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Production Board: the GDPR-friendly alternative to Trello

Plain-language privacy notice, standard German GDPR DPA available on request, self-serve export + delete.

GDPR alternative
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Finn Glas
Finn GlasCo-Founder + Engineering
·April 21, 2026·
1 min read

GDPR isn't a checkbox - it's a posture. If you're moving off Trello because their AVV / DPA is opaque, Production Board is what a clean alternative looks like: subprocessor list of two (Stripe + mail relay), self-serve export + delete from account settings, and a standard German GDPR DPA on request when your procurement team needs one.

At a glance

Trello is a beautiful sticky-note canvas. Production Board is what you reach for when the board has gotten so big that a card with a checklist isn't enough - you need named phases, durations, owner-per-phase, and live updates across tabs. Pick Trello for personal kanbans + light team boards; pick us when production has shape.

GDPR posture

GDPR is a posture, not a checkbox

Three things matter under GDPR for a tool like this: (1) lawful basis for processing, (2) data subject rights (export, delete, port), and (3) the auftragsverarbeitungs­vertrag / DPA chain. Production Board treats them as engineering invariants, not legal optics. Lawful basis is the contract you sign with us. Subject rights are self-serve from your account settings - no support ticket required. The subprocessor list has two entries (Stripe + mail relay). A standard German GDPR DPA is available on request from /sales whenever your procurement team needs one - we don't charge for it and don't gate it behind a plan tier. Where Trello sits on each of these is the rest of this page.

Production Board vs Trello: GDPR comparison

Ours
Production Board
Theirs
Trello
Cards + lists
Phases with durations
Per-phase owners
Workaround
Live multi-tab
Hosted in Germany

When to pick which

Pick Production Board when

Production work: items move through named phases with predictable durations.

Pick Trello when

A personal kanban or a small team board.
You're using Trello Power-Ups heavily.

GDPR questions

What customer data-protection teams typically ask before signing a DPA.

Start with Production Board

Free plan, no credit card. We host in Germany. Export + delete are self-serve.

Finn Glas

Written by

Finn Glas

Co-Founder + Engineering

Finn is one of the Co-Founders. He owns the engineering side, the infrastructure, and most of the late-night fixes that ship before anyone notices.

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