FOSS Software I use, proprietary apps alternatives (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by mypasswordis1234@lemmy.world to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

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Hello everyone! This is my list of FOSS software I use 😃

Android FOSS alternatives to proprietary apps

Google Board -> FlorisBoard
Google Play -> Aurora Store^[1]^
Termius -> ConnectBot^[2]^
Discord -> Element
Xiaomi Fit -> Gadget Bridge^[3]^
Google Gmail -> K-9 Mail
YouTube -> LibreTube
Google Authenticator -> Mauth
Google News -> Nextcloud News^[4]^
Google Drive -> Nextcloud^[4]^
Google Keep -> Nextcloud Notes^[4]^
Spotify -> SubTune^[4]^
YouTube Music -> ViMusic
Google Chrome -> Mull

^1^- You need a Google account.
^2^ - The UX is not as good as Termius.
^3^ - The UI looks like garbage, but does it's job.
^4^ - You need to selfhost a server.

Android FOSS alternatives to FOSS apps

Jellyfin -> Findroid
F-Droid -> Droid-ify

Desktop FOSS

Windows -> Fedora 38 Workstation
Firefox -> LibreWolf (telemetry free, hardened firefox)

Other software

Android -> Lineage OS
Linux server -> Debian (without GUI)
Smart home -> Home Assistant
SMS -> Signal
DNS -> Adguard Home (selfhosted)

Other services

Google -> Qwant (it's so good!)
YouTube (desktop) -> Piped

Suggest me:

Google Maps
Shazam

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[-] Midnitte@kbin.social 29 points 1 year ago

Just a small note that K-9 is slowly bring turned into Thunderbird

[-] mortrek@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

I wonder if it will get forked by anyone.

[-] infeeeee@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago

Why? Why wonder, why should anyone fork?

[-] BearPear@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Instead of using Gmaps. You can try

Organic Maps (Simple and clean app that just works)
OsmAnd (Full of great features but it may be too much for you). Supports realtime map update in pro version or the fdroid version.
Magic Earth but i think it is not foss
Mapy.cz uses Openstreetmap but it also does not seem to be foss. But the map is updated in real time.

[-] olof@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 year ago

+1 for Organic Maps. Create an open streetmap account and contribute - its a game changer for me. Instead of a consumer, you're a contributor. (That goes for all OSM ofc)

[-] XpeeN@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 year ago

GmapsWV when you have no other choice

[-] notExactlyI20@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

This, in conjunction with OrganicMaps/Osmand is god.

[-] nottheengineer@feddit.de 6 points 1 year ago

Is there anything other than Google maps that can pull google's traffic data? There's a lot of construction on my way to work right now so I rely on that to not get stuck in traffic.

[-] Zenaida_macroura@lemmy.ml 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Just wanted to mention ViMusic doesn't seem to be getting updated anytime soon. The status is mentioned in this push request.

Consider trying out InnerTune instead which has several more features and active development :)

[-] kostel_thecreed@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago

I would recommend Navidrome + a subsonic player, but it is alot more effort.

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[-] mypasswordis1234@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Thanks!

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[-] loudWaterEnjoyer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 1 year ago

Signal does not support sms

[-] moitoi@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago

Nobody cares about them outside the US.

[-] loudWaterEnjoyer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 year ago

I care, I live outside of the US

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[-] teydam@kbin.social 15 points 1 year ago

whats the point of discord alternative if none of my wow friends will get off discord?

[-] Mixel@feddit.de 5 points 1 year ago

That's the thing I am having problems with currently

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[-] Gargari@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 year ago

Google Maps - OrganicMaps

[-] odium@programming.dev 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Try open street maps. It's better than Google maps in some locations and worse in others. So ymmv based on where you live.

Open Street maps has a bunch of Android frontend apps, I use organic maps which is available on fdroid. You can use street-complete (also fdroid) to contribute to open street maps if you wish to do so.

[-] mypasswordis1234@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Actually I contribute to OSM with Street Complete already 😅

[-] mypasswordis1234@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I've already tried Organic Maps and OsmAnd, but they fall behind Google Maps :/ OsmAnd has super old UI and Organic Maps is buggy as hell.

[-] BearPear@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Try magic earth. It is good and privacy friendly.

[-] mypasswordis1234@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

It's not foss

[-] wason@lemmy.ninja 12 points 1 year ago

Is Floris Board still maintained? Latest stable release was in June 2022 and latest beta in September 2022.

Their GitHub says that stable versions are released "1 release per 1-5 months" and beta "up to 1-2 releases per week".

[-] neme@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago

From README:

The current focus is on implementing next-word suggestions, which has become complicated/hit a snag and is taking more time than originally planned. Updates will come when this issue is resolved. Thank you for being patient.

[-] XpeeN@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 year ago

I use AnySoftKeyboard

[-] CannotSleep420@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 1 year ago

I do as well. I like AnySoft because it has the swipey typey shit going on like swype does, but without the spying. The feature is in beta and a bit buggy though.

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[-] jernej@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago

Google Maps: Osmand~

[-] GrapinoSubmarino@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Share Me/SHAREit - localSend

Stock apps - Simple mobile tools

book reader - librera

Video Downloader - seal

[-] pqjke@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Does anyone here have problems with K-9 background sync? I always have to manually sync the folders so I can get the latest emails

[-] Reliant1087@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I found Fair email to be more consistent than K9. I used both for 2 years or so before finally switching.

[-] mypasswordis1234@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

No, mine syncs automatically. Maybe android is blocking the background activity?

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[-] Coelacanthus@lemmy.kde.social 2 points 1 year ago

I prefer to use Fcitx 5 for Android instead of GBoard, not FlorisBoard. Because f5a has much better Chinese input experience than FlorisBoard, and I use Chinese.

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