European Alternative is an independent index of European software that doesn't sell you out. Every entry is tested, every claim is checked against the privacy policy and the jurisdiction behind it, and every verdict is written by a person with opinions. Hover the black bars — around here, you decide what gets revealed.
The verdict: No email, no name, no discounts, no influencer codes. You can literally mail them cash in an envelope. The anti-marketing VPN in a category drowning in marketing.
The verdict: Born at CERN, raised on Swiss privacy law. The provider itself can't read your mail, the free tier is genuinely usable, and there's a full suite behind it when you're ready to leave more than just Gmail.
The verdict: France's flagship attempt at search independence. Ads match the query, not the person typing it — advertising the way it worked before it turned into surveillance.
The verdict: No phone number, no email, no subscription — one payment and an ID that isn't you. The messenger for people who read the fine print, built where the fine print favours you.
The verdict: No cloud, no account, no company to get breached — your vault is a file on your machine. Slightly more work, considerably more sovereignty.
The verdict: Keep your existing cloud, encrypt everything before it leaves your machine. The pragmatic answer for people who can't quit Dropbox but can stop trusting it.
Four phrases that tell you everything, and the one section companies hope you skip.
Read it → Investigation · 9 min · Jun 12, 2026The marketing terms that correlate with the worst policies — we counted.
Read it → Update · 4 min · May 28, 2026Acquisitions, policy rewrites, and one very quiet change to a data retention clause.
Read it →Privacy isn't a one-time badge — policies get rewritten, companies get acquired, and clauses get quietly edited. So every entry gets re-checked quarterly, and every verdict stays current or gets pulled. Know a tool that belongs here — or one that no longer does?
