I've got the following table from here but later tested some options and found other (better?) solutions. So I edited the original table and extended.
| Need | Say No to | Good alternatives | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| GMail | Proton Mail, Tuta | The storage and sorting/filtering functionality is limited on free plans but I changed my habits a bit - both services allow to export all messages, which I load into Thunderbird, sort how I want and backup. | |
| Office | Google Docs | LibreOffice, OnlyOffice, Docs | |
| Data sharing | Google Drive | Dropbox, Filen | |
| Photo storage | Google Photos | Immich (https://immich.app/docs/install/docker-compose, https://github.com/imagegenius/docker-immich/) | |
| Video meetings | Google Meet | dino ? (XMPP based) | |
| Maps | Google Maps | Magic Earth, Here, something OSM-based (OpenStreetMap) - Organic Maps (iOS) | |
| Browser | Safari, Edge, Google Chrome | Floorp (Firefox based) | Firefox account is compatible with Floorp |
| Search | Google, Bing | Qwant (basically Bing), SearXNG | |
| Chat | WhatsApp, Slack | Signal, Matrix, IRC*, Zulip | |
| Photo editing | Adobe Lightroom, Photoshop | Capture One, Darktable, ? GIMP, Affinity | |
| Play my music | Spotify, YouTube Music | AIMP | |
| Discover music | YouTube Music | Movie soundtracks | |
| TV shows, Movies | Amazon Prime, Apple, Netflix | Read books | |
| Sport tracker | Nike Run Club, Runna, Strava | Running Page | |
| Videos | YouTube, Vimeo | PeerTube | By the time being, you can use Unhook addon or Invidious |
IRC: Kiwi IRC https://hybridirc.com/embedding/ https://github.com/kiwiirc/kiwiirc/wiki/Configuration
Other big company services
- Reddit -> Lemmy (List)
- Jira / Asana / Trello -> Taiga or Tenzu (there is no way to import from Jira Cloud)
- Asana -> Task Warrior
- Notion / Evernote -> Docs
- GitHub -> tangled (probably this is how a social coding platform should look like)
Other free tools
Something less known is that GIMP or blender and others, not specifically Google's counterparts, but some remarkable free software that frees you from online services.
Other steps
- Even though, you can keep using familiar to you services but in much cleaner way with LibRedirect
- View data offline, have a local backup by following the notes from Own your stuff
- While you export all your data from services you may need some extra steps: cobalt - media downloader.
Other blogs doing the same
- The Opt Out Project - challenge and reward based. Cons - gives strange alternatives sometimes, either paid services or poor software while there are another amazing homelab solutions and/or free/libre software
- Comment j’ai dégooglisé ma vie - mentioning Immich, kSuite, Notesnook