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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] 9 points 1 month ago (8 children)

OpenCamera is good, but could do better. But I'd say video editing is the biggest void.

Also, gesture typing keyboards are an empty niche of foss alternatives. HelioBoard requires loading some proprietary blob unfortunately.

I guess the most heavy machine learning use cases are not filled in.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The FUTO keyboard has swipe tying, but it's not as fluid imo

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

isn't this one proprietary?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

You're right, it's some FUTO license and has some limitations that make it not FOSS.

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