So was wondering is there in apps you find useful to have for you phone whether they already came with the phone or you downloaded later on if so what apps are they?
There are literally thousands of apps available at the PlayStore, and everyone has their own needs and reasons for the apps they choose to install and use. YOU need to decide what you want and why. As a guide, the apps available at the PlayStore are rated 0-5 based on user feedback. So when choosing apps to install, choose apps with good ratings. Those are your best choice.
OpenCamera: to record video at much higher bitrate than Samsung's camera (Samsung records 4k at <50Mb/s by default, OpenCamera can do a target of 200Mb/s) Nova Launcher: Allows much smaller sizes for icon grid, placing icons on half-grid locations, and overlapping widgets / icons for widgets that need to be made huge on the grid to display everything but then leave tons of blank space. F-Droid: Open source / free 3rd party app store with lots of odd & cool programs that aren't on google play I would have said firefox a few years ago but they ruined the mobile version so nightly or beta has to be used to install any extensions you want or access advanced configuration to enable security features like DNS over TLS / HTTPS which isn't worth the hassle termux: If you're a programmer, mainly. It's a BASH like shell with a package manager, things like Perl / Python / web server software / Clang + LLVM / pretty much anything you can think of from linux package repos can be installed and used. Nice if you have a portable bluetooth keyboard and get the urge to mess around with new C++ 20 features or write a quick program to do some calculation instead of wasting your time watching tools on YouTube telling you to give them money between 1 minute sections of information that could have fit in a single sentence if text followed by 3 minutes of unskippable ads. Or run nginx and use one of your old devices gathering dust as a web server. This one is very painful without an external keyboard though.
Everything I've listed is free with no ads or data collection, but might not be anything you care about. As your accepted solution said, you need to decide. I'd strongly suggest adding F-droid as an extra source of choices though. Their repository is curated and by default won't even show you apps that *promote* 3rd party paid services by providing a an alternate way of connecting to them. Advertisements aren't allowed at all.
