Self-hosted / open sourceForms & SurveysHeadquarters: DE

Nextcloud Forms: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Nextcloud Forms is an app for Nextcloud that lets you create, share and manage simple forms and surveys. It offers checkboxes, multiple choice, dropdowns and short or long text answers. Forms can be shared by link, with specific users or with the whole instance, optionally with an expiry date. Results can be viewed as summary charts or individual entries and exported to CSV. Webhooks are supported. You install the app in one click from the Nextcloud App Store on a Nextcloud server.

The app is open source under the AGPL-3.0 licence. Forms and responses stay on your own Nextcloud instance rather than going to a third-party survey service. Nextcloud GmbH, the company behind Nextcloud, is based in Stuttgart, Germany. Where the data is stored is decided by the organisation itself: on its own servers or with a hosting provider of its choice. For a European organisation this means full control over storage location and access, provided it runs a Nextcloud environment or has one run on its behalf.

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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	DE (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
Compliance documents	4 published, see belowVendor-stated
Hosting signal	HETZNER-AS - Hetzner Online GmbH, DE (DE)Technically measured
Category	Forms & Surveys
Type	Product
Website	nextcloud.com ↗

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 Nextcloud Forms

The European alternatives to Nextcloud Forms 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

41 European Forms & Surveys vendors are in the catalogue. View the whole category · Submit an alternative · View category on the map

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Why digital sovereignty matters with Nextcloud Forms

Nextcloud Forms is headquartered in DE 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 Nextcloud Forms scores best on data residency.

Nextcloud Forms 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 Nextcloud Forms 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 Nextcloud Forms?

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

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

Is Nextcloud Forms GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

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

Data Processing Agreement (DPA): nextcloud.com/nl/privacy/
Subprocessor list: nextcloud.com/nl/privacy/
Security page / trust center: nextcloud.com/nl/privacy/
EU hosting documented: nextcloud.com/nl/privacy/

Provenance of the links above:Vendor-stated

Links checked on September 21, 2026.

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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