🔍 Google Search
- Leta
- 4get
- Searxng
- Kagi
📧 Gmail
- ProtonMail
- Tutanota
- Mailbox
🌐 Chrome
- Librewolf
- Brave Browser
- Mullvad Browser
- Vivaldi - partially open source
- Floorp
📱 Android Custrom ROMS
- GrapheneOS
- Calyx 3. /e/OS
☁️ Google Drive
- Nextcloud (self hosted)
- Filen
- Syncthing
- Proton Drive
🗺️ Google Maps
- OSMAnd
- Mapy
- Organic Maps
📝 Google Docs / Sheets / Slides
- CryptPad
- LibreOffice
- OnlyOffice
- Collabra
📺 YouTube
- PeerTube
- Piped
- Indivious
📸 Google Photos
- Ente photos
- Nextcloud Photos
- Immich
🌐 Google Translate
- DeepL
- LibreTranslate
📅 Google Calendar
- Proton Calendar
- Nextcloud Calendar (self hosted)
- Tuta Calendar
📱 Google Play
- F‑Droid
- Aurora Store
🎥 Google Meet
- Jitsi Meet
- Nextcloud Talk
- Signal
🔐 Google Authenticator
- Ente auth
- andOTP
- Aegis Authenticator
- Bitwarden
note: do not use the same provider for password manager and authenticator
🗒️ Google Keep
- Standard Notes
- Joplin
- Notesnook
💬Google Messages
- Signal
- Theerma
- Session
⚙️ChromeOS
- Linux mint
- Debian
- PopOS
🗝️Google Passwords (baked into chrome)
- Bitwarden
- KeePass
📚Google books
- Libby
🎶YouTube Music
- Qobuz
- Tidal
- Deezer
🤖Gemini
- Duck.ai
- Le chat (opt out of data sending) - protected by eu privacy laws
- Ollama (self hosted)
🔍Lens Wip 🚧
💳Google pay Wip 🚧
✔️Google tasks
📰Google news
- Host your own rss feed reader eg Readrops
🧑🏫Google classroom Wip 🚧
🌎Google VPN
- Mullvad
- ProtonVPN - free plan
- IVPN
I am open to any suggestions or to add an services I missed! Suggestions are especially welcome on services with less than three current options
Wouldn’t really recommend threema and would include SimpleX
Why not?
Any iOS alternative to Google Tasks?
Maybe anytype
After further inspection, I would recommend Joplin for most private
Thanks for your tips :-) I have been trying both Anytype and Joplin, and might use either, but they seem to be primarly note apps not task/todo/reminder/list/priority apps.
Your first links looked interesting, so I will do some research on them.
Maybe omni focus?
Maybe a Joplin? Sorry this is a kinda half arsed andwer I’ll be back with a better one in a mo
Aren’t Brave and Vivaldi supposed to have blue bullet instead of yellow?
Someone please help me find a browser that has the Chromium gestures.
I want o be able to pull the URL bar down to go into the tab selection screen and pull the page down to refresh, and all the Firefox based browsers are so different it drives me crazy and I go back to chrome or brave.
Brave I think If not then ungoogled chromium
Would it be better to replace Gemini with a local model run through ollama or something?
Yes, but unless you have god hardware it won’t be a direct replacement ):
As an email provider there is also posteo which is a nice email provider from germany that costs only 1 € a month. And with posteo and mailbox you can use 3rd party email clients which is not something you can do on proton or tuta.
Most KeePass clients have built-in OTP support too. That being said I still prefer Aegis.
Bitwarden also makes an OTP authenticator app.
It has TOTP built-in for paid accounts.
I’m not paying them, and I have their authenticator app. It’s a free download from the app store.
Some of those suggestions are not exactly degoogling, in the strictest sense. If you’re just going to keep using Google services but through a different frontend, you are not freeing yourself from Google.
That’s not to say piped and invidious and Aurora and so on aren’t worth using if you absolutely cannot wean yourself away from Google entirely. It’s a step in the right direction, certainly.
Still, it might be nice to label those suggestions differently in a list like this, for clarity.
Youtube alternatives invidious and piped really works dude ? I don’t think so… youtube don’t want users to watch it in a privacy focused way.
Peertube is awesome but without enough contents. Am just limited what to watch.
Quitting youtube is so hard because i even cared about my online privacy because of some privacy focused youtubers. And this youtubers too not leaving youtube or choosing peertube as an another playform to post contents.
Eg :- the hated one, mental outlaw, switched to linux,…
There are tons of foss services available but most of them are based on big tech. Am not saying it is bad, but how limited our options are…
I initially had problems with Piped, but I’ve been using PipePipe for ages and have never had an issue.
Is there a graphene option for is broke folk? I’d love to move away from android but it only works on phones I can’t afford.
lineage os has a pretty extensive device support or in theroy you could compile base android with none of the spookieness or bloat.
Pixel 7a is still supported for 3ish more years and can be had refurbished for like $200. Still a solid phone as well. My daily driver.
For news/RSS feed I’ve been using Readrops that is available in Fdroid https://f-droid.org/packages/com.readrops.app
I’ve been using Feeder for RSS and am fairly happy.
I wish there was a way to group articles by topic. At the moment I have to scroll through pages of articles about the Pope’s death.
I would add
- Proton Drive
- Proton Pass
To the Google Drive and Google Passwords areas.
Proton Drive also has the ability to view pictures it has backed up, but because everything is encrypted, they can’t really sort them into buckets like you can with Google Photos.
For those of you who want to dump music streaming entirely and go back to audio files Symphony is an open source music player on Android.
another option if you want a hybrid is host a jellyfin instance with your music youbcan even install a lrclib plugin and get pretty good lyrics
Oh? Self hosted music streaming? Thats neat as fucc
Two corrections, Tutanota is just called Tuta now and SearX is no longer maintained, SearXNG is the active fork.
As far as youtube goes, I use Freetube and don’t have any complaints. Available for win/mac/linux
