European alternatives for popular services

Slack is one of the most widely used team chat services in the world. It provides a free plan where the number of messages that can be seen in the chat history is limited.

NordVPN is one of the most popular VPN services which over 5000 servers around the world.

Gmail is a free email provider by Google. Google also offers a paid email service as part of the Google Workspace.

LogRocket combines session replay, performance monitoring, and product analytics.

The Google Public DNS is a free DNS service from Google.

Google is the biggest search engine in the world, from the USA-based company Alphabet.

Microsoft Teams is a business communication service with chat, audio and video call features. It it also has special features for the use in classrooms.

Sentry is an error tracking service. It is open source, but also has a hosted service.

Monitor user experience and performance across system, apps and services.

Cloudflare provides CDN and DDOS protection services.

Google Maps is one of the most popular navigation apps worldwide.

Amazon Web Services is one of the biggest cloud services in the world. They offer a wide range of services like on-demand servers (f.e. EC2), storage (S3), managed services like databases (RDS) and many more.

Google Analytics is a free and widely used web analytics platform. It integrates well in with other Google marketing products like Google Ads. Google Analytics can also be used to track users of iOS and Android applications.

Dropbox is probably the most well-known file hosting service. It provides apps for iOS, Android, Windows, Mac and Linux.

Google Translate is a free translation service that supports many languages. With this service it is not only possible to have normal texts translated automatically, but also documents and entire websites.

Google Cloud Platform, short GCP, is one of the biggest cloud platforms in the world. It offers countless services, like the standard cloud services like virtual servers, managed databases, DNS, managed kubernetes and object storage, but also more advanced services like serverless computing.

Microsoft Azure is one of the largest cloud platforms in the world. It offers all the standard services that the big other cloud providers also offer, such as virtual servers, managed databases, object storage, CDN, etc.. One advantage is that since the service is from microsoft it integrates well with existing microsoft products.

Microsoft Bing is after Google Search the second biggest search engine in the world. In addition to its own search engine, many alternative search engines also use Microsoft Bing's search results in the background. These include Yahoo!, DuckDuckGo and [Ecosia](https://european-alternatives.eu/product/ecosia), among others.

Intercom is a live chat software from the USA with many integrations.

GitHub is a version control service from Microsoft. It is very well known as it is used by many important open source projects for version control.

reCAPTCHA is a CAPTCHA service owned by Google. It is completely free, but has been criticized for its poor privacy practices.

Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) is an object storage service provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS). Many tools offer support for S3, which has led to the S3 API becoming a quasi-industry standard for object storage providers.

Google Cloud Storage is the object storage service of the [Google Cloud Platform](https://european-alternatives.eu/alternative-to/gcp-google-cloud-platform).

Stripe is a modern online payment service provider with lots of services and intergrations.

Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) is the transactional email service of [Amazon Web Services (AWS)](https://european-alternatives.eu/alternative-to/aws-amazon-web-services).

Postmark is a transactional email service with a focus on fast and reliable delivery.

WhatsApp is a free instant messaging app from Meta Platforms.

Google Docs is Google's very popular document colaboration service

Bitbucket is a version control service from Atlassian. Atlassian is an Australian software company known for its project management software.

DocuSign is a electronic signature software from the USA. It is US ESIGN and eIDAS compliant.

1Password is a password manager from Canada with clients for iOS, Android and macOS.

LastPass is a password manager from the USA with clients for Android, iOS and different desktop platforms.

Grammarly is a spelling and grammar checker from the USA.

Okta is one of the biggest identity and access managment provider in th world. The company is based in the US and bought Auth0, another big name in IAM, in 2021.

Auth0 is an identity and access management (IAM) company from the US. It was bought by Okta is 2021.

1.1.1.1 is a public DNS server from the US based company Cloudflare.

OpenDNS is a public DNS resolver from the USA, owned by Cisco.

Twitter is a microblogging and social media service from the USA. In 2022, Elon Musk tried to take over Twitter. However, the takeover has not been carried out until now.

Google Chrome is a open source web browser from US american company Google.

YouTube is a video platform owned by the US american company Google.

LinkedIn is a professional networking platform from the USA.

hCaptcha is USA-based captcha service. The service has a free plan and a focus on data privacy.

Yandex Search is a Russian search engine. The focus of the search engine is on the Russian-speaking market.

Waze is a navigation app that was bought by Google in 2013. The app has a more community-oriented approach than Google Maps.

WordPress.com is a WordPress hosting provider owned by Automattic, a US American company which contributes to the development of WordPress.

Yandex Metrica is a web analytics service by the Russian company Yandex.

Mailchimp Transactional Email, formerly Mandrill, is a product of the USA-based email marketing company [Mailchimp](https://european-alternatives.eu/alternative-to/mailchimp).

Mailchimp is a USA-based email marketing service. Mailchimp also offers a [transactional email service](https://european-alternatives.eu/category/transactional-email-service), formerly known as Mandrill.

Google Fonts is a font service by USA-based company Google. The fonts on the service are all under a free software license. Which means they can be freely used. Currently it is only allowed to use the service in the European Union with the user's consent or with a legitimate interest.

DigitalOcean is a US-American cloud computing platform. It has data centers world wide and offers virtual servers (called Droplets), managed databases, object storage, serverless and managed Kubernetes.

Microsoft Office is an office suite from the US-American company Microsoft. It contains many applications like Word for text processing, Excel for spreadsheets and PowerPoint for presentations. The applications are available for desktop, mobile and online. With a Microsoft account, those applications can be used for document collaboration.

Ginger is a US-American and Israeli spell and grammar checker. They offer applications for many desktop and mobile platforms, and even offer their own Android Keyboard.

Google Calendar is a calendar service from the US-American company Google.

GoDaddy is a US-American domain name registrar and and web hosting company.

DreamHost is a US-American web hosting provider that offers managed WordPress hosting.

Bluehost is a web hoster from the USA that offers managed WordPress hosting.

Hostgator is a US web host that offers managed WordPress hosting as one of its main products.

Amazon Route 53 is a managed DNS service from the US-American cloud service provider [Amazon Web Services (AWS)](https://european-alternatives.eu/alternative-to/aws-amazon-web-services). They offer many advanced features like DNS Failover, Geo DNS and DNSSEC.

Google Cloud DNS is a managed DNS provider of the US-American cloud provider [Google Cloud Platform](https://european-alternatives.eu/alternative-to/gcp-google-cloud-platform).

Kinsta is a managed WordPress hosting provider from the United States. They are known for their great support. The hoster uses Google Cloud Platform to host the WordPress sites.

Pandadoc is a electronic signature software from the USA. It is US ESIGN and eIDAS compliant.

Dropbox Sign is an electronic signature software from the USA. Dropbox Sign is a product of [Dropbox](https://european-alternatives.eu/alternative-to/dropbox) and was called HelloSign before it was bought by them.

Zoom is a video conferencing software from the US-American company Zoom Video Communications. Zoom gained international popularity mainly as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Zoom was criticized because of some security problems. It was marketed as using end-to-end encryption, but this was not the case.