This year I’ve been removing Google from my life. Today I installed LineageOS without Google Apps, taking yet another step to a degoogled life.
Due to clearly some poor planning I forgot to lookup some alternative apps for the basic stuff I never think about… I’d rather install FOSS apps that are available on F-Droid or at the very least, an app that is available on Aurora Store. Would rather not be installing random APKs.
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Dialer app: I installed “Koler”, which seems decent enough
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Contacts: Doesn’t need to be super fancy, just something that allows me import my contacts from a VCF file.
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SMS: Currently using QKSMS, not sure if anything else is recommended…
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Camera: I barely use my camera app, just need something to take the occasional photo.
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Gallery: The default is probably good enough, let me know your thoughts
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Launcher: I used Niagara launcher but I never got used to it, to be honest. I guess I’m looking to something more traditional.
Shoot me any other FOSS apps you think are great! Thank you so much.
Koler was very pretty, but there’s no way to get back into a call once you switch out of it. This is really bad, partly because it makes it impossible to hang up without restarting your phone. Huge, glaring bug they never fixed.
I’m absolutely with you on Contacts.
I hate Google Photos for a number of reasons, I think my current app is just simple gallery.
ICYMI the “simple” apps were sold to some shovelware company and will require a subscription soon (or maybe they already do). So you might want to look for an alternative if that’s what you are using.
oh fuuuuckkk
well, I’m on f-droid, so I guess my only issue is that I’m going to stop getting updates… but I’ll need a new gallery eventually, what are people switching to?
Edit: it seems fossify is forking smt:
https://github.com/FossifyOrg