Apps that I use on my phone
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Smart launcher - Customisable home launcher + I can paste any images to the homescreen (like stickers)
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MiXplorer - Very light, small, ad-free, feature packed file manager
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KDE Connect - Connect Android to windows to share files, control mouse, music, keyboard, system shutdown, etc.
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Rush : Create beautiful lyrics cards
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SkyMap - Identify stars, planets, and constellations in the night sky.
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Dagger - Dota tournament stats
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Bitwarden - Password manager
Media
- Adobe Lightroom - Editing RAW images.
- InShot - Mostly used simple video editing and quick image edits
- F-Stop - Photo gallery makes it easy to add tags, batch rename, has a customisable grid view,etc
- Gramophone - A beautiful open-source music player that supports Monet theming.
- Compress Image - Compress images to save space without sacrificing quality.
- Sponge Cleaner : Tinder style gallery cleaner.
- Snapseed - Feature pack image editor, not so great for RAW editing.
Internet
- Brave - resource efficient native adblocker is as good as uBlock & better than other native blockers
- Windy : Weather radar maps, satellite animations
- Kiwi Browser - Outdated & unmaintained. Used only for dev tools.
- Via Browser - A lightweight browser with resource sniffer, view Source, user-Agent, user Scripts support, customisable Reader Mode, Save page as PDF, Network Log.
- ProtonVPN - Free and private VPN from a relatively reliable company.
- TodayWeather - Weather app with a large number of weather data sources. (dev gave me a free premium code)
- Instaprime: Instagram mod. Removes ads and enables downloads.
Writing & notes
- Appflowy : A faster notion alternative. Mostly used for journaling and diary keeping.
- Google Keep - Simple note taking terrible for organising to many notes
Storing
- Nicemind - Mind maps
- Remember the Milk - Make and store todos + many types of lists.
- Memento database - Using this to store playlists of albums in diff categories. I would just use YTM if it had folder support but it doesn't.
- iNaturalist - An app for recording observations of plants, animals, insects
- Paperspan: Store web article links. (Pocket is dead).
- Hurry - Beautiful app for storing events with countdowns displayed
- Photok - Store, lock & hide images
Downloading
- YMusic - Youtube video downloader and converter.
- Fossify - FDroid client. Store for installing safe open source apps.
Other apps
- GBoard keybaord (terrible I only use it because of the GIF board and Emoji kitchen)
- Mail - Tuta, Proton, Gmail
- Online storage - Google Photos + Drive, Onedrive, Proton Drive
- Socials - Instagram, Twitter, Whatsapp, Twitch
- Youtube Music
Not using now but worth mesntioning
- MyBoy Emulator - Gameboy emulator)
- DataDex - Beautiful pokedex app
- Your Diary
- Zettlr
- Quick Bible
- Easy Enlgish Bible
Not using anymore
Boost for reddit- Honista IG mod
- Nova Launcher
- Diaro
- Weather timeline
Edited: Oct 2026