Apps
Apps on my phone so I can factory reset and get most of them back after. Some of these are only available via the F-Droid app store.
Essential
- F-Droid - alternative app store app
- AdAway - no adverts!!!! best reason to get your phone rooted.
- Contact Owner - show your name/contact on lock screen
- Nova Launcher - replace your phone 'desktop' (extra icon rows, etc.)
- Elixir2 - system information/management
- aCalendar - Calendar app with good widgets
- 24h Analog Clock Widget - shows sun rise/set via central shadow
- Chibe - small vibration on every day hour (or whatever)
- Open Camera - good camera app
- MAPS.ME - offline Open Street Map with directions
- Where is Public Toilet - does what is says on the tin
- Aix Weather Widget - nice 24h forecast bar widget
- Windyty - more in-depth weather
- AntennaPod - nice podcast client
- RadioDroid - many streaming radio stations (or InternetRadio) - Simple Android app to stream Internet radio stations.
- Lofi Radio - good chill-hop music
- NewPipe - alternative YouTube client with background playback and floating videos
- Signal - best for messaging, set as default, be sure to make backups
- WhatsApp - for messaging
- Messenger - Facebook messages
- Firefox - best browser
- Chrome - to test sites with/just in case
- Materialistic - Hacker News reader
- Lobste.rs - Lobste.rs reader
- Drive - access Google Drive
- Documents - access Google Documents
- OctoDroid - access GitHub project info and issues
- Servers Ultimate - a large number of server varieties in one app - $
- Keepass2 - encrypted password listing, keyfile accessible with desktop apps
- Ghost Commander - dual panel file manager, with plugins
- CM Lite - system cleaner, came with my ROM
- DiskUsage - graphical display of storage usage
- Meditation Assistant - track your daily practice
- iBlue - easy on the eyes late at night
- Tap 'n' Turn - gives an icon to press to turn screen, rather than turn automatically
- WifiAnalyser - find what Wi-Fi channel is least used
- /system/app mover - make it so you can delete an app that came with the phone
- Easy Voice Recorder - or similar. to find: one that supports Opus and/or Codec2?
- Field Recorder - $
Handy
Maybe these are worth installing:
- Edinburgh Bus Times
- Flashlight - just a square of light, alternative to camera light
- PalmCalc 2019 - scientific calculator skeuomorphic
- App Quarantine - stop apps from running the background
- Android Battery Dog - manage battery charging for longer battery life
- Amazon Shopping
- eBay
- Gumtree
- Freegle
- Capital Cars - Edinburgh taxi service
- Cool Reader - e-reader, no PDF
- Instapaper - read later service, no PDF
- Hackers Keyboard - SSH friendly keyboard, just in case
- Barcode Scanner - or equivalent
- Dark Sky - alternative weather app
- Blitztorung - thunder
- Aurora - ...
- SatStat - information on navigation satellites above
- Heavens-Above - advanced satellite info
- Micopi+ - give contacts random colour profile pictures
- Clockwork Tomato - pomodoro
- Daily Dozen - exercise routine
- Bat! HITS - exercise routine
- Pushup Buddy - counts pushups
- Greet Sun - sun salutation yoga asana series
- DataStats - network use information
- Diode - Reddit client
- Discourse - forums
- DSC Auto - rename camera pictures
- Face Slim - lightweight Facebook client
- Functional Ear Trainer - train your music hearing skills
- Earmouse - ditto
- Gmail - guess
- Gnaural Ear - binaural drone generator
- HyperRouge - non-Euclidian game
- KDE Connect - connect with a Linux computer
- Kandroid - Kanboard client
- Laptop Remote
- Trax Music - really good music file player
- LibreVox Pro - free audiobooks
- live dmesg - init message on phone boot
- MAZI Recorder - related to the MAZI project
- Microphone - send phone microphone out headphone jack
- Mirror Mirror - reverse camera
- Music to Note - frequency to note
- Net Monitor - what apps are using net
- Network Discovery - local network info
- Network Scanner - local network info
- SuttaCentral - offline website app
- Yoga Sutra - with the swastika icon. Todo: find an app with multiple translations
- NRSV Bible - has apocrypha
- Oblique Strategies - Brian Eno's card set for inspiration
- OkCupid - dating app
- Paced Breathing - external cues for breathing, with tempo ramps
- Prana Breathing - similar
- Portal - WiFi File Transfers
- Quasseldroid - IRC client for Quassel server
- Google Rewards - take surveys for free money to use for buying apps
- Stay Alive! - toggle stop the screen from turning off
- Sun Alarm - alarms relative to the rising/setting of the sun
- SyncOnWifi - disable syncing on data connection
- Syncthing - share files between devices/computers
- Trainline - plan a journey on public transport
- Translate - Google Translate, works on photos
- TripleCamel - Amazon price tracker service
- radio reddit - music posted in some music subreddits
- TripSet - drug info and chat
- Tuner - for musical instruments
- Data Structures - learn some programming
- Hour of Regex - learn some scripting
- Vim Master - learn some text editor
- Visual metronome
- VLC - play media files
- VLC Remote - remote control for VLC on a computer
- OS Monitor
- RadioBeacon
- RadioGuard
- Remote for VLS
- ServeStream
- Seven - workout
- Shader Editor - 3D programming tool
- Shazam - detect name of track
- Skiddle - e-tickets
- Sky Map - requires compass/gyrpscope
- Sleep With Android - alarm that also records your sleep patterns
- Barnacle Wifi Tether - easy Wi-Fi tethering
- SnoopSnitch - participate in reporting cell tower information to catch unofficial towers
- ClassyShark - similar?
- SoundCloud - playback from the music service
- Soundpad
- Spectroid
- Spectrum Analyser - audio spectrum visual
- SprintF
- Stykur
- SuperSU - used on rooted systems
- bVNC Free - VNC client (remote access another computer)
- ConnectBot - SSH client
- Fwknop2 - port knocking client
- FasterGPS - ?
- Flite - ?
- DriveDroid
- Telman
- Terminal Emulator
- throughput
- Tickmate - one bit journal
- trashnothing
- Saucillator - synth
- Kosmische - synth
- Chrome Doze - synth
- DroidBeat - 'groovemachine'
- Cadeli Drums
- PiO MuSiC
- Xprivacy
- Keygenmusic
- ZArchiver - open archive/compressed files
- /r/Android - alternative app store
- agram - anagrams