SimpleMobileTools/General-Discussion
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A place for discussing all apps in general + anything else you want to say
15 mentions on Hacker News by 14 people: 2 stories, 13 comments · first 2023-12-02 · latest 2026-02-23
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Those were sold to a predatory company. https://github.com/SimpleMobileTools/General-Discussion/issu... Fork is https://github.com/FossifyOrg
comment by gloflo · 2026-02-23 · in Keybee: A Keyboard Designed for Smartphones -
…have their pros and cons, but that's why it's so important to have a diversity of marketplaces. [1] https://github.com/SimpleMobileTools/General-Discussion/issu... [2] https://github.com/FossifyOrg
comment by marc_abonce · 2025-09-29 · in F-Droid and Google’s developer registration decree -
…responded (in late 2023) when SMT was bought by ZipoApps--Fossify was a fork that emerged: - https://github.com/SimpleMobileTools/General-Discussion/issu...
comment by heybrendan · 2025-06-17 · in Fossify – A suite of open-source, ad-free apps -
…tools(of which simple gallery pro was a part of) has been sold to an israeli adware company. see: https://github.com/SimpleMobileTools/General-Discussion/issu...
comment by gnuly · 2025-01-16 · in Homomorphic encryption in iOS 18 -
…an Israeli adware company, affecting several popular Android apps (Gallery, File Manager, others). https://github.com/SimpleMobileTools/General-Discussion/issu...
comment by rchaud · 2024-06-05 · in Popular Mac app 'Bartender' acquired by new unknown developer -
…have Phone, SMS, Clock, Audio Recorder apps, and more but I prefer the default GrapheneOS apps. [1] https://github.com/SimpleMobileTools/General-Discussion/issu...
comment by nani8ot · 2024-05-28 · in Mobifree – An open-source mobile ecosystem -
…is of the opinion that relicensing the code isn't a big deal because they wrote almost all of it. https://github.com/SimpleMobileTools/General-Discussion/issu...
comment by nani8ot · 2024-01-15 · in Fossify – Open-source fork of Simple Mobile Tools -
…https://www.patreon.com/tiborkaputa is up and collecting money, the same for funding requests at https://github.com/SimpleMobileTools/General-Discussion
comment by matkoniecz · 2023-12-05 · in Simple Mobile Tools suite to be acquired by Israeli adware company -
A contributor of the Project forked it: https://github.com/FossifyX Announcement: https://github.com/SimpleMobileTools/General-Discussion/issu...
comment by Anonymous_Acc45 · 2023-12-03 · in Simple Mobile Tools suite to be acquired by Israeli adware company -
For reference, he explicitly mentions it in [0][1]. [0]: https://github.com/SimpleMobileTools/General-Discussion/issu... [1]: https://github.com/SimpleMobileTools/General-Discussion/issu...
comment by tentacleuno · 2023-12-03 · in Simple Mobile Tools suite to be acquired by Israeli adware company -
The source will stay around, and a contributor decided to maintain a fork ( https://github.com/SimpleMobileTools/General-Discussion/issu... ) but it would be appropriate for more people to clone the repositories and especially their issues
comment by g-b-r · 2023-12-03 · in Simple Mobile Tools suite to be acquired by Israeli adware company -
…avid user of a few of these tools. Seems like one of the main contributors is going to make a fork! https://github.com/SimpleMobileTools/General-Discussion/issu...
comment by domh · 2023-12-03 · in Simple Mobile Tools suite to be acquired by Israeli adware company -
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Simple Mobile Tools suite to be acquired by Israeli adware companystory by thunderbong · 2023-12-03 · 82 comments
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GitHub discussion with the owner confirming that they are selling it https://github.com/SimpleMobileTools/General-Discussion/issu...
comment by SushiHippie · 2023-12-03 · in Simple Mobile Tools Sold to ZipoApps -
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Simple Mobile Tools Bought by ZipoAppsstory by moneytoo · 2023-12-02 · 0 comments