EU Alternatives

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Adyen

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Payments

Amsterdam-based acquiring bank that processes cards and local payment methods end to end on infrastructure it runs itself.

A

Aiven

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Database Hosting

Managed cloud data platform offering hosted PostgreSQL, MySQL, Kafka, OpenSearch, Valkey, and ClickHouse across multiple clouds.

A

Autenti

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E-Signatures

A Poznań-based Polish e-signature platform and trust service provider offering eIDAS-compliant electronic and qualified signatures.

a

awork

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Project Management

German project and work management tool built for agencies, combining task planning, time tracking, and team scheduling.

B

Brevo

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Email Marketing

All-in-one email, SMS, and marketing automation platform (formerly Sendinblue) built and run from Paris, France.

B

Buddy

🇵🇱

DevOps Tools

Platform Engineering suite built in Poland that provides tools to build and run web apps, workflows, and AI agents.

b

bunny.net

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CDN

A Slovenian edge platform offering low-cost, high-performance CDN, storage, and video streaming services.

C

CDNsun

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CDN

A Prague-based CDN delivering website, software, game, and live-streaming acceleration on a usage-priced global network.

C

Centreon

🇫🇷

Monitoring & Observability

French hybrid IT infrastructure and network monitoring platform, born from an open-source project in 2003.

C

Checkmk

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Monitoring & Observability

German agent- and SNMP-based infrastructure monitoring platform with a free open-source Community edition.

c

cidaas

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Authentication & SSO

German cloud CIAM/IAM platform offering single sign-on, MFA, and passwordless login for consumer and workforce identities.

C

Clever Cloud

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Hosting

A Nantes-based PaaS that lets developers push code straight to managed, auto-scaling infrastructure hosted entirely on European data centers.

C

CloudMe

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Cloud Storage

Swedish cloud storage and file-sync service that stores customer data exclusively on servers it owns and operates in Sweden.

C

ClouDNS

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DNS

Bulgarian managed DNS provider offering free, premium, GeoDNS, and DDoS-protected authoritative DNS hosting.

C

Codeberg

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Git Hosting

A German non-profit association offering free, ad-free Git repository hosting built on the open-source Forgejo software.

C

Codemagic

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DevOps Tools

An Estonian-run CI/CD service focused on building, testing, and shipping mobile apps for Flutter, React Native, iOS, and Android.

C

Codesphere

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Sandboxes

Browser-based cloud IDE and deployment platform for writing, running, and deploying code without local setup.

c

commercetools

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E-commerce

Headless, API-first commerce platform operated by commercetools GmbH, headquartered in Munich, Germany.

C

Contentful

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CMS

API-first headless CMS platform used to manage and deliver structured content across websites and apps.

C

Contentsquare

🇫🇷

Web Analytics

French digital experience and web analytics platform offering behavioral analytics, heatmaps, and session replay for websites and apps.

C

Coolify Cloud

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Hosting

Managed cloud version of the open-source Coolify PaaS, letting developers deploy apps, static sites, and databases without running their own server.

C

Corbado

🇩🇪

Authentication & SSO

German passkey and passwordless-authentication platform that adds passkey login flows and analytics on top of any existing identity provider.

C

Craftifact

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Artifacts

Berlin-based operation offering a security-focused Maven, npm, PyPI, Go and Docker package registry built for SME software supply chains.

C

Creem

🇪🇪

Payments

Estonian merchant of record for SaaS and AI products, taking on checkout, subscriptions, and global sales tax on the seller's behalf.

C

Crisp

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Customer Support & Help Desk

Shared-inbox customer messaging suite with live chat, chatbot and helpdesk tools, built by Crisp IM in Nantes, France.

C

CryptPad

🇫🇷

Office & Collaboration Suites

End-to-end encrypted collaboration suite with documents, sheets, slides, forms, and drive, built by XWiki SAS in Paris.

