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What are your Android hidden gem apps (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by cheese_greater@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I'm back! This is a continuation of my series on platform-specific hidden gem apps that you have discovered that are the best in their class for your usecase.

We've done iOS+MacOS so far so lets get universal and share our Android hidden gems.

For mine, I would say NewPipe for YouTube... Lets do it!

Edit: Please try to avoid apps that cannot be purchased (subscription apps) since it is important that the creator cannot cut you off once you've taken time/effort/money to integrate it into your workflow and dependance. No Apollos, which have that fatal flaw + relying on an external API that they additionally cannot gurantee

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[–] Fake4000@lemmy.world 45 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Syncthing.

Allows you to use a laptop and sync your phone to it. No iCloud or Google drive needed. All syncs locally.

[–] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Wanted to also suggest Resilio Sync if you need something a little less fussy or smaller learning curve. I use it for many thins between devices, I never really "got" Syncthing altho I support their mission and excellent work the community benefits greatly from.

[–] Fake4000@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You have used both. How does Resilio compare to Syncthing?

[–] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Syncthing is a bit comprehensive and less streamlined, I would say. I would definitely have to sit down for at least 1/2 day to get everything playing nice.

With Resilio, you can be up and running in like 20 minutes on the longer side. You can setup a sync folder and use a QR code to have everybody talking in a few minutes and customize the fewer but necessary options.

No offense to Syncthing, Resilio was probably inspired by it (conjecture)

[–] PrimePathPioneer@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I added a new pc to syncthing this week, I installed it and scanned a qr and was done in like three minutes.

[–] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

YMMV. I prefer Resilio. Thats all

[–] Longpork_afficianado@lemmy.nz 1 points 11 months ago

Syncthing generally works pretty well, but every now and again it decides that it's out of sync for no reason requiring a purge and rebuild of my shared dirs.

Still an order of magnitude more useful than synology drive which I upgraded from though.

[–] ours@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It doesn't really matter but Resilio came out of the BitTorrent Sync project which is relatively older.

[–] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

I believe it is based on BitTorrent protocol-wise, yeah. I guess I was referring more to the notion of a localized synching solution as opposed to the usually non-local or remote nature of torrenting.