10 Best European Notion Alternatives in 2026
The best European alternative to Notion in 2026 is Elium, based in Belgium. All 10 options below are European-owned, GDPR-native and ranked by feature parity and relevance.
By the EU Alternatives team Last updated
Our top pick this year is Elium, but every option on this list is European-owned, GDPR-native, and production-ready. Worth a closer look: CryptPad, Granola, Craft, Supernotes.
Notion alternatives are mainly Office & Collaboration. Browse that category for a wider shortlist beyond this list.
Top European Notion alternatives compared
| # | Alternative | Country | Open source | Free tier | Compare |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Elium | Belgium | No | No | vs Notion → |
| 2 | CryptPad | France | Yes | Yes | vs Notion → |
| 3 | Granola | United Kingdom | No | No | vs Notion → |
| 4 | Craft | United Kingdom | No | No | vs Notion → |
| 5 | Supernotes | United Kingdom | No | No | vs Notion → |
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Governed knowledge base with AI import, AI search, expiry reminders for stale content and permission-aware delivery to Teams, ServiceNow and AI agents.
Elium turns scattered procedures, policies and runbooks into one governed source of truth for the whole company. Content has owners, gets flagged when it goes stale, and is routed back for verification, so teams and their AI tools work from knowledge that is actually current.
Existing documents come in through AI import from SharePoint, Google Drive, Confluence, Notion or plain Markdown. Answers then reach people where they already work, in the web app, on mobile, in Microsoft Teams, Zendesk and ServiceNow, and reach AI agents through MCP, REST and API access that respects each user's permissions.
Key benefits:
- Expiration management flagging outdated pages and sending them to their owners
- AI search answering questions from verified company content
- Permission-aware AI so agents only see what the asking user may see
- AI import converting legacy documents into structured, maintainable articles
- Wide integrations with more than 30 tools including Teams, Slack, Jira and Salesforce
- Flexible deployment as SaaS, private cloud or on-premise for enterprise customers
Elium is built by Whatever SA, an independent company founded in 2007 in Walloon Brabant, Belgium, with a second office near Paris. It holds ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certification and processes data under GDPR. Standard SaaS data stays in the EU on Google Cloud's Belgian region, while customers who want to avoid US-owned infrastructure can choose hosting in France on 3DS Outscale, which is SecNumCloud-qualified. Customer content is never used to train models.
More than 150,000 people across 150+ organisations use Elium, including L'Oréal, BNP Paribas, VINCI Energies, SNCF and the Council of Europe.
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End-to-end encrypted collaborative docs, spreadsheets, forms, and kanban boards where even the server cannot read your content.
CryptPad is a French collaboration suite where everything is end-to-end encrypted, including the documents themselves: the server stores only ciphertext, so not even the operator can read your work. It bundles rich text documents, spreadsheets, presentations, forms, kanban boards, whiteboards, and code pads in one browser-based workspace.
Real-time collaboration works like mainstream suites: share a link, co-edit live, track changes, and manage team access through encrypted team drives. No account is required for basic use, and registration itself asks for no personal data. The open source AGPL code can be audited or self-hosted on your own servers.
Key features:
- End-to-end encryption on every document, unreadable by the server operator
- Full suite with docs, sheets, slides, forms, kanban, whiteboard, and code
- Real-time co-editing with cursors, history, and link sharing
- Team drives for encrypted shared folders with role-based access
- No personal data required to register or collaborate
- Self-hostable AGPL code for complete infrastructure control
- Free tier with 1 GB of encrypted storage
CryptPad is developed by XWiki SAS in Paris, France, with its flagship instance hosted in Europe and operated under GDPR. The zero-knowledge design means compliance is structural: there is no readable customer content to hand over, subpoena, or leak.
Ideal for journalists, NGOs, public bodies, and any team that wants Google Docs style collaboration without trusting the host with the content.
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AI-powered notepad that enhances your meeting notes without bots. Transcribes audio directly, creates custom templates, and helps with follow-up tasks.
Granola is an AI notepad that takes your rough meeting notes and turns them into polished, shareable summaries, working without a bot joining your calls. It transcribes audio directly on your device while you jot down the points that matter, then blends your notes with the transcript so the output reads like you wrote it, only complete.
Because there is no recording bot in the room, Granola works with any meeting platform and stays invisible to other participants. After the call, you can chat with your meeting history, pull action items, and reuse templates for recurring formats like sales calls, interviews or one-on-ones.
Key benefits:
- No meeting bot since audio is captured on-device, invisible to participants
- Notes enhancement that merges what you typed with what was actually said
- Chat with your meetings to query past decisions and commitments
- Templates for sales calls, user interviews, standups and one-on-ones
- Action item extraction ready to paste into your task tracker
- Works everywhere with Zoom, Meet, Teams and in-person conversations
Granola was founded in London in 2023 and operates from the United Kingdom under UK GDPR. Backed by Index Ventures and valued at 1.5 billion dollars in 2026, it has become the meeting notepad of choice for founders and investors.
Ideal for people in back-to-back meetings who want notes they would actually trust, without sending a bot on their behalf.
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Beautifully designed native documents app with blocks, pages and daily notes that work offline on Mac, iPhone, iPad and Windows, a European take on Notion.
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British note-taking app built on linked cards instead of long documents: write bite-sized notes with Markdown and LaTeX, connect them and collaborate with others.
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Build encrypted notes, databases, tasks and wikis offline first, with peer-to-peer sync, self-hosting and flexible object types.
Local-first, end-to-end encrypted knowledge workspace for notes, databases, tasks and wikis with peer-to-peer sync and self-hosting.
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Organize notes as connected objects with backlinks, daily notes, offline access, full-text search and flexible export.
Networked knowledge studio built around typed objects, backlinks, daily notes, offline access, cross-device sync and flexible exports.
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Transform document collaboration with real-time editing, version control, and secure sharing features that enhance team productivity and communication.
Real-time co-editing with version control and secure sharing, French-built to keep teams writing together. Track changes and collaborate on documents in one place.
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Unify company operations. Build custom workflows, connect teams, and manage projects, documents, and data all in one adaptable, interconnected platform.
Polish workspace that unifies company operations: build custom workflows and connect teams while managing projects, documents and data in one adaptable system.
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Organize notes, docs, and tasks with an AI-powered collaborative workspace. Features real-time editing, integrated task management, and automatic knowledge linking.
UK workspace that ties notes, docs and tasks together with AI, offering real-time editing, built-in task management and automatic links between related knowledge.
