European Alternatives to IFTTT
Looking for a European alternative to IFTTT? IFTTT, Inc. is a San Francisco company whose terms are governed by California law, with disputes settled in individual JAMS arbitration in San Francisco County; its privacy notice names an EU representative in Hamburg rather than a European contracting company.
Eleven European tools cover the two jobs people use IFTTT for: connecting web apps (n8n, Make, Automatisch, Albato, Tines, Kestra) and automating a smart home (Home Assistant, Homey, openHAB, Gladys Assistant, Jeedom), from companies and foundations in Germany, the Czech Republic, Cyprus, Ireland, France, Switzerland and the Netherlands.
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11 European Alternatives to IFTTT
n8n
Berlin workflow builder with a free self-hosted Community Edition and a cloud plan from €20 a month on annual billing
Make
Visual scenario builder with a permanent free plan; run from Prague, but its contracting entity is not named in the public terms
Home Assistant
Open-source smart-home hub with a built-in automation editor, run locally; project of the Swiss Open Home Foundation
Homey
Enschede smart-home platform with visual Flows, a free cloud start and a self-hosted option
Automatisch
Berlin open-source app connector built to be self-hosted, with a cloud option; the closest to IFTTT in spirit
openHAB
Vendor-neutral open-source home automation with a rules engine, run by a German non-profit association
Albato
Cypriot no-code app connector with a free plan of 100 transactions a month and paid tiers from $15
Gladys Assistant
Parisian open-source, local smart home with a paid cloud add-on from €5.83 a month and a one-month free trial
Jeedom
Open-source home automation from Domadoo SAS near Lyon, working without any cloud connection
Tines
Workflow platform for security and IT teams with a free edition of 3 live workflows; EU customers contract with an Irish company
Kestra
Open-source orchestrator from Kestra Technologies in France, with workflows written as YAML for data and infrastructure jobs
Key takeaways
- IFTTT, Inc. is a San Francisco company whose terms choose California law and JAMS arbitration in San Francisco County; its privacy notice names representatives in Hamburg and the UK.
- n8n (Berlin) has a self-hosted Community Edition and a cloud Starter plan at €20 a month on annual billing, with every integration on every plan.
- Make has a permanent free plan with up to 1,000 credits a month, but its public terms do not name a contracting company, so check the order form before you rely on it.
- Home Assistant, openHAB, Gladys Assistant and Jeedom are open-source hubs that run in your home; Homey is a commercial Dutch hub with a free cloud start.
- Albato (Cyprus) is the nearest hosted match for simple app-to-app rules, with a free plan of 100 transactions a month.
- Tines and Kestra are on the list but are built for security teams and data engineers; they are not for someone replacing a handful of Applets.
Why people leave IFTTT
IFTTT is the original "if this, then that" service. You connect two services, say a smart plug and your calendar, or a feed and a chat channel, and an Applet runs whenever the trigger fires. The free plan allows 2 Applets. Paid plans on its plans page run from $2.99 a month (Pro, 20 Applets, multi-action Applets and webhooks) to $8.99 a month (Pro+, unlimited Applets), both listed in US dollars.
It is run by IFTTT, Inc. in San Francisco. Its terms are governed by California law, and disputes are settled in San Francisco County in English by one JAMS arbitrator under the Streamlined Arbitration Rules, with urgent court relief left open to either side.
Its privacy notice names IFTTT, Inc. as the party handling your data and lists a representative in Hamburg and one in the United Kingdom for the purposes of European law. That is an ordinary arrangement, but it means your counterparty is a US company with a US forum.
People use IFTTT for two quite different things, and this page splits the alternatives the same way. Six tools connect web apps to each other (n8n, Make, Automatisch, Albato, Tines and Kestra). Five automate a smart home (Home Assistant, Homey, openHAB, Gladys Assistant and Jeedom). None of the eleven is a one-for-one copy of IFTTT, and the last two app tools are built for narrower users than IFTTT is.
- Your counterparty is a US company with a California forum IFTTT, Inc.'s terms choose California law and individual arbitration in San Francisco County. For a hobbyist this rarely matters, but for a business that connects customer data through Applets it means any dispute is settled far from home. Each tool below is run by a company, association or foundation in the EU, Ireland or Switzerland; the one open question is which company signs the contract with you at Make, which its card explains.
