25 Google Alternatives every DEV must know in 2025 🀯πŸ’₯

Ingo Steinke, web developer - Feb 20 - - Dev Community

This is a follow-up to my post about Google Alternatives that I wrote in 2022 and kept updating it ever since, but it didn't get enough likes and views yet, I guess.

Google as a search engine πŸ”Ž

  1. Ecosia
  2. DuckDuckGo πŸ¦†
  3. Wolfram Alpha
  4. startpage.com (thanks @patricktingen) for suggesting!)
  5. MetaGer (German non-profit meta search engine) πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ
  6. (Meta)Searx (thanks @vivekkj)
  7. Qwant (thanks @dlepenven)
  8. Bing by Microsoft
  9. using site search forms and browsing documentation sites and man pages

Maps and Navigation πŸ—ΊοΈ

  1. Treeday.net 🌳
  2. Open Street Map
  3. OsmAnd (Open Street Map Android client with offline option)
  4. mapy.cz (also based on Open Street Map, with a very useful Android app, especially for hiking in Europe) πŸ‡¨πŸ‡Ώ
  5. maps.me ("maps with me")
  6. Sygic πŸ‡¨πŸ‡Ώ
  7. bike citizens 🚲
  8. komoot (German) hiking community with navigation option

Calendar, Contact Sync, Documents πŸ“…

  1. owncloud ☁️
  2. Nextcloud (thanks @vivekkj) ☁️
  3. WEchange.de πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ
  4. cal.com (formerly known as Calendso)
  5. Mega.NZ (thanks @webbureaucrat) πŸ‡³πŸ‡Ώ
  6. skiff.org
  7. Disroot.org
  8. Proton mail / calendar

Don't ask yourself why you might need a Google Alternative. It's 2025 and here are 25 Google Alternatives that every developer MUST use in 2025! But if you do, my original post about Google Alternatives has more background and even more alternatives.

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