Arc Searchβ β β β βSurprisingly, I like the mobile Arc browser better than its desktop counterpart. Simplified UI, stays mostly out of your way, and itβs satisfying to fling tabs offscreen to close them. Still leery of the AI summarizer, though.
Assistant for No Manβs Skyβ β β β β Very useful for looking up crafting recipes and other reference while playing the game on my PC. Updated quickly when the game adds new features.
Bookshop.orgβ β β β βA good place to shop online for books and still support indie bookstores. Theyβve started selling eBooks too, in standard ePub form. The reader app is a bit rough around the edges, but works well enough on a regular phone or tabletβ¦just not on an e-ink touchscreen (yet?)
Deedumβ β β ββA full featured, if awkward, Gemini client for Android and iOS. Handles bookmarks, subscriptions and client identities.
eBooks.comβ β β β βAn eBook seller with some actual business ethics. No hardware (which simplifies things), but they have an app for Android and iOS, and any DRM-free titles can be downloaded and read on just about anything.
Kobo (eBook store and readers)β β β β βA solid alternative to Kindle, from the eBook selection through apps and hardware. The app works well on my eink tablet without too much tweaking, though it still wants to sell me more books before I can open the one I want to read.
Lagrangeβ β β β β Lagrange quickly became my favorite Gemini client on the desktop with its clean and convenient UI, stability and speed across platforms. And the mobile version works well too.
Manyverseβ β β β βTakes the pain out of setting up and running SSB. Unfortunately it doesnβt overcome SSBβs inherent challenges of discovery, data size or multiple devices. (So far?)
Mastodon (Mobile App)β β β ββGood for someone new to Mastodon, but lacks advanced features found in other apps like Tusky.
NetNewsWireβ β β β β Clean, stable, fast, free, no-clutter and no-nonsense RSS/Atom newsfeed reader for macOS and iOS.
Pocketβ β β ββIβve been using Pocket for ages to better manage my time reading articles. Lately Iβve soured on the way itβs turned into a recommendation engine.
Vivaldi (Web Browser)β β β β β Spiritual successor to the original Opera browser, this ultra-customizable web browser can open into a full suite for email, calendar, feeds and more β but only if you want it to.
Wallabagβ β β β βA read-it-later type service built on open-source software that you can run yourself if you want (but donβt have to). Not as polished as Pocket, but you know itβs not using your saved bookmarks to train a recommendation engine.
Watch Dutyβ β β β β More useful than official alerts or the LA Times fire maps for knowing which parts of a wildfire you need to worry about and how soon.