I’m excited to share that I’m releasing Mind Apps, an open-source app store specifically designed for mindful apps which are optimized for e-ink. My goal is to create a central hub where we can find the tools crafted for e-ink devices.
At launch, It includes our favorite: CalmCast CalmDirectory inkOS KOReader InkMessage (E-ink fork of QUIK messages)
There are many exciting useful apps on the way:
More Calm apps. Flights: An app for scanning and emailing boarding passes to convert them into mobile boarding passes. It’ll have flight tracking and more!
(This release doesn’t use the Mudita Mindful Design library. I have a beta fork that uses MMD, which may be released down the line.)
Thank you so much for this great app store. I must say that I am really impressed by what the community here has achieved. First InkOS, CalmCast, etc., and now an app store for all the great mindfulness apps
Even though I want to install as little third-party software as possible on Mudita, there are always one or two apps that everyone likes to use, such as a podcast player like CalmCast, which I enjoy using every day.
Mudita can be really proud of its community. I think something really great is happening here, something that could have a real impact on society.
That’s awesome!
You may want to consider some Fossify or FUTO apps, as well as other ones that are popular despite not quite e-ink optimized (Signal or some Youtube-listen-only clients).
An observation so far: I was able to update calmcast, but I was unable to update inkOS through mindapps. I even tried switching to the default OS and force closing inkOS. Not sure if there is anything that can be done about that.
I’m curious about the Flights app - is this one you’re creating? Would love to read more about it if there’s a link?
If I had one suggestion for the future it’s to be discerning about what’s included on here. Better to have fewer apps that work really well on the Kompakt than a bloated list of apps that work just ok
You may want to consider some Fossify or FUTO apps, as well as other ones that are popular despite not quite e-ink optimized (Signal or some Youtube-listen-only clients).
i disagree, that would deny the whole purpose of this?
I mean… i imagine this store as a curated list of apps that are “tested and working well on the Kompakt (or e-ink devices in general)”, apps that could be installed by default but are from the community instead
Please keep it opinionated
Thanks! Yes, I am very close to finishing the flight app and move to testing.
As of now, it’ll include:
Scan boarding pass with the camera (accepts it in all forms, QR, Aztec, pdf417 etc.). It’ll parse whatever is in that boarding pass - airports, gate, seat, etc.
Scan internal storage for boarding passes for import
A pro version for flight tracking. Pay in app using stripe, or a link on a computer, and will give you a license key. You can cancel/transfer the pro from the app, and it retains in the app even if you update it/uninstall it.
This feature will connect to a remote server that polls a commercial flight API then, using an fcm token, live stream to the device all flight updates (delays, gate change, etc. the server itself polling every 5 minutes or using smart polling)- so that your phone’s battery won’t drain.
In that pro version, you get a unique simple email, something like 9901@mindapps.dev to email your boarding pass too (hopefully will be as dynamic as possible, to support .pkpass or links [like american airlines]).
I like this grassroots Kompakt app store too. I agree it should be kept to Kompakt (e-ink) optimized apps only.
A Kompakt optimized Signal fork sounds awesome though.
yeah, I just kept running into minor annoyances. The one that I remember is that playing media on the app wouldn’t trigger the volume rocker to change media volume rather than notification volume. Other browsers like brave did this correctly.
