🔍 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
Is Cryptpad really the best docs alternative? I’m looking for something to replace docs, it’s one of the last things I need to degoogle.
I tried it and it’s pretty good. I don’t know about storage limits or anything like that, but it gets the job done.
Aren’t Brave and Vivaldi supposed to have blue bullet instead of yellow?
Vivaldi and brave are just chrome.
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If you’re degoogling to reduce google’s influence in the world, not just in your life, you should avoid chromium based browsers entirely. Google’s chromium web rendering engine dominates most web traffic, and is squeezing out all alternatives. This leaves defining web standards in the hands of google pretty much exclusively. Vivaldi and Brave should be avoided for this reason. Brave founder Brendan Eich donates to funds seeking to undo gay marriage protections in the US and other reactionary causes, if that matters to you (it should).
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 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.
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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
Ecosia Browser
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I initially had problems with Piped, but I’ve been using PipePipe for ages and have never had an issue.
This really could use some clarification on what category these belong to. Most of these projects are open source projects where you can either self-host the tool, or choose from one of many free or paid instances online. If someone lacks the technical skill, hardware, or time to self-host, they should shop around. Often there is an “official” instance by the developers, but that’s not always the best option. Sometimes a paid option with more resources is going to be more stable and performant.
Other suggestions are individual companies services, and a couple of these are just applications you install on your device. It would be helpful to readers to clarify.
Feel free to do it yourself
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.
Saved! This is an excellent resource thanks so much
Cryptpad for a Drive/Online Office Suite replacement, it’s fantastic
Just started using this. It’s free (for a small amount of storage) and super private. Like so private that if you forget your password, your data is lost forever.
Most KeePass clients have built-in OTP support too. That being said I still prefer Aegis.