Look ma, no proprietary apps!

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Thank you. Most of thoese i even dont know. Can you make a list?
- Of course
  Accrescent: Store ~~run~~ (edit: advocated) by the GrapheneOS team for third-party apps
  Aegis: 2FA TOTP code generator
  AirGuard: Scans for persistent AirTags in the vicinity, notifies if I may be victim to AirTag tracking
  AntennaPod: Podcast manager, also supports importing local folders of podcasts
  AudioMonitor: Measure sound level
  Binary Eye: Support for many types of 1D and 2D barcodes
  ByeDPI: routes internet traffic through the DNS port to bypass certain types of filtering
  Canvass: doodle app, useful for mid-conversation diagrams and clarifying things visually in the absence of pen and paper
  ClassiCube: Minecraft Classic clone
  Conversations: XMPP client
  Editor: raw text editor
  Elementary: periodic table
  SimpleEmail: minimalist e-mail app that does not automatically fetch linked images. Refereshes in the background every 15 minutes and sends notifications without need for Play Services or equivalent
  FakeStandby: for edge cases when I want something to keep running in the foreground, but don't want to keep the screen on
  Feeder: RSS client
  Fintunes: Jellyfin client optimized for music
  FlorisBoard: customizable keyboard
  Fruity Game: Suika but with MS-Paint art style
  Graph 89: Graphing calculator emulator
  Invizible: Tor and DNS client
  Kiwix: Offline Wikipedia (you can download just the parts useful to you, e.g. medical articles without storage-hungry media files)
  Lemuroid: GBA emulator
  LocalSend: instant P2P filesharing over WLAN
  Markor: notes app with markdown
  Material Files: files app with SMB share support and various handy features
  Molly: Alternative Signal client
  Fossify Messages: I use it over the default messages app since it is easy to block numbers by pattern
  Notally: notes app with nice checklists
  Open Camera: as easy to use as the regular camera, but with a bunch more features below the surface
  OpenContacts: saves contacts as individual .vcf files to a directory for easy backup and allows dropping unknown callers without bothering me with a notification
  Organic Maps to be replaced with CoMaps later
  OSS Document Scanner: best FOSS scanning app I've found so far. Includes auto-cropping (given enough contrast) and adjustable B&W filter to eliminate off-white background colors.
  phyphox: view output of sensors like the barometer, magnetometer, accelerometer, etc.
  PipePipe: NewPipe but better (except for the occasional memory leakage)
  QDict & QuickDic: offline dictionaries and bilingual wordbooks
  RadioDroid: IP radio client. Can tune in to international news, music, sports broadcasts
  RHVoice: TTS app
  RiMusic: NewPipe, but for ~~Spotify, etc.~~ YT Music
  SecScanQR: QR scanner and generator with history, useful to save QR addresses for later use since I don't want to fill out forms or read documents on my phone
  SuperTuxKart: the only [edit: other] game on my phone
  Symphony: Music app with a slick UI
  Trail Sense: Compass with various goodies useful for outdoor activities
  Breezy Weather: weather app and homescreen widget with a slick UI
  MicroMathematics: Math engine, but I never learned how to use it
  
  That TI calculator app is the shit. I am in the generation who used those in engineering school. Goddamned things were like $150.
  
  Ahhh....I am of the generation that remembers when there were no calculators. When they started becoming available, yes they were quite expensive. All my teachers would say 'what do you think? You think you're just going to have a calculator in your pocket all the time?' Well, yes Mr Mizelle in engineering, I will be walking around with a calculator in my pocket that links to a satellite in outer fucking space.
  
  And it has autocorrect on it, so then I'll forget these spelling words
  
  Spotify
  You had me going til that one.
  
  My bad, misremembered that RiMusic fetches from Youtube music instead of Spotify
  
  Btw Accrescent isn't run by the GrapheneOS team, they just advocate for it's use
  
  Thank you!
  
  Cannot find canvass on f-droid, got a link?
  
  It's on the IzzyOnDroid repo: https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/apk/com.cyb3rg0d.canvass
  Fossify Paint does the same thing without adding the IzzyOnDroid repo, I just happen to have Canvass since it was the first thing that showed up when I searched.

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