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Switching back to Android (GrapheneOS), anything cool I've been missing out on? (lemmy.world)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Long story short: I don’t like iOS but have been using an iPhone for a couple years due to lack of personally viable hardware options on the Android side of things. I’ve gotten tired of waiting and found a good deal on an open box Pixel 8 Pro which arrives in a few days, I’ll be installing GrapheneOS on it.

I’ve used GrapheneOS before on a Pixel 3a. I’m familiar with some must-haves like F-Droid+Aurora Store and AntennaPod, but are there any other apps I should check out once the phone gets here that I’ve been missing out on during my time on iOS? Or just any recommendations at all for cool/useful apps that most people wouldn’t think to search for?

Bonus question for *sonic/Navidrome users, what’s your favorite Android client? I used Substacks last time I daily drove GrapheneOS, but it looks like it might not be actively maintained anymore.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

MixPlorer is still one of the best filemanagers

Nova Launcher is still one of the best launchers.

There are tons of great music player apps on github and fdroid like Gramophone, Auxio, Metro Music, etc.

Revanced Manager is an app to patch different kinds of apps for different purposes like Patch twitch app to remove ads. There is a No root option or you can patch them on your PC.

XManager for spotify.

ColorBlendr is the best app to tweak Android's Monet theming.

Clipious is a great yt app alternative. It has filters to not show videos or channels with certain titles.

Browsers:

There are a few Chromium browsers that have extension support now, Kiwi is the most popular. Microsoft Edge is also adding extensions but it's available on the unstable Canary builds for now.
Firefox supports a limited selection of extensions now. Some firefox based browsers like Iceraven have a larger list and also an option to sideload any extension.
FFUpdater is a useful app to check out all the firefox related browsers and to download and update them.

DraStic Emulator is free now.

Wavelet is a great Equalizer app.

Weather Timeline is dead 😭 but Today Weather is a great alternative. There are some good weather apps on fdroid and GitHub like Hello Weather, Breezy, Clima, etc.

Fossify Gallery is a great opensource photo and video library app.

Bitwarden is the best password manager.

Proton and Fossify have some great privacy focused apps.

WallYou Plus is a good wallpaper app.

Notesnook (Not completely free), Joplin (ugly), Siyuan (New) are some opensource Evernote alternatives. Amplenote, Upnote are some non opensource ones.

Some great lemmy aps

Some apps have an option to enable "Dynamic theme" or "Monet theme" or "Material You". That tells them to match the theme colours of your system. Everytime you change the colours of your OS they are also automatically changed to match them.