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Find European alternatives to the big-tech services you use every day. Privacy-first, GDPR-native, built closer to home.

Why European? Four reasons to switch.

Privacy by default.

European services are built under the GDPR, the world's strictest data-protection law. Privacy is the baseline, not a setting.

Your data stays home.

Data stored in European data centers falls under European law — not under foreign jurisdictions you never agreed to.

Independence matters.

Relying on a handful of overseas providers is a risk. A diverse, European stack keeps you in control of your own tools.

Grow the ecosystem.

Every switch funds European engineering, support and innovation. Better products, built closer to home.

Made across Europe.

325 privacy-first services from companies in 24 European countries. See where the continent builds its software.

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Digital sovereignty isn't a buzzword.

The tools you depend on shape who controls your data, your costs and your future. Europe builds world-class software under the strongest privacy law on the planet — choosing it keeps that control close to home.

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countries in the EU, EEA and EFTA where listed services are based

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people protected by the GDPR, the world's strictest privacy law

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place to find the European alternative for your stack

A few of our favourites

Hand-picked European services worth switching to today.

Plausible

Estonia Web analytics services

Plausible is cookie-less and lightweight web analytics service. Because it does not use cookies their is no need to show cookie banner for this service. The software is open-source so it possible to self-host, but they also offer a hosted service.

Simple Analytics

Netherlands Web analytics services

Simple Analytics is a privacy-first web analytics service from the Netherlands. It works without cookies, collects no personal data and shows the essential metrics in one clean dashboard.

Proton Mail

Switzerland Email services

Proton Mail is an end-to-end encrypted email service from Switzerland. Messages are encrypted so that not even Proton can read them, making it a strong alternative to Gmail and Outlook.

Tuta Mail

Germany Email services

Tuta (formerly Tutanota) is an encrypted email service from Germany. Mailboxes, calendars and contacts are end-to-end encrypted, and the apps are fully open source.

Proton Drive

Switzerland Cloud storage services

Proton Drive is an end-to-end encrypted cloud storage service from Switzerland. Files, file names and folder structures are all encrypted, making it a private alternative to Google Drive and Dropbox.

kDrive

Switzerland Cloud storage services

kDrive is a cloud storage service by Infomaniak, an independent Swiss hosting company. It offers generous storage, collaborative document editing and full compatibility with Google Drive-style workflows.

Qwant

France Search engines

Qwant is a French search engine that does not track its users or sell personal data. It maintains its own European search index and is a privacy-respecting alternative to Google Search.

Ecosia

Germany Search engines

Ecosia is a Berlin-based search engine that uses its advertising profits to plant trees around the world. Searches are not stored permanently and no advertising profiles are created.

Threema

Switzerland Messaging services

Threema is a Swiss end-to-end encrypted messenger that can be used completely anonymously: no phone number or email address is required. The apps are open source and independently audited.

Wire

Switzerland Messaging services

Wire is a secure collaboration and messaging platform from Berlin with end-to-end encryption for messages, calls and file sharing. It targets both private users and enterprises.

Mullvad VPN

Sweden VPN services

Mullvad is a Swedish VPN service with a radical privacy model: accounts are anonymous numbered tokens, payment is possible with cash, and there is one flat price for everyone.

Proton VPN

Switzerland VPN services

Proton VPN is a Swiss VPN service from the makers of Proton Mail. It offers a trustworthy free tier without data caps, open-source apps and a strict no-logs policy.

Hetzner

Germany Cloud hosting services

Hetzner is a German hosting and cloud provider known for excellent price-performance. It runs its own data centers in Germany and Finland and is a popular alternative to AWS and DigitalOcean.

Scaleway

France Cloud hosting services

Scaleway is a French cloud provider offering a complete ecosystem from virtual instances and Kubernetes to serverless and AI inference, all hosted in European data centers.

Bunny CDN

Slovenia CDN services

Slovenian content delivery network with a global edge, image optimisation and built-in video streaming.

KeyCDN

Switzerland CDN services

Swiss content delivery network with a global PoP network, real-time analytics and on-the-fly image processing.

netcup

Germany VPS hosting

German hosting provider known for high-spec, low-cost virtual private servers backed by its own European data centres.

