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First post on Lemmy but not new to degoogling.

Phone is a Pixel 6a running GrapheneOS for about 2.5 years.

Laptop is a used Lenovo T470s with Linux, Fedora Workstation. Total noob.

1.Email - Proton Unlimited

2.Cloud storage / file sync - Proton Drive / Syncthing

3.Maps & navigation - OSMAnd

4.Search engine - varies but right now it’s Brave

5.Web browser - On my phone I use Ironfox with UBlock Origins on expert mode (deletes all browsing data) and Brave for logins.

On my laptop, LibreWolf with UBlock Origins on expert mode (deletes browsing data) and Firefox for logins.

Ironfox and LibreWolf are sync through Mozilla.

6.Calendar - Fossify Calendar, phone.

7.Contacts management - whatever is stock on GOS

8.Notes / to-do lists - Fossify Notes for reusable checklists. Joplin on both laptop and phone for markdown notes. I used to use Quillpad when I used an android tablet and phone.

9.Office suite (docs, spreadsheets, etc.) LibreOffice on Linux. LibreOffice viewer on my phone.

10.Messaging / chat - Signal

11.Video calling - I don’t do video calling but if I did, Signal

12.Social media - Firefox on my Laptop, Brave on my phone. I’m planning on ditching Reddit. RedReader is the app I use on that site.

12b. microblogging - I can’t stand microblogging (Twitter, Mastodon, Bluesky)

12c. RSS reader / news - Feeder on my phone

13.Music streaming - I play music stored on my phone with Vanilla.

13b. podcast app - Antenna Pod on my phone. I like CPod on my laptop but it’s no longer being updated. I’ve looked but can’t find one I like for Linux that is being updated.

14.Video streaming / YouTube alternative - Freetube on Linux and PipePipe on my phone

15.Password manager - Proton Pass.

16.VPN / DNS / Firewall - ProtonVPN but their Linux app is barebones. Doesn’t even have split tunneling.

17.Launcher / Android OS (if you use custom ROMs) - Stock launcher on phone. Extension Manager on my laptop to tweak the desktop for more usability.

18.App store / APKs - From most to least apps installed from that store - Obtainium (usually Github) 22, F-Droid 15, Aurora Store 3, and Accrescent 3.

19.Photo backup / gallery - Photos sync to my laptop with Syncthing, from there I upload to ProtonDrive.

20.Weather - I open Environment Canada local forecast with a browser

21.Smart assistant (if any) - Nope

22.Anything else you’ve replaced? - I use mostly cash in stores. My keyboard is Futo on my phone.

I plan on moving away from Proton if they don’t start supporting Linux more. Addy for email aliases, Tuta for mail, and Mullvad for VPN. Not sure about cloud, or if I need it, at the moment.

Would love to hear about your setup — both what works well and any trade-offs you’ve had to make. Always looking for better FOSS or privacy-friendly alternatives

ProtonMail for mail Nextcloud for cloud, self hosted. Here wego and Mapy for maps, but I still have Google Maps as a fallback:(((

For search I’m using a combination of DDG, Qwant and Startpage.

Web browser: Vivaldi and Firefox, Brave and DDG as backups. ProtonCalendar for calendar

Still using Google Android on my daily driver so haven’t moved contacts yet, but really looking for some recommendations!

Apparently my task list is an app just called Reminder, haven’t thought about it for years

Don’t really do office stuff myself much, but if I do and it’s just for me I just use any text editor (even Vim) and if I collaborate it’s almost always some Google Doc :(((

Messaging is still FB messenger and Discord, but I’m trying my best to move my best people over to Signal, it’s not a battle I think I’m gonna win any time soon tho.

Lemmy and chats for social media. Antennapod for podcasts. Qobuz and Bandcamp for music.

For youtube I just run the site in either Vivaldi or Brave on my phone without logging in since they allow for background playback (might have to change a setting for it to work), but I mostly just stopped watching TV/screen content for completly different reasons so 😅 I also host a Jellyfin server with some films.

Bitwarden for passwords. Only use VPN for work, haven’t seen any compelling reasons for having my own, but if I did I’d probably use Tailscale or Wireguard.

I have been testing e-OS on an old Samsung S9 for a few years and that’s a great alternative to Google Android, it’s on my list to consider when I feel like I can defend getting a new phone.

