This thread is ONLY to talk about Keyboards, Notes, Maps and Music Players. I add video Music Players because probably some people want to know about good FOSS alternatives.

Little context

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Why not build a megathread with the best and most reliable FOSS apps too help someone who want to join on the bright side of open source?

We (because this is not from me, this is from us) need to share thoughts, ideas and all things you want to say. Dont be shy. Upvote the comments you like and agree; disagree and tell why you disagree. This is will be different from others threads because this need a proper user opinion, and your opinions will be VERY important to build this. In short, your opinions and thoughts will be the fundamental source to build this.

I will read ALL comments to build this. Even if this has a million comments, I’m going to waste time reading it. Whatever it takes.

Your opinions about it are CRUCIAL and FUNDAMENTAL, because your opinions is the main-base to build the megathread.

Please, consider share your ideas and thoughts about apps on previous threads. Your opinions are really important to build final megathread. You can upvote or downvote posts so that comments gain strength and agreement between the community.

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Discussion about Contacts, SMS and Dialers app is here.

Discussion about Calculators, Cameras and Calendars apps is here.

Discussion about Manager files, Recorders, Galleries and Video editors apps is here.

  • sleep_walker@discuss.tchncs.de
    2·
    7 months ago
    • Keyboard: OpenBoard (works great, support anonymous mode, my layout, emojis, paste, move cursor using finger over space button, longer deletes using finger over backspace)
    • Music Player: Odyssey (I don’t rely on ID3 tags but directory structure instead - there is too little of those players who use it)
    • Music Player: ViMusic (FOSS interface to Youtube Music)
    • Music Player: RadioDroid (for online radio stations)
  • SuperSpruce@lemmy.zip
    2·
    7 months ago

    Maps: Organic Maps

    Notes: Note calendar. Type in notes for a specific day. A beautifully simple app.

  • qwerty@discuss.tchncs.de
    2·
    7 months ago
    • Openboard
    • Quillnote
    • Organic Maps
    • ViMusic - music streaming but after 1st listen songs are cached for offline play.

    Edit: Now that I think about it, I use session for taking notes and “syncing” them with my PC. I guess any messaging app with a desktop client would work.

  • Kolli@sopuli.xyz
    2·
    7 months ago

    Wildcard for keyboard: ThumbKey

    This has been pretty great, although unique.

  • FuryMaker@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    7 months ago

    What’s the best alternative to Gboard?

    I’ve gotten use to swiping to type, and the English (Australia) (PC) QWERTY layout with the number row at the top, and hold-press numbers are the equivalent QWERTY keyboard symbols.

    Am finding it hard to replace.

  • Gooey0210@sh.itjust.works
    1·
    7 months ago

    ##Keyboards

    Florisboard is back!

    Openboard is sadly outdated, but there was some steady updated fork

    Simple keyboard (NOT the simple tools), but it doesn’t have many fucntions, but works just great and looks on a million $

    ##Notes

    Many good options, but i would like to see an gpg encrypted notes with local storage

    Honorable mentions: logseq, simple notes

    Maps

    Gmaps WV (donate to divest, plz), organic maps

    ##Music

    Everything that works with jellyfin, bauh was good, but not updated in a while

  • Pantherina@feddit.de
    1·
    7 months ago
    • Music player: “dialog music player” for filemanagers, Vanilla music if you want auto-play, anrimians player is nice too (github)
    • maps: nothing beats OSMAnd
    • Notes: personally markor, but if you want cross platform sync Standard Notes may be nice
    • Keyboard: Florisboard forever, so stable and customizable. I cant like without the internal clipboard and quick deletion, and the editing buttons
  • therebedragons@lemmy.ml
    1·
    7 months ago

    I’ve enjoyed anysoft and floris keyboards but I want something open source with gif support. Might go back to swiftkey just because of it.

  • Evkob@lemmy.ca
    1·
    7 months ago

    I yearn for the day a FOSS keyboard for Android will have functional multilingual autocorrect. Most of the typing I do on my phone is in Frenglish and every FOSS keyboard I’ve tried has made it impossible to have autocorrect turned on. They always default to autocorrecting in either only English or only French which is just very frustrating.

    Compare that to SwiftKey, which not only has no issues with mixed languages, also learns my texting patterns, such as typing j’fais rather than je fais. I just don’t give it any permissions, including network access. It’s one of the only proprietary things on my phone but I couldn’t use my phone without it.

      • Evkob@lemmy.ca
        1·
        7 months ago

        I’ve been using the OpenBoard fork since it got recommended in this thread and it’s been good enough for me to disable SwiftKey (not delete yet though, I’m not ready to fully commit to deleting that accrued personal dictionary). I recommend checking it out!