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Leantime: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Leantime is open source project management software for people who organise work without being professional project managers. It combines a personal work dashboard with to-dos in kanban, table or list views, subtasks and dependencies, milestones on a timeline, timesheets, whiteboards, retrospectives and reports. Optional AI assistance helps break tasks down. Leantime is available as a cloud service and as a self-hosted installation, using a release package or the official Docker image.

Leantime Cloud is provided by Hyve5, Inc., doing business as Leantime, a company based in the United States and governed by North Carolina law. According to its terms, customer data in the cloud service is stored in US data centres by default, and customers can request processing exclusively within the European Union. The software is released under the AGPLv3 licence, with some plugins under other licences. An organisation that wants to decide jurisdiction and data location itself can run Leantime on its own infrastructure or with a hosting provider of its choice.

Sovereignty score
61 / 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-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-675
    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 9, 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
YesVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
YesVendor-stated
Compliance documents
Hosting signal
CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US (US)Technically measured
Category
Type
Product
Website

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 Leantime

The European alternatives to Leantime 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 Leantime

Leantime 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.

Leantime 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.

Leantime 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 Leantime 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 Leantime?

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

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

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

Leantime 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)
leantime.io/terms-conditions/
Security page / trust center
leantime.io/privacy/

Provenance of the links above:Vendor-stated

Links checked on September 21, 2026.

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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