Hello, I’d like to know your top open-source apps that you use every day. Here are mine:
Signal AntennaPod RadioDroid Which ones do you use most often?
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On my laptop:
- Void Linux
- GNOME (desktop environment)
- gThumb (image viewer that can do simple edits)
- Firefox (the famous web browser)
- uBlock Origin (content blocker that blocks ads, trackers, etc. out of the box)
- SponsorBlock (automatically skips sponsor segments in YouTube videos)
- Betterbird (fork of the Thunderbird email client, with various QoL tweaks)
- GIMP (image editor)
- Kdenlive (video editor)
- virt-manager (manage QEMU virtual machines)
- Celluloid (media player)
- yt-dlp (command-line utility for downloading YouTube videos, and the basis of some graphical apps as well)
- Bottles (if you want to use Wine to run Windows apps, without too many headaches)
- Foliate (.epub ebook reader)
- OBS (for screen recording and livestreaming)
- Code - OSS (code editor, “clean” version of Visual Studio Code without “Microsoft-specific customizations”)
- Tenacity (fork of the Audacity audio editor without opt-out telemetry)
On my Android phone:
- F-Droid (app store with FOSS apps only)
- Obtainium (auto-updater for apps hosted on GitHub, GitLab, etc.)
- Heliboard (simple keyboard app)
- Material Files (file manager)
- Metro (local music library player)
- Iceraven (Firefox fork with a few tweaks)
- Voyager (mobile client for Lemmy, similar to the obsolete Reddit clients Apollo and Slide)
- Fedilab (client for Mastodon and similar Fediverse services)
- Termux (run Linux CLI applications on Android)
- Thunderbird for Android (simple email client for Android and the successor to K-9 Mail)
- MJ PDF Reader
- Binary Eye (simple QR code scanner)
Cross-platform:
- LocalSend (simple file transfer between devices on the same network)
- Bitwarden client apps (to manage passwords. I use the Vaultwarden instance @ tchncs.de)
- Mullvad VPN client
If we can count FOSS modifications of proprietary apps:
- YouTube Revanced (the official YouTube app, but you don’t get ads, you can play videos in the background, you get SponsorBlock, etc.) (follow this guide for auto-updates)
- Vesktop (desktop client for Discord, has Vencord preinstalled and supports Linux screen sharing)
- Prism Launcher (Minecraft: Java Edition launcher that allows you to easily manage different “instances” of the game. Good for playing with different mods and/or versions)
- Fabulously Optimized (modpack for Minecraft: Java Edition, that improves performance and adds some minor QoL features)
addendum: I’d like to use Matrix (via the Element client) and Signal more, but most of the people I know are on Discord and WhatsApp instead.
Here is a short list.
Pc: Cachyos(Preformant linux distro based on arch),Cinnamon (fork of Gnome 3),Librewolf (web browser)
Android phone:F-Droid(Appstore),Clipious(YouTube client but network is nonfree),aurora store(replaced Google play store with this and network nonfree),Iceraven (Web browser,Can be hardened as much as mull.),
Cross platform: Localsend(Airdrop for any device),Vlc media player
Yeah that’s it,here is my major apps I useOn 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.
Matrix (element on mobile, cinny on pc), materialious (linux app for invidious, alternative yt frontend), gzdoom (foss engine for doom & mods), luanti (a minecraft-like engine for playing minigames and shit), zen browser (firefox fork with a pretty skin), xfce as desktop environment, wine for playing windows games
Never heard of Zen, I’m just using vanilla Firefox on my Linux laptop. Will check it out later :)
The apps I actually use daily:
- Firefox
- uBlock
- Vs code
- Notepad++
- Revanced (i might patch something every second month but I use the apps it has patched daily)
- PuTTY
- moonlight/sunshine
- 7zip
- qBittorrent
The apps I wish I had time to use daily:
- Godot
- Blender
- Krita
- libResprite
Edit: I forgot:
- WinSCP
- VLC
VS code is technically not open-source since it has many proprietary blobs on top. VScodium is the fully open-source version.
I don’t know how much can Revanced be considered open-source except for their Revanced manager app since you still use the patched versions of the proprietary Google apps.
Sorry for being pedantic.
Resprite doesn’t seem to be open-source when I look it up.
Sorry my bad, libresprite was the fork I was thinking of.
Oh, I see now :)
How’s your experience with Moonshine / Sunshine? Latency on local network?
On a home network I was having audio sync issues with RDP. When I switched to moonlight/sunshine that sync issue cleared up.
Its streaming resolution isn’t as dynamic as RDP but once its setup it feels pretty close to running locally (on my home LAN).
Not OP, but in my house we’re very happy with it. Will even work nicely over WiFi, though you do have to manually turn all the settings down for that.
Tried it once over my phone’s hotspot, had no issues with latency.
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 😂
Looks like a great list, but I can’t tell what a lot of them do by name alone.
Can you recommend any open-source desktop personal/small business finance software?
Sorry, I think options like Firefly III for that might not be sufficient for small business, but it was the only great Foss personal finance software for a long time.
Odoo is the gold standard for business. I think they also have a business finance app? It isn’t free, but the cost is reasonable.
Otherwise, I use Leantime for project management. If you work in a project-based or contract-based company (like consultancy or design house), then it has a lot of project & product features including time tracking with a plugin. Not financial though.
I’ll check those out. Leantime might cover one aspect of what I’m looking for. Thank you for the names.
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)
I made my own curated list of open source software. Most of the software on there is stuff I use.
Wow, that’s cool, thank you! I’ll definitely explore it, and I think I’ll take a few apps for myself😁
My most used:
- self hosted Matrix server with Element client
- Jellyfin server and clients
- self hosted Radicale server for my family calendars
- self hosted Joplin server with the Joplin app on all my machines and devices for my notes
- Navidrome
- Firefox
- tasks.org with my self hosted nextcloud
- all the fossify apps on my phone
- audiobookshelf server and client
- GNU/Linux (various distros across different machines)
- Voyager for Lemmy
There’s a bunch more that I can’t think of that I use, but the above list is the stuff I rely on and use every day.
Dosbox (magic dosbox for android) Scummvm (scummvm for android) UnCiv Obsidian Obtainium URLCheck
I use GVIM everyday.
I frequently use CentOS because that is what the embedded system I work on runs.
I use cygwin regularly professionally and at home. Identifying specific software within it is tough, but I definitely use grep and g++ all of the time.
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
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)
Stealth is working?
Yes, but only with oldreddit, not with the now defunct teddit instances.
I tried with Mullvad VPN and it didn’t work
Yep. Sadly it doesn’t work with Mullvad on.
:(
Every app is open source if you can read assembly.
— someone someday on internet.
Voyager for Lemmy, Thunderbird email client, Firefox browser, Librera FD ebook reader, Mercurygram for Telegram, QUIK SMS, Material Files, LibreTube
