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ProjectLibre: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

ProjectLibre is project management software presented as an alternative to Microsoft Project and Project Online. It comes as a free desktop application, ProjectLibre Desktop, and a browser-based cloud service, ProjectLibre Cloud. Features include Gantt charts, critical path, resource levelling, baselines and earned value, WBS, portfolio and resource management, real-time collaboration and an AI Copilot that builds schedules from prompts. It opens .MPP and .XER files and imports .mpx and Primavera files.

According to its privacy policy, ProjectLibre, Inc. is a United States company with an address in Las Vegas, Nevada. The website also mentions team members in places such as Paris and Silicon Valley. The desktop application is open source under the Common Public Attribution License (CPAL). The privacy policy names no fixed hosting location for the cloud service: information may be stored or processed in the United States and other countries, and regional hosting may be used depending on the configuration. European organisations can run the desktop version locally, but for the cloud service should assess the storage location and the US jurisdiction.

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Sovereignty score
71 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign
  • Jurisdiction SOV-210
    Headquartered in the US: CLOUD Act and FISA 702
  • 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-675
    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
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 hostingEUVerified by hand
Open-sourceYesVerified by hand
GDPR-compliantYesVendor-stated
Compliance documents1 published, see belowVendor-stated
Hosting signalCLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US (US)Technically measured
CategoryProject Management
TypeProduct
Websiteprojectlibre.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 ProjectLibre

The European alternatives to ProjectLibre 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 ProjectLibre

ProjectLibre 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.

Data is hosted exclusively in the EU, so ProjectLibre scores best on data residency.

ProjectLibre 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 ProjectLibre 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 ProjectLibre?

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

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

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

ProjectLibre is headquartered in US and hosts data in EU. 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 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
projectlibre.com/privacy

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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