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Oct 01, 2026

PC / MacOS

• MS Windows - Owned by Microsoft it is known for collecting many user data and tricking users to own a Microsoft account. If you still want and happen to use Windows 10 or 11, you can use Win11Debloat (⭐58k), or this other tool to see and disable the tons of privacy-invasive settings of MS Windows.

Decentralized

• Nostr - Open protocol that is able to create a censorship-resistant global "social" network. It doesn't rely on any trusted central server, hence it is resilient; it is based on cryptographic keys and signatures, so it is tamperproof; it does not rely on P2P techniques, therefore it works. Note: Nostr is a protocol, so it is capable of offering much more than a Twitter alternative.

Sep 30, 2026

Analytics

• Rybbit - Open-source and privacy-friendly alternative to Google Analytics that is 10x more intuitive.

ChatGPT

• LocalAI (⭐49k) - Self-hosted, community-driven simple local OpenAI-compatible API written in go. Can be used as a drop-in replacement for OpenAI, running on CPU with consumer-grade hardware.

• ollama (⭐182k) - Get up and running with Llama 2 and other large language models locally.

Image Generation

• ComfyUI (⭐136k) - ComfyUI lets you execute advanced image generation pipelines using an advanced interface. Available on Windows, Linux, and macOS.

Bookmarking

• 42links - Open-source, self-hosted, minimalist bookmark storage service.

• Floccus - Sync your bookmarks privately across browsers and devices.

• Grimoire (⭐2.9k) - Modern, open source, self-hosted bookmark manager.

• Karakeep - (previously Hoarder) Open source "Bookmark Everything" app that uses AI for automatically tagging the content you throw at it.

• LinkAce (⭐3.3k) - Open source, self-hosted bookmark archive that monitors and organizes your saved links (GPL-3.0).

• LinkDing (⭐11k) - Open source, self-hosted bookmark manager built to be minimal, fast, and easy to run with Docker (MIT).

• Shiori (⭐12k) - Open source, self-hosted bookmark manager written in Go, usable as a CLI or web app (MIT).

• Wallabag - Open-source, optionally self-hosted, read it later server. Provides paid hosted service with privacy in mind.

• Linkwarden - Self-hosted bookmark manager that saves and archives full copies of the pages you collect (AGPL-3.0).

• Readeck - Single-binary self-hosted read-it-later app that saves and archives articles for offline reading (AGPL-3.0).

Commenting Engines

• Comentario - Tiny, Privacy-focused, Open-source web comment engine, which adds discussion functionality to plain, boring web pages.

• Disgus (⭐53) - Embeddable comments for your website, backed by Nostr. Like Disqus but Nostr.

• Isso (⭐5.3k) - A lightweight, self hosted, commenting server written in Python and JavaScript. It aims to be a drop-in replacement for Disqus.

• Remark42 - Self-hosted, lightweight, and simple (yet functional) comment engine, which doesn't spy on users.

• Giscus - Commenting system that stores discussions in GitHub Discussions, with no database, ads, or tracking. Open source, MIT licensed.

Screen recording

• Screenity - A powerful privacy-friendly screen recorder and annotation tool to make better videos for work, education, and more.

Databases

• Supabase - Open source Firebase alternative (Limited (⭐111k) self-hosting (⭐111k))

Domains & Hosting

• 1984 Hosting - Iceland-based hosting and domain registrar focused on civil rights, with Monero and anonymous signup.

Ebooks

• Amazon Kindle - Tracks reading activity, requires an Amazon account, and has a documented history of remote deletion.

• Google Play Books - Tied to a Google account, tracks reading data, and does not offer an offline-only mode.

• Kobo / Apple Books - Require accounts and sync reading data to company servers by default.

• Calibre - Open-source ebook manager for Linux, Windows, and macOS with format conversion, metadata editing, and a built-in reader (GPL-3.0).

