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
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    14 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
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      14 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)