So far:

Email - Tuta

Cloud storage / file sync - pCloud

Maps & navigation OsmAnd (OpenStreetMaps)

Search engine - Kagi

Web browser - Librewolf

Calendar - Nextcloud (on theGoodCloud)

Notes - Joplin

to-do lists - Todoist (cause integrates with HomeAssistant)

Office suite - LibreOffice

Social media - Mastodon/Lemmy/GroundNews

podcast app - AntennaPod

Password manager - KeePassXC

VPN - Nord DNS - PiHole Firewall - Ubiquiti ERX

App store - FDroid (if at all possible)

Photo backup - pCloud here too

Weather - (personal weather station) and Wunderground

Smart assistant - HomeAssistant

Liking all my choices so far… No real trade-offs (that I miss/notice).

1. Tuta
2. Nothing
3. Organic maps
4. Duck duck go
5. Firefox
6. Nothing
7. Nothing
8. Nothing
9. Nothing
10. Whatsapp
11. Nothing
12. Nothing
13. Newpipe / AntennaPod
14. Newpipe
15. Nothing/Quad9/Nothing
16. Nothing
17. LineageOS
18. FDroid
19. Nothing
20. Nothing
21. Nothing

1.Email

Migadu.com

2.Cloud storage / file sync

Trying out some things, not settled yet

3.Maps & navigation

OsmAnd

4.Search engine

Kagi

5.Web browser

Firefox

6.Calendar

Baikal

7.Contacts management

Baikal

8.Notes / to-do lists

LogSeq

9.Office suite (docs, spreadsheets, etc.)

LibreOffice

10.Messaging / chat

Matrix, Revolt, IRC

11.Video calling

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12.Social media / microblogging RSS reader / news

Lemmy (jerboa), Mastodon (Tusky), freshRSS

13.Music streaming / podcast app

Navidrome +Tempo app for android

14.Video streaming / YouTube alternative

Jellyfin

15.Password manager

Bitwarden

16.VPN / DNS / Firewall

Mullvad wireguard

17.Launcher / Android OS (if you use custom ROMs)

GrapheneOS Olauncher

18.App store / APKs

Droidify Aurora Store

19.Photo backup / gallery

Ente

20.Weather

OSS Weather

21.Smart assistant (if any)

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22.Anything else you’ve replaced?

1. Protonmail (would like to find a better alternstive)
2. Syncthing/SMB over Tailscale
3. OpenStreetMap (Organic Maps)
4. Searxng (still pulling results from Google among others)
5. Firefox
6. Self-hosted through nextcloud
7. Baikal
8. Obsidian
9. LaTeX, markdown and LibreOffice
10. Signal
11. Signal
12. FreshRSS through Capy Reader over Tailscale
13. Finamp/Audiobookshelf/Antennapod
14. Still youtube through Tubular (looking for a better service)
15. Bitwarden
16. Tailscale and Mullvad / PiHole and Quad9 / OPNsense
17. GrapheneOS
18. Obtainium
19. Restic to backup NAS and periodical cold storage/Immich
20. Pirate Weather and local weather station reporting over Meshtastic through Home Assistant
21. Home Assistant with local LLM
22. Media streaming - Jellyfin, push notification system - ntfy

Moved to Zoho (specifically Zillum (zoho for families)). That takes care of email, cloud storage, calendar, contacts, online office suite.

I use linux on my laptop (manjaro). Firefox for browser. Searxng for search. Selfhosting FreshRSS. 1Password for password manager.

Good luck on the process!

1. Email

I self-host my email using postfix, dovecot, rspamd and others. The only tradeoff I had to make here is that some of the entities I have to communicate with via email use an allow-list, so some of my outgoing mail is sent through a relay (SMTP2Go).

2. Cloud storage / file sync

I self-host a minio for cloud storage. I don’t need file sync, so nothing there. If I would, I would likely use syncthing.

3. Maps & navigation

OpenStreetMaps & CoMaps. Works much better than Google Maps did.

4. Search engine

Currently a self-hosted YaCy. I have my own index. Not entirely happy with this setup, will switch to something else (still self-hosted, I have no need for a general purpose search engine that indexes the entire internet of slop).

5. Web browser

LibreWolf

6. Calendar

I’m using Emacs & Org for most calendaring. Wife’s using GNOME Calendar & a Calendar app I found for her on f-droid (unsure which one).

