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Sovereignty: 2 of 4 dimensions proven

0–5 in half steps. 5 means the rubric's top anchor is met on the evidence.

by Vikunja (open source) · vikunja.io

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The Skeptic

Weighted verdict

Assumes the marketing is lying until the evidence says otherwise. Hunts lock-in, dark patterns, hidden cost and dead changelogs. Exists to keep the rest of the panel honest.

Same scores as the panel view — this lens weights them the way this judge cares.

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Collaboration depth

How this is scored

How much real multi-person project work the tool carries: shared planning, assignments, dependencies, workload, comments, guest access.

0 — A personal task list; a second user has no defined place in it.

3 — Tasks can be shared and assigned, but planning stays per-person — no shared timeline, workload or dependency view.

5 — Solid shared projects with assignments, comments and at least one team-level planning view; gaps appear in cross-project or capacity planning.

8 — Team-level planning is first-class: cross-project views, workload/capacity, dependencies, guest or client access with sane permissions.

10 — Handles the full span from two freelancers to a structured department in one model — planning, capacity, permissions and client involvement all without workarounds.

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The Skeptic

Sharing with users, teams and link shares, assignees, comments, Gantt and eleven task-relation types with automatic opposites are all evidenced — real multi-person machinery, not a personal list. But we found no public information on workload or capacity views, and cross-project visibility rests on saved filters rather than any team-level planning surface, so this sits below the top band. 1 6 12

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Reporting

How this is scored

Whether the tool can answer questions about the work: progress, time, budgets, utilization — and export the answer.

0 — No reporting beyond looking at the board.

3 — Fixed per-project status views only; nothing aggregates across projects and nothing exports cleanly.

5 — Useful standard reports (progress, tracked time) with basic filters and CSV export, but limited customization and no budget/utilization depth.

8 — Configurable cross-project reporting incl. time, budgets and utilization, with dashboards and reliable exports.

10 — Reporting is a product in itself: custom report builder, scheduled delivery, API access to every metric the UI shows.

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The Skeptic

The dashboard, the Upcoming view with a date-range picker and cross-project saved filters give a filtered view of work across projects, which is more than per-project status. We found no public information on time, budget or utilization reporting, and the only export surfaced is copy-as-Markdown — no report export path appears on any captured page. 7 12

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Integrations

How this is scored

How well the tool connects to the rest of the stack: native integrations, calendar/comms hooks, API and webhooks, import/export paths.

0 — A closed box — no API, no integrations, CSV out if anything.

3 — A handful of marquee integrations, no public API or an API that covers a fraction of the product.

5 — The common set (calendar, Slack/Teams, file storage) plus a documented public API; automation platforms partially covered.

8 — Broad native catalogue, well-documented API and webhooks, first-class automation-platform support and real import paths from competitors.

10 — Ecosystem-grade: everything in 8 plus the tool is itself extensible (apps/plugins, AI/MCP surfaces) and exit via API export is complete.

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The Skeptic

Documented webhooks with nineteen event types and HMAC-SHA256 signing, API tokens, CalDAV, MCP for AI clients, and genuine importers from Todoist, Trello, TickTick, WeKan, Planka and CSV — with custom migrators — put this well above the basics. We found no public information on Slack or Teams connectors, file-storage integrations, or automation-platform support, so it stops short of the broad native catalogue. 9 11 12

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Onboarding effort

How this is scored

Time and friction from signup to first real value for a small team, without paid services.

0 — No self-serve path — onboarding starts with a sales call and an implementation project.

3 — Self-serve exists but the first project requires configuration a newcomer cannot judge yet (workflows, custom fields, permissions) before anything works.

5 — A team gets a first project running within a day; trial requires payment details or key steps live behind docs.

8 — Signup to working project inside an hour: guided setup, sensible defaults, templates, trial without payment details.

10 — Minutes to value even for non-tool-people, importers pull existing work in, and the tool teaches its own advanced features as the team grows into them.

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The Skeptic

Cloud users get import-in-minutes paths from major competitors and quick-add syntax that creates structured tasks from one line of text. But we found no public information on guided setup, templates or trial terms, and the self-host path documented here requires environment variables and SSRF configuration a newcomer cannot yet judge — OAuth imports even fail on a wrong public URL until it is set. 2 11 12

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European sovereignty

How this is scored

Where the company and the data actually sit: legal entity, ownership control, data residency, and subprocessor exposure to non-EU jurisdictions.

0 — Non-European vendor, data on US infrastructure under US law, no DPA worth the name.

