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CommCare: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

CommCare is an open-source platform for mobile data collection and client management, used in frontline work such as health and development programmes. It has two main parts: the CommCare mobile app, licensed under Apache 2.0, and the CommCare HQ server, licensed under BSD 3-Clause. Dimagi offers CommCare as a hosted cloud service running on AWS, and organisations can also run the open-source code on their own infrastructure.

Dimagi, Inc., a benefit corporation headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, builds and maintains CommCare together with open-source contributors. The company does not state the regions in which its cloud data is hosted, so the hosting location should be confirmed in the contract. Because the company and its hosted service are US-based, US law, including the CLOUD Act, applies to the cloud option. European organisations that want to keep data in Europe can install the open-source code on EU infrastructure instead. The company's FAQ states that CommCare is GDPR compliant and offers HIPAA business associate agreements.

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Sovereignty score

49 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign

Jurisdiction SOV-210
Headquartered in the US: CLOUD Act and FISA 702
Data residency SOV-30
No hosting in Europe (US)
Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-390
Self-hostable: encryption keys under your own control
Freedom from lock-in SOV-680
Open source: low switching costs
Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-665
Source code auditable, forkable and self-hostable

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	US (US)Verified by hand
EU adequacy decision	Only for companies individually certified under the EU-US Data Privacy FrameworkVerified by hand
Sovereignty model	Vendor-hosted (non-EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting	USVerified by hand
Open-source	YesVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant	YesVendor-stated
Category	Forms & Surveys
Type	Product
Website	commcare.dimagi.com ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to CommCare

The European alternatives to CommCare 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 CommCare

CommCare is headquartered in the United States. US vendors fall under the CLOUD Act and FISA 702: US authorities can compel access to data, even when that data sits in a European data centre. That is the core of the jurisdictional exposure in our model.

CommCare hosts data outside the EU (US). Personal data therefore leaves the EU, which requires a transfer mechanism under the GDPR and pulls the data residency score down.

CommCare is open source. You can audit the source code, self-host the software and keep the encryption keys under your own control. Switching is easier because data and software are not tied to a single party.

What this means for your organisation depends on your whole stack and context. The free assessment weighs CommCare 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 CommCare?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to CommCare include 123FormBuilder, AidaForm and Appinio. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to CommCare?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to CommCare include ARSnova and CryptPad Forms. These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.

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

CommCare is headquartered in US and hosts data in US. The vendor states it is GDPR-compliant, but the data falls under non-EU jurisdiction. For full EU data residency the EU alternatives on this page usually offer more certainty.

Details and sources

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Compliance evidence

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