GDPR

awork

Germany

Hamburg project and time tracking, shaped around how agencies actually bill.

Brevo

France

Paris email, SMS and light CRM in one place, with EU-held contact lists.

CleverReach

Germany

German newsletter tool whose lists never leave German data centres.

DeepL

Germany

Cologne translation engine that professional translators quietly switched to years ago.

Ecosia

Germany

Berlin search that spends its ad margin on tree planting and publishes the receipts monthly.

Factorial

Spain

Barcelona HR suite covering absence, time tracking and document sign-off.

G DATA

Germany

Bochum antivirus maker that processes its telemetry exclusively in Germany.

Geoapify

Germany

German geocoding, routing and static-map APIs priced for small products.

Ghostery

GermanyOpen source

German tracker blocker with a private search front-end attached.

Hornetsecurity

Germany

Hanover mail security and Microsoft 365 backup, sold largely through managed service providers.

Infomaniak kSuite

Switzerland

Mail, drive, docs and video calls sold as one Swiss-hosted workspace.

Jimdo

Germany

Hamburg site builder aimed at the tradesperson who needs five pages and a contact form.

Livestorm

France

Paris webinar platform that runs entirely in the browser, registration pages included.

Mailbox.org

Germany

Berlin mail with PGP, an office suite, and a standing commitment never to run an ad business.

Mailfence

Belgium

Belgian mail suite with an OpenPGP keystore built into the webmail itself.

Mailjet

France

Paris transactional and campaign email API with a proper EU sending region.

Mullvad VPN

SwedenOpen source

Gothenburg VPN that issues you an account number instead of an identity, and still takes cash.

Nextcloud

GermanyOpen sourceSelf-hostable

Files, calendar, contacts, chat and office on hardware you control — the default answer when the answer has to be self-hosted.

Nhost

SwedenOpen source

Swedish backend-as-a-service on Postgres and GraphQL, with EU regions by default.

NordVPN

Lithuania

Lithuanian VPN with a large European server fleet and repeated third-party audits.

Personio

Germany

Munich HR system that already knows what a German employment contract looks like.

Pipedrive

Estonia

Tallinn-founded CRM organised around the pipeline stage rather than the quarterly report.

Pirsch Analytics

Germany

German cookie-free analytics with a server-side SDK for teams whose users block client scripts.

Piwik PRO

Poland

Wrocław analytics suite with consent management attached and a private-cloud option.

Plausible Analytics

EstoniaOpen sourceSelf-hostable

Cookie-free analytics in one small script, hosted in the EU or on your own box.

Posteo

Germany

One euro a month, anonymous signup, green power, and a transparency report nobody forced them to publish.

Qonto

France

Paris business account with invoicing, cards and bookkeeping exports built in.

Qwant

France

French engine building its own index, with no behavioural profile behind the results.

Ryte

Germany

Munich website quality monitoring: crawl errors, content and Core Web Vitals in one report.

Simple Analytics

Netherlands

Amsterdam analytics with no cookies, no personal data, and dashboards you can make public.

Stackfield

Germany

Munich work platform where the tasks and the messages are both end-to-end encrypted.

StartMail

Netherlands

Dutch paid mailbox with unlimited aliases, from the team behind Startpage.

Startpage

Netherlands

Dutch front-end that fetches Google results on your behalf so Google never sees you.

Storyblok

Austria

Linz headless CMS with a visual editor marketers will actually open.

Surfshark

Netherlands

Amsterdam-registered VPN that does not count devices per account.

Tally

Belgium

Ghent form builder that behaves like a text document until you hit publish.

Teamleader

Belgium

Ghent CRM with quoting, time tracking and invoicing for agencies and trades.

Tresorit

Hungary

End-to-end encrypted storage aimed at firms that have to prove where a file went.

Tuta

GermanyOpen source

Hanover encrypted mail with post-quantum key exchange and fully open-source clients.

Typeform

Spain

Barcelona-built forms that ask one question at a time, and the whole survey industry that copied them.

Vivaldi

Norway

Oslo browser with mail, feeds and serious tab management built in, and no telemetry business.

weclapp

Germany

Marburg cloud ERP built for mid-market trading and manufacturing firms.

Whereby

Norway

Norwegian video rooms that live at a fixed URL and never ask anyone to install anything.