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CryptPad: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

CryptPad is an end-to-end encrypted, open-source collaboration suite. Its apps cover rich-text documents, Markdown and code, spreadsheets, presentations, forms, kanban boards and diagrams, and a drive organises files in folders. Several people can edit a document in real time. CryptPad is delivered either as a hosted service, with cryptpad.fr as the flagship instance, or as software that an organisation installs on its own servers, with official Docker images available.

CryptPad is developed by a team at XWiki SAS, a company with staff in France and Romania, and is licensed under AGPL-3.0. The instances list shows cryptpad.fr as hosted in France; other instances run by third parties are hosted in various countries. According to the documentation, the server has no access to document content, but it can see IP addresses and user agents, and the encryption code is served by the host, so users must trust the administrator to deliver unmodified code. Self-hosting lets a European organisation choose the location and the administrator itself.

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Sovereignty score
94 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign
  • Jurisdiction SOV-2100
    Headquartered in the EU: European law applies
  • Data residency SOV-3100
    EU-only hosting
  • Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-390
    Self-hostable: encryption keys under your own control
  • Freedom from lock-in SOV-680
    Open source: low switching costs
  • Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-6100
    Source code auditable, forkable and self-hostable

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 2, 2026
HeadquartersFR (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty modelVendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hostingEUVerified by hand
Open-sourceYesVerified by hand
GDPR-compliantYesVendor-stated
Compliance documents1 published, see belowVendor-stated
Hosting signalOVH - OVH SAS, FR (FR)Technically measured
CategoryNotes & Tasks
TypeProduct
Websitecryptpad.fr ↗

The hosting signal shows the network that serves the vendor's website, often a CDN, and not necessarily where the service or your data is hosted. How we verify · Something wrong? Suggest a correction

Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to CryptPad

The European alternatives to CryptPad 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 CryptPad

CryptPad is headquartered in FR and therefore falls under European law: the GDPR, NIS2 and the Data Act. No foreign legislation can compel access to your data.

Data is hosted exclusively in the EU, so CryptPad scores best on data residency.

CryptPad is open source. You can audit the source code, self-host the software and keep the encryption keys under your own control. Switching is easier because data and software are not tied to a single party.

What this means for your organisation depends on your whole stack and context. The free assessment weighs CryptPad 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 CryptPad?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to CryptPad include Anytype, Bear and Capacities. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to CryptPad?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to CryptPad include Carnet, HedgeDoc and Joplin. These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.

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

CryptPad is headquartered in FR (EU) and hosts data in EU. It is also open-source, so you can self-host it. That makes CryptPad an EU-sovereign choice in its own right; the EU alternatives on this page are comparable European tools.

Details and sources

Verified by handHeadquarters, owner, hosting locations and licence have been checked by us against public sources. Free of charge and for every vendor, not a paid label. Nothing in this knowledge base is taken over automatically. Last checked on October 2, 2026.

Sources

Public sources used in the latest check of this record.

Compliance evidence

The links below point to the vendor's own public documents. We only record what we found: a missing link means "not found publicly", not "not compliant".

Security page / trust center
docs.cryptpad.org/en/user_guide/security.html

Provenance of the links above:Vendor-stated

Links checked on September 21, 2026.

Digital sovereignty in Notes & Tasks

Notes & Tasks: Note-taking apps and task management — write, organise, sync. 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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