European alternatives to Google Docs
Google's collaborative word processor, part of Workspace and free with any Google account. Excellent for real-time editing, but your documents live on US infrastructure inside the Google ecosystem.
Company information about Google Docs
- Company
- Google LLC
- Parent company
- Alphabet Inc.
- Headquarters
- Mountain View, United States
- Founded
- 2006
- Data jurisdiction
- United States
- Ownership
- Publicly traded
- GDPR
- No
- Open source
- No
- Infrastructure
- Own infrastructure
Why people switch away from Google Docs
European alternatives to Google Docs
End-to-end encrypted collaboration suite. Docs, spreadsheets, and kanban boards. The server never sees your content.
French open-source enterprise wiki founded in 2004 in Paris. Used by Amazon, Lenovo, and governments across Europe for knowledge management and collaboration. Self-hostable with full data sovereignty. Also the company behind CryptPad.
German office suite from Nuremberg with word processor, spreadsheet, and presentation apps that read and write Microsoft formats natively. A free version, FreeOffice, is also available. Runs offline, so your documents stay on your device.
A complete, free office suite – documents, spreadsheets, presentations – that runs entirely on your own computer. No subscription, no cloud, no tracking.
LibreOffice in the browser, built by Collabora. Integrates with Nextcloud for a fully European document editing suite.
Open-source office suite for documents, spreadsheets, and presentations with some of the best Microsoft Office file compatibility around. Registered in Riga, Latvia. Self-host it for free or use the hosted cloud edition.
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People also replace
Notion 
Microsoft 365 
Microsoft Word 
Microsoft Excel 
Microsoft PowerPoint 
Google Slides 
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Start somewhere.
Switching everything overnight is not realistic. Start where it matters most: your email, your cloud storage, your business tools. Replace one thing at a time.
The European Alternative already exists.
Pick Europe.
Why avoid United States-owned services?
CLOUD Act
Forces US companies to hand over data stored anywhere in the world upon government request, including data on European servers.
FISA Section 702
Authorises mass surveillance of non-US persons using data held by US tech platforms, without a warrant or notification.
GDPR vs US law conflict
EU courts have repeatedly found that US surveillance law conflicts with European fundamental rights. Schrems I and II both invalidated EU-US data transfer agreements.