Alternatives for simplemobiletool gallery and calendar?

java, 6 months ago

I’m In the need of an offline calendar and gallery now that simplemobiletools got sold off

This doesn’t sound reasonable. Why can’t you keep using existing apps? Are they underdeveloped and you’re waiting for some features? If so, it’d be helpful to see what these features are in order to suggest a suitable replacement.

American_Jesus, 6 months ago

Gallery: Aves - github.com/deckerst/aves
Calendar: Etar - github.com/Etar-Group/Etar-Calendar

starlord, 6 months ago

Tried Aves at this suggestion. Really neat!

LiveLM, 6 months ago

God that is depressing to read, I swear by Simple Gallery and Simple SMS

DeltaTangoLima, 6 months ago

Sit tight, I reckon. All the projects have been forked by one of the more involved contributors to SMT, so I doubt it’ll be long before we have rebranded versions, that’ll take an import of the settings from the original apps.

kpw, 6 months ago

Let's see what F-Droid does. Maybe they will switch to releasing an open source fork and we don't have to search for alternatives after all.

anotherinternetrobot, 6 months ago

I am now using Right Gallery. It looks like a fork of SMT gallery. It is free open source no ads. play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.goodwy.…

noodlejetski, 6 months ago

I don’t see its source code being posted anywhere.

anotherinternetrobot, 6 months ago

github.com/Goodwy?tab=repositories

corrupts_absolutely, 6 months ago

are all the apps licensed under gpl? perhaps we get a fork worst case?

sabreW4K3, 6 months ago

Gallery looks to have some potential.

Evkob, 6 months ago

I’ve replaced the calendar app with Etar, but I have pretty limited requirements for calendar apps. For a gallery app I use this (which is very poorly named): Gallery

That being said, if someone knows of any good FOSS clock apps (which lets you set more than one timer at a time) please let me know.

Why AOSP’s clock, and therefore most apps based on it, only lets you set one timer concurrently is such a frustrating mystery to me. Have these devs never cooked? Have they never steeped tea while doing laundry?? In what world do you code a clock app which can’t have multiple timers?

Extrasvhx9he, 6 months ago

Loving gallery so far and yeah tried etar but the lack of import and export is kind of a biggie for me. Appreciate your help

QuazarOmega, 6 months ago

Agree 1000% on the timer thing, it’s so incredibly annoying exactly because it seems such an obvious feature to have

Evkob, 6 months ago

Yet most FOSS clock apps I’ve tried miss the mark on this. And trust me, I’ve tried so many darn clock apps.

Lemongrab, 6 months ago

I think this meets your requirements: www.f-droid.org/packages/com.best.deskclock/

I can have a 15 min timer going at the same time as a 37 min one, and have them saved on creation to a list. Best clock app ive found that is feature rich and FOSS

itsaj26744, 6 months ago

Clock you is maybe what u want

jvrava9, 6 months ago

Aves Libre for Gallery

Tibert, 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago)

Hey on android? Didn’t know simplemobiletools was sold. Should be fine if updates are disabled from play store and only f-droid versions are used.

But for alternatives :

For a gallery app, I find Aves to look pretty good and has many great features github.com/deckerst/aves

If you need gallery (still not that great yet) & backup : ente gallery (there are other ente apps too) ente.io

For a calendar no idea.

Lemongrab, 6 months ago

Aves Libre should be used from F-droid, since the Aves package has non-free components.

darcmage, 6 months ago

github.com/FossifyX

pabloscloud, 6 months ago

results in 404

darcmage, 6 months ago

Looks like it was changed to github.com/FossifyOrg

mrecondo, 6 months ago

I’m using their tools and now I’m worried. What happened?

Evkob, 6 months ago

The maintainer sold it off to a company called ZipoApps. Here’s the Github thread about it.

ZipoApps seems to be a company who buys mobile apps to monetize (or further monetize) them. As per their website, their mission is “to find, evaluate, purchase and grow mobile apps”. I suspect the only growth we’ll see with the Simple Mobile suite is the growth of ad-revenue lining this company’s pockets.

mrecondo, 6 months ago

Thanks!

Tibert, 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago)

This : github.com/SimpleMobileTools/…/241

As explained sold to ZipoApps (low quality add ridden shovelware, with extremely high price /week to remove adds, from the git discussion).

From a reddit post reddit.com/…/simplemobiletools_was_sold_alternati…

There seems to already be a fork : github.com/FossifyX

Tho not sure how trusted it can be, but seems to have some hope.

The reddit post also suggests some alternatives. The comments in that post also suggests more alternatives.

mrecondo, 6 months ago

Thanks!

Evkob, 6 months ago

The FossifyX fork is by naveensingh, who was active in SimpleMobileTools’ development. From what I can tell poking through Github, they might not have as much time to dedicate to the project as the original maintainer.

wincing_nucleus073, 6 months ago

thankfully they dont need constant updating