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[–] jinx@lemmy.zip 40 points 3 months ago (2 children)

i like alternativeto.net because it's crowdsourced; not sure about the others

[–] infeeeee@lemmy.zip 19 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

They are good guys, they even have a mastodon account: https://mas.to/@alternativeto

[–] EarMaster@lemmy.world 15 points 3 months ago (1 children)

alternativeto.net is also my go-to resource because they have a good filtering system and are not solely focused on open source.

[–] otto@programming.dev 1 points 3 months ago

To me it is hard to find the best apps in their directory as they don't have a good ranking system. The other sites that rank by GitHub stars do a pretty good job of surfacing what are the truly most popular and successful apps.

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 12 points 3 months ago

Why not just all of them?

[–] artiman@piefed.social 7 points 3 months ago

alternativeto

[–] Whostosay@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago
[–] qweertz@programming.dev 2 points 3 months ago

I think there is also

https://opensource.builders/

and for the more privacy conscious the wonderful:

https://www.privacyguides.org/

[–] bandwidthcrisis@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

There are some good comments in this discussion

https://lemmy.world/post/35820333

[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de -5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)
[–] artiman@piefed.social 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

privacytools is controversial for turning into a cash grab and is about privacy alternatives, many apps have good privacy but aren't open and are missing some features so more general software alternatives sites are way better i personally like alternativeto

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 20 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Privacy guides is the forked project by the original contributors.

[–] artiman@piefed.social 6 points 3 months ago

Yep I forgot to add that to my comment