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LiberaForms: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

LiberaForms is free software for creating and managing online forms. Users build and publish forms, read and download the answers, share form management with others, include privacy statements and let forms expire by date or number of answers. Answers can be end-to-end encrypted, and forms can also be published on the fediverse. It is server software (Flask, PostgreSQL) that you install yourself, with administrator and moderator functions for the whole site and documentation for system administrators.

LiberaForms is developed as a community project under the AGPLv3 or later. According to its privacy policy, its public instances are legally represented by a cooperative registered in Spain, and according to its social contract the project does not want money from investment funds. You can run the software on your own servers, so form data stays with you. The project also offers hosted public and dedicated instances for a fee, with data stored on servers in Europe. Development has been co-funded through NLnet's NGI Zero programme, with support from the European Commission.

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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 16, 2026
Headquarters
ES (EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting
Self-hosted, e.g. in EU (your choice)Verified by hand
Open-source
YesVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
YesVendor-stated
Category
Forms & Surveys
Type
Product
Website
liberaforms.org ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to LiberaForms

The European alternatives to LiberaForms come from our knowledge base of over 9,500 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 LiberaForms

LiberaForms is headquartered in ES 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 LiberaForms scores best on data residency.

LiberaForms 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 LiberaForms 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 LiberaForms?

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

Are there open-source alternatives to LiberaForms?

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

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

LiberaForms is headquartered in ES (EU) and hosts data in EU. It is also open-source, so you can self-host it. That makes LiberaForms an EU-sovereign choice in its own right; the EU alternatives on this page are comparable European tools.

Details and sources

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Sources

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Compliance evidence

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