Results for “Germany”

Tommy Hilfiger & Calvin Klein 🇺🇸🇺🇸 US · non-EU

Two brands, one New York parent company.

• BOSS Metzingen, Germany. 🇩🇪
• Tiger of Sweden Stockholm tailoring. 🇸🇪
• Sandro Paris. 🇫🇷
• Lacoste French heritage, now under Swiss-based MF Brands. 🇨🇭

The North Face, Columbia & Patagonia 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 US · non-EU

American outdoor gear, on European mountains.

• Fjällräven Örnsköldsvik, 1960. G-1000 fabric, waxed not coated. 🇸🇪
• Jack Wolfskin Idstein, Germany. 🇩🇪
• VAUDE Tettnang. Climate-neutral in Germany, and audited about it. 🇩🇪
• Norrøna Norwegian since 1929, family-owned, lifetime warranty. 🇳🇴

Fanta & Sprite 🇺🇸🇺🇸 US · non-EU

Orange and lemon-lime, both Atlanta-owned.

• Almdudler Austria's national soft drink: alpine herbs, since 1957, still family-owned. 🇦🇹
• Sinalco Germany's oldest soft drink brand, 1902. 🇩🇪
• Bluna German orange soda with a cult following. 🇩🇪
• Fritz-limo Lemonades from the fritz-kola people, less sugar throughout. 🇩🇪

3M Post-it & Sharpie 🇺🇸🇺🇸 US · non-EU

Minnesota and Atlanta own the desk drawer.

• STABILO Heroldsberg. The BOSS highlighter is the original. 🇩🇪
• STAEDTLER Nuremberg, 1835. Still makes pencils in Germany. 🇩🇪
• Faber-Castell Stein, family-owned since 1761. 🇩🇪
• LAMY Heidelberg. The Safari fountain pen. 🇩🇪

Google Analytics 🇺🇸 US · non-EU

Free analytics, declared unlawful in several EU member states.

• Plausible Estonian, cookie-free, GDPR-compliant analytics in a single lightweight script. 🇪🇪
• Simple Analytics Amsterdam-hosted, no cookies, no personal data collected at all. 🇳🇱
• Pirsch German cookie-free analytics with a server-side integration option. 🇩🇪
• Matomo The classic self-hosted analytics suite; EU cloud hosted in Germany. 🇩🇪

Amazon 🇺🇸 US · non-EU

The everything store, and everyone's competitor.

• bol The Benelux marketplace, roughly Amazon's local equivalent. 🇳🇱
• OTTO Hamburg's century-old retailer, now Germany's number two marketplace. 🇩🇪
• Allegro Poland's dominant marketplace, older than Amazon itself. 🇵🇱
• Alza Czech electronics and general retailer across Central Europe. 🇨🇿

Gillette 🇺🇸 US · non-EU

The blade cartridge as a business model.

• MÜHLE Saxony since 1945. Safety razors and brushes, made in Germany. 🇩🇪
• Merkur Solingen. The 34C is the safety razor most people start with. 🇩🇪
• Edwin Jagger Sheffield. English razors and brushes. 🇬🇧
• Proraso Florence since 1948. The green tub. 🇮🇹

Heinz & Hellmann's-style US condiments 🇺🇸🇺🇸 US · non-EU

Pittsburgh decides what ketchup tastes like.

• Hela Ahrensburg. Curry ketchup is a German food group and Hela invented the good one. 🇩🇪
• Develey Bavarian family mustard and ketchup house since 1845. 🇩🇪
• Bautz'ner Saxon mustard. Eastern Germany will accept no substitute. 🇩🇪
• Amora Dijon mustard and French mayonnaise. 🇫🇷

Hanes & Fruit of the Loom 🇺🇸🇺🇸 US · non-EU

American blank tees, made wherever is cheapest.

• Trigema Burladingen. Everything made in Germany, and it says so loudly. 🇩🇪
• Stanley/Stella Brussels. Organic blanks with a published factory list. 🇧🇪
• Continental Clothing UK, Earth Positive carbon-neutral range. 🇬🇧
• Sanetta German children's basics since 1800. 🇩🇪

Victoria's Secret 🇺🇸 US · non-EU

An American brand with a complicated decade.

• Hunkemöller Amsterdam since 1886, Europe's largest lingerie chain. 🇳🇱
• Triumph Bad Zurzach, founded in Germany 1886. 🇨🇭
• sloggi Same group, and the everyday European default. 🇨🇭
• Etam Paris since 1916. 🇫🇷

Microsoft Azure 🇺🇸 US · non-EU

The enterprise cloud that came with the licence agreement.

• OVHcloud Full IaaS/PaaS stack with sovereign options in France and Germany. 🇫🇷
• IONOS Cloud German cloud with predictable pricing and EU-only operations. 🇩🇪
• StackIT Built for German enterprises with strict data residency needs. 🇩🇪
• Scaleway French cloud with a strong Kubernetes and serverless story. 🇫🇷

Tesla & Ford 🇺🇸🇺🇸 US · non-EU

American cars on European roads.

• Volkswagen Wolfsburg. ID series for electric. 🇩🇪
• BMW Munich. 🇩🇪
• Mercedes-Benz Stuttgart. 🇩🇪
• Renault Boulogne-Billancourt. The R5 E-Tech is built in France. 🇫🇷

Skittles & Starburst 🇺🇸🇺🇸 US · non-EU

Mars owns the pick-and-mix.

