Whose entire life was in a… what?

“Oh.”

Same deal here. Text is too big, tool icons are just about right, brushes and patterns are microscopic.

(For Android)

You can still uninstall, or you can clear the data.

And in both cases the user data is gone. I’d call that the worst case.

There’s a setting to disable it, but it’s unfortunately hidden under “Expert mode.”

Downgrading can be dangerous, since app data meant for a newer version of an app can crash an older version that doesn’t know what to do with it. This doesn’t really feel like enshittification, just saving users from themselves by removing the danger button. It’s not like F-Droid is forcing everyone to use the newest version… old versions are still on the website, and they still let you easily grab an old version in-app if you’re doing a fresh install.

I’ve never used it but Majola seems to still be active.

AlternativeTo lists open source alternatives to AlternativeTo.

It’s in F-Droid too.

IBM VoiceType Simply Speaking Gold

I’ve got a dorkier story: I asked for speech dictation software.