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Planka: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

PLANKA is a kanban board for agile teams, designed primarily for self-hosting. It offers drag-and-drop boards, real-time sync, markdown cards, notifications through more than a hundred providers and support for many languages. The Community edition is free; the Pro edition adds roles and guest access, single sign-on, templates, advanced search and reporting, and can be self-hosted or taken as a managed cloud service. An Enterprise edition targets large organisations.

PLANKA is developed by PLANKA Software GmbH in Kempten, Germany. The source code is public, but it is distributed under a Fair Use License (fair-code) together with a separate Pro/Enterprise licence, and the website describes the Community edition as source available. No non-European parent company is named. Those who self-host keep their own database and backups and decide jurisdiction and storage location themselves. For the managed cloud, the vendor does not name a hosting location, which European organisations can ask about in advance.

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Sovereignty score
71 / 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-360
    Key management with a European vendor
  • Freedom from lock-in SOV-640
    Closed source: switching requires data migration
  • Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-655
    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 July 2, 2026
HeadquartersDE (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty modelVendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hostingEUVerified by hand
Open-sourceNoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliantYesVendor-stated
Compliance documents2 published, see belowVendor-stated
Hosting signalnetcup-AS - netcup GmbH, DE (DE)Technically measured
CategoryProject Management
TypeProduct
Websiteplanka.app ↗

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 Planka

The European alternatives to Planka 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 Planka

Planka 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 Planka scores best on data residency.

Planka 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 Planka 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 Planka?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Planka include Arinto, awork and Bitrix24. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Planka?

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

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

Planka is headquartered in DE (EU) and hosts data in EU. That makes Planka 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)
planka.app/dpa
Security page / trust center
planka.app/security

Provenance of the links above:Vendor-stated

Links checked on September 21, 2026.

Digital sovereignty in Project Management

Project Management: Project planning, issue tracking, knowledge management, team collaboration. 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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