European alternatives to Trello

The visual kanban-board tool that made task tracking feel simple, now part of Atlassian. US-region AWS hosting, outside GDPR by default.

Company information about Trello
Company
Atlassian Corporation
Headquarters
Sydney, United States
Founded
2011
Data jurisdiction
United States
Ownership
Publicly traded
GDPR
No
Open source
No
Infrastructure
Amazon AWS

Why people switch away from Trello

Subject to US CLOUD ActProfit-driven (public markets)Proprietary softwareRuns on Big Tech infrastructureNot covered by GDPR

European alternatives to Trello

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Spain 64 · Mostly European

Open-source agile project management tool by Madrid-based Kaleidos with 1M+ users. Scrum and Kanban boards, backlog management, and sprint planning. Self-hostable with full data sovereignty. Built by the same team behind Penpot.

Open-core · from Free Free tier Open source Mixed infrastructure EU

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Why avoid United States-owned services?

CLOUD Act

Forces US companies to hand over data stored anywhere in the world upon government request, including data on European servers.

FISA Section 702

Authorises mass surveillance of non-US persons using data held by US tech platforms, without a warrant or notification.

GDPR vs US law conflict

EU courts have repeatedly found that US surveillance law conflicts with European fundamental rights. Schrems I and II both invalidated EU-US data transfer agreements.

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