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Piwigo: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Piwigo is open-source software for photo galleries and digital asset management. Images are organised, shared and managed through a web interface. It can serve as an alternative for organisations that prefer not to keep their photo collections with US consumer services such as Flickr or Google Photos. The software is released under the GPL-2.0 licence and can run on the organisation's own web server. The publisher also offers a hosted version through piwigo.com.

Piwigo is developed by a community of contributors and supported by a company that provides hosting, services and long-term maintenance. The publisher of piwigo.com, PigoLabs SAS, has its registered office in Saint-Sébastien-sur-Loire, France; the hosted service runs on OVHcloud infrastructure in Roubaix. Because the source code is public and the software can run on servers the organisation controls, a European organisation can keep its images under its own control, without depending on a parent company outside Europe.

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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 12, 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
NoVendor-stated
Category
Digital Asset Management
Type
Product
Website
piwigo.org ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Piwigo

The European alternatives to Piwigo come from our knowledge base of over 7,800 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 Piwigo

Piwigo 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 Piwigo scores best on data residency.

Piwigo 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 Piwigo 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 Piwigo?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Piwigo include 4ALLPORTAL, ATAMYA and AtroDAM. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Piwigo?

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

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

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

Digital Asset Management: Digital Asset Management (DAM) — central management of media assets, brand portals, metadata and distribution. 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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