What (free and open-source) applications do you use on a daily basis?

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• mpv (video player)
• Logseq (knowledge base/journal)
• KISS launcher (android launcher)
• OpenTracks (fitness tracking)
• BreezyWeather (weather)
• KDE connect (app to do shit between pc and phone)
• Tasks (todo)
• AntennaPod (podcasts)
• Hacki (hacker news)
• FlorisBoard (keyboard)
• Unexpected Keyboard (another keyboard)

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Syncthing.

Somewhat self promoting for the first two of these items as I'm directly involved. Leaving out the more obvious ones (Linux distro etc.) as they will have been mentioned. I'll stick to some of the less known things I use.

• Pulsar - a community-led fork of the discontinued Atom text editor. Lemmy community
• Joplin - note taking app. Lemmy community
• Halloy - IRC client built in Rust and Iced
• Navi - Command line cheatsheet tool
• GitUI - Terminal UI git tool
• Skim - Fuzzy finder
• Dust - Disk usage tool (like du)

Vim

• Termux
  Holy hell. So much it can do. Right now I am using it to transcode MPEG2 videos to AV1. With CRF 25, Preset 5, with a 480p30 video I get 5fps in Termux on my older Snapdragon 860. Meanwhile my laptop's Ryzen 3 3200U does 2fps.
  You can run different server applications. Some are supported natively (e.g.: Tinyproxy, Privoxy, Squid HTTP proxy, apache2, nginx, navidrome, OpenSSH, TigerVNC, rsync, xorg-server, xwayland, xrdp,...) and some can run in proot (e.g.: Jellyfin, NextCloud). If you already have some web server and want it public, there's cloudflared too, so you can access it via Cloudflare tunnel.

• RTL-SDR driver
  Allows connecting RTL-SDR on Android and starting RTL-TCP server.

• SDR++
  The best general-purpose SDR app available on Android, GNU+Linux, Windows and MacOS.

• KDE Connect
  Nicely connects phone with a computer. Data transfers, remote control, finding your phone, synchronizing notifications.

• LibreTorrent
  Great client for Android.

There's more, but those I don't use daily, or have already been mentioned.

• Fluent Reader – to very quickly get a lot of news which I need for work
• Beeper – for the 100 chat apps I need to use to stay in contact with my friends who don't use Matrix
• Nheko – for the based friends who have [matrix] accounts and chats with industry professionals in my field
• FluffyChat – mobile device [matrix] client
• Logseq – as second brain, works better for me than Obsidian
• Jameica – for online banking and accounting
• K-9 Mail / Thunderbird – mail client
• DecSync CC – for synchronising contacts with multiple devices through Syncthing
• ActivityWatch – to track everything I do in case I forget to book time in my corporate time sheet, or if I want to know how long I played games in contrast to programming
• KDE Plasma – best desktop environment boosting my productivity to about 140% of what I could do with Windows 10
• Qalculate! – very fast and easy to use scientific calculator, can also do conversions like "1h50min → min" or "15€ → $"
• Aegis – TOTP generator for mobile
• VLC – plays everything you throw at it
• mpv – plays everything you throw at it, if you installed the right codecs, and also does fancy ML-based GPU upscaling in my case
• KeePassXC, KeePassDX – password managers integrated on Desktop, Laptop, Tablet and Phone
• Syncthing – to automatically and seamlessly sync all my devices (Laptop, Desktop, Tablet, Phone, second Laptop, Servers, …)
• Firefox Developer Edition, Librewolf – browsing the web without Chromium
• Chromium – for PWAs like Teams, Outlook, Discord

Well, there's the usual: GIMP. Lemmy & Firefish instances. Linux OS. Syncthing. Firefox. Inkscape.

qOwnNotes is cool and I don't hear much about it.

Also shout out to libre games. GZDoom and UnCiv mostly. But MOSTLY GZDoom. GZDoom is a platform, not a game.

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Firefox

NewPipe fork with SponsorBlock

LibreWolf

Hey I use my own app every day. Let me tell you about it. :)

nephele-serve is the dedicated server version that I use to manage all my Jellyfin movies and TV shows. I also back up all my systems to it with DejaDup.

QuickDAV is the desktop app version that I use to transfer files around all of my way too many PCs, tablets, and phones (I develop mobile apps too, so I have a lot of devices). It’s easier (and usually faster) than using a USB stick, and it’s safer than leaving shares open all the time.

They’re both open source and use the same server software, Nephele, that I wrote for my email service, Port87.

Oh I’m also working on putting up a Docker image for nephele-serve and a Flatpak of QuickDAV.

No mention of Thunderbird yet??

That's a very very long list...

Debian + Cinnamon desktop which inck7des the countless tools that come with that stack.