7. Contacts management

Nothing on desktop, some random contacts app from f-droid on the phone. I do use EteSync to keep a backup, and potentially sync later. (EteSync syncs her calendar too)

8. Notes / to-do lists

Emacs & Org.

9. Office suite (docs, spreadsheets, etc.)

Most of my “office” needs are covered by a combination of Emacs, Typst and Zola one way or another. For the rare case where I need Office compatiblity: LibreOffice.

10. Messaging / chat

XMPP. Dino on Linux, Conversations on Android. I use Matrix too, from time to time (Element), and have Signal too. Not a big fan of the latter two, because it isn’t practical to self-host those.

11. Video calling

XMPP. Dino & Conversations. If I need to video call with someone else, I’ll use whatever they use, usually.

12. Social media / microblogging RSS reader / news

For social media, the Fediverse is my only social media. I’m using Tuba on desktop, Tusky on the phone for it. For RSS, self-hosted Miniflux. For Lemmy, the web ui on desktop, Voyager on phone.

13. Music streaming / podcast app

Lollypop & Shortwave.

14. Video streaming / YouTube alternative

FreeTube or yt-dlp if I need to watch youtube, PeerTube otherwise.

15. Password manager

Bitwarden (via a self-hosted Vaultwarden on the server side).

16. VPN / DNS / Firewall

The only VPN I use is WireGuard between my systems, but I don’t tunnel everything through it. For DNS, I’m using unbound on my VPS, which in turn dispatches to Quad9. Firewall? nftables.

17. Launcher / Android OS (if you use custom ROMs)

I haven’t de-googled my phone, because my bank app refuses to work on rooted phones, and I unfortunately need that for the bank’s 2FA. No, I am not changing banks. I do use a custom launcher (Nova), though.

18. App store / APKs

F-droid.

19. Photo backup / gallery

I manually copy photos from the phone to my PC, and it gets backed up with the rest of the stuff. I do my backups with restic, and save a copy on my own server, and another at BorgBase. I’ll have a third copy at a third place later.

20. Weather

wttr.in, mostly.

21. Smart assistant (if any)

My wife. <3

22. Anything else you’ve replaced?

Not strictly de-googling, but I’m using Codeberg & my own self-hosted Forgejo instead of GitHub. I replaced LibreWolf’s bookmark manager with Readeck. For push notifications on Android, I’m using a self-hosted nfty.sh.

Would love to hear about your setup — both what works well and any trade-offs you’ve had to make. Always looking for better FOSS or privacy-friendly alternatives

Oh dear. Strap in, for you’re in for a Journey! The entire configuration of both my desktop and the rest of my fleet (my VPS, my homelab server, and my Mom’s miniPC at the moment) are all free software. Based on NixOS, declarative configuration written in a literate programming manner using Org mode. There is a lot of documentation.

Tip: If you are stuck using Gmail you can still access it with a third party FOSS client like FairEMail. I used to use it when I was at school and it worked perfectly, although you may need specific versions approved by Google so you can use Gmail, but the app still remains open source!

Organic Maps is mentioned several times in here, but just a note, the project was forked due to the closed nature of some parts of the project and profit seeking of the major shareholders, contradictory to stated values.

The fork is called CoMaps. It doesn’t look like there’s an app release quite yet, but I’d watch for it coming soon.

Email

Mailbox.org + Thunderbird

Cloud storage / file sync

Filen

Search engine

i switch between DuckDuckGo and Brave for the Goggles feature

Web browser

Firefox! Iceraven on my phone

Calendar

Fossify Calendar

Contacts management

Fossify Contacts

Notes

Obsidian

to-do lists

1List

Office suite (docs, spreadsheets, etc.)

OnlyOffice or CryptPad

Messaging / chat

Signal

Video calling

i don’t lol. but if i did, Signal.

