Open question for all: What five applications should you have on your smartphone?

5 months ago · 👍 arubes

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Ghost Commander · 5 months ago

The idea was something simpler so that people could meet new applications and omitting those main ones as a manager of sms, an agenda or similar that, in general, already come by default in most of our smartphones, in my case (and this being an exception), my five applications that I can not miss:

1- Silence (call blocker, either you are in my smartphone or you do not enter).

2- F-Droid (The alternative market by antonomasia)

3- Cx Explorer (A simple but effective and ad-free file explorer)

4- Snapseed (Photo editor, one of Google's few successes)

5- Lagrange (Gemini browser) · 5 months ago

A good ad blocker, depending on your browser something like AdBlock or Ublock Origin. A good VPN for when you're not on your home network, like TunnelBear. A good overall data shield / ad block for your entire phone like Blokada. A camera app that doesn't lean super heavily on "AI". ... There's no real app for this, just get a good pocket camera if photos matter to you. And an encrypted messaging app so you can send sensative things that you don't want just anyone to see if you have to. I suggest Signal. Bonus since the camera thing has no software answer, encrypted email, something like Proton or Tutanota. · 5 months ago

apart from those mentioned below,

f-droid for installing further FOSS apps

an email app - maybe thunderbird

osmand~ for navigation and maps

lagrange (for Gemini!)

a password safe with an input keyboard such as KeepassDX · 5 months ago

Short Answer: The five you need.

Long Answer: There's no universal five, but the five most people will probably get the most use from are phone, SMS, clock, camera, and a web browser. · 5 months ago