3 — DPA and GDPR language present, but hosting defaults to the US or ownership sits outside Europe — compliance paperwork over substance.

5 — EU data residency is available and contractually fixed, but the vendor or its controlling owner is non-European, or core subprocessors put data within CLOUD Act reach.

8 — European company under European control with EU-resident data and a public DPA; remaining exposure is limited to identifiable subprocessors (e.g. a US hyperscaler's EU region) and is documented.

10 — European company, European control, EU-only data residency on European infrastructure, subprocessor list free of extraterritorial reach — verifiable, not asserted.

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The Skeptic

A German imprint names Konrad Langenberg Software in Lübeck with a German VAT number, cloud hosting sits at Hetzner in Germany and Finland, AGPL code is inspectable, and self-hosting removes the vendor from the data path entirely. Two things keep it out of the top band: only the hosting subprocessor is named, with email delivery, support tooling and payment processing undisclosed, and no public data-processing agreement appears on any captured page. 1 4 5

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Support & documentation

How this is scored

Whether a stuck user gets unstuck: docs quality, support channels and their availability per plan, and the health of the learning surface.

0 — No docs beyond marketing pages; support is a contact form that may answer.

3 — Docs exist but are thin or stale; support on entry plans is effectively email-only with slow turnaround.

5 — Searchable help center covering the core product; chat or email support on all plans with reasonable response times.

8 — Deep, current docs incl. onboarding guides and templates; fast chat support not gated to top tiers; visible changelog.

10 — Docs, academy, community and support so good they are a reason to buy; SLAs published, support quality independent of plan.

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The Skeptic

A help center with some twenty topics plus technical documentation for server setup, API details and development reads deep, and the docs are honest about sharp edges — webhooks are sent once with no retry, and LAN imports fail by default — which is a good sign of currency. We found no public information on chat support, published response times or a visible changelog; the base channel is email, with consulting, training and SLA-backed enterprise tiers sold as services without numbers. 9 12 13

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Pricing transparency not rated — the vendor publishes no price

How this is scored

Can a buyer determine the real, payable cost of the tool for their team before talking to anyone?

0 — No public pricing at all — every number sits behind "contact sales".

3 — Some tiers are public, but a deciding factor (seat minimums, mandatory add-ons, billing-period surcharge, tax treatment) only surfaces at checkout or in fine print.

5 — Self-serve tiers are publicly priced and the billing-period difference is stated, but the headline number still needs qualifying — e.g. annual-only headline, taxes excluded without saying so, or an opaque enterprise tier doing real work.

8 — Every self-serve tier is fully priced with billing periods and tax treatment plain on the page; only genuinely custom enterprise work lacks a number.

10 — Every tier including enterprise has a public price or published price formula, and the headline number is the number on the invoice.

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The Skeptic

Not one price appears on any captured page — not on the hosted cloud page, not beside the enterprise support packages that include SLAs and priority support. AGPL self-hosting is visible as a licence-free path, but a buyer cannot determine what the hosted service costs before contacting the vendor, and we found no public information on billing periods or tax treatment. 2 13

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European sovereignty — proven facts

2 of 4 dimensions proven

Built only from facts shown on the vendor's own pages. A dimension we could not prove is left open, not scored as zero.

Ownership Not determined ⚠ unverified — uncited Report an error
Data residency EU only ⚠ unverified 3/3 pts 5 Report an error
Subprocessors EU only ⚠ unverified 2/2 pts 5 Report an error

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What we left out

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Sources (13)

The pages every claim on this page was read from — each one checked, dated, and kept verifiable.

  1. 1 Vendor homepage vikunja.io Checked 15 Sep 2026 Details →
  2. 2 Hosted cloud vikunja.cloud Checked 15 Sep 2026 Details →
  3. 3 Privacy policy vikunja.io Checked 15 Sep 2026 Details →
  4. 4 Imprint vikunja.io Checked 15 Sep 2026 Details →
  5. 5 Security / trust page vikunja.io Checked 30 Sep 2026 Details →
  6. 6 Collaboration depth — found from sitemap vikunja.io Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  7. 7 Reporting — found from sitemap vikunja.io Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  8. 8 Integrations — found from sitemap vikunja.io Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  9. 9 Integrations — found from sitemap vikunja.io Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  10. 10 Onboarding effort — found from sitemap vikunja.io Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  11. 11 Onboarding effort — found from sitemap vikunja.io Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  12. 12 Support & documentation — found from sitemap vikunja.io Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  13. 13 Support & documentation — found from sitemap vikunja.io Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →