What are your favorite FOSS app finds of this year?
- StreetComplete: Help complete the OpenStreetMap database by answering simple questions wherever you go
- HeliBoard: Keyboard add with multilanguage support and user-use learning-prediction
- RustDesk: RemoteDesk app for PC/Android
Fossify apps (like finding new friends that look and feel exactly like your old friends 🤷
- FairEmail
- NetGuard
mull 😢
- antennaPod
- newpipe
localSend (we’re not brand or os loyal. This helped us a lot with our machine salad
- AnySoftKeyboard
- lawnchair
- AntennaPod SSL
- PipePipe
Software forks are strange.
antennaPod SSL?
Unofficial fork that allows self-signed SSL certs, i.e. for gPodder sync on LAN/VPN-only Nextcloud instances.
Edit for those who also wonder, PipePipe is a NewPipe fork with SponsorBlock and other fancy features.
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- Drinkable
- Grayjay
- Thunderbird
- Voyager for Lemmy
- Podcini.R
- Emotic
- LinkDroid
Grayjay isn’t FOSS.
Can you explain? It’s part of the FUTO project and has it’s source available here: https://gitlab.futo.org/videostreaming/grayjay
And has releases available to F-Droid through the FUTO repo.
I see the license heavily restricts commercial endeavors with the code, but otherwise seems quite permissive?
Free Software, as defined by the FSF, cannot restrict commercial use, and the OSI says the same about Open Source.
Well, fair I suppose. Definitions and semantics being what they are, and the FSF and OSI certainly have more basis for knowing when something is FOSS.
However, the source is there and the project is open and active, that’s good enough for me philosophically.
IMO the best way to keep one’s apps up to date.
Absolutely. I end up using it in conjunction with gplay and fdroid to see which ones are updated sooner. Very useful.
Which is updated sooner ?
Most of the time it’s gplay, if the app is on it… Probably because the developer gets the most traffic through there. Sometimes its days to weeks earlier if its on gplay. Others, github/fdroid is a toss up. Pretty similar
Is there a good way to verify signatures while using Obtainium? I haven’t done it yet but I was thinking about it and it seems quite reckless of me to not do it
StreetComplete and Eternity (for Lemmy)
Both great apps I cherish and use.
Quillnote
I literally rely on this for every note / writing books I do
Just checked out Quillnote, they’ve archived the repository as it’s inactive. Quillpad looks to be the main fork. I’ll check it out, thanks for sharing
ah right, I use Quillpad… not Quillnote… I’ve used the old one for months before switching, I still get them messed up
Even though the android version of it has been discontinued, Syncthing remains my top FOSS app. Not sure how it will behave in the future but v1.28.1 works well for now.
Kind of. Synthing-fork is alive and well.
Was easy to switch from syncthing to the fork too importing the configuration from syncthing into it.
Markor - markdown notes that just works
Organic Maps - someone found a way to make open source maps not terrible, and it isn’t.
K9…derbird - mine still says K-9 even though it updated, good mail client.
OSS Weather - tells you the weather, and literally nothing else. Perfection.
I’m not switching to Thunderbird I’m sticking with K-9
Aren’t they the same now?
Yes and no
Is there an explanation of the differences?
K-9 was it’s own thing, Mozilla came along gave them a lots of money and just forked there project and just renamed it and added their logo
So it’s just a branding thing? That was my understanding already, I thought you meant there were functional differences
i’m thinking the mozilla version will be better maintained and have stuff added to it, in the future
It believe that too, the project just received more backing, it hasn’t been taken over by a random new group
I’m in the same boat. It is completely fine since the apps only have cosmetic differences.
OP, thank you so much for Weather Master! I was using Clima but they lack so many things I would always check websites.
My list:
- ExifEraser - Erase metadata from pictures
- Catima - Loyalty Card & Ticket Manager (alternative to Google Wallet)
I can’t totally remember when I found these, but they’re relatively fresh on my phone. Couldn’t live without them now.
- Audile - song recognition
- Findmydevice - lost phone recovery
- Metro - visually pleasing music player
- Paperless Mobile - manage and interact with paperless-ngx servers
- Photok - secure photo storage for sensitive media
How does Audile perform for you?
I tried it out once and it wasn’t as reliable as Shazam at identifying the correct song so I just uninstalled it.
Do you normally expect that free as in beer apps are going to be accurate to the degree that a data harvester with years of experience and funding?
I don’t disagree with you but sometimes they are, different use scenarios but these are quite impressive:
KeePassDX
AdAway
KDE Connect
Image Toolbox
Fossify Gallery
Calculator You: Math & Units
I’ve never used Shazam but did use the music recognition app on pixels when I was the stock ROM. Audile seems that it gets about 80% of what the Google app would get. I’d imagine that would change depending on the kind of music you’re often trying to identify though, Audile is probably working with a smaller database of some genres.
Thx for the paperless mobile share, didn’t had an idea about it’s existence!
Organic maps
Also it looks like the foss AOSP SDK was readded into sid. (It was removed from bookworm since it has no maintainers) https://packages.debian.org/sid/android-sdk-platform-23
Image toolbox is so complete that allowed me to disable google photos: smooth rotation, filter, perspective correction, resize and much much more.
Fossify gallery, FreeOTP, Markor text editor, and maybe Jami if I can get it to work on other phones. FreeOTP might have been late 2023 when I got my current phone, but close enough. I’m not sure whether I used Termux before that, on my old phone. Oh yes, Flash Alert, I’m surprised if that isn’t standard in Android. It flashes the camera led when the phone rings. That makes it much easier to find the phone if you’re not sure where it is, and it is face down. It would be great if it also flashed the screen.
Power Ampache 2 + Ampache/Nextcloud. It’s a client for the Ampacheb music server, looks gorgeous, works great and has excellent support.
Pipepipe has been my go to YouTube app. I like it has sponsor block, and that I can also log into a Gmail account with it that it uses only for age restricted videos so I don’t need the YouTube app.
