Personally paid for Niagara launcher as I find that to be the far superior launcher to any other I’ve tried. My second one is Symfonium, the most feature rich and well developed audio player.

What are yours?

  • lud@lemm.eeEnglish
    1·
    3 hours ago

    Nova launcher. I have yet to find a launcher that surpasses Nova.

  • Psythik@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    13 hours ago

    Torque Pro. Extra gauges for your car, like oil temp, timing, fuel trim, air-to-fuel ratio, tire pressures, MPG, and so much more. Also you can use it to see if you’ll pass emissions before you even go in for testing. (Requires OBD-II Bluetooth dongle.)

    Also if you’re willing to answer a couple of surveys a month, you can get paid apps for free forever using the Google Opinion Rewards app.

    • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      5 hours ago

      Google Opinion Rewards app.

      Unless Google Googles you. I used to use this, but I have apparently been permanently silently banned from it with no explanation and no recourse. I did nothing wrong or disingenuous as far as I can tell; It simply kept asking me – presumably based on my location – how my experience was with retailer X, Y, or Z was. Always stores which I had not visited but simply gone near, and I truthfully answered that I did not go to those places and it’d give me thirty cents or whatever, but then one day it just stopped offering me surveys at all, apparently forever.

      So I guess this flags the magic Google algorithm that I am worthless as a consumer and the app no just longer does anything on any of my devices anymore. It loads, it displays, but it never presents me any surveys. It squatted there on my phone completely silent for six months, so I uninstalled it. What a crock.

      Also, I’m sure they’re spying on you all the time through that app. Obviously it tracks your location, and Satan himself only knows what else it reports back to them. I think I’d give it a miss at this point. I’d rather pay $2 of real money for some app versus having Google snooping around behind me all the time just to get something for “free.”

      But yeah, Torque Pro is worth it. I use it all the time. So is Alpine Quest. Those are the only two paid apps I ever use on my phone.

      • phlegmy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2·
        3 hours ago

        Google don’t need an app if they want to spy on you.

        Unless you’ve switched to a rom without google play services, they can essentially do anything they want on your phone without you knowing.

  • Pika@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    9·
    16 hours ago

    it was nova launcher pro till they fucked the dev team down to 1 dev who does everything so I moved to lawn chair because I can’t trust that the project is going to stay alive.

  • sygnius@lemmy.worldEnglish
    17·
    18 hours ago

    Tasker. Pretty much programming your Android to automate things. Such a powerful app.

    • raptore39@lemm.eeEnglish
      3·
      5 hours ago

      I got recommended Macrodroid, so I’m going to try that as well as a comparison for my needs

  • WIZARD POPE💫@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    13 hours ago

    I bought blackplayer EX a while ago because it was a great music player but now it seems to be abandonded with the last update being a year ago and I have started encountering some issues.

  • DeadNinja@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    21 hours ago

    The only paid app that I have is Moon+ Reader Pro.

    I read a boatload of ebooks on my device, and this has been my ebook-reader of choice for a while. I found it to be so good that I did the IAP, and stopped using Librera Reader.

    For all that matters, I am a huge supporter of FOSS apps (that’s the reason I have only one paid app lol) - but Moon+ reader Pro beats Librera in two areas - Librera is pretty slow when it tries to open a huge file, and Librera also can’t download book covers like Moon+ does.

  • this_1_is_mine@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    18 hours ago

    Unified remote. WiFi or Bluetooth control over any win/Linux/Mac machine with many remotes and incredible functionality.

  • claymore@pawb.socialEnglish
    5·
    21 hours ago

    Poweramp, IMO the UX is excellent and it has tons of powerful features. No other music player I’ve tried comes close.

      • huginn@feddit.itEnglish
        1·
        3 hours ago

        I don’t think it goes on sale ever, but $10 is effectively a permanent sale compared to Steam

      • huginn@feddit.itEnglish
        2·
        22 hours ago

        I’ve been playing it and it’s definitely fun but it’s not as sticky as StS imo. There’s too much randomness and not enough control. At least compared to sts

        • GissaMittJobb@lemmy.mlEnglish
          1·
          14 hours ago

          Give it some time, you might just get there.

          The randomness is basically a variable to be controlled for in the same manner that it has to be controlled in Slay the Spire.

    • arglebargle@lemm.eeEnglish
      9·
      1 day ago

      Don’t tell me this! I have it on my steam deck and it is addictive enough. I had no idea it was available on android. I am going to try and pretend I didn’t read this.

  • trevorb@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    18·
    1 day ago

    Easy question for me, Tasker. Don’t know what I’d do without it. Come to think of it, as someone has already mentioned, Stardew Valley is pretty good too.

    • magikmw@lemm.eeEnglish
      5·
      1 day ago

      I like the idea of Tasker, but can’t think of usecases. What’s yours?

