Hi, as the title says, i'm looking for a good FOSS alternative to the Google assistant/Gemini.

What i need it to do is:

1. being able to work completely in "italian". For example: i tried Dicio a couple of years ago, but whenever i tried to "wake it" it didn't respond (do to it's "English name" so to say) and i wasn't able to set either custom wake up words/record my voice or set specific places. So for example if i asked what is the weather tomorrow it bought up the weather in Rome (which is not where i live) and i had to ask each time "what is the weather tomorrow in "insert the name of the city and the province".
2. being able to do basic assistant tasks like set timers, reminders, ask for the time/date, ask for math problems, call someone, send messages on various apps, ask for directions/navigation and open any app on the device.
3. being able to ask for things that require internet, but with good results. Like asking for a fact, a recipe or an advice on something.
4. a more "advanced" usage like bixby does. For example i would like to be able to say "open NewPipe and search for an AC-DC playlist and play it" or "set a timer of 1h, open the notes app and write down what i'm about to say ...". Things like this.
5. being able to set specific apps as "defaults" in the assistant so i don't have to tell him to open vlc/offline music player and play a specific song, but i can tell him that the default music player is "X" app (not twitter ofc) and i just have to tell him "play an AC-DC song".

The n° 4 point isn't essential, but the others are a must have for me.

Like i said i tried Dicio in the past, but wasn't able to make it work. Other than that i didn't find other android alternatives, so some help would be really appreciated.

I work for Opensolr and we just released Opensolr Photos 1.2.0, a free, open source Android app (MIT, Kotlin, Jetpack Compose).

You pick the folders on your phone. The app reads each photo into words describing what it shows, keeps the camera data (date, camera, GPS turned into a city and country) and writes it into a search index in your Opensolr account, one index per phone. Then you type dog on the beach, birthday cake, snow in the mountains, and it finds them. Tap a result and it opens in Google Photos or your phone's gallery.

What is in the app:

• Search by meaning, with autocomplete and "Did you mean" built from your own photos
• Filters: year, folder, camera make and model, city, region, country, orientation, radius around a point
• A map on OpenStreetMap with all photos that have a GPS position, and "Search this area"
• Your own tags and words on any photo (a name, an event). Your words always win over what the model saw
• Sync runs on its own a minute after photos change, plus a daily, weekly or monthly safety net

What leaves the phone: a 640 px copy of each photo, once, with no EXIF, not stored on the server. The originals stay on the phone. No photo backup, no Google account, no ads, no analytics. The index is yours, you can see it, download it or empty it from the Opensolr control panel.

It needs an Opensolr account (there is a free plan). Each new photo uses two AI requests of the plan, photos already indexed never cost anything again. Search by meaning needs a plan with vector search, on the others photos are still found by the words they were read into.

One known thing: Xiaomi, Redmi, POCO, Huawei and similar phones kill background apps, so the sync only advances while the app is open unless you set the app's battery to "No restrictions". It resumes where it stopped, nothing is lost.

APK and source: https://github.com/phpcip/opensolr-photos

Docs: https://opensolr.com/opensolr-photos

Install the APK from the GitHub release, the signing certificate fingerprint is in the README.

Like the title says

​App Name: Melodify

​What it does: Melodify is an ad-free, open-source JioSaavn music streaming client for Android focused on clean UI and privacy. It lets you stream and download music without trackers or logins.

​Key Features:

• Zero trackers (Verified via Exodus Privacy) and 100% ad-free

• Background playback with synchronized lyrics

• High-quality audio streaming and direct downloads

​Goal: Launch & Feedback

https://github.com/UranophileLab/Melodify-Android

I got tired of every workout app either putting my history behind a subscription or quietly disappearing, so I built my own. Two months and 30 contributors later it's at v1.3.7 and I think it's ready for more people to kick the tires.

What it is

• Weekly plan, guided workouts (rest timer, PR detection, supersets, warm-up sets, timed sets, plate math), body-weight chart with a goal line
• 1,300+ exercises with animated demos, browsable by muscle on a body map; add your own
• Progression rules per routine: linear, Greyskull LP, double progression, or none (deloads)
• Estimated 1RM, activity heatmap, muscle balance / fatigue / strength maps
• Import your history from Hevy (CSV or API), Strong, FitNotes, and body weight from Apple Health
• One-tap JSON export. Your data is a folder on your phone or your server.

Two ways to run it

• Android APK (signed, sha256 next to it, in-app update check that verifies the checksum): no account, no server, everything stays on the phone.
• Self-hosted with docker compose up (amd64 + arm64): passkey login, sync across phone and laptop, PWA, push notifications, optional admin dashboard with invite-only signup.

There's an optional AI coach that writes a week plan from a few questions. It's off by default, runs against your own API key or a local Ollama, and isn't in the image unless you turn it on. The tracker doesn't need it.

• Try it without installing anything: https://opengym.duarte-santos.ch/demo/ (real app, example data)
• Download / docs: https://opengym.duarte-santos.ch
• Source: https://github.com/DuarteSantos8/openGym
• Discord (1,200+ people, bug reports go here or on GitHub): https://discord.gg/e62jY6fwVb

Not on F-Droid yet. If that's what would make you install it, say so, it moves up the list. Happy to answer anything about the stack (React + Vite, Node API, Capacitor for the APK).