C

Cubbit

🇮🇹

Cloud Storage

Geo-distributed, S3-compatible cloud storage provider founded and headquartered in Italy.

C

Curity

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Authentication & SSO

Swedish identity server providing OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, and API security for banks and regulated enterprises.

C

Cyberwatch

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Security & Compliance

French vulnerability management and IT compliance monitoring platform for enterprises and critical infrastructure operators.

D

DanubeData

🇷🇴

Artifacts

GDPR-compliant, EU-hosted container (OCI) registry and small-business cloud platform positioned as a Docker Hub alternative.

D

DeepL

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AI Tools & LLMs

German AI company in Cologne providing neural machine translation and an AI writing assistant (DeepL Write).

d

deSEC

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DNS

A German non-profit offering free, DNSSEC-enabled managed DNS hosting funded by donations rather than ads.

D

Digital Samba

🇪🇸

Video Conferencing

Barcelona-based video conferencing platform and embeddable API/SDK positioned as a GDPR-compliant alternative to Zoom.

D

Doofinder

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Search

Spanish e-commerce site-search and product-discovery platform offering plug-and-play AI search for online stores.

D

Drime

🇫🇷

Cloud Storage

French collaborative cloud storage that combines file sync and sharing with document editing and e-signature in one workspace.

D

Dust

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AI Tools & LLMs

Paris-based enterprise platform for building and deploying custom AI agents connected to a company's internal knowledge and tools.

E

Ecosia

🇩🇪

Search

Berlin-based consumer web search engine (uses Bing/Google index, building own index) that donates ad profits to tree-planting.

E

Efficy CRM

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CRM

A Belgium-headquartered CRM and marketing-automation suite positioned as Europe's largest independent CRM vendor.

E

ESET

🇸🇰

Security & Compliance

Slovak-developed antivirus, endpoint protection and EDR/XDR platform used by consumers and enterprises worldwide.

e

etracker

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Web Analytics

German GDPR-compliant web analytics platform hosted entirely in Germany, positioned as an alternative to Google Analytics.

E

Evidian

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Authentication & SSO

French identity and access management suite offering enterprise single sign-on, MFA, identity federation, and legacy app access management.

E

Exasol

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Database Hosting

Publicly listed German analytics database company offering a managed, high-performance in-memory database engine for analytics and AI workloads.

E

Expose

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Tunnels

A German solo-founder studio's open-source tunneling tool that hands your local dev server a public HTTPS URL, with a small paid hosted tier for teams.

F

Factorial

🇪🇸

HR & People Ops

Cloud HR management platform for recruiting, payroll, time tracking, and performance handling small business HR needs.

F

Filen

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Cloud Storage

End-to-end encrypted cloud storage and file-sync service built by a German company.

F

Fluid UI

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Design Tools

Irish browser-based wireframing and prototyping tool for designing interactive mobile and web app mockups.

F

Fortnox

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Accounting & Finance

Swedish cloud platform for accounting, invoicing, payroll, and embedded financial services aimed at SMEs.

F

Framagit

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Git Hosting

A free GitLab-based repository host operated by Framasoft, a French non-profit digital-rights association.

F

Framer

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Design Tools

Dutch company (Framer B.V., Amsterdam) offering an AI-assisted design-to-website tool that grew out of an interface-prototyping app.

G

G DATA CyberDefense

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Security & Compliance

German endpoint protection and antivirus vendor that built one of the first commercial antivirus products in the 1980s.

G

Gandi

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DNS

French domain registrar and hosting provider offering LiveDNS, a managed authoritative DNS hosting service with a REST API.

G

Ganttic

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Project Management

Cloud-based resource-planning and Gantt-chart scheduling tool for managing projects, people, and equipment, headquartered in Estonia.

G

GetResponse

🇵🇱

Email Marketing

Polish email marketing and marketing automation platform, legally GetResponse S.A. based in Gdańsk.

G

GMX

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Email Hosting & Providers

Long-running German free webmail service with optional paid ad-free tiers, virus scanning, and generous storage.

