Hey, Android enthusiasts! 📱
Let’s take a tour of your favourite non-game paid apps in 2023 that are worth every penny!
No APKs please. Play Store links and app screenshots are encouraged. FOSS projects worth a contribution or two (whether a donation or paid version) are also more than welcome!
Let’s skip the games (that’s a story for another day) and spotlight some ever-reliable paid apps recommended by @Deconceptualist@lemm.ee:
- Tasker: The master of automation, turning your device into an efficiency wizard.
- Titanium Backup: Safeguarding your data with finesse.
- SD Maid: Your neat freak companion, maintaining cleanliness and speed.
- BigBag: Organizing your shopping escapades like a champ.
- Wolfram Alpha: The answer guru for all things complex.
Here’s to building a treasure trove of invaluable apps and supporting those who keep the Android landscape innovative and vibrant!
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How about Solid Explorer. It’s my favorite file browser.
Also Network Analyzer Pro is a bunch of great network tools that I use quite often.
Solid Explorer is great. Works for everything I’ve needed from it, including remote servers.
How is Nova on a pixel?
Really trying to stop using Google services and the Google search bar at the bottom is too convenient, shame you can’t rid
Torque if you have a Bluetooth OBD2 device.
I would like to recommend “Piston” https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.clockworkbits.piston as well. It is the only app I found that feels modern and well-built vs all other OBD2 apps looking like they’re 6+ years old
MiXplorer Silver File Manager
A lot of great stuff recommended here already. Ditto a lot of them but here are a few others I use:
- Bitwarden Password Manager: been using this for years and recently decided to subscribe.
- Hermit : Create lite web apps.
- Repainter: Dynamic theming for Android 12+.
- Wavelet: Custom headphone/earbud equalizer with AutoEQ database.
- JuiceSSH: Great SSH interface.
- Obtainium: Keep apps from GitHub updated.
- Shizuku: Wireless ADB functionality.
- Droid-ify: F-Droid client with support for Shizuku for automatic app updating without root.
- Cryptomator: For encrypting cloud storage.
- Groundwire: VoIP SIP softphone with push notifications.
- SunSurveyor: Really great sun tracking for photography.
- PhotoPills: Decent sun tracking but lots of other photography reference tools.
- My Lightning Tracker & Alerts: Don’t really need this but somehow enjoy tracking lightning during storms. The alerts can be useful for an early heads up.
- FairEmail: a FOSS email client with features such as a unified inbox, PGP encryption, and more! F-Droid Play Store
- Aegis: a FOSS 2FA app with backups and biometric login F-Droid Play Store
- Findroid: A native Jellyfin client for Android F-Droid Play Store
- Kvaesitso Launcher: An Android launcher unlike any I’ve seen that I love! F-Droid
Will check these out. I’m using Outlook app since K-9 Mail has some annoying quirks still, but I’m looking very much into the rebranding of the app into Thunderbird.
Yeah, I started with K-9 but switched quickly because it just didn’t jive with me. Both are good clients though, just not my cup of tea
They are great, but OP asked for paid apps. These are all free.
FOSS apps worth paying for, either through a premium option like FairEmail or donation, are also welcome 🙂.
Does Aegis support multiple devices? I am really paranoid about losing my phone and getting locked out of all my accounts.
It has backups but not web-based cross-device syncing like authy, which I think is good because the point of 2fa is to only have it with you and if it’s available online it kinda defeats the purpose If you want it on multiple devices, you can just do what I do and just backup the file and put it on another device
RIF! Oh wait…
Sync for Lemmy
I’m sad now.
❤️
Some others I previously forgot:
- Twilight is great for dimming your screen or shifting the color balance to red near bedtime. This is mostly baked into Android OS now but the app still gives a bit more control.
- Sleep as Android is an alarm and sleep tracking app with a ton of crazy and innovative features. Even if you don’t use most of them, having a smart alarm match your sleep cycle and wake you up gently with a fade-in is worth it.
- Accubattery does what it says and helps you track battery health and get the most longevity out of your device.
- Musicolet is a feature-packed audio player, and for me basically perfect. It even plays uncommon formats like Musepack.
- The Simple Mobile Tools set is quite good (esp. Gallery and File Manager) with minimal permissions and definitely worth a few bucks to the dev as a thank you.
I’ve used Sleep as Android for yearrrrrs now. Absolutely love it!
Weather Today has a lifetime premium deal for only $27 CAD. It’s a no brainer if you want the best Material You weather app. It pays itself off in a little less than 3 years.
Keepass2android is a great password manager. Technically it’s free but the dev asks for donations once in a while, which I’m happy to do to support the project.
PowerAmp is also an awesome music player.
how do you feel about that compared to KeepassDX: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kunzisoft.keepass.free ?
No idea, I haven’t tried it.
Lumai fusion powerful video editing tool. Play store link
Oto music player. Great for local listening Play store link
Symfonium is great for streaming music from my media server to my phone Play store link
Kwgt is great for making/edit your custom widgets or using others. Play store link
It’s worth mentioning. If you have a Samsung smartphone. The luma fusion app is available at 50% discount in the galaxy store compared to the Play Store.
