Great list! I have a few questions and recommendations.

Look into comaps for a maps alternative. There was some controversy around organic maps, I don’t know all the details. But comaps showed up as a fork and it is really good.

I’m not the biggest fan of infomaniak and their drive is not E2EE. I would recommend looking into filen.io and proton drive.

Proton pass was already an European app, and a pretty awesome one. Why did you ditch it?

And does tutamail work with Thunderbird now? Or is it only Posteo you’re using with it?

I use iPhone, Windows (work laptop) and Linux (personal laptop), so keep that in mind when looking at my suggestions. I have also a Proton unlimited subscription.

1. Email: Proton Mail + Simplelogin aliases / Tuta as backup
2. Cloud storage: Proton Drive / Filen
3. Maps: Magic Earth / OpenStreetMap
4. Search engine: Qwant
5. Web browser: Zen browser (Firefox fork) / Quiche browser (iOS)
6. Calendar: Apple Calendar (our family calendar is here, hard to use something else) / Thunderbird (apple calendar caldav imported)
7. Contacts management: Proton / iOS
8. Notes / to-do lists: Notesnook / iOS
9. Office suite (docs, spreadsheets, etc.): MS Office (work) / Libreoffice (personal)
10. Messaging / chat: Signal / SimpleX
11. Video calling: Signal
12. Social media / microblogging RSS reader / news: Mastodon / Bluesky / Reddit / Lemmy
13. Music streaming / podcast app: Tidal (pays artists more and Spotify donated to Trump) / Pocket Casts
14. Video streaming / YouTube alternative: Grayjay (Windows/Linux) / Unwatched (iOS)
15. Password manager: Proton Pass
16. VPN / DNS / Firewall: Proton VPN
17. Launcher / Android OS (if you use custom ROMs): iOS
18. App store / APKs: iOS
19. Photo backup / gallery: Proton Drive
20. Weather: iOS
21. Smart assistant (if any): Nope
22. Anything else you’ve replaced? MS authenticator -> Ente Auth Reddit iOS app -> Hydra Notion -> Anytype

I know that some of my solutions are bonded to Apple, but I am also regularly searching for Apple alternatives and focus on apps that are cross platform to make a possible deApple process smoother in the future.

I was strongly considering their plans by the time he tweeted that, made me do a 180 degrees turn and look other places for private mail services and cloud drive… After that event, he did write on the comments of a Reddit post that he’s not a Trump supporter and was distancing himself from right wing politics.

I made peace with it. Was he writing the truth or just trying to throw some water into the fire, idk. I have currently the unlimited plan and I’m happy, in the end of the day I want to support companies that are European and provide services like Proton and Tuta.

Oh yeah, wait! Law should be shaped after Meta’s way of doing business, so unfair.

I didn’t know about sink it, will have a look! I currently use hydra to access Reddit on iOS.

As I mentioned in other comments, I didn’t buy a new phone to degoogle. I’m sure there are more people on the same boat. And this is a degoogle group.

Fuck that, next step is linux 🚀

Please no… I hope it can be disabled.

Wdym? 😭

I have had the same phone for the past 3 years, so the degoogle process started a couple of years after I got it.

Wow, thenewoil website is great. Thanks for sharing.

Gotta start with what you have 🤷

YouTube player app. Open source, no ads, no login, just import your subscriptions and playlists and you’re ready to go.

I have not tried other clients. I am quite happy with Voyager, but maybe I will give the others a shot :)

I didn’t like the statements regarding Trump either, but he deleted it and made some comment/post on reddit distancing himself from Trump and right wing politics. So I made peace with that, but yeah, people won’t forget.

I mean, it the end it’s all up to personal preferences. I’m strongly considering to delete Bluesky due to the latest controversy. But would you care to elaborate?

Yeah, Linux phones might not be ready yet and it will mean compromises and workarounds. Will be following closely the development of not Google not Apple phones, before pulling the trigger.

I love Tuta as well, they are great. But not being able to use Tuta with thunderbird was a deal breaker for me. Proton is Swiss btw.

A linux phone is on my list, Jolla or similar. One battle at a time.

Probably not, but I really like Notesnook for its simplicity and just organize notes in folders. Anytype is awesome for more complex stuff, I usually use it for work, kanban boards and such.