Second blog on my ten year #SailfishOS journey so far

[rubdos@mastodon.social]

Second blog on my ten year #SailfishOS journey so far

https://www.rubdos.be/2026/04/17/my-sailfish-os-journey-apps.html

This second part goes into #apps, and what Sailfish OS looks like in practice for myself. Did I miss an app? What's your favourite Sailfish OS app?

#Quickddit #Tooter #Unplayer #gPodder #Whisperfish #Deadbeef #LinuxOnMobile

[osma@sigmoid.social]

@rubdos
Thanks for the writeup and all the app tips! I've also used Sailfish as my main phone OS for over ten years (and N9 before that). I use much fewer apps than you do and learned a lot from your post. The Firefox news sounds great!

[rubdos@mastodon.social]

@osma Really, reading the Firefox and Wayland stuff on the forum was kinda mindblowing! Any apps you use that I did not mention?

[doubleubee@mastodon.social]

@rubdos UK app i like is Multimodal, really good when changing trains. Rockpool was handy as i was still rocking my Pebble but it actually broke this week

[rubdos@mastodon.social]

@doubleubee Still rocking my Pebble as well, and will cover in two posts from now! @abranson and I both have the new Pebbles on pre-order

https://forum.sailfishos.org/t/rockpool-thread/25596

The regional transport apps are really underrated. BeRail by @dylanvanassche still works more or less, although he's been on PMOS for years now!

[osma@sigmoid.social]

@rubdos
Nothing major I guess... I use SailOTP for one time password generation, GPSInfo to wake up my GPS in case I want to use location in Android apps, and some really basic apps like Messages, Notes and Calculator. Oh, and SailTuner for tuning musical instruments!

[rubdos@mastodon.social]

@osma Ah, forgot to mention SailOTP. That's a daily indeed. Haven't needed GPSInfo on the 10IV, which is great I guess!

My piano is digital already, so no real need for tuning. Cool app though!

[wuppi@social.tchncs.de]

@rubdos thank you for the fantastic article. A very good preparation for delivery of the new Jolla phone (batch 3 🥳

[rubdos@mastodon.social]

@wuppi Glad to be of help! I've always found the public facing information a bit difficult to find, so I hope that maybe this will make things easier to discover by the time the Jolla Phone is there!

[ilpianista@functional.cafe]

@rubdos I use daily SailfishConnect, Fuoten, SeaPrint and ShakeTorch (self promotion!) and Dee

[abranson@mastodon.social]

@rubdos @doubleubee @dylanvanassche Might be a new Rockpool brewing right now...

[rubdos@mastodon.social]

@ilpianista Ohh, Fuoten looks cool! I'm not a KDE person, and I I'm not really printing all that much, but those are cool as well! ShakeTorch sounds great, but I don't have a camera driver, and thus no flash haha

[rubdos@mastodon.social]

@ilpianista And *finally* I have configured Dee, gonna test it the next hours!

[ilpianista@functional.cafe]

@rubdos It's far from perfect, but I'm on it. I'm also still waiting for the Harbour review

[rubdos@mastodon.social]

@ilpianista Jolla might be a bit busy atm ;'-)

[ilpianista@functional.cafe]

@rubdos I don't use Plasma either, but once you've tried kdeconnect, it's hard to switch to anything else. I start the daemon manually when I need it.

[ilpianista@functional.cafe]

@rubdos Indeed!

[dylanvanassche@fosstodon.org]

@rubdos @doubleubee @abranson Glad BeRail still works Only possible thanks to #iRail!

More or less: seems like there are some things that don't work? Just curious I don't have any #SailfishOS devices anymore but happy to accept patches

[rubdos@mastodon.social]

@dylanvanassche I believe you even made me contributor back in the day. I don't use the train enough to care too much though :'-)