Social media / microblogging

Akkoma & Bluesky

RSS reader / news

FreshRSS + Read You

Music streaming

Spotify for now. considering Deezer, but i’m on a shared plan.

podcast app

AntennaPod

Password manager

Bitwarden

VPN / DNS / Firewall

DNSNet (for adblocking)

App store / APKs

F-Droid & Obtainium

gallery

Aves

Weather

Rain

1.Email –

proton

2.Cloud storage / file sync–

pCloud (lifetime storage purchase FTW)

3.Maps & navigation–

Magic Earth works pretty well

4.Search engine–

Qwant for daily driver, exploring SearxNG

5.Web browser–

Waterfox on desktop and mobile, exploring LibreWolfe and Fennec as well but Waterfox is smooth and fast

6.Calendar–

Proton

7.Contacts management–

Fossify

8.Notes / to-do lists–

Obsidian MD (free) with paid vault sync upgrade

9.Office suite (docs, spreadsheets, etc.)–

LibreOffice & Obsidian

10.Messaging / chat–

Signal, Line. I really, really tried with Element and Element X - would love a federated discord alternative - but honestly I was not even successful at adding friends with confirmed accounts. Could be user error.

Signal is great.

11.Video calling–

Line, Signal

12.Social media / microblogging–

Mastodon, BkueSky

RSS reader / news–

TBD open to suggestions -

13.Music streaming / podcast app–

Podcasts - AntennaPod is great, switched over from PocketCasts and haven’t looked back. Fuck Spotify.

Music – Bandcamp (must try it!) + CloudBeats on mobile (streaming my own flac files to myself) + MusicBee on desktop. Also, fuck Spotify.

14.Video streaming / YouTube alternative–

PeerTube, PipePipe

15.Password manager–

Proton

16.VPN / DNS / Firewall–

Proton

17.Launcher / Android OS (if you use custom ROMs)– Android with I hope all the right settings and no g-apps in the main profile. Looking at Lineage (my device can’t do Graphene)

Never wanted a pixel for any reason but might try it for next device solely for graphene - we’ll see.

18.App store / APKs–

Aurora / F-Droid

19.Photo backup / gallery–

Fossify Gallery

20.Weather–

Ehh. Still on MyRadar but probably time to switch

21.Smart assistant (if any)–

None

22.Anything else you’ve replaced?–

Left audible for Libro.FM, so far so good.

Left Amazon, been buying books on Thriftbooks.

Pixelfed seems to have potential as an IG replacement.

RedReader when looking at Reddit .

Looking for a meaningful Goodreads replacement with a mobile app…

Goal is to potentially try Lineage this summer…

email, calendar, contacts

Fastmail. Migration to some European provider is planned. K-9 for email on phone. For email/calendar/contacts Thunderbird on desktop. Contact and calendar sync Davx5 on phone. Fossify for contacts and etar for calendar on phone.

cloud storage

Filen. Zero knowledge e2ee service from Germany

maps & navigation

OSM-AND+

search

qwant (from France) and sometimes DDG or startpage

browser

LibreWolf + uBlock origin

notes

just a text editor (Pluma)

office

Latex & LibreOffice when needed

messaging

Signal, some contacts are still in TG

video calling

Don’t use

social media

Lemmy & Mastodon

music streaming

Don’t use. I get mine either on physical media if possible (cd) or in flac format (Bandcamp)

video streamming

Nebula, Odysee and FreeTube for youtube content

password manager

keepassXC. DB is synced via cloud to other devices

vpn & dns

Mullvad

firewall

Linux built-in (netfilter) configured thru Yast

android os

Graphene OS

app store

F-droid and some via Aurora store

photo gallery

Digikam locally on desktop. Fossify gallery on phone.

weather

Finnish meteorological institution

smart assistant

Don’t use

anything else

I ditched google mostly years ago. Graphene OS is the latest one and that was only this year. FreeTube is also fairly recent (sometime last year). Before that I used piped but that was nuked by google. More precisely they made it impossible to use. On software I’ve been FOSS first for over 10 years. Using OpenSuse Tumbleweed on my desktop and laptop (Thinkpad L580).

Email

• Mix of Proton Mail and Tuta Mail. I do want to get a custom domain just so I don’t need to go through the email shuffle the next time a service goes to shit. Unfortunately i still need to keep around my Google account and Microsoft account. To access emails, I use FairEmail on my phone alongside the Proton and Tuta Mail apps, and on the desktop I use Thunderbird.

Cloud storage / file sync

• Filen for cloud storage, Syncthing for file sync, also selfhosted Nextloud. Used to use MEGA in the past, but i don’t anymore. To backup my phone, I use LineageOS’s built-in tool (Seedvault), I simply ask it to back up to the SD card and use Syncthing to sync this to my computer and server.

