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Has anyone noticed that apps on F-Droid or that you just get from GitHub are just better than the ultra-popular apps on the play store? Most of them are open source and have no ads or trackers. But this isn't true on the Play Store at all.

I see myself always getting apps from F-Droid now because there is always an alternative to the ad-infested bloated privacy infesting BS that I find on the play store. It's unfortunate that it's gotten this bad, where the only reason I even use the play store is to install updates or games.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (16 children)

Hi, can you share some examples of alternatives you grabbed so that I can get started

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (11 children)

Here are some apps I've switched to

AntennaPod - For podcasts, pretty much the best app out there

Simple calender - For calender use

Feeder - RSS feed reader. Useful replacement for news apps

Simple Gallery Pro - As the name suggests, it's a clean, simple offline photo and video viewer with some neat features

Lawnchair - My launcher of choice. A good balance of speed and customisability.

Just notes - Keep replacement

K9 mail - Gmail app replacement. FairEmail is a strong contender too.

Keepass2Android - Password manager

Neostore - F-droid alternative

Geometric Weather - My preferred weather app of choice (Edit - For a more updated fork of this, check comment below)

Wefwef - Kinda mimics apollo for lemmy. It's pretty neat imo.

Honourary mention - Infinity for reddit (RIP)

[–] WillyWonksters 8 points 1 year ago

Lichess - rather than chess.com

Rustdesk - remote desktop software

Syncthing - rather than Dropbox

KDE Connect - phone/computer integration (notifications, media control, mouse and keyboard, file sharing, presentation remote, clipboard sharing, etc)

Aves gallery,

Organic maps

PlayBook - audiobook player

Bitwarden - password manager,

Droid-ify - F-droid client

Element - matrix client (potentiall alternative to discord)

GrapheneOS is also great.

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