List of Apps that fit and function well [Post them here.]

amarok · December 21, 2020, 8:57pm

Latest update: April 6, 2025

This list is for adding applications as they are reported to work well and scale well to the L5 screen.
Feel free to post information and/or screenshots of apps you have tested.
I’ll keep editing the master as people report them here in the thread.

Apps Reported to Work & Scale Well or Mostly Well
(Some may require scale or orientation adjustments.)
Includes native apps and flatpaks.

AUDIO - VIDEO:

.Blanket
.Clapper
.Euterpe
.FreetuxTV
.Girens
.Goodvibes
.Kodi Remote
.Lollypop
.Metronome
.Mousai
.Music
.Myuzi (with limitations)
.Opentapes
.Pithos
.Podcasts
.Relaxator
.Rhythmbox
.Screen Recorder
.Shortwave
.SongRec
.Sound Recorder
.Spot
.Strawberry
.Streamtuner2
.Tubefeeder
.Video Downloader (GNOME)
.Videos (aka Totem)
.VLC
.µPlayer

COMMUNICATION:

.BM818-tools (PureOS package to enable VoLTE)
.Calls
.Chats
.Contacts
.Dino
.Element
.Fractal
.Gajim (messaging not yet tested)
.Geary
.Kaidan
.Linphone
.Matrix Mirage
.Pidgin (messaging not yet tested)
.PrePaid Manager
.Siglo
.Telegram Desktop
.Thunderbird

FINANCE:

.Markets
.Trezor

GAMES:

.2048
.Aisleriot
.Animatch
.BillardGL
.Bob
.Boiled Corn
.Bunny Semiconductor
.Chess
.ChocolateDoom
.Double Down
.Foobillardplus
.GNUbik
.Iagno
.Lights Off
.Mycelerate
.Neverball
.OpenTTD
.PokeMMO
.Reversi
.SuperTuxKart
.Taquin
.TwoFun
.WAAAA

IMAGING - DRAWING:

.Camera (Dev Preview; Millipixels)
.Cheese
.Color Palette
.Drawing
.Geeqie
.GIMP
.gThumb
.Image Viewer (Eye of GNOME)
.Megapixels (Amber repo)
.PicPlanner

INTERNET:

.Advanced Network Connections
.Cawbird
.Chromium
.eOVPN
.Feeds
.Firefox ESR
.Forklift
.Fragments
.FreeTube
.Frogr
.Giara
.Hackgregator
.Kasts
.MiniTube
.Mullvad VPN
.Onionshare
.Read It Later
.Tootle
.Video Downloader
.Web

MAPS - NAVIGATION:

.Enroute
.Maps (GNOME)
.Pure Maps

MISCELLANEOUS:

.AusweisApp2
.Ollama.ai

OFFICE:

.Dictionary
.Gnote
.Lyx
.Marker
.Note
.Speech Note
.Text Editor (gedit)
.Wordbook

ORGANIZATION:

.Butler
.Calendar
.CherryTree
.Clock (KDE)
.Clocks (GNOME)
.Confy
.Karlender
.OpenTodoList
.Orage
.Organizer
.QiFlora
.Planner
.Reminduck (visual, but not auditory, notification works)
.Siglo
.Simple Diary
.Solanum
.To Do
.Vehicle Voyage

PROGRAMMING - DEVELOPMENT:

.Thonny

SCIENCE - EDUCATION - READING:

.Anki
.Books
.Dialect
.Foliate
.Gpredict
.Health
.Komikku
.Marble (KDE Marble)
.Metronome
.Qwertone
.Solar System
.Space Launch
.Stellarium
.Sun Clock
.Verbiste

SECURITY:

.Authenticator
.Bleachbit
.File Shredder
.Flatseal
.GNU Privacy Assistant
.Metadata Cleaner
.OTPClient
.Password
.Password Safe
.Passwords and Keys (Seahorse)
.Secrets

UTILITIES:

.Add Hours and Minutes
.Archive Manager (File Roller)
.Blueman
.Calculator
.Control Center
.dconf Editor
.Deja Dup Backups
.Disks
.Evince
.FileLite
.Files (Nautilus)
.Files (Nemo)
.Font Downloader (uses Google Fonts site!)
.Fonts
.Free42 (tested on Pinephone)
.GDebi
.GNOME Characters
.GNOME Screenshot
.GNOME System Monitor
.Grpn Calculator
.Grsync
.GtkHash
.gworldclock
.Help (GNOME)
.HydraPaper
.Icon Browser
.King's Cross
.Librem 5 Goodies (Amber repo. Includes Contacts Importer, Screen Shot, Scale Screen)
.MenuLibre
.Mobile Settings
.Nixwriter
.Okular
.PDF Arranger
.Portfolio
.Power Statistics
.Print Settings
.Ptyxis
.QModMaster
.Settings
.Simple Scan
.Software
.System Monitor
.Screen Shot (PureOS)
.Terminal
.Tweaks
.unl0kr
.Usage
.Warpinator
.Weather (GNOME)
.Weather (KDE)
.What IP

WEB APPS:
(almost any website)
Examples:

