Hello everyone!

Recently, I saw so many posts about this and I started to think about degoogling (degoogleing?) my life.

I’ve started with fdroid and found some nice apps in there and I’m curious to know some alternatives I may or may not know

  • Youtube: Currently, I use ReVanced and even though is just the default app with something in it, I want an alternative with background listening, import my subscriptions w/ notifications and if possible with sponsorblock
  • Mail: Using a combo or Gmail + proton. I started to use proton recently and I want to move everything there when I have time. Suggestions here?
  • Cloud storage: Self hosted/proton? Alternatives
  • Gallery app: Stock
  • Video player: Stock
  • Music player: Stock
  • 2FA app: I have Authy and I tried to install aegis. I also have Ente but I’ve never used both
  • Mail app: Using K9 and the app is awesome compared to google or Samsung Mail
  • Password Manager: Bitwarden
  • Weather app: Currently, using Breezy weather

If possible, apps with a nice looking UI, modern with/without Material You

I’m using a Samsung S23 and I would like to know how bad it is to change ROM with something better and if it’s really worth Pixel + GrapheneOS. Thanks

Edit: I forgot the most important one with probably no alternatives (?) Thanks to @[email protected] (idk how to mention)

  • Samsung pay
  • @gedaliyah
    2•3 months ago

    If you’re considering self hosting, Immich is an amazingly complete replacement for Google Photos.

    Firefox has a pretty good password manager built in.

    I use k9 mail, which I really like, although a lot of people like FairEmail (both FOSS)

    Also check out YouApps in addition to fossify for a different suite of useful, well designed apps

    • @[email protected]OP
      1•3 months ago

      I have a domain + a Raspberry and if it works, I could try to host on it🤔

      I’ve tried a lot of clients and none was good for me, Samsung Mail was okay-ish but it didn’t notify me half of the times. Tried K9 and it’s amazing, even if it sync every 15 mins it sends a notification for every mail.

      I use Firefox but I’d like a password manager outside of it, foss of course and I’m using Bitwarden now

      • @gedaliyah
        1•3 months ago

        There is also a way to get realtime notifications from k9 if you prefer.

        If you have a huge number of photos, LMK, I’m working on setting up my server now and there are a few tricks to share with getting your photos from Google.

        • @[email protected]OP
          1•3 months ago

          How? 15 mins is low enough though

          Honestly, I hate online photo storing since the last time I did, a few years back, I had pics synced with Samsung Cloud, removed them from my phone and it also deleted them on cloud… I’m 98% sure I didn’t delete them on cloud yet I lost a lot of pics so I’ve never synced them online. I would like to make a photo-like app to sync them through my website (Raspberry)