# Conceptboard — Design

Conceptboard by Conceptboard Cloud Service GmbH holds a panel rating of 1.5/5 from 6 AI judges (category median 2/5), as of 2026-10-15. Provenance: EU-Made; sovereignty: not determined.

- Vendor: Conceptboard Cloud Service GmbH (https://conceptboard.com)
- Category: [Design](https://whats-best.ai/software/design.md)
- Provenance (editorial classification): EU-Made
- Canonical page: https://whats-best.ai/software/design/conceptboard
- Alternatives: https://whats-best.ai/software/design/conceptboard/alternatives ([markdown](https://whats-best.ai/software/design/conceptboard/alternatives.md))
- Data as of: 2026-10-20 · evaluated 2026-10-15 · oldest source captured 2026-10-01

**AI-generated.** Every score, rationale and verdict here is written by a panel of AI judges from public evidence — an analysis, not a hands-on test. Every fact quotes the vendor page it was read from. No score can be bought. How scores are made: https://whats-best.ai/methodology

## At a glance

- Vendor: Conceptboard Cloud Service GmbH
- Headquarters: Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 13 Oct 2026
- Data hosting: Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 13 Oct 2026
- Free plan: Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 13 Oct 2026
- Starting price: “5€ / user / month Starter” (vendor’s words) [S2]

## The panel's verdict

Conceptboard, an online whiteboard for ideas, tasks and projects hosted in Germany, scored highest on sovereignty (5 to 7) and file ownership and portability (4 to 7), and lowest on design and prototyping (a uniform 2) and AI and content rights (0 to 2). The rationales describe a workshop canvas — templates, Kanban workflows, live moderation with timer and voting — and report no public information on components, styles, tokens, prototyping or AI features. The judges genuinely split on file ownership and portability: the rationales credit the self-hosted Data Center Edition, an OCI-compliant bundle runnable fully air-gapped, but weigh differently the absence of public information on export formats, a documented file format and customer file ownership; the terms grant the vendor a broad, sub-licensable licence to user content. Pricing transparency (2 to 3) is held down by a pricing page with plan limits but no per-seat price figure. Sovereignty rests on stated German hosting (AWS Germany included; IONOS and StackIT Germany for an additional fee); the collected sovereignty attributes leave contracting entity, ownership, data residency and subprocessor exposure unconfirmed.

**Speaks for it:**
- A Data Center Edition for self-hosting, delivered as an OCI-compliant deployment bundle running containerized on Kubernetes and helm charts, with a fully air-gapped mode
- Customer-controlled update timing, with the professional templates also available in the self-hosted edition
- Stated hosting in Germany on named infrastructure — AWS Germany included, IONOS and StackIT Germany for an additional fee — plus a dedicated server option and availability via Marktplatz Deutschland Digital (formerly DVC)
- Real-time or asynchronous collaboration with tasks, comments and annotations, role- and permission-based access control, and named integrations including Microsoft Teams, Confluence, Webex, Google Drive, Dropbox and OneDrive
- A published plan matrix with a free plan of three active boards, 100 objects per board and 250 MB storage rising to unlimited storage, and payment by credit card or invoice

**Held against it:**
- We found no public information on reusable components, shared styles or design tokens, or on prototyping of any kind
- We found no public information on AI features, named models or providers, training on customer content, or rights to generated output
- We found no public information on per-seat prices, seat types, or how guests and reviewers are billed, so an annual team cost cannot be computed
- We found no public information on export formats, a documented file format, or what happens to boards after a downgrade or cancellation
- We found no public information on a central brand library, locked templates for non-designers, or rights, usage and expiry metadata on assets

**Best for:**
- You need a shared workshop canvas for brainstorming, campaign planning, Kanban and retrospectives with live moderation, timer and voting
- Your organization must run its collaboration tool self-hosted or fully air-gapped on its own Kubernetes infrastructure with customer-controlled update timing
- You are a German public-sector team procuring via Marktplatz Deutschland Digital (formerly DVC) with hosting in Germany on named infrastructure
- You collaborate with agencies and freelancers on shared boards with role- and permission-based access control

**Avoid if:**
- You need production design tooling — vector or layout tools, reusable components, team libraries, prototypes and a developer inspect mode — rather than a workshop whiteboard
- You must budget from published per-seat prices before committing; the captured pricing page shows plan limits but we found no public information on any price figure
- You need a central brand library with locked templates for non-designers and rights, usage and expiry metadata on licensed assets

