I’d like to hear of an alternative to google calendar. I just need a calendar-based event tracker that is able to sync between at least my phone (android) and PC (Linux). Are there any alternative services? (other than Outlook)
I have the Tuta calendar.
Same (till today) but then the only way you can access your calendar is in the Tuta apps, and then you can’t share appointments with others, invite them, and so on. Bit of a limited option, unless your calendar security/privacy is really important to you.
Proton has a good calendar service but if you want to change color labels you need to be on the more expensive tier - and they don’t really tell you that ahead of time. Which p’ed me off so much I moved my calendar to a Nextcloud server instead, which works great. It also got me off Keep, Drive, and I’m working on Gmail.
Radical on the server, Davx5 on the phone to sync, Thunderbird on your desktop. The combination has worked for me over many years.
Man, I’ve read this like so many times. So… I just set it up and it’s working a treat. I installed radicale via radicale-docker, got it confogured with my user, set it up in Thunderbird and install/configured Davx5 and Fossify calendar (via F-Droid) on my android phone. <phew>
Docker for radicale (which is unofficial but they don’t offer one, so…)
https://github.com/tomsquest/docker-radicale?tab=readme-ov-file
The only thing I might have to get used to is the sync delay with davx5. How often do you have yours setup to sync, if you don’t mind me asking?
Nextcloud, self hosted. But it is maybe overkill, unless you need it otherwise, for family photo album, docs or such. Davx5 also needed on android. Thunderbird for desktop calendar client. Can recommend etar for android calendar app.
As others have said Nextcloud has a calendar, viewable via the webam or thubderbird (can also use the tasks) and any floss calendar app really on android or even the one installed by default probably.
There are a few orgs that permit creating an account so you can avoid selfhosting. Some like from Framasoft are donation funded.