I’m curious to discover more stuff that exists in the App realm, there must be some small indie apps we don’t know about everywhere
Grainstorm
It’s a ridiculously versatile granular sampler synthesizer. Obviously not for everyone, but it’s super fun to just make weird soundscapes with. Even with just your phone mic.
Brain Waves for binaural beats
Unit converter on f-droid
If you travel a lot, Toilet finder.
Edit: and not an app, but a website: Pairdrop - really useful for cross-platform file sharing, especially when you just need to email to colleagues something you snapped with your personal phone, but yoe have overly tight IT systems in place at work that stop you from connecting your personal phone to your email or OneDrive.
Lemmy Boost
Unified Remote. It’s a little janky, but it does you to turn your phone into a trackpad and/or keyboard for your phone. It works with swipe typing, and allows you to use keyboard shortcuts such as Alt+Tab or Win+Shift+Arrow.
Truly the best way I’ve found of using my PC from my couch.
Easily Converter Now. So darn handy.
PianOli: A little toy piano for your kids to play without being able to swipe out and mess with your other apps.
Flashlight: Flashlight from the Simple suite, that allows you to pulse or strobe your phone’s torch. It can even pulse SOS messages.
Moonlight: Stream your entire desktop (e.g. gaming PC) to your phone using the sunshine (previously nvidia gamestream) protocol. Works fantastic.
drivvo if you do your own car maintenance or want to track mileage.
I got a couple of apps I’d recommend in a heartbeat.
Spectdroid is a spectrogram app. Its unreasonable how often I’m using this app. I got some mild tinnitus that comes and goes and this app allows me to find out if I got some actual weird buzzing I’m the house or if it’s just in my head.
And LocalSend is an amazing app for sending files between various devices and OSes over a local network. I no longer need to set up file shares, plug in my phone to a computer, or use cloud storage just to transfer over some files.
LocalSend
I’ve been using TrebleShot for that for a years now, but maybe I’ll try LocalSend
LocalSend is amazing. So easy to use! Impressed that google haven’t been able to make a product as simple as localsend for Android.
I honestly feel silly for not having looked up a solution like it earlier.
Spectroid is great! I use it to tune my 3d printer.
Oh, that sounds cool! What is it you tune? I imagine some coil whine from heating elements maybe?
Motors?
Trail Sense, it’s all the “survival” tools in one great package. Do I use it often? No. Does it feel like unwrapping my favourite toy every time I open it? Absolutely.
Walkscape. It’s like Pokémon go and runescape but without the emptional manipulation.
Or
Streetcomplete - gamify openstreetmap and help fill out the map.
I’ve just finished making my Streetcomplete account! And I’ve got some work around me it’s gonna be fun
I just got accepted into the beta for walkscapes. It’s such a relaxing game and using steps vs distance is super nice to have as a tracking system.
For me it’s StreetComplete. It’s like Pokémon Go, but you’re doing actual map quests that help verify or correct information in Open Street Maps.
And if you do enough per month, you get free map downloads without a subscription if you use OSM the app.
I think it’s only on Android though.
This is the most addictive thing I’ve done in a while. It’s rare to find something where just two clicks can help in a bigger project, and at least where I live there are thousands on tiny dots to check
Glad you’re enjoying it. Have fun unlocking badges!
I wish they’d get people to verify transit schedules literally the only reason Google maps finds itself on my phone
There’s also a more powerful version of it called SCEE
Though that’s more for advanced users. If people don’t already know about street complete, they should use the regular version.
Wooow! Now that’s a fun and useful game like I’ve been searching for a while! Downloaded count me in!!!
Same I use it so much. Really fun to fill in info
O7
Not an app, a site:
Free Photoshop clone. For my needs, it’s over the top perfect.
It works really well and has been my go too for studies last year
Replying to save for later
Syncthing, its not a recent discovery.
https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.nutomic.syncthingandroid/
(written by one of our own!)
A daily use of me, it’s perfect as it is