Basically, what the title says. Do you use any app, that is proprietary, but either has no OSS alternatives or they’re all not good enough? If there is an alternative, what keeps you from switching?

  • gedaliyah@lemmy.world
    3·
    2 months ago

    Some apps that I don’t understand why no OSS exists:

    • Teleprompter app that allows you to read a scrolling script while recording video

    • basic photo editor to crop, rotate, color correct, add text

    • basic video editor to crop, clip, and combine video

    • visual voicemail

    And just for fun, here are some OSS apps that are better than any non-free alternative: SD Maid, Firefox/Fennec, Aurora Store (OSS front-end for a very proprietary Google store), RTranslator, Syncthing, OSS Document Scanner.

      • gedaliyah@lemmy.world
        3·
        2 months ago

        Image tool box doesn’t seem to be able to arbitrarily rotate or add text. Some nice features, though.

        Open Video Editor doesn’t seem to be able to combine videos. I’m thinking something like CapCut, which allows combining photos, videos, and audio. It would be an ambitious project to be sure, but it seems like it should be doable.

    • refalo@programming.dev
      1·
      2 months ago

      basic photo editor to crop, rotate, color correct, add text

      There are so many of these it’s not even funny, and yes FOSS ones. Same for video

      Also Mull > Fennec and Mulch > Chromium