Mobile nostalgia

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 use as of July 2025

Tusky
Client for Mastodon, Pleroma or any other compatible service. Much lighter than its main competitor (though not exactly light as such).
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.
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.

Rarely used now

Orgzly Revived
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.
Librera Reader
Powerful e-book reader supporting numerous formats. Has a good balance between options and usability. Many ways to organize books.
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.
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.

Not used anymore

Markor
Editor for lightweight markup formats, with syntax highlighting, export and other conveniences.
PocketGopher
Modern client for the Gopher protocol. Supports a bunch of unofficial extensions. You'll want a big screen for ASCII art.
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.
X11-Basic
Programming language interpreter. Quirky and buggy, yet fun.