Please read the comments under each table.
| Type | App | FOSS alternatives |
|---|---|---|
| 2FA | Google Authenticator | Aegis, andOTP |
| Activity tracker pairing app | Mi Fit | Gadgetbridge*** |
| App store | Google Play Store | Aurora Store, F-Droid |
| Browser | Chrome, Opera | Brave*, Bromite*, Firefox* or Fennec, Tor Browser* |
| Calculator | Google Calculator | Calculator++ |
| Calendar | Google Calendar | Simple Calendar |
| Camera | GCam | OpenCamera |
| E-book/PDF reader | Acrobat Reader, AIReader | Librera, Book Reader, FBReader |
| Gmail | FairEmail, K-9 Mail | |
| File manager | ES File Explorer, Total Commander | Amaze, Ghost Commander, Material Files |
| Fitness | Google Fit, Mi Fit | FitoTrack |
| Gallery | Google Photos | Simple Gallery, Photok |
| Launcher | Pixel Launcher | KISS Launcher, T-UI***, Lawnchair, Taskbar |
| Maps and navigation | Google Maps, Maps.me | OsmAnd+ |
| Music player | Google Music | Vinyl, Odyssey |
| Notes | Google Keep, OneNote | Markor, Joplin |
| On-screen Keyboard | GBoard | OpenBoard, AOSP Keyboard* |
| RSS Feed | Aggregator | Feeder |
| Reddit client | Infinity for Reddit*, Slide, RedReader*** | |
| SMS | Google Messages | QKSMS |
| Synchronization | - | Syncthing, KDE Connect |
| Twidere | ||
| Video player | MX Player | VLC |
| YouTube client | YouTube | NewPipe, SkyTube |
| Electronic diary app | VULCAN Dzienniczek+ | Wulkanowy |
| Facebook** client | Frost |
| App | Description |
|---|---|
| Adaway | Hosts based ad-blocker. |
| Magisk* | Tool for rooting your phone. |
| TWRP* | Recovery project. |
| App | Description |
|---|---|
| OpenKeychain | PGP encryption app for Android. |
| Scrambled Exif | Remove metadata from photos. |
| UntrackMe | Links converter (eg. change youtu.be to invidio.us on the fly). |
| Orbot | Tor proxy for Android. |
* - Not avaliable in default F-Droid repository. See below.
** - Delete Facebook account if you don't need it.
*** - Not recommended. See below.
AOSP Keyboard - APKMirror
Brave - Use Aurora Store (Google Play frontend) or add rfc2822's repo to F-Droid..
Bromite - Add Bromite repo to F-Droid.
Firefox - Install Fennec, use Aurora Store (Google Play frontend) or add rfc2822's repo to F-Droid.
Infinity for Reddit - Add IzzyOnDroid repo to F-Droid.
Magisk - https://github.com/topjohnwu/Magisk
TWRP - https://twrp.me/
Tor Browser - Add Guardian Project repo to F-Droid.
Gadgetbridge - If you are a Mi Band 4 user you still must have official account and app to control device.
RedReader - Weird interface.
T-UI - Not really efficient on touchscreen.
| Type | App | FOSS alternatives |
|---|---|---|
| 3D modeling and animation | 3ds Max, Cinema 4D | Blender |
| BitTorrent client | µTorrent | qBittorrent, Transmission |
| Bitmap graphics | Adobe Photoshop | GIMP, Krita |
| Browser | Chrome, MS Edge, Vivaldi | Firefox, Tor Browser, Brave, Ungoogled Chromium, Qutebrowser |
| CAD | AutoCAD | QCAD |
| Code editor | Visual Studio | VSCode (built from source or VSCodium), Vim or NeoVim, Emacs |
| Discord client* | Discord | gtkcord3 |
| Disk usage statistics | - | QDirStat, WinDirStat** |
| Office suite | Microsoft Office | Libre Office, Open Office* |
| Photo retouching | Adobe Lightroom | darktable, RawTherapee |
| Screencast/streaming app | Camtasia, Action, Bandicam | OBS Studio, SimpleScreenRecorder |
| Vector graphics | Adobe Illustrator | Inkscape |
| Video editor | Adobe Premiere | Kdenlive, OpenShot |
| Epic Games client | Epic Games Launcher | legendary |
* - Not recommended
** - Windows only application
Discord unofficial clients - This is not allowed in Discord TOS and might result in pernament account block. Use it at your own risk.
OpenOffice - There is no more support.
| Type | Service | FOSS (or more private**) alternatives |
|---|---|---|
| Channel-based chat | Discord | Riot.im, FluffyChat (Matrix clients) |
| Cloud drive and sync | Google Drive, OneDrive | Nextcloud, Syncthing (only sync) |
| Cooperative editing | Google Docs | Etherpad, Disroot Pad, Disroot Cryptpad |
| E-mail hosting | Gmail, Outlook | Disroot*, ProtonMail*, Tutanota*, Kolab Now (or selfhosted Kolab) |
| Font resources | Google Fonts | selfhosted fonts, Font Library |
| Git hosting | GitHub | GitLab (or selfhosted Gitlab CE), Codeberg, Gitea |
| Group-based chat | Messenger, WhatsApp | Signal, Riot.im (Matrix client), Telegram FOSS* |
| Machine translation | Google Translate | DeepL Translator* |
| Music streaming | Spotify, Tidal | |
| Password manager | Dashlane, LastPass, Google Password Manager | KeePassXC (KeePassDX for Android), Bitwarden |
| Pastebin | Pastebin.com | Disroot Privatebin, GitLab Snippets, 0x0** |
| Polls | Strawpoll, Doodle | Framadate, Disroot Polls |
| Project management | HacknPlan, Wrike | Leantime, Phabricator, Kanboard |
| Search engines | Google, Bing | DuckDuckGo*, SearX, YaCy, Startpage*, Whoogle |
| Spell checking | Grammarly | LanguageTool |
| Surveys and forms | Google Forms | Nextcloud app Forms |
| Video/Voice Chat | Discord, Skype | Jitsi Meet, Mumble, Nextcloud app Talk |
| Social media | Mastodon, Disapora, Friendca | |
| Social media | Pixelfed | |
| Social media | Mastodon, Pleroma, Nitter (Twitter frontend) | |
| Social media | Lemmy | |
| Video sharing platform | YouTube | LBRY, invidio.us (YouTube frontend) |
* - Not (fully) FOSS, but still a better alternative.
** - Not recommended. See below.
0x0 - Doesn't keep pastes forever, doesn't have an UI (it's just a service).
| Game | Description |
|---|---|
| Lutris | Open gaming platform for Linux. |
| Mindustry | A sandbox tower defense game. |
| Minetest | Voxel engine and game. Alternative to Minecraft. |
| MultiMC | Advanced, open Minecraft launcher (the game is still propertiary). |
| Open Arena | Community-produced deathmatch FPS based on GPL idTech3 technology. |
| RetroArch | libretro frontend. Combines all (or most of) your emulators and game engines in one place. |
| osu!lazer | Iconic rhythm click the circles game now is officially open source. |
| Veloren | Multiplayer voxel RPG inspired by games such as Cube World, Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Dwarf Fortress and Minecraft. |