      • AnExerciseInFalling@programming.devEnglish
        1·
        2 hours ago

        A couple of favorites that are different from what others already said:

        • I strongly dislike autorotate on my phone so I always keep it off, however it makes perfect sense in apps like YouTube/Twitch. So I have one task that turns it on when opening one of those apps, and off again when closing them
        • When I’ve got Bluetooth headphones, I can choose to have incoming texts read out to me. Very nice when walking/running outside and not needing to pull my phone out
        • Similarly, I’ve got a task that will (optionally) read out the name of the song that’s playing to Bluetooth
      • AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.netEnglish
        2·
        6 hours ago

        • When my house guests text “#wifi” to me, they get an auto reply with the WiFi password.

        • NFC tag stuck to my medication pouch. When I boop my phone to it (or tap a shortcut on homescreen), I can select what medication I have taken. The medication and the time gets added to the bottom of a Google sheets spreadsheet, that I, or someone supporting me can check to get an overview of how frequently I’ve been taking medication (especially useful for spotting high pain chunks of time due to more frequent usage of PRN pain meds).

        • Another aspect of the medication tracking above is that it also can tell me the last time I took medication. For example, if I take ADHD meds at 12pm, then my next dose would be 4pm. If I tap the shortcut at 3pm, it’ll tell me I last took meds at 12pm and I’m next due at 4pm. Alarms tend to either startle me or not be noticed, but when I had smart lights and a notification light on my phone, I could make a colour gradient where “you have just taken meds” = red and “you are due to take meds” = blue, and as time progresses, the colour slowly becomes more blue. This works well for me, because I like visual reminders

      • burgersc12@mander.xyzEnglish
        4·
        21 hours ago

        Personally I use it to

        1. put a slider on the display that controls the flashlight when it is on.
        2. Quick setting tiles for fast charging, mono/stereo audio and adb debugging.
        3. a basic local website, so I can copy text from my phone to PC and vice-versa
        4. toggle settings when specific apps are open i.e. when google wallet is open turn on NFC
        5. request music from Rockbot while at work
      • node815@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        1 day ago

        Some examples of using Tasker:

        • When a specific contact sends a text message, it alerts me using TTS so I can be aware they are trying to reach me. I have an older family member she lives closer to, so having an alert from her is important if anything should happen forbid it does. When I plug my phone in to charge, it auto silences the phone and keeps it silenced until I unplug it, built into the same task, if monitors for phone calls from my contact and a few others and overrides it.

        When a specific phone contact or contact calls, it raises the volumes to max. This is useful if you went to an appointment, set your phone on silent or vibrate but forgot to reset it. After the call has been completed, it returns the phone to the original volume you set.

        • When I scan a NFC Tag, i have it send a webhook to my August lock to unlock it. As an apartment dweller, if I go down to the car to unload groceries, the door by default auto locks. This means I have to pull the phone out, unlock it, open the August App, and then tell it to unlock the door and sometimes use the biometric to do so. Having the NFC tag do this means I can put it in my wallet and when I put my phone in the same pocket where the wallet it is, it triggers the door.

        • When connected to my computer only, it keeps the screen on all the time.

        • When I launch certain apps, it keeps the screen on until the app is closed. Very useful when you are at the grocery store working within a strict budget and want to see how much you have put in to the cart!

        • I have a widget on my screen which toggles my Private DNS on/off. This allows me to disable the adblock dns I use if I encounter a public wifi which insists I disable it. (I usually stay away from those, and use my mobile data, but sometimes it’s unavoidable when there is so much interference your 5G goes to NONE and you have to be there for a while.)

        • Likewise, I have a widget which toggles my Tailscale connection on/off which comes in handy as well. Again, if the Wifi spot rejects custom DNS’s and I’m in the scenario above.

        • If you have a Google Account (Sadly, this is the only way). You can view the list of profiles/tasks which other people have built. It’s a growing list. https://taskernet.com/shares/

        • Using third party software such as Wake on LAN, when I come home and connect to my WiFi, it wakes my computer. (Or really any condition I set to trigger it).

        I will say that the dev is very responsive and active in releasing updates and new features.

        With that said, it has a slight learning curve which he(the developer) is working on to help simplify things and modernize it more. Since taking over the project from the previous owner, it’s really grown.

        I admit though, I used to have a lot more tasks and profiles, but it seems that Android is starting to bake those functions in so it’s not as used on my end. But don’t let it it sway you. Your imagination is the only limit with what you can do with Tasker.

        Generally, for less than a cup of coffee, it’s worth the purchase price. :)

      • trevorb@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        2·
        1 day ago

        I have a profile that mutes my phone between 21:00 and 08:00 but only if I’m at home. I frequently work late into the night. I have a large number of backdrop images which are randomly changed every three hours, the lockscreen image is changed to match. I also have a desktop button to change it manually. I have profiles to backup various files onto remote servers. I also have a profile to stop my workout app when I get home, in case I forget.