Organisations look past BoardPro when the board outgrows a self-serve tool, when a regulator or customer asks where board papers are stored, or when the per-board price stops making sense next to a committee structure. They move to European-hosted portals for data location, to sector products for statutory meeting rules, or to plainer tools for volunteer directors.
Short answer: Boardable, Loomion and Sherpany head the list of BoardPro alternatives drawn from our board management ranking. Challengers take places 1 to 3 here. Big brands follow in the order of our category ranking. Boardable is the one to try if you run a charity board and would rather pay per person than per board. Each of the 11 alternatives sits in Best Board Management Software in 2026 and is described against BoardPro.
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Pricing: Per board per month or year on three plans, published; committees billed extra; 30-day trial
Established in: New Zealand
Built for: Small boards where one person prepares the pack and minutes
Not for: Regulated institutions that have strict data residency requirements
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Why buyers look past BoardPro
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Data sits in Australia
BoardPro's security page says data is hosted in Microsoft Azure data centres in New South Wales, with Victoria as the backup. The page does not describe a European region. A supervised firm, public body or charity with a procurement rule on data location has to ask about transfers before it can sign.
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Committees cost extra on every plan
Plans are priced per board: Essentials 165 US dollars a month, Premium 275 and Ultimate 440, with annual billing at about 17 per cent less. Each committee is billed separately at 82.50 dollars a month, so an organisation with audit, risk and remuneration committees pays several subscriptions.
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Some governance tools sit on upper plans
Voting, minutes signing, electronic signatures and annotations appear on Premium and above, while Essentials covers agendas, packs, minutes and actions. A board that needs formal votes and signed minutes from the start has to buy the middle plan, and the AI assistant is also listed there.
you are a listed company that needs entity management beside the portal
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What each one does differently
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Boardable
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Boardable lists its price openly at 20.99 US dollars per user per month, billed annually, with a trial available. Its design assumes volunteer directors and a part-time secretary, so scheduling, packs, minutes and a document centre are kept simple. The pricing unit is people rather than boards. Audit trail and retention controls are basic, and it is a US company.
Switch from BoardPro if you run a charity board and would rather pay per person than per board.
Loomion runs in a Swiss data centre, on the customer's own infrastructure or inside the customer's own Microsoft Azure tenant, and its vendor stresses distance from the US CLOUD Act. Papers, electronic votes, circular resolutions and e-signatures are covered. Pricing is quoted per organisation. Its reference base is mostly German-speaking markets, and it is narrower than Sherpany.
Switch from BoardPro if the board must keep papers in Switzerland or in its own cloud tenant.
Sherpany organises work around the meeting itself: preparation beforehand, decisions during, and tasks that follow. Hosting is in Switzerland, which helps European financial firms with data questions. Plans are named Board, Executive and Enterprise, quoted by users and rooms, and a trial is available. The imposed routine suits some boards and irritates others.
Switch from BoardPro if decisions and follow-up tasks keep getting lost between meetings.
iBabs comes from the Netherlands and is used by Dutch and Belgian municipalities, housing corporations and regulated firms, with hosting in the EU. Formal voting follows the way those bodies actually meet. Pricing is quoted per organisation and renewed yearly. The interface is functional more than pleasant, and support presence thins outside the Benelux and the UK.
Switch from BoardPro if you are a public body or regulated firm in the Benelux and need EU hosting.
Aprio Boardroom is deliberately plain, which keeps credit unions and cooperatives with older directors on it for years. It is licensed per user on an annual contract, with a three-month trial. Hosting is Canadian, so a European buyer will need to discuss data location. The feature set is narrow beside the larger portals, but support answers.
Switch from BoardPro if your directors want the simplest interface available, whatever the feature count.
OnBoard is picked for adoption: directors who dislike software tend to manage it, and rollout takes weeks rather than a quarter. Voting appears across plans, while the minutes builder and D&O questionnaires sit on the upper tiers. Tier prices are quoted. Hosting is American with limited European options, and reading analytics may feel intrusive.
Switch from BoardPro if reluctant directors are the main obstacle to using a portal.
Convene, made by Azeus in Hong Kong, lets directors read and annotate papers offline, and the notes survive when the connection returns. Hosting can be arranged in several regions and Azeus also installs it on the customer's own server. It is priced per user per year on a quote. Procurement teams in Europe may raise the vendor's base.
Switch from BoardPro if directors travel often and read papers without a connection.
Brainloop starts from document confidentiality, holding data in local data centres in Germany, Austria or Switzerland. Conservative supervisory boards accept its controls. Diligent now owns it, so the hosting promise stays while the roadmap belongs to an American parent. Pricing is quoted per organisation each year, and collaboration feels older than newer products.
Switch from BoardPro if a supervisory board wants German-speaking-region hosting and strict document controls.
