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ZealiD: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

ZealiD is a Swedish provider of qualified electronic signatures and identity verification. Users install the ZealiD app once, verify their identity and then sign with Face ID or Touch ID. Besides qualified signatures, ZealiD offers Trust Circle, a shared workspace in which participants first confirm their identity, as well as products such as identity verification and an identity wallet. The signatures also work within Adobe Acrobat Sign, DocuSign, Entrust and Foxit. The service targets law firms, banks and employers, among others.

ZealiD AB is headquartered in Stockholm and is listed as a qualified trust service provider on the EU Trusted List under Sweden, supervised by the Swedish Post and Telecom Authority. According to the vendor, its trust services are hosted in the EU in its own data centres, outside the public cloud. The service is vendor-hosted and not open source.

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 July 2, 2026
Headquarters
SE (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty model
Vendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting
EUVerified by hand
Open-source
NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
YesVendor-stated
Hosting signal
CLOUDFLARESPECTRUM - Cloudflare London, LLC, US (US)Technically measured
Category
Type
Product
Website

The hosting signal shows the network that serves the vendor's website, often a CDN, and not necessarily where the service or your data is hosted. How we verify · Something wrong? Suggest a correction

Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to ZealiD

The European alternatives to ZealiD 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 ZealiD

ZealiD 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.

Data is hosted exclusively in the EU, so ZealiD scores best on data residency.

ZealiD 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 ZealiD 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 ZealiD?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to ZealiD include A-Trust, Agrello and Assently. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to ZealiD?

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

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

ZealiD is headquartered in SE (EU) and hosts data in EU. That makes ZealiD 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 July 2, 2026.

Sources

This record was checked via the vendor's website and legal notice during the full audit of June and July 2026. Source links have been recorded per record since 20 September 2026.

Compliance evidence

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Digital sovereignty in E-signatures

E-signatures: Electronic signatures, trust services, eIDAS services. 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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