G

GoodAccess

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VPN & Networking

Cloud-delivered Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) and business VPN platform built by GoodAccess s.r.o. in Czechia.

g

grommunio

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Office & Collaboration Suites

Linux-based groupware suite positioned as a drop-in Exchange replacement, built by owner-managed grommunio GmbH in Vienna.

H

H Company

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AI Tools & LLMs

French AI lab building agentic AI models that autonomously complete multi-step tasks across web browsers and business apps.

H

Heptapod

🇫🇷

Git Hosting

Hosted Git and Mercurial platform based on GitLab Community Edition, managed and billed by French cloud provider Clever Cloud.

I

Icinga

🇩🇪

Monitoring & Observability

German open-source monitoring platform for infrastructure, networks, and applications with flexible alerting and dashboards.

i

ilert

🇩🇪

Monitoring & Observability

German incident management and on-call alerting platform with scheduling, escalations and status pages.

I

Internxt

🇪🇸

Cloud Storage

Zero-knowledge, end-to-end encrypted cloud storage platform operated by a Spanish company.

I

IONOS Deploy Now

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Hosting

German-run platform that automatically builds and deploys static sites, PHP apps, and Jamstack projects straight from a GitHub repository.

I

IONOS Managed Database

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Database Hosting

German cloud provider offering managed MySQL, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB hosting with automated backups, scaling, and EU data centers.

K

Kenjo

🇩🇪

HR & People Ops

Berlin-based all-in-one HR software for SMEs covering time tracking, shift planning, absence management, payroll prep, and recruiting.

K

Kertos

🇩🇪

Security & Compliance

German AI-driven compliance automation platform for ISO 27001, SOC 2, GDPR, NIS2 and TISAX certification.

K

Kirby CMS

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CMS

File-based, license-purchased CMS for developers that stores content as flat text files instead of a database.

K

Koofr

🇸🇮

Cloud Storage

Cloud storage and multi-cloud file manager operated by a Slovenian company in Ljubljana.

K

Koyeb

🇫🇷

Sandboxes

Serverless cloud platform offering on-demand code-execution sandboxes and Git-branch preview environments.

K

Kyutai

🇫🇷

AI Tools & LLMs

Nonprofit French AI research lab in Paris building open-science speech and language models (Moshi, Helium).

L

Leaseweb

🇳🇱

CDN

Amsterdam-based hosting provider offering its own proprietary CDN, tightly integrated with its dedicated servers, cloud, and colocation network.

L

LightOn

🇫🇷

AI Tools & LLMs

Paris-headquartered, publicly listed French company building sovereign generative AI and LLM/RAG deployment tools for enterprises.

L

Lime Connect

🇩🇪

Customer Support & Help Desk

German customer messaging and AI-agent platform for live chat, WhatsApp, and support inboxes, formerly known as Userlike.

L

Linearity

🇩🇪

Design Tools

Vector illustration and animation software (Linearity Curve/Move, formerly Vectornator) from Linearity GmbH, a German company.

L

LiveAgent

🇸🇰

Customer Support & Help Desk

Multichannel help desk with ticketing, live chat, built-in call center and social media support, built by Quality Unit in Bratislava.

L

Livestorm

🇫🇷

Video Conferencing

Browser-based video meeting and webinar platform built by French company Livestorm SAS for virtual events and meetings.

L

Lucca

🇫🇷

HR & People Ops

French HR and administrative software suite covering employee records, time and leave, payroll prep, expenses, and performance management.

L

Luigi's Box

🇸🇰

Search

Slovak AI-powered site search, analytics, and product-discovery platform for e-commerce websites.

m

mailbox.org

🇩🇪

Email Hosting & Providers

German business email and office suite (mail, calendar, contacts, cloud storage) run by Heinlein Hosting GmbH in Berlin.

M

MailerLite

🇱🇹

Email Marketing

Newsletter and marketing automation platform legally registered as MailerLite UAB in Vilnius, Lithuania.

