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submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by ForgottenFlux@lemmy.world to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/10796117

Fossify Gallery (fork of Simple Gallery), Fossify File Manager (fork of Simple File Manager) and Fossify Calendar (fork of Simple Calendar) are now available for download on F-Droid.

(Simple Mobile Tools suite was acquired by an Israeli adware company)

About Fossify: Fossify is all about community-backed, open-source, and ad-free mobile apps. A fork of the SimpleMobileTools, which is no longer maintained, and we're here to continue the legacy, bringing simple and private tech to everyone.

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[-] turbulentMagma@lemm.ee 11 points 7 months ago

Most of the simple mobile tools apps on the play store have already added ads and internet permissions. Get off them asap

[-] harald_im_netz@feddit.de 11 points 7 months ago

I was waiting for the F-Droid release of the calendar. The switch is as easy as you can imagine: Export your settings from SimpleCalendar and import them into FossifyCalendar – that's it.

[-] pedroapero@lemmy.ml 6 points 7 months ago

I'll be waiting for the dialer, sms, and contact apps in f-droid. Gallery is there already. Too bad I donated a couple of times to Tibor; wish you all the best anyways !

[-] z3rOR0ne@lemmy.ml 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Oh thank you so much for posting this. When Brodie Robertson covered this on his YT channel, I was so upset at how the fiasco with SimpleMobileTools played out, but also so glad somebody took over the mantle. Cheers!

[-] x4740N@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

For someone who is completely out of the loop, what happened ?

[-] Static_Rocket@lemmy.world 8 points 7 months ago

If I recall correctly, the whole suite was sold to a company that has a history of acquiring existing tools just to park them in maintenance mode and fill them with ads.

[-] cralder@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago

The "simple" suite of apps was bought by zippoapps, a company that buys popular apps and adds incredibly aggressive monetization that is basically just trying to scam users. You know those "free trials" that cost like 300€ per week once the trial is up so you forget to cancel and pay a bunch of money for an app you don't want? Yeah that.

[-] z3rOR0ne@lemmy.ml 3 points 7 months ago

Others have already given you the summary, but if you're interested in Brodie Robertson's talk, going a bit in depth on the topic, here is the video.

[-] vort3@lemmy.ml 3 points 7 months ago

I'll keep the last pre-sale version of simple gallery until fossify gallery implements some kind of editor (no, rotating and cropping is not editing).

[-] Damage@feddit.it 10 points 7 months ago

well, seems to me that you need a non-simple gallery app

[-] ElPussyKangaroo@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

It already has annotations I believe...

1000019366

What else is there?

[-] greybeard@lemmy.one 3 points 7 months ago

Hopefully they get to Simple Launcher soon. I switched to that because Nova Launcher seemed to he dead and I couldn't find a better open source alternative. I certainly will take suggestions if someone knows something better on fdroid.

[-] MaddestMax@lemmy.world 7 points 7 months ago

Been using KISS Launcher very happily. Worth a look.

[-] SeekPie@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

Lawnchair also works, if you want the stock android look

[-] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 months ago

Abandoned, unfortunately.

[-] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 1 points 7 months ago
[-] greybeard@lemmy.one 3 points 7 months ago

Thanks for the recommendation, unfortunately it seems that one is no longer maintained either.

[-] centof@lemm.ee 2 points 7 months ago

How do you like it?

I kinda want to try it because you can supposedly import and export your icons / shortcuts to apps. I kinda want to be able to like save a folder of urls so that they are viewable from the launcher, but I am not sure if that will be doable. The idea is that hopefully there would be a way to take a folder of bookmarks from exported firefox and make them easily accessible and organized from the launcher.

I guess I should just try it out and see.

[-] milkytoast@kbin.social 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

any idea if they'll also fork the SMS, caller, and others? that's what I use.also, I'm OK if I don't update or no?

edit: the rest of the apps are already on their github , just no packages yet

[-] CalicoJack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 7 months ago

Caller (Phone) has a package available on their github you can grab now, and f-droid should recognize the install once it hits the repos. They're releasing pretty quickly, all things considered.

[-] milkytoast@kbin.social 4 points 7 months ago

oh nice. I mostly need SMS, but hopefully soon

[-] EunieIsTheBus@feddit.de 1 points 7 months ago

I use qksms

The simple sms app had some issues with not sending some messages for me even though it showed me it did.

[-] Marxist_Bear@midwest.social 2 points 7 months ago

The calendar isn't showing up when I search for it on F droid

[-] Marxist_Bear@midwest.social 3 points 7 months ago

Interesting, when browsing fdroid they show up, but not when I search for them.

[-] Kory@lemmy.ml 3 points 7 months ago

Oh thank you for this! I could only find the Gallery with the search.

[-] EunieIsTheBus@feddit.de 2 points 7 months ago

Maybe need to update the search index first

[-] Marxist_Bear@midwest.social 1 points 7 months ago

How do I do that?

[-] wgbirne@feddit.de 2 points 7 months ago

F droid is slow. But on IzzyOnDroid it is already available.

[-] milkytoast@kbin.social 1 points 7 months ago

I wonder what they think will happen. j feel like smt is only good because its Foss. if I don't care about Foss, trackers, etc, google s product suite is much better, more feature rich.the only reason I use smt is because its Foss. I'd love to be able to use google messages, with RCS, and whatnot, but trackers and google prevent me from doing so. I feel like by doing this they're killing it

[-] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 2 points 7 months ago

They're hoping that the current install base will be too lazy to remove their malware.

[-] milkytoast@kbin.social 4 points 7 months ago

lol I think people who use fdroid sent the kind of people to keep known malware

but yea maybe ¯_ (ツ) _/¯

Woot! In-stalled!

this post was submitted on 16 Jan 2024
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