Com-Phone Story Maker vs SoundCrowd
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.
SoundCrowd
SoundCrowd is a free, open-source and lightweight music player for Android in modern material design, specialized for playing long music tracks (DJ mixes, live sets, audio books).It features the generation of waveforms that visualize your music tracks during playback and can be used for precise seeking through gestures.You can create cue points at your favorite positions in your music tracks. With these markers in the waveform, you can remember them and easily jump back to them.Want to know the track id of a specific part in a mix? SoundCrowd comes with build-in audio tagging support by using SongRec, an open-source Shazam client implementation, and creates cue points for found track ids. Unlike Shazam, the app records the internal audio of the player, so you don't need to grant access to the microphone or play the music loud!The app contains build-in plugin modules to support the following online streaming services:SoundCloudYouTubeSpotifyBeatportTidal
| Feature | Com-Phone Story Maker | SoundCrowd |
|---|---|---|
| License | LGPL-3.0-only | GPL-3.0-only |
| Install sources | F-DroidGitHub | GitHubIzzyOnDroid |
| Categories | Media PlayerVideo | Media PlayerVideo |
| Features | Ad-FreeOpen SourceNo Tracking | Ad-FreeOpen SourceNo Tracking |
| Platforms | Android | Android |
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