Liveblocks
✓ Verified by EU AltsAPIs for adding collaborative real-time features to your app — a French alternative to Firebase Realtime.
Overview
Liveblocks is a Paris, France-based European company building developer tools and saas software since 2021. Despite its EU base, EU Alts has verified that Liveblocks independently owned, with its ultimate ownership based in United States, and hosts customer data with UNKNOWN in United States, so it may still fall under the reach of the US CLOUD Act — worth weighing against GitHub, Atlassian, and JetBrains's US-distributed peers on this specific point.
Why European teams pick Liveblocks
Teams in Europe still consider Liveblocks for its developer tools product and France presence, operating since 2021, but unlike a fully EU-owned provider, Liveblocks independently owned, with its ultimate ownership based in United States, and hosts customer data with UNKNOWN in United States — so it does not fully avoid US CLOUD Act exposure the way some other alternatives to GitHub, Atlassian, and JetBrains's US-distributed peers do.
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About
Liveblocks is a real-time collaboration infrastructure platform providing APIs and React hooks for building collaborative features — presence indicators, live cursors, multiplayer editing, comments, and notifications — into any web application. It handles the complex distributed systems work (conflict resolution, presence syncing, persistence) so product teams can add Google Docs-style collaboration to their apps without building real-time infrastructure from scratch. Liveblocks stores data in the EU for European customers under GDPR compliance. It is used by EU startups building collaborative SaaS tools as a faster alternative to building on WebSockets from scratch.
Details
- Founded
- 2021
- Headquarters
- Paris, France
- Ownership
- Independently owned (United States)
- Hosting
- UNKNOWN, United States
- CLOUD Act
- Exposed
- Company size
- 11–50 employees
Categories
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Frequently asked questions
What is Liveblocks?
Liveblocks is a real-time collaboration infrastructure platform providing APIs and React hooks for building collaborative features — presence indicators, live cursors, multiplayer editing, comments, and notifications — into any web application. It handles the complex distributed systems work (conflict resolution, presence syncing, persistence) so product teams can add Google Docs-style collaboration to their apps without building real-time infrastructure from scratch. Liveblocks stores data in the EU for European customers under GDPR compliance. It is used by EU startups building collaborative SaaS tools as a faster alternative to building on WebSockets from scratch.
What does Liveblocks do?
Liveblocks is apis for adding collaborative real-time features to your app — a french alternative to firebase realtime. It is listed under developer tools and saas on EU Alts because its core functionality serves teams looking for a European developer tools tool with EU data residency, typically as a switch away from GitHub, Atlassian, and JetBrains's US-distributed peers.
Is Liveblocks a good European developer tools alternative?
Liveblocks is a fit for European businesses evaluating developer tools options where data residency and GDPR alignment matter — typical buyers include EU-based SaaS teams, public-sector projects, regulated industries (healthcare, finance, legal), and any organisation that needs to demonstrate that customer data does not leave the EU. It also overlaps with saas use cases.
Is Liveblocks GDPR compliant?
Liveblocks is headquartered in Paris, France and processes user data under the GDPR by default. Customer data processing is supervised by France's data protection authority, the Commission nationale de l'informatique et des libertés (CNIL). However, EU Alts has verified that Liveblocks independently owned, with its ultimate ownership based in United States, and hosts customer data with UNKNOWN in United States, which means — unlike a fully EU-owned provider — it may still be reachable under the US CLOUD Act, similar to GitHub, Atlassian, and JetBrains's US-distributed peers in that respect.
How do teams switch from GitHub to Liveblocks?
Teams evaluating a move from GitHub, Atlassian, and JetBrains's US-distributed peers to Liveblocks should note: Liveblocks independently owned, with its ultimate ownership based in United States, and hosts customer data with UNKNOWN in United States, so this switch narrows but may not fully close the US CLOUD Act gap. Weigh that against the developer tools workflow fit before treating it as a complete Schrems II fix.
Where is Liveblocks based?
Liveblocks is headquartered in Paris, France. The company was founded in 2021. Its main website is https://liveblocks.io.