Selfhosted

Thank you. I was actually thinking of that. I’ll need to find out how and then will go for it for sure.

I agree with you 100%. This is on me. I’ll be putting screenshots there as soon as I get home. I just kept hammering at the app and forgot about the screenshots. Good call out.

Screenshots are in.

Of course :)

am curious what exactly makes it fall short?

The podcast playback is sorely lacking. It can't play more than one episode without having to select the episode, which makes playlists kinda pointless unless it's just following one storyline in a podcast that runs more than one concurrently. It also doesn't seem to support defaulting listing order other than newest, and the next episode is always the latest, despite the current playback order

Functionality wise, the official one works no problem. It’s the UI. I’m a visual person and like eye candy. I liked how the iOS app Still looked, so I thought why not? Wanted to have fun with it. That’s all :)

Edit: I’ll be adding screenshots soon.
Edit 2: screenshots are now in.

No plaza stop button on the notification menu when the phone is locked

Click on the release (green thingy after description) and download apk

You got it running? You good? Also, I’m happy that you like it. When I make something for myself, I make sure I love it, otherwise, I wouldn’t share it at all. Let me know if you need any help.

Try obtanium if you want to automate updates, otherwise just download the APK and open the file.

I can't speak for everyone with my comment here. I really, really hate the side effects of the AI bubble. Where they force it into every fucking element of life. And honestly, I hate even that it's being called AI. I hate that it's made traditional algorithmic services worse like Google Now for example. And I hate the lack of privacy it's brought.

That said, I have no problems with someone using it to complete a project with it. I think it could potentially raise a potential device security concern in a case like this. And probably wouldn't partake in the app because of that. But I use my own self-hosted LLMs all the time. It helps me format things, saves me time with searching and researching when I want an answer, not knowledge.

There are many rational reasons to dislike and avoid "AI". As well, there's many irrational people. And there are some good uses for the technology.

That’s ok. I’m very much upfront about it. I’m not selling and making money, nor will I ever even ask for donations. I use AI for building things only for myself and literally have never shared with anyone before because I know some folks just don’t like it. But this one was too good not to share. It’s out there, and those who hate AI aren’t forced to use it. Is that fair?

If any ai Ia involved they will dismiss not only it but you and it’s a really irritating habit that is starting to emerge.

It's perfectly understandable. It used to be that a project that had the appearance of a significant amount of work and polish put into it could be reasonably trusted. With the rise of LLMs, that assumption has gone completely out the window as people can churn out appealing looking slop in record time. In addition, LLMs are dominated by the most transparently evil tech companies in existence, and the fully open models aren't yet good enough, and are still built on the backs of the absurd amount of energy usage used to train the models.

That all being said, I don't think the OP is being malicious and I appreciate the disclosure but I'd give this project a year of maintenance before I would reasonably trust it.