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Why are FUTO apps is so heavy? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I noticed their apps are high in size compared to other apps, like for example their keyboard app size is 129 MB, which is a giant size compared to other android keyboards.

Grayjay also seems to be kind of giant, compared to bravenewpipe that supports a lot of services while still very low in size.

The only app in my opinion that has kind of reasonable size is their voice recognition, while it looks kind of ugly compared to Transcribro.

Is there is a reason for all of this?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

They don't use cloud services, so stuff is processed and stored locally.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Other apps store stuff locally also, you can compare for example bravenewtube and grayjay, you will see a weird size difference.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I guess because they store all the required data for voice recognition and other "AI" stuff while other apps use privacy-invasive and low-security cloud services to provide such features.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I don't think that is the answer because other privacy respecting apps(Open source or offline) have a lower size.

Take for example Typewise keyboard the offline paid version, it comes at 44MB only despite them implementing their own AI stuff and implementing a completely new keyboard layout.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

If it is artificial intelligence based and the data is stored locally then that data can be quite large. My keyboard is well over 100 megabytes just for the data, for the AI alone. I think it's fair to say that it is probably a good thing that it's large because it means that it's on your machine and it's not being processed anywhere else.