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Steganos Password Manager: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Steganos Password Manager is a password vault for storing logins, generating passwords and filling in credentials. The product page lists Windows, Android and iOS, and autofill for Chrome, Firefox and Edge. Vault contents are encrypted with 256-bit AES on the user's devices. Synchronisation is optional: users can sync through Dropbox, Microsoft OneDrive, Google Drive or MagentaCLOUD, keep passwords on a single device, or move the encrypted vault between devices as a file.

Steganos Software GmbH is a German software company, founded in 1997 in Frankfurt am Main, with its office listed in Karlsruhe. The product page does not name an owner, and no vendor-operated sync service is described for this product. Data sovereignty therefore depends largely on the cloud provider the user chooses, and some of those, such as Dropbox and Google Drive, are US companies. Keeping the vault on local devices avoids that dependency. The pages reviewed do not describe the product 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	Password Manager
Type	Product
Website	steganos.com ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Steganos Password Manager

The European alternatives to Steganos Password Manager come from our knowledge base of over 7,800 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 Steganos Password Manager

Steganos Password Manager 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 Steganos Password Manager scores best on data residency.

Steganos Password Manager 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 Steganos Password Manager 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 Steganos Password Manager?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Steganos Password Manager include AuthPass, Avira Password Manager and Dashlane. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Steganos Password Manager?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to Steganos Password Manager include AuthPass, gopass, KeePass and KeePassDX. These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.

Is Steganos Password Manager GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

Steganos Password Manager is headquartered in DE (EU) and hosts data in EU. That makes Steganos Password Manager 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

Public sources used in the latest check of this record.

Compliance evidence

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Cyber Resilience Act

Public signals that relate to the EU Cyber Resilience Act. They do not count towards the score. A missing line means "not found publicly".

We found none of these signals on the vendor's own site when we checked.

For products in scope of the CRA, CE marking is required from 11 December 2027; this cannot be checked yet.

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Digital sovereignty in Password Manager

Password Manager: Password vault — generate, store and autofill passwords. 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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