Productivity & Office

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. 🇩🇪

Calendly 🇺🇸 non-EU

Booking links, plus your calendar handed to a US SaaS.

• TIMIFY Munich appointment scheduling for teams and multi-site businesses. 🇩🇪
• cituro German online booking with GDPR-compliant hosting. 🇩🇪
• etermin Austrian booking platform with resource management. 🇦🇹
• Nextcloud Appointments Booking pages generated straight from your own calendar. 🇩🇪

DocuSign 🇺🇸 non-EU

Signatures in the cloud, evidence in San Francisco.

• Yousign French eIDAS-qualified signature provider, data stored in the EU. 🇫🇷
• Namirial Italian qualified trust service provider across the EU. 🇮🇹
• Dokobit Lithuanian signing that speaks every Baltic and Nordic eID. 🇱🇹
• Signaturit Spanish qualified electronic signature and identification. 🇪🇸

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 Forms / SurveyMonkey 🇺🇸 non-EU

Free surveys, with respondents' answers stored abroad.

• Typeform Barcelona-built conversational forms with excellent completion rates. 🇪🇸
• Tally Ghent-built forms that work like a document; very generous free tier. 🇧🇪
• LimeSurvey Hamburg open-source survey platform, self-hostable for research use. 🇩🇪
• Formbricks Kiel open-source survey and experience management. 🇩🇪

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). 🇨🇭

Jira 🇦🇺 non-EU

Issue tracking that becomes the process.

• OpenProject Berlin open-source project management; classic, agile and Gantt. 🇩🇪
• Tuleap French ALM suite covering requirements, tracking, code and test. 🇫🇷
• YouTrack JetBrains' Prague-built issue tracker, self-hostable. 🇨🇿
• Taiga Lightweight agile boards and backlogs. 🇪🇸

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. 🇩🇪

Notion 🇺🇸 non-EU

The everything-document, stored on someone else's everything-server.

• Zenkit Karlsruhe suite of docs, tables, boards and mind maps. 🇩🇪
• Nuclino Berlin-built fast, lightweight team wiki. 🇩🇪
• Nextcloud Notes & Deck Notes, kanban and files on infrastructure you own. 🇩🇪
• CryptPad Encrypted docs, kanban and whiteboards, no account required. 🇫🇷

Trello 🇺🇸 non-EU

Cards on boards, owned by Atlassian.

• MeisterTask Munich kanban with the nicest board UX in Europe. 🇩🇪
• Zenkit Same data, viewable as board, list, table, calendar or mind map. 🇩🇪
• awork Hamburg project management for agencies and teams. 🇩🇪
• Taiga Spanish open-source agile project management, self-hostable. 🇪🇸

Zapier 🇺🇸 non-EU

Glue for your SaaS, with your credentials in the middle.

• n8n Berlin-built fair-code automation you can self-host completely. 🇩🇪
• Make Prague-born visual automation, formerly Integromat. 🇨🇿
• Locoia German integration and automation platform for mid-market IT. 🇩🇪