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What are your top android apps?

My top android apps are : 1.Local send for file transfer 2.Bitwarden for password manager 3. Antennapod for my podcast 4.Seal for YouTube download 5.Boost for lemmy 6.Rimusic for YouTube music 7. Poweramp for local music on my phone 8.Lichess for chess 9.protonvpn for vpn 10.fairmail for email

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I use Android as my secondary phone, my primary is an iPhone. Though for the past six months, my use of Android has surpassed iOS as the latter is now only for calls, messages and reading emails. For replying to emails, I use a computer.

I have removed as many Google apps as I could using Canta, as long as the phone is able to boot and function.

The apps, in no particular order (read: the order in which I can recollect):

App	Notes
Droidify	F-Droid client
HeliBoard	General keyboard
Unexpected Keyboard	Programmer’s keyboard
Fossify Calendar, Gallery, Music	Self-explanatory
Voyager	Lemmy client, although not a native Android app
Eternity	Native Android Lemmy client, although not as good as Voyager
Tubular	PeerTube and YouTube client with QoL niceties
Calculator++	Calculator with QoL niceties
Cromite	Chromium based browser with QoL niceties
Termux	Terminal emulator
Rethink DNS + Firewall	To block ads and monitor network activity
Orbot	For accessing TOR
Emacs	Still setting it up on Android, only to browse my Denote repository (which seems the only way I can browse it on any mobile device)
Aurora store	To install Apple Music
Apple Music	To use the music subscription from my primary phone
Proton VPN	Self-explanatory
Bitwarden	Password manager

P.S.

I finally found a chance to use tables on Lemmy.

The tables are actually helpful

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I am kinda of curious, why do you use heliboard over swiftkeys?

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- Not original commenter, but I got the hell off of Swiftkey after Microsoft bought it for privacy purposes. That could be why.
  
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- It is the only decent AOSP-like keyboard I could find.
  
  I am just not comfortable using a proprietary keyboard when I know that I have other options. On iOS, I do not have an option, at all!
  
  Having said that, I do miss the better swipe gestures and autocorrect ability of the proprietary ones from time to time.
  
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How do y'all forget KDE connect?

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- We don't really use kde to enjoy kde connect
  
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  KDE Connect doesn't require the use of KDE otherwise. Check it out, it might be worth your while.
  
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  Neither do I
  
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I haven't seen anyone mention Gboard yet so I'll say Gboard. Best keyboard on Android.

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- Heliboard kicks Gboard out of the park
  
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  Did you say HOOOOOOB?
  
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- Privacy and not too good autocorrect issues
  
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Considering "top" as meant to be "most used", I'd say:

Voyager, which I'm using right now, a Lemmy client.

Tusky: a Mastodon client.

Mull: Firefox fork.

Firefox (yeah, I have two Firefox installations)

Sketchbook: a drawing app, I even paid for the additional features.

Google translate: when I don't remember how to say something specific in English, or when I want to experiment with multiple languages, especially Latin (and Google translate is the only translator app to have Latin support)

Noto (I was previously using Notesnook): text editor with folder capabilities. I use it to write poetry, free from distractions

Acode: source code text editor. I use it to create Node.js snippets which I run with...

Termux: a kind of a "Linux emulator", it emulates a terminal environment within Android with additional programs compiled to arm architecture. One of those programs is Node.js (both the REPL, the runtime and the npm package manager)
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My "Top" apps are what I think are cool, not necessary what the most useful apps are to me.

Briar its a peer to peer communications app that can communicate via wifi, blutooth, or through the internet via Tor. It can form a sort of mesh network with devices in proximity. Hypothetically, with enough users, you could spread information across a long distsnce even with a nationwide shutdown of the internet like some authoritarian countries do.

There's already some public forums on there by connecting to random people around the world via Tor, although, these forums doesn't have much activity now. But it exists and thats so cool. Its like a secret corner of the internet, even more obscure than the "dark web"

Wasted Remember those news about iPhones randomly restarting in police storage lockers? This app does something even better. Amongst many functions, this app can let you set your phone to auto-wipe itself if not unlocked for X amount of time, ranging from 5 minutes to 7 days. (Warning: You may get in legal trouble for using this, if you get arrested and the phone auto-wipes, you could get a "Destruction of Evidence" charge. I am not a lawyer. You might wanna consult a lawyer before using this)

OpenKeychain Just a PGP tool for Android, pretty straightforward. Very cool to have a digital signature right in your pocket to validate your online identity with other internet users. Potentially useful for ~~secret drug trades~~ ahem just kidding lol, don't do drugs, kids. (Seriously, don't)

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- Warning: You may get in legal trouble for using this, if you get arrested and the phone auto-wipes, you could get a "Destruction of Evidence" charge
  
  One could defend itself alleging that they had the app in order to prevent themselves from being blackmailed and/or extorted by robbers which could try to access the phone contents in order to extract information from banking apps, photos, social networks and personal information.
  
