Com-Phone Story Maker vs Try LBRY
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.
Try LBRY
When you open a YouTube link, this app will check if this content is available on LBRY. You then get to choose whether to open it with the LBRY app or with YouTube. • Works on videos as well as channels • Either click a YouTube URL, or use the "Share" functionality • Works with every channel which uses the LBRY Sync program • Free and open-source software, see code here: https://gitlab.com/gardenappl/try-lbry This app is not affiliated with LBRY Inc. or the LBRY Foundation. Read more about LBRY on https://lbry.com Non-Free Network Services: This app might make network connections to YouTube in order to scan a channel's ID. It also relies on the API provided by the LBRY x YouTube Sync service, which is run by LBRY Inc. Of course, the LBRY protocol itself is completely decentralized and open source.
| Feature | Com-Phone Story Maker | Try LBRY |
|---|---|---|
| License | LGPL-3.0-only | GPL-3.0-only |
| Install sources | F-DroidGitHub | F-Droid |
| Categories | Media PlayerVideo | Media PlayerVideo |
| Features | Ad-FreeOpen SourceNo Tracking | Ad-FreeOpen SourceNo Tracking |
| Platforms | Android | Android |
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