Hello, I’d like to know your top open-source apps that you use every day. Here are mine:
Signal AntennaPod RadioDroid Which ones do you use most often?
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On my mobile with GrapheneOS:
- Aaard 2 (dictionary, since QuickDic doesn’t seem to work on my Pixel 7)
- Breezy Weather
- Fossify Suite (Calendar, Clock, Contacts, Gallery, Messages, Notes)
- Currencies
- DAVx5 (calendar sync)
- Feeder (RSS)
- Hypatia (malware scanner)
- Island (work profile enabler)
- K-9 Mail
- KeePassDX
- Molly (Signal fork)
- Music Player
- Nextcloud
- Obtainium (update apps from source)
- Oeffi (public transport)
- OSMAnd
- StreetComplete
- Threema Libre
- Tor
- Tusky (Mastodon)
- Vanadium (GOS Browser)
- Voyager (Lemmy)
- Who Bird (bird call identifier)
More FOSS apps on my notebooks with Fedora, but not on a daily basis.
Voyager for Lemmy, Thunderbird email client, Firefox browser, Librera FD ebook reader, Mercurygram for Telegram, QUIK SMS, Material Files, LibreTube
Firefox browser, misskey as my SNS. On Android: Komikku (a tachiyomi fork), element X matrix client; on my desktop: rnote for note taking, fractal matrix client.
The apps I actually use daily:
- Firefox
- uBlock
- Vs code
- Notepad++
- Revanced (i might something every second month but I use the apps it has patched daily)
- PuTTY
- moonlight/sunshine
- 7zip
- qBittorrent
The apps I wish I had time to use daily:
- Godot
- Blender
- Krita
- Resprite
Resprite doesn’t seem to be open-source when I look it up.
Sorry my bad, libresprite was the fork I was thinking of.
VS code is technically not open-source since it has many proprietary blobs on top. VScodium is the fully open-source version.
I don’t know how much can Revanced be considered open-source except for their Revanced manager app since you still use the patched versions of the proprietary Google apps.
Sorry for being pedantic.
How’s your experience with Moonshine / Sunshine? Latency on local network?
On a home network I was having audio sync issues with RDP. When I switched to moonlight/sunshine that sync issue cleared up.
Its streaming resolution isn’t as dynamic as RDP but once its setup it feels pretty close to running locally (on my home LAN).
Not OP, but in my house we’re very happy with it. Will even work nicely over WiFi, though you do have to manually turn all the settings down for that.
Every app is open source if you can read assembly.
— someone someday on internet.
Here is a short list.
Pc: Cachyos(Preformant linux distro based on arch),Cinnamon (fork of Gnome 3),Librewolf (web browser)
Android phone:F-Droid(Appstore),Clipious(YouTube client but network is nonfree),aurora store(replaced Google play store with this and network nonfree),Iceraven (Web browser,Can be hardened as much as mull.),
Cross platform: Localsend(Airdrop for any device),Vlc media player
Yeah that’s it,here is my major apps I useOn android, I guess, it’s smth like: heliboard, mull, eternity, tubular (a newpipe fork), antennapod, feeder, simplex, element and slightly patched mercurygram.
As for the desktop, Firefox, keepassxc, anyrun (the app launcher) and cosmic-term would probably be the GUI apps I use most often; occasionally neovide if I feel like drooling on those sick cursor animations, mpv if I want to watch stuff without distractions, or kicad if I’m into making some electronics-related pet project. Other than that, my workflow is mostly terminal-centric, so the fish shell, coreutils, neovim, moreutils – mostly
vidirfor visual bulk renaming andvipefor editing piped stuff in place (for one-time things that require, say, >2seds) --, and so on.What does Tubular do for you that the stock New Pipe doesn’t? I’m also curious about neighbours, as I’m still using gBoard and I’d rather switch to something else that still supports swipe-typing.
Tubular has sponsor block too.
Do you mean Heliboard? It supports gesture typing, but you need to import the library you want.
Thanks. That Heliboard comment sent me down a rabbit hole. I don’t really use glide typing, but in case and one’s curious: scroll a bit down under this section and you’ll find the instructions on how to install the proprietary language pack. You’ll also find a link shortly thereafter that leads you to the repo where you can download the needed language pack.
Neat little feature I wasn’t aware was available for Heliboard. Cheers.
It would gBoard’s autocorrect got one final dig in. I did indeed mean Heliboard, and I’ve now installed it with the glide extension and… it’s great! Thanks for the reference!
Which browser do you use KeepassXC on? I’m having trouble integrating it with any other browser than Firefox. Tried to integrate it with Brave on Fedora and Mac, lost hours and achieved nothing.
I don’t use browser extensions with it and just copy-paste stuff, unfortunately. Also it’s mostly a failsafe in case my vaultwarden instance goes tits up
I see. Okay. Thanks.
Desktop
- Arch Linux
- GNOME
- Firefox
- Tilix
- Thunderbird or Evolution
- Vim (I still use PyCharm for writing code)
- Joplin
- Bitwarden
- Python
Phone
- Joplin
- Firefox Focus & Firefox
- Bitwarden
- New Pipe
- Thunderbird (K-9 Mail)
- Signal
- Aegis
- Antenna Pod
- VLC
- The FOSSify suite (not the dialer)
One many of us use but I don’t see listed so far is the Signal protocol.
NewPipe, Seal, Spotube, AntennaPod basically
Edit: FireFox, uBlock Origin
Firefox, GCC, VS Code (sorry, but Microsoft actually made something decent there, and yes, I do feel dirty using it).
If you haven’t tried Zed I recommend giving it a try. I was skeptical about it at first, but it’s so much faster than VS Code, and it has a lot of great quality of life features built in.
If you dont build VS Code from source, you may consider using VSCodium.
Matrix (element on mobile, cinny on pc), materialious (linux app for invidious, alternative yt frontend), gzdoom (foss engine for doom & mods), luanti (a minecraft-like engine for playing minigames and shit), zen browser (firefox fork with a pretty skin), xfce as desktop environment, wine for playing windows games
Never heard of Zen, I’m just using vanilla Firefox on my Linux laptop. Will check it out later :)
I made my own curated list of open source software. Most of the software on there is stuff I use.
Wow, that’s cool, thank you! I’ll definitely explore it, and I think I’ll take a few apps for myself😁
- AnySoftKeyboard (love it!)
- FireFox
- KDE connect
- Librera FD
- Pepper&Carrot viewer (my son loves it)
- OsmAND
Firefox, Matrix chat, Proxmox, Homarr, Sonarr, Radarr, Prowlarr, Overseer, Nextcloud, Bazzite, Lemmy, QBittorent, Immich, Home Assistant, Keepass, Thunderbird, and Debian.
If it’s free, it is for me.
