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Your fav FLOSS Android apps to replace proprietary ones? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 3 weeks ago by to c/opensource@lemmy.ml
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Been using a degoogled LineageOS phone with all apps being exclusively FLOSS. My favourite free alternatives to proprietary apps and services must be Lemmy (Jerboa) for Reddit, ArcaneChat and Matrix (Extera) for Telegram, Fluxer for Discord.

Which ones are your favourite?

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[–] 17 points 3 weeks ago (11 children)

LibreCuts for video editing Droid-ify as a lightweight F-Droid client Iris Keyboard as a lightweight yet extremely customizable keyboard Pur.ili as a search engine with its own index OpenNavBar for a fully-customizable navigation bar Fossify File Manager for managing files Prism Gallery for viewing photos and videos Lune as an offline music player Pocket Paint for photo editing and paint CoMaps for navigation GeoLibre as an altermative to Google Earth Yagni Launcher as an Android launcher Pimi Widget for weather widget Offline Translator for translating and OCR

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 3 weeks ago (10 children)

    Wow, I didn't know of many of those. Thanks! A FOSS search engine with its own actual index is especially intriguing.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

    How is purili FOSS? I see no links to any source code on their site. It actually seems like someone's vibe coded solo project, based on the blog posts.

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 3 weeks ago

    Okay, taking my words back. I just assumed everything people recommend here is FOSS because that's what I asked for. If it is proprietary and even vibe-coded, I'm not interested.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago

    Unfortunately a lot of people these days tend to conflate "private" or "not google" with "FOSS." It's one of the reasons I'm very adamant about not watering down the definition of FOSS, free software, or open source.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

    Really? You do not even know Fossify? They got a whole suote of apps! Not just file manager, and they are the most famous FOSS Android app suite beside Proton

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    I didn't say everything from your post was new to me. Fossify I do know and their apps look pretty decent although somewhat barebone. I usually need more features so I ended up using other FOSS apps.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    If you want a more advanced file manager, try Material Files. They've been revived now. If not, then maybe Amaze File Manager. If you really wanna go crazy, WM Keyboard has a built-in file manager aswell

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