for all your data. Access & share your files, calendars, contacts, mail & more from any device, on your terms. This is the official Nextcloud Android app.
    WiFiAnalyzer Interrogate devices on your WiFi network
    Thunderbird A powerful, privacy-focused email app
    Breezy Weather A feature-rich free and open source Material 3 Expressive weather app
    addy.io Easily create and manage your addy.io aliases, recipients and more from your device
    mpv A video player for Android based on libmpv
    Paperize A dynamic wallpaper changer that keeps your device’s aesthetic fresh and exciting
    M3U A simple IPTV player for Android phones, tablets, and TV.
    FairScan An Android app to scan your documents
    Harmonic A Hacker News client
    SpamBlocker Blocks unwanted calls & SMS messages without replacing your default call/SMS app.
    Material Files An open source Material Design file manager, for Android 5.0+
    FUTO Keyboard A good modern keyboard that stays offline and doesn’t spy on you
    KeePassDX Lightweight password safe and manager
    Signal Privacy-friendly instant messaging software
    Bitwarden Official client for the Bitwarden password manager
    Audiobookshelf A self-hosted audiobook and podcast server
    KDE Connect Integrates your smartphone and computer
    GameNative Allows you to play games you own on Steam, Epic and GOG directly on Android devices, with cloud saves.
    MJ PDF A fast, minimalist, powerful and totally free PDF viewer
    Firefox Beta It’s Firefox
    Summit A mobile client for Lemmy
    Catima Card management app
    ArrMatey A modern, all-in-one mobile client for managing your *arr stack. Built using KMP with native Jetpack Compose UI for Android and SwiftUI for iOS.
    OpenKeychain Encrypt your Files and Communications. Compatible with the OpenPGP Standard.
    NotallyX Minimalistic note taking app
    WG Tunnel An alternative FOSS Android client for WireGuard and AmneziaWG
    Bluesky Alternative to X, developed by the same rich assholes who brought you Twitter (sorry, this is my bias coming through)
    Mental Math A simple and clean Android app for mental arithmetic training
    Fossify Calendar Your private & powerful schedule planner
    Moshidon A fast, highly customizable, up-to-date fork of megalodon adding important features such as a fully federated timeline, unlisted posting, drafts, scheduled posts, bookmarks, and alt text warnings.
    Memories Photo Management for Nextcloud
    AntennaPod Easy-to-use, flexible and open-source podcast manager and player
    Home Assistant This is the official Android app for Home Assistant, a powerful open-source home automation platform
    Off Grid The Swiss Army Knife of On-Device AI
    Tubular A fork of NewPipe that implements SponsorBlock and ReturnYouTubeDislike