What are your favorite FOSS app finds of this year?
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Image toolbox is so complete that allowed me to disable google photos: smooth rotation, filter, perspective correction, resize and much much more.
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
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
I’m not switching to Thunderbird I’m sticking with K-9
I’m in the same boat. It is completely fine since the apps only have cosmetic differences.
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
Power Ampache 2 + Ampache/Nextcloud. It’s a client for the Ampacheb music server, looks gorgeous, works great and has excellent support.
- 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.
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
- 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?
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.
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.
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
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.
