Go to your phone homescreen and look at the app dock (the bottom row that contains some apps and stays the same when you switch pages).
Which are yours? Any FOSS apps?
In my case, they are FDroid, Signal, Threema, Firefox and the defaul Samsung camera app. So, 80% FOSS…
On GrapheneOS:
- Orgzly (FOSS)
- Folder with personal communication theme:
- messages (FOSS)
- protonmail
- discord
- Signal
- Phone (FOSS)
- Contacts (FOSS)
- 5 other proprietary or rarely used messaging apps to stay in touch with specific people in specific circumstances.
- Folder with daily/common apps:
- Fossify Calendar (FOSS)
- Local transit app
- Settings (FOSS)
- Firefox (FOSS)
- HomeAssistant (FOSS)
- Clock (FOSS)
- Organic Maps (FOSS)
Default telephone, messages, settings, mixplorer, firefox
Yep, all except for two: Crumpet and our Bank app. We can be pretty sure of this as we run CalyxOS and we have too many apps to list otherwise as everything on our ‘dock’ is in folders.
Phone, messengers/SMS, settings, browsers, and photo/video tools, in that order. Probably mostly because that’s the default location and where I’m used to them being.
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IronFox (web browser)
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Fossify Caller app
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QUIK (SMS)
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Molly (Signal)
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Libretube (YouTube)
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Thunder (Lemmy).
Oops, all FOSS! :)
The only proprietary apps that see regular use on my phone are my banking app and Spotify.
Why Molly? Doesn’t being unofficial mean always being a step behind in security updates?
If I were having high-stakes conversations, I might agree, but any slight delays in updates is unlikely to affect me. I’m not a high-stakes target of any sort.
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I use CalyxOS so completely degoogled because everything passes through microG. I have the following;
- Phone (CalyxOS)
- Quik (texting)
- Fennec (Firefox w security)
- Thunderbird
- Google Pixel Camera app, firewalled, and any services go through microG
here are my 4 non-Foss apps, out of 27 total on dock (yes on the dock, using folders)
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🚫nordvpn
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🚫obsidian (sync disabled)
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🚫@voice aloud tts
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🚫MS Swiftkey settings (true privacy threat i know, but Asian lang. support is essential & it runs w/o internet perm., w/o play services, and kept in incognito.)
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Well - Kind of.
- Snapchat (not FOSS at all afaik)
- Aliucord (Modded client for Discord, at least partially open source)
- Summit (FOSS)
- Signal (FOSS, I think)
Didn’t know Summit had gone FOSS! Thanks mate! 💙
Molly-FOSS is the fully FOSS, hardened fork of Signal that is available on Fdroid via their repo.
Here’s a feature comparison on their github between Signal, Molly, and Molly-FOSS. Basically, the stock signal app relies on some google services, Molly-FOSS does not.
I put all my apps on my home screen and I keep all non-FOSS apps in a single folder as a reminder to find replacements. The vast majority of my apps are FOSS at this point.
Very nice work! That’s a good idea.
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They are Fossify Phone, Fossify Voice Recorder, Fossify Camera, Fossify File Manager and Settings. So, 80% FOSS!- ❌ Phone - com.samsung.android.dialer
- ❌ Messages - com.google.android.apps.messaging (Samsung)
- ❌ Chrome - com.android.chrome
- ❌ Camera - com.sec.android.app.camera (Samsung)
The thing is, I keep them there as a “last resort”, not as main use.
- Firefox ✅
- SMS app from Simple Mobile Apps ✅
- WhatsApp ❌
- stock video recording camera shortcut that came with my phone ❌
- OpenCamera ✅
3/5 and as I was writing this I found out I might be able to get rid of the video recording shortcut because apparently a software update exposed the full video resolution to OpenCamera… although I still have to test that.
Vivaldi - FOSS Weather - FOSS FB Reader - not FOSS but soon to be replaced with Librera FD when I finish what I’m currently reading Clock - FOSS Camera - not FOSS
Vivaldi is not open source
Dang. I could have sworn it was. Thanks for the info.
Replaced FB Reader with librera this morning, and switched to open camera so now my dock is 100% FOSS!
Woohoo! Nice going. How are you liking Librera compared to FB Reader?
So far its a pretty solid replacement. Though searching network libraries could be better. As far as I can tell theres no actual search feature.
Signal ✅
Whatsapp (for those who don’t use signal i must contact) ❌
Firefox ✅ (Which essentially serves as a webapp for an institutional website i need to always visit)
Simplenote ✅
Fennec ✅ (Main browser)
- Super Productivity
- SchildiChat Next
- Open Camera (installed due to this post! replacing the default samsung camera app)
- Fennec
- SimpleX
- Fossify Phone
