“F-Droid is an installable catalogue of FOSS (Free and Open Source
Software) applications for the Android platform. The client makes it
easy to browse, install, and keep track of updates on your device.”
F-Droid apps
ImagePipe
or Scrambled
Exif.
Both apps remove Exchangeable Image File Format (EXIF) data, metadata in
photos that can reveal personal information, before you send pictures.
Despite serving a similar purpose, the two apps differ in implementation
and features. Notably, ImagePipe also reduces image size (though it
keeps the original unaltered and stores the changed copy in a separate
folder), which may or may not be desirable depending on your use case.
Keep It Simple, Stupid (KISS)
Launcher. I find that
pinning a few choice apps and searching for the rest with KISS Launcher
provides a more pleasant experience relative to the default
GrapheneOS launcher. Also, launchers let you
use custom icons (I use Arcticons
Dark).
Meditation
Assistant.
Practice agnostic and doesn’t do more than I need it to–in other words,
perfect for my use case.
mpv-android. For those
that love mpv and want it on their phone, too.
Netguard. Block internet access per app.
Unfortunately, I haven’t found a way to combine it with Orbot yet.
NewPipe. NewPipe lets you watch YouTube
privately on your phone; you can also keep up with your favorite content
creators without signing up for an account.
Orbot. An
invaluable tool for privacy, Orbot tunnels the traffic of selected apps
through Tor.
RedReader,
an unofficial open source client for Reddit. It has a clean UI with no
nonsense. I found it through word of mouth, as I’ve never liked the
redesign and wanted to find a less feature-rich (and less buggy) client
than Slide. This is exactly what RedReader delivers.
Termux. Termux provides a terminal emulator for
Android and offers an incredible amount of power. I use Termux to
securely transfer files between my phone and computer using SSH.
Yet Another Call Blocker
(YACB).
A useful app. You can add problematic area codes to YACB and it filters
them out automatically. You can exempt contacts from being treated as
unknown callers, and YACB even has an option to stop the call before the
phone starts ringing on Android 7+.
UntrackMe.
UntrackMe transforms certain links, such as YouTube, Twitter, and
Instagram, to point at a Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS)
privacy respecting alternative. In the case of Twitter, it changes the
domain to a Nitter instance.