Ask HN: What lightweight apps do you use on your Android phone?

13 points·mkbkn··5 comments

I always seek to install and use apps which consume as less memory and battery as possible, and preferably open-source.

I'm interested to know what the HN community uses?

Might uncover some lesser known but useful apps.

MiXplorer - https://labs.xda-developers.com/store/app/com.mixplorer

Its a file manager I use daily. Well made, no issues. I wish its open-source for the sole reason that I want to read that code. It works so well and very light.

Give the F-Droid store a look: https://f-droid.org/

NetGuard to control which apps are allowed to communicate with the world and when

(save your battery)

DNS66 for dns adblocking

(save your sanity)

Pindroid for bookmarks using pinboard.in

(save your history)

What the heck, here's another four.

File management : https://sourceforge.net/projects/ghostcommander/

Scan for application embedded trackers : https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.oF2pks.classyshark3xodus...

mpv for Android : https://github.com/mpv-android/mpv-android

Multipurpose downloader, aria2 -- it's also available through Termux : https://github.com/aria2/aria2

Edit : https://github.com/termux/

Too many to list, but a few token ones.

Edit / code : https://github.com/billthefarmer/editor/

Photography : https://sourceforge.net/projects/opencamera/

Drawing / painting : https://github.com/Catrobat/Paintroid

Unicode : https://github.com/Ryosuke839/UnicodePad

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