Every European Whistleblowing Software tool reviewed
Aarhus, Denmark
Founded Not stated by the vendor
From €99/month, published per-employee-band tiers
No free tier stated; pricing is published instead of a trial
Best for: Published, per-employee-band pricing: a compliance officer can price out a whole rollout without ever booking a sales call.
Whistleblower Software is built by Formalize, operating out of Aarhus, Denmark, and stands out in this category for one simple reason: it publishes exact prices.
Two plans, Core and Advanced, both scale across employee bands from under 50 staff up to 999, with pricing rising from €99 to €349 a month on Core and €149 to €529 a month on Advanced; organisations above 1,000 employees are quoted individually. Both plans bill annually, with 30 days' notice required before renewal to cancel.
The product covers what the EU Whistleblower Directive requires: a confidential intake channel, case routing, and the acknowledgment and feedback deadlines a compliance team has to track. International case management, a phone hotline and extra languages are sold as add-ons rather than bundled in, which keeps the base price low but means a multinational rollout adds cost quickly.
For a single-entity EU company that wants a firm number before ever speaking to sales, that published pricing is close to unique in this category, where most competitors require a demo call just to see a price.
Varberg, Sweden
Founded Not stated by the vendor
From €79/month, published per-employee-band tiers
30-day free trial, no credit card required
Best for: Data hosted entirely inside Sweden, with a 30-day free trial that needs no credit card — the easiest tool in this category to actually try before committing.
Whistlelink keeps every report and every server inside Sweden, which answers a question a lot of EU buyers ask and rarely get a straight answer to: which specific country holds this data. Pricing is published in the same employee-band shape used across this category's few transparent vendors, starting at €79 a month for up to 49 employees and rising to €299 a month for 500 to 999 employees, with organisations above that quoted directly.
The platform is ISO 27001 certified and supports more than 35 languages, and a 30-day free trial with no credit card required makes it one of the easiest tools here to actually test before buying. A 24/7 phone reporting add-on called Hotline Live, plus an Intake Management Service, cover the parts a web-only tool typically leaves out.
For a Swedish or Nordic company, or any EU organisation that wants to point at a single named country when asked where whistleblower reports are stored, Whistlelink is a direct, uncomplicated answer.
Düsseldorf, Germany
Founded 2019
Flat €79/month, unlimited users and cases, any company size
No free tier stated; flat pricing instead of a trial
Best for: A single flat monthly price with no per-employee scaling at all — the most predictable bill in this category for a company that's growing fast.
Vispato is the only tool in this category charging one flat rate, €79 a month, regardless of whether the company has 20 employees or 2,000, with unlimited users, cases and storage included and no per-employee scaling at all. A 12-month minimum term applies, and a separate custom Enterprise tier exists for organisations that need more support or configuration.
Founded in Düsseldorf in 2019 by Christian Bürger and Bastian Halbach, Vispato built a customer base of more than 350 companies, including AOK and Fressnapf, before being acquired in April 2025 by HR WORKS, a German HR-software company backed by private equity firm Maguar Capital. It continues to operate as a standalone product under the Vispato name, with end-to-end encryption and GDPR compliance built in.
For a fast-growing company that would otherwise watch its whistleblowing bill climb with headcount, the flat rate is the whole appeal; for a five-person company, that same flat rate is a worse deal than the employee-banded alternatives.
Munich, Germany
Founded 2000 (as Equity Story AG; renamed EQS Group in 2013)
Quote only, tiers named Essential, Professional, Enterprise
No free tier stated; quote-only
Best for: The December 2024 acquisition of Convercent's ethics and compliance business from OneTrust, which added hundreds of enterprise customers in a single move.
EQS Group is the closest thing to an incumbent in this category. The Munich-based company has sold compliance software since 2000, and its product, EQS Integrity Line, now serves more than 14,000 customer organisations across 80 countries. It was listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange from 2006 until 2023, when US private equity firm Thoma Bravo took the company private; EQS Group GmbH itself continues to operate as an independently managed German entity under that ownership.
In December 2024, EQS acquired the Convercent ethics and compliance business from OneTrust, absorbing a large block of enterprise customers, including past Convercent clients such as Airbnb, Under Armour and Kimberly-Clark, in one move. The product includes AI-assisted transcription of voice reports, translation across more than 80 languages, intelligent case routing, and full investigation audit trails, certified to ISO/IEC 27001 and ISAE 3000 Type II by PwC.
Pricing across all three named tiers, Essential, Professional and Enterprise, is quote-only, scaled by employee count with add-ons for phone reporting and extra channels. For a large multinational that wants one vendor with genuine enterprise scale and an established compliance track record, EQS is the obvious shortlist entry; for a small company, its size and quote-only pricing work against it.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Founded 2004 (as People Intouch)
Quote only, sold through a demo request
No free tier stated; quote-only
Best for: Multi-channel intake unified in one case file: web, AI voice agent, phone and mobile app all feed the same record, with 20+ years of operating history behind it.
