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This is why I recommend FOSS apps for base functionality like that. There's plenty folks out there, who've implemented a grocery list app as a hobby project, who don't need to try to make money off it. As such, their app can exist without ads, tracking or needy notifications.
I personally use a self hosted instance of kitchen owl https://kitchenowl.org/ I really like it's simplicity and use it quite a lot and nobody has access to the data but me.
I agree, when my wife switched to iPhone a few years back, I had trouble finding foss apps for ios. I guess not being able to sideload means most devs will want to recoup the apple development fee. I don't blame them really.
I used an iPhone for a few months last year and I had such a hard time with just how much it costs for apps. Everything is a subscription and you have no options for sideloading your own app or FOSS. I tried to set my alarm to a piece of music that was released under a creative commons license and the only way to do it was to spend $1 with Apple.
Totally get what you mean, I'm using an iPhone right now and it's super polished, but yeah, the whole subscription everything and lack of sideloading can be frustrating. Do you mainly use Android or Linux now for that freedom?
I used Apple stuff for a while but and in many ways it is superior to anything else, but just like I don't have a Bentley to drive to work I'm totally fine with the lesser option and have bunchs of money left for more important/valuable things.
I use Android as my daily phone, but I do keep going that I'll have a Linux phone that meets my needs some day.
On iPad you did not even have a calculator app until recently. You had to buy one or get one with ads. I'm taking super basic functionality here right. No scientific calculator or anything.
When it comes to more complex apps, sometimes you really do get a better user experience if you just sack up and pay for a premium product.
MyFitnessPal is balls compared to Macrofactor. Its more expensive but its better and doesnt do a damn thing I dont expressly tell it to do.
I recommend FOSS for absolutely everything you use if possible.
you can get a second hand pixel phone for cheap; install lineageos with microg and magisk, get most of your apps from f-droid and supplement with "regular" apps from the play store via aurora, and just like that you have what i honestly consider the most usable phone experience available.
it's a remarkably reasonable install process provided you're willing to learn, and you really don't have to sacrifice many features at all since you can just fall back to normal apps, and the stuff added by most vendors to android itself is just AI dogshit.
I'm on a pixel 9 with GrapheneOS myself