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Self-hosted / open sourceERP & FinanceHeadquarters: DE

Skrooge: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Skrooge is a desktop application for managing personal finances, for recording, tracking and analysing expenses. It is part of the KDE community's application suite and is built on KDE Frameworks. It runs on Linux, other Unix-like systems and macOS, and is installed locally rather than offered as a web service. It is an open-source alternative to proprietary personal finance software such as Quicken.

Skrooge is released under the GNU General Public License version 3. The maintaining organisation is KDE e.V., a registered non-profit association under German law with its seat in Berlin. The project pages describe a desktop program and no hosted service, so the software runs as a local installation and financial data stays on the user's device unless the user sets up synchronisation. For a European organisation or individual, the source code can be reviewed and no foreign provider operates a service for the software. Backups remain the user's own responsibility.

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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
ERP & Finance
Type
Product
Website
skrooge.org ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Skrooge

The European alternatives to Skrooge 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 Skrooge

Skrooge 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 Skrooge scores best on data residency.

Skrooge 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 Skrooge 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 Skrooge?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Skrooge include 24SevenOffice, A3ERP and Abacus. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Skrooge?

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

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

Skrooge is headquartered in DE (EU) and hosts data in EU. It is also open-source, so you can self-host it. That makes Skrooge 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 ERP & Finance

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