Best European Alternatives to Notion (2026)
Notion stores your notes, documents, and databases with a US company, so everything you write there falls under US law and could be handed to US authorities. It holds a lot of sensitive personal and business information in one place. European note-taking apps offer the same flexible workspace with your data kept in Europe or on your own device.
Replace Notion with a private note-taking app based in Europe. Compare Joplin, Anytype, CryptPad, all operated under European privacy law.
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Joplin (France)
Free open-source note-taking app that syncs across your devices. Your notes can be encrypted and stored wherever you choose.
✓ Open source ✓ Free tier ✓ No account needed -
Anytype (Switzerland)
A beautiful note-taking and knowledge app that stores everything on your device first. Works offline and syncs encrypted.
✓ Open source ✓ Free tier -
CryptPad (France)
Write documents and collaborate in real time. Everything is encrypted, so only you and your collaborators can ever read it.
✓ Open source ✓ Audited 2022 ✓ Free tier
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