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Whiteboard.fi: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Whiteboard.fi is a free online whiteboard for teachers and classrooms, intended for formative assessment. It lets teachers give pupils one-to-one attention and targeted feedback, in the classroom or in remote teaching. Users sign up on the website and use the service online.

The service is provided by Digital Teaching Tools Finland Ltd in Karjaa, Finland, and is part of the Kahoot! group; Kahoot! is headquartered in Oslo, Norway. According to its privacy policy, data is stored in the United States or the European Union, depending on the user's choice. UpCloud runs the application and database servers, and Amazon Web Services stores backups and board images. No open-source code or self-hosting option is documented. A European school or organisation that needs data to stay inside the EU should choose the EU region deliberately.

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Sovereignty score
59 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign
  • Jurisdiction SOV-2100
    Headquartered in the EU: European law applies
  • Data residency SOV-350
    Hosting inside and outside Europe (EU, US)
  • 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-645
    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 9, 2026
Headquarters
FI (EU)Verified by hand
Ultimate parent company
NOVerified by hand
Sovereignty model
Vendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting
EU, USVerified by hand
Open-source
NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
YesVendor-stated
Category
Whiteboarding & Visual Collaboration
Type
Product
Website
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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Whiteboard.fi

The European alternatives to Whiteboard.fi 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 Whiteboard.fi

Whiteboard.fi is headquartered in FI and therefore falls under European law: the GDPR, NIS2 and the Data Act. No foreign legislation can compel access to your data. The ultimate owner is based in NO, also within Europe.

Whiteboard.fi hosts data in EU, US. Exactly what stays within the EU — and what does not — is defined by the vendor's data processing agreement and sub-processor list, not by a setting you control yourself; check those documents for the precise scope, including backups, logs and support access.

Whiteboard.fi 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 Whiteboard.fi 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 Whiteboard.fi?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Whiteboard.fi include Collaboard, Conceptboard and Explain Everything. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Whiteboard.fi?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to Whiteboard.fi include Nextcloud Whiteboard. These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.

Is Whiteboard.fi GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

Whiteboard.fi is headquartered in FI (EU) and hosts data in EU, US. That makes Whiteboard.fi 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 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".

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Digital sovereignty in Whiteboarding & Visual Collaboration

Whiteboarding & Visual Collaboration: Infinite-canvas whiteboards for brainstorming, workshops and visual planning. 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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