Guides
Four guides, each under five minutes. They explain the checks this directory applies to all 121 entries.
Sovereignty comes down to three checks: control, headquarters, hosting
Three fields decide whether a European tool is actually sovereign: who controls the owner, where headquarters sit, and which jurisdiction can compel the host. A checklist you can run in ten minutes.
Why the US CLOUD Act reaches data held in Europe
The US CLOUD Act of 2018 lets US authorities compel US-controlled providers to produce data they control, wherever it is stored. That is why ownership, not server location alone, decides exposure.
Switching email providers without losing mail: the safe order
Move in this order: new account first, then forwarding, then domain DNS, then the old archive. Swapping DNS first is the mistake that loses mail.
The real cost of free European alternatives
Free tiers from European providers are genuinely free, and genuinely limited: storage caps, one device, no custom domain. The honest price of free is your time, roughly one migration weekend per tool.