Potentially useful progressive web apps

Method for distinguishing PWAs from normal websites: adding them to iOS homescreen and seeing which open as “their own apps” or having Chromium suggest “installing” them without manually “installing” them.

Proper identification: view-source (CTRL - U) and CTRL - F for manifest e.g. <link rel="manifest" href="/manifest.webmanifest"> in <head>.

It looks like about:apps on Edge (or all Chromiums?) has a Show applications menu on toolbar button which then when pressed on a tab has more details for PWAs. “App whatever is available” with logo and “Publisher:” fields.

TODO: Some of these may be miscategorized while not fullfilling the criteria of PWA.

Events

Mobilizon - all instances of the federated event & group site function as PWAs.
- https://events.nixnet.services/ - the only still alive instance I registered on
https://calendar.google.com/ - Google’s Calendar app

Food

https://menu.unicafe.fi/ - menu for UniCafes
https://resq-club.com/app/ - waste food pickup ordering app
https://www.fiksuruoka.fi/ - Finnish waste/expiring grocery store

Instant messaging

Matrix

https://fluffychat.im/web/ - Matrix client with multiaccount support
https://hydrogen.element.io/ - very basic Matrix client for lowend devices
Element Web - Matrix web client with most features such as /devtools, essential for modding
- https://app.element.io/ - stable
- https://staging.element.io/ - rc/beta?
- https://develop.element.io/ - bleeding edge

Misc

https://latest.glowing-bear.org/ - WeeChat Relay (protocol) client

Learning

https://www.duolingo.com/ - language learning website

Localization

https://hosted.weblate.org/ - Translation platform popular amongst FOSS projects

Music

https://music.youtube.com/ - YouTube Music (Player)

Shopping

https://www.verkkokauppa.com/ - Finnish online retailer

Lemmy - federated social news aggregator (Reddit clone)
- https://lemmy.tedomum.net/ - the instance my account is on.

Travel

https://guide.suomenlinna.fi/ - mobile guide for Suomenlinna (UNESCO World Heritage site), which is also a neighbourhood in Helsinki, Finland.

Not PWAs but still possibly useful for homescreens

Continuing the previous method, these open in Safari.

http://http.badssl.com - essential captive portal trigger
https://1.1.1.1/help - Cloudflare DNS debug
https://mullvad.net/check - Mullvad leak test
https://www.junat.net/ - Finnish train staton information displays (including arrivals)
https://perille.fi - Finnish long distance transport comparison site
https://pikavuorot.fi - Finnish long distance transport comparison site
https://sanakirja.org - Finnish dictionary for translating languages

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