Notion is a workspace for notes, documents, wikis and databases from Notion Labs, based in San Francisco. The European alternatives that replace it best are Anytype (Switzerland) for privacy-minded people who want Notion-style pages offline, Slite (France) for remote teams that want a simple company wiki and Craft (Hungary) for individuals and small teams writing polished docs.
European alternatives
12
From 6 countries
Keep data in Europe
2
By default, no setting needed
With a free plan
9
No time limit
Open source
4
Can run on your own servers
Notion alternatives from Europe, compared
Best first for someone replacing Notion. Headcount and founding year come from LeadWave's database; prices, hosting and G2 ratings from each company's own pages and G2, checked in November 2026.
Local-first, encrypted workspace for notes and data
Notes, pages and databases stored on your devices first and synced with end-to-end encryption. Sync nodes can be self-hosted. Made by Any, a Swiss association; the code is source-available.
Compared with Notion: Local-first and end-to-end encrypted, with pages and databases like Notion. Its licence is source-available rather than open source.
Documents an import from Notion.
Headquarters
Switzerland
Founded
2018
Employees
185
Your data
Self-hosted
Price
From $4/account/month
Free plan
Yes
Best for
Privacy-minded people who want Notion-style pages offline
2. Slite
Team knowledge base with AI search
Docs and knowledge base for company teams, with AI answers drawn from the team's pages and connected tools. Runs on Google Cloud with production data in Belgium. Remote-first; contracts are with a Delaware entity.
Compared with Notion: Team knowledge base with AI search, hosted on Google Cloud in Belgium. No free plan and fewer database features than Notion.
Writing app for notes and shareable documents on Apple devices, Windows, Android and the web, with team spaces. Built by a Budapest team; the UK company Craft Docs Ltd is the legal parent.
Compared with Notion: Document editor with a polished page layout and a free plan. Lighter on databases and project tracking than Notion.
Note app that sorts notes into object types such as people, books and meetings, linked together. Aimed at individuals; the Basic plan is free.
Compared with Notion: Personal knowledge app built on object types and linked notes. Made for individuals rather than team workspaces.
Headquarters
Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
Founded
2022
Employees
6
Your data
Not stated
Price
From $9.99/account/month
Free plan
Yes
Best for
Individuals building a linked personal knowledge base
6. Saga
Workspace for notes, docs and tasks with AI
Workspace that combines pages, tasks and an AI assistant, with links to Google Drive and other apps. Free for up to three members per workspace.
Compared with Notion: Pages, tasks and an AI assistant in one workspace, free for up to three members. Standard costs $6 per member a month, billed yearly.
Headquarters
London, United Kingdom
Founded
2021
Employees
21
Your data
Not stated
Price
From $6/user/month, billed yearly
Free plan
Yes
Best for
Small teams wanting a Notion-like workspace
7. XWiki
Open-source enterprise wiki
Open-source wiki for company knowledge, with structured pages, fine-grained rights and extensions. Run it on your own servers or as XWiki Cloud; XWiki SAS sells support and hosting.
Compared with Notion: Open-source wiki with structured data that you can host yourself. Needs more setup and administration than Notion.
Open-source office tools (rich text, sheets, kanban, forms) with end-to-end encryption, used in the browser. Free on public instances; paid storage on cryptpad.fr or a dedicated instance.
Compared with Notion: End-to-end encrypted documents, sheets and kanban boards in the browser, open source. No linked databases like Notion.
Headquarters
Paris, France
Owned by
XWiki SAS (France)
Your data
Self-hosted
Price
From €5/account/month
Free plan
Yes
Best for
Groups drafting sensitive documents together
10. Elium
Company knowledge base with AI answers
Knowledge base for organisations that keeps procedures and expertise current and answers questions with AI. Runs as SaaS, in a private cloud or on-premises.
Compared with Notion: Company knowledge base with AI answers, offered as SaaS, private cloud or on-premises. Built for organisations, not personal notes.
Open-source notes with optional end-to-end encryption
Open-source Markdown note app for desktop and mobile with optional end-to-end encryption. Syncs through paid Joplin Cloud or your own Nextcloud, WebDAV or Joplin Server.
Compared with Notion: Open-source note app that syncs through your own cloud or Joplin Cloud. Covers notes and to-dos, not databases or team wikis.
Headquarters
Saint-Brieuc, France
Employees
19
Your data
Self-hosted
Price
From €2.99/account/month
Free plan
Yes
Best for
Evernote users who want open source and control
12. BookStack
Free self-hosted wiki organised as books
Open-source wiki that groups pages into books and chapters, run on your own server. Created by Dan Brown; paid support comes from UK company HTTP Functions Ltd.
Compared with Notion: Free, self-hosted wiki organised into books, chapters and pages. Needs a server and has no databases.
Headquarters
United Kingdom
Founded
2015
Your data
Self-hosted
Price
From £450/account/year, billed yearly
Free plan
Yes
Best for
IT teams wanting a free, self-hosted documentation wiki
Why look for a European alternative to Notion?
Notion is headquartered in San Francisco, United States. More on the company is in our Notion dossier. These are the reasons buyers in Europe most often give for looking elsewhere:
Notion is a US company, so US laws such as the CLOUD Act apply to it.
Workspaces are hosted in the United States unless an Enterprise customer moves them to the EU region in Frankfurt.
Notion runs on Amazon Web Services, so its data also sits with a US cloud provider.
How this list was made
A company counts as European if it's headquartered in Europe: the EU, the EEA, Switzerland, the UK, or elsewhere in geographic Europe, never Russia or Belarus. Headquarters means where it's run from, not a registered office. Companies founded in Europe but headquartered elsewhere today are listed separately, and a non-European owner is always named.
Each company was checked against its own legal notice, pricing page and data-processing terms, and its G2 page. Headcount, funding and founding year come from LeadWave's database of SaaS companies. No company paid to be listed or ranked.
It depends on what you use Notion for. Anytype (Switzerland) for privacy-minded people who want Notion-style pages offline, Slite (France) for remote teams that want a simple company wiki and Craft (Hungary) for individuals and small teams writing polished docs. All 12 on this page are headquartered in Europe; the table compares their hosting, prices and G2 ratings.
No. Notion is headquartered in San Francisco, United States. As a US company it falls under US law, including the CLOUD Act, wherever it stores your data.
Anytype, Craft, Nuclino, Capacities, Saga, XWiki, CryptPad, Joplin and BookStack have a free plan with no time limit.
Slite and Zenkit store customer data in Europe by default.
Anytype documents an import from Notion; the details are under each one below.
Yes, but only on the Enterprise plan: those workspaces can use an EU data region hosted by Amazon Web Services in Frankfurt. Other plans are hosted in the United States.
XWiki, CryptPad, Joplin and BookStack are open source. Anytype is the closest in feel, with pages and databases, but its licence is source-available.
