[5] He describes microG as "the framework (libraries, services, patches) to create a fully-compatible Android distribution without any proprietary Google components".

[14] CalyxOS includes options for using MicroG as a privacy enhanced replacement for some of the functionality in Google Play Services.

[15][16] DivestOS, a LineageOS soft fork, chose not to support MicroG or other ways of installing or running proprietary Google apps.

[24] As of May 2022, Murena company is selling a few phones including MicroG with the /e/ operating system, a privacy-oriented fork of LineageOS, with Google Services "mostly removed".

[29] In 2016, Nathan Willis of LWN.net expected MicroG to be a "welcome addition" for users of alternative Android-based projects, including CyanogenMod, Replicant, and Blackphone.

Hesse saw MicroG as a "promising" alternative to Google Play Services that was "incomplete and still in development", but said that it was "usable" and "runs pretty well".

[31] Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, in a 2019 ZDNet review of a refurbished Samsung Galaxy S9+ smartphone from /e/, determined that applications which were more closely integrated with Google Mobile Services were less likely to function properly with MicroG.