• Droid-ify - much nicer F-Droid replacement front end that also works with Shizuku to automate installing updates in batches. Also supports many other repositories like izzy-On-Droid (which some of my items below may come from instead).

• Shizuku - gives elevated powers to apps written to take advantage of it. Not quite root, but definitely helps give abilities that make life easier.

• Kompact Image Compressor - I work with scanned documents a fair amount, and this new app has already saved me significant storage space.

• Key Mapper - I mainly use this for emulation, but there are plenty of other uses.

• URL Check - powerful sanitizer with the smallest footprint of those I've tried.

• DropCount - my latest game addiction

• Keyboard Switcher - sometimes I just gotta use a different input method, and this provides a consistent easy way to switch

• Hail - group apps to freeze all in one shot with Shizuku

• Insular - de-Googled Island app which makes working with the work profile feature easier

• FFUpdater - keeps my collection of browsers & Thunderbird up to date automatically with Shizuku

I prefer PipePipe to NewPipe, personally. It's got more sources. Otherwise, in no particular order...

• Shattered Pixel Dungeon
• Fennec F-Droid
• Xed-Editor
• AntennaPod
• VLC
• Forkyz
• AnySoftKeyboard
• KDE Connect
• Linux Command Library

Does it have to be on F-Droid? I use Obtainium. (app configs)

LocalSend, https://github.com/localsend/localsend Obtainium, https://github.com/imranr98/obtainium Aegis, https://github.com/beemdevelopment/aegis CoMaps, https://codeberg.org/comaps/comaps Tasks, https://github.com/tasks/tasks ZipXtract, https://github.com/wirelessalien/zipxtract disky, https://github.com/newhinton/disky WallFlow Plus (Alpha), https://github.com/ammargitham/WallFlow Droid-ify, https://github.com/iamlooker/droid-ify Aves Libre, https://github.com/deckerst/aves Phone, https://github.com/FossifyOrg/Phone OpenTracks, https://f-droid.org/packages/de.dennisguse.opentracks Eden, https://git.eden-emu.dev/eden-emu/eden DAVx⁵, https://github.com/bitfireat/davx5-ose Open Camera, https://f-droid.org/en/packages/net.sourceforge.opencamera Obsidian, https://github.com/obsidianmd/obsidian-releases kitshn, https://github.com/aimok04/kitshn Calculator, https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.sadellie.unitto Jellyfin, https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-android Nextcloud, https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.nextcloud.client WiFiAnalyzer, https://github.com/VREMSoftwareDevelopment/WifiAnalyzer Thunderbird, https://github.com/thunderbird/thunderbird-android Breezy Weather, https://github.com/breezy-weather/breezy-weather addy.io, https://github.com/anonaddy/addy-android mpv, https://f-droid.org/en/packages/is.xyz.mpv Paperize, https://github.com/Anthonyy232/Paperize M3U, https://github.com/oxyroid/M3UAndroid FairScan, https://github.com/pynicolas/FairScan Harmonic, https://github.com/simonhalvdansson/harmonic-hn SpamBlocker, https://f-droid.org/en/packages/spam.blocker Material Files, https://github.com/zhanghai/materialfiles FUTO Keyboard, https://github.com/futo-org/android-keyboard KeePassDX, https://github.com/Kunzisoft/KeePassDX Signal, https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android Bitwarden, https://github.com/bitwarden/android Audiobookshelf, https://github.com/advplyr/audiobookshelf-app KDE Connect, https://f-droid.org/packages/org.kde.kdeconnect_tp GameNative, https://github.com/utkarshdalal/GameNative MJ PDF, https://gitlab.com/mudlej_android/mj_pdf_reader Firefox Beta, https://download.cdn.mozilla.net/pub/fenix/releases/ Summit, https://github.com/idunnololz/summit-for-lemmy Catima, https://github.com/catimaloyalty/android ArrMatey, https://github.com/owenlejeune/ArrMatey OpenKeychain, https://f-droid.org/packages/org.sufficientlysecure.keychain NotallyX, https://github.com/Crustack/NotallyX WG Tunnel, https://github.com/wgtunnel/wgtunnel Bluesky, https://github.com/bluesky-social/social-app Mental Math, https://codeberg.org/Mental-Math/MentalMath Calendar, https://github.com/fossifyorg/calendar Moshidon, https://github.com/lucasggamerm/moshidon Memories, https://github.com/pulsejet/memories AntennaPod, https://f-droid.org/en/packages/de.danoeh.antennapod Home Assistant, https://github.com/home-assistant/android Off Grid, https://github.com/alichherawalla/off-grid-mobile-ai Tubular, https://github.com/polymorphicshade/Tubular

Since most of my daily drivers are covered, i'll list the two that haven't been:

pie-launcheris... different in how it operates...

And Thump-Key is my by now loved keyboard that lets you type fast with no autocorrect (after a period of learning). I use it with a two finger configuration and a German layout.

There are setups for one finger too:

two that get almost daily use from me:

osmand - maps
antennapod - podcasts

• Voyager: Piefed client
• VLC: media player
• Xtra: Twitch streaming player
• Material Files: file manager
• Aegis: 2fa app
• Syncthing-fork: synching app
• Pixel Wheels: car game
• Vector Pinball: pinball game
• SolitaireCG: solitaire game
• Librera FD: ebook viewer
• CalcYou: calculator
• Fossify Gallery: photo manager/viewer
• Notally: notes app
• Pixeldroid: Pixelfed client
• QKSMS: sms app

These are the the best I found of the ones installed

• Seconds Clock Widget
• Weather Radar
• Léon URL Cleaner
• Grayjay
• Calculator Widget
• MinCal Calendar Widget
• Open Camera
• Organic Maps

I dunno, just some off the top of my head, I'm sure I'm forgetting a few other good ones here too.

In no order.

• Daily You - journal entry app. Write down excerpts of occurances during the day. Shows recalls of previous entries, like 1 year ago
• Aves Libre - gallery app
• Tasks.org - tasks list
• Quillpad - Note taking app, syncs with Nextcloud
• Interstellar/Raccoon - PieFed and Lemmy clients
• Rythmn - music app. Play audio files
• Heliboard - keyboard, private
• OpenTracks - route tracker, running, etc
• LibreFit - new kid on the block. Fitness tracking app, mostly weights.

Use every day:

• Feeder (RSS, kinda awkward to sort the feeds but really nice to use, if you use it like I do)
• Grayjay (for YT and some other sources)
• CoMaps (best simple OSM Client)
• Track Work Time (very good time tracker if you have to track your time for sth)
• NFC Alarm Clock (simply the best alarmclock, I dont even use the NFC part)

Useful/Cool:

• Arcticons (Iconpack for all of the apps)
• Birday (pretty little Birthday Database)
• Breakout 71 (game: roughelike Breakout. I like it more than I like to admit it)
• Catima (wallet for QR Codes/PDFs)

Further (obvious ones or useful things I use once a week or less) KDE Connect, LocalSend, Pixelix (Pixelfed Client), Signal, Thunderbird, StreetComplete