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Komoot: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Komoot is an outdoor route planning and navigation app and website, available on Android, iOS and in a browser. Users plan routes for hiking, cycling, road cycling and mountain biking, filter by distance, difficulty or public transport links, and get voice-guided navigation with offline maps. Komoot also offers curated route collections, a places directory, a community feature and business services such as embedding routes on websites. Its map data is based on OpenStreetMap. A free and a paid tier exist.

Komoot is a German company. In March 2025 it was acquired by the Italian company Bending Spoons, which is therefore its ultimate parent. According to the privacy policy, the website is hosted by Amazon Web Services EMEA in Luxembourg and location data is processed exclusively on servers in the EU. Some functions, such as customer support through Zendesk, do process data in the United States. Komoot is not open source. European organisations using the service should review the list of processors in the privacy policy.

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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 July 2, 2026

Headquarters	DE (EU)Verified by hand
Ultimate parent company	ITVerified by hand
Sovereignty model	Vendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting	EUVerified by hand
Open-source	NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant	YesVendor-stated
Compliance documents	1 published, see belowVendor-stated
Hosting signal	AMAZON-02 - Amazon.com, Inc., US (US)Technically measured
Category	Maps & Navigation
Type	Product
Website	komoot.com ↗

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 Komoot

The European alternatives to Komoot come from our knowledge base of over 6,800 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 Komoot

Komoot 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. The ultimate owner is based in IT, also within Europe.

Data is hosted exclusively in the EU, so Komoot scores best on data residency.

Komoot 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 Komoot 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 Komoot?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Komoot include BRouter, calimoto and cartes.gouv.fr. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Komoot?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to Komoot include BRouter and GraphHopper. These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.

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

Komoot is headquartered in DE (EU) and hosts data in EU. That makes Komoot 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 July 2, 2026.

Sources

This record was checked via the vendor's website and legal notice during the full audit of June and July 2026. Source links have been recorded per record since 20 September 2026.

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: komoot.com/security/bug-bounty

Provenance of the links above:Vendor-stated

Links checked on September 23, 2026.

Digital sovereignty in Maps & Navigation

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