As part of my degoogling, I am looking for an alternative to the google calendar. Not necessarily free. My requirements are:
- Importable into and editable in standard calendar apps on iPhone and Android.
- Hosted, no self hosting.
- Full privacy!
Any recommendations?
Edit:
- Full privacy as in my data is not used in personalised ads or ML training. End to end encryption is not needed.
Proton Calendar is a good choice I’d say.
It sounds like EteSync is exactly what you’re looking for. A hosted NextCloud instance + DAVx5 is admittedly a bit lacking in the “full privacy” department, and Proton or Tutanota doesn’t integate with the standard calendars, but both would also be valid options IMHO.
If you want something hosted with full privacy, yet importable in the standard calendar apps, then I don’t think you’ll find anything for the time being.
Protonmail and tutanota both provide full privacy and are hosted options, but they require their own apps since they want to ensure reliable E2EE. I suppose you either need to re-evaltuate your requirements or wait for a suiitable product to be launched.
I think Posteo works for this as well. Could be wrong
Nice suggestion. Didn’t knew them, sustainable and privacy focused sounds nice!
Can’t buy it with tor, slightly inconvenient.
NextCloud for the self-hosting server stuff.
DAVx5 for the syncing to Android’s native calendars.
Any calendar app that uses the native Android calendars to view them. I’m using DigiCal.
as much as this is a good recommendation (god bless DAVx5), Self-Hosting isn’t what OP is looking for.
Doh! I missed that. Apologies.
Maybe buying a single seat enterprise license of Microsoft365 might work for you. Microsoft treats enterprise clients very differently than end users. Only (potential) down side is that you will have to set your own security policies and manage a bunch of things that go beyond a calendar. There is a bonus though. A single enterprise seat license includes 1TB of private-ish enterprise cloud storage.
I also do this. Lots of documentation online to get it set up, and obviously you get the benefit of buying and customizing your own domain address
