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What open-source applications do you use?

Hello, I’d like to know your top open-source apps that you use every day. Here are mine:

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  • Desktop

    • Arch Linux
    • GNOME
    • Firefox
    • Tilix
    • Thunderbird or Evolution
    • Vim (I still use PyCharm for writing code)
    • Joplin
    • Bitwarden
    • Python

    Phone

    • Joplin
    • Firefox Focus & Firefox
    • Bitwarden
    • New Pipe
    • Thunderbird (K-9 Mail)
    • Signal
    • Aegis
    • Antenna Pod
    • VLC
    • The FOSSify suite (not the dialer)
  • On my mobile with GrapheneOS:

    • Aard 2 (dictionary, since QuickDic doesn't seem to work on my Pixel 7)
    • Breezy Weather
    • Fossify Suite (Calendar, Clock, Contacts, Gallery, Messages, Notes)
    • Currencies
    • DAVx5 (calendar sync)
    • Feeder (RSS)
    • FUTO keyboard
    • Hypatia (malware scanner)
    • Island (work profile enabler)
    • K-9 Mail
    • KeePassDX
    • Molly (Signal fork)
    • Music Player
    • Nextcloud
    • Obtainium (update apps from source)
    • Oeffi (public transport)
    • OSMAnd
    • Planisphere
    • StreetComplete
    • Threema Libre
    • Tor
    • Tusky (Mastodon)
    • Vanadium (GOS Browser)
    • Voyager (Lemmy)
    • Who Bird (bird call identifier)

    More FOSS apps on my notebooks with Fedora, but not on a daily basis.

  • Voyager for Lemmy, Thunderbird email client, Firefox browser, Librera FD ebook reader, Mercurygram for Telegram, QUIK SMS, Material Files, LibreTube

  • Oh boy! Here goes

    Desktop:

    • Bazzite
    • KDE Connect
    • KiCAD
    • FreeCAD
    • Plasma
    • LocalSend
    • Thunderbird
    • Bitwarden
    • Code OSS
    • Krita
    • CoreCTRL
    • LibreOffice
    • CuteCOM
    • KopiaUI
    • Calibre
    • Heroic Games Launcher
    • Lutris
    • PrusaSlicer
    • Okular
    • Inkscape
    • FluffyChat
    • SyncThingy
    • Elisa
    • Haruna
    • Kdenlive
    • YouTube Downloader GUI
    • Paperwork (stille can't get network scanners working on Bazzite with sane set up)
    • Solar
    • ProtonUp-QT

    Phone:

    • AntennaPod
    • Immich
    • Aegis
    • Heliboard
    • Organic Maps
    • Breezy Weather
    • Aurora Droid
    • K9 mail
    • Signal
    • Fluffy chat
    • Home Assistant
    • Eternity
    • Findroid
    • Gadgetbridge
    • Fitotrack
    • Loop habits
    • Tuta
    • StreetComplete
    • Wireguard
    • Unit converter untimate
    • mastodon
    • ntfy
    • newpipe
    • KDE Connect
    • bitwarden
    • findroid
    • localsend
    • material files

    server:

    • Leantime
    • Bookstack
    • Immich
    • Jellyfin
    • Home Assistant
    • Traefik
    • Crowdsec
    • Authelia
    • Dozzle
    • Glances
    • full *arr suite
    • transmission + wireguard
    • paperless-ngx
    • cloudflare-ddns
    • syncthing
    • valheim server
    • Boinc
    • stash
    • ntfy.sh

    If I donated $5 per month to each of these projects I would be broke 😂

  • A lot.

