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Radio Garden: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Radio Garden is a web application for listening to live radio stations from around the world. Users turn a rotating globe to choose a location and tune into the stations broadcasting from there. The project was developed in 2016 by the Amsterdam design studios Studio Puckey and Moniker, in co-ordination with the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision. Since 2019 it has been run as a small independent company.

Radio Garden is based in Amsterdam, so its operator is subject to EU data protection law. The operator's public pages do not state where service data is hosted or which processors are used, so the hosting location is not evident from its own publications. The service links to streams that broadcasters publish and does not produce its own programmes. For a European organisation the main points are the independent ownership and the privacy terms, which should be checked before relying on the service.

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
NL (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
Type
Product
Website

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Radio Garden

The European alternatives to Radio Garden 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 Garden

Radio Garden is headquartered in NL 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 Garden scores best on data residency.

Radio Garden 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 Garden 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 Garden?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Radio Garden 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 Garden?

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

Is Radio Garden GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

Radio Garden is headquartered in NL (EU) and hosts data in EU. That makes Radio Garden 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 11, 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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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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