photon
Photon is a cross-platform file-sharing application built using flutter. (by abhi16180)
Metro
Best material design music player for Android (by MuntashirAkon)
| photon | Metro | |
|---|---|---|
| 20 | 27 | |
| 132 | 1,113 | |
| - | - | |
| 9.4 | 6.3 | |
| over 1 year ago | about 1 year ago | |
| Dart | Kotlin | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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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.
photon
Posts with mentions or reviews of photon.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-09.
- Localsend alternative?
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App to exchange data between Win PC and Android
I tried photon and it works well. https://github.com/abhi16180/photon
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Share files easily between Android devices and Windows PCs
consider using photon its the most fastest and easiest method I've found https://github.com/abhi16180/photon
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Hidden Gems in Google Play
there's also the windows version, one of the easiest wireless file transfer that just need to be in same network (either wifi or mobile hotspot, no need for data). PC -> Android, just scan the QR Code while Android -> PC usually has automatic device discovery.
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Is Snapdrop dead? Alternatives?
Photon
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ShareIt alternative
I used apps like: LocalSend QRServ Photon LanXchange
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How to be sure a foss app works locally only?? (Without selfhosting)
The problem is there is data going from my devices to each other but how to be sure that data doesn't leave my network to the internet, For example iam using Photon for Windows and Android which supposed to work locally but how to be SURE?????
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⟳ 4 apps added, 16 updated at apt.izzysoft.de
Photon (version 2006): cross-platform file-sharing
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LocalSend: cross-platform alternative to AirDrop and ShareDrop (not mine)
Thank you for work sir, waiting for fdroid release, can you add material you theme to your app ? It will look pleasant, just like Photon app
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List 2 for Apps With Material You Support
Photon -Cross-Platform-file-transfer
Metro
Posts with mentions or reviews of Metro.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-18.
- FOSS Substitute for Poweramp
- Foss music player with two specific features
- Retro 6.0.4 F-Droid vs IzziOnDroid builds
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The Android Open Source Thread
Metro: F-droid GitHub
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Looking for a simple, Ad and subscription free music player app.
Metro music player - https://github.com/MuntashirAkon/Metro
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Symphony, a beautiful offline music player.
Looking good, i will be nice if symphony also have Now playing settings and other features just like Metro (as both are foss apps i think this can be implemented from source code) and mini player support will be cherry on top :)
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Android için muzik dinleme programı onersenize la
Youtube music revanced xmanagerapp.com (spotify crackly ver. uygulaması güncelleme yapabiliyon) Myt müzik (gplay de var youtube dan müzik indiriyor) https://github.com/MuntashirAkon/Metro Paralı bi müzik çaların açık kaynak versiyonu çok güzel bir müzik çalar
- [Off-topic] Most beautiful music app for Android looking for a new Maintainer.
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What Foss apps you can't live without.
Metro : Best material design music player for Android.
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Some FOSS Alternative Apps for You
Retro Music Player - Metro Music Player
What are some alternatives?
When comparing photon and Metro you can also consider the following projects:
localsend - An open-source cross-platform alternative to AirDrop
RetroMusicPlayer - Best Material You Design music player for Android
airdash - File sharing flutter webrtc app enabling sending files to any device from anywhere
Auxio - A simple, rational music player for android
colors_ai - Color scheme generator that uses deep learning from Colormind and Huemint APIs 🤖 UI is made with Material Design 3 (Material You).
PulseMusic - An offline music player with modern UI and useful features
warpinator-windows - An unofficial implementation of Warpinator for Windows
SyncTrayzor - Windows tray utility / filesystem watcher / launcher for Syncthing
syncthing-android - Wrapper of syncthing for Android.
tachiyomi - Free and open source manga reader for Android.
sharik - Sharik is an open-source, cross-platform solution for sharing files via Wi-Fi or Mobile Hotspot
Notally - A beautiful notes app