In case you missed it: Fossify (A fork of Simple Mobile Tools)

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/10796117

Fossify Gallery (fork of Simple Gallery), Fossify File Manager (fork of Simple File Manager) and Fossify Calendar (fork of Simple Calendar) are now available for download on F-Droid.

(Simple Mobile Tools suite was acquired by an Israeli adware company)

About Fossify: Fossify is all about community-backed, open-source, and ad-free mobile apps. A fork of the SimpleMobileTools, which is no longer maintained, and we're here to continue the legacy, bringing simple and private tech to everyone.

milkytoast ,
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I wonder what they think will happen. j feel like smt is only good because its Foss. if I don't care about Foss, trackers, etc, google s product suite is much better, more feature rich.the only reason I use smt is because its Foss. I'd love to be able to use google messages, with RCS, and whatnot, but trackers and google prevent me from doing so. I feel like by doing this they're killing it

conciselyverbose ,

They're hoping that the current install base will be too lazy to remove their malware.

milkytoast ,
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lol I think people who use fdroid sent the kind of people to keep known malware

but yea maybe ¯_ (ツ) _/¯

pedroapero ,

I'll be waiting for the dialer, sms, and contact apps in f-droid. Gallery is there already.
Too bad I donated a couple of times to Tibor; wish you all the best anyways !

milkytoast ,
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any idea if they'll also fork the SMS, caller, and others? that's what I use.also, I'm OK if I don't update or no?

edit: the rest of the apps are already on their github , just no packages yet

CalicoJack ,

Caller (Phone) has a package available on their github you can grab now, and f-droid should recognize the install once it hits the repos. They're releasing pretty quickly, all things considered.

milkytoast ,
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oh nice. I mostly need SMS, but hopefully soon

EunieIsTheBus ,

I use qksms

The simple sms app had some issues with not sending some messages for me even though it showed me it did.

turbulentMagma ,

Most of the simple mobile tools apps on the play store have already added ads and internet permissions. Get off them asap

vort3 ,
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I'll keep the last pre-sale version of simple gallery until fossify gallery implements some kind of editor (no, rotating and cropping is not editing).

Damage ,

well, seems to me that you need a non-simple gallery app

ElPussyKangaroo ,

It already has annotations I believe...

1000019366

What else is there?

z3rOR0ne , (edited )
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Oh thank you so much for posting this. When Brodie Robertson covered this on his YT channel, I was so upset at how the fiasco with SimpleMobileTools played out, but also so glad somebody took over the mantle. Cheers!

x4740N ,
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For someone who is completely out of the loop, what happened ?

Static_Rocket ,
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If I recall correctly, the whole suite was sold to a company that has a history of acquiring existing tools just to park them in maintenance mode and fill them with ads.

cralder ,
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The "simple" suite of apps was bought by zippoapps, a company that buys popular apps and adds incredibly aggressive monetization that is basically just trying to scam users. You know those "free trials" that cost like 300€ per week once the trial is up so you forget to cancel and pay a bunch of money for an app you don't want? Yeah that.

z3rOR0ne ,
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Others have already given you the summary, but if you're interested in Brodie Robertson's talk, going a bit in depth on the topic, here is the video.

harald_im_netz ,

I was waiting for the F-Droid release of the calendar. The switch is as easy as you can imagine: Export your settings from SimpleCalendar and import them into FossifyCalendar – that's it.

Marxist_Bear ,

The calendar isn't showing up when I search for it on F droid

Marxist_Bear ,

Interesting, when browsing fdroid they show up, but not when I search for them.

Kory ,
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Oh thank you for this! I could only find the Gallery with the search.

EunieIsTheBus ,

Maybe need to update the search index first

Marxist_Bear ,

How do I do that?

wgbirne ,

F droid is slow. But on IzzyOnDroid it is already available.

greybeard ,

Hopefully they get to Simple Launcher soon. I switched to that because Nova Launcher seemed to he dead and I couldn't find a better open source alternative. I certainly will take suggestions if someone knows something better on fdroid.

JackGreenEarth ,
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I'm using Lawnchair.

greybeard ,

Thanks for the recommendation, unfortunately it seems that one is no longer maintained either.

centof ,

How do you like it?

I kinda want to try it because you can supposedly import and export your icons / shortcuts to apps. I kinda want to be able to like save a folder of urls so that they are viewable from the launcher, but I am not sure if that will be doable. The idea is that hopefully there would be a way to take a folder of bookmarks from exported firefox and make them easily accessible and organized from the launcher.

I guess I should just try it out and see.

MaddestMax ,

Been using KISS Launcher very happily. Worth a look.

SeekPie ,

Lawnchair also works, if you want the stock android look

Cowbee ,
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Abandoned, unfortunately.

Anarch157a ,
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I'm waiting for the Contacts manager. Untill then I'll keep using the last "good" (pre-sale) version of Simple Contacts.

But don't worry, take your time.

iturnedintoanewt ,

Yup... Me too waiting on contacts.

EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted ,
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Woot! In-stalled!

lung ,
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Oh cool! De-googling never seemed easier ... I think we are finally ready for open source phones

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