This is an automated archive made by the Lemmit Bot.
The original was posted on /r/piracy by /u/random-guy-abcd on 2024-05-19 07:57:15+00:00.
Recently, a comment I made under another post () explaining what apps I use kinda blew up and people really found it useful, so I’m turning it into a proper guide! Here are some apps I think you all could find useful:
Getting apps
F-droid: the alternative to the play store, it needs extra repositories to unlock its full potential. I’d recommend adding at least IzzyOnDroid, Guardian Project and Newpipe’s repositories, but there are more. Many apps from the rest of this list come from f-droid.
Obtainium: an app that allows you to get updates for your other app from any source, including github and f-droid. The only thing I don’t like about it is that you can’t easily discover new apps from there, otherwise I’d immediately get rid of f-droid lol
Mobilism: where you can get all the modded apps you want
Lucky Patcher: lets you patch your apps yourself, only recommended for experienced users
Honourable mentions: droid-ify, a client for f-droid; aurora store, it allows you to download stuff from the play store without logging in; apkmirror, where you can get clean .apk files for most apps
Media
Aniyomi: manga, comics, anime, movies, tv series, everything in a single app. I can’t recommend it enough.
Cloudstream: alternative to Aniyomi, doesn’t have manga/comics and it’s more focused around western movies and series.
ReVanced: if I have to explain it to you, you’re the most inexperienced pirate sailing the seas of android. It’s the way to use youtube without ads and with a ton of extra features. It needs an external app for downloads, I’d recommend either newpipe or seal. Oh, and they also have patches for other apps like twitter, not just youtube!
PurpleTV: twitch client with adblocking and extra emotes
Seal: downloading stuff from pretty much everywhere
Honourable mentions: any fork of tachiyomi for mangas and comics works; there are some unofficial forks of revanced (like revanced extended), I haven’t tried any of them though so idk if they’re safe and/or worth it; newpipe and grayjay as youtube alternatives; tubemate, an alternative youtube downloader
Music
Spotify: the default way to listen to music for most people. There are 5000 modded versions of it, so just pick one
Musicolet: the GOAT of offline music players, it’s free and it’s the best one I’ve ever tried
Automatic Tag Editor (Automatag): edit tags (artist, name, album art, etc) of your music
SongSync: add lyrics to your downloaded music through .lrc files (only works if supported by the music player)
Honourable mentions: fildo, an alternative to cracked Spotify that I only use to download stuff in FLAC
Browser
Just use firefox with a truckload of add-ons, it’s the best. Brave is ok too I guess, and Tor might be useful sometimes, but just use firefox.
Utility
MiXplorer: the best file manager in existence, period. Takes a while to set it up, but it’s worth it, trust me.
Hypatia: antivirus. Not necessary, but doesn’t hurt either.
FolderSync: lets you sync folders between devices and with cloud services. Extremely useful for backups and file sharing
Syncthing: sync folders between your device without needing to use cloud services, alternative to FolderSync
Aegis: authenticator app for 2FA, safer alternative to Google Authenticator
KeePassDX or Bitwarden: password managers. Both have their pros and cons, personally I use keepass but most people suggest self-hosted bitwarden. Just look into them and decide yourself.
AdAway: adblocker. There are other options that are just as valid, no reason to pick this one in particular.
Notesnook: encrypted notes with automatic backups and syncing between devices
AntennaPod: where I get my podcasts from
Proton: free VPN, not for torrenting tho.
OpenWeather: weather app
Honourable mentions: MEGA: the goat of clouds; AccuBattery: info about your battery’s health; Calyx VPN or RiseUp VPN are alternatives to Proton… If you trust them; modded Picsart is the best picture editor; I didn’t mention any torrenting app because I don’t torrent stuff on my phone, feel free to suggest them in the comments!
Sources: years of fucking around and finding out, and r/FREEMEDIAHECKYEAH
All nice with YouTube revanced but I had to uninstall it cause it was eating the battery like crazy. Especially the microg thingy. And I followed the instructions pinned on the reddit sub.
Lucky patcher is a godsend it isn’t that hard to use TBH. I wish it worked with some specific games but I guess is too much to ask. But you can at least remove the ads from 80% of the games.
F Droid has a range from incredible apps to just shit submissions YMMV there’s some keyboard apps that are incredible and some good simple games.
