Office Suites & Documents

Adobe Acrobat 🇺🇸🇨🇭 non-EU

PDF is an open standard. The reader charges rent.

• PDF24 Geek Software, Berlin. Free, and the desktop version never uploads your file. 🇩🇪
• Stirling PDF Open source and self-hostable: run every tool on your own machine. 🇬🇧
• PDFsam Split and merge, open source, from an Italian developer. 🇮🇹
• LibreOffice Draw The Document Foundation, Berlin. Edits PDFs directly and costs nothing. 🇩🇪

Google Docs 🇺🇸 non-EU

Collaborative documents in exchange for total content visibility.

• CryptPad Zero-knowledge collaborative editing -- the server cannot read your document. 🇫🇷
• ONLYOFFICE Docs Collaborative editor you can self-host or use in the EU cloud. 🇱🇻
• Collabora Online Multi-user LibreOffice editing, deployable on your own hardware. 🇬🇧
• Nextcloud Office Docs inside your own Nextcloud, with the same share links you already use. 🇩🇪

Google Workspace 🇺🇸 non-EU

Mail, docs and drive for companies, hosted entirely by Google.

• Nextcloud Self-hosted or EU-hosted files, docs, talk, calendar and mail. 🇩🇪
• Open-Xchange Cologne groupware powering many European ISP mail platforms. 🇩🇪
• Twake Workplace LINAGORA's French open-source workplace suite. 🇫🇷
• Infomaniak kSuite Swiss full workplace suite (outside the default EU scope). 🇨🇭

Microsoft 365 / Office 🇺🇸 non-EU

Word, Excel and friends, now rented rather than owned.

• LibreOffice The Document Foundation's free desktop suite; opens and saves Microsoft formats. 🇩🇪
• ONLYOFFICE Riga-built suite with the best OOXML fidelity of the open-source options. 🇱🇻
• Collabora Online Cambridge-based LibreOffice-in-the-browser, self-hostable. 🇬🇧
• Nextcloud Office Documents, files and collaboration on your own server. 🇩🇪