Alternatives to big-tech services

Paid standards-based email, calendar, and contacts from an Australian company, with no ads or data mining.

Opinionated paid email and calendar from 37signals, with a HEY-only client and no IMAP.

Paid German webmail and groupware suite with optional PGP and an encrypted mailbox option.

End-to-end encrypted webmail run by a Swiss company, with paid tiers for custom domains and more storage.

End-to-end encrypted email and calendar from a German company, formerly known as Tutanota.

An opinionated single-box mail server for Ubuntu that wires up Postfix, Dovecot, DNS, webmail, and backups in one installer.

A Docker-based mailserver suite bundling Postfix, Dovecot, SOGo, and a webmail UI behind one config.

All-in-one mail and collaboration server written in Rust, ships as a single binary.

End-to-end encrypted photo storage and 2FA app from an Indian company, with a self-hostable server.

Self-hosted photo and video backup with mobile auto-upload, web UI, and on-device ML features.

Self-hosted photo library with on-device AI tagging, face recognition, and search, written in Go.

End-to-end encrypted cloud storage from a Swiss company, with web, desktop, and mobile clients.

Self-hosted file sync and collaboration suite covering files, calendar, contacts, chat, and office.

Peer-to-peer continuous file sync between your own devices, with no central server and no cloud copy.

Long-running cross-platform note-taking app with web clipper, OCR, and rich attachments, owned by Bending Spoons.

End-to-end encrypted note-taking app with open source clients and a self-hostable server, owned by Proton since 2024.

Open source Markdown note app with end-to-end encrypted sync to a server you choose, including Nextcloud, S3, or WebDAV.

Hierarchical personal knowledge base with a tree-structured note store, self-hostable sync server, and per-note encryption.

End-to-end encrypted calendar from Proton AG, included with any Proton account.

End-to-end encrypted calendar from the makers of Tuta Mail, with native apps and no CalDAV.

Hosted password manager from a Canadian company, using a dual-key design where the vault key never leaves your devices.

Open source password manager with hosted vaults, browser and mobile apps, and an official self-host option.

Hosted password manager with browser extensions and mobile apps, freemium with paid Premium and Families tiers.

Cross-platform desktop password manager that stores credentials in a local encrypted .kdbx file.

Unofficial Bitwarden-compatible server in Rust, lightweight enough to run on a Raspberry Pi.

End-to-end encrypted messenger run by a US non-profit, funded by donations and grants.

An open federation protocol for chat, voice, and video, with multiple server and client implementations.

US search engine and browser with no search history tracking, ads keyed only to the current query.

Paid, ad-free metasearch engine with personal ranking controls and built-in AI features.

A self-hosted metasearch engine that aggregates results from Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, Wikipedia, and dozens more.

Community-built world map with open data, run by a UK foundation, used by countless downstream apps.

Offline-first mobile maps and turn-by-turn navigation built on OpenStreetMap data, with no ads, no tracking, and no account.

Offline-first maps and turn-by-turn navigation for Android and iOS, built on OpenStreetMap data.

Hosted video meetings, phone, and chat from a US company, with a free tier capped at 40-minute group calls.

Peer-to-peer video, voice, and chat with no central server, sponsored by Savoir-faire Linux as a GNU project.

Open-source browser-based video conferencing you can run on your own server.

A paid-only VPN from a Gibraltar company, with anonymous account IDs and cash or crypto payment.

Swedish VPN provider with anonymous numbered accounts, flat €5 per month, and audited RAM-only servers.

Swiss-run VPN with a free tier that has no data cap and open source clients on every platform.

Chromium-based browser with built-in ad and tracker blocking, optional crypto rewards, and a private search engine.

Open-source desktop and mobile browser built on the independent Gecko engine, developed by Mozilla.

A privacy-hardened Firefox fork with telemetry stripped and uBlock Origin pre-installed.

WireGuard-based mesh VPN that connects your own devices into a private network, with a hosted coordination server.

Modern open-source VPN protocol and reference implementation, run on a server you control.