Com-Phone Story Maker vs ShowCase
Side-by-side comparison of two open source alternatives
Com-Phone Story Maker
Com-Phone Story Maker helps you create multimedia narratives, combining photos, audio and text in exciting ways to tell digital stories. The app's simple interface helps you create your own photo slideshows to document your life; send to other devices running the application or play back locally; create templates; export as a movie; upload to YouTube; or, save a web version to self-publish. Each story can include any number of media frames. Each individual frame of the story can include an image or photo, up to three layered audio or music tracks, and text content. Anything in a frame can be edited at any time – for example, you can pause audio recording and then resume later, or load pictures from your media library. All elements of each frame are optional. For example, Com-Phone can also be used as an annotated photo diary, a simple audio recorder, a text and sound tool for discussion about current events, or even a multimedia survey app. A simple printable user manual is available at: https://digitaleconomytoolkit.org/manuals/com-phone.pdf. Com-Phone is completely free, with no adverts and no unnecessary permissions. The app is open source as part of the Com-Me toolkit – you can fork any of the Com-Me tools on GitHub: https://github.com/communitymedia. For more information about the Com-Me project, see: https://digitaleconomytoolkit.org.
ShowCase
ShowCase (formerly Movie DB) is a fully open-source android application for exploring and organizing your personal collection of films and television series. It offers synchronization with your TMDB and Trakt account. Once logged in, you can sync your favorites, watchlist, rated movies, and more. It also integrates with a local database to keep track of your shows. You can assign various statuses to each title—such as ‘planned’, ‘watched’, or ‘dropped’—rate them, and note the dates you commenced and concluded each show. It allows you to filter shows based on genre, release dates, and more. Detailed information on each show, including the cast, crew, and recommendations for similar titles, is also available. Key Features- -Synchronization with TMDB -Add favorite, watchlist, rate with TMDB -Create List (Public/private) - TMDB -Synchronization with Trakt -Add favorite, watchlist, collection, rate with Trakt -External ratings (like IMDb) for movie/show -Offline support (Local database to keep track of your shows) -Import/Export database -Get notified of movie and tv show release -Download Movie/Show posters -Import data from other apps -Support for Material You -And many more... The required data are requested from themoviedb.org and trakt.tv. This app is still is development, feel free to request feature or report any issue. Help Localize the app - https://hosted.weblate.org/engage/showcase/
| Feature | Com-Phone Story Maker | ShowCase |
|---|---|---|
| License | LGPL-3.0-only | GPL-3.0-only |
| Install sources | F-DroidGitHub | F-DroidGitHub |
| Categories | Media PlayerVideo | Media PlayerVideo |
| Features | Ad-FreeOpen SourceNo Tracking | Ad-FreeOpen SourceNo Tracking |
| Platforms | Android | Android |
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