Get your utility apps from fdroid. All open source and actually do what you want them to.

Didn't "simple" recently get acquired and is no longer to be trusted? Correct if wrong but isn't Fossify the new preferred fork?

https://www.fossify.org/

This is still pinned on r/SimpleMobileTools:

11 Reasons why our apps rock

Don't use it, the dev sold out

You could just use the version on F-Droid until Fossify releases their fork of it. But ya, wild how basically out of no where Simple Mobile sold out tough.

Is it part of the apps that have been recently sold to a commercial company? If so, you have to uninstall it and download the "Fossify" equivalent to keep the open source version.

"simple"

I wanted to check out if that is true... and it is. Then I clicked on Simple Calendar > Trackers...

"Simple", they said

Thank you for linking an alternative. I actually like it even more than the enshittified one.

The fukin audacity!

I wonder when the Fossify Voice Recorder will be dropped

Android damn well ought to let you lie.

This program wants my contacts? Okay, have fun spamming Blarvis Davies, e-mail TheBlarvDog@gofuckyours.elf. Camera? Random noise that looks like a lens cap. Microphone? Well make it real in this case, but if it's a photo app, quiet pink noise.

It's fine if the program doesn't work, work, with fake info. Obviously if I lie to an e-mail client then I'm either typing in addresses m'self or else I'm chatting up Blarvis. Maybe not even that, if I lie about internet access, and it looks like my connection just sucks.

But any program that tries to detect real versus fake info can be nuked off the face of the store.

If we're worried that your grandma will somehow enable those protections, but be unable to tell they're on, we can make the fake data even more obvious. After all - the program should never make any effort to detect this kind of chicanery. It can be blatant. FakeName@check-your-settings.grandma. A camera image of light grain applied over the words "you disabled camera permissions." Though the mic probably has to stay as a quiet hiss.

So they're trading on the smt name to....do a bunch of things that are the antithesis of what was attractive about the brand to begin with?

(stock Android) I've yet to find any android call recording app that works on a device that doesn't have permission from Google to use the built in call recording features :/

~9mo ago they all got broken by an android update and haven't worked since.