Useful Apps from F-Driod
General Usage
- Document Viewer - View and read PDF files and books
- Simple Gallery Pro - view, manage and edit your photos, videos, GIFs
- VLC - video and music player
- Organic Maps - community-driven maps & Navigation for travelers, tourists, cyclers & hikers
- QKSMS - Replacement for the stock AOSP messaging app.
- Fennec - Firefox with tracking removed
- blabber.im - XMPP/Jabber Messenger for Android
- Telegram FOSS - Client for the Telegram messaging platform
- WhatsApp Web To Go - Mobile Client for Whatsapp Web
- Tasks.org - To-Do Lists & Reminders
- SecScanQR - QR code scanner/generator
- DNS66 - Block ads on pages
- RadioDroid - listen to online raido stations from accross the world.
- Fritter - twitter client/reader with device-local subscriptions
Pro Users
- OsmAnd~ - advanced map viewing & navigation for offline and online OSM maps
- RedReader - unofficial, open-source client for Reddit
- Quillnote - device local notes that you can sync using syncthing
- Syncthing - decentralized file synchronization
- Aegis - secure and 2FA app to manage TOTP tokens for online services
- RethinkDNS - Block ads on pages
- Vigilante - know when a third-party app uses your device camera/microphone
- My App List - Saves a list of installed or selected applications as XML, HTML or plaintext file
Developers / Sysadmins
- Termux - Terminal emulator with packages
- PCAPdroid - network monitor and traffic dump tool for your device
- Editor - Simple generic text editor
- WiFiAnalyzer - checking WiFi network status, signal strength and identifying channels
- App Manager - a full-featured package manager for android.
- Stanley - Application explorer for developers
Notes:
RadioDroid Uses internet radio stations database: https://www.radio-browser.info
Signal
Signal is not included in F-droid repo but you can directly download and install apk from:
https://signal.org/android/apk/
Briar
Peer-to-peer encrypted messaging.
https://briarproject.org/installing-briar-via-f-droid/
Librera PRO
Librera Reader is a highly customizable and feature-rich application
for reading e-books in PDF, EPUB, MOBI, DjVu, FB2, TXT, RTF, AZW, AZW3, HTML, CBZ, CBR, DOC, DOCX, etc. formats
Termux
To make termux ask for storage permission, open termux and run following then restart termux:
termux-setup-storage