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This is a similar project from Karlsruhe University:

Summary: All Privacy Friendly Apps:

- are Open Source (GPLv3) and their source code can be viewed an Github by anybody

- used minimal permissions

- do not neither tracking mechanisms nor advertisement

https://secuso.aifb.kit.edu/english/105.php

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The fitness apps looked exactly like what I need, but when going to the play store says they were made for an older version of Android. Visiting Github seems like they aren't actively maintained either.

Fork them, I guess. That remains the main big advantage of open source.

I've had closed source apps, even paid ones, disappear without a trace from my phone and tablets, presumably after an OS update. I find that an incredibly shitty thing to be subjected to. If an OS update is going break any apps, I'd like to be warned about that.

These are great. Get them from fdroid.

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