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Comment by herogreen | Hacker News Reader

Nice list, pretty comprehensive in my opinion. I personally do not have the Google apps on my android phone and the only two applications that I use that are not in the list are:

- a pdf viewer: I like Document Viewer especially to navigate in ebooks.

- a GPS application: I like OsmAnd that has a very usable UI, lots of features and allows you to download the map of a region for offline use.

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OsmAnd - tried this on 3 devices, none could download/render anything at all on any network connected. Looks like a heavy thing anyway

OsmAnd has a counterintuive UI, it have been the case that you didn't have the right map layers enabled.

You also need to download the maps ahead of time.

AFAIK, Osmand~ supports live tiles too.

OsmAnd is a marvel - I plan all my holiday needs with it: preloading points of interest and doing all the routing with it.

It packs this much functionality in one place, all available offline. Once you get past the counterintuitive UI, you start to like it.

It covers public transport, opening hours, all kinds of PoIs, distance measurement tools, hill shading, contour maps and customizable map views, being able to measure routes in advance (calculate route from any point x to y).

it's impressive the amount of things that osmAnd but it ends up being a bit cluttered at times.

try "maps" for something more basic (white logo with black M). it's a fork of mapbox's "map.me" app just without any ads

I use OsmAnd all the time for off line directions (don't have data on my phone). Works great!

Document Viewer ils great for pdf ans epub

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