## Scores by judge and criterion

Scores out of 5, each judge scoring independently against the published rubric (v1). "n/r" = not rated: the vendor publishes no price.

| Criterion | The Product Designer | The Frontend Engineer | The Brand Marketer | The Agency Owner | The Data Protection Officer | The Skeptic |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Design, prototyping & design systems | 1/5 | 1/5 | 1/5 | 1/5 | 1/5 | 1/5 |
| Collaboration, review & developer handoff | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 | 1.5/5 | 2/5 |
| Brand assets & governance | 1.5/5 | 1/5 | 1/5 | 1/5 | 1/5 | 1.5/5 |
| Files, formats & portability | 2.5/5 | 3/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 | 3.5/5 | 3/5 |
| AI features & rights to the work | 0/5 | 0/5 | 1/5 | 0/5 | 0/5 | 0/5 |
| European sovereignty | 3.5/5 | 2.5/5 | 3/5 | 3.5/5 | 3.5/5 | 3/5 |
| Pricing transparency | 1.5/5 | 1/5 | 1.5/5 | 1/5 | 1.5/5 | 1/5 |
| **Weighted verdict** | **1.5/5** | **2/5** | **1.5/5** | **1.5/5** | **2/5** | **1.5/5** |

### The judges

- **The Product Designer** (v1.0): Owns the design system of a B2B software product. Wants components with variants, tokens with modes, prototypes that test a real flow, and library releases that are versioned and reviewable — a design system is a product, not a page of nicely arranged buttons.
- **The Frontend Engineer** (v1.0): Turns the designs into code and gets the ticket when they disagree. Wants an inspect mode without a paid seat, tokens exported in a documented format, components mapped to the code ones, and an API that reads the whole file rather than a screenshot of it.
- **The Brand Marketer** (v1.0): Keeps the brand consistent across twelve sales offices that make their own flyers. Wants locked templates non-designers can use, guidelines inside the tool, licence and expiry dates on every stock image, and a clear answer on whether a generated image may go on a trade-fair stand.
- **The Agency Owner** (v1.0): Runs a design agency of fifteen and hands every project over to the client at the end. Wants files that export with layers and components intact, guests who are not billed as editors, and terms that say the client owns the work — and what happens to it after a cancellation.
- **The Data Protection Officer** (v1.0): Reviews every tool where unreleased products, customer screenshots and employee photos end up. Wants the contracting entity and hosting region named, the AI providers on the subprocessor list, and training on customer files excluded for the whole organisation in the terms — not behind a toggle each user has to find.
- **The Skeptic** (v1.0): Has read "free for viewers", "commercially safe AI" and "export anytime" on every page in this category. Reads instead for the click that turns a reviewer into a billed editor, the plan the IP indemnity actually covers, and whether the export keeps a single component.

## European sovereignty — proven facts

Built only from facts on the vendor's own pages; a dimension we could not prove is left open, never scored as zero. Headline: not determined.

| Dimension | Finding | Points | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Legal entity | Not determined | — | — |
| Ownership | Not determined | — | — |
| Data residency | Not determined | — | — |
| Subprocessors | Not determined | — | — |

## Key facts

Each fact is the vendor's own statement, cited to the source page it was read from ([S*n*] → Sources).

**Compliance**
- Bug bounty: yes [S1]
- Bug bounty: yes [S9]
- Certifications: ISO 27001 · ISO 27017 · ISO 27018 · yes [S2]
- DPA: yes [S1]
- DPA available: yes [S6]
- Encryption: yes · SAML 2.0 / OAUTH 2.0 · 256-bit AES · yes [S9]
- Encryption at rest: AES-256 [S8]
- GDPR: yes [S1]
- GDPR: yes [S8]
- GDPR: yes [S9]
- GDPR: yes [S11]
- GDPR: yes [S10]
- GDPR: yes [S1]
- ISO 27001: ISO 27001 · ISO 27017 · ISO 27018 [S8]
- ISO certifications: 27001 · 27017 · 27018 [S9]
- ISO certified: yes [S1]
- Security measures: SAML 2.0 · OAUTH 2.0 · 256-bit AES data-at-rest [S2]
- SLA: Enterprise SLA [S2]
- SLA enterprise: yes [S8]
- Ssl encryption: yes [S8]
- SSO: SAML 2.0 · OAuth 2.0 [S8]
- Third country transfers: yes [S3]

