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
E-Mail 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

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

Other free tools

Something less known as GIMP or blender and not specifically a Google's counterpart but some remarkable free software that frees you from online services.

Other steps

  • View data offline, have a local backup by following the notes from Own your stuff
  • TODO

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 amzing homelab solutions and/or free/libre software
  • Comment j’ai dégooglisé ma vie - mentioning Immich, kSuite, Notesnook

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