cutemusic my favorite music app for android

Syncthing/Syncthing-Fork. Simply the best cross-system file synchronization app. Peer-to-peer, no cloud storage.

https://syncthing.net/

Scrcpy (Screen Copy). App that mirrors your Android phone to Windows. When I switched away from a Samsung phone I lost the ability to run an app from my phone on my PC desktop. This restores that.

https://github.com/genymobile/scrcpy/

I'll start with two new addtions for me:

• Capy Reader (code, F-Droid). While curating my Feedly subscriptions, I decided to try switching to some RSS feeds instead, which I had previously put off because I hadn't found a client I liked. Capy Reader is excellent both in performance and user interaction, and I find I much prefer reading my sources this way than through Feedly now.
• Readeck (code). Not technically an app, but the website works perfectly well through a mobile browser. A read-it-later service that snapshots web pages and displays them in a friendly, customizable reader mode. The only downside is that it doesn't cache the full content of the saved pages offline, so you can't use it without Internet access.

Shizuku and Canta hands down, debloating my phone greatly increased my battery life.

Librera is a pretty good ebook reader.

KISS Launcher is the best launcher bar none.

Of course KeePassDX is a great password manager.

ThumbKey is the best software keyboard I've ever used, nothing else even comes close.

What is something that you wish had a good open-source alternative but does not at this time?

Musicolet

Shosetsu.

I use it everyday to read web novels, from the moment I wake up to the moment I sleep.

Open source too, and I made it!

Local Send

Sends files between machine with very little hassle including iOS

Fedilab and Jerboa have been responsible for most of the battery usage.

If we're talking PC applications, I have been starting to use Strawberry Music Player a lot more than before for the audio files on my desktop and laptop.

For android, it's a tie between the 2 most used apps outside of Voyager: Auxio and PipePipe.

Auxio messed up some things a long while ago, causing some of my songs on my SD card that would previously work perfectly in app to be unable to display how much time is left in a song, select specific moments, or even how long the audio file is in a very rare case. But overall just works fine enough for my local music playback needs.

PipePipe is nice enough. If yt Revanced refuses to let me play a video while in "incognito" mode, then I can just boot it up in this NewPipe fork. Also nice for the very niche time I wanna watch a video from NicoNico/NicoDouga ( Japanese video hosting platform ) because the person has the upload on there and no other official way of viewing it.

Findroid - a Jellyfin client for Android.

SimpleTextEditor - open source notepad type app for Android.

Material notes from f-droid

It's a handy note taking app where you can sort each note by tagging it into a group. This allows you to have multiple groups and each new note can be tagged to one of those groups. You can also make checklists, color sort the groups, and archive the groups when you don't need them but might in the future.

As someone who forgets, but likes a sorted toolbox, this is pretty useful for me.

Copypasta of my comment in the post in the F-Droid community:

Chrono is extremely good for me, given often having to have alarms in the oddest of times, and it allowing me to schedule alarms as one-time only, daily, for specific weekdays, for specific dates, or for date ranges, as well as having the options to force to work in the background if lack of memory in the phone kills it.

As for alternatives I wish I could find, Librera Reader is still the best ebook reader I found outside of Google Play, but I could use it having better controls. Might even take the dust off my PS Vita to read ebooks, as I abhor touch controls due to them usually not being optimized for either precision or view space available (even on-screen controls might help), and on the Vita I can use the physical controls to move the ebooks' pages around.

Niri has been a blast

Notinotes is a neat simple app

Its just notes on your notification bar but my previous app has been scrubbed from almost everywhere so its a nice alternative

https://github.com/Yanndroid/NotiNotes

I like XPipe, a terminal connection hub.