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Self-hosted / open sourceNotes & TasksHeadquarters: DE

Taskwarrior: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Taskwarrior is a free, open-source to-do list manager for the command line. It is meant for users who want to manage tasks quickly without a graphical interface, and it is released under the MIT licence. Taskwarrior is software you install on your own computer; the project does not run a hosted service.

According to its GitHub page the project is the work of a small group of volunteers and has been in development since 2006. It sits under the Gothenburg Bit Factory GitHub organisation; no company seat or parent company is named. Tasks are kept in a local database. To sync between devices, Taskwarrior 3 uses TaskChampion: you can run your own TaskChampion sync server or use storage at cloud providers such as AWS S3 or Google Cloud Storage. With self-hosting you decide where the data lives; with cloud storage the jurisdiction depends on the provider and the region you choose. For European organisations this means full control over data and syncing, but no vendor support behind it.

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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 July 2, 2026
Headquarters
DE (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty model
Open-source, distributedVerified by hand
Data hosting
EUVerified by hand
Open-source
YesVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
YesVendor-stated
Hosting signal
FASTLY - Fastly, Inc., US (US)Technically measured
Category
Notes & Tasks
Type
Product
Website
taskwarrior.org ↗

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 Taskwarrior

The European alternatives to Taskwarrior come from our knowledge base of over 6,800 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 Taskwarrior

Taskwarrior 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 Taskwarrior scores best on data residency.

Taskwarrior 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 Taskwarrior 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 Taskwarrior?

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

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

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

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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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