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What are your favorite non-foss apps? (beehaw.org)
submitted 1 year ago by AHYN018@beehaw.org to c/foss@beehaw.org
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I know some of you have gone complies FOSS, but I believe if the developer wants to make money from their apps, there's noting wrong with it, as long as they are ethical. So what are your favorite non-foss apps?

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[–] Dymonika@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Like what?

[–] cnnrduncan@beehaw.org 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Simple Mobile Tools (Simple Contacts etc.) cost money for the full version on Play but you can get it for free on F-Droid or GitHub!

[–] retrolasered@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 year ago

free on F-Droid

(minus the video editor from gallery pro)

[–] provisional@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 1 year ago

For example Red Hat Enterprise Linux. They're FOSS but they charge money for support.

[–] alex@jlai.lu 5 points 1 year ago

My fave is Anki, free on Android and 25 USD on i0S for the exact same product.

[–] ram@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

D-Sub

[–] mosthated@feddit.nl 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Showly (IMDB alternative).

[–] RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The Showly on F-Droid is not the same as the one on the play store, it says in its description it is a fork.

The play store description says its open source and will be on F-droid soon but I actually did not see it there.

[–] mosthated@feddit.nl 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have the F-Driid version on my phone. I don't know all the differences with the play store version, but one difference is that you can't in-app purchase the premium features.

[–] RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well, you do not have it from actual F-droid since its not on there: https://search.f-droid.org/?q=Showly&lang=en

You likely have it from the Izzy repo but as I said that one is a fork: https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/apk/com.michaldrabik.showly_oss

[–] mosthated@feddit.nl 3 points 1 year ago

Yes, that's correct. Sorry for the confusion.