Took this post as motivation to try some out.

Here WeGo: actually pretty intuitive! Better than OSMand and Organic Maps in terms of Car Navigation (actual Voice and not TTS Voice from android) and 3D sounds that you have to get used to but coule make listening to instrucrions in stressfull sitations easier. Also optional: speeding warning ring sound and shield head up-sound effects (yield, stop, train crossing, etc.) Each with a special sound so you might get better prepared for the next yield or stop sign since your NAV app told ya already that one is coming up soon.

Deezer: Well some usability things annoy me. Also some problems with the android tv client...

Bit the flow mode (random shuffle in genres or moods (happy, party, chill...) that also has a toggle if you want the shuffle be based of songs you have in your playlists/liked already or if you want to go on a jurney to find new songs.

Pretty geat so far!

Qwant: well the search results hit good. Dark theme is a lil worse than DDG's dark theme but thats just preference. Some !bang searches are not available though. DDG has many more listed than Qwant. But we're getting there!

https://delta.chat/ is also European but is decentralized unlike threema which means you don’t rely on one company to keep the servers up or your communications stop working.

Why am I betting bolt probably isn't going to be a viable ride service option for americans

if you're considering Qobuz, it's amazing, and if you're a student it's quite affordable with their student plan.

unrelated tool, for more technical folks <3

I wish there would be some good european LLMs for agentic coding..

searXNG

For mail I use mailo which is french. But I use a lot of other providers like disroot and my own email domain.

I recently discovered Monocles.eu, they are a privacy respecting email, chat (Matrix?), drive (Nextcloud?), social (Mastodon) and translator platform. I'm still forming my opinion, but they look good. In France, there's also the Chatons who propose local alternative hosting of many common services, such as Nextcloud, Mastodon, Matrix, Mattermost, VaultWarden, etc.

It's pretty telling that, as a European, I've literally not heard of any of those European alternatives.

Peertube has this fediverse problem. You google it, go to the webpage and instead of getting a list of promoted videos, you get an explanation of what it is and a manual on how to actually join, starting with „select a pot“. You then get to search the list of pots that all have like 10 viewers and 5gb upload limit. I stopped at this point.

That being said, i really would like an European youtube alternative, but not off the „provide your own hardware“ kind.

Last time I checked ecosia gets it's search queries from Bing, just a heads up. Other than that I'd say it's really solid.

This is missing Spotify and TomTom unless I am missing something

Organic Maps ftw.