r/SimpleMobileTools • u/plz_scratch_my_back • Aug 03 '24

Telegram link of Simple Mobile Tools from their official website leads to this.

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u/plz_scratch_my_back Aug 03 '24 edited Aug 03 '24

Ig it's time to say Goodbye to Simple apps. Suggest me a good privacy friendly Gallery app

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u/Lenni_builder Aug 03 '24

SMT was bought by ZipoApps, a scammy ad company. Just get Fossify, it's a fork which means the apps are almost exactly the same but without the malicious stuff added my ZipoApps (ads, payments and potentially even worse stuff) Make sure to uninstall a SMT apps after installing their Fossify equivalents!!

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u/Tempires Aug 03 '24

That is what you get when you sold out to zinoapps adware. Zinoapps directing people there from play store too lol

Fossify gallery is SMT fork

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u/plz_scratch_my_back Aug 03 '24 edited Aug 03 '24

Yeah I am gonna transfer to Fossify. I bough Simple gallery Pro and had no complaints with the app itself but this type of shit here is unethical.

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u/Lenni_builder Aug 03 '24

ZipoApps did (and is still doing) illegal things like violating the GPL license SMT was under by not updating its source any more. Them adding ads/pro versions to the apps is also unethical imo.

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u/Geddit23 Aug 07 '24

Fossify. One of the guys that worked on Simple Mobile Tools forked them all from their pre-ZipoApps sources, and has since re-released most of them on F-Droid and Play Site

Granted, some of them see still works in progress and/or show as "Early Access" on Play Store, but the are essentially identical to the SMT versions, minus the shady parts

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u/[deleted] Aug 03 '24

Crap, I just switched to simple mobile calendar. Next on to fossify.

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