• HARIBO Bonn since 1920. Family-owned, and it invented the gummy bear. 🇩🇪
• Katjes Emmerich. All-vegetarian since 2016. 🇩🇪
• Trolli Fürth, Bavaria. 🇩🇪
• Fini Murcia, Spain's biggest sweet maker. 🇪🇸

DeWalt, Stanley Black & Decker 🇺🇸🇺🇸 US · non-EU

American power tools.

• Bosch Professional The blue ones. Stuttgart. 🇩🇪
• Festool Wendlingen. Expensive, and worth it if you do this for a living. 🇩🇪
• Metabo Nürtingen since 1924. 🇩🇪
• Hilti Schaan, Liechtenstein. Construction-grade everything. 🇱🇮

Weber 🇺🇸 US · non-EU

The kettle barbecue, from Illinois.

• LANDMANN Osterholz-Scharmbeck since 1966. 🇩🇪
• Outdoorchef Swiss, and the funnel design genuinely stops flare-ups. 🇨🇭
• RÖSLE Marktoberdorf. Stainless steel, made to last. 🇩🇪
• höfats Allgäu design studio; the Cube and Bowl are award winners. 🇩🇪

Airbnb 🇺🇸 US · non-EU

Short-term rentals, long-term housing debate.

• Booking.com Amsterdam-headquartered, and it lists apartments too. 🇳🇱
• HomeToGo Berlin metasearch across holiday rental providers. 🇩🇪
• Holidu Munich holiday rental search with local property managers. 🇩🇪
• Belvilla Dutch holiday home rental across Europe. 🇳🇱

Wayfair & Ashley Furniture 🇺🇸🇺🇸 US · non-EU

American furniture retail, shipped a long way.

• IKEA Älmhult, Sweden. You already know. 🇸🇪
• JYSK Danish, 3,000 stores across Europe. 🇩🇰
• home24 Berlin online furniture. 🇩🇪
• HAY Copenhagen design at reachable prices. 🇩🇰

Hasbro & Mattel 🇺🇸🇺🇸 US · non-EU

Rhode Island and California own the toy aisle.

• LEGO Billund, family-owned, and the largest toy company on earth. 🇩🇰
• Playmobil Zirndorf, Bavaria, since 1974. 🇩🇪
• Ravensburger Puzzles and board games since 1883. 🇩🇪
• Schleich Hand-painted figures, Schwäbisch Gmünd. 🇩🇪

Duracell & Energizer 🇺🇸🇺🇸 US · non-EU

Two American battery brands.

• VARTA Ellwangen, German battery maker since 1887. 🇩🇪
• ANSMANN Assamstadt. Rechargeables and chargers. 🇩🇪
• Jupio Dutch camera and device batteries. 🇳🇱

Trek, Specialized & Cannondale 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 US · non-EU

American bikes, in the continent that races them.

• Canyon Koblenz. Direct-to-consumer, which is why the prices work. 🇩🇪
• Cube Waldershof, Bavaria. 🇩🇪
• Bianchi Treviglio, 1885 — the oldest bicycle maker still in production. 🇮🇹
• Pinarello Treviso. Tour de France winners. 🇮🇹

Goodyear & Bridgestone 🇺🇸🇯🇵 US · JP · non-EU

American and Japanese rubber on European roads.

• Michelin Clermont-Ferrand since 1889, and it invented the radial tyre. 🇫🇷
• Continental Hanover since 1871. 🇩🇪
• Nokian Tyres Nokia, Finland — it invented the winter tyre in 1934. 🇫🇮
• Semperit Austrian, since 1824. 🇦🇹

Facebook 🇺🇸 US · non-EU

The original attention exchange.

• Mastodon Berlin non-profit; thousands of independent servers, one network. 🇩🇪
• Friendica Federated social network closest in shape to classic Facebook. 🇩🇪
• diaspora* The original decentralised social network, still running. 🇩🇪

Datadog 🇺🇸 US · non-EU

World-class observability, world-class invoice.

• Zabbix Latvian open-source monitoring, free and enterprise-grade. 🇱🇻
• Checkmk Munich-built monitoring with excellent auto-discovery. 🇩🇪
• Icinga German open-source monitoring with a strong plugin ecosystem. 🇩🇪

Zendesk 🇺🇸 US · non-EU

Support tickets as a subscription.

• Zammad German open-source helpdesk; self-host or use the EU cloud. 🇩🇪
• OTRS Long-established German service-management platform. 🇩🇪
• Userlike Cologne live chat and messaging built for GDPR compliance. 🇩🇪
• Crisp Nantes-built customer messaging with a generous free plan. 🇫🇷

Nike & Under Armour 🇺🇸🇺🇸 US · non-EU

Oregon and Baltimore, worn by most of Europe.

• adidas Herzogenaurach, Bavaria. The three stripes. 🇩🇪
• PUMA The same town, founded by the other brother. 🇩🇪
• Hummel Danish since 1923, and unusually vocal about ethics. 🇩🇰
• Joma Toledo, Spain. Football kit across southern Europe. 🇪🇸

Levi's & Wrangler 🇺🇸🇺🇸 US · non-EU

San Francisco and Greensboro invented the category and still own it.

• Nudie Jeans Gothenburg. Free repairs for life, and they mean it. 🇸🇪
• MUD Jeans Dutch. You can lease the jeans and send them back to be remade. 🇳🇱
• Kings of Indigo Amsterdam, organic and recycled denim. 🇳🇱
• ARMEDANGELS Cologne, fair-trade certified throughout. 🇩🇪

Fossil & Michael Kors watches 🇺🇸🇺🇸 US · non-EU

American fashion watches, assembled far away.