• Kavita (⭐12k) - Cross-platform self-hosted digital library for ebooks and comics with a built-in web reader (GPL-3.0).

• Komga (⭐6.7k) - Self-hosted media server for comics, magazines, and ebooks with a responsive web interface and OPDS support (MIT).

Forms

• TypeBot - Open-source conversational forms.

Plugins for Minecraft

• FreedomChat (⭐234) - A great alternative to No-Chat-Reports, since it does not break any chat plugin by design.

Home Assistants

• OpenVoiceOS - Open source voice assistant and the maintained successor to Mycroft, running fully offline on your own hardware. Apache-2.0 licensed.

• Home Assistant - Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first.

Decentralized

• Status - Status is a secure messaging app, crypto wallet, and Web3 browser built with state of the art technology.

Third-Party owned

• ProtonMail - Secure Email. Based in Switzerland. Read this article over Climate activist arrest.

• mailbox.org - Paid email, calendar and office suite based in Germany, with built-in PGP encryption and no ads.

Audio

• Spotube (⭐50k) - A lightweight free Spotify crossplatform-client.

Notes and Tasks

• AppFlowy - Open Source Notion Alternative. You are in charge of your data and customizations.

• Standard Notes - A free, open-source, and completely encrypted notes app.

• Trilium Notes (⭐38k) - Build your personal knowledge base with Trilium Notes

Email verification required, accepting monero

• Onlinesim - Receive SMS online to virtual phone number. (Based in Russia)

Based on Linux

• Nura (formerly postmarketOS) - Touch optimised and pre-configured version of Alpine Linux.

GNU/Linux

• Fedora - Community Linux distribution sponsored by Red Hat, shipping recent open source software on a six-month cycle.

• Whonix is an operating system that runs inside virtual machines and forces every connection through Tor.

• Kicksecure is a hardened Debian-based distribution from the Whonix developers, secure by default.

• secureblue is a hardened image built on Fedora Atomic Desktops, with security-focused defaults and a hardened browser.

Password Managers

• AliasVault - An open source E2EE password & alias manager with a built-in email alias server

Pastebin and Secret Sharing

• crypt.fyi - Ephemeral zero-knowledge sensitive data sharing platform with web, cli, and chrome-extension clients

Third-party

• Ente - End-to-end encrypted storage for photos and videos. Open source, audited independently.

Routers

• Stock ISP routers and vendor firmware: closed source, slow or missing security updates, and often phone home to the vendor or ISP.

• OpenWrt - Open source Linux firmware that replaces the stock software on hundreds of consumer routers, with years of security updates.

• OPNsense - Open source firewall and routing platform based on FreeBSD, for dedicated hardware or a spare PC.

• IPFire - Hardened open source Linux firewall distribution with intrusion prevention and a web interface.

RSS Readers

• Feedly

• Inoreader

• Google News

YouTube

• ViewTube (⭐1.5k) - ViewTube is an alternative privacy-friendly YouTube frontend written in Vue.js

Teamworking Tools

• Stoat (formerly Revolt) - User-first chat platform built with modern web technologies.

Translation

• TranslateLocally (⭐632) – Free/open-source neural MT, runs offline on your computer

Uncategorized

• Visited (⭐98) - Locally collect browsing history over browsers.

Version Control

• Radicle - An open source, peer-to-peer code collaboration stack built on Git. Unlike centralized code hosting platforms, there is no single entity controlling the network. Repositories are replicated across peers in a decentralized manner, and users are in full control of their data and workflow.

VPNs / Alternative clients/modifications of Discord:

• nadanada (formerly LNVPN) - Pay-per-use WireGuard VPN with no account, paid by Lightning Network or other cryptocurrency.

Desktop / Alternative clients/modifications of Discord:

• Firefox - Open Source, independent browser. It needs some hardening and tweaking to achieve great privacy.
  • LibreWolf - Privacy-focused Firefox fork.

