Tools that probably no one had heard of but are extremely helpful for Degoogling:
- Sustysubs.net - A list of alternative services
- A very useful tool that you can find privacy-friendly altermatives to proprietary services. You can suggest a service via Codeberg and/or Email
Link:
- Wizestream - A better NewPipe
- A NewPipe fork that intergrates Material Design 3 into the UI and includes things like ReturnYouTubeDislike, SponsorBlock, Dearrow, Learning tools, Invidious, subcription syncronization,
Repository:
IzzyOnDroid:
- LibreCuts - The only FOSS Android video editor for the professionals
- A video editor for Android that supports overlays and keyframes, which in my opinion, is the minimum requirment for a video editor to be “professional”
Repository:
F-Droid:
- LibreFind - Community-driven app for finding alternative apps for Android
- LibreFind is probably the most well-known project listed here, but basically, you submit a FOSS alternative to a proprietary app, then wait for it to be approved. It also lists how many of your local apps are FOSS or not
Repository:
F-Droid:
IzzyOnDroid:
- Pur.ili - Kagi if it was free
- Pur.ili is a private search engine that does not have big tech spy on you by secret. Unlike most “privacy friendly” search engines, like DuckDuckGo or Brave Search, this one has a completely independent index, meaning no contracts to big tech to let them spy on you by secret. The difference between this and Kagi? It doesn’t require a paid subscription, so you can use it for free
Link:
Search query:
Wow I didn’t expect my post to reach 100 upvotes and the 3rd spot in the top of this community. This is literally JUST my FIRST post. Wow
I need to look into wizestream. Sounds interesting.
I’ve been happy with another newpipe fork, pipepipe, for a long time. Back then they were called animepipe because it included the bullet comments flying across the video like niconicodouga (nnd). No, I will not explain why it’s desirable by some anime otaku. But it also includes support for peertube, bilibili and of course nnd.
Also good to see librefind for android. Degoogling is a journey, and finding apps are hard enough outside of the biggest ones. Librefind helps quite a bit. And can be contributed with finds by others.
Glad I helped you with something
Tubular is also fine.
It’s outdated
Is it? It works for me and doesn’t have the stretching problems on my thinner-than-average viewport, of the newpipe forks.
Has anyone been able to find a Google Maps alternative that’s good with public transit routes? That’s my last google holdout.
For android: Vela Maps, basically newpipe but for google maps. It anonymises your requests to google maps and functions essentially the same way. It also works offline assuming you downloaded the maps you need (including search results).
Last I tried I found it unstable, also too much AI coding for me to feel happy about it. Sticking with CoMaps for now personally.
I use Transit app for public transport
Osmand.
Comaps is enough for me when I only need the routes itenary and don’t care for the time tables. Comaps is, according to many people, the best open-source (and not company-owned) map at the moment
Not Foss but magic earth is pretty nice
It seems Murena Maps is coming along nicely in that respect! It has buses and trains, shows live traffic info, is open source, and seems to be working alright.
It’s still under development, so it’s not perfect, but for public transportation it seems to be pretty great. You need to install Obtanium to try it. The repo is here.
Not foss but busnavi is quite privacy respecting. But you haven’t stated what country you live in.
Have you tried mapy.com?
Maybe this? https://f-droid.org/packages/net.youapps.transport/ If not, check if sustysubs.net has a transport app available. From what I remember, it didn’t include this category, tho
I need the traffic warnings, if I had that and the speed limits I could jump ship
In some places, local transit companies have their own route planning apps that are very good.
Sorry if this isn’t organized. This is my first post on Lemmy
It would be a lot more readable if each link would be just one bullet point that starts with the title and then the link, on the same line.
Another good option is to used headlines (lines starting with ##) rather than numbered points. :)
You can edit the post and title as you see fit, it’s not like other platforms.
I figured. I know
What are other underrated projects that you have found?
