Camunda
Germany
EU
Self-Hostable
Camunda is a process orchestration platform from Berlin. Jakob Freund and Bernd Rücker founded Camunda Services GmbH in 2008, and the company is known as the author of the book Real-Life BPMN....
European Workflow Automation Tools
Make
Czechia
EU
Make is a visual automation platform from Prague in the Czech Republic. It began in 2015 as Integromat and has belonged to the process mining company Celonis since October 2020. According to...
n8n
Germany
EU
Self-Hostable
n8n is a workflow automation platform from Berlin. Jan Oberhauser founded n8n GmbH in 2019, and the tool is published under a fair-code licence: the source code is public and can be...
Tines
Ireland
EU
Tines is a workflow automation platform from Dublin, Ireland. The security operators Eoin Hinchy and Thomas Kinsella started building it in 2018 after years of repetitive incident work, and the company is...
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Submit SuggestionWorkflow automation tools connect apps, move data between them and run routine tasks without manual work. This page lists tools from companies headquartered in Europe: Make from Prague, n8n from Berlin, Tines from Dublin and Camunda from Berlin. They are the usual European picks for teams that look for an alternative to Zapier.
European workflow automation tools at a glance
| Tool | Country | Focus | Self-hosting |
|---|---|---|---|
| Make | Czech Republic | Visual no-code automation across many apps | Cloud service |
| n8n | Germany | Node-based workflows with custom code and AI steps | Yes, free Community Edition |
| Tines | Ireland | Workflows for security and IT teams | Cloud service |
| Camunda | Germany | BPMN process orchestration for developers | Yes, production licence required |
Choosing between them
Make and n8n are the closest to Zapier in everyday use: both let small teams build multi-step automations on a canvas. Make has the larger catalogue of ready-made app connectors and a free plan. n8n can be run on your own server, which matters when workflows touch personal or internal data, and it lets developers drop in JavaScript or Python. Tines grew out of security operations and is built around governed workflows with audit trails. Camunda is a different kind of tool: it models long-running business processes in BPMN and is mostly used by development teams in larger organisations.
Ownership and licences
Make is operated from Prague and belongs to the German process mining company Celonis. n8n is published under a fair-code licence: the source code is open to read and self-host, but the licence does not allow reselling n8n as a competing hosted service, so it is not open source in the strict sense. Camunda 8 is source-available under the Camunda License, which is free for development and needs a licence for production.
What Europe does not offer
No European tool matches the catalogue of the largest US platform, which advertises thousands of connected apps. Niche SaaS products sometimes have a connector only on the US side, so check that the apps you rely on are supported before switching.