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March 9, 2025

List of recommended Android apps

... and good alternatives, where available. To the best of my knowledge, and no guarantees obviously. All the apps listed here are distributed with libre licences (except where otherwise stated), but some may rely on non-libre backends.

Productivity

  • DAVx5 - the easiest way to synchronize your Nextcloud contacts/calendar/tasks with corresponding Android apps. GPLv3. Available on F-Droid.
  • K-9 Mail, or these days it is perhaps just as well to use Thunderbird for Android.
  • Nextcloud
  • Nextcloud Notes
  • Tasks.org - a great tasks app that synchronizes with your Nextcloud tasks.

Chat, messaging

  • Signal messenger. The app is FOSS, but relies on a proprietary and centralized service.
  • Nextcloud Talk
  • Beeper

Feeds, social networking

Keyboard

Reading, listening, watching

Misc

  • Audio Recorder, F-Droid. Easy to integrate with Nextcloud's "Auto Uploads" functionality, in my experience. But the default quality settings (bitrate, etc.) are quite low and I suggest raising them.
  • Binary Eye, F-Droid - a competent QR code scanner.
  • FreeOTP+, F-Droid - 2FA authenticator.
  • Kvaesitso launcher - it looks great by default and can be customized in lots of useful ways.
  • OpenKeychain - in combination with Password Store to sync pass to Android.
  • OsmAnd - OpenStreetmap for Android.
  • Tailscale - app is FOSS, but the underlying service is proprietary, but can replaced with Headscale (but unfortunately I cannot recommend it - tried it once and never figured it out).
  • Transdroid - Bittorrent client that lets your monitor and control your server.
  • Transportr - public transport timetables. Works well in Stockholm.