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Fillout: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Fillout is an online form builder from Zite, the company that traded under the name Fillout until March 2026. Its drag-and-drop editor lets you build forms with custom themes, fonts and CSS. The product offers smart routing and automation, login-protected forms in which respondents can edit their submissions, analytics and real-time team collaboration. Forms are shared by link, QR code or custom domain, or embedded in a website. There are more than fifty native integrations, as well as scheduling, PDF generation, payments and signatures. Fillout is delivered as software as a service.

The provider is Restly, Inc., trading as Zite, with a privacy mailing address in Beaverton, Oregon, USA. Respondent data is stored and processed in the United States by default. According to the help centre, EU storage is available on the Team and Enterprise plans and is set up on request through support; Zite Databases and Zite Apps are not available on EU servers. No open-source or self-hosted option is described.

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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 9, 2026
HeadquartersUS (US)Verified by hand
EU adequacy decisionOnly for companies individually certified under the EU-US Data Privacy FrameworkVerified by hand
Sovereignty modelVendor-hosted (non-EU)Verified by hand
Data hostingUS, EUVerified by hand
Open-sourceNoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliantYesVendor-stated
Compliance documents4 published, see belowVendor-stated
Hosting signalAMAZON-02 - Amazon.com, Inc., US (US)Technically measured
CategoryForms & Surveys
TypeProduct
Websitefillout.com ↗

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 Fillout

The European alternatives to Fillout 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 Fillout

Fillout 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.

Fillout 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.

Fillout 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 Fillout 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 Fillout?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Fillout include SurveyJS, AidaForm and Crowdtech. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Fillout?

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

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

Fillout is headquartered in US and hosts data in US, EU. 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

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 9, 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".

Data Processing Agreement (DPA)
zite.com/privacy
Subprocessor list
zite.com/privacy
Security page / trust center
zite.com/privacy
EU hosting documented
zite.com/privacy

Provenance of the links above:Vendor-stated

Links checked on September 21, 2026.

Digital sovereignty in Forms & Surveys

Forms & Surveys: Online forms, surveys and feedback tools. 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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