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A free and cloudless replacement for your gadget vendors' closed source Android applications.

This is a post-Mortem of the DMCA takedown notice that hit Gadgetbridge in June 2017, written by two core developers of the project.

First things first: We would like to thank all the people who sent us their support via mail, social networks, chat and other means.

As everyone does ...

Today, Github finally reopened our repository including wiki, issues and all other content, since the 14 days waiting period, which started after they published our Counter Notice is over now.

We want to thank all the great people who supported us during the last five weeks!

The issue tracker is ...

Just a quick update on our DMCA Case:

In response to the recent DMCA Takedown Notice, we filed a Counter Notice

You may have noticed that our github repository, including the issue tracker and wiki at github is currently not accessible.

This is because the developer of another app filed a DMCA request and github shut down the entire repository.

We're working on a solution, but it is hard to ...

Gadgetbridge is an Open Source Android app for interacting with smart watches, smart wristbands, and other gadgets.

Interacting means

• alerting about notifications by message display/vibration/LEDs for chat messages, mail, calendar events, weather, location, ...)
• handling responses
• tracking fitness data (activity, steps, distance, heart rate, calories, ...)
• tracking and visualizing your ...

Gadgetbridge is an Open Source Android app for interacting with smart watches, smart wristbands, and other gadgets.

This post explains why we create this app and why you should consider using it.

Privacy

Gadgetbridge does not upload your personal data anywhere.

Other apps often require you to create an account ...

After two months of hard work we are pleased to announce the availability of Gadgetbridge 0.12.2.

For those who don't know, Gadgetbridge is an Open Source Android app for interacting with smart watches (currently Pebble), fitness trackers (currently Mi Band) which does not send your data to ...