• Swatch Biel/Bienne. Swiss made, and the reason Swiss watchmaking survived the 1980s. 🇨🇭
• Junghans Schramberg, Black Forest. The Max Bill is a design classic. 🇩🇪
• NOMOS Glashütte Saxony. In-house movements at a fraction of Swiss prices. 🇩🇪
• Tissot Le Locle since 1853. 🇨🇭

Colgate & Crest 🇺🇸🇺🇸 US · non-EU

New York and Cincinnati own your bathroom shelf.

• Lacalut German pharmacy toothpaste, aluminium lactate. 🇩🇪
• Ajona Stuttgart. A concentrate — one tube lasts months. 🇩🇪
• Weleda Swiss, plant-based, no fluoride options. 🇨🇭
• lavera Hanover natural cosmetics, certified organic. 🇩🇪

Tupperware & Ziploc 🇺🇸🇺🇸 US · non-EU

American food storage.

• Brabantia Dutch since 1919, 10-year guarantees. 🇳🇱
• Mepal Lochem, Netherlands. Lunchboxes that survive schoolbags. 🇳🇱
• EMSA German, part of Groupe SEB. 🇩🇪
• Rosti Danish, the Margrethe bowl is a design classic. 🇩🇰

Whirlpool & KitchenAid 🇺🇸🇺🇸 US · non-EU

Michigan white goods.

• Miele Gütersloh, family-owned, tested to twenty years. 🇩🇪
• Bosch Stuttgart. The European default. 🇩🇪
• Siemens Same group as Bosch, different styling. 🇩🇪
• Smeg Guastalla, Emilia-Romagna. The pastel fridges. 🇮🇹

Outlook.com 🇺🇸 US · non-EU

Microsoft's consumer webmail, bundled into the Windows account.

• mailbox.org Drop-in IMAP/SMTP replacement with a full groupware suite. 🇩🇪
• Tuta Encrypted mailbox with its own apps on all platforms. 🇩🇪
• Infomaniak kMail Swiss mail with a generous free tier (outside the default EU scope). 🇨🇭
• Posteo Minimal, cheap, and audited German mail. 🇩🇪

Instagram 🇺🇸 US · non-EU

Photos, then videos, then whatever keeps you scrolling.

• Mastodon Chronological feeds, image posts, and no algorithm deciding your reach. 🇩🇪
• Friendica Federated albums and galleries with real privacy controls. 🇩🇪

Notion 🇺🇸 US · 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. 🇫🇷

Calendly 🇺🇸 US · 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 🇺🇸 US · 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. 🇪🇸

1Password 🇨🇦 CA · non-EU

Excellent password manager, North American vault.

• Passbolt Luxembourg open-source team password manager, self-hostable. 🇱🇺
• Psono German open-source password manager built for teams. 🇩🇪
• Uniqkey Danish enterprise password and access management. 🇩🇰
• heylogin Braunschweig-built manager that replaces the master password with your phone. 🇩🇪

Google Photos 🇺🇸 US · non-EU

Face recognition on your family album, hosted abroad.

• PhotoPrism German self-hosted AI photo library; recognition runs on your own machine. 🇩🇪
• Nextcloud Photos Photo backup from your phone into storage you own. 🇩🇪
• Cryptee Estonian encrypted photo and document vault. 🇪🇪
• Filen Encrypted photo backup with automatic camera upload. 🇩🇪

Salesforce 🇺🇸 US · non-EU

CRM as a way of life, licensed per seat per month.

• SAP Sales Cloud Walldorf's CRM, integrated with the ERP most of European industry runs. 🇩🇪
• Odoo CRM Belgian open-source business suite; CRM is one module of many. 🇧🇪
• Pipedrive Estonian sales CRM built around the pipeline view. 🇪🇪
• Efficy Brussels CRM group serving mid-market European companies. 🇧🇪

Temu / Shein / AliExpress 🇨🇳 CN · non-EU

Very cheap, very far away, very much under DSA investigation.

• Allegro Polish marketplace with EU consumer protection actually applying. 🇵🇱
• Alza Czech retailer with real warranties and local returns. 🇨🇿
• OTTO German marketplace with vetted sellers. 🇩🇪
• eMAG Romanian marketplace covering South-Eastern Europe. 🇷🇴

Headspace / Calm 🇺🇸 US · non-EU

Mindfulness by subscription, mental-health data abroad.

• 7Mind Berlin meditation app, partly reimbursed by German health insurers. 🇩🇪
• Petit BamBou French meditation with the largest francophone library. 🇫🇷
• Balloon German guided meditation and sleep courses. 🇩🇪
• Meditopia Istanbul-built meditation in 10+ languages. 🇹🇷

Dasani & Aquafina 🇺🇸🇺🇸 US · non-EU

Bottled tap water with an American logo on it.

• Gerolsteiner Volcanic Eifel spring, exceptionally mineral-rich. 🇩🇪
• Mattoni Karlovy Vary mineral water, Czech since 1873. 🇨🇿
• Evian Filtered for fifteen years through the French Alps. 🇫🇷
• San Pellegrino The sparkling one from Lombardy. 🇮🇹

Pringles & Lay's 🇺🇸🇺🇸 US · non-EU

Kellanova and PepsiCo own the crisp shelf.

• funny-frisch German crisps from Intersnack, since 1965. 🇩🇪
• Chio Also Intersnack. The tortilla chips are the good ones. 🇩🇪
• Croky Belgian crisps, paprika flavour is a national position. 🇧🇪
• Estrella Swedish, and the dill flavour makes sense once you try it. 🇸🇪

Pampers & Huggies 🇺🇸🇺🇸 US · non-EU

Procter & Gamble and Kimberly-Clark own the nappy aisle.

