Com-Phone Story Maker vs Web2PDF
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.
Web2PDF
Web2PDF is the android way to use http://www.pdfmyurl.com/ for converting web pages to pdf files. It lets you convert a web page to pdf file by using the unique "share" feature of android platform. Unfortunately websites requiring you to login are not supported. For Gingerbread or newer devices, system download manager will be used to download the pdf file. Otherwise for older devices, once pdf conversion is completed, system browser will be opened to download the pdf. The location of the saved file may be different across different devices. For example, using the stock browser with nexus one, the pdf file will be downloaded such as /sdcard/download/www.nytimes.com.pdf
| Feature | Com-Phone Story Maker | Web2PDF |
|---|---|---|
| License | LGPL-3.0-only | MIT |
| 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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