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Lifesum: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Lifesum is a mobile app for tracking food intake, exercise, water and weight, with personalised feedback, recipes and meal plans. Meals can be logged by photo, voice, text or barcode, and the app gives weekly advice. It connects to wearables such as the Apple Watch and Samsung Galaxy Watch. A separate offering, Lifesum for Work, is aimed at employers. The service is delivered as an app and as a web service.

Lifesum AB is a Swedish company with its address in Stockholm, and its privacy policy names it as the controller under the GDPR. For some services it is a joint controller with LykonDX GmbH, a German company. The policy says cloud hosting is provided by processors, without naming the country or region of storage. Data may be transferred outside the EEA, including to the United States, relying on the EU-US Data Privacy Framework where applicable and otherwise on standard contractual clauses. The app is not described as open source. For a European organisation, the storage location and transfer safeguards are the main points to check.

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 October 11, 2026
Headquarters
SE (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty model
Vendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting
EUVerified by hand
Open-source
NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
YesVendor-stated
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Type
Product
Website

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Lifesum

The European alternatives to Lifesum 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 Lifesum

Lifesum is headquartered in SE 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 Lifesum scores best on data residency.

Lifesum 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.

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Frequently asked questions

What is the best European alternative to Lifesum?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Lifesum include 24Genetics, 7Mind and Aware. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Lifesum?

Our list of EU alternatives to Lifesum is mostly commercial options. Browse the category on the map for open-source choices.

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

Lifesum is headquartered in SE (EU) and hosts data in EU. That makes Lifesum 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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Compliance evidence

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