• Bambo Nature Danish, Nordic Swan ecolabelled, dermatologically tested. 🇩🇰
• Libero Swedish, from Essity. The Nordic default. 🇸🇪
• Naty Swedish, plant-based materials, no plastic against the skin. 🇸🇪
• LILLYDOO Frankfurt subscription nappies, free of chlorine bleaching. 🇩🇪

Tampax & Always 🇺🇸🇺🇸 US · non-EU

Two Procter & Gamble brands, one aisle.

• einhorn Berlin, organic cotton, and unusually funny packaging. 🇩🇪
• The Female Company Stuttgart, organic cotton, plastic-free. 🇩🇪
• Natracare Bristol since 1989 — the original organic option. 🇬🇧
• Organyc Bologna, 100% certified organic cotton. 🇮🇹

Trello 🇺🇸 US · 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. 🇪🇸

WhatsApp 🇺🇸 US · non-EU

Encrypted messages, unencrypted metadata, owned by Meta.

• Olvid French messenger with no server-side directory at all; certified by ANSSI. 🇫🇷
• Element Matrix messaging with encrypted DMs and no phone number required. 🇬🇧
• Wire Berlin-based encrypted messenger, popular in the public sector. 🇩🇪
• Delta Chat Chat over ordinary email; works with any mailbox, no new account. 🇩🇪

Zoom 🇺🇸 US · non-EU

The verb that ate video conferencing.

• Tixeo The only video conferencing tool certified and qualified by France's ANSSI. 🇫🇷
• alfaview German conferencing built for hundreds of simultaneous participants. 🇩🇪
• Livestorm Paris-built browser-based webinars and meetings. 🇫🇷
• Nextcloud Talk Meetings hosted on your own server, no accounts for guests. 🇩🇪

X (Twitter) 🇺🇸 US · non-EU

The town square, under new and volatile management.

• Mastodon Federated microblogging, German non-profit stewardship, no ads. 🇩🇪
• Friendica Talks to Mastodon and the rest of the fediverse. 🇩🇪

Slack 🇺🇸 US · non-EU

Workplace chat, owned by Salesforce, priced per person per month.

• Element London-based Matrix client used by the French and German governments. 🇬🇧
• Stackfield Munich team collaboration with end-to-end encryption, German servers. 🇩🇪
• Nextcloud Talk Chat and calls built into your own Nextcloud. 🇩🇪
• Twake French open-source Slack-style workspace. 🇫🇷

Microsoft Teams 🇺🇸 US · non-EU

The chat app that arrived whether you asked for it or not.

• Element Matrix-based, federated, self-hostable, sovereign-ready. 🇬🇧
• Nextcloud Talk Chat, calls and screen sharing on infrastructure you control. 🇩🇪
• Stackfield German alternative combining chat, tasks and files. 🇩🇪
• alfaview Karlsruhe video conferencing built for large organisations. 🇩🇪

Google Forms / SurveyMonkey 🇺🇸 US · 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. 🇩🇪

LastPass 🇺🇸 US · non-EU

The password manager with the memorable breach.

• Passbolt Open source, auditable, and hostable inside your own network. 🇱🇺
• Psono German-hosted or self-hosted vault with granular sharing. 🇩🇪
• KeePass No cloud at all -- an encrypted file you sync however you like. 🇩🇪
• Uniqkey Danish manager aimed at regulated European businesses. 🇩🇰

Google Search 🇺🇸 US · non-EU

Ninety percent of European search, one American company.

• Qwant French search with its own crawler; no tracking, no profiling. 🇫🇷
• Ecosia Berlin non-profit; ad revenue plants trees. Now builds its own index with Qwant. 🇩🇪
• Startpage Dutch anonymised search, plus a proxy that opens results privately. 🇳🇱
• Mojeek Brighton-built independent crawler and index -- genuinely not a Bing wrapper. 🇬🇧

Grammarly 🇺🇸 US · non-EU

A US keylogger with excellent manners.

• LanguageTool Potsdam-built proofreader for 30+ languages; self-hostable. 🇩🇪
• DeepL Write German AI writing assistant from the DeepL team. 🇩🇪
• Scribbr Dutch academic proofreading and citation tooling. 🇳🇱

GoDaddy 🇺🇸 US · non-EU

Domains, plus eleven upsells before checkout.

• Gandi French registrar since 1999, no bullshit, free SSL and mailboxes. 🇫🇷
• INWX German registrar with excellent API and 300+ TLDs. 🇩🇪
• OVHcloud Domains, DNS and hosting from Europe's largest hoster. 🇫🇷
• Hostinger Lithuanian registrar and hoster with aggressive pricing. 🇱🇹

Cloudflare 🇺🇸 US · non-EU

The reverse proxy that sees roughly a fifth of the web.

• Bunny.net Slovenian CDN that is fast, cheap and genuinely pleasant to configure. 🇸🇮
• Gcore Luxembourg CDN, edge compute and DDoS protection. 🇱🇺
• CDN77 Czech CDN with a strong European and streaming footprint. 🇨🇿
• Myra Security German BSI-certified DDoS protection and WAF. 🇩🇪

QuickBooks 🇺🇸 US · non-EU

Intuit's books, with US tax logic bolted on.

• Sage Newcastle-founded accounting, the European incumbent for SMEs. 🇬🇧
• Odoo Accounting Open-source accounting with localisations for most EU countries. 🇧🇪
• Pennylane French accounting platform built with accountants, not against them. 🇫🇷
• Fortnox Sweden's dominant cloud accounting platform. 🇸🇪

Okta / Auth0 🇺🇸 US · non-EU

Single sign-on, single foreign dependency.

