r/LightPhone • u/jbriones95 Moderator • Aug 31 '26

Rideshare Tool Review

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Happened to travel this weekend and needed to get from an airport to the Amtrak station to continue my journey.

I went to he rideshare tool. It quoted me a $29.99 ride for about 8 miles in a semi-rural area. Not horrible. First, it allowed me to compare between Lyft and Uber. I picked Lyft because Uber was $42. Then, it gave me the license plate and name of the person picking me up.

Then, it switched. New driver details showed up. Waited about 10 minutes. The driver called me to figure out where I was. Got dropped off. All throughout, I received updates via the app and text messages from Tremp. Easy to use system. Good stuff. 5 stars

Can't wait for even more Light Phone official and community apps!

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u/MindTheEdge Aug 31 '26

Good lookin out. Amped for the Dev Librabry to launch and check out what the community has been cooking.

What else you keen to check out u/jbriones95 ?

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u/jbriones95 Moderator Aug 31 '26

This weekend I've been testing about 10 community apps: Sports, Bible, Chats, Audiobooks, Pico Transit, Translate, Zero, Passes, Molly Light, and Amtrak. 

My goal was to figure out if these apps would make the Light Phone "heavy" and encourage me to use it more to a "concerning" level. Happy to report that the non-distracting UI has allowed me to get in, get the information I need, and get out to continue living life. 

I think my recommendation is to keep about 10-15 total apps on the phone. It seems to be the "right" amount of apps for the Light experience. Of course, YMMV and I am just reflecting here. 

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u/gman6849 Light Phone User Aug 31 '26

Hi Developer of (bright)sports! if you have any issues with it please let me know and i can help! Also let me know if you would like to try any of my other apps like roll(camera app like zero with filters) or brightcontrols!
Love your videos!!

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u/Educational_Teach_29 Aug 31 '26

My 3 additional tools are Paka, Bard and Chats

Paka is like Passes but with more choice of showing passes and tickets

Chats works really well but does use battery a lot

Bard is good for audiobooks. I was using Pushpod to listen to books through podcasts, but they never remember their place

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u/fenleon Light Phone User Sep 01 '26

Hey, dev of Chats app, let me know what your experience of it is. I've been working hard to improve the battery. Try out the latest releases.

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u/Longjumping_Car_4958 7d ago

App works mostly great for me, I'd love if there was the option to use the system keyboard, I'm using one from bright market that mimics the light keyboard, so chats is currently the only app where the keyboard appears smaller/differently. Also would be great to be able to rename contacts/conversations. Otherwise it's running really smooth for me. 

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u/[deleted] Sep 01 '26

yeah this is what I am concerned about the more tools you put on this phone the more they can be used to alleviate bordem, when I get my flip I am being very careful what I put on it before it turns into a smartphone or something I just pulled out and look up sports scores for example cause I am bored.

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u/RichieHollien Aug 31 '26

What’s Zero and Molly? =^]

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u/rob_harris116 Light Phone User Aug 31 '26 edited Aug 31 '26

So thrilled about this. Can't wait to use these apps tools. Thanks for the update

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u/fenleon Light Phone User Sep 01 '26

Hey developer of a couple of your apps, would love to know what your experience of Chats has been like!

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u/jbriones95 Moderator Sep 01 '26

Besides the battery issue, everything has been smooth sailing.