Darlene Sonalder

App tester and reviewer at Great App Testing Ltd.

Just a random nerd & contributor. Privacy advocate who loves to discover new things.

Here to share the apps I discover, like & use! As an active AlternativeTo contributor, my ‘likes’ are bookmarks & visibility boosts, not endorsements. Remember to research thoroughly before installing!

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    Liked VN Club
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     2 likes

    VN CLub is a free, open-source resource site for learning Japanese through visual novels. Guides on text hooking, dictionaries, Anki mining, OCR, and more. Browse VNDB with detailed stats and get personalized VN recommendations.

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    Liked Drop OSS
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     2 likes

    Drop is an open-source game distribution platform, similar to GameVault or Steam. It's designed to distribute and share DRM-free games quickly, all while being incredibly flexible, beautiful, and fast.

    • Free
    • Open Source
    • Self-Hosted
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Mac
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    Liked Kimi
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     15 likes

    AI tool for reasoning across math, coding, and image analysis, processing up to 128k tokens, handling visual data, benchmarks, and chain-of-thought tasks.

    • AI Chatbot
    • Freemium
    • Proprietary
    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • Windows
    • Mac
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    Liked Radar (Signal client)

    Radar is a private messenger with built-in Bitcoin payments over the Lightning Network. It is a fork of Signal and keeps Signal's end-to-end encryption. Radar is an independent project and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Signal Messenger, LLC.

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    Liked DLSS Updater
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     1 like

    What if you could update all the DLSS DLLs for the games detected on your system?

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    Liked Plasma Bigscreen

    Plasma Bigscreen is an open-source user interface for TV's. Running on top of a Linux distribution, Plasma Bigscreen turns your TV or setup-box into a fully hackable device. A big launcher giving you easy access to any installed apps and skills.

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    Liked OVRLEY
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     5 likes

    Build telemetry overlay for videos from GPX, FIT, SRT activities and MP4 data. Compatible with action cams and drone footage from GoPro, DJI, Insta360, and fitness devices Garmin, Wahoo, Karoo and more. Fully custom, free and open-source.

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    Liked Ratspeak
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     2 likes

    Ratspeak is a native desktop and mobile client for E2EE conversations over Reticulum, a new type of mesh networking. Ratspeak gives you messaging, file/image sharing, voice calls (experimental), LoRa capability, WiFi, BLE, TCP, offline messaging, turn-based games, and more.

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    Liked Columba Messenger

    Columba is a simple messaging and voice app for the Reticulum network on Android. Send LXMF messages and make LXST voice calls without relying on the internet, cell towers, or any central servers.

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    Liked MeshchatX
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     5 likes

    A extensively modified and feature-rich fork of Reticulum MeshChat by Liam Cottle.

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    Liked White Noise Chat

    White Noise aims to be the most secure private chat app on Nostr, with a focus on privacy and security. Under the hood, it uses the Messaging Layer Security (MLS) protocol to manage group communications in a highly secure way.

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    Liked Lore Version Control

    Open source version control system offering scalable data and team workflows, optimized for code and large binaries, with tamper-evident history, free branching, and integration via CLI and APIs.

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    Liked Slidev
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     4 likes

    There are a lot of feature-rich, general-purpose, WYSIWYG slides makers like Microsoft PowerPoint and Apple Keynote. They work pretty well for making nice slides with animations, charts, and many other things, while being very intuitive and easy to learn.

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    Liked tmux
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     132 likes

    tmux is a terminal multiplexer: it enables a number of terminals (or windows), each running a separate program, to be created, accessed, and controlled from a single screen. tmux may be detached from a screen and continue running in the background, then later reattached.

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    Liked Miru
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     1 like

    Miru is a set of modular, extensible Web platform tools and components for still image and multi-track video editing and state-of-the-art, real-time AR. Using WebGL, WebAssembly, and open source, mobile-optimized machine learning models, Miru will give people on the social web...

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    Liked F-Droid Basic
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     3 likes

    The minimal client app for the app store that respects freedom and privacy

    NOTE: The Basic version of F-Droid Client has a reduced feature set (e.g. no nearby share and no panic feature). It targets Android 13 and can do unattended updates without privileged extension or root.

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    Liked TypeType
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     2 likes

    Self-hosted open source app for watching videos from YouTube, NicoNico, and BiliBili, managing playlists, history, subscriptions, and favorites, with download, proxy, and import features.

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)
    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
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    Liked WeasyPrint
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     7 likes

    WeasyPrint is a visual rendering engine for HTML and CSS that can export to PDF. It aims to support web standards for printing.

    Reports
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    Liked zeitkapsl
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     6 likes

    A private, end-to-end encrypted photo and video storage service based in the EU. It lets you back up, organize, and share memories securely, with original quality, no ads, and zero data mining.

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    Liked OpenLogi
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     7 likes

    A native, local-first alternative to Logitech Options+, written in Rust — remap buttons, DPI, and SmartShift over HID++. No account, no telemetry.

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    Liked MapLibre
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     7 likes

    MapLibre GL is a community-led fork derived from mapbox-gl-js before their switch to a non-OSS license.

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    Liked GrapheneOS App Store

    The GrapheneOS App Store is the official application repository for the GrapheneOS mobile operating system, a privacy and security-focused Android-based OS. This app store is designed to complement GrapheneOS's core principles of enhanced user privacy, robust security, and...

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    Liked personalDNSfilter

    personalDNSfilter is a DNS filter proxy written in Java. It hooks into the domain name (DNS) resolution and returns the loopback address for filtered hosts.

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    Liked Uruky
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     12 likes

    Private, ad-free search tool with no tracking or query logs, no personal data collected, EU-based servers, monthly fee, and advanced result customization.

    Searching images for apples
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    Liked Calagopus
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     10 likes

    Web-based game server control panel for deployment, monitoring, task scheduling, and plugin management with real-time metrics for popular games like Minecraft.

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Debian
    • Docker
    Server console