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.
Had to shift from Solid. For some reason when I SMB to my unraid server, when it waits for the disk to spin up. It locks up the whole app and the only way to fix is clear cache.
Recently moved to MiXplorer, way more powerful but not as visually polished as Solid.
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
Oh an actually decent-looking OBD2 app! I’m too cheap to fork over the money for the Bluetooth ECUTek dongle (I have the license and cable). I’ll have to give this one a try.
This is great, I love torque but it’s definitely dated. I’ll check it Piston.
RIF! Oh wait…
Sync for Lemmy
Big sad. But at least there’s Connect for lemmy.
I’m sad now.
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.
+1 for Repainter. I bought it when it didn’t use a subscription yet. It’s really great for theming your device!
MiXplorer Silver File Manager
TickTick is a great reminders app. Cross platform too
Recently shifted away from this. Been using it for years and had almost 20,000 tasks completed in it.
It just got way too bloated, I tried google tasks, tasks.org but i’ve settled on the tasks plugin for obsidian.
❤️
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!
What do you use it for? I’m looking forward to setting this up.
For me, it’s very helpful in the ways it prevents me from oversleeping. I have it set to that in order to turn off my alarm, I have to go scan the barcode on my mouthwash in my bathroom, thus forcing me out of bed. The sleep tracking features are neat too and will hopefully wake you up when you’re out of deep sleep so you’re less groggy in the morning.
Musicolet is such an awesome app.
Its worth mentioning that SD maid has a new version in development, so it may make more sense to buy the new version, although its presently in beta
You’re right, it’s SD Maid 2/SE!
Very helpful of you to include a link for folks :)
Highly recommend this to everyone.
Do you have any screenshots of your setup? Samsung builds in panel support but I always just disable it. I’m curious to see what real world use looks like.
Same I’m curious what it might offer over Samsung’s panels since I have those customized and use almost daily for apps like calculator, notes and shortcut to bitwarden plus quick access to the screenshot utility.
Using it for Bitwarden is clever! I might try that.
I can’t capture it. It hides itself.
FolderSync Pro
Interesting! Link for others: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=dk.tacit.android.foldersync.full
Do you know how it compares to alternatives like AutoSync?
I don’t, but it looks to be similar.
Wallabag is an excellent open source alternative to Pocket with RSS support. It’s free (as in free beer), but you can pay a small amount of money if you don’t wanna self-host.
fwiw, RSS still works with pocket. Not sure how long for though.
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.
1Password password and credentials manager: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.onepassword.android
Podcast Republic - best podcast app ever made: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.itunestoppodcastplayer.app
F1 TV - watch all the F1 races for either a 1 time annual fee or monthly fee: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.formulaone.production
Poweramp music player: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.maxmpz.audioplayer
Stockie Pro - all the stock wallpapers from all the phone makes (incl. iPhone):
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.harry.stokiepro
Rad walls - cool retro 80’s wallpapers (incl live wallpaper):: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.natewren.radpacklivewalls
Wave - live multicoloured wave wallpaper: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=wave.paperworld.wallpaper
Yo Weather unlimited - unique and fun weather app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=yo.app
Nobody mention Buzzkill? Notification history and custom rules. Top of my favorite apps
Interesting! I hadn’t heard of it before.
Edit: I bought it. This seems great!
Glad you like it… 👍
