• web browser

    Firefox is owned by the Mozilla Foundation, a US-based non-profit organisation.

    Tor provides access through a decentralised, encrypted network, providing anonymous browsing. Tor is owned by the Tor Project, a US-based non-profit organisation with thousands of volunteers.

    DuckDuckGo is an US-based company known for its privacy-focused search engine. DuckDuckGo does not track or store personal information from its users.

    MullVad is owned by Mullvad VPN AB, a company based in Sweden. It is known for its strong emphasis on privacy and security.

  • search engine

    DuckDuckGo is an US-based company known for its privacy-focused search engine. DuckDuckGo does not track or store personal information from its users. It uses its own crawler and is not based on Google or Bing.

    Good is a privacy-oriented non-profit search engine from Germany. It uses the Brave (US-based) search index. Good requires a small fee to provide an advertisement-free space.

  • web site development

    Joomla is an open source web site development and content management system supported by US-based Open Source Matters Inc.

    Webnode is owned by team.blue, a Belgian company focusing on online business for entrepreneurs

    Wordpress is owned by the Wordpress Foundation, a US based non-profit.

    Squarespace is an US-based public company

  • office suite

    LibreOffice is a desktop-based office suite. It is open source and owned by the Document Foundation, a German-based non-profit organisation of free software advocates.

    Cryptpad is an open-source browser-based, fully encrypted collaboration suite. It is developed by the French company XWiki.

  • email account

    Protonmail is part of a set of Proton services operated by Proton AG, a Swiss corporation whose primary shareholder is the non-profit Proton Foundation based in Switzerland.

    Runbox Solutions AS is an independent, employee-owned company based in Norway offering encrypted email and runs on renewables.

  • email client

    Protonmail is part of a set of Proton services operated by Proton AG, a Swiss corporation whose primary shareholder is the non-profit Proton Foundation based in Geneva, Switzerland.

    Thunderbird is owned by the Mozilla Foundation, a US-based non-profit organisation.

  • team collaboration

    Mattermost is an open-source, self-hostable online chat service with file sharing, search, and third-party application integrations. Mattermost is an US-based company.

    Infomaniak kChat is a Swiss-based team communication platform owned by Swiss cloud provider Infomaniak.

  • video conferencing

    Whereby is a product of Video Communication Service AS and parent company Videonor AS, both Norwegian companies.

    Livestorm is a France-based, publicly listed company.

  • messaging

    Signal is owned by the Signal Foundation, a US-based nonprofit organization focusing on developing open-source privacy technology to protect user communication

  • cloud services

    Jottacloud is a Norwegian company that owns its own datacentres and servers.

    Filen is a privately-owned encrypted cloud storage platform using their own servers in Germany. They don’t use Microsoft or Amazon-owned data centres.

  • project management

    Taiga is a Spain-based open-source project management software for cross-functional teams.

    Notion is a US-based private company owned by its employees and investors.

  • document storage

    Proton Drive is an encrypted storage and collaboration platform whose primary shareholder is the non-profit Proton Foundation based in Switzerland.

    Tresorit is an encrypted cloud storage platform owned by the Swiss Post, the state-owned national postal service.

    Dropbox is owned by a US-based public company.

  • VPNs

    Proton VPN is part of a set of Proton services operated by Proton AG, a Swiss corporation whose primary shareholder is the non-profit Proton Foundation based in Switzerland.

    MullVad is owned by Mullvad VPN AB, a company based in Sweden. It is known for its strong emphasis on privacy and security.

  • social media

    BlueSky is a US-based company owned by its CEO and other Bluesky Social employees

    Mastadon is open source and incorporated as a us-based non-profit organisation.

    Flashes is a photo sharing app based on your BlueSky account. It is an US-based company owned by its CEO and other Bluesky Social employees.

    Pixelfed is an open source, decentralised photo & video-sharing platform based in Canada.

  • social / professional networking

    Diaspora is a decentralised, non-profit, user-owned social network

    Hudd is a Norway-based social network focusing on strengthening local communities and privacy.

    Meetup is owned by a Spain-based company, but hosted in the US.

  • video sharing

    Vimeo is owned by an US-based public company

    Dailymotion is a French online video sharing platform owned by Canal+.

  • analytics

    Matamo is a New zealand-based company. The service can be self-hosted, is open source and provides 100% data ownership.

    Digistats is a Swiss-based web analytics service.

  • large language models (LLMs)

    Duck.ai is owned by DuckDuckGo, a US-based company known for its privacy-focused search engine. DuckDuckGo does not track or store personal information of its users.

  • translation

    Deepl is owned by a Germany company.