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This thread is ONLY to talk about Keyboards, Notes, Maps and Music Players. I add video Music Players because probably some people want to know about good FOSS alternatives.


Little context

spoilerWhy not build a megathread with the best and most reliable FOSS apps too help someone who want to join on the bright side of open source?

We (because this is not from me, this is from us) need to share thoughts, ideas and all things you want to say. Dont be shy. Upvote the comments you like and agree; disagree and tell why you disagree. This is will be different from others threads because this need a proper user opinion, and your opinions will be VERY important to build this. In short, your opinions and thoughts will be the fundamental source to build this.

I will read ALL comments to build this. Even if this has a million comments, I’m going to waste time reading it. Whatever it takes.

Your opinions about it are CRUCIAL and FUNDAMENTAL, because your opinions is the main-base to build the megathread.


Please, consider share your ideas and thoughts about apps on previous threads. Your opinions are really important to build final megathread. You can upvote or downvote posts so that comments gain strength and agreement between the community.

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Discussion about Contacts, SMS and Dialers app is here.

Discussion about Calculators, Cameras and Calendars apps is here.

Discussion about Manager files, Recorders, Galleries and Video editors apps is here.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

noteless . esp for collecting links/bookmarks

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

What's the best alternative to Gboard?

I've gotten use to swiping to type, and the English (Australia) (PC) QWERTY layout with the number row at the top, and hold-press numbers are the equivalent QWERTY keyboard symbols.

Am finding it hard to replace.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago
[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

Wildcard for keyboard: ThumbKey

This has been pretty great, although unique.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

Music player: Metro

Maps: Organic Maps

Notes: Notally

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

Joplin

I sync it with onedrive basically for free between my phone, laptop and computer. It's wysiwyg editor means it was basically a drop in replacement for EverNote for me, but open source and without the costs.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago
  • Music player: "dialog music player" for filemanagers, Vanilla music if you want auto-play, anrimians player is nice too (github)
  • maps: nothing beats OSMAnd
  • Notes: personally markor, but if you want cross platform sync Standard Notes may be nice
  • Keyboard: Florisboard forever, so stable and customizable. I cant like without the internal clipboard and quick deletion, and the editing buttons
[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)
  • Keyboard: OpenBoard (works great, support anonymous mode, my layout, emojis, paste, move cursor using finger over space button, longer deletes using finger over backspace)
  • Music Player: Odyssey (I don't rely on ID3 tags but directory structure instead - there is too little of those players who use it)
  • Music Player: ViMusic (FOSS interface to Youtube Music)
  • Music Player: RadioDroid (for online radio stations)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

RiMusic is a maintained fork of ViMusic

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

music player: auxio or symphony

auxio is more simple but has less features. symphony is the inverse. pick your poison

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Keyboard: FlorisBoard

Music Player: InnerTune

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Is there a way to get autocorrect on Florisboard?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Waiting. They're programming the thing.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

oh? I can wait, that's not an issue. I didn't find any forum threads that indicated that was in the works.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

Maps: Organic Maps

Notes: Note calendar. Type in notes for a specific day. A beautifully simple app.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

I'm using "Unexpected Keyboard" right now. I like that it's different in that I dont have to long press a key in order to input punctuation. It's a swipe from the center of a key to a corner and I think it's that little bit faster. :)

Also doesn't have auto-correct like other FOSS keyboards.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Does anyone know of an alternative to Hacker's Keyboard? It hasn't been updated for about 5 years and I'm worried it will stop working on newer versions of Android.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Maybe: unexpected keyboard

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

Had a look at it, seems to lack dedicated modifier and cursor keys. Looking specifically for a PC-style keyboard.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)
  • Openboard
  • Quillnote
  • Organic Maps
  • ViMusic - music streaming but after 1st listen songs are cached for offline play.

Edit: Now that I think about it, I use session for taking notes and "syncing" them with my PC. I guess any messaging app with a desktop client would work.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Quillnote has been abandoned. Quillpad is the fork that has a somewhat active development, if that matters to you.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Why is it bad that it's been abandoned? It works fine for me. Are there security concerns or something?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

Im not certain in regards to security in this context. But any new features in Quillpad you'd miss. If that's important to you. Otherwise, keep on using quillnote instead!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

quillpad has no way of exporting notes as of yet, be warned.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 7 months ago

RiMusic is a fork with updates

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

##Keyboards

Florisboard is back!

Openboard is sadly outdated, but there was some steady updated fork

Simple keyboard (NOT the simple tools), but it doesn't have many fucntions, but works just great and looks on a million $

##Notes

Many good options, but i would like to see an gpg encrypted notes with local storage

Honorable mentions: logseq, simple notes

Maps

Gmaps WV (donate to divest, plz), organic maps

##Music

Everything that works with jellyfin, bauh was good, but not updated in a while

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

According to fdroid, florisboard is in beta, but hasn't been updated since june, 2022. Is it still active?

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