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Cryptee: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Cryptee is an encrypted storage and productivity service for private photos, videos, documents, notes and journals. Cryptee Docs is a markdown-capable editor that works offline. Cryptee Photos organises pictures with hashtags and albums and shares them through end-to-end encrypted links. According to Cryptee, files are encrypted with AES-256 on the user's device before upload, using a key it does not hold. Cryptee is delivered as a web application.

Cryptee is run by Svartlab OÜ, an Estonian company in Tallinn that describes itself as bootstrapped, without outside investors. It states that data is kept on its own servers and infrastructure in Europe; its privacy policy lists sub-processors including Google Cloud (Ireland) and Cloudflare (Portugal). The front-end code, which performs the encryption, is published on GitHub so that it can be inspected; the backend code is not open source. According to Cryptee, data is only transmitted outside the EU in encrypted form.

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Sovereignty score
94 / 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-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-6100
    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 2, 2026
HeadquartersEE (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty modelVendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hostingEUVerified by hand
Open-sourceYesVerified by hand
GDPR-compliantYesVendor-stated
Compliance documents1 published, see belowVendor-stated
Hosting signalCLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US (US)Technically measured
CategoryCloud Storage (Personal)
TypeProduct
Websitecrypt.ee ↗

The hosting signal shows the network that serves the vendor's website, often a CDN, and not necessarily where the service or your data is hosted. How we verify · Something wrong? Suggest a correction

Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Cryptee

The European alternatives to Cryptee come from our knowledge base of over 6,200 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 Cryptee

Cryptee is headquartered in EE 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 Cryptee scores best on data residency.

Cryptee 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 Cryptee 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 Cryptee?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Cryptee include CloudMe, Cozy Cloud and Filemail. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Cryptee?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to Cryptee include Cozy Cloud, Filen and Internxt. These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.

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

Cryptee is headquartered in EE (EU) and hosts data in EU. It is also open-source, so you can self-host it. That makes Cryptee an EU-sovereign choice in its own right; the EU alternatives on this page are comparable European tools.

Details and sources

Verified by handHeadquarters, owner, hosting locations and licence have been checked by us against public sources. Free of charge and for every vendor, not a paid label. Nothing in this knowledge base is taken over automatically. Last checked on October 2, 2026.

Sources

Public sources used in the latest check of this record.

Compliance evidence

The links below point to the vendor's own public documents. We only record what we found: a missing link means "not found publicly", not "not compliant".

Security page / trust center
crypt.ee/security

Provenance of the links above:Vendor-stated

Links checked on September 21, 2026.

Digital sovereignty in Cloud Storage (Personal)

Cloud Storage (Personal): Personal cloud storage — sync and share files. In this category the choice of vendor determines who has legal access to your data, where that data lives and how easily you can switch later.

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