I have all my apps that I’m using, along with moving everything over from my other phone with an SD card. Pretty close to being done.
I’m using most of the default apps to save on storage. But here are them listed:
Episteme oss -> this is just a PDF reader for any documents, including books and comics.
Anytime Player -> this is a Podcast app I’m using to replace Podcast Addict, another podcast app that is riddled with ads.
FM radio -> default app
Trebel Music -> Musify: I’m moving all my music from Trebel to Musify to listen to them completely offline and not having to deal with ads.
Pixelfed -> Instagram Alternative
Blorp -> Lemmy
Bookworm -> this is not BookWyrm(which is part of the fediverse) but its a cute, small community alternative to GoodReads. Its an app for book lovers wanting to talk about books.
Google Messages -> Quik and default texting app
All of the utility apps are default: calculator, clock, files, recorder, notes, tasks, music.
Gmail -> Tuta Mail along with the default mail app for all other imported email addresses.
Google Calander -> Tuta Calander
My bank apps: Chase and Bask Bank. They both work well, surprisingly, without Google Play Services.
Maps: I’m using MapQuest to replace Google Maps but I also use CoMaps mostly for hiking and the phone comes with a default map app.
Browser: This is default (Muerna) with your different search engines available, like DuckDuck Go, DuckDuck Go Lite, Qwant or Mojeek.
Gallery: Gallery is default but using Ente Photos for “cloud” storage to replace google photos.
Travel: Grab and Trip Plans: these two are apps from Aurora store that I’ll be using soon when traveling. Grab is a Southeast Asia version of Uber. Trip Plans is a app used when planning/organizing trips with a travel advisor (private between you and/or the group with the advisor only)Aurora store mentions they don’t work well without the play store but so far I haven’t had issues running the apps.
App stores: I have these just to try them out besides the default App Lounge:
Komi Store, F-Droid, Aurora Store, Neo Store, Repo Store, Droid-ify.
Camera is default
Privacy Scanner (I believe its from Droid-ify or NeoStore) an app use to simply check if all of your system and installed apps are actually “private” sometimes it gets paranoid and it’ll say that an app is not private because you let one use a feature like “access to Gallery” but it gives a nice visualization of what is running on your phone.
FreeDictionary: Open source dictionary app, not riddled with ads.
Quotes.app : just an app from Aurora store to read inspirational, motivating quotes when needed.
I haven’t switched over yet to try it but once I do, ill definitely give my comments.
First day: this thing is bulky and heavy. e/OS has stupid unremoveable apps like “tasks”, “notes” and other calendar etc that you can’t get a list of and much less uninstall, feels like …android.
The only thing that bothered me is Magic Earth. Apparently, it’s the best maps app they could get that allows traffic monitoring, but I’m not comfortable using that feature so I never have. I’ll be removing it for comaps soon.
I use Open Street Map out if being …a rather old dude who contributed quite a lot to it at it’s beginning. Didn’t try the included one. I honestly don’t think you can beat google maps, and so I don’t care if I struggle a bit (or a lot) more.
I’ll check comaps tho. It’s not much traffic that bothers me, more roadworks and other perturbations.
There are old forums out there saying you can use ADB to uninstall them but since this phone is gonna be my daily driver soon, I really don’t wanna risk that.
I’m going through all of the them to see what I honestly use and just gonna keep it to the bare minimum, while putting everything on the SD card.
Yeah, I had this initial knee-jerk reaction but since you don’t need as much foss apps to cover basic stuff full of shit (hello Oppo File Manager with ads displaying inside your file list), it’s probably less a worry and more about functionality.
I don’t need a calendar, I use proton. For notes taking I had an other with tons of notes on it, so I don’t want to use the og one. But I also had a gallery, a file manager, a PDF reader which I don’t need anymore. Should I persist with Open Street Maps? I haven’t tried the included one. Knee-jerk I said. I need to check them. Maybe the music app is better than vlc? The browser could be set to permanent incognito mode & I don’t need Firefox Focus.
That said, I’ll never get rid of AccuWeather or the KISS Launcher.
Tell us how it goes for you!
Oh I will absolutely. I’m gonna put all of it in a final post of everything I’ve done, including debloating the phone. I decided to give it a try and use Canta and Shizuku. There are some system stuff you can get rid of to improve functionality.