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

  • Fake4000@lemmy.worldEnglish
    44·
    11 months ago

    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.worldOP
      3·
      11 months ago

      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.

        • cheese_greater@lemmy.worldOP
          3·
          11 months ago

          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)

            • Longpork_afficianado@lemmy.nz
              1·
              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.worldEnglish
            2·
            11 months ago

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

            • cheese_greater@lemmy.worldOP
              1·
              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.