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Notefox: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Notefox is a browser extension for Firefox, Chrome and Edge that lets you take notes on any website. Notes are tied to the page where you wrote them, support rich-text formatting and can be searched by title, content and URL. A free Notefox account syncs your notes between devices; without an account they stay on your own device.

Notefox is a project by Saverio Morelli, an independent developer based in Italy, and according to the website it is open source. There is no parent company outside the EU. Synced data is stored on Aruba.it servers in Italy and, according to the privacy policy, does not leave the European Economic Area. Notes and settings are encrypted at rest on the server with AES-256-CBC, using a separate key for each account; the password is not stored, so data cannot be recovered without it. The website also says you can run your own sync server. Note that a single developer stands behind the project.

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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 9, 2026
HeadquartersIT (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty modelVendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hostingEUVerified by hand
Open-sourceYesVerified by hand
GDPR-compliantYesVendor-stated
Compliance documents1 published, see belowVendor-stated
Hosting signalARUBA-ASN - Aruba S.p.A., IT (IT)Technically measured
CategoryNotes & Tasks
TypeProduct
Websitenotefox.eu ↗

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 Notefox

The European alternatives to Notefox come from our knowledge base of over 6,200 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 Notefox

Notefox is headquartered in IT 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 Notefox scores best on data residency.

Notefox 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 Notefox 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 Notefox?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Notefox include Anytype, Bear and Capacities. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Notefox?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to Notefox include Carnet, CryptPad, HedgeDoc and Joplin. These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.

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

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

Security page / trust center
notefox.eu/privacy/

Provenance of the links above:Vendor-stated

Links checked on September 22, 2026.

Digital sovereignty in Notes & Tasks

Notes & Tasks: Note-taking apps and task management — write, organise, sync. 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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