The Best Free and Open Source Apps in 2023!

I love finding amazing apps that are BOTH free and open-source apps, so here are another 10 incredible apps that fit the bill. Enjoy 👌🏻

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Time-stamps:
00:00 - Introduction
00:43 - Data Monitor
01:16 - Arcticons
01:46 - Paisa
02:19 - Flash Dim
03:15 - Taskbar
03:58 - OpenPods
04:21 - Raise To Answer
04:45 - Seal
05:41 - ViMusic
06:21 - Nearby Sharing
07:05 - Final Thoughts

[vsuperbhat]

The Creator of Paisa App is a classmate of mine. Nice to see his work being featured. :)

[kennetha]

Your videos are so clean and informative, its obvious they take a ton of effort to make. You are certainly my favourite Youtuber. Thanks and keep up the great work!

[TheWilldrick]

We need more FOSS apps, no tracking, no shady data collection, no unexpected IAPs... just make sure to donate to the projects you find useful!

Here are some of my favourites:

Infinity for Reddit - lightweight Reddit client
Organic Maps - Offline GPS maps with navigation based on OSM
NewPipe - Lightweight YT client with a ton of features
Open Camera - Hands down the best camera app for manual control and tinkering
Grocy - Self hosted home ERP (stock manager, shopping list, organization, etc)
Element - Clean and modern Matrix client
AntennaPod - Podcast client with a really nice UI and lots of features

[ZenIsFluffy]

Just found your channel. First off It's awesome to see YouTube creators covering FOSS apps like this! Also DAMN the camera work in this video is sublime. Its wonderful watching all these clean and well done shots!

[ranubis]

As one of the free and open source apps, I can confirm I am the best, and Sam is right.

[addy]

Your channel is a necessity for Android users around the world 😍 even here in India

[ashishtembhekar]

Sam you are a wizard, everytime im in need of a specific app and boom you upload a video showcasing exactly what i need, i got Seal, Paisa and now with data monitor. you are absolutely amazing.

[waz]

Heey, don't know if this will ever get to you, but I'm really enjoying your content. It's amazing to see someone who's enthusiastic and a technophile for both IOS and android + creating apps/and homescreen setups for all of us. Big fan of you man and always wish you the best of luck.

[aum]

Worth considering that if users of open source apps paid for them they would have more and better open source apps. They are free as in free to see the source code and free for anyone skilled to customize, but they costs to develop and keep up to date in an ever evolving tech landscape.

[kj]

I have 2 sims i.e 2 data packs, will data monitor show both of them?

[yaroslav]

As far as Nearby Sharing considered there are Warp/Wormhole apps that allow you to share files and folders between Windows, Linux and Android devices in both directions.

[zenbrandon]

Paisa sounds like exactly what I need. Definitely gonna give it a try!

[AviatorXD]

Raise to answer or face down to hang up was a feature in my Samsung s3 mini all the way back in 2012. Its genuinely useful.

[JXphonk]

Vivo used to have the feature of "Raise to Answer" back in the Android 5 days. idk if its still there in the newer ROMs but i do miss it cuz i used it a lot

[LibertyEver]

I'm keeping my GrapheneOS phone lean and mean and mostly use the provided apps. I added a few that I need to check in on my 91 year old Mom who has dementia, GPS track my motorcycle if it's stolen, etc. These only get privileges when running and GrapheneOS doesn't auto start them at reboot. One open source app I use is OSMand - the Open Street Maps offline GPS navigator.

[jpb]

Great video, many thanks. By the way, on the repository page of SEAL, a lot of users are reporting issue, bringing it to not properly work.

[rogerwprice]

This is fabulous - I never knew about ViMusic - the perfect complement to Newpipe!

[kidnamedfingr]

thanks sam! another banger! i just hope iOS starts supporting sideloading. that's literally the only thing that's still keeping me hooked to android.

[BigShactus]

Hi there, with the rise auf RFID/NFC Chips and Cards it would be nice to get an overview which possibilties are the to manage these cards/chips in one place - your smartphone. Maybe a good video idea

[momomaniac]

i would say KDE connect is best to send and receive files between two android phones i don't know if there one for iPhone but is possible to use it in Linux you can send and receive files between your phone and your pc or laptop that has Linux inside it easy and fast it's an open source applications