Yor favorite closed source apps?

raccoondad

I try to avoid them as much as possible, generally because there are better alternatives, but sometimes there are things that either you download the closed source app or you don't have it at all.

The applications of popular services like my bank, food delivery, google stuff. All closed source

God forbid anything related your employment or education requires an app of some kind, those are always closed source and does who knows what....

Conjure6589

Magic Earth

User2288

SoulKeeper

Nova
Various icon packs

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PatzEdi Zarchiever is not closed source.

UndercoverBozo

I don't usually use spyware, but when I do, it's mysudo

Stewart

Magic Earth
Niagara Launcher and Nova Launcher
Discord
CityMapper

Pixelated

Endless frontier (Vidya)
Planet Fitness
Rumble
PlutoTV (Solely for Sailor Moon and Degrassi)
Bandcamp
Seeker (not sure if this counts)

Scott

I avoid Closed Source apps as much as possible.

Unfortunately, however, there are no Open Source banking apps. Unfortunately, I have installed this garbage (with Sandbox Google Play Services)

I love to gamble on the stock market. My friends love Xbox, and I gamble on the stock exchange just like in Casio. Unfortunately not very good for privacy either.

freezet

Total Commander
Spotify
Vivaldi
Google Camera

Scott

freezet Google Camera

Why?
In GOS there is already a camera feature. It produces good pictures

Stewart

Discord
Deezer
Spotify
Magic Earth (my favourite)

freezet

Scott 360 Panoramas and better Picture quality

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I have two closed-source apps on my phone but neither are my favourite.

Headphones - Sony, for my BT headphones. This is required to change headphone settings. It's disabled until I need it which is perhaps once or twice a year.

PC Financial / PC Optimum. Credit card/loyality. I cash in the points for "free" groceries. Invasive as F but I can't afford to not have those points.

AlanZ

For Android:
Total Launcher
MiXplorer
Vivaldi
Poweramp
Flud

For MacOS:
StopTheMadness
Little Snitch
Downie
MailMate
Serial 2
RedFox AnyStream (RIP)
Transmit
Audiobook Builder

Murcielago

Graphene18

Duolingo can also be used via browser or as a PWA (just in case you want to get rid of a closed source app).

Bootlace1170

Murcielago what’s the advantage of PWA vs the app itself?

Goldoraky

Banking apps can also be used as PWA

spl4tt

Typewise keyboard bruv. Or Niagara launcher as well

Sbpr

Google Messages (for RCS)
SMS backup & restore
WhatsApp (gave up on converting people to signal)
Google Drive (for encrypted WhatsApp backup since local backup attempts have been unreliable)
Google Maps
Google Voice (mostly use it for SMS codes and I give it out to some businesses instead of my personal line)
Pixel Camera
My gym's app
vizpin smart (i'm required to have it to unlock doors and gates)
Yahoo! Finance (real time market alert notifications and portfolio tracking)
ComicScreen (best cbz/CBR app I've found)
Weawow (provides dark sky weather, which breezy weather doesn't)
Upside (fuel savings)
Yuka (scan a food/toiletry/cosmetic product barcode and it gives a nutrition breakdown and lists additives with a breakdown about what is known about that additive)
Streaming apps
Google speech recognition (mostly for text to speech. I use FUTO voice for voice typing).

I'm open to alternatives for everything, I just haven't found good enough alternatives yet.

Scott

Sbpr Yahoo! Finance (real time market alert notifications and portfolio tracking)

https://github.com/achannarasappa/ticker

Ticker
Terminal stock watcher and stock position tracker

uses Yahoo Finance API

RRZishe

Sbpr Google Drive (for encrypted WhatsApp backup since local backup attempts have been unreliable)

How did you get it to backup WhatsApp? I'm stuck in a loop of it asking me to login.

SovereignCopper

Sbpr Yuka (scan a food/toiletry/cosmetic product barcode and it gives a nutrition breakdown and lists additives with a breakdown about what is known about that additive)

Barcode Scanner should do the same for you: F-Droid, GitLab. I'm not sure if the "breakdown about what is known about that additive" is specific to Yuka, though.

vagr

Sbpr Google speech recognition (mostly for text to speech. I use FUTO voice for voice typing).

I don't get this? FUTO works just fine without google services? Could you elaborate? I don't have any google apps other than Gboard (no network permission) and FUTO for text to speech. Works great.

Sbpr

Scott thanks, I'd be looking for something for mobile though. I'm an active investor and don't want to be glued to my screen all day. So I need some sort of notification/alert to tell me that something is happening in the market or with one of my holdings and that I should stop what I'm doing to look at it. Its saved me a bunch of times. Yahoo! Finance does miss some things, but it's free and does notify me for things like announcements, earnings, major news, and large price changes. Yahoo! Finance works OK as a PWA, but I really need the notifications so I have to keep the full app installed on a profile with play services.