simpletask-android vs FairEmail

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FairEmail

Fully featured, open source, privacy friendly email app for Android (by M66B)

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simpletask-android		FairEmail
	Project
6	Mentions	218
544	Stars	2,719
-	Growth	-
0.0	Activity	10.0
5 months ago	Latest Commit	5 days ago
Kotlin	Language	Java
GNU General Public License v3.0 only	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 only

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simpletask-android

Posts with mentions or reviews of simpletask-android. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-11-20.

All my Alternatives to Google Apps
27 projects | /r/degoogle | 20 Nov 2022

Google Task → simpleTask
⟳ 5 apps added, 68 updated at f-droid.org
15 projects | /r/FDroidUpdates | 18 Jun 2022

Simpletask (WebDAV) (version 11.0.0): A todo manager based on todo.txt
Looking for a nice todo app
3 projects | /r/selfhosted | 13 Oct 2021
Ask HN: Do you donate money to open source?
4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Oct 2021
Apps Getting Worse
2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Aug 2021

I was using OSMAnd the other day. Wanted to change a setting that I knew exists, since I looked through them all at one point (don't remember which one off hand, sorry). Spent 2 or 3 minutes looking for it before I ran out of time and gave up. Not the first time this has happened (second or third, I think).
On the developer side, too many interrelated settings can increase the complexity of the code, making it less maintainable.
My favorite compromise is to use settings for the most common functionality tweaks, and then add script hooks to allow extensive customization of behavior. The Android app Simpletask[1] does a great job of this, imo. (There are many places where it could use polish, but it nails the overall approach).
[1]: https://github.com/mpcjanssen/simpletask-android
A List Of Open Source Applications
1 project | /r/androidapps | 16 Feb 2021

SIMPLETASK A simple task list manager that strives to have just enough features to do GTD (the Getting Things Done methodology), but no more. Based on the todo.txt app so all info is stored in a single text file called todo.txt.

FairEmail

Posts with mentions or reviews of FairEmail. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-07.

Email Apps
1 project | /r/androidapps | 10 Dec 2023
OpenPGP Forked into "LibrePGP" by GnuPG's Maintainer Werner Koch
4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 7 Dec 2023

I'm using FairEmail [0] as a client on Android which supports PGP and i am quite happy with it.
[0] https://email.faircode.eu/
⟳ 4 apps added, 39 updated at f-droid.org
16 projects | /r/FDroidUpdates | 5 Dec 2023

FairEmail (version 1.2134): Fully featured email client. Neat, intuitive user interface. Privacy friendly
⟳ 0 apps added, 11 updated at apt.izzysoft.de
4 projects | /r/FDroidUpdates | 5 Dec 2023

FairEmail (version 2134): FairEmail - Fully featured, open source, privacy oriented email app for Android
FairEmail development may cease due to Google 'security' requirements
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Nov 2023
All my Open Source App Alternatives
28 projects | /r/opensource | 30 Jul 2023

Email Client → FairEmail
Client suggestions
1 project | /r/fastmail | 1 Jul 2023
E-Mail Client
1 project | /r/GrapheneOS | 19 Jun 2023

Checkout FairEmail https://email.faircode.eu/
⟳ 1 apps added, 52 updated at f-droid.org
9 projects | /r/FDroidUpdates | 6 Jun 2023

FairEmail (version 1.2074): Fully featured email client. Neat, intuitive user interface. Privacy friendly
⟳ 0 apps added, 12 updated at apt.izzysoft.de
2 projects | /r/FDroidUpdates | 4 Jun 2023

FairEmail (version 2074): FairEmail - Fully featured, open source, privacy oriented email app for Android

What are some alternatives?

When comparing simpletask-android and FairEmail you can also consider the following projects:

tasks - :white_check_mark: Tasks app for Nextcloud

k-9 - K-9 Mail – Open Source Email App for Android [Moved to: https://github.com/thundernest/k-9]

libinput - A fork of libinput that incubates solutions to user-voted problems with Linux touchpads, and prepares pull requests to be submitted to the official libinput project.

email-oauth2-proxy - An IMAP/POP/SMTP proxy that transparently adds OAuth 2.0 authentication for email clients that don't support this method.

sleek - todo.txt manager for Linux, Windows and MacOS, free and open-source (FOSS)

thunderbird-android - K-9 Mail – Open Source Email App for Android

Ockam - Orchestrate end-to-end encryption, cryptographic identities, mutual authentication, and authorization policies between distributed applications – at massive scale.

k9mail

Setter - A multi-purpose search app for Android

webclient - Angular webclient (with Linux, macOS and Windows desktop clients) for CTemplar's encrypted email service.

rclone - "rsync for cloud storage" - Google Drive, S3, Dropbox, Backblaze B2, One Drive, Swift, Hubic, Wasabi, Google Cloud Storage, Azure Blob, Azure Files, Yandex Files

Netguard - A simple way to block access to the internet per app