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Potentially useful progressive web apps
PWAs are especially useful for iOS users, since PWAs added to homescreen from Safari are able to request notifications permission resulting nativeish experience outside of App Store without even having to install anything.
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
- Food
- Forums
- Instant messaging
- Learning
- Localization
- Music
- Shopping
- Social media
- Travel
- Not PWAs but still possibly useful for homescreens
Events
- Mobilizon - all instances of the federated event & group site
function as PWAs. TODO: Do they really nowadays?
- https://jarkkaa.fi - Finnish instance
- 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
- https://www.kotipizza.fi - Finnish pizzeria
Forums
- https://keskustelu.suomi24.fi/ - Suomi24. No explanation required.
Instant messaging
- https://messages.google.com/web/ - Google SMS app web version
- https://web.whatsapp.com/ - WhatsApp Web
Matrix
Instant messaging
- 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
- https://app.cinny.in/ - yet another Matrix client (very discordy)
Social media
- https://app.minestrix.henri2h.fr/ - social media based on Matrix
Telegram
Misc
- https://latest.glowing-bear.org/ - WeeChat Relay (protocol) client
Learning
- https://www.duolingo.com/ - language learning website
- https://preview.duolingo.com/ - testing
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
Social media
Federated social news aggregators
Travel
- https://guide.suomenlinna.fi/ - mobile guide for Suomenlinna (UNESCO World Heritage site), which is also a neighbourhood in Helsinki, Finland.
- https://osmgo.com/ - OpenStreetMap PoI contribution app
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://junalahdot.fi - Official Finnish train station information
- https://www.junat.net/ - Finnish train station 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