Hi Mudita,
1 week with the device, and I’ve quite enjoyed the ride. What has been most fustrating to realise is the lack of basic functionality in your native Apps. These are the apps that your users are stuck with, if they decide not to (or dont have the knowledge to) sideload alternative apps. In my case, I have (unfortunately) sideloaded apps to replace your native apps because of missing important basic functionality. Here are my future requests to improve your native Apps to a point where I could actually be using them for what they are designed to:
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Music
To be honest, you could have saved yourself the effort and just dropped this one. No sorting of Albums or Artists, just an alphabetic list of chaos. Could you please add this type of sorting, so that we can actually locate the music we put on our device? Thank you! -
Calendar
I understand that you might not want to add any syncing here to avoid security issues, but could you at least add the possibility to add reoccuring events? I want to make my weekly plan with reminders, and many of them are reoccuring events every week. Also in my country, we often talk about what week something is happening. Could you please add week numbers? That would be very helpful in order for me to get any use out of the calendar at all. -
E-reader
This one is also way too basic. No way to show chapters / titles. No way to delete those meditation cards. No way to adjust read mode or anything. I really hope you didn’t put a lot of time and effort into this, because that would be such a waste of time. Please consider forking another open source project, or add some more useful functionality to the reader, maybe even with support for PDF. -
Alarm
I earlier reported here on the forums about an issue that the alarm didnt ring consistently. I thought it was my fault because of another alarm clock showing incorrect time, but after double checking, it actually is a problem: The alarm does not ring at the exact time, but often 6 or 9 minutes past the set time. This is very annoying, and I will try to capture it on video in the coming days. Also: The lack of a simple timer is sorely missed. Cooking meals, doing some entertainment or games, having a timer is essential. Could you please add it to the Alarm, or rename it to “Clock” and include some more utilities? Thank you! -
Chess
Already asked about this here in the forums. Would be very nice to be able to play a 2player game offline with a friend, not just vs computer.
So, to anyone wondering what Apps I have replaced the native ones with for now, here’s my recommendations:
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Music → Auxio. A simple and E-ink friendly player with the ability to sort by different categories. That’s all I need.
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Calendar → One Calendar. Ad free calendar that supports all accounts for syncing. Has all the settings your want to add to your calendar.
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E-reader → Lithium. Compared to KoReader, Lithium is much easier to setup and navigate. Simple, free and just enough settings to get started reading your favourite books. It’s really perfect when setting horizontal mode and volume buttons as page turn. Highly recommended!
As for the other Apps, I haven’t looked into replacing them so far. I’ll keep you guys updated once I find good alternatives, or pehaps you have found anything? Please share in the comments!
Sidenote: A user on reddit tipped me about the ability to replace Icons on sideloaded apps, in order to replicate the native app icons. I tried a couple of softwares on PC to change app icons, but to no avail. If anyone are able to do this, please do share your success, and I’d be very happy to get som help adding custom icons to the sideloaded apps listed above, so they blend perfectly into the Mudita OS 
Thanks for reading, and hopefully Mudita will keep up to speed with improving this device and add the missing functionality that one would expect this type of niche phone to be good at.
) Mudita experience. So, for now, there’s nothing else to do.