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Android is full of proprietary garbage. Most of the applications we use are closed source and cannot be trusted. But there are open source alternatives to most of the proprietary apps that we use daily.
F-Droid is the repository of open source applications from where you can install open source only apps. It contains most if the apps present in this list.
Simple Mobile Tools is a suite of open source essential apps such as :
As the name suggests they are simple and don't have extensive functionality compared to other apps. But they will make your job done in no time.
Material Files is a file manager with a material design and can do everything that the Google Files can do and more.
Fennec F-Droid is a fork of Firefox with the unnecessary data collection removed making it even better than the original open source Firefox.
OsmAnd~ is an open alternative to Google Maps and is very powerful on what it does. It can keep offline maps too. There are extensions available for different maps like satellite, biking etc.
You can access the contents of public Twitter accounts from Fritter. But you cannot use it to login, post and comment on tweets.
Twidere on the other hand can log in to your Twitter account and you can do everything that you can do on the Twitter app.
NewPipe is a YouTube frontend which allows you to watch YouTube content without the need of having an account to subscribe to channels as well as can play videos on popup mode which is only available on the premium YouTube app.
On the other hand, LBRY/Odyssey is a completely new platform like YouTube where you can find similar video contents. It uses cryptocurrency to pay the creators.
Slide is an open source reddit client which let's you browse reddit however you want, it is customizable and doesn't have any ads too.
Lemmur is a android client for "lemmy" which is a completely new platform similar to reddit but is federated.
Joplin is an open source note taking app which is a very good alternative to Evernote. It has features like Notebooks, Tags as well as Tasks like in Evernote. It can be synced on different cloud platform like Nextcloud, Onedrive, Dropbox etc as well as it's own server.
Anysoft Keyboard is an open source keyboard app that can replace the Gboard app but doesn't have indic language support yet.
K9 Mail is an open source email client application to sign in to different email accounts.
Proton Mail is a different email service which focuses on the privacy of the user. It also has an open source email app for Android.
Nextcloud is an open source federated file hosting platform and can also be used for self-hosting.
Proton VPN is an open source VPN service which give you three paces fo free with limited speed. It doesn't contain ads like othe free VPN applications.
Signal is an open source centralized messaging platform having encrypted messaging.
Element is an open source, decentralized and federated messaging service client of [Matrix] with encryption as well as many more features.
Lawnchair is an open source highly customizable launcher for Android. It has many features like custom icon packs, resizing the icons, changing homescreen and appdrawer layout.
Document Viewer is an application which helps to open documents of different format like PDF, DjVu, XPS etc.
KDE Connect is an open source application that helps to connect your phone to your computer to share files, use phone as a mouse, execute commands etc.
Trebleshot is a file sharing application which can replicate the function of shareit.
Jitsi is an open source video conferencing platform like zoom where you can create rooms, share your screen, share videos and conduct a conference with peoples.