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Sleep Cycle: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Sleep Cycle is a sleep tracking app for smartphones that includes a sleep journal, a smart alarm and sleep tests. It is delivered as a mobile app for iOS and Android and is developed by Sleep Cycle AB, which is headquartered in Gothenburg, Sweden. The company is listed on Nasdaq Stockholm.

The company's investor information does not name a controlling shareholder, and no foreign parent is named. According to the privacy policy, the primary servers are hosted by Google Cloud, without the policy naming the countries concerned. Data may be processed both within the EU/EEA and in other locations, including the United States. Other providers, such as Amplitude, Mailgun and Zendesk, are also named. For a European organisation, the company is Swedish and subject to the GDPR, but the processing carried out by these providers deserves attention.

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Sovereignty score

59 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign

Jurisdiction SOV-2100
Headquartered in the EU: European law applies
Data residency SOV-350
Hosting inside and outside Europe (EU, US)
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-645
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	SE (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty model	Vendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting	EU, USVerified by hand
Open-source	NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant	YesVendor-stated
Category	Personal Health & DNA
Type	Product
Website	sleepcycle.com ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Sleep Cycle

The European alternatives to Sleep Cycle 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 Sleep Cycle

Sleep Cycle is headquartered in SE and therefore falls under European law: the GDPR, NIS2 and the Data Act. No foreign legislation can compel access to your data.

Sleep Cycle hosts data in EU, US. Exactly what stays within the EU — and what does not — is defined by the vendor's data processing agreement and sub-processor list, not by a setting you control yourself; check those documents for the precise scope, including backups, logs and support access.

Sleep Cycle 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 Sleep Cycle 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 Sleep Cycle?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Sleep Cycle 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 Sleep Cycle?

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

Is Sleep Cycle GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

Sleep Cycle is headquartered in SE (EU) and hosts data in EU, US. That makes Sleep Cycle 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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Compliance evidence

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