M

Mailfence

🇧🇪

Email Hosting & Providers

Belgian encrypted email and office suite with OpenPGP support, operated by ContactOffice Group in Brussels.

M

Mailjet

🇫🇷

Email Marketing

Paris-founded email marketing and transactional email platform combining a marketer campaign builder with a developer email API.

M

Meilisearch

🇫🇷

Search

Paris-based open-source search engine and hosted API — search-infrastructure product for adding instant/typo-tolerant search to apps.

M

MeisterTask

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Project Management

Kanban-style task and project management tool with automation, time tracking, and team collaboration, made by MeisterLabs GmbH in Germany.

M

Mistral AI

🇫🇷

AI Tools & LLMs

French AI lab building open-weight and proprietary large language models, an API platform, and the Le Chat assistant.

M

Mollie

🇳🇱

Payments

Dutch e-money institution with a developer-friendly payments API covering cards, iDEAL, SEPA, and Bancontact for European merchants.

M

Moqups

🇷🇴

Design Tools

Romanian-made web-based wireframing, mockup, and prototyping tool for designing and presenting UI concepts.

M

Mullvad

🇸🇪

VPN & Networking

Privacy-focused VPN service operated by Mullvad VPN AB, registered and headquartered in Gothenburg, Sweden.

M

Myra Security

🇩🇪

CDN

German-made CDN with RAM-based caching, DDoS protection, and GDPR-compliant delivery, optionally restricted to German servers.

N

Namirial

🇮🇹

E-Signatures

An Italian qualified trust service provider offering eIDAS e-signatures, digital certificates, and identity services.

N

NetBird

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VPN & Networking

Open-source, WireGuard-based zero-trust network access platform operated by NetBird GmbH, headquartered in Berlin.

n

netcup

🇩🇪

DNS

A Karlsruhe, Germany hosting provider offering DNS zone management and an API alongside its server and domain products.

N

Nexi

🇮🇹

Payments

Milan-listed payments group processing cards and local payment methods across Europe on infrastructure it owns and operates itself.

N

Nextcloud

🇩🇪

Cloud Storage

German-developed, self-hostable file sync, share, and storage platform used as a private alternative to Dropbox and Google Drive.

N

Nextcloud Hub

🇩🇪

Office & Collaboration Suites

Self-hostable German collaboration suite bundling files, chat, groupware, and office editing into one platform from Nextcloud GmbH.

N

Nextcloud Talk

🇩🇪

Video Conferencing

Self-hostable video/audio calling and chat module within Nextcloud's open-source collaboration suite from Germany's Nextcloud GmbH.

n

noCRM.io

🇫🇷

CRM

French lead-management CRM alternative built for small sales teams to track leads and pipelines without heavy setup.

O

Odoo

🇧🇪

CRM

Belgian open-source business suite whose CRM app handles lead tracking, pipelines, and customer communication.

O

Omada

🇩🇰

Authentication & SSO

Danish Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) platform for managing enterprise access rights and compliance.

o

openDesk

🇩🇪

Office & Collaboration Suites

Open-source office and collaboration suite for public administration, developed by the German federal government's ZenDiS GmbH in Bochum.

O

Openport

🇧🇪

Tunnels

Belgian reverse-SSH tunneling service that exposes local TCP ports and IoT devices to the internet without firewall configuration.

O

OVHcloud

🇫🇷

CDN

France's OVHcloud sells a tiered CDN (Basic, Security, Advanced) as part of its broader European cloud and hosting platform.

O

OX App Suite

🇩🇪

Office & Collaboration Suites

Browser-based mail, calendar, contacts, and document suite from Open-Xchange AG in Cologne, deployed by hosters and public-sector bodies.

P

PayFit

🇫🇷

HR & People Ops

French payroll and HR management software automating payslip generation and employee administration for SMEs.

P

Pennylane

🇫🇷

Accounting & Finance

French financial operating system combining accounting, invoicing, expenses, and banking for SMEs and their accounting firms.

