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Truecaller: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Truecaller is a smartphone app that identifies incoming calls from unknown numbers and blocks spam and unwanted calls. It is installed on the user's own phone rather than run on an organisation's infrastructure, so an organisation that allows it mainly decides which employee devices may use it. The company is based in Stockholm, Sweden, and its class B shares have been listed on Nasdaq Stockholm since October 2021.

Ownership is widely held: the co-founders hold high-vote class A shares that give them a majority of the voting power, while investors such as Sequoia Capital India and Atomico are shareholders. The company's own 2022 investor material states that a Swedish entity processes the data of EU users in data centres in Sweden under the GDPR, while a separate entity based in India is the controller for users outside the EU and data of Indian users is stored in India. Organisations should review the current privacy policy before allowing the app on managed devices.

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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, OTHER)
  • 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, OTHERVerified by hand
Open-source
NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
NoVendor-stated
Category
Telephony & VoIP
Type
Product
Website
truecaller.com ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Truecaller

The European alternatives to Truecaller 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 Truecaller

Truecaller 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.

Truecaller hosts data in EU, OTHER. 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.

Truecaller 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 Truecaller 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 Truecaller?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Truecaller include A1 Telekom Austria, Adversus and Auerswald. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Truecaller?

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

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

Truecaller is headquartered in SE (EU) and hosts data in EU, OTHER. That makes Truecaller 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.

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Compliance evidence

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