Com-Phone Story Maker vs Sound Recorder Plus
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.
Sound Recorder Plus
Sound Recorder Plus is a free and open source sound recorder for Android based on Sound Recorder. It has the following features: * Easy recording. Just hit the record button, hit stop when finished, and you're done! * Recording management. Manage your recordings straight in the app with no hassle. * High quality recording. Record in high quality by default or fine-tune the bitrate and sample rate yourself. * Persistent recordings. Recordings exist even after uninstall or clearing the app's storage. Sound Recorder Plus also has the following improvements over its original counterpart: * Support for modern versions of Android. Android 7.0 or later is required. * High quality recording. This option is enabled by default. * Improved RTL support. The app now fully adapts to languages with an RTL layout.
| Feature | Com-Phone Story Maker | Sound Recorder Plus |
|---|---|---|
| License | LGPL-3.0-only | GPL-3.0-only |
| Install sources | F-DroidGitHub | F-Droid |
| Categories | Media PlayerVideo | Media PlayerVideo |
| Features | Ad-FreeOpen SourceNo Tracking | Ad-FreeOpen SourceNo Tracking |
| Platforms | Android | Android |
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