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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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.
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.
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 :)
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😁
On 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.
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.
Voyager for Lemmy, Thunderbird email client, Firefox browser, Librera FD ebook reader, Mercurygram for Telegram, QUIK SMS, Material Files, LibreTube
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.
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.
On android, I guess, it’s smth like: heliboard, mull, eternity, tubular (a newpipe fork), antennapod, feeder, simplex, element and slightly patched mercurygram.
As for the desktop, Firefox, keepassxc, anyrun (the app launcher) and cosmic-term would probably be the GUI apps I use most often; occasionally neovide if I feel like drooling on those sick cursor animations, mpv if I want to watch stuff without distractions, or kicad if I’m into making some electronics-related pet project. Other than that, my workflow is mostly terminal-centric, so the fish shell, coreutils, neovim, moreutils – mostly
vidirfor visual bulk renaming andvipefor editing piped stuff in place (for one-time things that require, say, >2seds) --, and so on.Which browser do you use KeepassXC on? I’m having trouble integrating it with any other browser than Firefox. Tried to integrate it with Brave on Fedora and Mac, lost hours and achieved nothing.
I don’t use browser extensions with it and just copy-paste stuff, unfortunately. Also it’s mostly a failsafe in case my vaultwarden instance goes tits up
I see. Okay. Thanks.
What does Tubular do for you that the stock New Pipe doesn’t? I’m also curious about neighbours, as I’m still using gBoard and I’d rather switch to something else that still supports swipe-typing.
Tubular has sponsor block too.
Do you mean Heliboard? It supports gesture typing, but you need to import the library you want.
Thanks. That Heliboard comment sent me down a rabbit hole. I don’t really use glide typing, but in case any one’s curious: scroll a bit down under this section on Heliboard’s Github and you’ll find the instructions on how to install the proprietary library. You’ll also find a link shortly thereafter that leads you to the repo where you can download the needed library.
Neat little feature I wasn’t aware was available for Heliboard. Cheers.
It would gBoard’s autocorrect got one final dig in. I did indeed mean Heliboard, and I’ve now installed it with the glide extension and… it’s great! Thanks for the reference!
Try futo keyboard. You don’t even have to download a proprietary blob to enable gesture typing.
NewPipe, Seal, Spotube, AntennaPod basically
Edit: FireFox, uBlock Origin
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.
:(
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Librewolf - hardened, demozilled Firefox
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Newpipe - I forgot that Youtube has ads
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Organic Maps - I dont even have gmaps installed
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Keepass XC/2android
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Orion viewer - for pdfs
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Thumbkey - unique keyboard I have installed for fun, but I got used to it
I also wish I could use foss comunicators more.
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Firefox browser, misskey as my SNS. On Android: Komikku (a tachiyomi fork), element X matrix client; on my desktop: rnote for note taking, fractal matrix client.
Firefox, Matrix chat, Proxmox, Homarr, Sonarr, Radarr, Prowlarr, Overseer, Nextcloud, Bazzite, Lemmy, QBittorent, Immich, Home Assistant, Keepass, Thunderbird, and Debian.
If it’s free, it is for me.
Every app is open source if you can read assembly.
— someone someday on internet.
