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Compiled further is an active list of applications which I use for good reason on various devices. They shall be divided by platform and preferred device
Proprietary apps will be marked as such, as well as apps that work with device theming (ie Monet, Qt, and so on). Items no longer maintained or updated will be indicated as such
- Obtainium ^[Monet] ^[a MUST for anyone wanting to download apps off GitHub]
- SD Maid ^[Monet] ^[storage cleaner]
- Clock ^[Monet]
- Gallery^[Monet]
- Mindful^[Monet] ^[Productivity and app usage tracking, also blocks reels! c:]
- AppManager^[Monet]
- Droidify ^[Monet] ^[F-Droid and Izzy-on-Droid appstores]
- Material Files^[Monet]
- SMS Import/Export
- Termux-Monet ^[Monet] ^[💀]
- Finch^[PROPRIETARY] ^[Do not speak to me or my baby birb son ever again >:c]
- Qariah^[PROPRIETARY] ^[Gives female reciters of the Qur'an, so so helpful for learning <3]
- Stardust^[PROPRIETARY] ^[The only period tracker besides Planned Parenthood's that I trust. Women-owned, encrypted, and educational]
- Spot On by Planned Parenthood ^[PROPRIETARY]
- FluffyChat^[Monet] ^[Matrix client]
- Revenge for Discord^[Monet]
- Beeper ^[Monet]^[PROPRIETARY] ^[Bridges all of your messaging apps you desire to Matrix. Self-hostable or use their own server if you wish.]
- Signal^[Monet]
- Outlook Lite^[PROPRIETARY] ^[Here because many of us are probably forced to use Outlook. I notice this version is significantly less buggy, slow, but still works fine]
- Brave ^[wee no ads!]
- URLCheck^[Monet]
- Kiwi Browser ^[Monet]
- Proton Mail
- Proton Drive
- Proton Calendar
- Proton Pass
- Mullvad VPN ^[This and ProtonVPN are the only two VPN services worth considering. No logs, flat monthly rate, no identification attached period, and custom DNS filters in the client. I saw their ad in the subway and I'm glad to use it since.]
- KeyGuard ^[Monet] ^[Bitwarden client]
- LolSnatcher ^[Monet]
- ^[I hate the developers for their pedobait naming of the app, but it legitimately works well for batch downloads from image boards]
- Proton Drive
- MEGA ^[PROPRIETARY] ^[Insane amount of free storage and end-to-end encrypted]
- Syncthing ^[Monet]
- PlainApp^[Monet]
- Lyricistant^[Monet] ^[web version available]
- Obsidian ^[PROPRIETARY] ^[Bugged as all hell on Android, but it's still my favorite and most customizable note app <3]
- Lemuroid ^[Monet]
- Lime3DS^[Monet] ^[This and above are emulators. LIKE 3DS works way better with 3DS games, though]
- PojavLauncher ^[Minecraft: Java launcher for Android. Runs surprisingly well and now I can use my own skin]
- Scopa! ^[PROPRIETARY]
- Book's Story ^[Monet] ^[Use with Anna's Archive, trust me]
- Kotatsu^[Monet] ^[manga and comics]
- OpenReads ^[Monet] ^[Book tracker and scanner. Can sync with Goodreads]
- ReadYou^[Monet] ^[Bring back RSS feeds]
- Librera Reader ^[Works amazing with e-ink devices or for simple document viewing and TTS]
- Aard 2 ^[MASSIVELY customizable offline dictionary. Perfect for ereaders or tablets with a large amount of space, as you can add the entirety of en.Wiktionary's 2.5 gb database if you choose]
- Gramophone^[Monet] ^[offline music player brrr]
- InnerTune^[Monet] ^[YouTube Music client]
- PanoScrobbler^[Monet] ^[Lastfm scrobbler for all my lastfm girlies]
- Spotube^[Monet] ^[Free Spotify client]
- Fast lyrics ^[Monet]
- URLRadio^[Monet]
- AntennaPod^[Monet] ^[Podcats meow]
- Pod Classic ^[💀]
- SoundTap ^[Monet]
- LibreTube^[Monet] ^[YouTube client, sometimes buggy]
- mpvKt^[Monet]
- Frosty for Twitch ^[Monet]
- Seal ^[Monet] ^[YouTube and YouTube Music dler]
- Persian Calendar^[Monet]
- QuranApp
- [Dhikr&Dua][https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.alifewithallah.app] ^[PROPRIETARY]
- Qariah^[PROPRIETARY] ^[Gives female reciters of the Qur'an, so so helpful for learning <3]
- Quranic^[PROPRIETARY]
- Niagara Launcher ^[PROPRIETARY] ^[Monet]
- Kvaesitso^[Monet] ^[These two launchers really change how you're meant to navigate your phone. It is weird at first but I really recommend them for simplifying hs use]
- Superimage ^[💀]
- Shuffles by Pinterest^[PROPRIETARY] ^[pinterest collage wallpapers, u can make ur own too c:]
-- Icon Packs --
- Lawnicons^[Monet]
- VANESS Icons^[PROPRIETARY]
- Adaptive You Icons ^[PROPRIETARY]
- Crayon Adaptive Icons ^[PROPRIETARY]
- Dots: Nothing Iconpack ^[PROPRIETARY]
- [SAGA Material You Iconpack]^[PROPRIETARY]
- Pixtel Icons ^[PROPRIETARY]
- Nothing Material You: Adaptive Icon Pack^[PROPRIETARY]
- Coolers^[💀] ^[PROPRIETARY/NO NETWORK ACCESS REQUESTED]
- Cat Printer
- Labyrinthos Tarot ^[PROPRIETARY]
I use Garuda Linux as my daily Linux distro because I'm too lazy to set everything up with stock Arch/Endeavor or fix constant random breakages with Manjaro. Although Arch takes maintenance and modesty with installing random packages, it is good to teach oneself how to use Linux -- I'm of the philosophy that Linux is fundamentally different in how you use it from Windows or Mac, and that Linux should very much be something that is addressed and specific to you, even if it takes slightly less convenience at first from Windows, it gives far less heartaches in the future.
With that said, I will add a simple pacman command for everything I install. For all new penguins or old penguins, I strongly recommend doing something similar so you have a record of everything you install in case you need to migrate systems for any reason or uninstall old packages that accumulate on your computer for years. It takes barely a second to simply type or delete a package into a text file when you already do so in your terminal to install packages.
And for those who use graphical installers for everything, just use yay or paru. Your life will be so much quicker.
As of Dec 5 2024:
sudo pacman -S brave-bin beeper-latest-bin newsboat calc xfce4 xfce4-goodies ani-cli mullvad-vpn-cli neovim steam linux-lts obsidian mutt docker syncthing termusic libreoffice-fresh wttr epr-git keyguard-git flatpak mikhak-fonts thunderbirdscopa xpytile-git