Hey there, right now i degoogle my nothing phone 2. Here is a list of stuff that I use. Also some stuff is open. U can recommend me stuff for that and maybe also stuff I already have something for. I am always open for new stuff.
SMS - QKSMS
Phone / Contacts - Fossify
Clock - Fossify Clock
Browser - Brave Android and Pc
Search engine - Brave Search (would use Kagi but not for 10€ a month / would pay 1€ per month)
Keep notes - Quillpad (perfect)
Google Tasks - For now ToDoDo (not sure About it)
YouTube and Twitch - Grayjay
Email - Proton (mail plus sub is enough for me)
Calendar - Proton (tested Tuta but Proton is better)
Password manager - Bitwarden
2FA - Bitwarden (10€ per Year Sub)
Google Drive - Filen.io (lifetime 2tb no subscription), Synology Drive with DS224+ Nas, Synology Photos (DS224+ coming 2025 2x2tb Seagate iron Wolf) just photos Videos and some docs
Gallery App - Fossify Gallery, Nothing Gallery when it releases
Reddit - Eternity for Lemmy
Shazam - Audile
Playstore - Aurora Store, Droidify
Anti Virus - Bitdefender
Ad and Tracker Blocking - Adguard App (works awesome)
VPN - … ?
Office - Colabora
PDF Scanner - OSS Document Scanner
Calculator App - OpenCalc
Google Files - Material Files but still searching for another one with Safe Folder Function
Translate - DeepL
Weather - Nothing Weather because I use Nothing Phone 2
Camera App - For now Nothing Camera
RSS Feed - Read You
What’s App - … ? searching for other Apps with working What’s App Bridge (sadly everyone I know uses WhatsApp and doesn’t want to change)
YouTube Music- … ?
Google Home - … ?
Greetings
Clock Phone Contacts Gallery etc … Fossify suite!
Proton also has a VPN
I use Read You for RSS
For WhatsApp and other platforms, I host a Matrix server and add bridges for them.
To replace Google Home, I host a Home Assistant server
For music, you can host your on music streaming service with Navidrome and use an app like Ultrasonic on your phone. If you don’t want to buy music outright, you can get a qobuz subscription and use qobuz-dl to grab music from it.
OSS Document Scanner is the PDF scanner I use. Works completely fine for my purposes.
You pretty much have to get into self-hosting to truly have great replacements.
Google music - tidal, or qobuz are the same thing but not as bad as Spotify. Otherwise you can self host navidrome or jellyfin->finamp
RSS Feed: choose from like 10 Foss projects on fdroid
Google home: Home assistant is self hosted and like 10x better and can integrate with more things
PDF scanner: Microsoft Lens (not FOSS) but really really really good, doesn’t require a Microsoft account, doesn’t have extra permissions, and barely has telemetry. If you are OK with >10x slower, there is OSS Document scanner
VPN: ProtonVPN, Mullvad, maybe PrivateVPN. You have to pay for one. The app is wireguard or openvpn
Google photos: Immich is pretty much a perfect replacement
WhatsApp you literally can’t get away from. Signal is the easiest replacement, but i could only get mg core friends on it.There is no way 99.9% of people can get their friends and family to switch to matrix or XMPP.
Thanks but self hosting is no option right now. Don’t have much time because of my child (1.5years old)
Kagi is quite good but I’ve been using Qwant and Searx with great results as well and without having to pay.
Use QUIK instead of QKSMS. QUIK is updated.
You say there’s no good Firefox browser for Android, but I strongly recommend you consider Mull. It’s pretty much Firefox w/ Arkenfox but for mobile and it works exactly as it should. For Mull you should add the DivestOS repository to F-Droid because the F-Droid one is outdated.
I like Fossify’s apps for phone and contacts. As for photo gallery, I really like Aves Libre, paired with Image Toolbox and Open Video Editor for light edits.
I don’t use an RSS aggregator myself, but Feeder tends to be rated well.
I use the standard Firefox browser and I’m pretty happy with it.
Fennec for me.
Which repository do you use? The F-Droid official one hasn’t been updated in three months 😬
Actually, they updated with a security fix on November 5 🙂
Thanks but Mull has no pc version.
What? Mullvad browser. https://mullvad.net/en/browser
It’s great, I used it before LibreWolf.
Sorry to spoil the party, but Mull browser and Mullvad browser are two different beasts. Mull browser is for Android by the DivestOS person, and Mullvad browser is based on Tor browser by the Swedish Mullvad VPN company.
Thank you. No clue how that one slipped through the fortifications. (There are gaps. Many gaps.)
The PC equivalent would simply be using Arkenfox with Firefox. If you want a similar out-of-the-box experience without having to tamper with it too much, Librewolf is also pretty good. There aren’t any real downsides to them not being the same, fundamentally they’re pretty similar and it shouldn’t impact one’s workflow across the platforms.
mull+1
For phone and contacts check the Fossify phone and Fossify contact. Also all the other Fossify apps.
for weather you should check sources the app use.
with https://f-droid.org/packages/org.breezyweather/ you have options to choose from (Izzy droid version has more)
Ri Music is an alternative frontend for Google music and pretty great
Not sure about how you use Google Home but Home Assistant perhaps?
Rimusic is tested from me. Doesnt play and song.
It works perfectly for me too. I’ve been using it for a long time.
Weird, works flawlesly for me
I switched from rimusic to innertune and have been happy
Nice stuff, I use a lot of them. And for things that are missing:
Phone: Fossify Phone
Contacts: Fossify Contacts
VPN:
- Self-hosted: Great for public wifi and access to homelab
- Free: Proton
- Paid: Mullvad
Office: Collabora Office
PDF viewer (when full office app is jut too much): PDF Viewer from GrapheneOS Apps Store
PDF scanner: OSS document scanner
Camera: Stick with preinstalled, it always works the best.
YT Music: Harmony Music
Maps: Organic Maps
Keyboard: FlorisBoard
Nice will look into that
For YT Music: Innertune or Outertune are unbeatable for me!
No mention of Google Maps?
And Kagi is absolutely worth the 10€. Give it a couple months. It’s very hard to go back to free search.
Maybe they should offer a full refund if you cancel within the first 3 months or something.Forgot Maps - haven’t thought about it yet
Same goes for Gboard and Voice assistant
For Maps I’d recommend Organic Maps and OSMAnd. For Gboard go with Florisboard, Heliboard or Thumb-Key if you feel like trying something new that actually makes you type faster.
organicMaps +1
I second Kagi. It’s great!
+1 for Kagi.
What’s the matter with Firefox for Android? I love that it has full extension support.
