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Galène: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Galène is a videoconferencing system with a web client and a server. It is designed to be light on resources and easy to host and administer; it was originally built for lectures and tutorials but also works for ordinary meetings. The server offers multiple audio and video streams, text chat, recording, simulcast, a built-in TURN server and an admin API. The client supports screen sharing, group moderation and peer-to-peer file transfer.

The developer is affiliated with IRIF at Université Paris Cité in France; the project was previously supported by Nexedi and is currently supported through NLnet. The licence is MIT. You run Galène on your own server, for example by building the Go binary or through Yunohost, so data stays with you. The project states that it does not use end-to-end encryption, so the server operator could in principle access the data. Galène is listed in the SILL, the French government's list of recommended free software.

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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 14, 2026
Headquarters
FR (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty model
Open-source, distributedVerified by hand
Data hosting
EUVerified by hand
Open-source
YesVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
YesVendor-stated
Category
Collaboration
Type
Product
Website
galene.org ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Galène

The European alternatives to Galène come from our knowledge base of over 8,400 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 Galène

Galène is headquartered in FR 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 Galène scores best on data residency.

Galène 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 Galène 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 Galène?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Galène include BigBlueButton (self-host), CryptPad and Nextcloud Deck. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Galène?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to Galène include BigBlueButton (self-host), CryptPad, Nextcloud Deck and FluffyChat. These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.

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

Galène is headquartered in FR (EU) and hosts data in EU. It is also open-source, so you can self-host it. That makes Galène 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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Digital sovereignty in Collaboration

Collaboration: Team communication, file sharing, video conferencing, document editing. 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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