- Applets are limited on the cheap plans The free plan allows 2 Applets and the first paid plan 20. Multi-action Applets and webhooks start at Pro, and unlimited Applets need Pro+ at $8.99 a month. Several tools here have no Applet count at all: Home Assistant, openHAB, Gladys Assistant and Jeedom are free software that you run yourself, and n8n lists unlimited workflows on every plan.
- Cloud automation puts your accounts in someone else's hands An Applet works because IFTTT holds an authorised link to each service. The smart-home tools in this list mostly work the other way: they run on a box in your home and talk to your devices directly. Gladys Assistant and Jeedom both say that no cloud connection is needed for them to work, and openHAB says smart homes should work offline.
- IFTTT is a consumer product and the European tools are not The app-connecting tools here (n8n, Make, Automatisch, Albato) ask more of you than IFTTT does: you build a workflow rather than pick a ready-made Applet. That is the price of the extra control. If you only want a handful of simple rules, the smart-home hubs or Automatisch will feel closest, and the others will feel like a step up in complexity.
What you have to replace, not just match
List your Applets first and sort them into two piles. Web-to-web Applets (a new row in a sheet posts to a channel) move to n8n, Make, Automatisch or Albato. Device Applets (when I get home, turn on the lights) move to a smart-home hub: Home Assistant, Homey, openHAB, Gladys Assistant or Jeedom. Do not expect one tool to take both piles.
Rebuild one Applet at a time rather than all at once, and keep the matching IFTTT Applet switched on but with its action disabled until the new one has run correctly twice. Applets that depend on a service IFTTT has a special connection to may not have an equivalent trigger, so check that the service has a connector or an open API before you commit.
The alternatives compared
| Position | Tool | Headquarters | Pricing | Jurisdiction |
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| #1 | n8n | Berlin, Germany | Free self-hosted / Cloud from €20/month billed annually | EU (Germany) |
| #2 | Make | Prague, Czech Republic | Free (1,000 credits/month) / Core from $9/month billed annually | EU (Czech Republic) |
| #5 | Automatisch | Berlin, Germany | Free self-hosted / hosted cloud from about €20/month | EU (Germany) |
| #10 | Tines | Dublin, Ireland | Free tier (3 live workflows, unlimited users) / paid plans, pricing on request | EU (Ireland) |
| #11 | Kestra | Lille, France | Free and open source / Enterprise on request | EU (France) |
How each alternative compares to IFTTT
- Which law reaches it. EU (Germany). IFTTT is run from the United States, so the CLOUD Act obliges the provider to hand over data on a valid order regardless of which country the servers are in.
- Where the data sits. Your own servers, or EU cloud.
- Source code. Open source, where IFTTT is not: you can read what it does rather than take the description on trust.
- Independently checked. Source-available (Sustainable Use Licence).
Best for: People who want to build real multi-step workflows between web apps and are willing to learn a visual editor
n8n is made by n8n GmbH in Berlin (Amtsgericht Charlottenburg, HRB 212509 B). Its pricing page says all plans include unlimited users and workflows and every integration, with pricing based on monthly workflow executions rather than steps.
The cloud Starter plan is €20 a month on annual billing for 2,500 executions, with a free trial that needs no card. A Community Edition is on GitHub for self-hosting. Its licence and its terms of service were not read for this page.
What n8n does better than IFTTT
- Unlimited workflows and every integration on every plan, where IFTTT's free plan allows 2 Applets
- Code steps and custom API calls when a ready-made connector does not exist
- Can be self-hosted, so the credentials stay on your server
- German company with a published commercial-register number
Where n8n is a step down from IFTTT
- Harder to learn than IFTTT's pick-an-Applet approach
- No smart-home focus
- Business plan is self-hosted only and priced at €667 a month
- Terms and licence not verified for this page
Standout against IFTTT. It prices by workflow run rather than by the number of steps in the workflow.
- Which law reaches it. EU (Czech Republic). IFTTT is run from the United States, so the CLOUD Act obliges the provider to hand over data on a valid order regardless of which country the servers are in.
- Where the data sits. AWS, EU or North America.
- Source code. Closed source, as IFTTT is.
- Independently checked. ISO 27001; SOC 2 Type II.
