Literally none of those are Google Keep alternatives. They're all trying to be much more, and as a result they're much worse at the very simple job Keep does.

I've said this many times. Everyone is trying to make a digital notebook. All I want are digital Post-Its.

Joplin not mentioned. It's like Standard Notes, but FREE, including cloud sync (many targets available). I used Standard Notes but their business model changed which drove me to look for alternatives and I landed with Joplin. Highly recommended!

Did you know: you can fully sign out of Google on your phone and still use it? You can download an alt app store like F-Droid for most apps, or use APKeep from EFF to get those certain app installers. Or Aurora store, but I'm less familiar with that, and assume it's the same principle as APKeep. I also recommend NetGuard to individually handle what apps are allowed to use internet access.

Either way, you may not be able to fully remove Google from Android without a custom ROM, but there's still a lot you can do.

All of these seem like heavy weight note-taking apps.

Huh those all kinda suck, I switched to Joplin but it's limited for collaboration.

Joplin has served me well for over a year now

The thing that kept me using Google Keep for a long time, and that there still is no good replacement for, was live collaborative notes editor with a mobile UI and a repository of owned/shared notes.

EDIT: I would love whoever downvoted to post a tool that can do that. I really want to be wrong here.

Logseq + syncthing

I've tried a bunch of those prevalent options, but they're not a close enough replacement. Just found the lesser known Jotty-Page and it's pretty close.

Obsidian Sync is working well for me personally, and for me and my wife.

Now if I could just get work to adopt it!

I really like notallyx from fdroid cause it supports indentable checklists which I use constantly :)

Its a tad jank and unstable at times though

Nextcloud Notes is the closest I've found and have been using for about 4 years now.

I really like notallyx from fdroid cause it supports indentable checklists which I use constantly :)

Its a tad jank and unstable at times though

Do they fulfil the same function as Google Keep, of being completely fucking useless?

I use fossify notes for small offline things like grocery shopping lists.

Otherwise I use filen notes for things that need syncing across devices.

https://github.com/FossifyOrg/Notes

https://github.com/FossifyOrg

https://filen.io/