Top-tier FOSS android apps you use

whats your fav free open source software .

for me its newpipe , nextplay ,fastlyrics

real basic but newpipe is a LIFESAVER whenever i wanna watch a long video or play lots of songs

Newpipe is the goat. Wish you could customize the GUI somehow - it's too minimalistic.

• KDE connect to send files (and clipboard contents) between my phone and my computer
• Blender for 3D modeling (i donated 25 euros yesterday :D)
• GNU IMP for image editing
• Inkscape for vector graphics, has a really cool bitmap trace function
• ImageMagick to dither images, create thumbnails, convert images etc.
• Bespoke Synth a modular software synthesizer
• ffmpeg to convert/compress audio and video files
• thunderbird as my e-mail client (both android and linux versions)
• firefox with uBlock origin to block ads (i hate ads)
• vim and neovim for text editing (neovim when i need LSP support)
• Sway a tiling linux wayland compositor, i use it instead of KDE Plasma now
• Fedora as the linux distro i'm using (currently the KDE Plasma Desktop edition but as i don't really use Plasma anymore i wanna switch to the Sway spin)
• KDE Dolphin as my gui file manager
• digiKam to organize photos
• SDL3 a C library handling cross-platform graphics/audio/input
• love2d for making games with lua
• clang C and C++ compiler (UBSan and ASan are really cool)
• emscripten to compile C and C++ to the web, it also works with SDL3!!!
• awk for text-processing, i've been learning it, it is fun :D
• HandBrake to rip DVDs
• termux to ssh into remote machines from my phone (android 16 now comes with a built-in linux terminal, but it is very buggy for me, so I still prefer termux)
• python3 for scripts and as an interactive desk calculator
• DuckStation a PS1 emulator (i love vib ribbon :D)
• mGBA a Game Boy Advance emulator

Last edited on 2026-03-01 22:38:16