I'd suggest Feeder for RSS. I haven't found a perfect feed reader, but Feeder is at least no-nonsense.

My MVP FLOSS apps are

• Kiss launcher
• K-9 (email)
• Fennec (slight improvement over Firefox)
• VLC (media player)
• Antennapod (podcasts)
• Voice (audio books)
• Newpipe (YouTube without the Google snooping)
• Markor (notes)
• Authenticator (two factor authentication)
• DAVx5 (calendar and contacts sync)
  • ICSx5 (adds ICS events to calendar)
• Syncthing (serverless file sync)
• Tusky (Mastodon)

All of those are from F-droid; I'm slowly moving to Obtainium from Aurora store to keep a couple of non-FLOSS apps updated.

FlorisBoard with a custom theme named floristyle to make it look a lot like Gboard (Material You)! There's no auto-suggestions or glide typing (yet), but I somehow already got used to that haha

No love for librera yet. That scroll mode for PDFs saves my life for technical documentation.

Have redreader integrate with lemmy yet?

Tey heliboard. I known you posted a long time ago

is there a foss alternative to niagara launcher?

I use a few apps from the SimpleMobileTools suite. They aren't full FOSS, they have basic and pro versions where the basic version is GPL3 and the proprietary extended features cost a few bucks. The basic FOSS tools are still decent, if barebones.

The suite includes:

• a calculator
• a phone dialer
• a music player
• a calendar
• a photo gallery (with basic editor)
• an audio recorder
• a flashlight
• a clock
• an app launcher
• an SMS messenger
• a camera
• a keyboard
• a note taker
• a file manager
• a contact book
• a simple painting canvas

I use the gallery and file manager the most. Though admittedly I threw a couple bucks their way for the proprietary extensions. It's not FOSS, but if it was going to be proprietary, I think it's one of the fairest deals in software these days. Better than another bloody subscription model, or holding the ad-free experience hostage behind a paywall.

https://github.com/deniscerri/ytdlnis

• FluffyChat
• Seeker
• Pano Scrobbler
• Mull
• Orbot
• FairEmail
• Librera
• Kanji Dojo
• KeePass2Android
• PipePipe
• LibreTube
• Aegis
• OpenLauncher
• Translate You
• DITMM?
• Wormhole William
• Breezy Weather
• Retro Music
• OsmAnd
• monerujo
• NeoStore
• Prepaid Balance
• QKSMS, though it's pretty low maintenance
• EasyNoise
• Simple Gallery
• SCEE, which is way more fun that any proprietary AR spyware IMO!

• Thunder: Lemmy App
• Scrambled Exif: Removes metadata when sharing images
• Feeder: Rss Reader
• KISS Launcher: Home Launcher
• NewPipe: PeerTube and YouTube app.
• Omni Notes: Notetaking
• StreetComplete: Easy, fun, and addicting way to make OpenStreetMap updates on the go
• OsmAnd~: Maps and navigation. Works phenomenally when in the backcountry and uses cell towers to locate you when gps alone can't.
• Tower Collector: Contribute BTS towers for the above.
• VLC: Video player
• WiFi Analyzer: Useful for improving and setting up WiFi networks.
• UntrackMe: Transforms links into their OSS alternatives.