F-Droid

Fauxx is an open-source Android privacy tool that poisons data broker and ad-tech profiles by generating continuous, plausible, off-demographic synthetic activity from your device. The goal is simple: make your real behavioral signal statistically indistinguishable from noise.

Not my project, but though this is really cool and worth sharing.

Why Use This Circle To Search App?

The Problem with Google's CTS Version

• Forced Cloud Syncing: Uploads your selection to servers even when you just want to copy text.

• Get's accidentally triggerd frequently, exposing sensitive data instantly to google

• Ecosystem Lock-in: Restricted to Google Search—no support for Bing, Yandex, or AI models.

• Locked to Google ecosystem—no choice of search engine

• Missing Features: Useful features like "Share" and "Save" have been stripped out.

• Hardware Exclusivity: Only available on expensive flagship devices (Pixel 8, Galaxy S24+).

What We Do Differently

• Only what you circle gets processed—nothing else

• True Offline OCR: Text recognition works 100% locally on your device—no internet needed.

• QR detection offline, Smart Scan offline—no unnecessary servers

• Universal Compatibility: Works with any search engine (Google, Bing, Yandex, TinEye,).

• Restored Utility: We brought back the "Share" and "Save" features Google removed.

• Works on any Android device, not just expensive flagships

• Works on De-Googled Devices no google programs needed.

• And has many other useful features

100% Independent: Works on any Android phone (Android 10+), without requiring Google Play Services or OEM-specific software.

Privacy-First: No background tracking or logs—just pure on-device selection.

➥ Download:
- >github

It still needs a lot of improvements and isn't polished yet, as I am a solo developer working on it. You can download it from GitHub for now, as the new update is yet to be released on F-Droid.

Developer @Aditya_151@lemmy.world

TWIF curated on Monday, 09 Feb 2026, Week 7

Blurb:

Panoramicon is an immersive viewer for spherical panorama images (full 360×180° images in equirectangular projection).

Detail:

As per the README from github.

Example Images

If you're looking for example panoramic images to use with the app, Wikimedia Commons has a large collection of freely licensed spherical panoramas available under Creative Commons licenses. You can browse and download images from:

Spherical panoramas category - A wide collection of panoramas from various contributors

Spherical panoramics by Domob - Panoramas contributed by the app developer

Simply download any equirectangular panorama image and open it with Panoramicon to explore it in full 360° view.

NOTE: Zoom is currently restricted in Panoramicon, so downloading the full-sized images is wasteful. On Wikimedia, the second size down image, should give enough detail. 2560x1280 pixel.

CONTROLS :

Pinch = zoom, swipe = pan, gyro = mlook.