• Termux on my phone
• Zsh as my debian shell
• OpenSSH
• OpenVpn
• tmux + tmuxinator
• neovim, and dozens of plugins/tools with that
• dart
• flutter
• large chunks of Node.js and the npm ecosystem
• dotnet framework and countless nuget packages
• lazygit
• stable diffusion
• llama.cpp, and many tools built on top of that
• k3OS running Rancher
• my entire selfhosted stack on the above which includes but is not limited to:
  • Shinobi
  • Bitwarden
  • Gogs

I'd finish earlier telling you which of my software is not open source.

Daily basis:

• SteamOS
• Rasberry pi OS,
• Firefox
• Chromium
• Gnumeric
• Jerboa

Almost daily basis:

• ffmpeg
• streamlink

MakeMKV! I primarily rent Blu-Ray from my library and sometimes enjoy it enough to rip it and keep it (for personal use)

Daily:

• Signal
• GrapheneOS
• Bitwarden
• Firefox/Mull
• VPN
• Baserow

Not daily:

• Lemmy
• Mastodon
• Pixelfed
• Invidious
• Cryptomator
• Aegis
• Penpot
• Aurora
• LocalSend
• OSM
• Obtanium
• Voyager
• Open Video Editor
• OpenScan
• Cryptee
• Element

On my server:
OpenMediaVault (NAS OS based on Debian)
Syncthing
Home Assistant
Zigbee2MQTT
Docker
Portainer
Radicale
Navidrome

On my phone:
Syncthing
Tailscale
Feeder
DAVx⁵
OSS Document Scanner
RPNcalc
DSub
EDSY

On my PC:
Odyssey Material Helper
EDDiscovery
EDSY
ObservatoryCore
Paint.net and GIMP
OpenRGB
Tailscale

KeepassXC

Ardour

Thunderbird

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AnkiDroid

I use Aniyomi, Fennec, Obtainium, Jerboa, BetterUntis, Bitwarden, DroidFS, Aegis, LibreTorrent, Shelter, Survival Manual, Termux, ConnectBot, LocalMonero, F-Droid, RethinkDNS, InnerTune, Mastodon, Kuroba-Ex, Signal, Element, QUIK and FlorisBoard

Element

• Voyager for Lemmy
• Harmonic for Hacker News
• OpenBoard

Does anyone know of a FOSS file explorer for Android that supports network locations? Fossify file manager would be perfect but doesn't have support for network locations.

On mobile:

• Feeder (RSS reader)
• K9-Mail / Thunderbird
• Mull (Deblobbed and privacy oriented Firefox Mobile fork)
• Catima (Loyalty card manager)
• Cofi (Coffee timer)
• Neo Launcher

On desktop:

• Spotify-qt and Librespot

I use a bunch of other stuff as well but these are the one I truly use daily that haven't been mentioned yet.

• Linux
• GrapheneOS
• OpenWRT
• webservers / the internet (nginx, databases, storage, networking, ...)
• Mull / Librewolf
• Nextcloud (contacts / calendar sync ...)
• an email server and client
• Matrix chat
• LG WebOS on my TV
• Home Assistant
• lots of user applications

There isn't much important proprietary software in this apartment except maybe for the firmware of the dishwasher / microwave, washing machine and additionally whatever software runs in an old car.

• KDE Plasma
• Okular
• Dolphin
• Librewolf
• FreeTube
• Debian
• LyX
• Eternity for Lemmy
• Git

Habits

Jellyfin

Goodtime (a pomodoro app)

LunaSea

daily and both (desktop and mobile, cross-platform),

Mozilla Firefox

Don't think I've seen fish shell yet

Some subset of modern Linux distro - Firefox, Emacs, Git, Tmux, OpenSSH, i3, sway... Android - F-Droid stuff

Nextcloud

I self host:

• Miniflux - RSS Reeader
• Alexandrite - Lemmy Client
• Invidious - Youtube frontend

Libretube

Vlc

I use FreeCAD for both 3D printing and woodworking design.

I use Rednotebook for my personal journal, and it's mostly satisfactory.

• Habits
• Tasks
• Quillpad
• Firefox
• Bitwarden
• Immich
• Miniflux
• Wallabag (also testing Omnivore)

Godot

Jellyfin and findroid. Mainly findroid.

Also PipePipe (piped app for youtube) and libretube

I also play an open source version of solitaire and a game called box stacker, both are from the f droid store

And ofc, infinity for lemmy

KDE Plasma

Syncthing (for obsidian notes, mostly. I know there are FOSS apps that do what obsidian does, but they just don't feel as good for my purposes).

LibreTorrent

I want to highlight a practical usecase for password management with open source tools. Keepass (gnome secrets on computers, and keepassdx on mobile) with syncthing syncing encrypted password files between the devices. Very effective so far. Passwords are synced seamlessly.

OpenRadio is a good one if you like radio and music in general. It has radio stations from everywhere and from almost every music style.

