On Sunday 08 March 2026 04:02:25 Slávek Banko via tde-users wrote:
As for your phone, I suggest that you check out F-droid and similar sites online. (If you search for F-droid, you will find the others, too.)
I'm test-driving a solution based on Fruux (contacts on Fruux, apps syncing with it. Unfortunately it's dificult at the time to keep completely out of Google.
The one I use on my phone is called Simple-Contacts; no real problems so far, just the usual learning curve for stuff that works, that does what you want.
More of their apps. (I use maybe half a dozen of these.) https://www.simplemobiletools.com https://simplemobiletools.com/simplecontacts/
Here is the developers' page (I believe); https://github.com/SimpleMobileTools/Simple-Contacts/releases
And this is a clone, I think, of their original F-droid page: https://webdev4.gitlab.io/fdroid-website/en/packages/com.simplemobiletoo ls.contacts.pro/
I don't know if they have taken the app out of F-droid. I just did a quick search and couldn't find it. In any case, their apps have been generally the least trouble, and are simple, as they claim in their name, and just work.
Bill ____________________________________________________
SimpleMobileTools has been sold and is no longer being developed as an ad-free open source applications. I definitely do not recommend using it. Check out the successor - Fossify:
Cheers Slvek
Thanks for the tip!
Confession: I am still using one of the old apks (from maybe last year sometime?), so I haven't dealt with that issue ... yet.
I will definitely check out some more up-to-date and secure alternatives.
Bill