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Self-hosted / open sourceEducation & LMSHeadquarters: DE

GCompris: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

GCompris is an educational software suite with a large number of activities for children aged 2 to 10. The activities fall into categories such as computer discovery (keyboard, mouse, touchscreen), reading, arithmetic, science, geography and games, some of them game-oriented. Schools, parents and teachers use it to let children practise. You download GCompris and run it on your own devices; no account or central server is needed to use the activities.

The GCompris project is hosted and developed by the KDE community. The legal entity behind KDE is KDE e.V., a registered non-profit organisation with its registered offices in Berlin, Germany. The software is released under the GNU Affero General Public License; the website is under Creative Commons BY-SA 4.0. Because the program runs locally, pupil data stays on your own devices. The project site provides a privacy policy and was last updated in October 2026.

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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
DE (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
Education & LMS
Type
Product
Website
gcompris.net ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to GCompris

The European alternatives to GCompris 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 GCompris

GCompris 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 GCompris scores best on data residency.

GCompris 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 GCompris 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 GCompris?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to GCompris include Anton, CAMPUSonline and Chamilo. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to GCompris?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to GCompris include Chamilo, Claroline Connect and Forma LMS. These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.

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

GCompris is headquartered in DE (EU) and hosts data in EU. It is also open-source, so you can self-host it. That makes GCompris 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 Education & LMS

Education & LMS: Learning platforms, learning management systems and educational software. 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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