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For mail, Fastmail is a.much closer replacement to GMail. It's the only provider I found that supports the same "Send as" feature that GMail has. It works with standard IMAP/JMAP/SMTP. I wish the Android app was separated into separate mail and calendar apps, though.
A problem common to Proton and Fastmail is they don't feed into the system content providers for calendar and contacts, so that data is isolated from other apps. Fastmail supports CardDav and CalDav, though, so you can use ~~CALx⁵~~ DAVx⁵ to get that sync.
Neither of them integrate Maps with their calendar.
Proton famously has no real offline mode at least for calendar, and the calendar app has no search (last I tried).
Proton Pass doesn't let you specify a match algorithm so if you have separate logons for different subdomains (foo.example
com.and bar.example.com) it will show you all of them.
As others have mentioned, Proton has been spending time developing apps nobody asked for, like a crypto wallet and AI bot, instead of addressing popular user requests such as the aforementioned "send as" on mail, alternative domain matching in Pass, offline/search/maps in Calendar. They did just recently announce that they're working on a Linux Drive client, they get credit for that.
Fastmail is way way better
Fastmails app is bad and masked emails have a limit, though. Which is 2 reasons I’m considering going from fastmail to proton.
Neither of these points make any sense to someone who actually uses Fastmail, but ok
Their app is terrific and I have tons and tons of makes emails. What?
I actually use fastmail.
Their app is literally just a website in an app wrapped which is horrendous.
And they have a limit of masked emails, regardless of how many you have.