**Data**
- Anonymous content deletion: yes [S5]
- Log deletion: 180 · 28 [S3]
- Usage statistics: Matomo · yes · 25 [S3]

**Hosting**
- Cloud option germany: yes · Germany [S10]
- Data sovereignty: yes [S10]
- Dedicated server option: yes [S6]
- Dedicated server option: yes [S10]
- Germany: Germany [S1]
- Germany: yes [S2]
- Germany: Germany · yes [S1]
- Models: Cloud-Hosting · Dedicated Server · Data Center Edition [S9]
- On premises option: yes [S6]
- Options: yes · yes [S8]
- Options: yes · yes [S9]
- Options: cloud · dedicated server · on-premises [S1]
- Regions: AWS Germany (included) · IONOS Germany (additional fee) · StackIT Germany (additional fee) [S2]

**Integrations**
- Atlassian confluence: Atlassian Confluence · yes [S6]
- Atlassian confluence: Embed Conceptboard whiteboards in Confluence · yes [S7]
- Competitor comparisons: Microsoft Whiteboard · Miro [S1]
- Confluence: Atlassian Confluence integration [S8]
- Dropbox: Dropbox · yes [S6]
- Dropbox: Embed Dropbox content in the whiteboard · yes [S7]
- Dropbox: Dropbox integration [S8]
- Google drive: Google Drive · yes [S6]
- Google drive: Integrate files and documents into the whiteboard · yes [S7]
- Google drive: Google Drive integration [S8]
- Microsoft teams: Microsoft Teams · yes [S6]
- Microsoft teams: Start whiteboard sessions directly from Teams · yes [S7]
- Microsoft teams: Microsoft Teams integration [S8]
- Named: Microsoft Teams · Google Drive · Dropbox · One Drive · Atlassian Confluence · Webex [S9]
- Onedrive: One Drive · yes [S6]
- Onedrive: Add OneDrive files directly into the board · yes [S7]
- Onedrive: OneDrive integration [S8]
- SSO: Google · Facebook · Twitter [S3]
- Surface: yes [S1]
- Teams webex: MS Teams · Webex [S2]
- Tool landscape: yes [S1]
- Webex: Webex · yes [S6]
- Webex: Use Conceptboard within Webex meetings · yes [S7]
- Webex: Webex integration [S8]

**Legal**
- Address: Mansfelder Str. 56, 06108 Halle (Saale), Germany [S1]
- Address: Halle (Saale) · Mansfelder Str. 56 · Germany [S2]
- Address: 06108 · Halle (Saale) · Mansfelder Str. 56 · Germany [S6]
- Address: Halle (Saale) · Mansfelder Str. 56 · Germany · 06108 [S9]
- Change terms: 6 [S5]
- Commercial register: Amtsgericht Stendal · HRB 29184 [S4]
- Company name: Conceptboard Cloud Service GmbH [S4]
- Controller: Conceptboard Cloud Service GmbH · Mansfelder Str. 56, 06108 Halle (Saale), Germany [S3]
- Customer list use: yes [S5]
- DPA: yes [S8]
- DPA available: yes [S1]
- Entity: Conceptboard Cloud Service GmbH · Mansfelder Str. 56, 06108 Halle (Saale), Germany [S5]
- Entity address: Halle (Saale) · Mansfelder Str. 56 · Germany [S8]
- Entity address: Halle (Saale) · Germany [S1]
- Governing language: yes [S5]
- Governing law: Germany [S5]
- Jurisdiction: Amtsgericht Stendal [S4]
- Last modified: 2025-07-14 · yes [S3]
- Last modified: 2024-05-08 [S5]
- Office stuttgart: Stuttgart · Hermannstr. 5A · Germany · 70178 [S4]
- Ownership: no [S5]
- Registered address: Halle (Saale) · Mansfelder Str. 56 · Germany · 06108 [S4]
- Revocation period: 14 [S5]
- VAT id: DE338007583 [S4]

