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

  • cheese_greater@lemmy.worldOP
    3·
    1 year 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
        31·
        1 year 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·
            1 year 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·
          1 year ago

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

          • cheese_greater@lemmy.worldOP
            1·
            1 year 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.