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
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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”
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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
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F-Droid:
IzzyOnDroid:
(TURNS OUT IT IS NOT OPEN-SOURCE MY BAD) 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
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Has anyone been able to find a Google Maps alternative that’s good with public transit routes? That’s my last google holdout.
What country are you in? In my experience transit apps are somewhat localized.
Magic Earth, Here WeGo, Nunav
@spacelord@sh.itjust.works What don’t you like about the suggestion?
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
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
Osmand.
Not Foss but magic earth is pretty nice
Yeah Magic Earth isn’t as good as Google Maps, but it comes closest to the full package.
Just FYI regarding car navigation, so far it’s been pretty hit or miss for me whether it knows if roads are closed.
I also like using Nunav in Germany. It provides much better coverage of traffic jams and road closures.
I haven’t heard of them before, that definitely looks interesting. I’ll have to do some more research into them before I trust them fully but thanks.
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.
As far as I know, the app doesn’t support traffic information
Not foss but busnavi is quite privacy respecting. But you haven’t stated what country you live in.
I need the traffic warnings, if I had that and the speed limits I could jump ship
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
In some places, local transit companies have their own route planning apps that are very good.