Software from Canada: 135 vendors in 68 categories
Canada lies outside the EU and the EEA. Contracts and data also fall under non-European law; every vendor below has a page with European alternatives.
- vendors scored
- 135
- categories
- 68
- open source
- 16
- last checked
- 11 October 2026
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Score per vendor: 0 = high exposure, 100 = sovereign
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- Sovereignty score 79 out of 100BigBlueButtonEducation & LMS · Self-hosted / open source · open sourceOpen-source web conferencing system designed specifically for online learning
- Sovereignty score 79 out of 100ConstellioDocument Management (DMS) · Self-hosted / open source · open sourceCanadian open-source EIM platform with document management, records management and enterprise search.
- Sovereignty score 79 out of 100CwtchMessaging · Self-hosted / open source · open sourceDecentralised messaging platform with metadata protection via Tor
- Sovereignty score 79 out of 100EvidenceBusiness Intelligence · Non-EU vendor · open sourceCode-first, open-source BI framework (MIT licence) for building dashboards as code (Markdown + SQL), fully manageable via Git version control. Developed by Evidence Inc. (Toronto, Canada).
- Sovereignty score 79 out of 100JamiMessaging · Self-hosted / open source · open sourceCanadian peer-to-peer communication platform without a central server
- Sovereignty score 79 out of 100PostGISGIS & Geospatial · Self-hosted / open source · open sourceSpatial extension for PostgreSQL for storing and processing geographic data
- Sovereignty score 77 out of 100AnubisCaptcha & Bot Detection · Self-hosted / open source · open sourceOpen-source web firewall (MIT licence) from Techaro, Canada, that blocks scraper bots with challenges in front of web applications; self-hosted.
- Sovereignty score 77 out of 100FreePBXTelephony & VoIP · Self-hosted / open source · open sourceOpen-source web interface for managing Asterisk telephony, maintained by Sangoma and released under GPL-3.0; runs on your own server.
- Sovereignty score 77 out of 100GhostBSDDesktop OS · Self-hosted / open source · open sourceDesktop operating system based on FreeBSD with MATE as default environment; open-source project developed from Canada.
- Sovereignty score 77 out of 100GrapheneOSDesktop OS · Self-hosted / open source · open sourcePrivacy-focused, AOSP-based Android operating system for supported Google Pixel devices, developed by the non-profit GrapheneOS Foundation in Toronto (Canada).
- Sovereignty score 77 out of 100IncusVirtualisation & Containers · Self-hosted / open source · open sourceCommunity-governed fork of LXD (Apache-2.0), created in 2023 after Canonical pulled LXD's governance in-house; sits under the independent Linux Containers project, with infrastructure sponsored by Canada-based Zabbly (project lead Stéphane Graber).
- Sovereignty score 77 out of 100OpenBSDDesktop OS · Self-hosted / open source · open sourceFree, 4.4BSD-based UNIX-like operating system with a focus on security, developed by volunteers and supported by the Canadian OpenBSD Foundation.
- Sovereignty score 77 out of 100PsiphonVPN · Self-hosted / open source · open sourceCensorship-circumvention tool by Psiphon Inc. of Toronto (Canada), with open-source clients.
- Sovereignty score 77 out of 100TimeTrexHR · Self-hosted / open source · open sourceCanadian open-source payroll, time-tracking and HR platform.
By category
- Design7 vendors
- E-commerce5 vendors
- E-learning Authoring5 vendors
- Supply Chain & Asset Management5 vendors
- Digital Signage4 vendors
- Domain Name Registrars4 vendors
- ESG & Sustainability4 vendors
- VPN4 vendors
- Digital Asset Management3 vendors
- Endpoint & Device Management3 vendors
- GIS & Geospatial3 vendors
- Legal Tech3 vendors
- Desktop OS3 vendors
- Photo & Video3 vendors
- Social Media3 vendors
- Telephony & VoIP3 vendors
- Whiteboarding & Visual Collaboration3 vendors
- AI Cowork2 vendors
- Business Intelligence2 vendors
- Data Governance & MDM2 vendors
- DNS Privacy & Filtering2 vendors
- Document Management (DMS)2 vendors
- Education & LMS2 vendors
- Business Email & Groupware2 vendors
- ERP & Finance2 vendors
- Feature Flagging & Experimentation2 vendors
- Forms & Surveys2 vendors
- Healthcare2 vendors
- Messaging2 vendors
- Network & Monitoring2 vendors
- Office & Productivity2 vendors
- Planning & EPM2 vendors
- Project Management2 vendors
- Testing & QA2 vendors
- Transactional Email2 vendors
- Writing Assistance & Grammar2 vendors
- AI1 vendor
- Analytics1 vendor
- Personal Backup & Sync1 vendor
- BPM & Workflow1 vendor
- Captcha & Bot Detection1 vendor
- Cloud IaaS1 vendor
- Cloud Storage (Personal)1 vendor
- CMS1 vendor
- Consent Management (CMP)1 vendor
- Cybersecurity1 vendor
- DevOps1 vendor
- Email (Personal)1 vendor
- Enterprise Search1 vendor
- FinOps & Cloud Cost Management1 vendor
- Personal Health & DNA1 vendor
- Helpdesk & Customer Service1 vendor
- HR1 vendor
- IoT & Embedded1 vendor
- Maps & Navigation1 vendor
- Marketing1 vendor
- Network & Firewall Management1 vendor
- Notes & Tasks1 vendor
- Password Manager1 vendor
- Process Mining & RPA1 vendor
- Procurement & Spend Management1 vendor
- Product Feedback & Roadmapping1 vendor
- Remote Desktop & Support1 vendor
- Scheduling & Booking1 vendor
- Time Tracking1 vendor
- Video Streaming1 vendor
- Virtualisation & Containers1 vendor
- Web Hosting1 vendor
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