I think they are very good. Don't expect any fancy features though. The gallery for example only shows pictures in directories and has very basic editing capabilities. There is no album management or automatic backup of any sort.

[–] Feddinat0r@feddit.org 3 points 2 days ago

I daily drive it for months. It just works for me :)

[–] SrMono@feddit.org 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Hi, having an Android phone as secondary, I would say: best would be a custom rom like grapheneos (Pixel only), lineageos or e/os. They come with plenty alternative apps from the getgo.

Second best solution would be to debloat your android and to search for substitutes in the F-Droid store.

But judgeing from the fossify site their apps look modern, well made and are available in F-Droid. Give them a try and report :-)

[–] d_k_bo@feddit.org 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Most Fossify apps are on F-Droid. They used to be known under the name “Simple Mobile Tools” and presented with orange app icons. The original author sold their brand/their userbase to an adware company, but the project lives on in form of this community-driven fork.

[–] SrMono@feddit.org 4 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Ah. That is why the apps looked familiar. Was this fork quite recently? I still have the older apps installed.

[–] Melchior@feddit.org 10 points 2 days ago

The sale and fork happened in December 2023. So you probably want to switch at some point.

[–] d_k_bo@feddit.org 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

The situation started here: https://github.com/SimpleMobileTools/General-Discussion/issues/241

[–] Cheradenine@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago

It ended there too I think, as far as tibbi was concerned. Iirc that was his only comment.

When he partnered with that shady company to release that shitty phone it was the start of the end.

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Welcome to Lemmy!

Here are a few pointers for you

!support@jlai.lu
!communitypromo@lemmy.ca
!buyeuropean@feddit.uk , complementary community to this one

Feel free if you have any questions

[–] superkret@feddit.org 2 points 2 days ago

This is standard on any new phone for me:

Debloat and degoogle using uad-ng
install all the Fossify apps