<![CDATA[Has anyone successfully moved away from #GoogleCalendar to something else?]]>Has anyone successfully moved away from to something else? I'm on ios and macos but would like it to also be usable by my spouse who is on android and PC. We do a fair amount of inviting each other and other folks to calendar entries, but don't use a lot of other features. Motivation here is to get away from big G and theoretically find something with better privacy/etc.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/topic/117dd12f-4ecb-437f-9501-a582d0a832f8/has-anyone-successfully-moved-away-from-googlecalendar-to-something-elseRSS for NodeTue, 29 Sep 2026 04:32:08 GMTSun, 27 Sep 2026 13:34:36 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Has anyone successfully moved away from #GoogleCalendar to something else? on Sun, 27 Sep 2026 16:59:24 GMT]]>@Anneheathen Yes, I moved to Proton Calendar and have had no issues. I regularly use calendar invites and there doesn't seem to be any friction. I can also subscribe to my work calendar so it gets into my private calendar etc.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://radikal.social/users/malte/statuses/117344066924256915https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://radikal.social/users/malte/statuses/117344066924256915Sun, 27 Sep 2026 16:59:24 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Has anyone successfully moved away from #GoogleCalendar to something else? on Sun, 27 Sep 2026 16:57:14 GMT]]>@Anneheathen We moved to the Proton Calendar over a year ago.
It works well for us. However, as is often the case when you try to get off Google there are some "withdrawal symptoms".

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/Olle_Gladso/statuses/117344058398016295https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/Olle_Gladso/statuses/117344058398016295Sun, 27 Sep 2026 16:57:14 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Has anyone successfully moved away from #GoogleCalendar to something else? on Sun, 27 Sep 2026 16:53:37 GMT]]>@Anneheathen I set up my personal Baikal (CalDav) Server. For me this works great a ross devices.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://tuebingen.network/users/johnnythan/statuses/117344044181868671https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://tuebingen.network/users/johnnythan/statuses/117344044181868671Sun, 27 Sep 2026 16:53:37 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Has anyone successfully moved away from #GoogleCalendar to something else? on Sun, 27 Sep 2026 16:40:05 GMT]]>@Anneheathen @hypebot Self-hosted Nextcloud.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://chaos.social/users/rstockm/statuses/117343990961844137https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://chaos.social/users/rstockm/statuses/117343990961844137Sun, 27 Sep 2026 16:40:05 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Has anyone successfully moved away from #GoogleCalendar to something else? on Sun, 27 Sep 2026 16:27:42 GMT]]>]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://friendship.quest/ruben/p/1790526462.682512https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://friendship.quest/ruben/p/1790526462.682512Sun, 27 Sep 2026 16:27:42 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Has anyone successfully moved away from #GoogleCalendar to something else? on Sun, 27 Sep 2026 16:17:30 GMT]]>@Anneheathen try Proton. It is audited to be private (but I cant confirm or deny it is). Ive used it for years but nothing heavy.

It does meet your requirements of shared calendars and multi OS support 👍

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://defcon.social/ap/users/116439158546884526/statuses/117343902109629278https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://defcon.social/ap/users/116439158546884526/statuses/117343902109629278Sun, 27 Sep 2026 16:17:30 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Has anyone successfully moved away from #GoogleCalendar to something else? on Sun, 27 Sep 2026 16:07:00 GMT]]>@Anneheathen tagging @renegaderich, you were asking me the same question recently. Some of the replies might be useful to you too.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mas.to/users/LaserdiscTurtle/statuses/117343860881417010https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mas.to/users/LaserdiscTurtle/statuses/117343860881417010Sun, 27 Sep 2026 16:07:00 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Has anyone successfully moved away from #GoogleCalendar to something else? on Sun, 27 Sep 2026 16:00:36 GMT]]>@dlakelan @Anneheathen yep, another Nextcloud user here.

Mine is managed by Hetzner, costs about 5€/month. I’m not doing any admin work on it, Hetzner takes care of that.

Calendar sync to iOS works fine. Besides the calendar, I also get all of the Nextcloud apps, plus 1TB(!) of storage.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://chaos.social/users/slothrop/statuses/117343835676638273https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://chaos.social/users/slothrop/statuses/117343835676638273Sun, 27 Sep 2026 16:00:36 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Has anyone successfully moved away from #GoogleCalendar to something else? on Sun, 27 Sep 2026 15:58:44 GMT]]>@Anneheathen Been using Proton for work, and it's okay for mail & calendar, but their Drive/Office tools are just garbage, and the company leadership supports Trump and white supremacists, so I'm looking at Hugo, which is a hosted collabora/libreoffice in Canada. The company is about slow to deal with, but the tools & hosting look really solid.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://vis.social/users/wcbdata/statuses/117343828316964114https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://vis.social/users/wcbdata/statuses/117343828316964114Sun, 27 Sep 2026 15:58:44 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Has anyone successfully moved away from #GoogleCalendar to something else? on Sun, 27 Sep 2026 15:46:43 GMT]]>@Anneheathen ever since I switched to Purelymail I've been trying to find some way of replicating email calendar invites. I guess it would have to be some all-in-one solution like Nextcloud