P

Penpot

🇪🇸

Design Tools

Open-source, web-based design and prototyping platform built by Kaleidos in Madrid, Spain, as a self-hostable Figma alternative.

P

Personio

🇩🇪

HR & People Ops

All-in-one HR platform for recruiting, payroll, and people management used by small and mid-sized European companies.

P

Pimcore

🇦🇹

CMS

Open-source platform combining content management, product information management (PIM), and digital asset management.

P

Piwik PRO

🇵🇱

Web Analytics

Enterprise analytics and customer data platform offering a privacy-compliant alternative to Google Analytics 360.

P

Plausible Analytics

🇪🇪

Web Analytics

Open-source, cookieless web analytics platform built for lightweight, privacy-friendly website traffic tracking.

P

Pleo

🇩🇰

Accounting & Finance

Danish company-card and expense-management platform that automates receipt capture, approvals, and bookkeeping exports for businesses.

P

Posteo

🇩🇪

Email Hosting & Providers

Ad-free, no-tracking German email provider operated by sole proprietorship Posteo e.K. in Berlin.

P

PrestaShop

🇫🇷

E-commerce

Open-source e-commerce platform published by PrestaShop SA, registered in Paris, France.

P

Private Packagist

🇩🇪

Artifacts

Private package registry and dependency management platform for PHP/Composer, built by the maintainers of Composer and Packagist.

P

Psono

🇩🇪

Security & Compliance

Open-source, self-hostable password manager for teams, built by a German company and independently security-audited.

Q

Qovery

🇫🇷

Sandboxes

A Paris-based developer platform that spins up a disposable, production-like cloud environment for every pull request, then tears it down automatically.

Q

Qwant

🇫🇷

Search

Paris-based, privacy-focused consumer web search engine that avoids building ad-tracking profiles of users.

S

Salesflare

🇧🇪

CRM

An Antwerp, Belgium CRM for small B2B sales teams that auto-fills contact and pipeline data from email and calendar.

S

Scaleway

🇫🇷

Database Hosting

French cloud provider offering managed PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, and serverless SQL databases hosted in sovereign European data centers.

S

Scalingo

🇫🇷

Hosting

A Strasbourg-founded PaaS built for teams that want French-hosted, git-push application deployment with a strong data-sovereignty guarantee.

S

Scrive

🇸🇪

E-Signatures

A Stockholm-based Swedish e-signature and digital identity platform for automating agreement workflows.

S

Secfix

🇩🇪

Security & Compliance

Berlin/Munich-based compliance automation platform helping SMBs reach ISO 27001, SOC 2 and TISAX certification.

S

Selzy

🇨🇾

Email Marketing

Cloud-based email marketing platform with a drag-and-drop builder, automation, and segmentation aimed at small and midsize businesses.

s

sevDesk

🇩🇪

Accounting & Finance

Cloud accounting and invoicing software for German freelancers and small businesses with built-in GoBD and ELSTER tax compliance.

S

Severalnines

🇸🇪

Database Hosting

Swedish database operations company providing automation and management tooling for self-hosted and cloud database clusters.

S

Shopware

🇩🇪

E-commerce

Open-source and SaaS e-commerce platform built by Shopware AG, headquartered in Schöppingen, Germany.

S

Signaturit

🇪🇸

E-Signatures

A Barcelona-based Spanish qualified trust service provider covering e-signatures, digital identity, and certified delivery.

S

Simple Analytics

🇳🇱

Web Analytics

Privacy-first, cookieless website analytics tool that reports aggregate traffic without tracking individual visitors.

S

Sketch

🇳🇱

Design Tools

Vector-based UI/UX design and prototyping app made by Sketch B.V., a Dutch company registered in Eindhoven, Netherlands.

S

Spendesk

🇫🇷

Accounting & Finance

French spend-management platform combining company cards, expense reimbursement, invoice payments, and budget controls in one system.

