Com-Phone Story Maker vs YAACC
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.
YAACC
YAACC (Yet Another Android Client Controller) allows you to play media from UPNP/DLNA devices in your network on your android device or any capable UPNP/DLNA device in your network. It is also possible to start an UPNP/DLNA server on your device in order to play media from your device on any UPNP/DLNA renderer in your network. Features * UPNP/DLNA server - share files of your device in the network * UPNP/DLNA client - play media from a media server on your device * UPNP/DLNA media renderer - stream media from other devices to your device * UPNP/DLNA controller - control media renderer in the network * Live streaming - stream system audio and screen to network devices (Android 10+) * SAF support - browse and share files from external storage, USB drives, SD cards * Lock screen controls - hardware volume buttons and media controls * Receiver controls - play/pause/stop directly from receiver tab * Control multiple media renderer * Allow download files from a media server to the device * Allow sharing of urls with the app and sending them to the current media renderers * Battery optimized with smart WiFi lock and foreground service management * Shutdown timer for app
| Feature | Com-Phone Story Maker | YAACC |
|---|---|---|
| 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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