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Category Archives: SoftwareEU

SoftwareEU: Proton – The Swiss Ecosystem of Privacy

Posted on June 30th, 2025 by Radu Nicolae

In today’s post we talk about Proton, the Swiss privacy powerhouse which builds a secure ecosystem🇨🇭✨. What is Proton? Protoon is. asuite of privacy-focused digital services based in Switzerland 🇨🇭 and operated by Proton AG< a company majoritary-owned by the … Continue reading →

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SoftwareEU: Qwant – European alternative to Google Search

Posted on June 16th, 2025 by Lara Baseggio

In today’s post, we talk about Qwant, the French 🇫🇷 search engine that’s reshaping how we explore the web — and a compelling alternative to Google Search, Bing, or Yahoo. What is Qwant? Qwant is a privacy-focused search engine developed … Continue reading →

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SoftwareEU Spotlight: Spotify, the (Swedish) global leader in music streaming

Posted on June 6th, 2025 by Radu Nicolae

In today’s post, we talk about Spotify, the global leader in music streaming from Sweden 🇸🇪, and an excellent alternative to Apple Music, YouTube Music, or Amazon Music. What is Spotify? Well… we all heard of it! A music streaming … Continue reading →

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SoftwareEU Spotlight: DeepL

Posted on June 2nd, 2025 by Lara Baseggio

We are back to share with you another outstanding European alternative, this time in the field of translation services, outperforming non-EU competitors with both quality and privacy: DeepL Translator. What is DeepL?DeepL is a Cologne-based neural machine translation service that … Continue reading →

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SoftwareEU Spotlight: Friendly Automate

Posted on May 16th, 2025 by Lara Baseggio

Following last week’s post about Brevo software, we are back to share with you a second european alternative email marketing platform surpassing non-EU alternatives. What is Friendly Automate? Friendly Automate is a Swiss-based, open-source marketing automation platform designed to help … Continue reading →

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SoftwareEU Spotlight: Brevo – The European All-in-One Marketing Platform

Posted on May 9th, 2025 by Radu Nicolae

Brevo, formerly Sendinblue, is a shining example of European innovation in digital marketing. With French origins, Brevo provides a comprehensive marketing suite rivaling and surpassing non-EU alternatives (e.g., Mailchimp) What is Brevo? Brevo is French 🇫🇷 email marketing platform that … Continue reading →

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SoftwareEU Spotlight: Tresorit – The EU Alternative to Google Drive

Posted on May 2nd, 2025 by Lara Baseggio

Within the cloud storage space field, Europe is building secure, ethical software alternatives to big tech softwares. Following last week’s post on pCloud Software, today’s spotlight is on Tresorit, a Swiss-Hungarian cloud storage service offering privacy-first, end-to-end encrypted storage, making … Continue reading →

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SoftwareEU Spotlight: pCloud – The EU Alternative to Google Cloud

Posted on April 25th, 2025 by Radu Nicolae

While Europe is home to companies that care about user privacy and user rights, they are overshadowed by Big Tech companies ever dominating our digital world. In today’s post, we talk about pCloud, a cloud storage service in Switzerland and … Continue reading →

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