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?

  • southsamurai@sh.itjust.works
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    16 days ago

    Poweramp

    There’s nothing else out there that’s really an equal, foss or not. The closest it gets is neutron, and that’s a hot mess of an app.

    It’s the sound quality that’s standout. It doesn’t hurt that it’s a decent player in every other way too, but even apps built for audiophiles don’t match it in real use, in every situation.

    None of the foss players are worth a damn sound wise; might as well use whatever comes with the device on that factor alone.

    • SaveMotherEarthEDF@lemmy.world
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      16 days ago

      I can’t say I’ve ever noticed any significant audio quality difference between this and something like Vinyl even on very good headphones.

      But I would say that I’ve been trying to find equivalent equilizer functions that this app has on desktop. The bass boost function is the best one I’ve ever used. It even turned my very neutral etymotics er3se into solid thumpers.

  • Todd Bonzalez@lemm.ee
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    15 days ago

    File Manager Plus:

    It connects to all my SFTP servers effortlessly, and it’s an absolutely stellar file Manager.

    JuiceSSH:

    Manages all my SSH servers and identities, and has an extremely usable terminal. It’s got extensions too.

  • JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl
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    16 days ago

    People have hit on most of them here, but here is another big one:

    Fitness apps. Mainly calorie tracking, workout tracking and heart rate tracking

    Health app

    Sleep as Android

    (No, gadget bridge is not a replacement for 99% of cases and doesn’t even support the gold standard for heart rate tracking, polar H10)

    For calorie tracking, the massive food databases required, barcode scanning, and crowd sourcing are generally not compatible with the open source community’s privacy ideals. OpenNutriTracker has promise though!

    For workout tracking, none of them have any device support and most of them are dead and abandoned. Not to mention heart rate zones, stats and training trends, etc… FitoTrack and Opentracks are good starts though.

    And then a google fit alternative. Something that can integrate sleeping, workouts, heart rates, sensors, etc… Data all in one aggregates place. It is a huge task and it makes sense that there is no open source alternative for it. Especially when the components aren’t individually there to aggregate.

  • Mazesecle@lemm.eeEnglish
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    16 days ago

    Tasker: I haven’t used it, but I’ve seen useful automations over the years from people online and I would probably use a good FOSS alternative.

  • gedaliyah@lemmy.world
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    15 days ago

    Some apps that I don’t understand why no OSS exists:

    • Teleprompter app that allows you to read a scrolling script while recording video

    • basic photo editor to crop, rotate, color correct, add text

    • basic video editor to crop, clip, and combine video

    • visual voicemail

    And just for fun, here are some OSS apps that are better than any non-free alternative: SD Maid, Firefox/Fennec, Aurora Store (OSS front-end for a very proprietary Google store), RTranslator, Syncthing, OSS Document Scanner.

  • Lemmchen@feddit.orgEnglish
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    3 days ago

    Basically every app that is related to a proprietary service. Amazon, Battle.net and Steam authenticators, banking apps, Spotify, etc.