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Is there any proprietary Android app for which you wish there would be an open-source alternative? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (2 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

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

There are so many of these it's not even funny, and yes FOSS ones. Same for video

Also Mull > Fennec and Mulch > Chromium

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Great to hear! Can you name one for me?

[–] [email protected] 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?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

@JustMarkov @gedaliyah

Promising! HEIC/HEIF formats are still a challenge for this tool.

[–] [email protected] 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.