- cross-posted to:
- linuxfurs@pawb.social
- cross-posted to:
- linuxfurs@pawb.social
Simple Mobile apps have been very popular among FOSS enthusiasts. I’ve personally been using the Gallery, Contacts and the Phone app since a few years now. It’s a shame that it has come to this, will be on the lookout for their forks.
Fucking hell now I need alternatives to my dialer, my gallery (this will be the hardest one to replace because the editing for simple gallery was amazing), contacts, and clock. Does anyone have any suggestions?
For Contacts and Clock, use YOU apps. I don’t think anything can replace the Gallery, I’ll continue using the current version for as long as there’s a new community-maintained fork. It’s quite stable really, doesn’t really need changing this very moment.
I found Koler dialer that matches the UI of those two https://github.com/Chooloo/koler
Wow these apps have an amazing UI, kinda wish they had a dialer and SMS app too so the colors are in sync with the contacts app (the built in SMS to the contacts app does not work properly at least for me)
Contact YOU app has SMS inbuilt. The SMS support is in very early stage so buggy but the dev is going on at an amazing pace. Just give it a few more months.
For dialer, I’d keep using the simple app for now. There’s Koler with material you theme but it hasn’t seen dev in 5 months and doesn’t have all the feature like regex-based call blocking.
Downside is that it does not support MMS and they don’t plan to add it. SMS will always cut off at 160 characters, making you send multiple SMS to send it all, instead of sending a big MMS. Also means you can’t send pictures.
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For the gallery I’m using Aves, and for the file manager Amaze.
For the dialer, contacts and clock I just use the stock apps from LinageOS.
Aves does not have any editing features
I think that functionality should be separate from a gallery app. Check out Image Toolbox for mobile photo editing.
https://github.com/T8RIN/ImageToolbox
do you have anything for editing videos?
https://f-droid.org/en/packages/protect.videoeditor/
Simple, but closest we have for now.
looks like it hasnt been updated since 2019. id rather just use simple gallery and not update it for now until a fork/new application comes out
Yeah, that’s true. But it’s not a problem for me because I rarely edit photos on mobile. When I have to, I just use the stock app.
To be fair something like the dialer or the gallery or the notes, you can just sticky the current version you have. It’s unlikely to ever see major / important changes, I mean all the dialer has to do is to dial numbers, right=
Not sure how it is for editing but I like Aves as a gallery app.
For editing pictures, try out Pocket Paint (F-Droid). Feature rich and surprisingly good UX for a mobile editor app.
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The hardest one for me to replace with be the file manager. I had already tried Amaze and Material and didn’t like either before settling on Simple. sigh