Anti-tracking / Alternative clients/modifications of Discord:

• LibRedirect (⭐4.1k) - A simple web extension that redirects Twitter, YouTube, Google Maps and many more requests to privacy friendly alternatives. Former Privacy Redirect is no longer maintained, LibRedirect is a maintained fork.

Whistleblowing / Alternative clients/modifications of Discord:

• GlobaLeaks - Self-hostable whistleblowing platform for organisations, newsrooms and activists, replacing hosted reporting portals. Open source (AGPL-3.0).

• SecureDrop - Self-hosted submission system that lets newsrooms receive documents from anonymous sources over Tor, replacing email and cloud uploads. Open source (AGPL-3.0).

Jul 05, 2026

ChatGPT

• Open WebUI - Self-hosted web interface for Ollama and other local models that gives you a private ChatGPT-style chat. BSD-3 licensed.

• LibreChat - Self-hosted chat interface that connects many AI models behind one private UI you control. Open source, MIT licensed.

AI Coding

• Aider - Terminal AI pair programmer that edits code in your local git repository using your own API keys. Apache-2.0 licensed.

• Tabby - Self-hosted code completion assistant that runs on your own hardware as an alternative to GitHub Copilot. Apache-2.0 licensed.

Text to Speech

• Piper (⭐5.7k) - A fast, local neural text to speech system that sounds great and is optimized for the Raspberry Pi 4.

• Chatterbox (⭐27k) - Local text-to-speech model with voice cloning that runs entirely on your own machine. Open source, MIT licensed.

Image Generation

• SwarmUI (⭐4.6k) - Local web interface for Stable Diffusion and other diffusion models, built on a ComfyUI backend. MIT licensed.

Databases

• TrailBase - Open source, single-executable Firebase alternative built on Rust and SQLite, with type-safe REST and realtime APIs, auth, and an admin UI. OSL-3.0 licensed.

• Baserow - Self-hosted no-code database and spreadsheet that works as an open source Airtable alternative. MIT licensed core.

Domains & Hosting

• Find more at kycnot.me (VPS Category) - KYC-free VPS and hosting providers.

Forms

• Formbricks - Self-hosted survey and form builder for collecting responses without handing your data to a third party (AGPL-3.0).

Decentralized

• Matrix (Protocol) - An open network for secure, decentralized communication.
  • Element - All-in-one secure chat app for teams, friends and organisations. Keeps conversations in your control, safe from data-mining and ads. End-to-end encryption.
  • Cinny - A Matrix client focusing primarily on simple, elegant and secure interface.

• Jabber / XMPP (Protocol) - The universal and open messaging standard. Tried and tested. Independent. Privacy-focused. E2E encrypted.
  • 🤖 Conversations - Jabber/XMPP client for Android 4.0+ smartphones that has been optimized to provide a unique mobile experience.
  • AstraChat - Another XMPP client.
  • Dino - Modern XMPP desktop client for Linux with OMEMO and OpenPGP end-to-end encryption. Open source, GPL-3.0 licensed.
  • Gajim - Cross-platform XMPP client with OMEMO encryption, running on Linux, Windows, and macOS. Open source, GPL-3.0 licensed.
  • Snikket - One-command self-hosted XMPP service that bundles a server with matching mobile and desktop clients. Open source and Docker-based.

• DeltaChat - Chat over encrypted e-mail.

• Session - Extreme focus on privacy and anonymity. Blockchain technology.

• SimpleX Chat - The first chat platform that is 100% private by design - it has no access to your connection graph

Link Shorteners

• Kutt - Self-hosted URL shortener with custom domains and password-protected links. Open source, MIT licensed.

• Shlink - Self-hosted URL shortener that keeps its own click analytics on your server. Open source, MIT licensed.

Self-Hosted

• Stalwart - All-in-one mail server written in Rust that covers SMTP, IMAP, and JMAP, with two independent security audits (AGPL-3.0).

