Open-source apps are consistently better than the average closed source app on the playstore (opinion) - eviltoast

Has anyone noticed that apps on F-Droid or that you just get from GitHub are just better than the ultra-popular apps on the play store? Most of them are open source and have no ads or trackers. But this isn’t true on the Play Store at all.

I see myself always getting apps from F-Droid now because there is always an alternative to the ad-infested bloated privacy infesting BS that I find on the play store. It’s unfortunate that it’s gotten this bad, where the only reason I even use the play store is to install updates or games.

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    1 year ago

    Lichess - rather than chess.com

    Rustdesk - remote desktop software

    Syncthing - rather than Dropbox

    KDE Connect - phone/computer integration (notifications, media control, mouse and keyboard, file sharing, presentation remote, clipboard sharing, etc)

    Aves gallery,

    Organic maps

    PlayBook - audiobook player

    Bitwarden - password manager,

    Droid-ify - F-droid client

    Element - matrix client (potentiall alternative to discord)

    GrapheneOS is also great.