Contabo

Germany VPS hosting

Munich-based provider famous for budget VPS plans with large amounts of RAM, storage and bandwidth.

Sweego

France Transactional email services

Sweego is a French notification platform for transactional email and SMS, built for developers with EU data residency.

Lettermint

Netherlands Transactional email services

Lettermint is a Dutch transactional email service for developers, with a simple API and every server inside Europe.

Gandi

France Domain registrars

A long-established French domain registrar offering domains across hundreds of TLDs alongside hosting and email.

INWX

Germany Domain registrars

A German registrar (InterNetworX) supporting more than a thousand TLDs with a powerful management portal and API.

solidtime

Austria Time tracking apps

An open-source time tracking app for freelancers and agencies, built in Austria.

Toggl Track

Estonia Time tracking apps

A widely used time tracker from a bootstrapped company based in Tallinn, Estonia.

Mapy.com

Czech Republic Navigation apps

A detailed maps and turn-by-turn navigation app from Czech search company Seznam.cz, with offline maps and outdoor routing.

Sygic GPS Navigation

Slovakia Navigation apps

A long-running offline GPS navigation app from a Slovak company, with downloadable maps and full turn-by-turn guidance.

Oh Dear

Belgium Uptime monitoring services

All-in-one website monitoring from the Belgian team behind Spatie, covering uptime, SSL, broken links and scheduled tasks.

Hyperping

France Uptime monitoring services

French uptime monitoring with fast checks, on-call incident management and full-featured public status pages.

DeepL

Germany Machine translation services

A German neural machine translation service widely regarded for its high translation quality across many languages.

Reverso

France Machine translation services

A French translation service combining machine translation with contextual examples, grammar checking and conjugation tools.

Leafcloud Object Storage

Netherlands Object storage services

Sustainable S3-compatible object storage from the Netherlands, built on open-source Ceph with data kept in Amsterdam.

Impossible Cloud

Germany Object storage services

German provider of sovereign, S3-compatible object storage backed by certified European data centres.

Mastodon

Germany Microblogging services

Free, open-source, decentralised microblogging network of independent servers that interconnect over ActivityPub.

Bunny DNS

Slovenia Managed DNS providers

A fast, anycast managed DNS service from Slovenian cloud provider bunny.net, with a global low-latency network.

ClouDNS

Bulgaria Managed DNS providers

A Bulgarian managed DNS provider offering anycast DNS, DNSSEC and a generous free tier for global resolution.

XING

Germany Professional networking platforms

The leading professional network for the German-speaking market, based in Germany.

Scaleway Serverless Functions

France FaaS providers

Event-driven serverless functions from French cloud provider Scaleway, running in EU data centres.

Koyeb

France FaaS providers

A French serverless platform that deploys functions and apps to the edge from Git, with no infrastructure to manage.

Scalingo

France PaaS providers

French sovereign Platform-as-a-Service for deploying and scaling web apps and databases in European data centres.

Clever Cloud

France PaaS providers

French PaaS with automatic scaling for many runtimes plus managed databases and Cellar object storage.

Bugsink

Netherlands Error tracking services

Self-hosted, Sentry-compatible error tracking from the Netherlands, built to be lightweight and easy to run.

AppSignal

Netherlands Error tracking services

Dutch application monitoring that combines error tracking with performance metrics for Ruby, Elixir, Node.js and more.

Yousign

France Electronic signature software

Yousign is a French eSignature platform providing legally binding electronic signatures under eIDAS.

Skribble

Switzerland Electronic signature software

Skribble is a Swiss electronic signature service supporting all eIDAS and Swiss ZertES signature levels.

DNS4EU

Czech Republic Public DNS resolvers

An EU-funded public DNS resolver providing privacy-respecting, security-filtered name resolution for European users.

Quad9

Switzerland Public DNS resolvers

A free, privacy-focused public DNS resolver run by a Swiss non-profit, blocking malicious domains by default.

Mollie

Netherlands Payment service providers

Mollie is a Dutch payment service provider that lets businesses accept online and in-person payments through a single integration.

Adyen

Netherlands Payment service providers

Adyen is a Dutch payments platform that unifies online, mobile and in-store payments for global enterprises.

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