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Suggestions for google alternatives/foss apps (lemmy.today)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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

Proton Pass and KeepassXC

Mail App

ProtonMail and K9Mail

Password Manager

Proton Pass and KeepassXC

Weather app

Breezy Weather

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

: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?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

I use bitwarden because got almost hacked (lol) and I have the free plan and it allows me to set up an OTP

Isn't bad to have password manager and 2FA on the same thing? If you lose access to proton you lose passwords and 2FA