Use f-droid. The apps may not always be as polished (hell, some play store apps look like they came out of 2005), but you can filter apps by anti-features such as ads, tracking, permissions, etc.
As for what you’ve mentioned:
The fossify repo of apps is privacy friendly, no ads, etc.
Since I found out about fdroid from Lemmy I pretty much only look at fdroid and install apps from there. I have to set a reminder to open play store and update my other apps.
Use f-droid. The apps may not always be as polished (hell, some play store apps look like they came out of 2005), but you can filter apps by anti-features such as ads, tracking, permissions, etc.
As for what you’ve mentioned:
The fossify repo of apps is privacy friendly, no ads, etc.
Fossify Voice Recorder (Record anything with this Open-source and Ad-free recorder) https://f-droid.org/packages/org.fossify.voicerecorder/
Since I found out about fdroid from Lemmy I pretty much only look at fdroid and install apps from there. I have to set a reminder to open play store and update my other apps.