My Essential Android Phone Apps
Malaz YIList by Malaz YI, last updated 2022-09-22
I don't spend much time on phone, I'm a PC guy. But here is a couple of apps I use to get the most out my smartphone.
Free • Open SourceAndroid F-Droid 
The launcher for maximum efficiency and minimum distraction.
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Free • Open SourceMac Windows Linux Android iPhone Android Tablet BSD 
I'd like to avoid Google products at all costs.
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Paid • ProprietaryWindows Online Android iPhone Chrome OS Android Tablet iPad 
My favorite PDF reader with a fair amount of free editing tools.
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Freemium • ProprietaryMac Windows Android iPhone iPad Apple Watch 
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Paid • ProprietaryMac Windows Android iPhone Android Tablet HUAWEI AppGallery Windows Phone 
There's no real good alternative to this if you work with Word documents and Excel sheets.
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Free • ProprietaryOnline Android iPhone Chrome OS Android Tablet iPad Google Drive - Docs 
Doesn't need a description!
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Freemium • ProprietaryAndroid 
Hands down the best music player.
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Free • Open SourceMac Windows Linux Android BSD Xfce 
If you're a PC user, you'll most likely find video players as a major letdown in the Android system, even VLC doesn't offer that much of a well-made app. After lots of trials, I decided to have MPV as my main video player.
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Free • Open SourceAndroid Android Tablet F-Droid 
An isolated space for the work-profile apps.
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Free • Open SourceAndroid SoundCloud YouTube Music Bandcamp YouTube F-Droid PeerTube 
YouTube without Google services and the ads, can be buggy at times, but I use it mostly for the download feature.
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Free • Open SourceAndroid Android Tablet 
To manage my KeePass vault on my phone.
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Free • Open SourceAndroid Android Tablet F-Droid 
A simple straight-forward file manager with a couple of network file transfer protocols.
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Free • ProprietaryOnline Android iPhone Android Tablet Apple Watch Android Wear Apple Messages 
I live in one of the world's biggest cities, Istanbul, where locals themselves sometimes don't know the directions or the best routes. Citymapper has been a life saver to me as foreign living there.
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Free • Open SourceAndroid Android Tablet F-Droid 
I use Anki to keep refreshing my short-term memory on new things I learn.
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Free • ProprietaryOnline Android iPhone Android Tablet iPad 
Sometimes it comes in handy.
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Comments
Did you try
Fennec F-Droid ? It's a 100% foss version of Firefox for Android, you can download it on f-droid.
There is also 
Mull a hardened fork of fennec with focus on Privacy so I would recommend this one over the PlayStore version of Firefox
For office viewing and editing I personnally use
Collabora Office as it's the only open source alternative I found to Microsoft Office on Android.
I prefer
DeepL Translator over Google Translate, since you want to avoid Google you should give it a try. IMO it's way better !
Hope you will find my recommendation helpfull ^^
Edit : Didn't know Musicolet looks cool as it doesn't has internet permission will take a look !
[Edited by justarandom, September 21]
Hi, thanks for the suggestions.
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