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Sidekick Health: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Sidekick Health is a digital health company that develops digital health products for people with chronic conditions. Its offering includes a platform for managing several chronic conditions at once and prescription digital therapeutics, which are regulated apps that a doctor can prescribe. The company states that it works with pharmaceutical companies, payers and healthcare providers, and that it has expanded its portfolio through acquisitions in oncology and women's health.

The operating company is SidekickHealth ehf, based in Reykjavík, Iceland. The imprint also names a German subsidiary, Sidekick Health Germany GmbH, in Hamburg. According to the privacy policy, app data is stored in Google Cloud SQL databases located in the EU, although other Google entities may be able to access them. The policy names Google as the only specific sub-processor and refers to EU-approved standard contractual clauses and the EU-US Data Privacy Framework for transfers. For a European organisation, the main points to review are Google's access model and the research and website data, for which the storage location is not stated.

Sovereignty score
71 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign
  • Jurisdiction SOV-2100
    Headquartered in the EEA: the GDPR applies directly
  • 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
IS (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty model
Vendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting
EUVerified by hand
Open-source
NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
YesVendor-stated
Category
Type
Product
Website

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Sidekick Health

The European alternatives to Sidekick Health 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 Sidekick Health

Sidekick Health is headquartered in IS, which falls under the GDPR through the European Economic Area. No foreign legislation can compel access to your data.

Data is hosted exclusively in the EU, so Sidekick Health scores best on data residency.

Sidekick Health 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.

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Frequently asked questions

What is the best European alternative to Sidekick Health?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Sidekick Health include 24Genetics, 7Mind and Aware. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Sidekick Health?

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

Is Sidekick Health GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

Sidekick Health is headquartered in IS (EFTA) and hosts data in EU. That makes Sidekick Health 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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