Trello is a kanban board app that organises tasks as cards in lists. It is an Atlassian product; Atlassian names Sydney, Australia as its global headquarters. The European alternatives that replace it best are MeisterTask (Austria) for teams that want simple boards with EU hosting, PLANKA (Germany) for teams that want Trello-style boards on their own server and Kanban Tool (Poland) for teams running kanban that want board analytics.
European alternatives
11
From 7 countries
Keep data in Europe
7
By default, no setting needed
With a free plan
9
No time limit
Open source
3
Can run on your own servers
Trello alternatives from Europe, compared
Best first for someone replacing Trello. 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.
Board-based task and project management from Meister, the maker of MindMeister, with automations, time tracking and reports. Data is hosted in Germany. A free plan covers up to 3 projects.
Compared with Trello: Kanban boards close to Trello's, plus automations, time tracking and reports. Hosted in Germany. The free plan is limited to 3 projects; Pro starts at $7 per user.
Kanban boards in the style of Trello that teams run on their own server, or as a dedicated instance hosted in Germany. The free Community edition is source-available, not OSI open source.
Compared with Trello: Trello-style boards that you run on your own server, or as a dedicated instance hosted in Germany. Source-available rather than open source, and nothing like Trello's Power-Up catalogue.
Imports Trello boards one at a time from a JSON export.
Headquarters
Kempten, Germany
Founded
2024
Owned by
HBE Capital GmbH (Germany)
Your data
In Europe
Price
From €7.20/user/month, billed yearly
Free plan
Yes
Best for
Teams that want Trello-style boards on their own server
3. Kanban Tool
Kanban boards with time tracking and analytics
Online kanban boards with time tracking, process automation and board analytics. A free plan covers 2 boards and 2 users, and an on-site edition can run on your own server.
Compared with Trello: Kanban boards with time tracking and board analytics. Free for 2 boards and 2 users; an on-site edition runs on your server. Cloud data sits in the US and EEA.
Web-based kanban boards with swimlanes, WIP limits, subtasks and time tracking, including a Pomodoro timer. Made by CodeKick AB, a small Swedish company.
Compared with Trello: Simple kanban with swimlanes, WIP limits and a Pomodoro timer. Free plan; Premium from $5 per user. Made by a small Swedish company that doesn't publish where data is hosted.
Small teams that want simple kanban and time tracking
5. Vikunja
Open-source task manager with lists, kanban and Gantt
Open-source task and project manager with list, kanban, Gantt and table views. Free to self-host; Vikunja Cloud is a paid hosted version run by a one-person German business.
Compared with Trello: Open-source task manager with kanban, list and Gantt views, free to self-host. The paid cloud is run by a one-person German business. Fewer integrations than Trello.
Imports boards from Trello.
Headquarters
Lübeck, Germany
Your data
In Europe
Price
From €4/account/month
Free plan
Yes
Best for
Small teams that want a simple self-hosted task manager
6. Zenkit
Tasks as boards, lists, Gantt or calendar
Project management from Karlsruhe that shows the same tasks as kanban boards, lists, Gantt charts or calendars, with team chat built in. Data is hosted on AWS in Frankfurt.
Compared with Trello: Boards plus list, Gantt and calendar views of the same tasks, with team chat built in. Hosted on AWS in Frankfurt. No free plan; from €8 per user.
Small teams that switch between board and Gantt views
7. Taiga
Open-source scrum and kanban for agile teams
Open-source agile project management with backlogs, sprints, kanban boards, epics and issues. It can be self-hosted for free; the hosted cloud runs in a Madrid data centre and is priced per account.
Compared with Trello: Open-source kanban and scrum with backlogs and epics: more structure than Trello, aimed at agile teams. Free to self-host; the cloud runs in Madrid.
Agile teams that want a simple open-source scrum tool
8. Nextcloud
Self-hosted collaboration suite with Deck kanban boards
Open-source collaboration server for files, chat and office documents. Its Deck app adds kanban boards with cards, labels, due dates and assignments inside Nextcloud Hub.
Compared with Trello: The Deck app adds kanban boards to a self-hosted Nextcloud server, next to files and chat. Useful if you already run Nextcloud; basic as a standalone board tool.
Admin command imports Trello boards from a JSON export or the API.
Organisations already running Nextcloud that need simple boards
9. Superthread
Boards, sprints and docs with pay-what-you-want pricing
Project management with boards, sprints, docs and AI agents in one workspace, hosted in London. Small teams choose their own price per user.
Compared with Trello: Boards with sprints, docs and AI agents in one workspace, hosted in London. Free plan for small teams, then pay-what-you-want from $3 per user.
Small product and agency teams wanting tasks and docs
10. Nozbe
Team task manager with built-in task discussions
Task and project app for small teams, built around shared projects and comment threads on each task instead of email. Data sits on Hetzner servers in Germany.
Compared with Trello: A task and project app built around a discussion thread on each task rather than boards. Data on Hetzner servers in Germany; Premium from $9 per user.
A small, bootstrapped project management tool with kanban boards, lists, time tracking, Gantt timelines and client access. One plan with every feature. The core service runs on AWS in the United States.
Compared with Trello: Simple boards with time tracking and Gantt in one $9-per-user plan. Run from Estonia, but the service is hosted on AWS in the United States.
Headquarters
Tallinn, Estonia
Founded
2012
Employees
1–10
Your data
Outside Europe
Price
From $9/user/month, billed yearly
Free plan
No
Best for
Small teams wanting simple boards plus time tracking
Why look for a European alternative to Trello?
Trello is headquartered in Sydney, Australia and owned by Atlassian (Australia). These are the reasons buyers in Europe most often give for looking elsewhere:
Trello is owned by Atlassian, an Australian company.
Atlassian's data residency setting covers Jira, Jira Service Management, Jira Product Discovery, Confluence and Loom. Trello is not on that list, so Trello data can't be pinned to the EU.
Teams that want boards on their own servers need a different tool; several European ones import Trello boards.
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 Trello for. MeisterTask (Austria) for teams that want simple boards with EU hosting, PLANKA (Germany) for teams that want Trello-style boards on their own server and Kanban Tool (Poland) for teams running kanban that want board analytics. All 11 on this page are headquartered in Europe; the table compares their hosting, prices and G2 ratings.
MeisterTask, PLANKA, Kanban Tool, KanbanFlow, Vikunja, Taiga, Nextcloud, Superthread and Nozbe have a free plan with no time limit.
MeisterTask, PLANKA, Vikunja, Zenkit, Taiga, Superthread and Nozbe store customer data in Europe by default.
Yes: Vikunja, Taiga and Nextcloud. Open-source tools can also be self-hosted on your own servers in Europe.
MeisterTask, PLANKA, Vikunja, Taiga, Nextcloud, Superthread and Nozbe document an import from Trello; the details are under each one below.
No. Trello is part of Atlassian, which lists Sydney, Australia as its global headquarters.
Atlassian's data residency setting lists Jira, Jira Service Management, Jira Product Discovery, Confluence and Loom, not Trello. MeisterTask, Zenkit and Nozbe are European board and task tools that store data in Germany.
Yes. PLANKA, Vikunja and Nextcloud Deck are kanban boards you run on your own server, and each documents a way to import Trello boards. Kanban Tool also sells an on-site edition.
