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 @JustMarkov@lemmy.ml (idk how to mention)
- Samsung pay
Maps: Organic Maps Wearables and other smart gadgets: Gadgetbridge
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
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
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.
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)
Youtube — try Newpipe for background playback. There is a version with Sponsorblock, I believe
Gallery — I use the Fossify one. You’ll find a lot of other FOSS utility alternatives searching for Fossify.
Media players — I waffle between different ones, but I always have VLC installed as a fallback. It feels clunky on Android, but it will play almost anything.
I have NewPipe and I use it more for downloads. The UI is… It’s okay but more youtube style (because I’m used to it and I prefer TIL you can change it!
Fossify gallery is based on simplemobiletools before ZipoApps bought them
I forgot vlc exists on android
Yeah, Newpipe is pretty great. It’s also a Peertube/Bandcamp/SoundCloud client 🙂
Ugh, let’s never mention simplemobiletools or Zipo again.
I just didn’t know you could edit the “homepage”. I used it sometimes, especially for downloads.
Yeah, I was pretty disappointed too! I liked the idea of simple apps and reading that I was just uuuugh okay, let’s find something else and I couldn’t find an alternative (didn’t use fdroid) and went back to stock app
Here are the ones I use:
- YouTube:
This is the hardest and you might need to hop a lot. But, these are the ones I have: FreeTube, Grayjay, LibreTube, NewPipe, PipePipe, and if none of these work, then YTDLnis (yt-dlp client)
- Mail:
ProtonMail (Tuta is heavily suggested too, but I personally have never used it)
- Cloud Storage:
Proton Drive (although I don’t use cloud storage much)
- Gallery:
Stock and AvesLibre (I heard Immich is good too, but I cannot afford self hosting atm)
- Video Player
VLC
- Audio Player
VLC
- 2FA
Proton Pass and KeepassXC
- Mail App
ProtonMail and K9Mail
- Password Manager
Proton Pass and KeepassXC
- Weather app
Breezy Weather
:O libretube has both sponsorblock and DeArrow, that’s cool!
I know about proton storage but is it good?
Out of curiosity, why KeepassXC over bitwarden?
I don’t use Proton Drive too much, but for my use case, it works great. I sometimes save files in there and share them via urls, and it works great for that use case.
The last time I used Bitwarden, the base plan did not support 2FA which is a must for me. Keepass keeps it local, and supports 2FA too. These days, I use Proton Pass more because I want easier sync across my devices, but I back up everything to Keepass every once in a while.