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  • Also, is there any reason to switch to newpipe if ReVanced is serving me well?

    I guess for most people not, but there can be some:

    • privacy: NewPipe doesn’t require you to log on to a Google account (but it so connects to Google servers if you watch YouTube videos). You can, however still follow channels (only locally, obviously)
    • ability to download videos or just audio. An extra is that on ReVanced you can have the download function through a 3rd party app, you can choose from several and NewPipe is one of them.
    • NewPipe can also play content from other sources, like Bandcamp or SoundCloud.

    A reason to not switch would be… the interface is not very ptetty





  • There’s tons to choose from, some that are also found in the Play Store (often with Google proprietary libraries or tracking removed). I would recommend:

    • Aegis authenticator: for 2FA.
    • Antenna Pod: for all your podcasts needs
    • Aves Libre: beautiful gallery app which I personally prefer over the Fossify app that others recommended here (try both and decide for yourself).
    • Binary Eye: QR code scanner.
    • Gauguin: a Sudoku-like game, very entertaining.
    • Heliboard: a great keyboard with support for multilingual typing and glide typing. Completely offline and private.
    • KDE Connect: to wirelessly connect your phone with your computer, transfer files, share the clipboard, control your computer from your phone…
    • KeePassDX (or Bitwarden): password manager. I personally prefer KeePassDX and dealing myself with syncing the database (via synching or KDE Connect), but some people prefer Bitwarden which offers online syncing.
    • KISS (or Kvaesitso): simple search-based launchers. Kvaesitso has more options but also feels a bit heavier.
    • Metro: music player for local files
    • Moshidon: Mastodon client.
    • Mull: web browser based on Firefox with hardened privacy (+uBlock Origin extension)
    • NewPipe: to watch YouTube videos without ads.
    • Organic Maps (or OsmAnd~): offline Maps based on OpenStreetMap. Break free from Google.
    • Syncthing: to synchronise files between devices (Android, computer).
    • Tasks.org: to-do’s.
    • Transistor: listen to the radio. Many stations built-in, and you can add more if you have the streaming URL.
    • Voyager: client for Lemmy.











  • Not necessarily: you can choose to have several languages separated as different input methods (you can switch between them very quickly by sliding vertically from the space bar) OR you can go to “Settings / Languages” and select one of your active languages and inside its submenu add languages for multilingual typing. This way when you select that original language as input method it will use and recognise all the languages you added at once. I must say this can be tricky with glide typing, but still works pretty well.


  • I have Heliboard set to English (UK) and it suggests British spellings (highlighting the American ones as typos), so I think you should be good. However, I’m not sure if the spellings come from my phone’s system or from the keyboard…

    I would nevertheless recommend trying it: it has some very nice improvements over OpenBoard and is under active development, so you could request new features or report bugs and expect them to be taken care of.