SpeakUp, formerly known as People Intouch, has run whistleblowing programmes since 2004 from Amsterdam, longer than any other vendor in this category, and counts Electrolux, Daimler, IKEA and BMW among its more than 700 customers. Reports can arrive through a web form requiring no login, an AI-powered voice agent, a phone hotline with local numbers, or iOS and Android apps, all landing in one case file.
Certification is thorough: ISO 27001, ISO 27701, SOC 2 Type II and ISAE 3000 (audited quarterly), and TISAX, and the platform supports the EU Whistleblower Directive alongside GDPR, the German Supply Chain Act (LkSG), DORA and NIS2. SpeakUp claims a 49% average reporter check-back rate, a vendor-reported figure rather than an independently audited one, which it describes as the highest in the market.
The company does not publish prices anywhere, so a demo call is the only way to see a number. For an organisation that wants the most established vendor in this category with the broadest certification list, that trade-off is a reasonable one.
Brno, Czech Republic
Founded 2017
Modular: platform fee plus selected capabilities, priced by headcount; no published tier prices
No free tier stated; modular quote-based pricing
Best for: 113 supported languages and multi-channel intake including QR codes, built for organisations with a large, dispersed or non-desk workforce.
FaceUp started as a reporting tool for schools before expanding into corporate whistleblowing, and that dual customer base shows in its reach: 113 supported languages, a mobile app for reporters, and customers in more than 70 countries. Reporting channels include web forms, voice messages and QR codes, aimed at organisations with a large, dispersed or non-desk workforce.
Instead of fixed tiers, a buyer assembles a platform fee plus the specific capabilities needed, priced by headcount, and annual billing can save up to 30% compared with paying monthly. That avoids paying for features a smaller organisation won't use, but it also means no number appears anywhere on FaceUp's public pricing page.
For an organisation with a genuinely global, multilingual workforce, the 113-language coverage is hard to match elsewhere in this category; for a buyer who wants to see a price before a sales conversation, the modular model is a step back from Whistlelink or Vispato.
Milan, Italy (also Barcelona and Paris)
Founded Not stated by the vendor
Starter €19/month up to Enterprise €119/month, published
No free tier; 30-day money-back guarantee on all plans instead
Best for: Four published tiers starting at €19 a month — the cheapest way to meet the legal minimum anywhere in this category, with a 30-day money-back guarantee on every plan.
TrueSpeak, run by Milan-based True Solutions with additional offices in Barcelona and Paris, publishes the lowest entry price anywhere in this category: Starter at €19 a month for basic anonymous reporting. Professional steps up to €39 a month for full EU compliance features, Voice adds voice reporting and two-factor authentication at €49 a month, and Enterprise reaches €119 a month with broader configuration and multi-language support.
All four tiers carry a 30-day money-back guarantee, and the company reports serving more than 1,000 European clients with a 4.8-out-of-5 Trustpilot rating. The tiered structure means the cheapest plan covers only the legal minimum; the features that make a whistleblowing programme genuinely usable, voice intake and stronger authentication, sit two tiers up.
For a small company that wants the lowest possible cost to meet its EU Whistleblower Directive obligation, TrueSpeak's Starter tier is the cheapest entry point in this ranking; for anything beyond the legal minimum, the real comparison is against its €49 or €119 tiers, not the headline €19 figure.
Frankfurt, Germany
Founded 2019
Not stated by the vendor; quote only
No free tier stated; quote-only
Best for: Named, sovereign hosting on Deutsche Telekom's Open Telekom Cloud in two specific German data centres, rather than a generic 'hosted in the EU' claim.
LegalTegrity is built specifically for small and mid-sized German companies working through their EU Whistleblower Directive obligation for the first time. Founded in Frankfurt in 2019 and developed together with compliance lawyer Dr. Thomas Altenbach, it hosts the entire system on Deutsche Telekom's certified Open Telekom Cloud, with data centres named specifically as Magdeburg and Biere, rather than a generic 'EU region' claim.
That named, sovereign German hosting is the clearest differentiator against larger competitors that describe their infrastructure only as 'EU-based.' The trade-off is that LegalTegrity publishes no pricing anywhere on its site: there is no tier table, no flat rate and no per-employee band to compare, only a request-a-quote path.
For an SME that specifically wants to name Deutsche Telekom and two named German data centres in an audit or a works-council conversation, that specificity is worth something; for a buyer who wants to compare a number before talking to sales, LegalTegrity is one of the least transparent tools in this ranking.