Notes and Tasks

• Google Keep
  • Keep To Markdown (⭐156) - Convert your Google Keep notes into a standard markdown + YAML header format.

Office

• Grist - Self-hostable spreadsheet and database hybrid for organizing data, as an open source Airtable alternative. Apache-2.0 licensed.

Android-Based

• /e/OS - Degoogled Android ROM by Murena that bundles microG and optional cloud services. Open source, GPL-3.0 licensed.

• iodéOS - Degoogled Android ROM with a built-in network firewall that blocks ads and trackers. Open source, GPL-3.0 licensed.

Wallets

• Cake Wallet - Open source, non-custodial wallet for Monero, Bitcoin, and other coins on mobile and desktop. MIT licensed.

• Feather Wallet - Lightweight open source Monero desktop wallet with built-in Tor and coin control. BSD-3 licensed.

Payment Processors

• BTCPay Server - Self-hosted, non-custodial cryptocurrency payment processor for merchants, as an alternative to PayPal or BitPay. MIT licensed.

Where to use Monero and Bitcoin

• kycnot.me - Directory of KYC-free exchanges, payment processors, and other privacy services.

Budget Management

• Wallos - Self-hosted tracker for subscriptions and recurring expenses, with reminders and spending statistics. Open source, GPL-3.0 licensed.

Desktop

• RapidRAW (⭐10k) - A beautiful, non-destructive and GPU-accelerated RAW image editor built with performance in mind. Lightweight (<20MB) cross-platform alternative to Adobe Lightroom. AGPL-3.0 licensed.

• RawTherapee - Offline open source RAW photo developer that pairs well with darktable as a Lightroom alternative. GPL-3.0 licensed.

Remote Access and Control

• Apache Guacamole - Clientless self-hosted remote desktop gateway that gives RDP, VNC, and SSH access from a browser. Apache-2.0 licensed.

• Sunshine + Moonlight - Self-hosted desktop and game streaming host (Sunshine) with matching clients (Moonlight). Open source, GPL-3.0 licensed.

IMDb

• libremdb - Alternative privacy-respecting frontend for IMDb that removes ads and trackers. Open source and self-hostable (AGPL-3.0).

Fandom

• BreezeWiki - Alternative frontend for Fandom wikis that strips ads, video, and clutter. Open source and self-hostable.

Version Control

• Gitea - Lightweight self-hosted Git forge and the project Forgejo was forked from. Open source, MIT licensed.

VPNs / Alternative clients/modifications of Discord:

• Amnezia VPN - Self-hosted, censorship-resistant VPN that you deploy on your own server, with audited open source apps (GPL-3.0).

• Find more at kycnot.me (VPN Category) - KYC-free VPN providers.

Desktop / Alternative clients/modifications of Discord:

• Zen Browser - Firefox-based browser with enhanced tracking protection on by default and a focus on calm, uncluttered browsing. MPL-2.0 licensed.

• Floorp - Firefox fork with telemetry disabled and extra customization, built with privacy in mind. Open source, MPL-2.0 licensed.

Anti-tracking / Alternative clients/modifications of Discord:

• Privacy Badger - Browser extension from the EFF that learns to block trackers as you browse. Open source, GPL-3.0 licensed.

• ClearURLs - Browser extension that automatically strips tracking parameters from links and URLs. Open source, LGPL-3.0 licensed.

Mar 21, 2026

ChatGPT

• llama.cpp (⭐130k) - Inference of Facebook's LLaMA model in pure C/C++ so it can run locally on a CPU.

AI Coding

• OpenCode (⭐208k) - The open source coding agent. Connect local models or any providers of your choice.

