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Yubo: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Yubo is a French social app for live streaming and meeting new people. Users can take part in live sessions with up to ten streamers and watch with unlimited viewers, and a swipe-based discovery feature shows profiles with location and gender filters. Age checks are carried out with age-estimation technology from the third-party provider Yoti. The app was previously called Yellow and is delivered as a mobile app.

The app is operated by Twelve-App SAS, a French company based in Paris, which Preqin lists as founded in 2016. Wikipedia reports that the company set up a US headquarters in Jacksonville, Florida, in 2020. Investors in its funding rounds include French funds such as Iris Capital and Idinvest Partners, and no majority owner is named in the sources consulted. As a French company, Yubo falls under EU data protection law. The sources consulted do not state where its data is hosted, so an organisation should confirm this with the operator.

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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
FR (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
Social Media
Type
Product
Website
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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Yubo

The European alternatives to Yubo 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 Yubo

Yubo is headquartered in FR 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 Yubo scores best on data residency.

Yubo 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 Yubo 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 Yubo?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Yubo include Agorapulse, Akkoma and BeReal. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Yubo?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to Yubo include Akkoma and Diaspora. These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.

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

Yubo is headquartered in FR (EU) and hosts data in EU. That makes Yubo 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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Digital sovereignty in Social Media

Social Media: Social networks — posts, media, communities. 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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