Missing privacy apps

Privacy Questions
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Are there any privacy apps that you think is missing and needs to be developed? Or a FOSS alternative for proprietary software etc?

Please share it below, it might attract developers attention and develop it.

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travel app (buy flight ticket, hotel etc.)
takeout app
uber alternative
amazon alternative

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A travel app and a takeout app are the unnecessary inclusion of third parties. Pay directly to the provider.

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Hmmā€¦ I think @tommymycake brought the major missing apps, not sure if are also valid inputs but:

A privacy photo translator app. At the moment Iā€™m using DeepL which isnā€™t open source.

A privacy open source world live radio app. Alternative to Radio Garden.

A very niche specific app case. A privacy radio wave app for electric wave clocks (WWVB) to adjust clocks that are out of range of radio towers. Currently using WWVB Emulator.

On the hardware integration:

A privacy earbud app.

A privacy soundbar app.

So far those two types of apps, on the hardwares that I use, requests network access to function properly in the beginning and then I can deactivate it later. Not sure if is my hardware specific.

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FUTO Voice but FOSS

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FOSS Office suite thatā€™s not Libre Office (UI) and OO.

FOSS PDF editor that you can fill-form and sign.

FOSS RSS reader similar to feedly (that gives recommendation based on average clicks)

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Meetup alternative. Thereā€™s a few out there. None of which took off.

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I think it is mature enough, you just need to copy/paste the missing fonts over from Windows+MSOffice. Obviously for just simple typing and document editing, LO is more than adequate. The problem is working with MSOffice that of course MS is actively working to mildly sabotage compatibility against LO. Financial incentives are working against LO compatibility.

But as a stand alone Office Suite, LO is more than enough, especially for non-power user normies. I have seen use cases where it is actually successful. The problem is Excel is just too good and too widely used.

Some departments would really need MSOffice for compliance purposes, maybe for taxes, and so on. But for the rest of the team, LO is sufficient.

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the problem is how to find the best provider, only travel app can do that

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Some sort of privacy respecting messenger that doesnā€™t require an app download or registration.

Similar to pastebin, you could send a link with a password to someone, they can use the link to access an ephemeral chat right in their browser.

No account identifiers like SimpleX, and routed over TOR but also accessible via clear-net.

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Maybe I havenā€™t been able to find it, but a text anonymization app like Anonymouth would be great!

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Something like Secret Space Encryptor (SSE) | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository for file encryption but maintained and with modern UI/UX.

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I end up using the default weather app on my mobile device because Iā€™ve read about how the popular Weather apps use your location data in bad waysā€¦ So Iā€™d say a private weather app would be nice.

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Try Breezy Weather??

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OpenPGP app with all of encryption, decryption, signing, verification, key generation, key management, pre-import key inspection and configured with sensible secure defaults. The OpenPGP app (I forgot its name) I tried several years ago had either signing or verification that was either missing or buggy.

Expanding on previous posts, privacy-respecting locality-based peer-to-peer FOSS apps that donā€™t require KYC (all provided information is voluntary), donā€™t require middle men and donā€™t block VPN or Tor. Sadly, the norm is becoming everything is KYCed, tracked and permissioned.

  • housing (residential real estate, rentals, share housing, etc.)
  • services (Uber alternative, Uber Eats alternative, personal trainer, handyman, haircut, doctor, etc.)
  • buy and sell (groceries and produce, furniture, car, camera, etc.)
  • events and ticketing (Meetup alternative, Eventbrite alternative)
  • job seekers and recruitment
  • dating
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  • Cross-platform task (to do list) app with E2EE sync. Basically a generic CalDAV task list but encrypted.
  • A full-featured E2EE cloud provider. With a Linux app, two-way sync for Android (in the app or via something like Foldersync), editing Office files in the browser. Thereā€™s a bunch of E2EE providers but they all miss some of the features that e.g. Onedrive or Dropbox offer. See Comparison of Cloud, Sync & Email services (check the box for Only show providers who apply end-to-end encryption by default and offer all features (sync, editing, browser access, ...) for E2E-encrypted files)
  • A FOSS clone of Excel. All (offline) features included, similar UI, same keyboard shortcuts, fully compatible with XLSX files, ā€¦
  • A FOSS maps app that can compete with Google Maps. Business/shop infos, traffic info, Streetviewā€¦
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Forgot another one. A Discord alternative better than Matrix/Element.

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An application in which the legal regulation of
MAC address randomization for MacOS devices will be clear and available for update.

Followed by randomization when passing a legal validity check. :white_check_mark:

In this way it will be possible to set a clear vector of ideologies:

ā˜¤ Privacy is not a violation of the Law ā˜¤

This will allow to effectively promote, advocate its use and gain the support of people with foloving, wise people.

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I never heard of MAC address randomization being illegal, but Iā€™m not surprised it is illegal somewhere worldwide. Which jurisdiction or law?