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calimoto: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

calimoto is a motorcycle navigation and route-planning app for iOS and Android. The company's website presents it as a navigation app for motorcyclists and links to both app stores for download. The product is developed by calimoto GmbH, a German company with a registered address in Potsdam.

calimoto GmbH is the controller named in the privacy policy, which gives its address in Potsdam, Germany. The policy names German providers for hosting and infrastructure, including Hetzner, Contabo, 1&1 IONOS and MongoDB Deutsche GmbH in Frankfurt, and it lists Amazon Web Services EMEA in Luxembourg. It does not state where customer data is stored in data centres. US providers are used for app stores, support and analytics, among them Apple, Zendesk, Slack and Mixpanel, which rely on the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework. The policy refers to the GDPR and describes data subject rights. For a European organisation this is a German provider, but US processors are part of the chain.

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Sovereignty score

71 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign

Jurisdiction SOV-2100
Headquartered in the EU: European law applies
Data residency SOV-3100
EU-only hosting
Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-360
Key management with a European vendor
Freedom from lock-in SOV-640
Closed source: switching requires data migration
Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-655
Closed source, runtime with the vendor

SOV codes: the matching objective in the European Commission's Cloud Sovereignty Framework. Official source

How the score is calculated

Facts and evidence

Last checked October 10, 2026

Headquarters	DE (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty model	Vendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting	EUVerified by hand
Open-source	NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant	YesVendor-stated
Category	Maps & Navigation
Type	Product
Website	calimoto.com ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to calimoto

The European alternatives to calimoto come from our knowledge base of over 6,800 vendors. We only list vendors headquartered in the EU or the EEA; fully European-owned vendors rank before vendors with a foreign owner. For each alternative you see the country, the open-source status and a short description.

Score per alternative: 0 = high exposure, 100 = sovereign

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Why digital sovereignty matters with calimoto

calimoto is headquartered in DE and therefore falls under European law: the GDPR, NIS2 and the Data Act. No foreign legislation can compel access to your data.

Data is hosted exclusively in the EU, so calimoto scores best on data residency.

calimoto is closed source and hosted by the vendor. The encryption keys and the runtime sit with the vendor and switching requires data migration. Ask about bring-your-own-key, export options and open standards.

What this means for your organisation depends on your whole stack and context. The free assessment weighs calimoto together with your other vendors and gives a total score, a heatmap and the main risk drivers.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best European alternative to calimoto?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to calimoto include BRouter, cartes.gouv.fr and Geoapify. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to calimoto?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to calimoto include BRouter and GraphHopper. These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.

Is calimoto GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

calimoto is headquartered in DE (EU) and hosts data in EU. That makes calimoto an EU-sovereign choice in its own right; the EU alternatives on this page are comparable European tools.

Details and sources

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Compliance evidence

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