My personal choices for essential system apps

Rules: no chat apps, no bitcoin, no nostr, no niche specific apps, just alternatives for things that are usually already pre installed.

Feel free to ask about them or share your alternatives

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I use flrois? Does open board have spellcheck?

Whoops floris is not a question.

No but it has suggestions and autocorrect. Last time I checked florisboard it was too unstable and didn't have word suggestions.

Thats good enough for me. Floris seems stabe enough for me. But the lack of spelling anything get annoying. Ive been using sayboard for speech to text.

Supper annoying I would say... Floris is an awesome open source keyboard, very customizable but the rate of improvement is exasperating. 11 months since las beta. There are new features coming but unfortunately its slow and the lack of spelling/autocorrect is a major drawback. Still holding in it though

#Aegis by Beemdevelopment - 2FA

#Amaze by TeamAmaze - file explorer

#BraveNewPipe by bravenewpipe - YT

#Cromite by Uazo - chromium browser

#GPSTest by barbeau - GPS Test tool

#KriptEY by amnesica - basic crypto keyboard

#K-9 by thundernest - email manager

#FairMail by M66b - email manager

#OpenKeyChain @ fdroid - PGP to #K-9

#OrganicMaps by organicmaps - navigation

#RethinkDNS by celzero - firewall, no root

Thanks for sharing. Thinking through how to set up nostr:npub1235tem4hfn34edqh8hxfja9amty73998f0eagnuu4zm423s9e8ksdg0ht5 phone and what are essential apps and then selected other apps.

Consider AnySoftKeyboard. It has no bug related to deleting spaces and connecting previous words when you use backspace.

Ok so thats a bug then? Because boy howdy is that annoying.

👇Mull

Obtamium is great alternative to F-Droid.

You need those OSM maps and offline maps if not already

OrganicMaps is not good enough for me.

I prefer a combination of GMaps WV (a hardened WebView for Google Maps developed by DivestOS) for searching for places, and MagicEarth (closed source unfortunately but uses OSM) for navigation.

Learning thanks for sharing ✊

Btw previous link wasn't organic maps.... yet another OSM, but I know what you mean

https://www.f-droid.org/packages/app.organicmaps/

Yeah sorry but I've tried both but nothing as usable as MagicEarth. Also for businesses, restaurants and stores, having a way of checking gmaps is irreplaceable 😪

Makes sense. Didn't know about that one cool 🤙

👀 from the magicearth faqs: Please contact us at support@ and we will send you a direct link to the APK. Now it gets interesting

Why not direct apk download 😭

all the simple apps are great

Unfortunately that OpenBoard doesn't have swyping capabilities.

I would use #HeliBoard instead of #OpenBoard as #OpenBoard hasn't had an update in over 2 years

Heliboard is actually what's on the screenshot. It was originally a Openboard fork and they changed the name recently to Heliboard