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Yivi: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Yivi is a Dutch digital identity app, available from the App Store, Google Play and F-Droid. Users keep identity attributes on their phone and share only the data a service requires, for example proof of being over 18 without revealing a date of birth. The website describes the software as fully open source under the Apache 2.0 and GPL 3.0 licences. It is delivered as a mobile app, and the site does not mention a self-hosted server or a hosted service offering.

The brand is held by Stichting Privacy by Design, an independent Dutch foundation without shareholders. Caesar Groep Rotterdam B.V. develops and manages Yivi under a contract that requires it to remain open source, and Yivi B.V. in Utrecht is the operating company. According to the website, personal data stays on the phone and the infrastructure is hosted in the Netherlands and the EU, currently in Amsterdam. The code is public, so organisations can review it directly. The privacy policy does not reference the GDPR, which a European organisation should weigh when assessing the service.

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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	NL (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	Identity
Type	Product
Website	yivi.app ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Yivi

The European alternatives to Yivi 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 Yivi

Yivi is headquartered in NL 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 Yivi scores best on data residency.

Yivi 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 Yivi 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 Yivi?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Yivi include Adnovum, Airlock and Auðkenni. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Yivi?

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

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

Yivi is headquartered in NL (EU) and hosts data in EU. It is also open-source, so you can self-host it. That makes Yivi 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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