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Loomio: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Loomio is software for collaborative decision-making in groups and organisations. A group gets a dedicated space to discuss a question, share context and documents, vote while giving reasons and record the outcome. It is used by associations, unions, boards, cooperatives, housing co-ops and campaign groups. Loomio is available as a hosted service at loomio.com and as open-source software that you can install on your own server.

Loomio is built by Loomio Cooperative Limited, a worker-owned cooperative in New Zealand, which is outside the EU. The source code is published on GitHub under the AGPL-3.0 licence. For the hosted service, Loomio states that its data infrastructure is located in the United States, the European Union, Australia and New Zealand, and its website offers hosting in the USA, the EU or Australia/New Zealand. Loomio publishes a data processing addendum that includes the European Commission's standard contractual clauses. If you self-host, you decide where the data is stored.

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Sovereignty score

69 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign

Jurisdiction SOV-250
Headquartered outside the EU (NZ)
Data residency SOV-350
Hosting inside and outside Europe (US, EU, OTHER)
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 14, 2026

Headquarters	NZ (OTHER)Verified by hand
EU adequacy decision	Yes — found adequate by the European CommissionVerified by hand
Sovereignty model	Vendor-hosted (non-EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting	US, EU, OTHERVerified by hand
Open-source	YesVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant	YesVendor-stated
Category	Collaboration
Type	Product
Website	loomio.com ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Loomio

The European alternatives to Loomio come from our knowledge base of over 8,400 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 Loomio

Loomio is headquartered in NZ, outside the EU. Contracts and data therefore also fall under non-European law. The GDPR applies through contractual terms, but in a conflict with local legislation you have less certainty than with a European vendor.

Loomio hosts data in US, EU, OTHER. 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.

Loomio 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 Loomio 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 Loomio?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Loomio include BigBlueButton (self-host), CryptPad and Nextcloud Deck. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Loomio?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to Loomio include BigBlueButton (self-host), CryptPad, Nextcloud Deck and FluffyChat. These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.

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

Loomio is headquartered in NZ (OTHER) and hosts data in US, EU, OTHER. 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

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Sources

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Compliance evidence

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Digital sovereignty in Collaboration

Collaboration: Team communication, file sharing, video conferencing, document editing. 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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