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Framaforms: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Framaforms is an online service for creating and publishing forms and surveys by dragging and dropping fields. You share forms by email or social networks, embed them on a website and let others clone them. Responses can be viewed online, as charts, or exported. By default, forms last six months, with a limit of 5,000 responses per form and 200 forms per account. The service runs on the software Yakforms, which is licensed under the GNU GPL v2 and can also be installed on your own server.

Framaforms is offered by Framasoft, a French non-profit association founded in 2004 and funded mainly by donations. Its legal seat is in Lyon. In its legal notice, Framasoft names Hetzner Online GmbH in Germany as its hosting provider. No commercial parent company is involved. For a European organisation, this is an open-source service run by a French association, and those who want full control can host Yakforms themselves.

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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
Headquarters
FR (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty model
Vendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting
EUVerified by hand
Open-source
YesVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
YesVendor-stated
Hosting signal
HETZNER-AS - Hetzner Online GmbH, DE (DE)Technically measured
Category
Forms & Surveys
Type
Product
Website
framaforms.org ↗

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 Framaforms

The European alternatives to Framaforms 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 Framaforms

Framaforms 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 Framaforms scores best on data residency.

Framaforms 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 Framaforms 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 Framaforms?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Framaforms include 123FormBuilder, AidaForm and Askia. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Framaforms?

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

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

Framaforms is headquartered in FR (EU) and hosts data in EU. It is also open-source, so you can self-host it. That makes Framaforms 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

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Compliance evidence

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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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