**Pricing**
- Advanced features: yes · 12 · 10 · 1 · yes [S2]
- Advanced price: Advanced · 10 [S2]
- Auto renewal: yes [S5]
- Billing terms: immediately upon invoicing for entire term [S5]
- Cancellation free: yes [S5]
- Cancellation paid: 90-day notice period at end of current period · cancel without notification [S5]
- Corporate price: Corporate & Government · 14 [S2]
- Free trial: free trial · yes [S9]
- Licensing models: Scalable licensing models for organisations of any size [S1]
- Plan switching: yes [S2]
- Price adjustment: German consumer price index · at least four weeks before start of notice period · 1 [S5]
- Starter features: monthly · yearly · 1 · 5 · 5 · yes [S2]
- Starter price: Starter · 5 [S2]
- VAT: yes [S2]

**Product**
- Access control: yes [S1]
- Access control: yes [S1]
- Accessibility page: yes [S1]
- Agency collaboration: Collaboration with agencies & freelancers [S8]
- Agile support: yes · yes · yes [S9]
- Air gapped mode: yes [S10]
- Air gapped operation: yes [S11]
- Anonymous use: anonymous use possible for visit or trial; repeated use requires registration [S5]
- API access: yes [S5]
- Basic training: yes · yes [S8]
- Blog comments: until user withdraws [S3]
- Brainstorming: yes [S1]
- Campaign planning: Campaign planning & visualization [S8]
- Closed network operation: yes [S11]
- Closed network operation: yes [S10]
- Comments annotations: Tasks, comments, and annotations available on boards [S6]
- Comparisons published: Microsoft Whiteboard · Miro [S6]
- Competitor comparisons: Microsoft Whiteboard · Miro [S1]
- Containerization: yes · yes [S10]
- Containerized deployment: Kubernetes (K8s) and helm charts [S11]
- Customer journey mapping: Customer journey mapping [S8]
- Deployment bundle: OCI-compliant deployment bundle with container images, installation guide, operations manual [S11]
- Deployment bundle: container images · installation guide · operations manual · OCI-compliant deployment bundle [S10]
- Deployment speed: days [S10]
- Design briefings: Design & creative briefings [S8]
- Editorial planning: Editorial & content planning [S8]
- Enterprise offers: yes [S2]
- Facilitation: live moderation · timer · voting [S2]
- Free plan: 3 [S2]
- Free trial: yes [S1]
- Free trial: yes [S6]
- Free trial: Free trial offered (Kostenfrei testen) [S7]
- Free trial: yes [S8]
- Free trial: yes [S1]
- Infrastructure components: S3-compatible object storage · PostgreSQL · SMTP server · Kubernetes cluster [S10]
- Infrastructure requirements: S3-compatible object storage · PostgreSQL · SMTP server · Kubernetes cluster [S11]
- It integration: yes [S1]
- Kanban: yes [S1]
- Kanban project management: yes · Kanban [S1]
- Ldap integration: yes · yes [S10]
- License grant: non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, sub-licensable license to user content for providing the service [S5]
- Licensing scalable: yes [S1]
- Marketing use cases: Brainstorming & Ideenfindung · Kampagnenplanung & Visualisierung · Customer journey Mapping · Redaktions- und Contentplanung · Zusammenarbeit mit Agenturen & Freelancern · Interaktive Workshops & Reports · Design- und Kreativbriefings · Ab… [S9]
- No cursor tracking: no · no [S3]
- Nonprofit discounts: yes [S2]
- Objects per board: unlimited · 100 [S2]
- Online whiteboard: Online whiteboard combining visual collaboration with digital task management [S1]
- Payment methods: credit card · invoice [S2]
- Product management roadmapping: yes [S1]
- Public sector dvc: yes [S1]
- Public sector procurement: yes [S1]
- Public sector procurement: Marktplatz Deutschland Digital (formerly DVC) [S1]
- Real time feedback: Team alignment with real-time feedback [S8]
- Realtime async collaboration: Collaboration on a shared visual workspace in real time or asynchronously [S7]
- Realtime async workspace: Shared visual workspace usable in real time or asynchronously [S6]
- Remote collaboration: yes [S1]
- Remote collaboration: yes · yes [S1]
- Roadmapping: yes [S1]
- Scalability permissions: yes · yes [S8]
- Scalability roles: Skalierbar für kleine bis große Teams; Rollen- und Rechtemanagement vorhanden [S9]
- Self hosting: Data Center Edition · yes [S10]
- Self hosting edition: Data Center Edition is the self-hosting on-premises edition [S11]
- SSO: additional fee (on some plans) [S2]
- SSO support: SAML 2.0 · Entra ID / Azure · ADFS · Keycloak · Google Workspace [S10]
- Storage limits: 250 MB · 5 GB · 1 TB · unlimited · 10 · 25 · 50 · 100 [S2]
- Templates: yes [S8]
- Templates available: yes [S9]
- Templates available locally: yes [S10]
- Templates included: yes [S11]
- Trial: yes [S2]
- Updates control: yes [S10]
- Use case brainstorming: Brainstorming & ideation [S8]
- Use without registration: yes · yes [S3]
- User count: 14M+ [S1]
- User count: 14M+ [S1]
- Variations: free platform for personal use and paid platform for teams/commercial use [S5]
- Visualization: Visualize project plans, roadmaps and responsibilities on a shared board [S7]
- Visualize plans: Boards for project plans, roadmaps, responsibilities [S6]