    Desktop/Laptop

    • Artix Linux
    • Neovim
    • BSPWM
    • Suckless Terminal
    • Librewolf
    • Firefox
    • Ungoogled Chromium
    • Thunderbird
    • mpv
    • rtorrent
    • Keepassxc
    • btop (TUI resource monitor)
    • links (old school TUI browser)
    • newsboat (TUI RSS reader)
    • yt-dlp
    • git
    • Espanso (text expander)
    • GIMP
    • Inkscape
    • Krita
    • Calibre (for epubs, great with Kobo ereader)
    • Wireshark
    • Lutris/WINE/Proton
    • OBS

    Phone

    • Android/GrapheneOS
    • Heliboard
    • FUTO Voice (Speech to Text)
    • Mull
    • Vanadium
    • Various Fossify Apps
    • Keepassxc
    • Thunder
    • Tusky
    • Thunderbird
    • Tubular
    • Seal (yt-dlp wrapper)
    • mpv
    • Antennapod
    • Feeder (RSS reader)
    • Glider (HN client)
    • OSMand
    • Stealth (Reddit lurking)
    • Element (Matrix client)
    • Transistor
    • Translate You
    • Protonmail
    • Proton Drive
    • Breezy Weather
    • URLCheck
    • Wikipedia (official reader)
  • Firefox, Matrix chat, Proxmox, Homarr, Sonarr, Radarr, Prowlarr, Overseer, Nextcloud, Bazzite, Lemmy, QBittorent, Immich, Home Assistant, Keepass, Thunderbird, and Debian.

    If it’s free, it is for me.

    • Librewolf - hardened, demozilled Firefox
    • Newpipe - I forgot that Youtube has ads
    • Organic Maps - I dont even have gmaps installed
    • Keepass XC/2android
    • Orion viewer - for pdfs
    • Thumbkey - unique keyboard I have installed for fun, but I got used to it

    I also wish I could use foss comunicators more.

  • One many of us use but I don't see listed so far is the Signal protocol.

  • On Android :

    • ⭐Kvaesisto launcher
    • ⭐Acode
    • Blichess
    • ⭐Brave browser
    • ⭐Cuscon
    • Data monitor
    • Drip
    • Droidify
    • ⭐ FetchIt
    • Right files
    • ⭐ Right messages
    • Fossify gallery
    • Libchecker
    • ⭐Linkora
    • Inkwell keyboard
    • Obtainium
    • ⭐Octogram
    • Oincoin
    • ⭐PocketPal
    • ⭐Proton VPN
    • ⭐Quillpad
    • ⭐Record You
    • Simply translate
    • ⭐Termux
    • ⭐Thunder
    • ⭐Tubular
    • VLC
    • ⭐Windscribe VPN
    • Warden
    • Zcalc
    • I also used to use apps like Anytime podcast , Focus podcast , Book's story , Hacki for hacker news , Rain , Weather master , Heliboard (I'll reuse it again because inkwell and florisboard still don't support typing suggestions) and other apps I can't remember right now
  • Apps I use in about the order of use:

    • Firefox
    • Brave
    • The KDE application suite
    • A terminal
    • Voyager for Lemmy
    • NetNewsWire (RSS)
    • Jellyfin
    • Proton Pass
    • The Wikipedia app
    • a-shell mini
    • Heroic Games launcher
    • Parabolic (yt-dlp gui)
  • Android Custom ROM itself

    -Adaway -App Manager -Audile -Audio Recorder -Aurora Store -BiglyBT -BitmaskVPN -Bitwarden -Calyx VPN -Capy Reader -Cromite -De-Bloater (i translated it to hungarian) -easyNotes -eduVPN -Eternity -F-droid -Android Files -Android Recorder -FlorisBoard -Android FM Radio -freeDictionary (Owl) (i also translated the menu to hungarian) -FTPClient -FUTO Keyboard -Gadgetbridge -Android Gallery -Android Game Space -HeliBoard -Human Benchmark -Breezy Weather -Image Tools -Invizible Pro -Jerboa -Lagrange -LavSeeker -Magisk -microG -Namida Music Player -Fossify Calendar -Fossify Contacts -Next Player -Obtainium -OCR -Odyssee -OnionShare -OpenCamera -OpenVideoEditor -Android Clock -Forkgram -Organic Maps -Orion Viewer -OSS Document Scanner -Pachli -QR Scanner -Racoon -Revenge Discord Client -Root verifier -SD Maid -Seal -Setter -Shitter -SlimSocial -Spotube -StrongSwanVPN -NumberHub Calculator (i also translated this to hungarian) -Fossify Phone -Termux -Thunder -TranslateYou -UPnP Explorer -Fossify Messages -Vernet -ViperFX Material UI -Voyager -Warden -WikiReader -Xtra

    And this is only my phone...

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