• Ory Munich open-source identity infrastructure; self-host or EU cloud. 🇩🇪
• Univention Corporate Server Bremen-built identity and domain management for the public sector. 🇩🇪
• IDnow Munich identity verification meeting German regulatory standards. 🇩🇪
• ZITADEL Swiss open-source identity platform (outside the default EU scope). 🇨🇭

AutoCAD 🇺🇸 US · non-EU

The DWG format is the lock-in.

• BricsCAD Ghent-built CAD that reads and writes DWG natively; perpetual licences. 🇧🇪
• Archicad Budapest's Graphisoft, the original BIM authoring tool. 🇭🇺
• Allplan Nemetschek's Munich BIM suite for architecture and engineering. 🇩🇪
• CATIA / SOLIDWORKS Dassault Systemes' French engineering platform. 🇫🇷

Sonos / Bose 🇺🇸 US · non-EU

Speakers that need an app, an account and a firmware update.

• Teufel Berlin direct-sale speakers with a cult following and honest pricing. 🇩🇪
• Bang & Olufsen Danish design audio with genuinely long product support. 🇩🇰
• Devialet French amplification and speaker engineering. 🇫🇷
• Loewe German audio and television, built in Kronach. 🇩🇪

Duolingo 🇺🇸 US · non-EU

Gamified language learning, increasingly AI-generated.

• Babbel Berlin-built courses written by actual linguists for European learners. 🇩🇪
• Busuu London platform combining lessons with native-speaker correction. 🇬🇧
• Lingoda Berlin live classes with real teachers, small groups. 🇩🇪
• Mondly Romanian-built app with 40+ languages and VR lessons. 🇷🇴

Tinder / Hinge 🇺🇸 US · non-EU

One US conglomerate owns most of the apps you have tried.

• LOVOO Dresden-built dating app, big in German-speaking Europe. 🇩🇪
• Parship Hamburg matchmaking based on a psychological compatibility model. 🇩🇪
• Jaumo German independent dating app, no US parent company. 🇩🇪
• Breeze Dutch app that skips chatting and just books you a date. 🇳🇱

Keurig & Dunkin' 🇺🇸🇺🇸 US · non-EU

American pod coffee and American drip.

• Nespresso Swiss, with an aluminium capsule that Europe actually recycles. 🇨🇭
• Tchibo Cafissimo German capsule system, cheaper per cup. 🇩🇪
• Lavazza A Modo Mio Italian capsules, compostable options. 🇮🇹
• illy iperEspresso Two-stage capsule, genuinely better crema. 🇮🇹

Celestial Seasonings & Bigelow 🇺🇸🇺🇸 US · non-EU

American herbal tea.

• Teekanne Düsseldorf since 1882, and it invented the tea bag as we know it. 🇩🇪
• Yogi Tea Hamburg-based, organic ayurvedic blends. 🇩🇪
• SONNENTOR Waldviertel, Austria. Organic, and unusually transparent about growers. 🇦🇹
• Pukka Bristol organic herbal teas, B-Corp certified. 🇬🇧

Monster & Rockstar 🇺🇸🇺🇸 US · non-EU

American energy drinks — though the category's inventor is Austrian.

• Red Bull Austrian, and the company that invented the category in 1987. 🇦🇹
• HELL Energy Hungarian, and the volume leader across Central Europe. 🇭🇺
• Tiger Polish energy drink, dominant at home. 🇵🇱
• Booster German energy drink at supermarket prices. 🇩🇪

Lululemon & Athleta 🇨🇦🇺🇸 CA · US · non-EU

North American yoga wear at North American prices.

• Odlo Swiss, and the inventor of the modern sports base layer in 1946. 🇨🇭
• Casall Stockholm, training wear and equipment since 1984. 🇸🇪
• Björn Borg Swedish sport and underwear. 🇸🇪
• FALKE Schmallenberg. The sports socks are the quiet standout. 🇩🇪

Timberland, Merrell & Crocs 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 US · non-EU

American footwear for European terrain.

• Birkenstock German since 1774, and the actual original of the shape. 🇩🇪
• MEINDL Kirchanschöring, boots since 1683. Resoleable. 🇩🇪
• LOWA Jetzendorf, Bavaria. Still made in Europe. 🇩🇪
• SCARPA Asolo, Veneto. Mountaineering boots. 🇮🇹

Away & Tumi 🇺🇸🇺🇸 US · non-EU

American suitcases with a marketing budget.

• RIMOWA Cologne since 1898. The grooved aluminium case. 🇩🇪
• Delsey Paris since 1946. 🇫🇷
• Roncato Padua, family-owned, made in Italy. 🇮🇹
• TITAN German, part of Bavarian maker Schaumann. 🇩🇪

Philadelphia & Kraft cheese 🇺🇸🇺🇸 US · non-EU

American processed cheese, in the dairy aisle of Europe.

• Almette Hochland, Bavaria. Whipped, and much lighter. 🇩🇪
• Exquisa Karwendel, Bavarian family dairy since 1932. 🇩🇪
• Buko Danish cream cheese from Arla, the farmer-owned cooperative. 🇩🇰
• Boursin Normandy garlic-and-herb, invented 1957. 🇫🇷

Reddit 🇺🇸 US · non-EU

Forums, aggregated -- and now API-gated.

• Lemmy Federated link aggregator; subscribe across servers, no single owner. 🇩🇪

Jira 🇦🇺 AU · 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. 🇪🇸

Zapier 🇺🇸 US · 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. 🇩🇪

Amazon Web Services 🇺🇸 US · non-EU

The default cloud, and the default lock-in.