S

Spryker

🇩🇪

E-commerce

German enterprise commerce platform providing a composable, API-first backend for B2B and B2C digital commerce.

S

Stackfield

🇩🇪

Project Management

German all-in-one collaboration suite combining project management, team chat, and video calls, with end-to-end encryption and hosting in Germany.

S

Statcounter

🇮🇪

Web Analytics

Long-running web traffic analytics and visitor tracking service, also known for its public global browser/OS usage statistics.

S

Storyblok

🇦🇹

CMS

Headless CMS with a visual editor that lets marketers edit content while developers keep full framework freedom.

S

STRATO HiDrive

🇩🇪

Cloud Storage

Cloud storage and backup service from STRATO AG, a long-established German hosting company in Berlin.

S

Sylius

🇵🇱

E-commerce

Polish open-source e-commerce framework built on Symfony, used to build custom online stores and B2B commerce sites.

T

TeamCity

🇨🇿

DevOps Tools

A CI/CD build server from JetBrains for automating builds, tests, and deployments, available self-hosted or as a cloud SaaS.

T

Teamwork.com

🇮🇪

Project Management

Irish project management and client-work platform used by agencies and professional services teams.

T

Tixeo

🇫🇷

Video Conferencing

French end-to-end encrypted video conferencing platform, ANSSI-certified and used by government and security-conscious organizations.

T

Trengo

🇳🇱

Customer Support & Help Desk

Omnichannel customer communication platform merging WhatsApp, email, live chat and social messaging into one team inbox, founded in Utrecht.

T

Tuleap

🇫🇷

DevOps Tools

French all-in-one ALM and DevOps platform combining Git hosting, issue tracking, and CI/CD pipeline orchestration.

T

Tuta

🇩🇪

Email Hosting & Providers

End-to-end encrypted, quantum-resistant email and calendar service run by Tutao GmbH in Hanover, Germany.

T

Twake Workplace

🇫🇷

Office & Collaboration Suites

Open-source digital workplace bundling chat, drive, mail, calendar, and video calls, published by LINAGORA near Paris.

T

TYPO3

🇩🇪

CMS

Open-source enterprise CMS whose commercial arm, TYPO3 GmbH, is legally registered in Düsseldorf, Germany.

U

Ubisecure

🇫🇮

Authentication & SSO

Finnish customer identity and access management (CIAM/IDaaS) provider, also the world's largest LEI issuer.

U

Umbraco

🇩🇰

CMS

Open-source .NET CMS for building and managing websites, developed and commercially backed by a Danish company.

U

Upsun

🇫🇷

Hosting

A Paris-headquartered cloud application platform that automates builds, previews, and scaling for teams running PHP, Node.js, Python and other stacks.

W

WEB.DE

🇩🇪

Email Hosting & Providers

German free webmail service, sister brand to GMX, with paid ad-free tiers, cloud storage, and an integrated news portal.

w

weclapp

🇩🇪

CRM

A German cloud ERP suite from Kitzingen with an integrated CRM module for pipeline and customer management.

W

Wildix

🇪🇪

Video Conferencing

Estonian-headquartered unified-communications provider offering WebRTC-based video conferencing alongside VoIP and chat.

W

Wimi

🇫🇷

Project Management

French collaborative workspace and project management suite marketed as a sovereign alternative to US tools.

Y

YetiForce

🇵🇱

CRM

An open-source CRM and ERP platform developed by a Warsaw, Poland-registered software company.

Y

Yousign

🇫🇷

E-Signatures

A French qualified trust service provider offering eIDAS-compliant electronic signatures, headquartered in Paris.

Z

Zabbix

🇱🇻

Monitoring & Observability

Open-source infrastructure and application monitoring platform with alerting, dashboards, and enterprise support from Latvia.

Z

Zammad

🇩🇪

Customer Support & Help Desk

Open-source help desk and ticketing system built by a German company, offering multi-channel support and automation.