Android app reviews

(Plus many others that don't have a homepage. Dear programmers: get a proper homepage for your projects. GitHub doesn't count.)

In current use

Tusky: Client for Mastodon, Pleroma or any other compatible service. Much lighter than its main competitor (though not exactly light as such).
Privacy Browser: Just what it says on the tin: doesn't enable or save anything without your say-so, and tries not to leak too much identifying information about you.
Ghost Commander: Orthodox file manager with excellent connectivity features. Lacks an internal text editor, so you'll have to install one for F4 to work.
SolitaireCG: Just what it says on the tin. Gorgeous card art if you have a big device, but scales to tiny screens just as well. Many games and options.
SmartCookieWeb: Mobile browser with many options, that looks a lot like Midori except it's noticeably smaller and doesn't track you. Has a Material Design user interface that can be optimized for use with thumbs.
Markor: Editor for lightweight markup formats, with syntax highlighting, export and other conveniences.
F-Droid: Package manager and repository of open source Android apps. Everything is built from source and checked for malware, trackers or other issues.

ConnectBot: SSH client and terminal emulator, very usable as of 2021.
X11-Basic: Interpreter for the eponymous programming language. Quirky and buggy, yet fun.

Orgzly: Outliner using org files as an interchange format. It helps to know a few things about the underlying file format, for example how to set a notebook title and what drawers are. Cool and useful, but ultimately too clunky.
PocketGopher: Modern client for the Gopher protocol. Supports a bunch of unofficial extensions. You'll want a big screen for ASCII art.
Android simple generic text editor: Just "Editor" for friends, it's an app as tiny as it is useful, with many features otherwise found in others ten times larger.

Text Fiction: Z-Machine interpreter with a chat-like UI. Elegant and lightweight. Has its own game store and can also import sideloaded story files.
microMathematics Plus: Call it a calculator that uses math notation, with all the bells and whistles. Call it a math cheatsheet that also does the math for you. Or maybe a way to write papers where the function graphs are actually live. It took me a couple of tries to figure it out, but then it became quick and easy. Also fun.

Last modified: 25 July 2022.