• Hetzner German servers at prices that make US clouds look like a rounding error. 🇩🇪
• OVHcloud Europe's largest hoster, with full sovereign-cloud offerings. 🇫🇷
• Scaleway French cloud with managed Kubernetes, object storage and GPUs. 🇫🇷
• IONOS Cloud German enterprise cloud with ISO-certified EU data centres. 🇩🇪

HubSpot 🇺🇸 US · non-EU

Free CRM, expensive marketing hub.

• Brevo Paris marketing and CRM platform with EU data residency. 🇫🇷
• Efficy European CRM with marketing automation built in. 🇧🇪
• Odoo CRM, marketing, invoicing and site builder in one open suite. 🇧🇪
• weclapp German all-in-one for sales, stock and invoicing. 🇩🇪

Shopify 🇨🇦 CA · non-EU

The easiest way to build a shop you do not own.

• Shopware German e-commerce platform used across European mid-market retail. 🇩🇪
• PrestaShop French open-source shop software with a huge module ecosystem. 🇫🇷
• Spryker Berlin headless commerce for complex B2B and B2C models. 🇩🇪
• Sylius Polish Symfony-based headless commerce framework. 🇵🇱

Mailchimp 🇺🇸 US · non-EU

Newsletters, now an Intuit product.

• Brevo French email, SMS and automation platform with EU-only hosting. 🇫🇷
• CleverReach German newsletter tool built around GDPR from the start. 🇩🇪
• MailerLite Vilnius-built, clean editor, very good free tier. 🇱🇹
• rapidmail Freiburg newsletter service with German servers and support. 🇩🇪

Canva 🇦🇺 AU · non-EU

Design for people who do not design.

• Penpot Spanish open-source design and prototyping in the browser. 🇪🇸
• Photoroom French AI-assisted design for social and product imagery. 🇫🇷
• Freepik Malaga stock, templates and AI generation in one subscription. 🇪🇸
• Linearity Curve Berlin design tool with templates and animation. 🇩🇪

Dell / HP / MacBook 🇺🇸 US · non-EU

Laptops assembled far away, supported from a call centre.

• TUXEDO Computers Augsburg-built Linux laptops with their own firmware and support. 🇩🇪
• SCHENKER / XMG German configurable laptops and workstations. 🇩🇪
• Slimbook Spanish Linux-first laptops in partnership with KDE and Kubuntu. 🇪🇸
• NovaCustom Dutch laptops shipping with coreboot and Dasharo firmware. 🇳🇱

Microsoft Windows 🇺🇸 US · non-EU

The desktop, with telemetry and a Microsoft account requirement.

• Ubuntu Canonical's London-run distribution; the most common Linux desktop. 🇬🇧
• openSUSE German-rooted distribution with the excellent YaST admin tooling. 🇩🇪
• Zorin OS Dublin-built and deliberately designed to feel like Windows. 🇮🇪
• Linux Mint The friendliest landing spot for someone leaving Windows. 🇮🇪

Tripadvisor 🇺🇸 US · non-EU

Reviews, ranked by an algorithm with commercial interests.

• HolidayCheck German reviews where only verified bookers can post. 🇩🇪
• Zoover Dutch holiday reviews and weather data. 🇳🇱

Miller, Coors & Samuel Adams 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 US · non-EU

American mass-market lager.

• Budweiser Budvar České Budějovice, state-owned, and the original claim to the name. 🇨🇿
• Augustiner-Bräu Munich's oldest brewery, 1328, and still the locals' choice. 🇩🇪
• Warsteiner Sauerland family brewery since 1753. 🇩🇪
• Heineken Amsterdam, 1864. 🇳🇱

Wrigley's Extra & Orbit 🇺🇸🇺🇸 US · non-EU

Chicago owns the checkout counter.

• Mentos Perfetti Van Melle, Breda — Dutch-Italian and family-owned. 🇳🇱
• Vivident Italian gum, same group as Mentos. 🇮🇹
• Fisherman's Friend Fleetwood, Lancashire, since 1865. Still family-owned. 🇬🇧
• Ricola Swiss herbal drops from thirteen Alpine herbs. 🇨🇭

Kellogg's & General Mills 🇺🇸🇺🇸 US · non-EU

American breakfast, exported with the sugar included.

• Kölln Elmshorn since 1795. Oats, done properly. 🇩🇪
• Jordans Bedfordshire, farm-sourced granola and muesli. 🇬🇧
• Brüggen Lübeck family mill, supplies half of Europe's own-brand muesli. 🇩🇪
• Dr. Oetker Vitalis Bielefeld. The muesli that actually tastes of nuts. 🇩🇪

Gatorade & Powerade 🇺🇸🇺🇸 US · non-EU

American sports hydration.

• Isostar Swiss, and the original European isotonic drink from 1977. 🇨🇭
• Dextro Energy German glucose sports nutrition since 1927. 🇩🇪
• SPONSER Swiss sports nutrition used across professional cycling. 🇨🇭
• HIGH5 UK endurance nutrition, informed-sport tested. 🇬🇧

Procter & Gamble cleaning brands 🇺🇸🇺🇸 US · non-EU

Ariel, Fairy, Lenor, Flash — one Cincinnati company.

• Henkel (Persil) Düsseldorf since 1876. Persil, Pril, Somat, Bref. 🇩🇪
• Frosch Werner & Mertz, Mainz. Recycled bottles, plant-based surfactants. 🇩🇪
• Ecover Malle, Belgium. The original green cleaning brand. 🇧🇪
• Sonett Baden-Württemberg, fully biodegradable, no enzymes. 🇩🇪

Instant Pot & Crock-Pot 🇺🇸🇺🇸 US · non-EU

American countertop cooking.

