Degoogling my phone

The reason why I am degoogling all my phones is that Google holds an unhealthy monopoly on the mobile phone operating system market, Google also doesn't respect user's privacy and collects a lot of sensitive information about our daily lives. They collect information about your search history, movement, health, apps which you use and they can even hear you. They mostly collect your data for advertising purposes but it is still a huge breach of personal privacy.
Some time ago I have requested my data from Google and I was shocked by how much they know about me. The thing that has surprised me the most is that the Google Assistant "ok Google" or "hey Google" activation pharses get recorded and then saved on the Google servers.
Leaving the Google side can be uncomfortable because you might lack some proprietary applications, remember that you can install your needed applications from apk mirror websites or aurora store on F-Droid.

Foreigners like me have no privacy rights whatsoever. Yet we keep using U.S.-based services all the time, making us a legal target for gathering and storing our private information. Other countries do surveillance as well. But nobody has the global visibility that United States does.
~ Mikko Hypponen

The benefits of degoogling

The benefits of degoogling your phone are that you get a lot better privacy, better battery life and you can get less addicted on the social media and other crap.
With degoogled phone you can achieve more control of your own device and you won't be limited by the phone manufacturer's Android ROM. With degoogled phone you can get smoother performance of your device as there are no trackers nor spyware running in the background.

The issues of degoogling

The issues with degoogling phone are that your camera might not work properly on the custom ROM, you could fix that with flashing some packages that would allow, but not every phone is lucky...
The second problem is that if you need banking applications then it might be harder to use them as some banking applications require locked bootloader and not having rooted phone. You could fix that by rooting your phone with Magisk and hiding the banking applications from the root.

Applications that I use

Even though I could use applications such as Discord or Messanger on my phone, I don't. I am trying to live as much FOSS as I can, I also don't want to get addicted on the social media and phone games again as that would only kill my productivity and creativity.

Utility:
Compass	Compass application	F-Droid
Simple Calendar	Calendar application	F-Droid
Simple Messages	SMS application	F-Droid
Simple Contacts	Contacts application	F-Droid
Simple Calculator	Calculator application	F-Droid
Fennec	[!] Firefox based browser	F-Droid
Termux	Android terminal emulator	F-Droid
Organic Maps	OSM map application	F-Droid
QR Scanner	QR code and barcode scanner	F-Droid

Media managment:
Simple Gallery	Gallery application	F-Droid
Simple Music	Music application	F-Droid
Simple Recorder	Voice recorder application	F-Droid
Syncthing	Application used to sync files between devices	F-Droid
Librera	Epub & PDF reader	F-Droid
Feeder	RSS feed	F-Droid
Obscura Cam	Privacy photo editor	F-Droid
Imagepipe	Tool that removes exif data	F-Droid

Social:
Cheogram	XMPP Client	F-Droid
Element	Matrix Client	F-Droid
Tusky	Mastodon Client	F-Droid
PixelDroid	Pixelfed Client	F-Droid
Briar	Private messaging app	F-Droid
Telegram	[!!!] Telegram Client	F-Droid

Security:
KeePassDX	Password database	F-Droid
Aegis	2fa manager	F-Droid
Netguard	Network access manager	F-Droid
OpenKeychain	PGP manager	F-Droid