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For the most part, I am an iOS guy. However, lately I've been dabbling in the Android world via. a de-Googled Pixel3a running GrapheneOS. Because of that, my favourite apps are biased toward those which do not require Play Services and which are privacy respecting.
I'm trying to get more into XMPP these days as my decentralized messenger of choice. Conversations is beautiful, feature rich and, in a world of shitty Electron apps, blazingly fast. It honestly fills me with so much joy because it is incredibly quick to open and use. It also supports OMEMO for end-to-end encrypted messages (which I think are a must these days).
K-9 Mail feels like a legitimage full-strength mail client for Android (because it is). It's pretty (in that classic boxy kind of way). It's fast. It's packed with functionality. One of my favourite parts is the seamless integration with OpenKeychain to support PGP encrypted email.
Despite not knowing anyone who uses PGP signed/encrypted email, I still consider it a moral win to have the ability to send/receive those on my phone. OpenKeychain is a nice app for that, supports keys on my Yubikey, and integrates with K9 Mail (and others).
I love Cryptomator. Cryptomator is an app that sits on top of your cloud storage provider of choice and provides encrypted vaults to store your more sensitive files. It's great. It's convenient. The apps are beautiful. Files are written individually (with filenames encrypted), unlike options like VeraCrypt where you are creating a single encrypted volume, so syncing is efficient. I like the separation of storage and security (seems like a lot of things would have to go wrong for someone to steal my more sensitive files).