  Defending oneself from malicious actors (such as robbers) shouldn't be a crime.
  
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  Or alternatively, don't even mention you have such an app and when they ask if you had anything to do with the phone getting wiped, you say "hmm that's odd, it must been some sort of hardware failure, I've heard that [Phone's Manufacturer] have had some issues with quality control, perhaps that's the reason"
  
  You're not lying, you're just suggesting a possible reason: hardware failure. And every manufacturer had quality control issues, it wouldn't be odd for you to have heard about such news, or even just rumors amongst people about a company's quality control issues.
  
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In my list everything is open source

Moshidon (for mastodon)

Eternity (Lemmy)

KeepassDX (pass manager)

Local send

Heliboard (keyboard)

Droidify (fdroid)

Fossify gallery

Multi calculator

Cromite ( chromium browser)

Mull ( Firefox )

Rethink DNS, firewall

SD maid se ( cache cleaning )

Tubular ( for yt sometimes)

Fossify calendar

Conversation (xmpp)

Molly(signal)

Markor (notes) At last URLcheck
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- I think I need try out Keep Ass DX
  
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  Of course you can keep ass there 🤣
  
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- Are you just using only FOSS apps? Heliboard is not that great compared to swiftkey? how do you get on with mastodon?
  
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  Heliboard is lite and does everything for me. I use moshidon for mastodon.
  
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If I had to pick some of my favorites:

BuzzKill, Gives you total control over your notifications. I use it to auto clear apps that think they need to have a persistent notification like VPNs, Smart Watches, etc.

DuckDuckGo, For their very useful, (In my opinion) app tracking protection proxy that they have built into the app.

GAMEYE, For tracking my physical games collection and my extensive Amiibo collection.

Grayjay & Revanced , For when I want to watch YouTube on mobile.

Image Toolbox, Great for doing a whole bunch of different things. Works especially well for image related tasks, but does more stuff than that too.

LocalSend, Airdrop but cross platform and open source. Really good.

Privacy, An app that links to your bank account and lets you make virtual cards to obfuscate your real debit card. Super useful as well for setting up with subscriptions so you can just turn the individual card off instead of having to go find the subscription cancel option for each service.

p!n, A very simple app that adds a quick actions menu button to pin a notification. I use it to essentially add reminders and notes to my notifications real quick.

rdx, A simple Reddit viewer for when I have to view a Reddit link for any reason. shudders

Shortcut Maker, Super useful app for when I'm not using Niagara Launcher. Let's you make home screen app like shortcuts for a wide variety of things, including going to specific settings, launching specific sets of apps, and way more. Used to be my favorite app before I got into Niagara.

URLCheck, Acts as a middle man after I click a link, telling me a bunch of info about it before letting me pick which browser I want to open it in.

Niagara Launcher, my launcher of choice. Not for everyone, but I have found it makes navigating my phone super fast. I have tried so many different ones, but the fact that the app drawer is always on open on the home screen and I can navigate to each letter quickly made it the best for me.

Anyway yeah, those are some of the ones I use frequently. Sorry for not linking to them, but it would have taken forever lol.
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- I thought buzzkill was just for sound notification and how do you use Grayjay when you already have a YouTube account? How can you sync your subscribed list to it?
  
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App(s)	Use
Should I Answer?	Call Spam Blocking
Droidify	F-droid Client
Obtainium	Github Access For Apps
AnySoftKeyboard	Keyboard
Macrodroid	Automation
KDE Connect	Desktop Integration
FairEmail	Email
QUIK	SMS
Open Camera	Camera
KeePassDX	Password & 2FA Management
Breezy Weather	Weather
VLC	Music
Tubular, YouTube Revanced	Youtube
F-Stop	Image Library
Amaze	File Manager
Syncthing	File Synchronization
Organic Maps	GPS/Maps
Markor	Notes
Aliucord	Discord Client
Tusky	Mastodon Client
Eternity	Lemmy Client
Telegram	Messaging
RDX	Reddit Read-only Client
URL Check	Link Filtering For Sharing
Binary Eye	QR Code Scanning
Pushbullet	Info Passing

How does "should I answer" app staked up with truecaller? How good is anysoftkeyboard with autocorrect?

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- Haven't tried truecaller. Autocorrect on AnySoftKeyboard can be a bit zealous, but its sensitivity is tweakable and takes custom vocabulary.
  
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You need to put a space after the period after your numbers to make a numbered list. Your list is all jumbled up into a paragraph. Doing it the right way also means the numbers you use don't actually matter, which is nice because inserting an item near the top doesn't mean you then have to edit all the numbers under it. They can all be 1. and the list will be numbered correctly.

