wire
:wavy_dash: Overview of the open source code for Wire (by wireapp)
| wire | fdroidclient | |
|---|---|---|
| 7 | 55 | |
| 2,358 | - | |
| 0.3% | - | |
| 4.8 | - | |
| 4 months ago | - | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | - |
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
wire
Posts with mentions or reviews of wire.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-06.
- Give the contacts a local name!
- Signal LAN Version or Alternative?
- Private messenging and email
- Wire is now on F-Droid
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WhatsApp loses millions of users after terms update
I thought wire was fully open source, at least the free version? https://github.com/wireapp/wire - am I missing something?
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What else?
The table is wrong, wire collects heaps of metadata: https://github.com/wireapp/wire/issues/214
fdroidclient
Posts with mentions or reviews of fdroidclient.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-20.
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F-Droid: Android FOSS app store
This is the discussion on implementing a popcon-style feature in F-Droid if you want to read through where the project got to: https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroidclient/-/issues/396
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First fully commercial, paid app requiring a key to function at all in main F-Droid repo! (Or is a free ad for the app?)
Meanwhile, the Latest tab "highlights good descriptions" (meaning in other words that it "hides" apps not meeting certain metadata criteria, even if they're completely free - as in speech and in beer - apps), which was not free of some irony, and was discussed at length with apparent consensus to change it but then every time it was back to square one. Because "Latest" apparently doesn't mean "Latest" and people don't get the nuances of English. Not kidding. Read the issue.
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# of app downloads
Basically, not at present, I think. It's happened for some time, and for a longer time in the past, it's been discussed multiple times, but I don't think right now there's any effort in this direction.
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⟳ 0 apps added, 1 updated at f-droid.org
F-Droid (version 1.16.3): The app store that respects freedom and privacy
- Receiving message when attempting to update repository
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All my Open Source App Alternatives
Play Store → Aurora Store, Fdroid, Neo Store
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is this normal when installing Fdroid?
Yep, that is the hard part: - https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroidclient/-/issues/1440 - https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroidclient/-/issues/2037 - https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroidclient/-/issues/2145
- New F-Droid repository format for faster and smaller updates
- f-droid seems to have stopped working on grapheneos
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Android 14 adds new features to make third-party app stores work even better
With the speed they're pursuing targetSDK updates? https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroidclient/-/issues/1440
What are some alternatives?
When comparing wire and fdroidclient you can also consider the following projects:
wickr-crypto-c - An implementation of the Wickr Secure Messaging Protocol in C
Neo-Store - An F-Droid client with modern UI and an arsenal of extra features.
brave-browser - Brave browser for Android, iOS, Linux, macOS, Windows.
jellyfin-android - Android Client for Jellyfin
cinny - Yet another matrix client
droidVNC-NG - VNC server app for Android that does not require root privileges.
foxy-droid - Yet another F-Droid client
Aurora - Non-official Library Genesis (Libgen) Android mobile client.
session-desktop - Session Desktop - Onion routing based messenger
client - F-Droid client with Material UI.
TextSecure - A private messenger for Android.
andOTP - [Unmaintained] Open source two-factor authentication for Android