EU Sovereignty Score
EU-hosted, non-EU parentWhiteboarding & Visual CollaborationHeadquarters: PL

Explain Everything: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Explain Everything is a digital whiteboard for education, which teachers use to create interactive presentations, video tutorials and whiteboard assignments. The app offers an infinite canvas for drawing, animating, creating videos and collaborating, with group accounts in which administrators manage members. Apps are available for web, iOS, Android and Chromebook, and projects can be kept local in an offline mode, never connected to the cloud.

The company is headquartered in Wrocław, Poland, and is now part of Promethean, which is itself a member of the NetDragon Websoft Holdings group (listed in Hong Kong). According to the vendor's security page, data is stored in a SOC 2-certified AWS data centre in Northern Virginia (US); no European data-centre option is mentioned. A Polish company with a non-European parent and US hosting raises questions of data transfer and jurisdiction for European schools and public bodies. Those who do not want data stored in the cloud can use the offline mode.

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Sovereignty score
49 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign
  • Jurisdiction SOV-2100
    Headquartered in the EU: European law applies
  • Data residency SOV-30
    No hosting in Europe (US)
  • 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-645
    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
HeadquartersPL (EU)Verified by hand
Ultimate parent companyCNVerified by hand
Sovereignty modelVendor-hosted (non-EU)Verified by hand
Data hostingUSVerified by hand
Open-sourceNoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliantYesVendor-stated
CategoryWhiteboarding & Visual Collaboration
TypeProduct
Websiteexplaineverything.com ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Explain Everything

The European alternatives to Explain Everything 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 Explain Everything

Explain Everything is headquartered in PL and therefore falls under European law: the GDPR, NIS2 and the Data Act. No foreign legislation can compel access to your data. The ultimate owner is based in CN. Foreign control undermines part of the certainty a European headquarters offers.

Explain Everything hosts data outside the EU (US). Personal data therefore leaves the EU, which requires a transfer mechanism under the GDPR and pulls the data residency score down.

Explain Everything 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 Explain Everything 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 Explain Everything?

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

Are there open-source alternatives to Explain Everything?

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

Is Explain Everything GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

Explain Everything is headquartered in PL (EU) and hosts data in US. That makes Explain Everything 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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Compliance evidence

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