A list of alternatives to Google products. Privacy tips, tricks, and links

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  • degoogle

    A huge list of alternatives to Google products. Privacy tips, tricks, and links.

  • Piwigo

    Manage your photos with Piwigo, a full featured open source photo gallery application for the web. Star us on Github! More than 200 plugins and themes available. Join us and contribute!

    I've been looking myself. What I have in my notes as the best option so far is tied between:

    - PhotoPrism - https://photoprism.app/

    - Piwigo - https://piwigo.org/

    PhotoPrism seems a lot more polished and has some face/location tagging that sounds useful (I make frequent use of the search feature in Google Photos and will likely miss that feature the most).

    While both have their own upload system internally, PhotoPrism has native integration with the PhotoSync (https://www.photosync-app.com/home.html) app for sycning, which seems promising.

    Piwigo has support for a few different sync methods, and extensions for more. ymmv.

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  • PhotoPrism

    AI-Powered Photos App for the Decentralized Web 🌈💎✨

    I've been looking myself. What I have in my notes as the best option so far is tied between:

    - PhotoPrism - https://photoprism.app/

    - Piwigo - https://piwigo.org/

    PhotoPrism seems a lot more polished and has some face/location tagging that sounds useful (I make frequent use of the search feature in Google Photos and will likely miss that feature the most).

    While both have their own upload system internally, PhotoPrism has native integration with the PhotoSync (https://www.photosync-app.com/home.html) app for sycning, which seems promising.

    Piwigo has support for a few different sync methods, and extensions for more. ymmv.

  • davx5-ose

    DAVx⁵ is an open-source CalDAV/CardDAV suite and sync app for Android. You can also access your online files (WebDAV) with it.

    Another vote for this option being a viable, and dare I say good, one. In addition to the CalDAV, contacts and email you can use davx5[0] on Android to help with syncing to your (root-not-required) Android device.

    This setup has worked well for me for a little under a year at this point.

    [0]: https://www.davx5.com/

  • photos-app

    Discontinued ➡️ Moved to https://github.com/ente-io/ente

  • InfluxDB

    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

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