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Draft.io: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Draft.io is a web-based visual collaboration platform: a digital whiteboard for visual management, information mapping and workshops. Users work with cards, lists, anchor links and templates, run voting sessions and polls (including anonymous ones) and link cards to Jira issues. It is aimed at product management, agile project management and workshop facilitation, among others,. The service is delivered as SaaS.

Draft is a French SAS with its registered office in La Chevrolière; the website names no parent company. According to its privacy policy the platform is managed by the French team and hosted by a hosting provider in France; the security documentation names OVH as infrastructure supplier. Draft acts as processor for customers' documents; for a few supporting services, processors outside the EEA are used, with standard contractual clauses as safeguard. For a European organisation this means a French supplier under European law with hosting in France.

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Sovereignty score
71 / 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-360
    Key management with a European vendor
  • Freedom from lock-in SOV-640
    Closed source: switching requires data migration
  • Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-655
    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 17, 2026
Headquarters
FranceVerified by hand
Sovereignty model
Vendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting
EUVerified by hand
Open-source
NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
YesVendor-stated
Category
Whiteboarding & Visual Collaboration
Type
Product
Website
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European alternatives to Draft.io

The European alternatives to Draft.io come from our knowledge base of over 9,900 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 Draft.io

Draft.io is headquartered in France 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 Draft.io scores best on data residency.

Draft.io 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 Draft.io 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 Draft.io?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Draft.io include Beekast, Classroomscreen and Collaboard. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Draft.io?

Our list of EU alternatives to Draft.io is mostly commercial options. Browse the category on the map for open-source choices.

Is Draft.io GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

Draft.io is headquartered in France (EU) and hosts data in the EU. That makes Draft.io an EU-sovereign choice in its own right; the EU alternatives on this page are comparable European tools.

Details and sources

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Sources

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Compliance evidence

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Digital sovereignty in Whiteboarding & Visual Collaboration

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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