I’m curious to discover more stuff that exists in the App realm, there must be some small indie apps we don’t know about everywhere

  • Daemon Silverstein@thelemmy.club
    1·
    5 hours ago

    Lots.

    • Spectroid: a realtime frequency analysis of sounds from microphone (Fast Fourier transform)
    • The Powder Toy: a falling sand sandbox, where you can play with and mix and react various elements.
    • Sketchbook: app to draw, lots of pencil styles

    I’m not sure whether they fit the “indie” category, tho.

  • EuroNutellaMan@lemmy.world
    1·
    6 hours ago

    Chafa - I can turn pictures in ANSI art for my terminal

    Syncthing - A godsend for me and I can’t believe how easy it is to set up and have it just work, I was almost disappointed when I was setting it up expecting issues and then the mf just works perfectly fine without issue

    Tailscale - Very useful to remotely ssh to my computer(s) even from my phone

    Termux - terminal on android

    This one you may have heard of and it’s not exactly niche or small of but I’ll add it anyways just in case: Too Good To Go - allows you to get cheap food and save it from going to waste. I use it a lot when I can’t go to the university cafeteria and don’t feel like cooking

  • tetris11@lemmy.ml
    17·
    7 days ago

    PianOli: A little toy piano for your kids to play without being able to swipe out and see other apps.

    Flashlight: Flashlight from the Simple suite, that allows you to pulse or strobe your phone’s torch. It can even pulse SOS messages.

    Moonlight: Stream your entire desktop (e.g. gaming PC) to your phone using the sunshine (previously nvidia gamestream) protocol. Works fantastic.

  • HereIAm@lemmy.world
    18·
    7 days ago

    I got a couple of apps I’d recommend in a heartbeat.

    Spectdroid is a spectrogram app. Its unreasonable how often I’m using this app. I got some mild tinnitus that comes and goes and this app allows me to find out if I got some actual weird buzzing I’m the house or if it’s just in my head.

    And LocalSend is an amazing app for sending files between various devices and OSes over a local network. I no longer need to set up file shares, plug in my phone to a computer, or use cloud storage just to transfer over some files.

  • viralJ@lemmy.world
    13·
    7 days ago

    If you travel a lot, Toilet finder.

    Edit: and not an app, but a website: Pairdrop - really useful for cross-platform file sharing, especially when you just need to email to colleagues something you snapped with your personal phone, but yoe have overly tight IT systems in place at work that stop you from connecting your personal phone to your email or OneDrive.

  • MadBabs@lemmy.world
    6·
    6 days ago

    ShareWaste. You can sign up that you have a compost pile or chicken to feed, etc, and people with food scraps can find places to “donate” to! I have 3 or 4 regular contributers to my compost pile!

  • oldfart@lemm.ee
    10·
    7 days ago

    Trail Sense, it’s all the “survival” tools in one great package. Do I use it often? No. Does it feel like unwrapping my favourite toy every time I open it? Absolutely.

    • KestrelAlex@lemmy.world
      1·
      6 days ago

      I use the AR tool for sun positions every time I’m finding a tent spot or to watch a sunrise/set, and the bubble level is perfect for finding a tent spot that isn’t tilted 2 degrees towards your head so you wake up with a headache.

        • KestrelAlex@lemmy.world
          1·
          1 day ago

          If sunrise and sunset is your thing then the website suncalc.net works great to find what places will have the best views for different times of year.

          I go watch the sunset as part of my solstice and equinox adventures so finding new places with nice views is fun.

          • oldfart@lemm.ee
            1·
            22 hours ago

            It may have to start being my thing, I moved to a place on ground floor with no sunrise or sunset view. I never thought about it when moving, so now I’ll have to supplement my sunset intake

  • Underwaterbob@lemm.eeEnglish
    81·
    7 days ago

    Grainstorm

    It’s a ridiculously versatile granular sampler synthesizer. Obviously not for everyone, but it’s super fun to just make weird soundscapes with. Even with just your phone mic.

  • Eiri@lemmy.ca
    6·
    7 days ago

    Unified Remote. It’s a little janky, but it does you to turn your phone into a trackpad and/or keyboard for your phone. It works with swipe typing, and allows you to use keyboard shortcuts such as Alt+Tab or Win+Shift+Arrow.

    Truly the best way I’ve found of using my PC from my couch.

      • Eiri@lemmy.ca
        1·
        6 days ago

        Yeah I wish they were still adding new features and stuff. But I haven’t found a better alternative yet, so I guess that’s what we have.

        • rtxn@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          6 days ago

          Try KDE Connect. It works over LAN, has KB+M input, media controls, file transfer, among many other things. It’s available for many platforms.

          • Eiri@lemmy.ca
            1·
            6 days ago

            I’ve tried it. There were three issues:

            1. Mouse movement was pretty choppy. Not exactly a dealbreaker, but it took a little extra effort to aim at buttons.
            2. There wasn’t an easy way to do keyboard shortcuts. I googled the issue and people were suggesting to change the system keyboard to one that includes extra keys like Windows, Ctrl, etc. I really didn’t want to deal with that.
            3. The interface was pretty hard to navigate. In the absence of extra keyboard keys, I looked into creating a custom script in the app to maybe do things like Alt+tab a different way, and I never found it. Both apps said it had to be configured on the other device.