Com-Phone Story Maker vs Voice Audiobook Player
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.
Voice Audiobook Player
Voice is a clean audiobook player for people who bring their own books. Add your audiobook folder once, and Voice turns your local audio files into a simple library. It remembers your position for every book, keeps playback controls close, and stays out of the way. Made for audiobooks • Continue exactly where you stopped • Sleep timer with gentle fade-out • Stop at the end of the current chapter • Shake to extend the timer • Playback speed control • Volume boost for quiet recordings • Skip silence • Auto-rewind after longer pauses • Bookmarks with timestamps and custom names • Search by title and author • Current, completed, and not started filters • List and grid views • Cover art from embedded images, local files, or online search • Home screen widget, media notification, and Android Auto support Bring your own files Voice works with DRM-free audiobook files such as M4B, MP3, M4A, OGG, OGA, and OPUS. Keep your books in folders the way you like; Voice recognizes them and organizes your library. No clutter • No account required • No ads • No forced cloud sync • All features are available without paid upgrades Voice is open source under the GNU GPLv3 license. Feedback and bug reports: https://github.com/PaulWoitaschek/Voice/issues
| Feature | Com-Phone Story Maker | Voice Audiobook Player |
|---|---|---|
| License | LGPL-3.0-only | GPL-3.0-or-later |
| Install sources | F-DroidGitHub | F-DroidGitHubIzzyOnDroid |
| Categories | Media PlayerVideo | Media PlayerVideo |
| Features | Ad-FreeOpen SourceNo Tracking | Ad-FreeOpen SourceNo Tracking |
| Platforms | Android | Android |
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