Speech to Text

• Models
  • Moonshine (⭐11k) - Fast and accurate automatic speech recognition (ASR) for edge devices.
  • OpenAI Whisper (⭐110k) - Whisper is a general-purpose speech recognition model that can be run locally offline. It can transcribe audio from and to multiple languages.
    • whisper.cpp (⭐54k) - High-performance inference of OpenAI's Whisper automatic speech recognition (ASR) model.
    • faster-whisper (⭐26k) - Reimplementation of Whisper using CTranslate2 that transcribes locally up to four times faster. MIT licensed.
  • ParakeetTDT - Efficient audio transcription. Convert speech to text with unprecedented speed and accuracy using NVIDIA advanced AI speech recognition model.

Mar 17, 2026

Speech to Text

• Apps and services
  • OpenWhispr (⭐8.9k) - Voice-to-text dictation and productivity app with AI agents, meeting transcription, notes, and local/cloud speech recognition. Privacy-first and available cross-platform. Open source alternative to wisprflow.
  • Sasayaki (⭐11) - Tiny android dictation app that turns speech into clear writing.
  • Speaches (⭐3.7k) - OpenAI API-compatible server supporting streaming transcription, translation, and speech generation.

Google Fonts Replacements

• Bunny Fonts - Bunny Fonts is an open-source, privacy-first web font platform designed to put privacy back into the internet.

Feb 16, 2026

ChatGPT

• PasteGuard (⭐758) - Privacy proxy for LLM APIs that masks PII and secrets before they reach cloud providers. Self-hosted, OpenAI-compatible, and restores original data in responses.

Calendar

• Google Calendar - Tracks your events, integrates with Google's advertising ecosystem, and your data is stored on Google's servers without end-to-end encryption.

Nov 24, 2025

Android Debloat Tools

• ADB AppControl - A simple adb wrapper with a terrible privacy policy to collect things like device information and what applications you install/uninstall.

• Universal Android Debloater Next Generation (⭐9.3k) - Cross-platform GUI written in Rust using ADB to debloat non-rooted android devices. Improve your privacy, the security and battery life of your device.

Android Dialer

• Fossify Phone (⭐1.3k) - A handy phone call manager with phonebook, number blocking and multi-SIM support.

ChatGPT

• Shimmy (⭐5.9k) - Privacy-focused AI inference server with OpenAI API compatibility, zero cloud dependencies, and local model processing.

• Tinfoil - Verifiably private AI Chat and OpenAI-compatible inference in the cloud. Uses NVIDIA confidential computing and open source code pinned to a transparency log for end-to-end verifiability.

AI Coding

• Cline - Open source AI coding for VSCode. See every decision and use your own models.
  • Zoo Code (⭐1.9k) - Cline fork with some improvements; community successor to the discontinued Roo Code.

Text to Speech

• Kokoro FastAPI (⭐5.5k) - Dockerized FastAPI wrapper for Kokoro-82M text-to-speech model w/CPU, ONNX and NVIDIA GPU support, handling, and auto-stitching.

Image Generation

• InvokeAI (⭐28k) - Generate and create stunning visual media using the latest AI-driven technologies locally.

Captchas

• Private Captcha (⭐195) - Privacy-first and self-hosted Proof-of-Work CAPTCHA alternative, made in EU.

Link Shorteners

• tnyr.me - A zero-trust URL shortener with paswordless end-to-end encryption.

Pastebin and Secret Sharing

• dele-to - Open Source. Modern app to share sensitive credentials and secrets securely with client-side AES-256 encryption, zero-knowledge architecture, and automatic self-destruction.

Full Featured Financial Management

• Sure (⭐10k) - Open Source and secure OS for your personal finances. Community maintained fork of the archived Maybe (⭐54k) project.

• ezBookkeeping - A lightweight, self-hosted personal finance app with a user-friendly interface and powerful bookkeeping features.

Translation

• Linguist - A free and Open Source full-featured translation solution in-browser with embedded offline translator and custom translators. Full-page translation, TTS, dictionary, translation for user input and selected text on page.

