🔍 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
Threema (not Therma)
Thanks. It’s updated now
closer
Should’ve gone for a name like 3ema instead in my opinion.
3nema
Nice. Notesnook is great for sync between pc and phone, but I don’t know the others. Thanks!
Might also add Collabora, it’s libreoffice, but allows online collaboration and has the nicest integreation into nextcloud, imo.
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.
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
Aren’t Brave and Vivaldi supposed to have blue bullet instead of yellow?
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.
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.
lineage os has a pretty extensive device support or in theroy you could compile base android with none of the spookieness or bloat.
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.
Any iOS alternative to Google Tasks?
Maybe a Joplin? Sorry this is a kinda half arsed andwer I’ll be back with a better one in a mo
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 omni focus?
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.
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).
Ecosia Browser
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.
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.
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 ):
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.
Floorp mentioned!