I started using Upscayl to upscale the AI images I make.

https://www.upscayl.org/

SumatraPDF
NotePad++

Joplin

I use putty at work on a daily basis

VLC, audacity, organic maps, freetube

FairEmail

On Smartphone : OpenKeychain, Tor Browser, SimplesTools Collection, FairMail, NewPipe, Fdroid, Organic Maps, Cake Wallet, Aegis

On PC : Emacs, Gimp, Audacity

Firefox, Neovim, Tmux, Various KDE applications, Nextcloud, Wine, Signal, OpenSSH

Probably many more

Radarr, Sonarr, Prowlarr, Jellyseerr, Wizarr, Jellyfin, qBittorrent

• GNU/Linux
• Web Browser
• GIMP

ANDROID

I'm having a harder time thinking of proprietary programs I use. I guess the biggest offender is mobile apps. As far my computer goes, discords flatpak is the only one coming to mind.

Shameless plug but I use Lemmy Keyboard Navigation (RES-like extension for keyboard navigation)

vim, perl, bash, just to name a few

LibreOffice Irfanview

Blender, Krita, Inkscape, OBS, vlc. Running Ubuntu Studio. Also, Resolve and REAPER.

gluetun

VPN client in a thin Docker container for multiple VPN providers, written in Go, and using OpenVPN or Wireguard, DNS over TLS, with a few proxy servers built-in.

FileZilla

Greenshot

Homebridge AltStore Voyager + Lemma (Lemmy clients)

Trillium notes!!! It's a really really beautiful note taking application for linux!

Terraform.... Oh wait, Nevermind. I need to start switching to OpenTofu now.

Emacs

Darktable, OBS, ffmpeg.

ripgrep

• Firefox
• Obsidian
• LMDE 6
• Godot
• Lutris

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Inkscape

Vorta for automatic backups of my computer https://vorta.borgbase.com/

• LinkDing for bookmarks
• Memos for notes
• FreshRSS for rss
• homebridge to connect to IOT devices like Kasa Bulbs that aren’t on Apple’s Home service.

Pc- Lutris Vlc

Phone- Obtainium Kvaesitso Libretube Material files Unchained Mull

Gadgetbridge for my smartband

KiCAD. It's so good these days.

I still code most Python in IDLE. It's fine!

Various flavors of Linux and the many, many applications supporting that. Also OpenWRT. OpenOffice > Google Sheets.

I also grabbed an open-source script that would turn on a fan every time the humidity level rose high enough for a specific type of mold to grow, and move air until it dropped. That ran all day for a few years until the fan broke and I repurposed the other hardware.

Kakoune

Standard stuff, though very few from my phone so I will focus there. On it, atm just things like RetroArch, Firefox, Geometric Weather, Blokada, and Amaze File Manager.

I haven't done any research at all, but if anyone wants to share: does anyone know of a good FOSS grocery store list kind of app for Android? Something that might still work without internet, I don't care about synching anywhere else. Currently I use Listonic, mainly b/c I do not want to use Google Keep. There are some on F-droid so when I get time I'll look into those.

Shoutout to !raccoonforlemmy@lemmy.world for saving us when Liftoff went under.

For android : Basically almost all app from SimpleMobileTools, a few version right before it was sold (to a company in a controversial city)

For desktop : some kde app that works both for windows and linux (I used windows for now) like Okular and FileLight (though this one isn't so much daily basis)

and for both I used LocalSend

(I'll avoid posting what I've already seen mentioned)

Thunder (for Lemmy)
Metro (fork of Retro Music)
Quik (SMS)
Molly (Signal fork)
Obtainium (updates Github apps)
MuPDF viewer
Standard Notes (private notes app)

Qimgv, Rawtherapee

Librera (pdf reader and other formats), tuta mail (private mail), feeder (RSS reader), iceraven (Firefox fork), saver tuner (battery management), aurora store (replacement of play store), breezy-weather (for checking the weather), openBoard (Foss keyboard with spell correction)

Programming, writing, notes, email… and basically a whole lot of what I use computers for is done with emacs.

Session

Nmap, Wireshark, zenmap at work.

1. Firefox, nuff said.
2. Organic Maps on my phone. I prioritize it for the privacy.
3. Jerboa for Lemmy
4. Ubuntu Linux, partially due to needing to run some kind of Linux for a class. Most people went with WSL, I chose to dual boot.

tinybit
tor
droidfs
librera
octodroid
rosy crow
trebleshot
Trackercontrol

#android

The others have been mentioned. Not quite daily but I'll occasionally get paid to do CFD simulations.

FreeCAD, salome, openFOAM, paraview.

I don't have a clue if anyone has mentioned it, but I use the non-root version of NetGuard to make sure some apps on my phone don't have wifi or mobile data access.

I also don't know if this was mentioned by someone else, but for one of my college courses, we are using thonny for python programming.

Define use? Anyone using the Internet relies on a lot of FOSS, even if we just consider webservers kn the www.

Like others, the list of non foss is shorter for me.

FSNotes. Markdown notes utility.