Saturday APPreciation thread (Jul 1 2023) - Your weekly app recommendation/request thread!
Saw some users commenting that we should have these megathreads in here as well.
Recommend and/or request an android app in the comments!
Connect for Lemmy has a sync for reddit feel and is working quite well for me as I make the switch from reddit
Connect has been my favorite Lemmy app as of late. Jerboa is my old reliable one though 😅
Seconding this, Connect for Lemmy also feels a lot like RIF.
Komoot - great bike route planner and gpx recorder.
Mapy.cz - great hiking navigation with trails colors/indications. Mosty Europe I guess.
Fdroid ->Catima - simple loyalty cards / barcodes instead of supermarket apps
Fdroid -> StreetComplete very easy contributing to osmMaps. You know your neighbourhood? Answer questions if that trafic lights have sound indication for blind people or about the type of surface that bike line has.
I've never heard of StreetComplete before but I'm always up for another crowdsourcing app. It looks like it's this one on GitHub and I think this is their website?
Really dumb question, but do they have an anonymous/unregistered mode or do you also need an OSM account?
I checked right now and I'm logged in and I think it's necessary to contribute. But it's a simple form to register and you should try. It's pretty addictive to answer questions about your surroundings :)
Here's my personal list of recommended apps for a few things:
K-9 Mail, soon to be Thunderbird
Wait, what.
K-9 has joined Thunderbird family. Development speed has increased and it will be officially renamed to Thunderbird Mobile soon.
I know - TIL!
Me too... wait, what?
https://wefwef.app/ advertised as mobile-first client for Lemmy
https://lemmy.world/post/367599
Things are moving fast. Let’s see how it turns out to be atleast until we get Apollo/Boost/Thunder etc with multi-platform feature parity.
I'd love for wefwef to have a Material Design theme automatically applied when using an Android phone, but other than that it's right now the perfect Lemmy app and it's extremely fast when you install it with Chrome!
I want to use wefwef but I just can't get past the fact that it looks like a single page app designed exclusively for iOS. I think it's the permanent back button which you basically never see on Android because it has a dedicated back button/action.
Antennapod is a Free Open Source Software (FOSS) podcast app. The app is well designed with great features. You can also use it for playing audio books locally as well.
For self hosted music lovers, I would like to introduce you to Tempo, an open source and lightweight music client for Subsonic, designed and built natively for Android.
I think Birday is a great app because it's so simple, just reads birthdays from your contacts and notifies you a preset time before.
With all the social media corps going full ham on advertising, I'm going to make the switch from Chrome to Firefox with ad-blocking add-ons. However, I'm at a crossroads since there are many variations ranging from the official Firefox app to Firefox Nightly and even Fennec or Fenix.
Any recommendations?
Using since few months Iceraven Browser with ublock origin and no-script addons
I liked IceRaven, but it's not regularly updated anymore. I would go with Firefox Nightly, since that lets you install any extension you want (through an arduous process), where regular Firefox only lets you install add-ons on Mozilla's approved whitelist.
I personally use Mull
Pocket paint
Looking for a good Lemmy and/or KBin app.
I'm personally waiting for Sync for Lemmy to come out, but in the meantime, Liftoff for Lemmy and Thunder have been pretty good for me
Connect is working really well for me, but I prefer jerboa. Unfortunately that isn't working right now with lemmy. World being on an older version. Once they go to 18.1, I should be able to use it again.
Jerboa is decent, still in its early stages though.
wefwef is the smoothest right now and it's just a webapp
Connect, liftoff, thunder, jerboa are the best ones at the moment
There are a lot of options for Lemmy, but beware they still need to mature a bit. The two apps I keep using the most are Thunder and Connect for Lemmy. Lots of users swear by Liftoff but I find the aesthetics a bit lacking for me. There's also Lemming which is the most barebones but has a great UI for something that has only had a couple of alpha releases. Most if not all of these are available to download from Github.
Wefwef, truly amazing and polished experience!
All the apps I have tried so far have been great. Liftfof however is on a class of it's own. A unique feature it has is the ability to combined feet from different accounts on different instances.
I'm looking for a Mastodon app. The official app and website really sucks for viewing threads. I prefer the comments to be nested like on Lemmy, but the official one stacks them all. Are there any recommendations?
I use Fedilab, since I prefer a native app to a PWA
I don't think I have seen the UI you want on mastodon clients, but another good app is Tusky
Yup! One guy in this comment section recommended Tusky, and it does nest comments! So I think I'm going to use that for now Thanks!
Does anyone have recommendations for an app that does heart/step/etc health tracking but is FOSS supporting WearOS watches.
I think your best bet is this: http://gadgetbridge.org/
Obtainium is one that I have been using for over a week now. It keeps all my FOSS apps up to date. I have 30 apps added now, and 80% of them are now updated directly from their github page!
I would love to know what apps you have added to it!
Heres the list
And I just added AntennaPod, Vinyl Music Player, Lawnchair, and Liftoff to the list as well!
I use Obtanium to keep Liftoff and Thunder up to date, since the updates come faster than they do from the Play Store :) Very easy to set up...even if you originally installed from the Play Store, you can still use Obtanium to update going forward.
The easiest way is to look at your Installed apps through F-Droid as it will show both apps installed through F-Droid and apps from the Play Store that are available through F-Droid. You can copy-paste each source link into Obtainium.