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)
I don’t have a fixed bottom row.
I’ve got maximum two pages. Folder Cover mode is much more efficient. (I hope for an immersive (full screen) mode some day)
90% foss of all apps.
What’s not foss? banking, gov broadcasters, arte, ard, zdf, german train app, magic earth, ebay, dict.cc, car sharing,
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)
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.
Didn’t know Summit had gone FOSS! Thanks mate! 💙
I use ios. So phone, messages, safari and spotify.
Not much happening there.
I don’t have an app dock, so… zero for both?
Well i do have one, i just like to have it empty
We are not the same
@drew_belloc @noodlejetski I don’t have a dock either. I do have a favourites row though, and currently these are the pinned apps (arranged in no particular order):
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Chats (#Chatty) by Purism & GNOME - supports #SMS, #Matrix, #XMPP
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Contacts by GNOME
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GNOME Settings
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#Phosh Mobile Settings
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Tweaks by #postmarketOS
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#Tuba (client for #Mastodon / #Fediverse)
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#DeltaChat ( #openstandards-based, #securityaudited, fast #e2ee chats over bloody #email!)
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Files / #Nautilus by GNOME
All #FreeSoftware /Libre, #OpenSource #FOSS / #FLOSS : )
Note: The home screen and the app drawer / search / overview is all one and the same.
#FreedomTech #LibreTech #Librem5 #LibertyPhone #LinuxMobile #MobileLinux #LinuxPhones #gnuLinux #softwarefreedom #BreakTheDuopoly
Cool, i think i just got used to scroll for my apps, i normally know where they are so is a seamless experiance for me, but i like options like those, i just don’t put anything on my dock because i like to have a clean home screen, both on my phone and on my desktop
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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
- ✅ Firefox Beta
- ❌ QuickPic Gallery
- ✅ Little File Explorer
- ❌ Google Drive
- ✅ Iacoblonut01’s Gallery
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.
Cromite, KeepassDX, Moshidon, Phone, K9
Using KISS launcher as my home launcher in minimal mode.
App dock has:
- AOSP Android Dialer (I think), whatever grapheneOS ships
- Molly-FOSS (Signal app)
- Thunder for Lemmy
- IronFox hardened Firefox fork
- Logseq Personal Knowledge Management (PKM)
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.
- ✅ Molly, Signal fork: https://github.com/mollyim/mollyim-android
- ✅ Feeder, RSS Reader: https://github.com/spacecowboy/Feeder
- ❌ Polar Flow (unfortunately Gadgetbridge doesn’t support my device)
- ✅ Threema Libre, open source, free in context of FOSS, but paid: https://github.com/threema-ch/threema-android?tab=readme-ov-file
- ✅ Voyager, Lemmy client: https://github.com/aeharding/voyager
- ✅ Oeffi, public transport: https://oeffi.schildbach.de/index.html
- ✅ FairEmail: https://github.com/M66B/FairEmail
- ✅ GOS camera: https://github.com/GrapheneOS/Camera
- ✅ StreetComplete, OSM surveyor app: https://github.com/streetcomplete/StreetComplete
- ✅ OSMAnd: https://github.com/osmandapp/Osmand
I thought this was an easy one, but turns out it is not.
open source, but not free
Free here means free-as-in-freedom. The free software definition and open source definition are almost identical, there are very few apps that are only one or the other.
Edited. Thx for pointing out.
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)
