u/fenleon

The only thing that ever stopped me from going Light was not having access to WhatsApp.

So I built Chats, https://github.com/fenleon/chats/ a native LightOS SDK app, which brings WhatsApp, Instagram and your other chats to Light Phone 3. Use a Beeper account or your own Matrix homeserver.

It launches natively along side your other LightOS apps, no need to open from a launcher or a workaround.

It's a a fresh native Matrix client: working Beeper verification, group chats, reactions, timestamp grouping, voice notes.

I've done my best to retain the design constraints and ethos of a real Light app.

It's not perfect, it currently drains the battery like hell due to background refreshes and won't be fully integrated until Light update their SDK and Server for Notifications.

But it works! I have WhatsApp on my Light Phone 3 and I can leave my secondary phone at home.

Please test it, give feedback, help me with the battery drain, and enjoy your lighter Weekend <3

I've been working on an audiobook player for the LP3 and it's now in a usable beta state: https://github.com/fenleon/audiobooks

It's built as a real LightOS tool! A thin UI on the SDK design system with a companion app for scanning and playback.

I forked and stripped it down from bard, kept the playback core, rebuilt everything around local-only, offline listening.

Installable today via sideloading, and designed to go through the official vetted-tools pipeline once submissions open.