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radio.de: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

radio.de is a free internet radio service that lets users find and listen to stations from around the world, in a web browser or in the app. The app for iPhone, iPad and Android saves favourite stations and podcasts, and streaming works over Wi-Fi or Bluetooth. The app also supports CarPlay and Android Auto. The service combines a station directory with music and podcast offerings.

radio.de GmbH is registered in Hamburg, Germany, and its website describes the service as a company of the Madsack media group, which is headquartered in Hannover. Both companies are German, so no foreign parent company is involved and EU law applies. The sources reviewed do not state where listener data is hosted, so organisations should check the privacy statement and its processors before relying on the service. The service is not presented as open source.

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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 October 10, 2026
Headquarters
DE (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty model
Vendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting
EUVerified by hand
Open-source
NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
NoVendor-stated
Category
Music Streaming
Type
Product
Website
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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to radio.de

The European alternatives to radio.de 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 radio.de

radio.de 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 radio.de scores best on data residency.

radio.de 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 radio.de 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 radio.de?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to radio.de include Acast, ARD Sounds and BookBeat. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to radio.de?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to radio.de include Funkwhale (self-host). These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.

Is radio.de GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

radio.de is headquartered in DE (EU) and hosts data in EU. That makes radio.de 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 10, 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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Digital sovereignty in Music Streaming

Music Streaming: Music streaming services — listening, playlists, podcasts. 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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