Best for: People who want to build multi-step scenarios without code and are fine with a hosted-only service
Make is a visual scenario builder, listed on this site as Prague-based, and its legal documents are published by Celonis (the site footer reads Celonis, Inc.). Its pricing page lists a free plan with up to 1,000 credits a month, and paid plans (Core, Pro, Teams) with larger allowances. Annual billing saves 15% or more according to the page.
Its legal terms are the Celonis Master Services Agreement (June 2026 version), which picks the governing law by where the customer is based: New York for the Americas, German law and Munich for Germany and Austria, and English law and London for most of the rest. The text does not name the contracting company, so this page cannot tell you which entity signs. Make is a hosted service only.
What Make does better than IFTTT
- Permanent free plan, not a trial
- Visual builder with branching and error handling
- Ready-made connectors, so little setup for common apps
- Listed on this site as Prague-based
Where Make is a step down from IFTTT
- The public terms do not name the contracting company, and the law for most EU users is English, not EU
- Hosted only, so no way to keep credentials on your own server
- Published under Celonis, whose footer names Celonis, Inc.; the group structure was not examined
- Uses a credit system that is harder to predict than an Applet count
Standout against IFTTT. It is the only tool here that combines a free plan with a full visual scenario builder, and it is also the one whose contracting company is not stated in the terms I could read.
Home Assistant
the most capable smart-home hub, run by a Swiss foundation
Best for: Smart-home owners who want local control and are comfortable doing some setup
Home Assistant is open-source home-automation software that puts local control and privacy first. The project is run by the Open Home Foundation, which its privacy policy places at Grabenstrasse 25, 6340 Baar, Switzerland. The website is hosted on Netlify with limited analytics.
The software is free. Remote access and backups come from Home Assistant Cloud, a paid service operated by Nabu Casa, which the privacy policy describes as a separate legal entity. This page did not check Nabu Casa or its prices.
What Home Assistant does better than IFTTT
- Free and open source, with no limit on automations
- Runs locally, so rules keep working when the internet does not
- Foundation structure rather than a venture-funded company
- Operated by a foundation with a public privacy policy
Where Home Assistant is a step down from IFTTT
- Setup and upkeep are your job
- Not designed for connecting web apps the way IFTTT is
- The paid cloud is a separate company that was not verified here
- Switzerland is outside the EU, although inside Europe and with its own data-protection law
Standout against IFTTT. It is a foundation project, not a company product, so there is no vendor to change the terms on you.
Homey
a polished Dutch smart-home platform with visual Flows
Best for: People who want a smart home that is easier to set up than Home Assistant, from a company with a Dutch address
Homey is made by Athom B.V. of Enschede, the Netherlands (KvK 61036498, VAT NL854175854B01). Its site offers Homey Cloud, which starts free and needs no hub, Homey Pro as a local hub, and a Self-Hosted Server option. Automations are built as Flows, with Advanced Flow for more complex logic.
The terms of service are served from a page that renders in the browser, so they could not be read, and no price is quoted here. Check what Homey Cloud includes for free against the devices you own.
What Homey does better than IFTTT
- Visual Flow editor that is friendlier than Home Assistant's
- Free cloud start with no hardware to buy
- Dutch company with a published chamber-of-commerce number
- Can run locally on Homey Pro or on your own hardware
Where Homey is a step down from IFTTT
- Not open source, so you depend on Athom
- Homey Cloud supports only official apps, not community ones
- Terms and prices not verified for this page
- Focused on the home; it does not replace web-to-web Applets
Standout against IFTTT. One Dutch company covers a free cloud start, a local hub and a self-hosted server under the same Flow editor.
- Which law reaches it. EU (Germany). IFTTT is run from the United States, so the CLOUD Act obliges the provider to hand over data on a valid order regardless of which country the servers are in.
- Where the data sits. Your own servers.
- Source code. Open source, where IFTTT is not: you can read what it does rather than take the description on trust.
Best for: People who want trigger-and-action rules between web apps and would rather host it themselves
Automatisch is published by AB Software GmbH, Heiligental 11, Berlin (Amtsgericht Charlottenburg, HRB 251600 B). Its terms say they are governed by the laws of Germany. The site describes it as an open-source Zapier alternative that you can self-host or use as a cloud service.
The cloud pricing page returned an error when checked, so no cloud price is quoted. The project's imprint page still carries a 2022 to 2023 copyright line, which is worth knowing when you judge how actively it is maintained.