• Krups Solingen, now part of Groupe SEB. 🇩🇪
• Tefal French, and the inventor of the non-stick pan. 🇫🇷
• WMF Geislingen since 1853. Pressure cookers that outlive their owners. 🇩🇪
• Moulinex French, the Cookeo is the direct Instant Pot rival. 🇫🇷

Campbell's 🇺🇸 US · non-EU

The soup can Warhol painted.

• Erasco Lübeck since 1931 — the German soup standard. 🇩🇪
• Maggi Swiss since 1872; the seasoning bottle is a European fixture. 🇨🇭
• Vitana Czech soups and seasonings since 1902. 🇨🇿
• Liebig French soups, part of Continental Foods. 🇫🇷

DiGiorno & Totino's 🇺🇸🇺🇸 US · non-EU

American frozen pizza. In Europe. Yes.

• Dr. Oetker Ristorante Bielefeld. Europe's frozen pizza benchmark. 🇩🇪
• Wagner Saarland family business, Steinofen range. 🇩🇪
• Gustavo Gusto Munich upstart with a genuinely good crust. 🇩🇪
• Buitoni Italian heritage, Nestlé-owned, made in Europe. 🇨🇭

Purina & Pedigree 🇺🇸🇺🇸 US · non-EU

Two American groups feed most of Europe's cats and dogs.

• Josera Bavarian family mill since 1942, makes everything itself. 🇩🇪
• Edgard & Cooper Bruges-based, fresh meat first, compostable packaging. 🇧🇪
• Brit Czech maker with its own factory and vet nutrition range. 🇨🇿
• Yarrah Dutch organic pet food, certified since 1992. 🇳🇱

Gmail 🇺🇸 US · non-EU

Google's free webmail, paid for with your inbox contents.

• Tuta End-to-end encrypted mail and calendar from Hanover; free tier available. 🇩🇪
• mailbox.org Berlin-run mail, calendar and office suite on green electricity. 🇩🇪
• Posteo One EUR per month, anonymous payment accepted, no ads, ever. 🇩🇪
• StartMail Dutch privacy mail from the makers of Startpage, with unlimited aliases. 🇳🇱

Dropbox 🇺🇸 US · non-EU

The folder that started cloud sync, still US-hosted.

• Nextcloud The closest full replacement, with desktop sync clients that behave the same. 🇩🇪
• Koofr Straightforward paid EU storage with lifetime plans. 🇸🇮
• Filen Encrypted sync where the provider genuinely cannot read your files. 🇩🇪
• Internxt Spanish encrypted drive with a free tier. 🇪🇸

Apple Music / Amazon Music 🇺🇸 US · non-EU

Streaming bundled into a hardware ecosystem.

• Deezer Paris streaming, and the first to pilot artist-centric royalties. 🇫🇷
• Qobuz French hi-res audio streaming and purchase, best-in-class sound quality. 🇫🇷
• IDAGIO Berlin service built properly for classical music. 🇩🇪
• Spotify Stockholm-built and still the largest European tech consumer product. 🇸🇪

Netflix 🇺🇸 US · non-EU

Streaming's incumbent, now with adverts.

• MUBI London-based curated arthouse cinema, hand-picked rather than algorithmic. 🇬🇧
• ARTE Free, ad-free European culture, documentaries and drama. 🇫🇷
• Filmin Spanish independent and European film streaming. 🇪🇸
• Viaplay Nordic streaming with strong Scandinavian originals and sport. 🇸🇪

Figma 🇺🇸 US · non-EU

Collaborative design, single point of failure.

• Penpot The credible open-source Figma alternative; self-host the whole thing. 🇪🇸
• Linearity Curve German vector design with strong prototyping and export. 🇩🇪

Adobe Photoshop 🇺🇸 US · non-EU

The industry standard, now rented monthly forever.

• Affinity Photo Nottingham-built professional editor; one purchase, no subscription. 🇬🇧
• Krita Dutch foundation's free painting and illustration studio. 🇳🇱
• darktable German open-source RAW workflow, a real Lightroom replacement. 🇩🇪
• Photopea Czech browser-based editor that opens PSD files directly. 🇨🇿

Wix / Squarespace 🇮🇱 IL · non-EU

Drag-and-drop sites you cannot take with you.

• Jimdo Hamburg website builder aimed at small businesses, GDPR-native. 🇩🇪
• Webnode Brno-built multilingual site builder. 🇨🇿
• IONOS MyWebsite German builder bundled with hosting and domains. 🇩🇪
• Sitejet German builder made for agencies managing many client sites. 🇩🇪

iPhone / Samsung Galaxy 🇺🇸 US · non-EU

Premium phones, none of them made here.

• Fairphone Amsterdam-built modular, repairable phone with an 8-year support promise. 🇳🇱
• HMD Espoo-based maker of Nokia phones, including repairable models. 🇫🇮
• SHIFTPHONE German repairable phones with a deposit-return scheme. 🇩🇪
• Nothing London design-led Android phones. 🇬🇧

Android / iOS 🇺🇸 US · non-EU

Two American companies, one duopoly, every European pocket.

• /e/OS by Murena French de-Googled Android, shipped on phones you can just buy. 🇫🇷
• Sailfish OS Jolla's Finnish mobile OS, with EU sovereignty as an explicit goal. 🇫🇮
• Ubuntu Touch UBports Foundation's convergent mobile Linux. 🇳🇱
• postmarketOS German-led project keeping old phones alive on real Linux. 🇩🇪

Expedia / Kayak 🇺🇸 US · non-EU

US travel conglomerates wearing many brand names.

