Client-side vaults for the files you still keep in somebody else’s cloud.
Audience
Privacy-conscious users
23 toolsEverything in the directory whose audience includes “Privacy-conscious users”.
Ecosia
GermanyBerlin search that spends its ad margin on tree planting and publishes the receipts monthly.
German zero-knowledge cloud where the clients are open source and the keys never leave the device.
German tracker blocker with a private search front-end attached.
Icedrive
United KingdomWelsh provider whose selling point is a real mounted drive rather than a sync folder.
Valencia zero-knowledge drive with open-source clients and a separate photo vault.
Koofr
SloveniaSlovenian storage that can also mount the Drive and Dropbox accounts you are migrating off.
Mailbox.org
GermanyBerlin mail with PGP, an office suite, and a standing commitment never to run an ad business.
Mailfence
BelgiumBelgian mail suite with an OpenPGP keystore built into the webmail itself.
Mojeek
United KingdomBrighton crawler with a genuinely independent index — no Bing or Google underneath.
Gothenburg VPN that issues you an account number instead of an identity, and still takes cash.
NordVPN
LithuaniaLithuanian VPN with a large European server fleet and repeated third-party audits.
French messenger with no server-side directory at all, certified by the national cyber agency.
Posteo
GermanyOne euro a month, anonymous signup, green power, and a transparency report nobody forced them to publish.
Encrypted mail, calendar and drive under Swiss jurisdiction, funded by subscriptions instead of adjacency to an ad business.
Swiss VPN with open-source clients on every platform and audited no-logs claims.
Qwant
FranceFrench engine building its own index, with no behavioural profile behind the results.
Runbox
NorwayNorwegian host that has run mail on hydroelectric power since the late nineties.
StartMail
NetherlandsDutch paid mailbox with unlimited aliases, from the team behind Startpage.
Startpage
NetherlandsDutch front-end that fetches Google results on your behalf so Google never sees you.
Swiss messenger that needs no phone number and keeps no contact graph to hand over.
Hanover encrypted mail with post-quantum key exchange and fully open-source clients.
Vivaldi
NorwayOslo browser with mail, feeds and serious tab management built in, and no telemetry business.