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Pear Deck: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Pear Deck is an education tool that lets teachers build and deliver interactive lessons. Students respond to questions and prompts within the presentation, so the teacher sees feedback straight away. It is part of the Pear Deck Learning platform, alongside Pear Start, Pear Practice and Pear Assessment, and is delivered as a web service; self-hosting is not offered.

Pear Deck sits within Liminex, Inc., which trades as GoGuardian and Pear Deck Learning and is based in the United States. Pear Deck joined GoGuardian in 2020. The privacy policy says schools in the EEA are covered by a separate data processing addendum and that Liminex participates in the EU-US Data Privacy Framework. It states that the website is operated in the United States and that information may be transferred there. For European schools this means student data falls under US jurisdiction, including possible access under the CLOUD Act. The vendor does not name an EU hosting option.

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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 11, 2026
Headquarters
US (US)Verified by hand
EU adequacy decision
Only for companies individually certified under the EU-US Data Privacy FrameworkVerified by hand
Sovereignty model
Vendor-hosted (non-EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting
USVerified by hand
Open-source
NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
YesVendor-stated
Category
Whiteboarding & Visual Collaboration
Type
Product
Website
peardeck.com ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Pear Deck

The European alternatives to Pear Deck come from our knowledge base of over 7,800 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

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Why digital sovereignty matters with Pear Deck

Pear Deck 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.

Pear Deck 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.

Pear Deck 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 Pear Deck 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 Pear Deck?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Pear Deck include Beekast, Classroomscreen and Collaboard. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Pear Deck?

Our list of EU alternatives to Pear Deck is mostly commercial options. Browse the category on the map for open-source choices.

Is Pear Deck GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

Pear Deck is headquartered in US and hosts data in US. 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

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 11, 2026.

Sources

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Compliance evidence

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