Cams vs Com-Phone Story Maker
Side-by-side comparison of two open source alternatives
Cams
Simple Android mobile app for playing RTSP streams from IP cameras Features: * View RTSP streams from any IP cameras, including H.265+. * Multiple video cameras on a single screen. * Image zoom. * 2 channel cameras support * Watching videos via SFTP protocol. * Motion detection support. * Maximum connection speed. * Extreme ease of navigation and control. * Ability to switch TCP/UDP protocol. This option is important while viewing cameras over the Internet, where UDP may not be supported or may not work well. IMPORTANT NOTE. The app is focused on data security and privacy. It does not collect or process any information about the user. The data is not sent to any servers, including Google's technical infrastructure or camera manufacturers' cloud storage.
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.
| Feature | Cams | Com-Phone Story Maker |
|---|---|---|
| License | GPL-2.0-or-later | LGPL-3.0-only |
| 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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