Non-EU vendorWhiteboarding & Visual CollaborationHeadquarters: AU

Creately: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Creately is a visual collaboration platform from Cinergix that connects work and data into linked visual views. Teams collaborate in real time on diagrams and workspaces, with templates, comments and exports to documents or presentations. The platform offers integrations with tools such as Jira, GitHub and Google Sheets, AI capabilities that give source-backed answers, and access controls with SSO, SAML and role-based permissions. Creately is delivered as a web service; the website also mentions on-premise services for enterprises.

According to a CB Insights company profile, Cinergix is based in Australia. Creately announced that users can choose to store their data in data centres in the US, the EU or Australia, and that collaboration across regions remains possible without sharing personal data with other regions. The vendor states that it complies with ISO 27001, SOC 2 Type II and the GDPR. For European organisations, the EU region option is relevant because the vendor is headquartered outside the EU.

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Sovereignty score

42 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign

Jurisdiction SOV-250
Headquartered outside the EU (AU)
Data residency SOV-350
Hosting inside and outside Europe (EU, US, OTHER)
Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-340
Key management with a non-European vendor
Freedom from lock-in SOV-640
Closed source: switching requires data migration
Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-630
Closed source, runtime with the vendor

SOV codes: the matching objective in the European Commission's Cloud Sovereignty Framework. Official source

How the score is calculated

Facts and evidence

Last checked October 9, 2026

Headquarters	AU (OTHER)	Verified by hand
EU adequacy decision	No — no adequacy decision	Verified by hand
Sovereignty model	Vendor-hosted (non-EU)	Verified by hand
Data hosting	EU, US, OTHER	Verified by hand
Open-source	No	Verified by hand
GDPR-compliant	Yes	Vendor-stated
Category	Whiteboarding & Visual Collaboration
Type	Product
Website	creately.com ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Creately

The European alternatives to Creately come from our knowledge base of over 6,200 vendors. We only list vendors headquartered in the EU or the EEA; fully European-owned vendors rank before vendors with a foreign owner. For each alternative you see the country, the open-source status and a short description.

Score per alternative: 0 = high exposure, 100 = sovereign

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Why digital sovereignty matters with Creately

Creately is headquartered in AU, outside the EU. Contracts and data therefore also fall under non-European law. The GDPR applies through contractual terms, but in a conflict with local legislation you have less certainty than with a European vendor.

Creately hosts data in EU, US, OTHER. Exactly what stays within the EU — and what does not — is defined by the vendor's data processing agreement and sub-processor list, not by a setting you control yourself; check those documents for the precise scope, including backups, logs and support access.

Creately is closed source and hosted by the vendor. The encryption keys and the runtime sit with the vendor and switching requires data migration. Ask about bring-your-own-key, export options and open standards.

What this means for your organisation depends on your whole stack and context. The free assessment weighs Creately together with your other vendors and gives a total score, a heatmap and the main risk drivers.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best European alternative to Creately?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Creately include Collaboard, Conceptboard and Explain Everything. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Creately?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to Creately include Nextcloud Whiteboard. These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.

Is Creately GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

Creately is headquartered in AU (OTHER) and hosts data in EU, US, OTHER. The vendor states it is GDPR-compliant, but the data falls under non-EU jurisdiction. For full EU data residency the EU alternatives on this page usually offer more certainty.

Details and sources

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Sources

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Compliance evidence

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Whiteboarding & Visual Collaboration: Infinite-canvas whiteboards for brainstorming, workshops and visual planning. In this category the choice of vendor determines who has legal access to your data, where that data lives and how easily you can switch later.

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