🔍 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
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.
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.
Most KeePass clients have built-in OTP support too. That being said I still prefer Aegis.
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I initially had problems with Piped, but I’ve been using PipePipe for ages and have never had an issue.
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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
Nice. Notesnook is great for sync between pc and phone, but I don’t know the others. Thanks!
Any iOS alternative to Google Tasks?
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.
Would you be willing to pay? Some of the apps aren’t currently being developer unfortunately
Maybe anytype
Maybe a Joplin? Sorry this is a kinda half arsed andwer I’ll be back with a better one in a mo
Maybe omni focus?
Alternative to google search engine, Kagi
Just a PSA about Kagi: https://snoo.habedieeh.re/r/ukraine/comments/1gvcqua/psa_the_kagi_search_engine_directly_funds_yandex/
DuckDuckGo has suspended its partnership with Yandex in 2022. https://www.vox.com/recode/22981115/duckduckgo-free-speech-privacy-oops
Why is that a problem exactly?
Is it just because they’re Russian?
Are there some dots I’m not connecting?Yes Steve. Because they are Russian, pay their taxes in Russia and therefore finance the war. They can potentially introduce biases in their search results as well.
Please note that it’s just a PSA. Do what you want with this information.
Floorp mentioned!
Threema (not Therma)
Thanks. It’s updated now
closer
Should’ve gone for a name like 3ema instead in my opinion.
3nema
I’ve been looking at https://www.openphone.com/ as an alternative to Google Voice. It’s not free (but that may be a bonus), but it does let you port your GV number into their system.
$19/mo.
It’s the closest I’ve found to a replacement. I’d love to hear anyone else who uses something similar.
Can anyone vouch for this? Is it open source? What is it’s privacy policy
https://www.openphone.com/privacy
I’d love opinions on it, too. Or alternatives.
Looks good! I’ll add it to the list. Google voice and google pay are by far the hardest to replace
The only thing I use Google Voice for is being able to reply to text messages on a browser. Is there something I can use for that?
I guess I should have said why I’m considering them.
https://updates.openphone.com/introducing-the-openphone-web-app-133882
Looks like they’ve had web based messaging since 2020.
My main use for Google Voice is as a filter for places that need my number. Then it’s not ringing my phone (unless I want to).I did also make sure any alternatives I’m considering do messaging. Even better if it’s both in browser and in phone app.
Futo keyboard has voice to text with the ability to download more language models
If you don’t need the business features, I use jmp.chat for $5 a month.
Can you transfer in your Google Voice number? I don’t want to lose it.You can also port your current USA or Canada number in to JMP after signing up with a temporary number from above.
Looks like a good alternative. Thanks for the suggestion.
@Zachariah @lopar49 I used Openphone a few years ago, and it was terrible. Lots of SMS never came through, didn’t work for OTPs (even though they claimed it would), terrible customer service. Despite it being more complex technically, JMP.Chat is much, much better.
Thanks for the input. I’m saw it looked a bit more complex, but that shouldn’t be a problem for me. I’d much prefer something reliable.
Might also add Collabora, it’s libreoffice, but allows online collaboration and has the nicest integreation into nextcloud, imo.
It is paid and/or open source
It is free and open source. https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online
Download via F-Droid needs additional repository: https://www.collaboraoffice.com/downloads/fdroid/repo/?fingerprint=573258C84E149B5F4D9299E7434B2B69A8410372921D4AE586BA91EC767892CC
“NOTE: main server is offline, you’ll see the message that you’ll add a mirror, that’s expected. To make it skip the main server, open repo details and toggle off first
collaboraonline.comentry.” (https://forum.f-droid.org/t/known-repositories/721)hiya, when i try and download it from windows, it is paid. When I try and use it online I have to request a demo. What am I doing wrong
That’s weird. At least for Linux and Android it was free, last time I checked.
Oh maybe it’s different? But when I go to windows I takes me to the Microsoft store and it’s 13£
Collabora makes a bunch of products, and tries to monetize them in various ways. The desktop apps are basically just a Libreoffice derivative and not really worth your time IMO, but either find a provider with both Nextcloud + Collabora Online installed, or self host them, and it’s a fully free and open source alternative to the whole Google Drive and Google Docs platform.
I’ll have to check this out
Nextcloud paired with Collabora is awesome! (Might be just be called “Nextcloud Office” depending on how it’s packaged up, but it’s the same thing). With Google Docs, you have drive, but the “files” it syncs for your Google Docs documents are just links to open Google Docs in a web browser, you need to manually export them if you want real files. With Nextcloud/Collabora, you literally have .odt or .docx files synced to your computer, but you can open them online with Collabora and have a full “google docs” or better collaborative online interface. Make a change, and the .odt file on your hard drive changes. You can work or collaborate in Word, Libreoffice, or in the web browser with Collabora on the same files (synchronously, only with the latter, but asynchronously with any of them - with the obvious caveat that slight formatting differences will always happen with different applications so keep your collaborative documents simple). It’s brilliant, and the interface is more feature-full than google docs too.
Wouldn’t really recommend threema and would include SimpleX
Why not?
Based around a company
To be fair, Simplex is also a for-profit company. However, it’s at least decentralized and more open, I’d take it over Threema any day.
Where did you found that SimpleX was for profit?
Their own FAQ: https://simplex.chat/faq/#funding-and-business-model
Oh sorry didn’t go very deep
What’s wrong with threema?
I’m concerned about centralization the most.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but how is signal any less centralised?
Signal isn’t, and that’s one of mine (and a lot of other people’s) main gripes with it.
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 ):