Maps & navigation

• OpenStreetMap is not great where I live, so I am still forced to use GMaps.

Search engine

• Duckduckgo (for most things) + Startpage (when I need better results).

Web browser

• Fennec Browser on mobile, Librewolf on desktop.

Calendar

• Fossify Calendar on mobile, Thunderbird on desktop, calendar is synced to a selfhosted Nextcloud server.

Contacts management

• Using the default contacts app on LineageOS on mobile, these synced with the same Nextcloud server.

Notes / to-do lists

• Tasks: Tasks.org on mobile, synced with the same Nextcloud server (with Nextcloud tasks). Honestly I can’t find a desktop todo list app that supports Nextcloud, so i just use the website (if anyone knows a good option for this, let me know).

• For note-taking, i use Obsidian synced across all my devices with Syncthing, backed up to my Nextcloud server and Filen as well. For quicker notes (my obsidian vaults do take a while to open on my phone) i use the Nextcloud Notes app.

Office suite (docs, spreadsheets, etc.)

• Still using Microsoft Office, however looking into switching to LibreOffice or Onlyoffice.

Messaging / chat

• Sadly, still forced to use closed apps like Discord and Whatsapp, as 99% of my friends and family still use these apps. I’d like to use Signal more, alongside Element and maybe Revolt as a Discord alternative, but trying to convince them to switch is really hard.

Video calling

• (i don’t do video calling)

Social media / microblogging RSS reader / news

• Social media: been using Lemmy more often via Thunder, been trying to use Mastodon more but I don’t seem to find any good posts for some reason? anyways. I still use some closed social media, if i need to see a post on Twitter, it’ll be through Squawker (really good client for twitter), i don’t keep any social media apps on my phone anymore, so i just use the browser if i need to look something on twitter/reddit/bsky/tumblr/whatever, this way I get ad and tracker blocking as well.
• RSS reader: Nextcloud News on mobile, RSS Guard on desktop, all synced to Nextcloud News.

Music streaming / podcast app

• I don’t do music streaming, i prefer to keep my music files locally, either buying them on Bandcamp or elsewhere For music playback however, on mobile i use Musicolet, and on desktop I use Musicbee (currently trying to find a replacement that is as good as Musicbee for Linux).

Video streaming / YouTube alternative

• Still using YouTube, YouTube Revanced, however GrayJay does look pretty good as a YT front-end and i do want to switch to that (once the desktop version is not awful).

Password manager

• I’ve used Bitwarden for the longest time, but I’d like to start using KeepassXC instead, since it is offline and does not look like a mobile app cosplaying as a desktop app.

VPN / DNS / Firewall

• Using ProtonVPN, alongside Tailscale to connect to the server i have at home.

Launcher / Android OS (if you use custom ROMs)

• Launcher: Used to use Nova Launcher until they were bought out by a sketchy company, now I use Lawnchair. Still miss Nova Launcher to this day honestly.
• Custom ROMS: LineageOS 14, with microG. Honestly still surprised my banking app does not care about the fact I don’t have GApps installed (the most it ever gave me is a single “your phone may be modified message” notification). Whatsapp messages are really delayed which has been a pain, but it is a worthwhile tradeoff.

App store / APKs

• Aurora store, F-Droid.

Photo backup / gallery

• Nextcloud Photos for camera backup, Syncthing for everything else, and for the gallery i use Fossify Gallery.

Weather

• Weathermaster on F-Droid. For a widget that tells me the weather, Another Widget is really good (sadly no longer developed).

Smart assistant (if any)

• (i don’t use any)

Anything else you’ve replaced?

• planning to switch to Linux, I really do not like Windows 11 and their plans to shove AI everywhere, I been trying out Linux on my laptop and it has been pretty great, I really like how customizable it is, KDE Plasma is great and Fedora has been really stable as a daily OS. I may still be forced to keep a Windows VM or separate Windows partition around for certain stuff, like games that use anticheat bullshit, or other tools that are Windows only.
• Currently the phone I have is on its last legs, so I may switch to a degoogled Google Pixel, and use something like GrapheneOS or something that lets me lock the bootloader with a custom ROM installed
• Been looking into alternatives for MSOffice, Libreoffice looks good, however compatibility wise OnlyOffice tends to get the formatting right more often.