What Automatisch does better than IFTTT
- Simple builder, closest to the Applet idea
- Open source and designed to be self-hosted
- German company with a register number and German law in the terms
- No per-Applet limit when you host it yourself
Where Automatisch is a step down from IFTTT
- Connector catalogue size was not verified; check your apps are covered
- Cloud prices could not be verified
- Its imprint still shows a 2022 to 2023 copyright, so check the project's activity before you rely on it
- No smart-home features
Standout against IFTTT. It is the simplest self-hostable tool here and the one most like the original Applet model.
openHAB
vendor-neutral smart-home software from a German non-profit
Best for: Technically minded home owners who want no company behind the software
openHAB is open-source home-automation software supported by the openHAB Foundation e.V., a registered non-profit at Kollwitzweg 10, 64372 Ober-Ramstadt, Germany. Its site says there is no company behind openHAB, so it stays vendor-neutral.
It lists support for more than 400 technologies and a rules engine with time and event triggers, scripts, actions and notifications. A free cloud connector service (myopenhab.org) is offered for remote access, or you can host your own. No prices apply to the software itself.
What openHAB does better than IFTTT
- No vendor: a German association rather than a company
- Free and open source, with a rules engine more flexible than Applets
- Works fully offline, and a cloud connector is optional
- Support for more than 400 technologies
Where openHAB is a step down from IFTTT
- A steeper learning curve than Homey or IFTTT
- Java-based and set up by you
- No web-app connector focus
- Support is through a community forum
Standout against IFTTT. It is the only tool here backed by a registered non-profit association rather than a company.
Albato
a hosted app connector with a free plan, from Cyprus
Best for: Small teams who want a hosted tool that connects business apps without running a server
Albato's privacy policy names Albato Ltd, a company incorporated in Cyprus with its registered office in Nicosia, as the data controller. Its terms page could not be found, so the governing law is not stated here.
Its pricing page lists Free (100 transactions a month, 5 active automations, 2 steps each), and Pro at $15 a month on annual billing, or $22 monthly, for 1,000 transactions. Extra transactions cost $0.0330 each. Amounts are shown in US dollars. It also sells an embedded product to software companies.
What Albato does better than IFTTT
- Free plan with unlimited apps and connections
- Prices published, including the cost of extra transactions
- Hosted, so nothing to maintain
- Company in the EU, subject to the GDPR directly
Where Albato is a step down from IFTTT
- The free plan is small: 5 automations and 2 steps each
- Dollar pricing and a transaction count that is harder to plan than a flat fee
- Hosted only, with no self-hosting
- Terms and governing law not verified
Standout against IFTTT. It publishes the price of an extra transaction, which most hosted tools here do not.
Gladys Assistant
a local French smart home with an optional paid cloud
Best for: Home owners who want a simple, private hub and are happy to pay a little for remote access
Gladys Assistant is published by a French single-shareholder company in Paris (SASU, share capital €1,000, RCS Paris 947 826 814). The software is open source and self-hosted, and the site says no cloud is mandatory.
The optional Gladys Plus service adds encrypted remote access and backups: Lite is €5.83 a month or €69.99 billed yearly, Plus is €8.33 a month or €99.99 billed yearly, both with a one-month free trial. It says it is hosted in Europe.
What Gladys Assistant does better than IFTTT
- Free open-source core and no mandatory cloud
- Cloud prices published in euros
- French company with a register number
- Simpler than Home Assistant
Where Gladys Assistant is a step down from IFTTT
- A single-shareholder company that describes itself as indie and without investors, so continuity rests on one organisation
- Smaller integration catalogue than Home Assistant
- Mostly aimed at French users (for example the Enedis integration)
- No web-app connector features
Standout against IFTTT. It is the one smart-home project here that publishes its cloud prices in euros up front.
Jeedom
a long-running French open-source home automation system
Best for: French-speaking home owners who want an open system that works without any cloud
Jeedom is published and operated by DOMADOO SAS, a simplified joint-stock company with capital of €113,260, registered in Lyon (RCS 482 106 606) with its office in Rillieux-la-Pape. Its site describes an open-source solution that needs no cloud connection to work.
Much of the site is in French, and this page did not verify prices for the box or services. Jeedom also offers building, city and industry solutions beyond the home.
