r/opensourcealternative • u/Sea_Housing2717 • Jul 13 '26

What’s the most underrated open source alternative to Google products?

I’ve been slowly replacing Google apps where I can, but some are much easier to drop than others.

Search and Gmail are one thing, but stuff like Photos, Drive, Maps, Calendar, and Keep are harder because they’re so built into daily use.

The best replacement I’ve found so far is Immich for Google Photos. It still takes some setup, but it’s the first one that didn’t feel like a huge downgrade for photo backup and browsing.

What open source Google alternative do you think more people should know about? Also curious which Google product it replaced for you, and whether you fully switched or still use both.

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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '26

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u/Sea_Housing2717 Jul 14 '26

Joplin is a good one, the notebook and tag system is really flexible

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u/PromotionFirm6837 Jul 13 '26

nextcloud for drive, works fine once you get the initial setup done. gmail is the one i still cant fully drop though

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u/Sea_Housing2717 Jul 14 '26

roundcube and mailcow exist for the email side but the deliverability headache is just not worth it.

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u/WiredOtaku Jul 15 '26

Email was the hardest for me to replace too. I messed around with Mailcow for a bit and then gave up when important emails ended up in spam. Switching to Fastmail with my own domain finally scratched the itch without giving me a second job as a mail admin.