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Cara Care: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Cara Care is a German digital health application for irritable bowel syndrome, a treatment programme that doctors can prescribe as a DiGA under German law. The twelve-week programme combines low-FODMAP nutrition content, a symptom and food diary and audio-guided hypnosis. It is delivered as a smartphone app.

The operator is HiDoc Technologies GmbH, whose seat is in Hamburg and which stands behind the Cara Care brand. The website states compliance with the GDPR and the DiGA ordinance. The website does not say where servers or patient data are hosted, and the imprint does not name shareholders. As a company seated in Germany, the operator is subject to German and EU data protection law. Before use, it is advisable to ask the provider directly where data is hosted.

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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 12, 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
Personal Health & DNA
Type
Product
Website
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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Cara Care

The European alternatives to Cara Care come from our knowledge base of over 8,000 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 Cara Care

Cara Care 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 Cara Care scores best on data residency.

Cara Care 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 Cara Care 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 Cara Care?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Cara Care include 24Genetics, 7Mind and Aware. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Cara Care?

Our list of EU alternatives to Cara Care is mostly commercial options. Browse the category on the map for open-source choices.

Is Cara Care GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

Cara Care is headquartered in DE (EU) and hosts data in EU. That makes Cara Care 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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Sources

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Compliance evidence

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