**Support**
- Documentation: yes [S10]
- Free training: kostenfreies Basistraining · yes [S9]
- Help center: yes [S1]
- Help center: yes [S8]
- Personalized support: yes [S10]
- Remote installation assistance: yes [S10]
- SLA option: optional · yes [S10]

2 more facts on the canonical page: https://whats-best.ai/software/design/conceptboard

## Questions

### Is Conceptboard European?

Yes. whats-best.ai classifies Conceptboard as EU-Made.

### Where does Conceptboard store data?

Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 13 Oct 2026.

### Does Conceptboard have a free plan?

Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 13 Oct 2026.

### What are the best alternatives to Conceptboard?

As of 16 Oct 2026, the panel rates [Penpot (2.5/5)](https://whats-best.ai/software/design/penpot), [Sketch (2.5/5)](https://whats-best.ai/software/design/sketch) and [Frontify (2.5/5)](https://whats-best.ai/software/design/frontify) highest among the other 13 Design products evaluated. Ratings that look equal are rounded to half stars; the order uses the unrounded rating, then the name. The highest-rated European alternative is [Penpot](https://whats-best.ai/software/design/penpot) (EU-Made). Ratings are the AI panel’s opinion, formed from public evidence: [how scores are made](https://whats-best.ai/methodology#ordering). The full list, with European products first: [Conceptboard alternatives](https://whats-best.ai/software/design/conceptboard/alternatives).

## What this page leaves out

- 21 product facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material.
- 4 subprocessors facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material.
- 3 data facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material.
- 3 pricing facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material.
- 3 support facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material.
- 2 compliance facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material.
- 2 hosting facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material.
- 2 integrations facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material.
- 2 sovereignty dimensions could not be confirmed on the vendor’s own pages and are shown as unknown.
- 6 of the readings below were written against an earlier fact sheet — a fact has been corrected, added or pulled since. Until the panel next runs on this product you are reading the older judgement.

## Sources

- [S1] Vendor homepage: https://conceptboard.com/ (checked 2026-10-13)
- [S2] Pricing page: https://conceptboard.com/pricing/ (checked 2026-10-13)
- [S3] Privacy policy: https://conceptboard.com/privacy-policy/ (checked 2026-10-13)
- [S4] Legal notice: https://conceptboard.com/imprint/ (checked 2026-10-13)
- [S5] Terms of service: https://conceptboard.com/terms-of-use/ (checked 2026-10-13)
- [S6] Collaboration, review & developer handoff — found from sitemap: https://conceptboard.com/use-case-remote-collaboration/ (checked 2026-10-13)
- [S7] Collaboration, review & developer handoff — found from sitemap: https://conceptboard.com/de/use-case-remote-collaboration/ (checked 2026-10-13)
- [S8] Brand assets & governance — found from sitemap: https://conceptboard.com/team-marketing/ (checked 2026-10-13)
- [S9] Brand assets & governance — found from sitemap: https://conceptboard.com/de/team-marketing/ (checked 2026-10-13)
- [S10] Files, formats & portability — found from sitemap: https://conceptboard.com/on-premises/ (checked 2026-10-13)
- [S11] Files, formats & portability — found from sitemap: https://conceptboard.com/de/on-premises/ (checked 2026-10-13)

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