What are your favourite FOSS mobile apps?
I’m looking for alternatives for everything, from messaging to ebook readers to RSS readers to podcast players and so on.
Particularly interested in music players that can handle m4a files from when I was buying music from Apple not realising how blockheaded that was.
Hopefully apps that care about user privacy.
I’m on Android, but feel free to share iOS options for anyone who might be helped by those tips, too.
Can I get a boost, @opensource?
Notes:Joplin (over webdav)
File manager:material files
Cloud:webdav provider (webdav mount in material files)
Contacts/calendar:davx5-etar
Sms/call log backup:smsIO
Cast:Bubbleupnp (non Foss)
Browser:mull/brave
Password manager:Bitwarden
Office:proprietary
Themes:Substratum
Maps:here (non Foss)
Gsm location provider:MozillaNLP/MicroG
Speetch to text:localstt
Text to speech:Flite/espeak/rhvoice
Keyboard:Anysoftkeyboard
Network scanner:Ning
Find my device:Nulides Findmydevice
Call recorder:BCR(magisk module)
Weather:Geometric Weather
Parental control:Time limit
RSS:read you
App store:obtainium
Bookmarks:wallabag
2fa:aegis
Location history:traccar/owntracks
Email:tutanota
Image2text:OCR
Translate:deepl
Photos:uhuruphotos/photoprism android gallery/Aves/image toolbox
Appops:app manager
Addblocker:addaway
Files encryotion:droidfs
Downloader:download navi
Filesync:folder sync(non Foss/paid but best)
Logs:logcat reader
Launcher:nova(non Foss/paid but best)
Doc scan:open scan
Kernel manager:smart pack
VPN/tunnels:wireguard
Nice list, thanks! About file sync, have you tried Syncthing? If yes, why didn’t you stick with it? About the app store, are you relying only on Obtanium? What about those apps that don’t provide the apk?
Aurora store with a google account for playsrtore apps. Fdroid is also installed and I do regullar visits on their website and also on izzyondroid site for new apps. I’ve tried syncthing but sync got corrupted and lost files while trying to figure out what went wrong (maybe a missconfiguration from my side I’m not sure).I never used it again
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I’m a bit frustrated with them. They don’t seem to be very committed to deGoogling, which is their prerogative I guess, but if not, why bother making an open keyboard? Basically if you want to use a version of the app that actually works relatively well, especially with swiping, you need to download the beta or alpha version, which require joining a Google Group and using Google Play to download.
Their release scheme is questianable yes as you said alpha and beta released in play store only then comes the fdroid release As long as there is an fdroid release I cant blame them really but you got a fait point
Feature wise they developed their own open autofill and swipe libs plus I love the layouts. Actually builded my own layout but I like the over logic with bottom / top rows, gesture navigations etc
Their swipe needs a lot of work. You must start on the correct letter. It will base the rest of the word off of the first letter, so if you fat-finger it at all, it will get the wrong word. Sometimes it also just doesn’t give you any suggestions and you have to swipe/type it over again. It really needs some fuzzy searching algorithm to help with thumb typing/swiping.