Jul 21, 2025

Office

• Fileverse - Fileverse is building healthier alternatives with self-sovereignty, privacy by design, and standards compliance at its core.
  • Ddocs: privacy-enhancing alternative to google docs: onchain, end-to-end encrypted, and decentralized.
  • dSheets: decentralized alternative to Excel and Google Sheets.

Screen recording

• OBS - Free and open source software for video recording and live streaming.

Video Editing / Alternative clients/modifications of Discord:

• OpenCut (⭐91k) - [beta] A free, open-source video editor for web, desktop, and mobile.

Jul 14, 2025

Minecraft

• Luanti - An open source voxel game engine with many features.
  • Mineclonia - Survival sandbox game inspired by Minecraft. Fork of MineClone2 with focus on stability, multiplayer performance and features.

Maps and Navigation

• CoMaps - A community-led free & open source maps app based on OSM

Password Managers

• CarryPass - Zero-knowledge PWA password manager with deterministic generation, encrypted vaults, and team collaboration. (Source (⭐11)) MIT

Pastebin and Secret Sharing

• scrt.link - Share a secret. End-to-end encrypted. Ephemeral. Open-source.

Self-hosted

• Immich (⭐115k) - Self-hosted photo and video backup solution directly from your mobile phone.

Jan 22, 2025

Full Featured Financial Management

• Actual - Super fast and privacy-focused app for managing your finances.

• Firefly III - A free and open source personal finance manager.

Shared Expenses

• Tricount - App size is massive (~200MB) and contains many trackers from Facebook, Google and Huawei.

• Splitwise - App contains trackers from Google and Amazon.

• Spliit (⭐3k) - Share Expenses with Friends & Family. No ads. No account. Open Source. Forever Free.

• SplitPro (⭐1.5k) - Website - Split Expenses with your friends for free. An open source alternative to SplitWise.

Portfolio trackers

• Ghostfolio (⭐9.4k) - open source wealth management software built with web technology.

• PortfolioPerformance - An open source tool to calculate the overall performance of an investment portfolio-

Nov 21, 2024

Book and web annotations/highlights management

• Blasta - A collaborative bookmarks manager for organizing online content.

Sep 26, 2024

Link Shorteners

• Dub (⭐25k) - You can self-host Dub.co for greater control over your data and design.

• Yourls - Self hosted URL shortener in PHP.

Notes and Tasks

• 🤖 Tasks.org - Open source to-do and task manager for Android with CalDAV sync and offline use. GPL-3.0 licensed.

Sep 15, 2024

Tracking

• Dawarich (⭐11k) - Self-hosted alternative to Google Location History.

Jul 19, 2024

Desktop

• darktable - darktable is an open source photography workflow application and raw developer

Jul 07, 2024

Captchas

• hCaptcha

• Altcha.org - Free, open-source and self-hosted CAPTCHA alternative using proof-of-work mechanism.

Wallets

• Sparrow Wallet - An open source, cross-platform desktop wallet that gives you many privacy-preserving spending tools.

• Wasabi Wallet - An open source, non-custodial, privacy-focused Bitcoin wallet available on Desktop.

Apr 28, 2024

Notes and Tasks

• Quillpad - Take beautiful markdown notes and stay organized with task lists. Fork of Quillnote.

Apr 15, 2024

Third-Party owned

• Tuta - Secure email for everybody. Open Source.

Apr 10, 2024

Reddit

• Redlib (⭐3.8k) - An alternative private front-end to Reddit, with its origins in Libreddit.

Apr 06, 2024

Analytics

• Unidentified Analytics - Naive ip-based tracking that works everywhere (web, command-line, email, etc). No account required. Developer friendly.

Apr 05, 2024

GNU/Linux

• Qubes OS is a security-oriented operating system that isolates various workspaces into separate virtual machines to enhance privacy and security.

• Tails is a portable operating system that protects against surveillance and censorship. It always starts from the same clean state and everything you do disappears automatically when you shut down Tails.

