There is a collection of open source apps that aim to just do their job with no fancy additions, they were called "Simple mobile tools". They are no longer maintained, this is a fork of them.
Simple Mobile Tools (the creator of Simple Gallery, a very popular gallery app) sold out to a scummy ad company.
This is a fork of the Simple Gallery app that won't include all the telemetry and ads the new owners will inject it with.
Nice! The settings export/import from the SMT version to the new Fossify version works perfectly, plus we get a nice green icon, to easily tell them apart. So happy they're forking these apps.
14 Comments
Norgur@kbin.social · 28 pts · 2y
Can we pretend that... Say... An imaginary friend of mine has never heard of this and wants to know what it is. Purely hypothetical of course.
Waluigis_Talking_Buttplug@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 2y
Fork of simple mobile tools, that was bought recently
Limitless_screaming@kbin.social · 16 pts · 2y
There is a collection of open source apps that aim to just do their job with no fancy additions, they were called "Simple mobile tools". They are no longer maintained, this is a fork of them.
clmbmb@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 2y
They are (hopefully) maintained by the company that bought them. And yes, this is the fork.
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de · 10 pts · 2y
Considering what the company does with other apps it buys we actually hope that they don't maintain their apps.
DeltaTangoLima@reddrefuge.com · 1 pts · 2y
Oh, they'll be "maintained" alright. Just at what cost to the user is what needs to be determined.
lapislazuli@sopuli.xyz · 10 pts · 2y
Poggervania@kbin.social · 9 pts · 2y
Great! So what is it?
Limitless_screaming@kbin.social · 13 pts · 2y
Simple tools for mobile; gallery, calendar, file manager, etc. A fork of the unmaintained Simple mobile tools.
tubbadu@lemmy.kde.social · 6 pts · 2y
Awesome news!
ForestOrca@kbin.social · 4 pts · 2y
ELI5, please?
Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 2y
Simple Mobile Tools (the creator of Simple Gallery, a very popular gallery app) sold out to a scummy ad company. This is a fork of the Simple Gallery app that won't include all the telemetry and ads the new owners will inject it with.
DeltaTangoLima@reddrefuge.com · 2 pts · 2y
Nice! The settings export/import from the SMT version to the new Fossify version works perfectly, plus we get a nice green icon, to easily tell them apart. So happy they're forking these apps.
merde@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 2y
settings export/import reduces the transition to 8 clicks (touches?)
🙂
BlanK0@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 2y
Lets gooo
MagneticFusion@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 2y