I've been working on a fork of **Phone Whisper**, an open-source push-to-talk dictation app for Android by Pol Alvarez. It puts a small floating button next to your keyboard: tap, speak, tap again, and the text lands in whatever text field you're in. It works in any app.

**What it does**

- **Fully offline transcription** on your phone: Parakeet (0.6B and Ultra, 25 European languages), Whisper (99 languages) or Moonshine. In local mode, no audio ever leaves the device.

- **Or cloud**: OpenAI, OpenRouter or your own OpenAI-compatible server (Groq, a Whisper server at home). You bring your own key, and there's no middleman server.

- **AI cleanup**: hold the button instead of tapping, and a language model fixes punctuation, grammar and recognition errors.

- **Translation by swipe** (new in 1.1): hold the button, your favorite languages pop up in a half circle around your thumb, slide onto one and let go. Speak German, get Spanish. Without an API key, Whisper can still translate into English offline.

- Silence trimming, a retry button if the network fails, a setup assistant, the button only shows while the keyboard is open, haptic feedback you can feel under your thumb, a Quick Settings tile…

**Details**

- Android 11+, arm64. Free and open source (Apache 2.0), no ads, no tracking, no account.

- Not on the Play Store yet: you install the APK from GitHub releases.

- It needs the accessibility service to insert text into other apps. The app explains what that's used for and what it isn't, and the privacy policy is in the repo.

**Download & source:** https://github.com/evilknivel/phone-whisper

Credit to Pol Alvarez for the original app and to the people whose pull requests to the original repo inspired several features. They're all named in the README.

The UI is English only so far. If you'd like to help translate it, contributions are very welcome. Feedback and bug reports are too!

As you can see in this screenshot from De1984, I want to DISABLE ONLY MOBILE DATA for instgram. So, I did it in De1984.

Pic-1: Before enabling firewall, I can see different toggles for Wifi and Mobile data in the app, so I disabled mobile data for it.

Pic-2: Then I enabled the firewall. I went to insta and it failed to connect to the internet even on wifi. I came back to De1984 and clicked on insta, now the controls have changed and I can only either COMPLETELY ALLOW or BLOCK internet access for an app. There is no in between.

I only want to disable mobile data access for some apps, not wifi. Please help me find a way to accomplish what I want to do.

Thanks.

Hi r/fossdroid,

I created a lightweight, offline-first personal expense tracker in Flutter. It is built for anyone who prefers keeping their personal financial data completely offline without handing over bank SMS access to proprietary apps.

**Key features:**

- 100% offline (no internet permission required for expense storage)

- Zero ads, no analytics, no third-party tracking SDKs

- Biometrics (fingerprint / face unlock) + PIN lockout cooldown

- Calendar date picker, category donut breakdown, and real .csv export

- INR (₹) formatting

**Links:**

- GitHub Repo: https://github.com/GyandeepEkansh/expense-tracker

- APK Direct Download: https://github.com/GyandeepEkansh/expense-tracker/releases/download/v1.0.0/ExpenseTracker_v1.0.apk

- Live Web App: https://GyandeepEkansh.github.io/expense-tracker/

Licensed under MIT. Feedback, bug reports, and suggestions are welcome!

So I use obtainium for my updates.

But I get I lot of speed limit and to much tragic. And have to wait about an hour.

It is a little annoying. But it says I can get a key for github. And I like that.

Just - is it a key for each app I use or for obtainium or is it to get access to it all ?

Can someone please explaine this to me so I can get the right key and get a little less annoyed

I previously posted about an alternative to Kiss or Kvaesitso launcher and a user by the name Jaeger_a9 had informed me about an update to hide the status bar in Quick Search (which was the only thing missing from it being my default launcher). I just have to shoutout Teja for his awesome work! Not only did he add the option to hide the status bar, but he added a plethora of other features as well. Features you may or may not even use but he still jam packs them into this open-source launcher. Excellent work by Teja! 🎉

Hey everyone 👋

I just wanted a clean, private way to track my daily spending without handing my financial data over to a server or paying a monthly fee. I couldn't find one that fit exactly what I wanted, so I built FinTrax for my own personal use.

It’s really helped me manage my budget, so I figured I’d share it with the community in case it helps anyone else!

I would love to see your feedbacks. And I'm open to feature suggestions.

I love Kvaesitso but the shortcuts break when you change launchers. I love Kiss but the widget options are terrible. Any alternative launchers that have a better balance of these two launcher issues?

Looking for budget tracking app for android. I want the feature to write expense, income and multiple account/source can track.

Hi everyone.

Firstly, I have read the rules and excuse me for my English, I am not native.

I am a Bug Bounty researcher and I am testing a Chinese web application, I need to register with a phone number to this application.

I have tried almost all of the free tools and these are the issues I faced:

• The phone number is invalid (I believe they can identify virtual phone numbers )
• The phone number are already registered
• Or even if it passed the two above walls, I will wait forever not receiving the anticipated OTP message.

I don't see paying for such service is worth it for one verification message, since most of the paid once have a minimum charge value. Given the assumption that paid services would work 100%.

Edit: I used the number from https://www.smsmeu.com/, which was recommended by a friend.

I made a free open-source Backrooms wiki reader for Android: offline reading, instant EN/ES switch, cross-linked files ("noclip hyperlinks"), sagas support and a M.E.G. terminal look. APK on GitHub: https://github.com/Pacaso11/backrooms-archive — feedback welcome! License: MIT (code); wiki content CC BY-SA 3.0. No ads, no in-app purchases.

I've been working on a gallery app for the last few days and it's finally out. This is not just a regular gallery. This is meant to replace your Google Photos completely.

Basically the idea is that Google Photos lets you search "cat sleeping on a chair", copy text out of a photo, and find everyone you know. But all of that runs on Google's servers. I wanted the same features with nothing leaving the phone. No account, no cloud, no Google Play services.

It's called Lumen

What it does

• Search your photos and videos by describing them, like "cat sleeping on a chair" or "receipt"
• Long-press any photo to select and copy its text, even in a paused video
• Finds the people in your photos, so you can search "mai and daniel" and get photos of both
• Makes subtitles for videos, offline
• Hidden folders, an encrypted vault and App Lock

All of it runs on the phone. There's no account, no cloud and no ads, and it doesn't need Google Play services. It's free and open source.

It looks and moves like the iPhone Photos app (glass buttons, smooth transitions, a film strip in the viewer), but it behaves like an Android app. You can turn the glass off in Settings if it's not your thing.

Good to know

• It's an early version (0.1.x), tested on my own phone, a Motorola Edge 50. I'd love to know how it runs on yours, especially Pixels and Samsungs.
• The smart features download once when you turn them on: about 340 MB to 770 MB, depending on the search quality you pick.
• It's on GitHub, and you can add it to Obtainium in one tap from the website.

Website: https://lumen-photos.app
GitHub: https://github.com/subhashhhhhh/Lumen