My list:

Mull (Firefox fork)

Signal

Google Messages

Pi Music Player

Shattered Pixel Dungeon

Thunder for Lemmy

YouTube

Google Camera

Fossify Gallery

KeePassDX

For giggles, view the source of my comment. Oh shit, I broke it by adding a 10th item. At least in Thunder. It doesn't support 1000000000 as a number for an ordered list.
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  This is Jerboa. Wtf are you using? Lol
  
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the only two apps i use but have not yet seen mentioned:

florisboard (keyboard)

simple time tracker (time tracking tool, duh)

dishonorable mention:

revanced manager (youtube, but useable?)
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Summit for Lemmy

Kiwi Browser

MPV

Moon+ Reader Pro

Dantotsu

Libre Torrent

File Manager(Material)

Droid-ify

WhatsApp

Proton Mail.
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- Proton mail with a proton account?
  
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  Yea? You can only use Proton Account on Proton mail.
  
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Kotatsu for Manwha

Grayjay for YouTube

YouTube Music for Music

RunnerUp for my Jogs

WallFlow Plus for automatic wallpapers

Akakçe for finding best prices from multiple store fronts

KDE Connect for clipboard and file share

Pano Scrobbler for Last.fm tracking
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- can you log in to your youtube account on Grayjay?
  
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  Yeah
  
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App Stores: F-Droid https://f-droid.org/en/ Aurora Store https://auroraoss.com/downloads/AuroraStore/

URL Shortcuts: HTTP Request Shortcuts https://f-droid.org/en/packages/ch.rmy.android.http_shortcuts/

Terminal: Termux https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.termux/

VPN + Firewall (+Connect to Tor & I2P): InviZible Pro https://f-droid.org/en/packages/pan.alexander.tordnscrypt.stable/

Browser: Fennec F-Droid https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.mozilla.fennec_fdroid/ (type "about:config" in the address bar to configure all Firefox Browser settings) (https://kb.mozillazine.org/About:config_entries)

Notes: Standard Notes https://standardnotes.com/

Chat: SimpleX Chat https://simplex.chat/ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cRu98XSap0)

Youtube, PeerTube, SoundCloud, and Bandcamp Client: NewPipe https://newpipe.net/

Windows Emulator: Winlator https://winlator.org/

Media Editor (+50 other tools): Image Toolbox https://github.com/T8RIN/ImageToolbox

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- Just started using Image Toolbox a few weeks ago, shits fucking dope.
  
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  I love that it replaced almost 10 different apps on my phone. Very uncommon for an app to do that, especially a FOSS app.
  
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- I tried switching to Aurora, but apps updated through there no longer appear in Android Auto for some reason (Spotify, Smart Audiobook Player)
  
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  That is very interesting, you should make the developers aware of this! https://gitlab.com/AuroraOSS/AuroraStore I personally don't use Android Auto and I can't see what the disconnect would be considering Aurora Store is only a client, and shouldn't interfere with an app's structure. I've been using it for a little over a year now and have updated major system apps like Google Play Services, Android System Webview, Android AICore, etc etc, without any glitching or incompatibilities. I'd be curious to see why Android Auto performs this way. I wonder if it depends on the Google Play Store for it to work. That's a new thing I've noticed that Google and Microsoft are doing, they're forcing their products to be dependent on eachother, for anything to work. Seemingly as a workaround for people who outsource to other services, such as FOSS alternatives.
  
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Gallery

Golf Blitz

Hermit

Photo Editor

Plexamp

Sync

Total Launcher

List made using List My Apps
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Move to iOS: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.apple.movetoios&hl=en-US

spoiler

kek

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- Ios is just too caged for me.
  
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- iOS hasnt got my must-have apps, and developing for iOS is the worst experience I ever had working as an intern
  
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Jerboa

Firefox

Feedly

Home Assistant

Ghost Commander

Joplin

Moon+ Reader Pro

Avenza

Kodi

Twilight

Honorable mentions to Newpipe and Termux.
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- Firefox is absolutely horrendous on mobile. A lot of websites don't render properly, or when scrolling everything jumps around. Browsing Facebook is especially bad. Also UX is a lot worse than competing browsers.
  
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  Compared to any browsing experience without uBlock, Firefox wins by a very large margin.
  
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  The only browser that supports proper extensions such as Ublock origin (which is much more advanced than the built-in adblockers in other browsers).
  
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  I disagree about the UX but that is probably just my preference. I use Facebook marketplace sometimes and it seems fully functional, no jumping around or whatever. Every now and then I have to use desktop mode but only on like government sites. Maybe it's because I use an ad blocker that I don't notice the problems you report.
  
