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 A fork of the SimpleMobileTools, which is no longer maintained, and we’re here to continue the legacy, bringing simple and private tech to everyone.
Most of the simple mobile tools apps on the play store have already added ads and internet permissions. Get off them asap
Woot! In-stalled!
The calendar isn’t showing up when I search for it on F droid
Interesting, when browsing fdroid they show up, but not when I search for them.
Oh thank you for this! I could only find the Gallery with the search.
Maybe need to update the search index first
F droid is slow. But on IzzyOnDroid it is already available.
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.
I’m using Lawnchair.
Thanks for the recommendation, unfortunately it seems that one is no longer maintained either.
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.
Oh thank you so much for posting this. When Brodie Robertson civered this on his YT channel, I was so upset at how the fiasco with Simple tools played out, but also so glad somebody took over the mantle. Cheers!
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.
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).
well, seems to me that you need a non-simple gallery app
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
They’re hoping that the current install base will be too lazy to remove their malware.
lol I think people who use fdroid sent the kind of people to keep known malware
but yea maybe ¯_ (ツ) _/¯
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 !
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
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.
oh nice. I mostly need SMS, but hopefully soon