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As per title. Move to a new app peeps, I found this 1 seems fine. https://github.com/you-apps/RecordYou?tab=readme-ov-file

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[–] [email protected] 165 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Get your utility apps from fdroid. All open source and actually do what you want them to.

[–] psycho_driver 37 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Is it more or less a replacement for Play Store?

[–] [email protected] 68 points 10 months ago

If possible, F-Droid could/should be used as your first stop for looking for a particular app or type of app. Obviously you won't find Tumblr on there, but it's got you covered for replacement apps for things like SMS messages, a photo gallery, a calculator, flashlight, notepad, file editor... You get the idea.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago
[–] InternetCitizen2 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Any f droid recorder that is actively developed?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Simplest path is probably to use the old simple mobile tools recorder app on fdroid, which won't be getting any updates. Fossify will likely release their recorder app very shortly, which will essentially be the next update for the smt recorder app.
It is already under active development, they just haven't gotten the first release yet.

Edit:
Another interesting one is DroidRec. It is usually used and seen as a screen recorder, but it has three simple toggles for screen video, device audio, and microphone. If you turn off screen and device audio, it becomes a very nice voice recorder.

[–] InternetCitizen2 3 points 10 months ago

Thanks for the tip.

[–] ijgwin 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I just tried that app and every time I try to record from mic only the app just closes when hitting the record button and it creates a 0 byte file. Does this actually work for anyone else?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Which of the two?
DroidRec works for me. I have quality on normal, codec on default, and record stereo. Selecting just mic or device audio and mic records to an m4a file.

E: smt simple voice recorder v5.12.3 works fine on default settings too for me

[–] ijgwin 1 points 10 months ago

I meant droidrec. Same settings for me but keeps crashing when hitting record. Audio recorder from f droid (white background with black microphone logo) seems to be working for me though.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Is a good advice but for the 'Simple' apps doesn't make difference, all 'Simple' apps listed in the f-droid will not receive updates.

[–] Sanguine 138 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Didn't "simple" recently get acquired and is no longer to be trusted? Correct if wrong but isn't Fossify the new preferred fork?

[–] [email protected] 46 points 10 months ago
[–] InternetCitizen2 31 points 10 months ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

for fucks sake

[–] [email protected] 81 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (3 children)

The website is still under development

[–] [email protected] 27 points 10 months ago (3 children)


That's fine. It at least links to their GitHub page for now.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Okay, you've convinced me, inline images are a bad idea.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Lmfao! Bone hurtingly true.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

Geocities. Geocities still lives on.

All that post needs to be truly complete is some marquee or blink.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Man, this brought me back to ye olden days where forums were where it was at. Thanks for this. 🥲

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

If you search in fdroid, a few have been released

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

The site has working links to their Github repository, and the apps arrived in F-Droid.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 10 months ago

This is still pinned on r/SimpleMobileTools:

11 Reasons why our apps rock

[–] [email protected] 36 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Simple Mobile Tool

A group of simple, open source Android apps without ads and unnecessary permissions, with customizable colors.

From the Play Store, emphasis mine.

[–] ChapulinColorado 37 points 10 months ago (1 children)

False advertising at this point after the acquisition?

[–] kautau 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Sure, but good luck getting google play moderators to do anything about it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Assuming they have moderators of course.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 10 months ago

Don't use it, the dev sold out

[–] [email protected] 22 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] petersr 10 points 10 months ago

Looks like a pretty simple breach of privacy to me.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 10 months ago

Is it part of the apps that have been recently sold to a commercial company? If so, you have to uninstall it and download the "Fossify" equivalent to keep the open source version.

[–] thecookingsenpai 18 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

Greed is simple.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago

Finally! Now I can finally have a voice recorder spy on me!

That's what I was missing back in the 90s, playing with a portable tape recorder without any strangers eavesdropping on everything I said. Isn't tevhnology grand!

[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago

I wanted to check out if that is true... and it is. Then I clicked on Simple Calendar > Trackers...

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

Thank you for linking an alternative. I actually like it even more than the enshittified one.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

The fukin audacity!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

I wonder when the Fossify Voice Recorder will be dropped

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

So they're trading on the smt name to....do a bunch of things that are the antithesis of what was attractive about the brand to begin with?

[–] Tangent5280 1 points 10 months ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

(stock Android) I've yet to find any android call recording app that works on a device that doesn't have permission from Google to use the built in call recording features :/

~9mo ago they all got broken by an android update and haven't worked since.