What Jeedom does better than IFTTT
- Open source with no cloud needed to work
- French company with a published register number
- Marketplace of plugins
- Not tied to a single device brand
Where Jeedom is a step down from IFTTT
- Much of the site is in French
- Prices not verified here
- Community size was not compared here
- No web-app connector focus
Standout against IFTTT. It is a company product with a published register entry, so there is an identifiable vendor, unlike the foundation projects.
- Which law reaches it. EU (Ireland). IFTTT is run from the United States, so the CLOUD Act obliges the provider to hand over data on a valid order regardless of which country the servers are in.
- Source code. Closed source, as IFTTT is.
- Independently checked. SOC 2 Type II.
Best for: Security and IT staff who want a no-code automation platform with a free edition and an Irish contracting entity
Tines's self-serve terms say the contracting entity is an Irish company if the customer is outside North America, with Irish law and Irish courts. The terms name that entity in more than one way, so this page does not state the exact name.
Its pricing page lists a free edition with unlimited users, spaces and connectors, 3 live workflows and a one-time $50 AI allowance. Paid editions are priced on request.
What Tines does better than IFTTT
- A free edition with unlimited users, spaces and connectors
- Irish contracting entity and law for customers outside North America
- Bring-your-own AI model is part of the product
- Backed by a startup programme for small teams
Where Tines is a step down from IFTTT
- Aimed at security and IT, not at personal rules
- The free edition allows only 3 live workflows
- Paid prices are not published
- A US parent exists for North American customers; the group structure was not examined
Standout against IFTTT. It is the only tool here that switches your contract from a US entity to an Irish one depending on where you are.
- Which law reaches it. EU (France). IFTTT is run from the United States, so the CLOUD Act obliges the provider to hand over data on a valid order regardless of which country the servers are in.
- Where the data sits. Your own infrastructure, or EU cloud.
- Source code. Open source, where IFTTT is not: you can read what it does rather than take the description on trust.
Best for: Engineers who need scheduled, versioned workflows and write YAML, not people replacing a few Applets
Kestra is operated by Kestra Technologies in La Madeleine, France; the French company register lists it as a simplified joint-stock company (SIREN 900427873). The core is open source, with a paid Enterprise Edition per instance and a Cloud Edition.
The pricing page does not state amounts. Workflows are written declaratively in YAML, which suits data pipelines and infrastructure automation more than app-to-app triggers.
What Kestra does better than IFTTT
- Open source with a French company behind it
- Handles scheduling, retries and dependencies that Applets cannot
- Workflows live in version control
- Self-hostable
Where Kestra is a step down from IFTTT
- Not a tool for casual users; YAML is required
- No consumer app or smart-home focus
- Enterprise prices are not published
- Overkill for personal automation
Standout against IFTTT. It treats a workflow as a file in version control, which no other tool here does.
What actually breaks when you switch
There is no import from IFTTT. Every Applet has to be rebuilt by hand, so write down the trigger, the action and any filters, and rebuild the ones you actually use before you cancel the paid plan.
The smart-home hubs reward effort. Home Assistant, openHAB, Jeedom and Gladys Assistant are free, but you install, update and back them up yourself. If you want a finished product, Homey is the nearer fit, and it costs hardware or a subscription.
IFTTT's connections to individual brands are its real asset. A European tool may not have a connector for a small service you rely on. Check for a connector, a webhook or an open API on the exact service before you move.
Which of these feels most like IFTTT?
For app-to-app rules, Automatisch is the closest in spirit: a simple trigger-and-action builder from Berlin that you can self-host or use in its cloud. Albato and Make are hosted visual builders with free plans, and are a step up in power and in complexity.
For smart-home rules, Homey is the most polished, with a visual Flow editor and a free cloud start. Home Assistant is the most capable and also the most hands-on.
Is self-hosting realistic if I am not a developer?
For the smart-home hubs, yes, up to a point. Home Assistant sells its own hardware and Gladys Assistant installs with a single Docker command, but you are still responsible for updates and backups. Gladys offers a paid cloud add-on for remote access and encrypted backups.
For n8n and Automatisch, self-hosting means running a server. If you do not want that, use the n8n cloud Starter plan or Automatisch's cloud option, or pick a hosted tool like Make or Albato.
