cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/10796117

Fossify Gallery (fork of Simple Gallery), Fossify File Manager (fork of Simple File Manager) and Fossify Calendar (fork of Simple Calendar) are now available for download on F-Droid.

(Simple Mobile Tools suite was acquired by an Israeli adware company)

About Fossify: Fossify is all about community-backed, open-source, and ad-free mobile apps. A fork of the SimpleMobileTools, which is no longer maintained, and we’re here to continue the legacy, bringing simple and private tech to everyone.

  • turbulentMagma@lemm.ee
    1·
    10 months ago

    Most of the simple mobile tools apps on the play store have already added ads and internet permissions. Get off them asap

  • z3rOR0ne@lemmy.ml
    1·
    10 months ago

    Oh thank you so much for posting this. When Brodie Robertson covered this on his YT channel, I was so upset at how the fiasco with SimpleMobileTools played out, but also so glad somebody took over the mantle. Cheers!

  • vort3@lemmy.ml
    1·
    10 months ago

    I’ll keep the last pre-sale version of simple gallery until fossify gallery implements some kind of editor (no, rotating and cropping is not editing).

  • harald_im_netz@feddit.de
    1·
    10 months ago

    I was waiting for the F-Droid release of the calendar. The switch is as easy as you can imagine: Export your settings from SimpleCalendar and import them into FossifyCalendar – that’s it.

  • GreyBeard@lemmy.one
    0·
    10 months ago

    Hopefully they get to Simple Launcher soon. I switched to that because Nova Launcher seemed to he dead and I couldn’t find a better open source alternative. I certainly will take suggestions if someone knows something better on fdroid.

      • centof@lemm.eeEnglish
        01·
        10 months ago

        How do you like it?

        I kinda want to try it because you can supposedly import and export your icons / shortcuts to apps. I kinda want to be able to like save a folder of urls so that they are viewable from the launcher, but I am not sure if that will be doable. The idea is that hopefully there would be a way to take a folder of bookmarks from exported firefox and make them easily accessible and organized from the launcher.

        I guess I should just try it out and see.

  • milkytoast@kbin.social
    0·
    10 months ago

    any idea if they’ll also fork the SMS, caller, and others? that’s what I use.also, I’m OK if I don’t update or no?

    edit: the rest of the apps are already on their github , just no packages yet

    • CalicoJack@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      0·
      10 months ago

      Caller (Phone) has a package available on their github you can grab now, and f-droid should recognize the install once it hits the repos. They’re releasing pretty quickly, all things considered.