DeGoogle Yourself

I am trying to create a single life-management app (calendar, tasks, bills, notes, goals, reminders etc.) too.

FOSS, self-hostable, obviously. I've been developing it for 6 months as of now, and I am actively working on improving it and making it available in F-droid (and the Play Store too, for that matter)

It's meant exactly to help people deGoogle themselves.

Anyways, I don't want to be advertising it too much because I am new here and don't want to get banned, but I think this is very much justified, whoever wants to check it out, here is the GH repo

What are MA apps?

Looks like the first release on their Github was this July. He says in the repo that he has been working on it for about a year, and all apps should be considered as in beta. It managed to make it to F-Droid already, or at least MA Office did. I tried it out and it is nice that it scales down to a mobile Ui a little better than Collabora Office, but missing features compared to that, and is inconsistent about whether it even responds to input at all, especially the edit button.

It looks like an interesting project, but definitely in beta and not yet established. These types of overly ambitious projects pop up a lot since Ai. Not saying he's a vibe coder, just saying. If he sticks with it, that's cool.

Lastly, I would advise against replacing Google's ecosystem with a new ecosystem. It is possible even for open source apps to get enshittified or sold, happened with the "Simple" suite before Fossify forked it. I do try to find apps that look like they have a similar Ui, Material Design if possible. But that's not too difficult these days.

I use a few MA apps, none of which have declared the internet permission. Nor would I ever want them to have internet access.

But a few MA apps actually do require internet to work for their intended purpose, and I will never install one of those out of fear all the MA apps "secretly" talk/share/IPC my data with eachother, effectively granting all the non-internet apps the internet permission.

I'm not saying this is happening. But I'm also not about to delve into the entire codebase to find out.