Is there any closed source android app that you wish had a good open source alternative?

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.

michel,

@federino
I would like to request a feature vor my prefered gallary app Aves.
I would like to have a protocol agnostic tool for Offline files.
I wish to work with my Images storred on a Server at home. It would be nice if I could Sync files with it and descide if an Image should be storred localy or only on server.

Storrage agnostic means, that i'm able to use either other saf integrations or been able to etablish a connection inside aves to smb or ssh-ftp.

I miss such an app also for my Linux laptop. Currently, such a way of managing files currently exist only on Windows ( OneDrive, Dropbox)

Harvest5634,

AnyType , AppFlowy, Affine - alternatives to notion LibreSpeed - alternative to Speedtest.net And Penpot - alternative to Figma

VeganCheesecake, (edited )
@VeganCheesecake@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

A modern replacement for OpenScan. It’s workable, but some features don’t work on Modern Android, and a good Scanner app is probably something most people could use. Could look at Adobe Scan and Office Lens for feature inspiration.

lastweakness,
VeganCheesecake,
@VeganCheesecake@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Neat, thanks.

JustEnoughDucks,
@JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl avatar

Yeah office lens is pretty much unbeatable. Open source would be amazing, but I at one point had about 6 document scanners on my phone and none of them held a candle to lens…

Microsoft is shit, but they have 2 apps that are not exploitative and are very great to use

Authenticator and Lens. They don’t ask for any permissions that they don’t need. They don’t even require Microsoft account log in to work. They also have no ads, subscription, or premium prompts. Lens just requests files and camera. No location, no tracking, no cloud needed. It can simply be all local document scanning with great filtering,

Authenticator can be used with only camera permissions and it also it able to to push auth with key pairs, a step above general TOTP (though I still use everything with Aegis outside of work).

Not enshittified. Yet…

fruitycoder,

Google lens.

I love point and translate. Faster more pin pointed reverse image search is cool too.

nix,

The Transit app, used for bus/train route info and buying tickets. I imagine the ticket buying part would be difficult to OS, but I just want the live transit routing info. A few apps exist for other cities, but not mine. Worst part is Transit relies on Google Maps.

NightAuthor,

I believe google maps pulls its data from municipalities setting up and streaming realtime data using this: developers.google.com/transit/gtfs-realtime

For my city, I was able to pull this GTFS data into my home automation system to show next arrival times for a couple of convenient stops near my home.

nix,

Yea, I’ve looked into how it works to see if I could add it to an existing app, but ran into a wall I can’t recall right now.

The local stops would be good, but what I really need is the ability to figure out new routes, like visiting a friend.

NightAuthor,

Oh yeah, then you definitely need something else to take the transit schedule and realtime updates to plan routes for you.

not_amm,

Any image/video editor in Android. I’ve been trying Image Toolbox, but sometimes it doesn’t work or crashes :(

Dogyote,

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.

Zetaphor,

Because grocery stores don’t make that data accessible to third party developers, otherwise someone would do what you’re suggesting and they’d risk you shopping elsewhere.

Dogyote,

Bah, the data is on their websites, figure out how to collect it.

Zetaphor,

Go ahead and try scraping an arbitrary list of sites without an API and let me know how that goes. It would be a constant maintenance headache, especially if you’re talking about anything other than the larger chains that have fairly standardized sites

Dogyote,

I bet an AI could do it

chebra,
@chebra@mstdn.io avatar

@Dogyote @Zetaphor

I've been webscraping in my job for 6 years. Yes, it's a constant headache, they keep updating their sites and improving their antibot protections. But it can be done and some companies are doing it (on a biiiiig scale). It's just not very realistic that an open-source project would be able to invest that much effort into all the updates. Well some do, youtube-dl is basically webscraping and they are pretty up-to-date. It's just very rare.

chebra,
@chebra@mstdn.io avatar

@Dogyote @Zetaphor

And we also explored the AI option, it always turned out unrealistic. Either you would have to scrape the content and send it to the AI to parse the info, but then you'd be paying for every scrape, or run a powerful rig nonstop, but the results would still be hit and miss. Or you might let the AI generate the code for the scraping module, still not ideal, they were constantly hallucinating things that weren't there.

lastweakness,

I don’t think you understand how AIs work

bitwolf,

Readably

No RSS reader is quite like it.

Synfonium

Best music player out there.

padlock4995,

Komoot and strava… General route planning and teavkinv software…

mukt,
@mukt@lemmy.ml avatar

Obsidian.

nephs,

There’s logseq, but it’s not as polished.

mehdi_benadel,

Logseq is such a hassle. They didn’t bother to write a proper abstraction for data blocks, they require you to write and read code like notes, and they don’t plan on making any proper data visualization other than the fancy and useless graph.

orosus,

There is already an opensource alternative to Obsidian, its name is , yo mobile and desktop app

VeganCheesecake,
@VeganCheesecake@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Logseq uses a bit of a different paradigm though. It is cool, but I wouldn’t say it’s a drop in replacement.

VeganCheesecake,
@VeganCheesecake@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Is the obsidian Android App not open source? I thought all their stuff was. Kinda embarrassed I never checked.

XPost3000,

Nah they use “an open standard” being just markdown files or something, but the apps are still proprietary as far as I’m aware

I really hate how I sometimes, though rarely, see Obsidian talked about as if it were open source just because it uses an open standard

Like Photoshop isn’t open source because it can use PNG kinda thing

Fuzzypyro,

It’s not an Android app but ServerCat is the best multi device monitoring/ssh software for mobile that I’ve come across. Sadly none of the alternatives on iOS or Android compare. Totally room for a proper competitor that fits a lot of information in an intuitive and clean ui.

nobloat,

Meme Generator

federino,

The only true answer

privatizetwiddle,

Something like memetastic? github.com/gsantner/memetastic

nobloat,

Yea I know about it but you can’t make any of the modern memes with it. It only supports top and bottom text memes, which have been outdated for a couple of years now.

powermaker450,
@powermaker450@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

Symfonium. Don’t get me wrong, I like Finamp, but it just does not come close to the amount of features that Symfonium has.

dko1905,
@dko1905@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

Definitely one of the apps where premium is worth it.

dessalines,

Tempo is pretty good.

Rivalarrival, (edited )

There is an IOS app for hot air balloon pilots called “Hot Air”. There is a similar app for Android that… Leaves much to be desired.

There’s several functions that are needed. First, we need a map. We need to be able to enter waypoints and/or polygons charting landing zones, prohibited zones, targets, etc. we need an easy way to select targets, and our bearing and distance to those targets.

For planning purposes, we need a bearing line that we can place and move on that map. We need to be able to easily drag and drop each end of the line, and get the bearing and distance between the endpoints.

Next, we need track recording. It should record a ground track during flight, preferably with altitude information, and notes about the flight.

Next, a wind map. The wind speed and direction varies considerably by altitude. It needs to record direction and speed as we climb and descend, telling us what altitude has winds favorable for our current target.

Bonus points if we can prepopulate that wind map with data from a “pibal” (pilot balloon; a simple latex party balloon released and tracked with compass and stopwatch before a flight)

Next, coordination with other pilots and ground crews. 3D location sharing between participants; wind map data shared between pilots.

0xb,

I support this just because it’s something so niche that I believe you balloon people deserve it. I feel like we all with our own requests for media players and readers and launchers and messengers have at least a couple usable options and tons of options that may require getting used to or some compromise, but are there. But an app for balloon pilots? There’s something that probably is in dire need of something else.

Maroon,

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

hydration9806,

Just an open source frontend for Shazam, but Audire is pretty nice for this

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