Non-EU vendorProject ManagementHeadquarters: GB

Taskworld: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Taskworld is a work management platform for coordinating projects across teams, departments and business units, aimed at larger organisations that need compliance, visibility and scale. It offers tasks, kanban boards, time tracking, integrated chat, an AI feature that summarises tasks and projects, live dashboards and multiple views. Checklist audits with photo evidence, approvals and compliance scores are built into tasks, and projects can be targeted at teams by region, brand or department. A mobile app is also available.

Taskworld delivers the service as SaaS, in a dedicated cloud environment, or self-hosted on the customer's own infrastructure. Its website lists GDPR and on-premises options among its security and compliance features but does not state the country of its cloud data centres. The legal entity is Taskworld Inc., with offices in cities including Tokyo, Berlin, Paris and Seoul. The software is not open source. A European organisation for which data location matters can ask the vendor for the hosting region or consider the self-hosted option.

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Sovereignty score

52 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign

Jurisdiction SOV-250
Headquartered outside the EU (GB)
Data residency SOV-3100
EU-only hosting
Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-340
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-630
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

Headquarters	GB (OTHER)	Verified by hand
EU adequacy decision	Yes — found adequate by the European Commission	Verified by hand
Sovereignty model	Vendor-hosted (non-EU)	Verified by hand
Data hosting	EU	Verified by hand
Open-source	No	Verified by hand
GDPR-compliant	Yes	Vendor-stated
Hosting signal	AMAZON-02 - Amazon.com, Inc., US (US)	Technically measured
Category	Project Management
Type	Product
Website	taskworld.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 Taskworld

The European alternatives to Taskworld 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 Taskworld

Taskworld is headquartered in GB, outside the EU. Contracts and data therefore also fall under non-European law. The GDPR applies through contractual terms, but in a conflict with local legislation you have less certainty than with a European vendor.

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

Taskworld 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 Taskworld 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 Taskworld?

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

Are there open-source alternatives to Taskworld?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to Taskworld include Kanboard, OpenProject, Redmine (self-host), Taiga, Tuleap, WeKan and Wiki.js. These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.

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

Taskworld is headquartered in GB (OTHER) 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 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 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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