Com-Phone Story Maker vs Picard Barcode Scanner
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.
Picard Barcode Scanner
Picard Barcode Scanner allows you to load releases into MusicBrainz Picard by using your Android device as a barcode scanner. Just scan the barcode of an album and it will search MusicBrainz for matching releases and loads them into Picard on your desktop computer. This is especially useful if you have your physical music collection already digitized and want to tag the files using exactly the album you own. Please note: This is not a music file tagger for Android but rather a helper tool for MusicBrainz Picard on your desktop. Requirements: • Picard 1.0 or later • Your Android device and the computer running Picard should be both on the same network, and the port 8000 should be accessible This app is free software published under the GPLv3. The source code is available on GitHub. You can help translate this app into your language. Please visit the Picard Barcode Scanner localization project on https://translate.uploadedlobster.com/engage/picard-barcode-scanner/
| Feature | Com-Phone Story Maker | Picard Barcode Scanner |
|---|---|---|
| License | LGPL-3.0-only | GPL-3.0-or-later |
| 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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