F Droid, as I made my move from ios to my new device, F-droid helped me find apps that made the transition go smoothly.

obtanium

reVanced.

Termux and associated addons, especially x11. Because fuck the direction the entire Android ecosystem is going in. I'd rather have a Linux phone, but Termux:x11 is as close as I'm realistically going to get at the moment.

Off the cuff, I'd say it's tied with Summit and How We Feel.

If you don't know, Summit is a lemmy and piefed app. It gives me the same feel of customizing as Sync for Lemmy, but with way more attentive and present dev.

As for How We Feel, it's a mood tracker that's supposedly backed by a university. It has videos and steps to generally manage my emotions (also read them if I don't want to watch them). The best part for me is that the app have descriptions for their list of emotions. Really helps me a lot when I'm just overwhelmed OR lost for words to describe my emotions. The act of looking for the right emotiol itself is IMO grounding.

I always recommend this app to everyone who does any amount of traveling: Where Is Public Toilet

It helps you find public toilets, explains their hours and amenities, and lets you rate them. You can download the toilet map and use it offline. It's a real trousers saver.

Localsend

IRONFOX, and fennec. AND some affiliate non-google store. only because reddit started banning alot , and they are too intuned with FF to catch people easily, due to fingerprinting.

The do not disturb button

Boost for Lemmy was huge for me.

I've also been using KDE Connect, but I wish I could set filters/exclusions for notifications, because a lot of things I already get notifications on my computer for so when KDE Connect syncs the notification from my phone, that's a duplicate.

https://f-droid.org/packages/de.quantumphysique.trale/

It's a weight tracking app. It keeps all the data locally and keeps bugging you to back the local data up somewhere. It's just so subtly good - it has this "stats" screen which is for some reason addictive to keep checking - it shows your current BMI, how many days you have left till your goal weight. It graphs your weight. The log-weight-by-dragging-the-scale thing is also great. There's 3 total views in the app - that's it.

I don't know it's just sensorially respectful?

Connect for Lemmy.

Seal on F Droid

Cleverkeys. Super customizable, offline. 1st gestures keyboard powered by neural networks.

Aucards was a big discovery for me, its come in quite handy when ive been nonverbal

Loop Habit Tracker, KDE Connect, aCar, and Thunderbird.

Immich, I setup the container on my server and have been using it all year. The search is really good and I like the memories thing

Caro is a clean, minimalist, personal organizer app thats kept me on track for all my side projects this year. I really like the widget.

Home Assistant

I'm embarrassed to say it was Brotato. 🥔

KOReader (ebook reader)

Though clearly not designed for small screens, since I have a somewhat long read queue and it can sort by read progress, it helps a bunch.

Adguard for Android

So nice not to see ads on any web sites or within any apps.

If it is ever off, I'm reminded how bad things are out there.

Molly (Signal fork) with self hosted mollyconnect + ntfy for push notifications without Google services.

I saw the obtanium comments and switched over. What sources do people use to find apps besides a post like this?

Vivaldi, web browser