Non-EU vendorWhiteboarding & Visual CollaborationHeadquarters: US

FigJam: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

FigJam is Figma's online whiteboard for brainstorming, diagramming, workshops, meetings and agile formats such as stand-ups and retrospectives. Teams work together on a shared canvas with sticky notes, stamps, comments, audio chat and templates. AI can generate templates, group stickies into themes and summarise results, and there are integrations with tools such as Asana, Jira and GitHub. FigJam runs in the browser, with an iPad app, and is included with every Figma plan.

Figma, Inc. is headquartered in San Francisco and listed on the NYSE; it has no foreign parent. Files are stored in the United States by default. Enterprise customers can have FigJam file content hosted in the EU, with Frankfurt as the primary location and Dublin as backup. User metadata and login data are not hosted in the EU, and items such as comments and file names are not localised. FigJam is proprietary. For a European organisation, the EU option therefore requires the Enterprise plan and still leaves part of the data outside the EU.

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Sovereignty score

27 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign

Jurisdiction SOV-210
Headquartered in the US: CLOUD Act and FISA 702
Data residency SOV-350
Hosting inside and outside Europe (US, EU)
Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-320
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-615
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 8, 2026

Headquarters	US (US)Verified by hand
EU adequacy decision	Only for companies individually certified under the EU-US Data Privacy FrameworkVerified by hand
Sovereignty model	Vendor-hosted (non-EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting	US, EUVerified by hand
Open-source	NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant	NoVendor-stated
Category	Whiteboarding & Visual Collaboration
Type	Product
Website	figma.com ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to FigJam

The European alternatives to FigJam come from our knowledge base of over 6,800 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 FigJam

FigJam is headquartered in the United States. US vendors fall under the CLOUD Act and FISA 702: US authorities can compel access to data, even when that data sits in a European data centre. That is the core of the jurisdictional exposure in our model.

FigJam hosts data in US, EU. 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.

FigJam 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 FigJam 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 FigJam?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to FigJam 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 FigJam?

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

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

FigJam is headquartered in US and hosts data in US, EU. Its GDPR compliance is limited or unclear. For full EU data residency the EU alternatives on this page usually offer more certainty.

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 8, 2026.

Sources

Public sources used in the latest check of this record.

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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