Replaces reCAPTCHA
European alternatives to reCAPTCHA
European CAPTCHA services for forms and logins
Browse the category: Captcha services · Web analytics services
reCAPTCHA is Google's CAPTCHA service, used to keep bots away from signup forms, comment boxes, login pages and checkouts. It scores visitors on a mixture of signals and, when it is unsure, shows a challenge. Because it takes minutes to add and is instantly recognisable to users, it appears on an enormous number of websites.
A CAPTCHA loads on your pages before a visitor has agreed to anything, and it reports back to its operator about everyone who arrives. That is a difficult position to defend in a privacy notice, and a particular problem for public sector sites. A European alternative to reCAPTCHA does the same job with a European operator. Friendly Captcha and Trustcaptcha use approaches that ask little of the user, and CaptchaFox and Private Captcha are further options.
European options 11
Our pick
Trustcaptcha
Privacy friendly captcha from Germany
Trustcaptcha is a captcha service from Germany. It keeps bots and spam away from your website without making visitors solve puzzles or complete other tasks, so the protection works in the background instead of costing every user time. A free demo is available on the company website.
GermanyEU hosted
Friendly Captcha
Captcha service from Germany
Germany
CaptchaFox
Privacy focused captcha service from Germany
GermanyEU hosted
Private Captcha
Privacy friendly captcha service from Estonia
EstoniaEU hosted
Myra EU CAPTCHA
Privacy first captcha service built in Germany
GermanyEU hosted
Captcha
Captcha service from Austria
AustriaEU hosted
Swetrix CAPTCHA
Privacy focused captcha from Ukraine
UkraineOpen source
Swetrix
Open source privacy analytics from Ukraine
UkraineOpen source
ALTCHA
Open source captcha from the Czech Republic
Czech RepublicEU hostedOpen sourceFree planSelf-hosted and open source
Open source projects you can run yourself. Not necessarily made in Europe, but nobody else holds your data.
Open source
SwitzerlandQuestions
Do European CAPTCHAs still show puzzles to users?
Several of them work mostly in the background rather than presenting image puzzles. Friendly Captcha and Private Captcha describe their approach on their own sites, so check what your visitors would actually see.
How hard is it to replace reCAPTCHA on an existing form?
It is usually a script tag and a server side verification call, so the change is contained. Trustcaptcha, CaptchaFox and Myra EU CAPTCHA all publish integration guides for common frameworks.
Is there an option that also covers analytics?
Swetrix CAPTCHA comes from the same company as Swetrix, so a site could source both from one supplier. Whether that suits you depends on whether you want your analytics and bot protection in one place.