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://social.hildebrind.space/users/zrb/statuses/01M3HRR5HYEZJD21S1QDG95H9Thttps://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://social.hildebrind.space/users/zrb/statuses/01M3HRR5HYEZJD21S1QDG95H9TSun, 27 Sep 2026 15:46:43 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Has anyone successfully moved away from #GoogleCalendar to something else? on Sun, 27 Sep 2026 15:46:15 GMT]]>@Anneheathen

fastmail, thunderbird, etar, & davx5.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.energy/users/waltbaldwin/statuses/117343779240032271https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.energy/users/waltbaldwin/statuses/117343779240032271Sun, 27 Sep 2026 15:46:15 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Has anyone successfully moved away from #GoogleCalendar to something else? on Sun, 27 Sep 2026 15:42:52 GMT]]>@Anneheathen wife moved to mailbox.org. It doesn't have a way to share a calendar to a non-member that's also editable over caldav - share is readonly. Makes collaboration painful.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://ellieayla.net/users/ellie/statuses/117343765970117381https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://ellieayla.net/users/ellie/statuses/117343765970117381Sun, 27 Sep 2026 15:42:52 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Has anyone successfully moved away from #GoogleCalendar to something else? on Sun, 27 Sep 2026 15:42:49 GMT]]>@Anneheathen I use as a caldav server and as a sync tool on android.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mathstodon.xyz/users/cmdrSprocket/statuses/117343765741401446https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mathstodon.xyz/users/cmdrSprocket/statuses/117343765741401446Sun, 27 Sep 2026 15:42:49 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Has anyone successfully moved away from #GoogleCalendar to something else? on Sun, 27 Sep 2026 15:40:54 GMT]]>@Anneheathen We use fastmail. Not free but Im happy to pay to avoid Google.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://frontrange.co/users/23m/statuses/117343758244030391https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://frontrange.co/users/23m/statuses/117343758244030391Sun, 27 Sep 2026 15:40:54 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Has anyone successfully moved away from #GoogleCalendar to something else? on Sun, 27 Sep 2026 15:39:15 GMT]]>@Anneheathen We're using proton, works well. Tuta also seems to be quite good.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/qkslvrwolf/statuses/117343751750842582https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/qkslvrwolf/statuses/117343751750842582Sun, 27 Sep 2026 15:39:15 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Has anyone successfully moved away from #GoogleCalendar to something else? on Sun, 27 Sep 2026 15:37:16 GMT]]>@Anneheathen Well, I use @Tutanota for e-mail and calendar stuff. Very happy. Very *not* US big tech.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://stpauli.social/users/LondonEastfield/statuses/117343743957860051https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://stpauli.social/users/LondonEastfield/statuses/117343743957860051Sun, 27 Sep 2026 15:37:16 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Has anyone successfully moved away from #GoogleCalendar to something else? on Sun, 27 Sep 2026 15:21:59 GMT]]>@Anneheathen

I think nowadays the best solution for mail, calendar and so on is moving to a professional service, I mean a company where you pay a monthly fee for these services.

For a few euros a months you can have what you need in terms of functionalities and privacy (if you keep to EU) without worries.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://poliverso.org/objects/0477a01e-156a-b934-9752-d84698939582https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://poliverso.org/objects/0477a01e-156a-b934-9752-d84698939582Sun, 27 Sep 2026 15:21:59 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Has anyone successfully moved away from #GoogleCalendar to something else? on Sun, 27 Sep 2026 15:11:43 GMT]]>Every email suite also includes calendar sync servers. I use Mailbox. Infomaniak, Tuta, Fastmail etc work equally well.
@Anneheathen

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mas.to/users/osma/statuses/117343643481807907https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mas.to/users/osma/statuses/117343643481807907Sun, 27 Sep 2026 15:11:43 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Has anyone successfully moved away from #GoogleCalendar to something else? on Sun, 27 Sep 2026 15:06:51 GMT]]>@Anneheathen Also, Proton is problematic as a company. Tuta might be better.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://apobangpo.space/users/dnkboston/statuses/117343624325556497https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://apobangpo.space/users/dnkboston/statuses/117343624325556497Sun, 27 Sep 2026 15:06:51 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Has anyone successfully moved away from #GoogleCalendar to something else? on Sun, 27 Sep 2026 15:05:33 GMT]]>@Anneheathen I use Proton, but no one in my family is interested in making the change.

Migration wasn't dramatic at all.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://apobangpo.space/users/dnkboston/statuses/117343619228534606https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://apobangpo.space/users/dnkboston/statuses/117343619228534606Sun, 27 Sep 2026 15:05:33 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Has anyone successfully moved away from #GoogleCalendar to something else? on Sun, 27 Sep 2026 14:14:23 GMT]]>@Anneheathen I use tuta calendar but I also pay monthly so I get more than one calendar

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/YourShadowDani/statuses/117343418041917446https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/YourShadowDani/statuses/117343418041917446Sun, 27 Sep 2026 14:14:23 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Has anyone successfully moved away from #GoogleCalendar to something else? on Sun, 27 Sep 2026 14:13:29 GMT]]>@Anneheathen we’ve moved to Proton mail and calendar. It works fine, we have a shared calendar.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://macavity.cat/users/elisehuard/statuses/117343414515605021https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://macavity.cat/users/elisehuard/statuses/117343414515605021Sun, 27 Sep 2026 14:13:29 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Has anyone successfully moved away from #GoogleCalendar to something else? on Sun, 27 Sep 2026 14:05:37 GMT]]>@Anneheathen try https://proton.me/calendar
I left G 2 years ago

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://sociale.network/users/oKolobos/statuses/117343383577698276https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://sociale.network/users/oKolobos/statuses/117343383577698276Sun, 27 Sep 2026 14:05:37 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Has anyone successfully moved away from #GoogleCalendar to something else? on Sun, 27 Sep 2026 14:04:08 GMT]]>@Anneheathen

Good morning Anne!
@nextcloud is a great option for what you are looking for.

Its can be a replacement for not just Google Cal but also Drive, Docs, and Contacts.

Its an open source application and here is an official list of providers if self-hosting isn't something you are up for.

https://nextcloud.com/providers/

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.tacoma.community/users/justin/statuses/117343377712099271https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.tacoma.community/users/justin/statuses/117343377712099271Sun, 27 Sep 2026 14:04:08 GMT