Do these keep my data in Europe?
Not automatically, and it is worth asking each time. The open-source hubs keep your data at home by design. Gladys Plus states that it is hosted in Europe. For n8n, Make and Albato, this page did not verify where their cloud servers are, and Make's public terms do not even name its contracting entity, so ask for the data-processing agreement before you connect customer data.
Self-hosting n8n or Automatisch is the one way to be sure where the data lives, because it lives on your own server.
Is the smart-home half of this list really an IFTTT replacement?
For the device rules, yes: turning lights on at sunset or when a phone arrives is a core job of Home Assistant, Homey, openHAB, Gladys and Jeedom, and they do it without a round trip through a third-party cloud. For rules that bridge web services, such as saving an email attachment to a drive, you will want n8n, Make, Automatisch or Albato instead, and some people run both.
Which one to pick
If you connect web apps, start with n8n if you want power and clear published pricing, Automatisch if you want the simplest self-hostable builder, and Make or Albato if you want a hosted tool with a free plan. Read Make's contract carefully: its public terms do not name the contracting company, and for most European users the governing law is English.
If you automate a smart home, pick Homey for the easiest start, Home Assistant for the most capable system, openHAB if you want a non-profit behind it, and Gladys Assistant or Jeedom for a French open-source option that runs without a cloud.
Tines and Kestra are there because they are real European workflow tools, but they are for security teams and engineers. Do not pick them to replace five personal Applets.
Be realistic about the gap. IFTTT is easier to start with than any of these and has connections to many consumer services that the European tools do not match. Switch if you want a European contracting party, to keep control of your credentials, or to lift the limit on the number of rules, and keep IFTTT for the odd Applet that has no equivalent.
Frequently Asked Questions
It depends on the job. For connecting web apps, n8n is the best-documented all-rounder on this page, with a free self-hosted edition and a €20 a month cloud plan, and Automatisch is the simplest. For a smart home, Home Assistant is the most capable and Homey the easiest to start with.
No. IFTTT, Inc. is based in San Francisco. Its terms are governed by California law, with disputes settled by a JAMS arbitrator in San Francisco County, and its privacy notice lists representatives in Hamburg and the United Kingdom.
There is a free plan with 2 Applets. On its plans page, Pro is listed at $2.99 a month ($35.88 billed annually) with 20 Applets, multi-action Applets and webhooks, and Pro+ at $8.99 a month ($107.88 billed annually) with unlimited Applets and AI services. The amounts are shown in US dollars.
n8n lists a Starter plan at €20 a month on annual billing with 2,500 workflow executions, a larger Pro plan, and a Business plan at €667 a month that is self-hosted only. Albato lists a Free plan with 100 transactions a month and Pro at $15 a month on annual billing ($22 monthly) for 1,000 transactions, in US dollars.
Make has a free plan with up to 1,000 credits a month and no end date. It is run from Prague and owned by Celonis, and the Master Services Agreement is published on Celonis's legal pages. The agreement picks the governing law by where you live (German law with Munich courts for customers in Germany or Austria, English law with London courts for most other places) and the text I could read does not name the exact contracting company.
Home Assistant is open-source home-automation software with local control. The project is run by the Open Home Foundation, which its privacy policy places at Grabenstrasse 25, Baar, Switzerland. Its paid Home Assistant Cloud is operated by a separate company, Nabu Casa, which this page did not check.
Home Assistant, openHAB, Jeedom, Gladys Assistant (the software), Automatisch and the n8n Community Edition are free to run yourself. Make, Albato and Tines have free hosted plans, and Homey Cloud starts free. Gladys's paid cloud add-on has a one-month trial.
No. There is no import from IFTTT in any of these tools, so each Applet has to be rebuilt by hand. Write down the trigger, the action and any filters before you start.
Because they are European workflow tools with a free way to try them (Tines has a free edition with 3 live workflows, and Kestra is open source). They are the weakest fit here: Tines is built for security and IT teams and Kestra for data engineers who write YAML. For a few personal rules, pick something else.
Gladys Assistant is a French single-shareholder company in Paris (SASU, RCS Paris 947 826 814). Jeedom is published by DOMADOO SAS, a French company in Rillieux-la-Pape near Lyon (RCS Lyon 482 106 606). Both sell optional paid add-ons around free open-source software.
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