+2
A clean Android setup with the best apps (mostly open source)
Web Browser
A browser that blocks ads and trackers.
Don't activate BAT crypto bullshit stuff and disable sponsored background images
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
- Snapcraft
- Flathub
- Samsung Galaxy Store
- Homebrew
- Chocolatey
+7
This is an active fork of the abandonned bromite browser. For people that don't like brave or want a foss chromium browser without crypto bullshit.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application type
Platforms
- Windows
- Linux
- Android
- Android Tablet
- F-Droid
If you are firefox person this is a continuation fork of Mull (RIP), which was the best firefox fork for Android with tons of privacy improvments. With support for mobile extension such as
uBlock OriginStill doesn't support per-site isolation like every Android Firefox flavor
Worth mentioning :
Fennec F-Droid (fully libre (free as in freedom) firefox build for android)
Firefox Focus (private browsing only)
RSS Agregator (News App)
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Android
- Android Tablet
- F-Droid
+1
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
+4
Calendar
+5
Cost / License
- Free Personal
- Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Android
+4
+7
To count the days before an event
Worth mentioning :
Left (Android) with a dot based design instead of numbers.Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Android
- iPhone
- F-Droid
+3
Calculator
+1
+2
+2
PDF, e-Books, Office and Document scanner
+1
The best free (as in free beer) PDF editor for Android (also one of the best free option on Desktop) and a really good PDF reader too
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Application types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
+2
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Windows
- Linux
- Android
- F-Droid
- Xfce
+3
Free e-book downloader and reader that gets files from popular Shadow Libraries such as
Anna’s ArchiveWorth mentioning :
Myne (eBook) download books from 
Project Gutenberg
+5
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Application types
Platforms
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
- HUAWEI AppGallery
+13
A powerful foss e-book reader with Text-To-Speech (TTS) support (setup
SherpaTTS in your phone settings)Cost / License
- Freemium
- Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Android
- Android Tablet
- F-Droid
+7
A simpler yet awesome foss e-book reader for people that want modern design and don't need TTS
+4
+17
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Android
+3
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Android
- iPhone
- Chrome OS
- Android Tablet
- iPad
- Flathub
- Software as a Service (SaaS)
- Flatpak
- Cloudron
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
Application types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Android
- iPhone
- Chrome OS
- Android Tablet
- iPad
- Flathub
- Flatpak
+6
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Android
- iPhone
- F-Droid
- iPad
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Android
- iPhone
- F-Droid
+6
E-mail
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Android
- BSD
- AppImageHub
- Snapcraft
- Flathub
- PortableApps.com
- F-Droid
- Haiku
- Homebrew
- Chocolatey
+8
+5
A great proprietary e-mail client for mobile.
Worth mentioning :
Spark Mail Worse privacy policyCost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
Application types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
- Apple Watch
+11
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
- Self-Hosted
- Microsoft Edge
- Google Chrome
- Safari
- F-Droid
- Mozilla Firefox
+1
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
- Self-Hosted
- Microsoft Edge
- Google Chrome
- Safari
- F-Droid
- Software as a Service (SaaS)
- Mozilla Firefox
+1
Maps
A great map app that isn't the best but works offline is open source and respect your geolocation data.
Community is forking to
CoMapsCost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Linux
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- HUAWEI AppGallery
- iPad
- OpenStreetMap
- Flathub
- F-Droid
- Obtainium
+4
A proprietray map app with strong privacy policy.
Worth mentioning :
TomTom AmiGO Not as private at all
Waze Privacy invasive (owned by Google)
Google Maps Privacy invasiveCost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
Application types
Platforms
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- HUAWEI AppGallery
- iPad
- Apple Watch
- Android Auto
- Apple Car Play
+8
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
- Android Auto
- F-Droid
- Apple Car Play
+5
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application type
Platforms
- Android
- Android Tablet
- OpenStreetMap
- F-Droid
+5
Music player (local)
A super lightweight local music player.
Worth mentioning :
PixelPlayer Material You Expressive
Fossify Music Player
+5
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Application types
Platforms
- Android
- Android Tablet
- HUAWEI AppGallery
- Android Auto
+13
Music Streaming (free)
If you don't have Spotify or Deezer here are good free options
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Android
- Flathub
- F-Droid
- Android Tablet
- iPhone
- Online
- Flatpak
- Homebrew
- Chocolatey
+1
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Android
- Android Tablet
- F-Droid
+14
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