Alternatives to Disroot
Donation-funded platform offering free email, cloud storage, XMPP chat and other privacy-focused online services. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Disroot
Donation-funded platform offering free email, cloud storage, XMPP chat and other privacy-focused online services.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Disroot.
Proton Mail
Official Proton Mail apps for reading and sending end-to-end encrypted email on phones, desktops and the web.
Proton Mail provides end-to-end encrypted email by default with apps on every major platform, but desktop apps need a paid plan and it lacks Disroot's cloud and chat services.
Posteo
German ad-free email provider with calendar, address book and notes, run on green energy.
Posteo is a paid, ad-free German provider with IMAP, calendar and contact sync and signup without personal details, but has no free tier and 4 GB base storage.
Mailfence
Encrypted email service from Belgium with OpenPGP support, calendars, contacts and document storage.
Mailfence adds in-browser OpenPGP, calendar, contacts and documents plus custom domains, with IMAP access and advanced features on paid plans.
StartMail
Paid private email service from the Netherlands with unlimited aliases and one-click encryption.
StartMail is a paid Dutch service with unlimited disposable aliases and password-based encryption to outside recipients, with no free tier beyond the trial.
Zoho Workplace
An online suite from Zoho combining mail, team chat, meetings, file storage and office editors.
Zoho Workplace bundles mail with chat, meetings, file storage and office editors for business teams, with a free tier and data held on Zoho's servers.
Gmail
Google's email service, used on the web and through Android and iOS apps.
Gmail is a free, widely supported account with strong spam filtering and AI drafting, but it is tied to Google and some AI features need payment.
mailbox.org
A German email and workspace service with mail, cloud storage, video meetings and office tools.
mailbox.org is a paid German service bundling mail, storage, video meetings and office tools, with data hosted in Germany under GDPR.
Fastmail
A paid, privacy-focused email, calendar and contacts service with web and mobile apps.
Fastmail is a paid service with email, calendar and contacts, custom domain support and a choice of EU or USA data residency, but no free plan.
Also worth comparing
These listings name Disroot as their own alternative, so the relationship runs both ways.
Yahoo Mail
Yahoo's free web and mobile email service with inbox organisation and AI-assisted features.
Disroot is a free, donation-funded service with no ads or tracking that bundles email with cloud storage and chat and works with IMAP clients.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Thunderbird
Mozilla’s desktop mail client, with calendar, contacts and a unified inbox, funded by donations rather than ads.
K-9 Mail
Open-source Android email client built for handling large volumes of mail.
Mail-in-a-Box
Turnkey open-source script that builds a full mail server on Ubuntu.
Mailcow
Dockerized open-source mail server suite with web admin and webmail.
Tuta Desktop
The desktop client for Tuta's encrypted mail service, with end-to-end encrypted mail, calendar and contacts.
FairEmail
An open-source, privacy-oriented email app for Android that works with almost any email provider.
