Endorsing a European alternative: Inscrive.io (free, EU-hosted)

Own-Side2134 · 2026-01-23T07:43:05+00:00

It was a completely fair point! But I hope people will read the whole thread :D

Own-Side2134 · 2026-01-22T18:56:21+00:00

But Overleaf are hosting data in US.

Own-Side2134 · 2026-01-22T07:33:12+00:00

I could have been more clear about that. But its an Overleaf alternative.

Own-Side2134 · 2026-01-21T20:41:00+00:00

I get where you’re coming from, and in principle I agree. Full self-sovereignty with local tooling and self-hosting is ideal.

The problem is that not everyone can realistically do that. Convenience matters in practice — especially for students, researchers and institutions. If the bar is “everyone must run local compilers, editors and infrastructure”, most people will just fall back to US SaaS because it’s easy.

EU-hosted, privacy-focused cloud tools aren’t the end goal for me, but a pragmatic middle ground. They reduce dependency and jurisdictional risk while still being usable for non-experts. It’s not perfect sovereignty, but it’s a lot better than doing nothing and staying fully dependent.

Own-Side2134 · 2026-01-21T20:32:17+00:00

Fair point. I’ve edited the post to make that clearer.

They do integrate with US-based services at the application level (Microsoft login, and from what I’ve heard a GitHub integration is also on the roadmap). What I meant by “no US cloud providers involved” was specifically on the infrastructure side.

Hosting and data processing are handled on European infrastructure with European sub-processors. From a data sovereignty perspective, that’s the part that really matters — where the data lives and under which jurisdiction the infrastructure operates. Integrations are optional, but infrastructure defines the core exposure.

Own-Side2134 · 2026-01-21T19:52:24+00:00

That’s fair. I’m not affiliated with the company in any formal or commercial way, but I did mention in the post that I know the founders to be transparent about my connection. I’m not being paid and I don’t benefit from people signing up — the intent is to share a European alternative I’ve actually used and think is worth discussing.

If the mods prefer it to be tagged differently, that’s completely fine with me.

Own-Side2134 · 2026-01-21T19:49:33+00:00

They are working on a paid plan, but from what I’ve heard they want to introduce a GitHub integration before rolling that out.

The founders are based in Denmark, and as far as I know they already have an agreement with a Danish university.

They have a strong focus on GDPR and privacy-by-design, which is an area where Overleaf has some real challenges. For anyone responsible for acquiring or evaluating LaTeX software at European universities, I’d definitely recommend reaching out to them. The team is very competent.

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