2w ago

What are your favourite open-source apps this year?

cross-posted from: https://lemmings.world/post/29751389

What apps have you been using this year? Have you found new apps to fill a gap in your previous open-source use?
What is something that you wish had a good open-source alternative but does not at this time?

8 comments

CoMaps, the new community fork that will replace OrganicMaps :) It already has improvements over OrganicMaps.
https://f-droid.org/packages/app.comaps.fdroid
- I'm waiting for public transport to work on it before I install it again.
  
  You mean a layer to show public transport routes? That is something that has a lot of value imo yeah.
- Ooh, what improvements does it have so far?
  
  You can now save routes you built as gpx tracks in the bookmarks&tracks section which is huge for me. You can also color code the tracks so you can build multiple alternative routes when you go on a bike trip or something like that. Previously you could only import gpx tracks, so you had to build them with another app and then import them.
  Nvm OrganicMaps has since also added this... Idk how the licensing is set up and if the organic people maybe just port features from comaps back to organicmaps.
Chrono is extremely good for me, given often having to have alarms in the oddest of times, and it allowing me to schedule alarms as one-time only, daily, for specific weekdays, for specific dates, or for date ranges, as well as having the options to force to work in the background if lack of memory in the phone kills it.
As for alternatives I wish I could find, Librera Reader is still the best ebook reader I found outside of Google Play, but I could use it having better controls. Might even take the dust off my PS Vita to read ebooks, as I abhor touch controls due to them usually not being optimized for either precision or view space available (even on-screen controls might help), and on the Vita I can use the physical controls to move the ebooks' pages around.
Probably Thunderbird, I only discovered it this year. I have like 5 email addresses, and it's so much more convenient to have all of them in one place, instead of needing to check each one one by one
Voyager
SpamBlocker (f*** these call-centers)
Element (great substitute for Discord)
AntennaPod (podcasts)
Heliboard (although I miss the GIFs)

8 comments