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Racoon for lemmy Grayjay for video Antennapod for podcasts

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- Racoon for lemmy
  
  This is the 1st time I decided to check about this (I have heard that name before here), after a 1st glance it looks a lot like Boost for Lemmy, and since Boost seems to be the best working client for me at this moment (image and posts load for example is way faster than Summit, Voyager and Eternity), in terms of speed Sync for Lemmy is faster, but it is so broken with my current instance that is not worth to use it anymore.
  
  I might install Raccoon soonish :)
  
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- About the racoon recommendation have you tried other Lemmy apps? Curious what made you choose racoon
  
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  I have tried one other app which was Jerboa for lemmy but found Racoon easier to use so I stuck with it ever since.
  
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Voyager for Lemmy

AntennaPod

Firefox

YouTube ReVanced

Signal

Xtra for Twitch

Thunderbird

Medito

KeePassDX

Aegis 2FA
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- I see you're a person with great taste in Android apps. Thanks for introducing me to Medito! I need to chill.
  
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- Just curious how people really enjoy twitch. I can't spend time just watching people play games or doing stuff while I could be doing things
  
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  I sometimes watch IRL streamers from parts of the world I've never been to. I've never been to New York City but due to watching streams from a bike messenger I feel like I know the city quite well.
  
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Nova Launcher

Edge Gestures as an alternative to android gestures

Quick Cursor for easy one handed usage

Panels as a sidebar based quick launch / app switcher

AccuWeather for weather and minute by minute forecast

Google Fit for basic quiet step counting - can also measure your heart rate with the camera

Outdoor Active or AllTrails to show you walking routes

Street Complete to contribute to open street map in a much friendlier way

Spark for multi account email

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1: GrayJay, Revanced and PipePipe - YouTube 2: Voyager for Lemmy (currently in a hunt for a push notifications client for Lemmy) 3: Tap Tap for back taps (gives you ability to execute certain tasks just by tapping) 4: Shelter for separating work apps 5: RetroArch - retro emulator games 6: ReThink - dns/trackers and adblocking systemwide. 7: ProtonPass - password management 8: **Open link with ** - opening links is specific app 9: OnStream, Stremio and CloudStream - streaming movies/series 10: Loops - reels 11: LocalSend - - transfer 12: LibreTorrent - torrents 13: JINA for sideview panel (some android phones don’t have the side panel) 14: Install with one - install batch of apks with one press (requires shizuku enabled) 15: GMaps WV - Google map 16: Filen - Cloud storage 17: FFshare - file conversion 18: Ente Auth - 2FA 19: Aves Libre - Gallery 20: GCam - Camera

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AntennaPod for podcasts

LiftLog to track gym progress and weights

Raccoon for Lemmy

FUTO Keyboard.

those apps are all open source.
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- FUTO keyboard is actually nice that is what I am using.. Its great
  
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- I'm using FUTO Voice, but I wasn't aware of the keyboard. Installing.
  
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I am gonna cheat and name multiple apps with the same/similar purpose:

Boost, Summit, Eternity, Voyager (Sync for Lemmy is out of this place... I still use Sync for Reddit Revanced though)

Feedly/Feeder

Firefox Beta

Bitwarden

Obtanium/Droidify

Nekogram

YouTube/YT music Revanced/Pocket Casts

Spotify

Obsidian/Syncthing

Material Files

Honorable mention to Kinestop, finally being able to use my phone on a vehicle? It was the last place where I would dare to doom scroll!

I seriously could go on... I have too many apps.
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Musicolet
Memorion
Comic screen
Lastfm. Vivaldi

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(In no particular order)

Threema

Brave

Bitwarden (using a self-hosted vaultwarden instance)

SpMp

Notesnook

Voyager

LocalSend

DeepL
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- Why brave browser? They look sketchy because of their crypto affliction
  
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  To be honest if you disable crypto stuff in brave it's a solid browser. I recommend it to those people who are still using chrome .
  
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I'm pretty basic:

Sync

Chrome

Reddit

Antenna Pod

Guardian newspaper app

Google Play Books

Libby
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- Why sync over the other lemmy apps?
  
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  I like:
  
  customizable swipe left/right gestures,
  
  swiping to close a post,
  
  being able to set the font size of the different parts of the post list,
  
  different display formats for different communities,
  
  switching between accounts easily,
  
  the markdown hints in the editor,
  
  I don't think any of these are unique. I just like this implementation.
  
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- You still using chrome.... 😮
  
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  not allowed?
  
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Anylist

Catima

Shake and strain cocktails

RadioDroid

Lawnchair launcher
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I don't think I even use 10 apps, I use like 3 of them

Jerboa for Lemmy

Firefox w/ unlock origin

WriterP for note taking

Message/Gmail/other system apps
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