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Plasma Mobile: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Plasma Mobile is an open-source shell for Linux smartphones and tablets, built on the technology of the KDE Plasma desktop. It provides a home screen, status bar, task panel, lock screen and settings, designed for touch use on mobile hardware. It is an alternative to the interface of Android and iOS. The software is installed on a Linux system on a supported device and is not offered as a hosted service.

The project is developed by the KDE community, and legal and financial matters are handled by KDE e.V., an association with its address in Berlin, Germany. The source code is published under GPL-2.0-or-later and LGPL-2.1-or-later, so an organisation can inspect, build and modify it on its own infrastructure. Because no vendor runs a cloud service around the shell, no foreign provider holds user data through it. A European organisation should mainly check which distribution and device image it uses and who maintains that image.

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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
DE (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
Desktop OS
Type
Product
Website
plasma-mobile.org ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Plasma Mobile

The European alternatives to Plasma Mobile come from our knowledge base of over 8,000 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 Plasma Mobile

Plasma Mobile 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 Plasma Mobile scores best on data residency.

Plasma Mobile 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 Plasma Mobile 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 Plasma Mobile?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Plasma Mobile include Alpine Linux, Armbian and Devuan. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Plasma Mobile?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to Plasma Mobile include Alpine Linux, Armbian, Devuan, /e/OS, EndeavourOS, iodéOS, KDE neon and KDE Plasma. These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.

Is Plasma Mobile GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

Plasma Mobile is headquartered in DE (EU) and hosts data in EU. It is also open-source, so you can self-host it. That makes Plasma Mobile 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 October 12, 2026.

Sources

Public sources used in the latest check of this record.

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".

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Cyber Resilience Act

Public signals that relate to the EU Cyber Resilience Act. They do not count towards the score. A missing line means "not found publicly".

We found none of these signals on the vendor's own site when we checked.

For products in scope of the CRA, CE marking is required from 11 December 2027; this cannot be checked yet.

Checked on October 12, 2026. What is the Cyber Resilience Act?

Digital sovereignty in Desktop OS

Desktop OS: Desktop operating system — daily work platform. 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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