Hey folks! I’ve been on a quest to degoogle and get more privacy in my life. I want to strike a good balance between privacy and usability, so while the most hardened apps out there might be best for privacy, maybe they are not great for usability.
My first step is a good mail and calendar provider with a good iOS experience. I’m using proton right now, but I’ve had issues with mail and calendar on mobile. Calendar has been slow and just not great to use. Mail is mostly okay but often I will delete mail and it will take ages for it to actually leave my inbox and it just feels unresponsive.
In the calendar app I need to be able to view a Google calendar. My work schedule is all in a Google workspace for my job and I need to at least see it for when I’m scheduling my personal stuff. I understand I most likely cannot create or edit events on it from a private app, but seeing it is a must.
Any good recommendations out there, or am I already just ok at Proton and I need to overlook what feels to me a subpar mobile experience?
I don’t use iOS, so I can’t speak to it directly, but some quick searching tells me it supports IMAP, caldav, and carddav. If so, you could just use native apps.
Most of the privacy respecting email services require a paid plan for this, but they are inexpensive.
This doesn’t solve your Google calendar ask, but I pointedly don’t have my work calendar on my phone. I just check each calendar separately when needed, it’s not much extra work.