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 My personal choices for essential system apps 

Rules: no chat apps, no bitcoin, no nostr, no niche specific apps, just alternatives for things that are usually already pre installed.

Feel free to ask about them or share your alternatives
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 I use flrois? Does open board have spellcheck?  
 Whoops floris is not a question.  
 No but it has suggestions and autocorrect. Last time I checked florisboard it was too unstable and didn't have word suggestions. 
 Thats good enough for me. Floris seems stabe enough for me. But the lack of spelling anything get annoying. Ive been using sayboard for speech to text.  
 Supper annoying I would say... Floris is an awesome open source keyboard, very customizable but the rate of improvement is exasperating. 11 months since las beta. There are new features coming but unfortunately its slow and the lack of spelling/autocorrect is a major drawback. Still holding in it though 
 O meu não veio com gravador de voz, então eu tive que comprar um app

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 #Aegis by Beemdevelopment - 2FA
#Amaze by TeamAmaze - file explorer
#BraveNewPipe by bravenewpipe - YT
#Cromite by Uazo - chromium browser
#GPSTest by barbeau - GPS Test tool
#KriptEY by amnesica - basic crypto keyboard
#K-9 by thundernest - email manager
#FairMail by M66b - email manager
#OpenKeyChain @ fdroid - PGP to #K-9
#OrganicMaps by organicmaps - navigation
#RethinkDNS by celzero - firewall, no root

 
 What's aves libre? 
 Beautiful image gallery app 
 A very complete image gallery, the only things I miss in favor of Gallery by simplemobiletools is hiding/unhiding images. Aves can select a folder wich pics won't be shown bit it's not the same thing.  
 And how does psms compare to qsms? 
 psms is just a maintained fork of qsms 
 Does it allow video files to be sent? 
 If you're talking about MMS support yes. It  supports everything that qsms supported since it's a fork. 
 Thanks for sharing. Thinking through how to set up @GrapheneOS phone and what are essential apps and then selected other apps. 
 Consider AnySoftKeyboard. It has no bug related to deleting spaces and connecting previous words when you use backspace. 
 Ok so thats a bug then? Because boy howdy is that annoying.  
 Obtamium is  great alternative to F-Droid. 
 You need those OSM maps and offline maps if not already 
 
OrganicMaps is not good enough for me.
I prefer a combination of GMaps WV (a hardened WebView for Google Maps developed by DivestOS) for searching for places, and MagicEarth (closed source unfortunately but uses OSM) for navigation. 
 Learning thanks for sharing ✊ 
 Btw previous link wasn't organic maps.... yet another OSM, but I know what you mean

https://www.f-droid.org/packages/app.organicmaps/ 
 Yeah sorry but I've tried both but nothing as usable as MagicEarth. Also for businesses, restaurants and stores, having a way of checking gmaps is irreplaceable 😪 
 Makes sense. Didn't know about that one cool 🤙 
 👀 from the magicearth faqs: Please contact us at support@ and we will send you a direct link to the APK. Now it gets interesting 
 Why not direct apk download 😭 
 all the simple apps are great 
 Unfortunately that OpenBoard doesn't have swyping capabilities. 
 I would use #HeliBoard instead of #OpenBoard as #OpenBoard hasn't had an update in over 2 years 
 Heliboard is actually what's on the screenshot. It was originally a Openboard fork and they changed the name recently to Heliboard 
 Thanks for letting me know!
Went to check and bitcoind and lnd are ok. Seems to be an issue with tor not finding any circuit and because my node is tor-only, I'm cut out from the network since this morning.
I will have to investigate further. 
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