Com-Phone Story Maker vs Tempus
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.
Tempus
Tempus is an open-source and lightweight music client for Subsonic, designed and built natively for Android. It provides a seamless and intuitive music streaming experience, allowing you to access and play your Subsonic music library directly from your Android device.FeaturesSubsonic Integration: Tempus seamlessly integrates with your Subsonic server, providing you with easy access to your entire music collection on the go.Sleek and Intuitive UI: Enjoy a clean and user-friendly interface designed to enhance your music listening experience, tailored to your preferences and listening history.Browse and Search: Easily navigate through your music library using various browsing and searching options, including artists, albums, genres, playlists, decades and more.Streaming and Offline Mode: Stream music directly from your Subsonic server. Offline mode is currently under active development and may have limitations when using multiple servers.Playlist Management: Create, edit, and manage playlists to curate your perfect music collection.Gapless Playback: Experience uninterrupted playback with gapless listening mode.Scrobbling Integration: Optionally integrate Tempus with Last.fm or Listenbrainz.org to scrobble your played tracks, gather music insights, and further personalize your music recommendations, if supported by your Subsonic server.Podcasts and Radio: If your Subsonic server supports it, listen to podcasts and radio shows directly within Tempus, expanding your audio entertainment options.Transcoding Support: Activate transcoding of tracks on your Subsonic server, allowing you to set a transcoding profile for optimized streaming directly from the app. This feature requires support from your Subsonic server.Instant Mix: Full refactor of instant mix function which leverages subsonics similar songs by artist/album and randomSongs endpoints to server a larger play queue more reliably.Multiple Libraries: Tempus handles multi-library setups gracefully. They are displayed as Library folders.Equalizer: Option to use in app equalizer.Widget: New widget to keeping the basic controls on your screen at all times.Available in 11 languages: Currently in Chinese, French, German, Italian, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russion, Spanish and TurkishChromecast/Android Auto Not Supported: These features require google libraries and are only available in the github apk.
| Feature | Com-Phone Story Maker | Tempus |
|---|---|---|
| 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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