• eDreams ODIGEO Barcelona-listed flight booking across Opodo, GoVoyages and eDreams. 🇪🇸
• Kiwi.com Brno-built virtual interlining -- routes no airline would sell you. 🇨🇿
• Omio Berlin multi-modal search across trains, buses and flights. 🇩🇪
• Trainline London rail booking covering most European operators. 🇬🇧

Uber 🇺🇸 US · non-EU

Ride-hailing, and a long European court record.

• Bolt Tallinn-built ride-hailing, scooters and food across 45 countries. 🇪🇪
• FREENOW Hamburg platform that mostly dispatches licensed taxis. 🇩🇪
• Heetch French ride-hailing focused on the suburbs the others skip. 🇫🇷
• Liftago Czech taxi app with transparent driver pricing. 🇨🇿

Starbucks 🇺🇸 US · non-EU

Seattle's idea of what a European café is.

• Lavazza Turin, family-owned since 1895, still Italy's coffee. 🇮🇹
• illy Trieste. One blend, obsessively made. 🇮🇹
• Tchibo Hamburg. Coffee, plus an inexplicable weekly range of other goods. 🇩🇪
• Julius Meinl Viennese since 1862, and the coffee house tradition to go with it. 🇦🇹

Oreo & Chips Ahoy 🇺🇸🇺🇸 US · non-EU

Mondelez biscuits, everywhere.

• Bahlsen Hanover since 1889, still family-owned. Leibniz butter biscuits. 🇩🇪
• Lotus Biscoff The speculoos from Lembeke that conquered coffee saucers worldwide. 🇧🇪
• Delacre Belgian biscuits since 1891. 🇧🇪
• Griesson - de Beukelaer German family biscuit maker. 🇩🇪

Gap, Abercrombie & Ralph Lauren 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 US · non-EU

American high street, imported wholesale.

• COS Stockholm. H&M's grown-up label. 🇸🇪
• ARKET Also H&M, Nordic and durable. 🇸🇪
• Massimo Dutti Inditex, Galicia. 🇪🇸
• MANGO Barcelona. 🇪🇸

Converse, Vans & New Balance 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 US · non-EU

The casual sneaker canon, all American-owned.

• VEJA Paris. Wild rubber, organic cotton, no advertising budget at all. 🇫🇷
• Superga Turin, 1911. The 2750 is the original. 🇮🇹
• Novesta Partizánske, Slovakia. Vulcanised by hand since 1939. 🇸🇰
• Camper Mallorca, family-run for four generations. 🇪🇸

Johnson & Johnson, Neutrogena & Olay 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 US · non-EU

American skincare, in a continent full of pharmacies.

• NIVEA Beiersdorf, Hamburg, 1911. The blue tin. 🇩🇪
• La Roche-Posay French thermal spring water, dermatologist-standard. 🇫🇷
• Avène Pierre Fabre, made at the spring in the Cévennes. 🇫🇷
• Bioderma Lyon. Sensibio micellar water is the category original. 🇫🇷

iRobot Roomba & Shark 🇺🇸🇺🇸 US · non-EU

American robot vacuums that map your home.

• Vorwerk Kobold Wuppertal since 1883, sold door to door and repaired for decades. 🇩🇪
• Kärcher Winnenden. The yellow machines, and a robot range. 🇩🇪
• Miele Scout Gütersloh, built to the same twenty-year standard. 🇩🇪
• Rowenta Groupe SEB, France. 🇫🇷

Casper & Tempur 🇺🇸🇺🇸 US · non-EU

Bed-in-a-box, American edition.

• Emma Frankfurt. Europe's biggest direct-to-consumer mattress brand. 🇩🇪
• bett1 BODYGUARD Berlin, and repeatedly Stiftung Warentest's top pick. 🇩🇪
• Dormeo Slovenian, sold across central Europe. 🇸🇮
• Hypnia French, made in Europe, 120-night trial. 🇫🇷

Discord 🇺🇸 US · non-EU

Communities and voice chat, in a walled garden with a data appetite.

• Element Matrix spaces do communities, voice and video, across federated servers. 🇬🇧
• Revolt UK-built open-source Discord-alike, self-hostable. 🇬🇧
• Mumble Low-latency open-source voice chat, still unbeaten for gaming. 🇩🇪
• Nextcloud Talk Private group calls without an account on someone else's platform. 🇩🇪

Google Drive 🇺🇸 US · non-EU

Fifteen free gigabytes with a US jurisdiction attached.

• Nextcloud Self-host it, or pick from dozens of EU providers; files, calendar and more. 🇩🇪
• Filen German zero-knowledge encrypted storage with clients on every platform. 🇩🇪
• Internxt Valencia-based end-to-end encrypted drive, photos and file sharing. 🇪🇸
• Koofr Slovenian storage that can also mount your existing Drive and Dropbox. 🇸🇮

Google Chrome 🇺🇸 US · non-EU

The browser that decides what the web standard is.

• Mullvad Browser Swedish anti-fingerprinting browser built with the Tor Project. 🇸🇪
• Waterfox UK-maintained Firefox fork with telemetry removed and legacy add-ons kept. 🇬🇧
• Ghostery Private Browser Munich-based tracker blocking, built into the browser. 🇩🇪
• Vivaldi Norwegian power-user browser (outside the default EU scope). 🇳🇴

GitHub 🇺🇸 US · non-EU

Where the world's code lives, owned by Microsoft.

• Codeberg German non-profit Git hosting, free for open source, no AI training. 🇩🇪
• Forgejo The software behind Codeberg; run your own forge in minutes. 🇩🇪
• SourceHut Amsterdam-based minimalist forge with excellent CI and mailing-list workflows. 🇳🇱