• Syncthing - for sycing what pretty much amounts to /home between my mobile and laptop
• Bitwarden - password manager
• ProtonVPN - VPN
• Trail Sense - Hiking tools, most frequently for barometric readings
• Proton Mail - email
• Coffee - keeps the screen on through a button in my notifications. Mostly used when cooking for recipes
• NewPipe - YouTube and downloading
• Droid-ify - Better UI for fdroid
• Aegis - OTP manager
• VLC - needs no introduction
• Kore - remote for Kodi
• Geometric Weather - simple weather app
• Noteless - markdown notetaker. I've mostly moved everything over to Obsidian, but I like my grocery list here still...

Calibre-Ebooks managment Libre Office- instead of MS Office Bitwarden- password manager Mozilla Firefox- browser IceCube, Pixefed app and Mlem for Fediverse Joplin- notes BookPlayer app for Audiobooks Nextcloud for storage

These two are now the first apps I install on any new device:

• Kiss launcher (simple and fast)
• Articons icon pack

Basically, my approach is to (mostly) prioritize text over icons, and reduce the colors I need to process.

Other apps:

• Brave browser (for YouTube and built-in anti-tracking features.)
• Librera (ebook/PDF reader with lots of features)
• Odyssey (local music player optimized for speed. My library is so large that all the other players were having trouble finding songs.)
• Graph 89 (TI graphing calculator emulator)
• Feeder (RSS feed aggregator)

KDE Connect means that I can ping my phone that's usually presumably somewhere behind my bed or on a counter somewhere, without having to sheepishly walk to the nearest person and ask "can you call my phone I lost it :c"

Assuming I'm using Android:

• Mull or Fennec
• SkyTube
• Tusky
• Jerboa
• UntrackMe
• Orbot

For me it's ViMusic. I was stuck with a shitty Spotify subscription that I couldn't afford until I found Vi. It has pretty much all the bands I like and it passed my moms rigerous examination (she listens to all of of really obscure stuff) so when her Amazon subscription ran out, I got her to start using that instead. Suck it jezzy b!

• KDE Connect
• LibreTorrent for Android
• Droid-ify for F-Droid
• Orbot for Android (I use it mainly for running the snowflake proxy)

Bitwarden-password manager Joplin - notes Kde Connect- laptop connections for file transfer, notifications etc Syncthing- file syncing

All of these are available of F-droid.

Linux, Qtile, Firefox, Bitwarden, neovim, espanso, and others. So many great tools for those willing and able to do a little digging.

NewPipe and FireFox, at minimum.

Osmand - I use this along Google maps, but it's nice to have entire regions downloaded and it shows more information than Google maps, specifically for back country stuff where you need to see every type of trail

Home Assistant

Wireguard - I love that the protocol is lightweight and secure, makes it really easy to access my home network without needing to expose self hosted stuff to the internet

Bitwarden - self hosted with vaultwarden/SQLite, changed my life and it's really easy to share logins with my partner

Immich - self hosted, the first real replacement for Google photos I've found. It has autobackup and it's really easy to share albums.

Kiss Launcher - I like how simple it is. My home screen ends up disorganized anyway so it's honestly just faster to have a recents list and a quick search feature.

Firefox and Helix

Firefox
libre office
obs studio (free, not 100% sure if os)

jtx board for tasks and notes

• Quillpad (offline notes)
• MuPDF mini (Great simple PDF reader)
• Unit Converter Ultimate (lots of various conversions)
• Retro Music (fdroid repo for pro version, best music player hands down)
• OSMAnd (Great for fancy mapping features)
• Mull (hardened Firefox with the quickest updates of all Firefox based browsers)
• AntennaPod (best podcast app)
• Obtanium (install apps easily from sources such as Github)
• Droid-ify (better fdroid)