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Jun 18, 2020 privacy, slow web, google, how-to, open source, libre, well-being

Privacy-friendly and open source alternatives to Google’s products

Below is a list of privacy-friendly (mostly open source) alternatives to Google’s products.

Email me at rpsa at pm [dot] me to add alternatives.

Google products	Alternatives
Google Chrome	Firefox Brave ungoogled-chromium Tor
Google Search	Searx info Duckduckgo Ecosia
Google Maps	OpenStreetMap
Google Analytics	Matomo OpenWebAnalytics Plausible Goat Counter
Google Chrome Passwords	Bitwarden Firefox Lockwise Leepass Butter cup Keeweb KeepassX Psono
Google Sheets	EtheCal CryptPad LibreOffice (use locally)
Google Docs	Etherpad (instances) CryptPad LibreOffice (use locally)
Google Translate	DeepL
Google News	Winds RSS feed
Google Messages	Signal Element
Google Mail	ProtonMail Tutanota
Google Photos	Piwigo
Google Keep	Standard Notes Simple Note Joplin Mak ink Mak
YouTube	PeerTube
Google Blogger	Ghost Gohugo Blot Jekyll
Google DNS	Cloudflare
Google Drive	NextCloud
Google Meet	Jitsi Meet BigBlueButton Jami
Google Voice	Mycroft
Google Scholar	arXiv
Google Contacts	NextCloud See alernatives to Gmail
Google Calendars	NextCloud EteSync
Google Groups	Discourse
Google Ads	Any suggestions?
Google Alerts	Any suggestions? Use RSS feeds
Google Slides	Etherpad CryptPad LibreOffice (use locally)
Google Flights	Any suggestions?
Google Finance	Any suggestions?
Google Weather	wttr.in
Google Forms	NextCloud Forms
Google Store	F-Droid

There are a lot more privacy-friendly products and apps you can use! Here is a list.

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