.Amtrak
.Ars Technica
.BBC News
.Deutsche Bahn
.DuckDuckGO
.in-the-sky.org
.New York Times
.OpenStreetMap
.ProtonMail
.Purism Forums
.Purism News and Events
.Southwest Airlines
.StartMail
.Startpage
.Trenitalia
.Your bank
.Your router admin settings

See also these lists with descriptions:
Mobile-optimized applications
Mobile-optimized applications: 3rd party

Link to an exterior list here: [MyL5] Received my Librem 5 (Evergreen) - #80 by linmob
(Leads to: https://linmobapps.frama.io/ )

See also: New apps of LinuxPhoneApps.org, Q3/2022 - 400! 🎉 | LinuxPhoneApps.org (Thanks to @linmob)

fsflover · December 21, 2020, 9:38pm

Careful with this one:

nerd7473 · December 21, 2020, 9:39pm

I went to start.me and block all of the adverts, and RSS stuff for my startpage

amarok · December 21, 2020, 10:04pm

I think this explains the relationship between Startpage and System1:

https://support.startpage.com/index.php?/Knowledgebase/Article/View/1275/0/what-is-startpages-relationship-with-privacy-onesystem1-and-what-does-this-mean-for-my-privacy-protections

amarok · December 21, 2020, 10:59pm

Something to keep our eye on, though.

Kyle_Rankin · December 21, 2020, 11:04pm

We also maintain a similar page here although it’s more focused on applications explicitly in PureOS and doesn’t include flatpaks:

https://tracker.pureos.net/w/pureos/mobile_optimized_apps/

amarok · December 21, 2020, 11:07pm

Awesome…and I forgot that was there. I’ll integrate them into this list and check it periodically. Thanks!

Edit: Until the number of optimized apps becomes unmanageable, of course!

amarok · December 25, 2020, 1:20am

Examples (and yes, I have no life right now):

AisleRiot:

Notes:

GNOME Tweaks:
( gsettings set sm.puri.phoc.application:/sm/puri/phoc/application/packagename/ scale-to-fit true is applied; replace “packagename” with actual name)

Flatseal (permissions manager for flatpaks):

Archive Manager:

Drawing:

roguenorm · December 25, 2020, 1:28am

Oh, the hours I’ve wasted with AisleRiot. L5 can now be my daily driver. Keep 'em coming @amarok! its great to see the rapidly expanding number of apps that will work once I get my phone.

amarok · December 25, 2020, 5:51am

Enroute Flight Navigation:

Gpredict (Realtime satellite tracking and orbit prediction):

(Scaled down a bit)

amarok · December 25, 2020, 6:13am

Follow these links to see screenshots of the indicated apps.

Telegram:

PureMaps:

VLC:

GtkHash:

Feeds:

Shortwave:

Markets:

Scale Screen:

And…

Files (Nemo):

Dictionary:

amarok · December 25, 2020, 4:24pm

Taquin (tile puzzle):

Verbiste (French and Italian verb conjugations; fits better w/o pronouns):

Works better in landscape:

Scaling down just one level would make it fit even better (not shown).

amarok · December 26, 2020, 1:47am

Simple Scan (perfect fit):

Power Statistics (scale-down required):

Reversi (perfect fit; play against computer or another player):

Whe3zy · December 26, 2020, 4:39am

Can you tell me if LinSSID works on the phone? Im hoping that LinSSID can replace the android app of Wifi Analyzer, or even the app called Nutty by ElementaryOS (both are network monitoring apps).

amarok · December 26, 2020, 6:26am

Unfortunately that failed to launch after I installed it. Sorry.

uzanto · December 26, 2020, 9:09am

I not a Librem 5 user yet, but for that purpose I’ll use a oneliner script like this.
watch 'nmcli -f "CHAN,BARS,SIGNAL,SSID" d wifi list ifname wlan0 | sort -n' you can put it in an alias or even create a .desktop file that opens a terminal with the script from the app grid easily.

It will look like this in the terminal:

CHAN  BARS  SIGNAL  SSID
1     ▂___  27      NETWORK 1
1     ▂▄▆_  57      NETWORK 2
6     ▂▄▆█  100     NETWORK PRINTER
6     ▂▄▆_  77      NETWORK 3
11    ▂▄__  47      NETWORK 4
11    ▂▄▆_  57      NETWORK 5
36    ▂▄__  44      NETWORK 6
36    ▂▄__  50      NETWORK 7
40    ▂___  24      NETWORK 8
48    ▂▄▆_  63      NETWORK 9

It doesn’t look fancy but it should work, @amosbatto could you try it? wlan0 should be replace by the network interface name in the Librem 5.

amosbatto · December 26, 2020, 11:40am

Cool command, but I don’t yet have a Librem 5 to try it. Perhaps @amarok or @lipu can try it for you.

uzanto · December 26, 2020, 12:15pm

Sorry I don’t know why but I thought you have it already.

Cc281080 · December 26, 2020, 2:31pm

i just tried it in a Terminal.
Works without modification.

amarok · December 26, 2020, 2:43pm

CherryTree ( with gsettings set sm.puri.phoc.application:/sm/puri/phoc/application/cherrytree/ scale-to-fit true applied; usable, but small):