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
Absolutely. I end up using it in conjunction with gplay and fdroid to see which ones are updated sooner. Very useful.
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
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
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
Image toolbox is so complete that allowed me to disable google photos: smooth rotation, filter, perspective correction, resize and much much more.
Power Ampache 2 + Ampache/Nextcloud. It's a client for the Ampacheb music server, looks gorgeous, works great and has excellent support.
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
Thx for the paperless mobile share, didn't had an idea about it's existence!
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.
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.
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
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