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What apps would you love to have open-source alternatives for?

It seems like the FOSS community is continuing to grow, and FOSS apps keep getting better (Immich reallh blew my mind recently), which is a big win 😎 but there are still many apps I use that I would kill for an open source alternative. I am curious what you guys think? Are there any apps you'd love alternatives for?

10_0 ,

OSMAND, since they started tracking users a while ago on the f-droid version.

BentiGorlich ,
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they did? totally slipped past me...

SorteKanin ,
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It's a long shot, but a viable alternative to Google Maps or other proprietary mapping websites (and no, OpenStreetMap is not a viable Google Maps alternative).

ClearCutCoconut OP ,

Organic Maps honestly hasn't been that bad for me, but searching addresses is appalling and I do need to rely on Google Maps in many instances still. However, it has made it much easier for me to contribute to OSM and have a better user experience. A step in the right direction at least

BentiGorlich ,
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I use Organic Maps to find places by name and OSMand to find places by address. Both can only the do one of the two things good, but it is doable.

BentiGorlich ,
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OSM is not that user friendly as Google Maps for sure, but if you really want you really can replace GMaps. It probably heavily depends on your country and if the OSM community is active there, but for example here in Germany the mapping information is basically on par with GMaps

SorteKanin ,
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How do I get directions with OSM?

Deckweiss ,

There are many APPs build on top of OSM that can do directions in a user friendly way. Personally I use MagicEarth, which uses OSM but isn't itself open source. They include live traffic from some other nav provider.

My goal was to degoogle my phone and MagicEarth was the app which came closest, but I bet you can find all sorts of webapps or fully open source ways to get directions if you don't care for live traffic.

BentiGorlich ,
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Gotta look at that. Live traffic info is one of those things, that OSM lacks...

BentiGorlich ,
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You have to use an app for that. OSM is mostly a big database with an API access to it. There are a lot of them out there with a lot of different focusses. For navigating with a car OSMand is pretty good. They are on fdroid.

limping ,
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@ClearCutCoconut WhatsApp
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BentiGorlich ,
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I Don't have WhatsApp anymore. Though I just deleted my WhatsApp account and said that I am no longer reachable via that crap. If you want to contact me use Signal. Most of my friends just installed Signal (a few took some time), but if you don't do it that way you will never get away from WhatsApp just because of the network effect...
And yes, you will miss out on some groups

Deckweiss ,

did the same but with Threema

The fragmentation is really shit. I wish more such APPs would be interoperable.

BentiGorlich ,
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I've had Threema for a while even before that, because my family group migrated there. Though I do not have a lot of contacts on there :D

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