So they can track you like Tim Horton's? I am sick of companies demanding that I install their apps that are inevitably full of spyware.

There's a web app too...

Also the VPN in calyxos does not appear to be enabled by default. You don't have to use it if you don't trust it.

I like both projects and they both have their place. My understanding is:

-Calyxos is less secure but more usable day to day, since most apps work. -GrapheneOS is more secure but less usable day to day since major apps don't work.

Nearly every app I have tried to run on GrapheneOS has worked fine.

Yup, sandboxed google play works fine on graphene.

And everything is neatly locked into individual user profiles.

Metager.org is my go to google search replacement. I imagine (although my German is non native) that the German search results are quite good. . . it being a German search engine. To be honest it the only search engine to get me off google - DDG is OK, as is searx, but I kept going back to the dirty G until Metager.

I really like calyxos on the pixel 5a

Yes it is if you are careful.

By using home assistant and sonoff plugs flashed with tasmota firmware you can keep all of your data local.