What are your favorite FOSS app finds of this year?

24 points
  • 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
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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
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3 points
  • AntennaPod SSL
  • PipePipe

Software forks are strange.

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2 points

antennaPod SSL?

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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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14 points
  • Drinkable
  • Grayjay
  • Thunderbird
  • Voyager for Lemmy
  • Podcini.R
  • Emotic
  • LinkDroid
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3 points

Grayjay isn’t FOSS.

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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?

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Free Software, as defined by the FSF, cannot restrict commercial use, and the OSI says the same about Open Source.

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12 points

Obtainium

IMO the best way to keep one’s apps up to date.

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Absolutely. I end up using it in conjunction with gplay and fdroid to see which ones are updated sooner. Very useful.

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4 points

Which is updated sooner ?

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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

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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

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11 points

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

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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

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ah right, I use Quillpad… not Quillnote… I’ve used the old one for months before switching, I still get them messed up

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