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Is there any closed source android app that you wish had a good open source alternative? (programming.dev)

submitted 5 months ago by federino@programming.dev to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

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I'm currently looking to develop an open source app that can help somebody. I'm currently out of ideas, so I'd like to heard if from you guys.

Sorry if it seems to lazy to ask for ideas like that, I just thought that I could do it since the result will be a free app.

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[-] Dogyote@slrpnk.net 3 points 5 months ago

Why is there not an app that tells you which grocery stores have the best prices? I should be able to give it a list and it'll tell me where to buy each item.

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[-] bazmatazable@reddthat.com 3 points 5 months ago

SMS Backup & Restore? Unless there is an alternative that I'm missing? Play store link

[-] JSens1998@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 months ago

https://www.f-droid.org/en/packages/com.github.tmo1.sms_ie/

[-] bazmatazable@reddthat.com 2 points 5 months ago

I saw this but its missing a key feature: daily backups. SMS Backup & Restore can make a backup every day then I can sync the file out to Nextcloud or similar. It also supports Dropbox if that's your thing.

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[-] bitwolf@lemmy.one 3 points 5 months ago

Readably

No RSS reader is quite like it.

Synfonium

Best music player out there.

[-] joeldebruijn@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 months ago

Sailforms Android app!

https://groups.google.com/g/sailforms-users

Use like 12 years for keeping track of lots of personal stuff. It's a generic database / table / forms app that's very powerfull. Buttons, queries, reports, calculated fields etc.

But: the app developer stopped despite a rather enthusiastic community. Now it isn't even on the Play Store anymore and I guess everybody must have an exit strategy.

[-] grapemix@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 months ago

Have you heard about grist?

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[-] Amaterasu@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Uber? What do you use for rides?

[-] Maroon@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

FLOSS Shazam? I really love discovering music when I travel, but I see no open source version of it.

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[-] darklamer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 5 months ago

I would really want to have a really good open source SFTP (SSH File Transfer Protocol) app, with good secure key management and excellent transfer performance. So far, I haven't found any such app.

[-] trevor@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 5 months ago

An equivalent to iOS Shortcuts for Android and Linux.

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[-] charje@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 months ago

Visual voicemail

[-] 5ymm3trY@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 5 months ago

File Explorer

I haven't checked in a while, but I am still using CX File Explorer because I didn't find a FOSS alternative I like. Maybe it is just because I am used to it, but one thing I really like is the network feature that you can access local shares of a NAS.

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[-] jjlinux@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 months ago

I'd be happy if Voiply would just work without GMS and could be downloaded from F-droid.