Version Control

• Github - , although the privacy policy is not very bad, it is owned by Microsoft, and it's common knowledge that it uses the code it hosts to train AI models.

• Codeberg - Codeberg is a collaboration platform providing Git hosting and services for free and open source software, content and projects.

• Forgejo - Forgejo is a self-hosted lightweight software forge.

• GitLab - GitLab a DevOps software package that can develop, secure, and operate software.

Feb 16, 2024

Pastebin and Secret Sharing

• NoPaste (⭐450) - Open Source pastebin alternative that works with no database, and no back-end code. Instead, the data is compressed and stored entirely in the link that you share, nowhere else.

Feb 10, 2024

ChatGPT

• Jan (⭐45k) - Jan is an open source alternative to ChatGPT that runs 100% offline on your computer.

AI Coding

• Continue (⭐36k) - Open-source autopilot for VS Code and JetBrains—the easiest way to code with any LLM

Feb 08, 2024

Mario Kart

• Sonic Robo Blast 2 Kart - SRB2Kart is a classic styled kart racer, complete with beautiful courses, and wacky items.

Jan 22, 2024

Android Gallery

• Google Photos has privacy issues. They collect a lot of data about you, which you can see in their privacy policy. Google can scan your photos and might flag them for different reasons, as shown in this incident. They also use your photos to improve their AI technology.

• Amazon Photos also has similar privacy problems. Like Google Photos, it gathers a lot of information from your photo gallery. You can see a bit of what kind of data they collect in their examples list.

• Samsung, Huawei, Xiaomi, etc. Gallery

• Aves (⭐5.3k) - Beautiful gallery and metadata explorer app, built for Android with Flutter.

• Fossify Gallery (⭐3.7k) - Fork of Simple Gallery. Browse your memories without any interruptions with this photo and video gallery.

Oct 17, 2023

Analytics

• GoatCounter - Privacy aware, lightweight and open-source analytics platform.

Creator Tools

• vdo.ninja - Powerful tool that lets you bring remote video feeds into OBS or other studio software via WebRTC.
  • socialstream.ninja (⭐1.1k) - Consolidate your live social messaging streams and much more.

• OBS Studio - Free and open source software for video recording and live streaming.

Link in Bio Tools

• LinkStack - Self-hosted open-source Linktree alternative.

GNU/Linux

• Mint (Cinnamon) is a beginner friendly distribution.

Sep 23, 2023

Notes and Tasks

• Anytype - An open-source Notion alternative. E2EE, cloud and local network sync, can be self-hosted.

Aug 30, 2023

Photoshop / Illustrator

• Excalidraw (⭐133k) - Virtual whiteboard for sketching hand-drawn like diagrams.

Aug 25, 2023

Notes and Tasks

• Obsidian - Obsidian is the private and flexible note‑taking app. Closed source but has no trackers (website / apps) and E2EE sync.

Aug 17, 2023

InDesign

• Scribus - a free and open-source desktop publishing (DTP) software available for most desktop operating systems. It is designed for layout, typesetting, and preparation of files for professional-quality image-setting equipment. Scribus can also create animated and interactive PDF presentations and forms.

Photoshop / Illustrator

• Krita - A free and open-source raster graphics editor designed primarily for digital art and 2D animation.

Figma

• Penpot - Penpot is an Open Source design and prototyping platform for product teams.

Aug 09, 2023

Captchas

• mCaptcha (repo (⭐2.5k)) - An open-source CAPTCHA system with seamless UX. mCaptcha uses SHA256 based proof-of-work (PoW) to rate limit users.

Aug 05, 2023

Password Managers

• Proton Pass - Open-source and encrypted password manager by Proton.

May 26, 2023

Analytics

• Aptabase - Open-source, privacy-first and simple analytics for mobile and desktop apps.

