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Basically, what the title says. Do you use any app, that is proprietary, but either has no OSS alternatives or they're all not good enough? If there is an alternative, what keeps you from switching?

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[–] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Some apps that I don't understand why no OSS exists:

  • Teleprompter app that allows you to read a scrolling script while recording video

  • basic photo editor to crop, rotate, color correct, add text

  • basic video editor to crop, clip, and combine video

  • visual voicemail

And just for fun, here are some OSS apps that are better than any non-free alternative: SD Maid, Firefox/Fennec, Aurora Store (OSS front-end for a very proprietary Google store), RTranslator, Syncthing, OSS Document Scanner.

[–] JustMarkov@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

basic photo editor to crop, rotate, color correct, add text

ImageToolbox can do almost everything you described.

basic video editor to crop, clip, and combine video

Have you tried Open Video Editor?

[–] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Image tool box doesn't seem to be able to arbitrarily rotate or add text. Some nice features, though.

Open Video Editor doesn't seem to be able to combine videos. I'm thinking something like CapCut, which allows combining photos, videos, and audio. It would be an ambitious project to be sure, but it seems like it should be doable.

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[–] exu@feditown.com 3 points 2 months ago

Maybe Niagara Launcher, though I'm quite happy to pay the dev a bit of money (not required for most stuff actually, I only login on my phone)

Until recently I'd have said Symfonium for music playback from Jellyfin, but the Finamp beta gave me an OSS alternative.

Ideally banking apps, booking.com and TripAdvisor all had FOSS alternatives, but that's not realistic.

[–] eruchitanda@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Two apps in particular:

- Test me Anything*

- I can't wake up

E: formatting

[–] eruchitanda@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

*You could create your own types of test (because sorry, not sorry, Anki sucks): Typing Practice, Multiple Choice, True/False, Fill-in-the-Blank, Matching, Short Answer.

[–] eruchitanda@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

I think that app dead now, but I'm sure there are similar apps on the Play store.

[–] refalo@programming.dev 2 points 2 months ago

All the Life360 alternatives are objectively worse and harder to use.

[–] gazter@aussie.zone 2 points 2 months ago

Fatmap. It was freemium, but now it's moving into Strava, who knows how much of it they'll hide behind subscriptions.

There's so many great FOSS maps, but I haven't seen any that give you the 3D view that Fatmap does. It's essentially Google Earth with overlays of routes for various activities.

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