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OmniFocus: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

OmniFocus is a task and project manager from The Omni Group for Apple devices. It runs on Mac, iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and Apple Vision Pro, and a web version is available in the browser. Tasks and projects sync across the user's devices, and the vendor offers a free sync server with end-to-end encryption. The app can be bought once or used by subscription.

The Omni Group is headquartered in Seattle, Washington, and describes itself as an employee-owned company, so no foreign parent company is named. As a US company it is subject to US law, including the CLOUD Act, wherever its data is stored. The vendor's pages do not state where sync data is hosted, and no GDPR statement or sub-processor list was found on the pages reviewed. A European organisation should ask the vendor directly where data is processed before relying on the sync service.

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Sovereignty score
17 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign
  • Jurisdiction SOV-210
    Headquartered in the US: CLOUD Act and FISA 702
  • Data residency SOV-30
    No hosting in Europe (US)
  • Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-320
    Key management with a non-European vendor
  • Freedom from lock-in SOV-640
    Closed source: switching requires data migration
  • Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-615
    Closed source, runtime with the vendor

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 10, 2026
HeadquartersUS (US)Verified by hand
EU adequacy decisionOnly for companies individually certified under the EU-US Data Privacy FrameworkVerified by hand
Sovereignty modelVendor-hosted (non-EU)Verified by hand
Data hostingUSVerified by hand
Open-sourceNoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliantNoVendor-stated
CategoryNotes & Tasks
TypeProduct
Websiteomnigroup.com ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to OmniFocus

The European alternatives to OmniFocus 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 OmniFocus

OmniFocus 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.

OmniFocus hosts data outside the EU (US). Personal data therefore leaves the EU, which requires a transfer mechanism under the GDPR and pulls the data residency score down.

OmniFocus is closed source and hosted by the vendor. The encryption keys and the runtime sit with the vendor and switching requires data migration. Ask about bring-your-own-key, export options and open standards.

What this means for your organisation depends on your whole stack and context. The free assessment weighs OmniFocus 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 OmniFocus?

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

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to OmniFocus 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 OmniFocus GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

OmniFocus is headquartered in US and hosts data in US. Its GDPR compliance is limited or unclear. For full EU data residency the EU alternatives on this page usually offer more certainty.

Details and sources

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Compliance evidence

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