Board Intelligence argues that the trouble lies in what the papers say, not in how they travel, and adds templates and coaching for authors beside the portal. Pricing is quoted per organisation on an annual basis, and the advisory part makes comparison hard. As portal software alone it is unremarkable. The vendor is British.
Switch from BoardPro if your packs run to hundreds of pages and the writing needs fixing.
Civica Modern.Gov runs committees for many UK councils, fire authorities and NHS bodies, publishing agendas to the public within the notice period and logging declarations of interest. Decisions stay searchable afterwards. It is sold through a large supplier on an annual licence. The interface is made for clerks, so a private company board would pay for machinery it has no use for.
Switch from BoardPro if you are a UK public body with statutory meeting rules to follow.
Diligent Boards is the name most listed-company secretaries know, with entity management, compliance and risk modules around the portal. Contracts are multi-year and quoted, and adjacent modules are pushed often. Its acquisitions include competitors such as Brainloop. That depth matters at listed scale and is too heavy for a small board.
Switch from BoardPro if you are a listed company that needs entity management beside the portal.
You need board papers held in Switzerland or in your own cloud tenant
Loomion: It runs in a Swiss data centre, on your own infrastructure or inside your own Azure tenant, with electronic votes and circular resolutions.
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You are a public body or housing association in the Benelux
iBabs: It hosts in the EU and handles formal voting for the kind of bodies that already use it in the Netherlands and Belgium.
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You run a volunteer charity board and prefer a per-person price
Boardable: The price is published at 20.99 US dollars per user per month, billed annually, and the tool covers scheduling, packs and minutes.
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Your directors read papers on flights
Convene: Annotations survive an offline session, and Azeus also offers an install on your own server.
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Decisions agreed in meetings never turn into tasks
Sherpany: It tracks decisions and follow-up tasks from the meeting, with Swiss hosting and a trial.
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When BoardPro is still the right choice
BoardPro remains the sensible choice for a small or growing board that wants a published price and no procurement. Agendas build the pack and the pack feeds the minutes, unlimited users and storage come on every plan, and the 30-day trial needs no credit card. If the only concern is committee cost or a missing vote, compare plans before leaving.
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What moving off BoardPro involves
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Export what the governance repository holds
Agendas, packs, minutes, actions and the decision and interest registers all live inside BoardPro. Ask for exports of each before cancelling, and keep signed minutes as files that the new tool did not create. Check the new portal can import registers instead of retyping them.
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Plan the switch around a meeting date
Moving a board mid-cycle means directors read papers in two places. Start the new portal with a fresh meeting, load the last approved minutes as reference, and keep BoardPro read-only until the first pack has gone out. Committees need their own accounts again on arrival.
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Questions about replacing BoardPro
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How much does BoardPro cost?
The pricing page lists Essentials at 165 US dollars a month or 1,650 a year, Premium at 275 or 2,750, and Ultimate at 440 or 4,400, all per board.
Committees are 82.50 dollars a month or 825 a year each. Nonprofits and schools may qualify for up to 40 per cent off on annual plans.
Where does BoardPro store data?
Its security page names Microsoft Azure data centres in New South Wales, Australia, with Victoria as the backup. It cites Azure's SOC and ISO 27001 reports and encrypts data in transit and at rest. It does not name a European region.
Which alternatives host in Europe?
Loomion offers Swiss hosting, its own infrastructure or the customer's Azure tenant. iBabs hosts in the EU, Sherpany in Switzerland, and Brainloop in Germany, Austria or Switzerland. Convene can be arranged in several regions or installed on the customer's own server.
Is there an alternative with published prices?
Boardable lists 20.99 US dollars per user per month, billed annually. Most other portals here, such as Sherpany, iBabs and Diligent, quote by organisation, so a price needs a sales conversation.
Which alternative suits volunteer boards?
Boardable is built around volunteer directors and part-time secretaries, and Aprio Boardroom keeps its interface plain for older directors. Both are narrower than the large portals.
Does BoardPro support voting and e-signatures?
Voting, minutes signing and electronic signatures are listed on Premium and Ultimate, not on Essentials. Annotations and between-meeting reports are on the same plans.
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Checked 8 November 2026
BoardPro commercial pricing: Essentials 165, Premium 275, Ultimate 440 US dollars per board per month, annual billing, committees 82.50 a month, 30-day trial, features by plan, up to 40 per cent nonprofit discount.
BoardPro security: Azure data centres in New South Wales with Victoria backup, SOC and ISO 27001 via Azure, encryption, multi-factor authentication.
Boardable: Volunteer board focus, from 20.99 US dollars per user per month billed annually, trial.
Loomion: Swiss data centre, own infrastructure or own Azure tenant, electronic votes, circular resolutions, e-signatures.
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