The Medito app is a (unsurprisingly) meditation/mindfulness app. Sort of the free software alternative to Headspace.
I haven’t used it in a long time and was curious to see how it was doing, but I saw this:
- it’s only available on IzzyOnDroid now, I believe it used to be on F-droid at some point (edit: it wasn’t)
- the available release is 2 years old
So I thought, maybe the app was sadly just archived, but no, it’s actually still under development, it’s just that no releases have been published on GitHub for 2 years (2.0.48 clearly titled “Deprecated”), instead the Play Store releases keep being pushed out as recently as 3 February 2025 (3.2.0).
Oh and the issues tab has been disabled, which seems very shady to me.
So I wonder what the heck went down with this excellent app, it may still be considered “free software”, also featuring the best licence (AGPL), but it looks like it has become unfriendly towards the community, I wonder why
I use the play store version and it’s still my favorite meditation app. But…
Two of the founding members left the medito foundation last year. The blog post announcing their departure didn’t provide any explanation why they left. Steven was the face of their YouTube channel.
Something must have happened when two founding members leave, but we can only guess.
Interesting, I wonder if the 2 facts are somehow related, I don’t know what their stance was on the free software side of things, though I may have some emails saved from GitHub notifications that say something, I’ll look for those.
Edit: I don’t have any on the topic of F-droid inclusion, unfortunately, just one about language support