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Self-hosted / open sourceProject ManagementHeadquarters: FR

Kanboard: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Kanboard is free, open-source project management software based on the Kanban method. It offers a visual board with drag-and-drop tasks, work-in-progress limits per column, subtasks with time estimates, Markdown descriptions, a search and filter query language and automatic actions triggered by events. Sign-in can use LDAP or Active Directory, or OAuth2 providers such as Google, GitHub and GitLab. The interface is available in more than 30 languages. Kanboard is installed on the organisation's own server.

Kanboard is released under the MIT licence. Frédéric Guillot is the main developer, supported by many contributors. The project is in maintenance mode: only small fixes are made, though community pull requests are still accepted. The sources consulted describe Kanboard only as software to self-host and name no parent company, so there is no cloud operator whose jurisdiction applies. Data stays wherever the organisation runs the software, for example on servers in the EU. Because major new features are not being developed, the organisation must plan for its own updates and security maintenance.

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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 July 2, 2026
Headquarters
FR (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty model
Open-source, distributedVerified by hand
Data hosting
EUVerified by hand
Open-source
YesVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
YesVendor-stated
Hosting signal
FASTLY - Fastly, Inc., US (US)Technically measured
Category
Project Management
Type
Product
Website
kanboard.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 Kanboard

The European alternatives to Kanboard 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 Kanboard

Kanboard 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 Kanboard scores best on data residency.

Kanboard 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 Kanboard 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 Kanboard?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Kanboard include Arinto, awork and Bitrix24. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Kanboard?

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

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

Kanboard is headquartered in FR (EU) and hosts data in EU. It is also open-source, so you can self-host it. That makes Kanboard 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 July 2, 2026.

Sources

This record was checked via the vendor's website and legal notice during the full audit of June and July 2026. Source links have been recorded per record since 20 September 2026.

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".

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Digital sovereignty in Project Management

Project Management: Project planning, issue tracking, knowledge management, team collaboration. 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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