Self-hosted / open sourceHealthcareHeadquarters: CH

Lobos4: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Lobos4 is a standard software package for social institutions, developed by Lobos Informatik AG. It is aimed at care homes, Spitex (home-care) organisations, sheltered workshops and similar bodies. The package is modular and covers client and resident administration, room and bed management, service billing, electronic care and support documentation, accounting, payroll, staffing plans and meal management. It also offers web applications and mobile apps, for example for care, service recording and meal ordering, plus interfaces to MediData and the electronic patient record.

Lobos Informatik AG is headquartered in Dübendorf, Switzerland. According to the vendor, Lobos4 is entirely in-house development. The product page describes the software as running on open computer systems as a single-workstation or network solution; no cloud service is mentioned for Lobos4, so you can keep the data under your own control. No parent company is named. Switzerland is not an EU member state but is an EFTA country with an EU adequacy decision. Where the data ends up depends on your own installation; ask the vendor about maintenance and remote support.

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Sovereignty score

80 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign

Jurisdiction SOV-2100
Headquartered in Switzerland: Swiss law, recognised by the EU as adequate
Data residency SOV-3100
Hosting in Switzerland only (recognised by the EU as adequate)
Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-380
Closed source, but self-hostable: encryption keys and runtime under your own control
Freedom from lock-in SOV-640
Closed source: switching requires data migration
Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-680
Closed source, but self-hostable on your own infrastructure

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	CH (EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting	Self-hosted, e.g. in CH (your choice)Verified by hand
Open-source	NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant	NoVendor-stated
Category	Healthcare
Type	Product
Website	lobos.ch ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Lobos4

The European alternatives to Lobos4 come from our knowledge base of over 9,200 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 Lobos4

Lobos4 is headquartered in Switzerland and falls under Swiss law, including the revised Swiss data protection act. Switzerland is not an EU member, but the European Commission recognises its level of data protection as adequate. Its Swiss headquarters does not by itself bring it under US legislation such as the CLOUD Act.

Lobos4 runs on infrastructure you choose and control yourself. You decide where the data lives, including fully within the EU if you want — this is not a fixed hosting choice made by the vendor.

Lobos4 is closed source, but you run the software yourself on your own infrastructure. The encryption keys and the runtime therefore stay under your own control, though you cannot audit or modify the source code. Ask about export options and open standards to limit software-level lock-in.

What this means for your organisation depends on your whole stack and context. The free assessment weighs Lobos4 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 Lobos4?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Lobos4 include Ada Health, adamcares and Agfa HealthCare. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Lobos4?

Our list of EU alternatives to Lobos4 is mostly commercial options. Browse the category on the map for open-source choices.

Is Lobos4 GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

Lobos4 is headquartered in CH (EFTA) and hosts data in CH. That makes Lobos4 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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