NewPipe

WHAT IS F-DROID ? F-Droid is an awesome app repository for FOSS (Free & Open Source Software) android apps. From productivity apps to games, f-droid has (almost) everything you need. Hope you will discover useful FOSS apps to free your phone from Big Tech^^ REPOSITORIES : This list includes apps from the official f-droid repo but also from IzzyOnDroid and some customs repositories which will be always linked so you can add them easily. CATEGORIES : F-Droid clients Utilities Social & Communication / 8 subcategories Health / 7 subcategories Customization / 3 subcategories Gaming / 3 subcategories Internet / 6 subcategories Productivity / 15 subcategories Privacy / 5 subcategories Security / 4 subcategories Media apps / 10 subcategories If you care about privacy check : Privacy focused OS for everyone My privacy and user friendly setup For more FOSS Android apps check : Beautiful Open Source Apps for Android DISCLAIMERS : Adding custom repo might not be as secure as the official one so I'm not responsable if you encounter any problems with them ! I encourage you to do your own research about it ! Also while open source is great for privacy and security it is not perfect. So keep that in mind before downloading any apps. Most apps that I've listed are privacy friendly but some might be not be perfectly private and secure. I again encourage you to do your own research about them. I am not a privacy and security expert. I'm also don't consider myself as a developper so I do not have any technical knowledge and so I didn't look into any source code of any apps in this list ! English is not my mother tongue ^^'

A list of interesting and open source Android apps.

Everytime I setup a phone for a friend or myself I usually remove stock apps using adb or UniversalAndroidDebloaterNextGeneration and replace them with theses apps listed here. I added also a couple of nice to have apps that people might wants on their device. Almost all of them are free as in free beer and many are open source (around 80%) I tried to feature more applications and less services but there are several services still in this list, however I find them great and/or accessible (freemium most of the time). FOSS = Free(as in freedom) and Open Source Software

NewPipe is a lightweight YouTube icon YouTube front-end for Android. It also supports YouTube Music icon YouTube Music , SoundCloud icon SoundCloud , Bandcamp icon Bandcamp , and PeerTube icon PeerTube .

It works independently of Google's services, extracting data directly from YouTube, making it functional on devices without Google Services. The NewPipe Extractor component is used by other apps for data extraction.

The app offers features like video searches, information about videos, viewing videos up to 4K resolution, and background audio streaming. It also has a popup mode, live stream viewing, and subtitle options.

NewPipe also allows searches for YouTube videos and audios with language specification. Users can queue videos, save them as local playlists, and control visibility of video information. The app enables channel browsing and subscription without account login, channel group management, and content downloading. Users can view and search watch history, open content in Kodi, and manage access to age-restricted material.