Simple Mobile Tools has very nice replacement for basic features no matter you are using the apps that came with your phone’s stock ROM or LineageOS which has the minimum. It’s lightweight yet it does a little more than most default basic apps
Phone
- Yet Another Call Blocker (it downloads a database to your phone instead of uploading the phone number to the server to do the check)
Browser
- Brave (Can use sync chain that your data is not stored in other people’s cloud)
- DuckDuckGo
Maps & Navitation
- OsmAnd – Offline Mobile Maps and Navigation
- Organic Maps – very neat map apps that shows the walking trails!
I do not recommend Navit for Android as it’s very slow and broken. GTK+ style GUI looks very odd on Android.
Utilities
- File Manager: Material Files (it also has a built-in FTP server)
- Gallery: Simple Gallery Pro (comes with a handy image editor and freestyle annotation)
Productivity
- Calendar: Simple Calendar Pro
- Contacts: Simple Contacts Pro (optionally show phone number next to name)
- Email: Maildroid, Fairmail
Multimedia
- Rumble
- Odysee (LRBY)
- Youtube Vanced (Youtube app broke which keeps demanding me to update when it’s already the latest)
You can change the comments behavior in Vanced settings
Social Media
- Twidere: excellent Twitter/Mastodon client (Twitter’s official client is very resource intensive and sluggish.)