Text to Speech

• Espeak (⭐6.9k) - eSpeak NG is an open source speech synthesizer that supports more than hundred languages and accents. Voices will sound rather robotic.

Desktop / Alternative clients/modifications of Discord:

• Mullvad Browser - Browser with the privacy and security implications of the Tor Browser, without the use of the Tor network.

Apr 05, 2023

Cloud Storage

• PrivateStorage - Accountless, privacy-focused cloud storage and folder synchronization with client-side encryption.

Mar 07, 2023

Cloud Storage

• Restic - Restic is also command line program to manage files on various cloud storage providers. Restic uses encryption by default. Few noteworthy features of restic include browsing through storage as git like snapshots at no extra storage cost, deduplication and significant savings through compression.

Feb 28, 2023

Password Managers

• Passbolt - An open source password manager designed for team collaboration.

Feb 26, 2023

Self-Hosted

• Mox (⭐5.9k) - Modern full-featured open source secure mail server for low-maintenance self-hosted email.

Feb 22, 2023

Third-Party owned

• Forward Email - the 100% open-source and privacy-focused email service.

Privacy vs Security vs Anonymity / Alternative clients/modifications of Discord:

• Privacy is about regulating who has access to your personal information, being aware of the data that is being collected about you, and having the ability to decide who can access it and how. In short, privacy involves controlling your personal information.

• Security refers to safeguarding your personal information from unauthorized access or theft. It involves ensuring that your data is protected and stored in a secure manner, making it difficult for malicious actors to access it.

• Anonymity is about ensuring that your actions cannot be traced back to you. This means that even if someone discovers what you are doing, they will not be able to identify you as the source.

Feb 04, 2023

Desktop / Alternative clients/modifications of Discord:

• Ungoogled Chromium (⭐28k) - A lightweight approach to removing Google web service dependency. Ungoogled-chromium is Google Chromium, sans dependency on Google web services.

Jan 22, 2023

VPNs / Alternative clients/modifications of Discord:

• Proton VPN - Swiss no-logs VPN with open source, audited apps on every platform and a no-data-cap free tier.

Jan 19, 2023

Link in Bio Tools

• Keyoxide - A modern, secure and privacy-friendly platform to establish your decentralized online identity.

Jan 15, 2023

Video Editing / Alternative clients/modifications of Discord:

• LosslessCut (⭐44k) - LosslessCut aims to be the ultimate cross platform FFmpeg GUI for extremely fast and lossless operations on video, audio, subtitle and other related media files.

Jan 09, 2023

Commenting Engines

• Disqus - Many trackers are in their sites. Disqus collects (as per their Privacy Policy): IP address, unique Cookie ID, Device ID, your login data, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform and other technology on the devices you use to access the Service.

Jan 02, 2023

Other OS:

• AtlasOS - An open-source modification of Windows 10, designed to optimize performance, and latency. Atlas removes all types of tracking embedded within Windows and implements numerous group policies to minimize data collection.

Dec 23, 2022

Blogging platforms (Medium)

• Scribe - Medium alternative forntend inspired by Invidious.

Dec 22, 2022

Self-hosted

• Memos (⭐63k) - An open-source, self-hosted memo hub with knowledge management and socialization.

Nov 24, 2022

Pokemon

• Pokete (⭐3.2k) - A small terminal based game in the style of a very popular and old game by Gamefreak.

No email verification, accepting monero

• MoneroSMS - Virtual numbers for SMS/MMS messaging and verifications. CLI and web app. (Based in United States)

Nov 18, 2022

Find My Device

• GPSlogger (⭐2.6k) - Lightweight GPS Logging Application For Android. No servers, no internet. Saved to a simple file to local storage.

Nov 13, 2022

YouTube

• Youtube-Local (⭐779) - browser-based client for watching Youtube anonymously and with greater page performance.

Oct 23, 2022

Notes and Tasks

• SiYuan (⭐47k) - A local-first personal knowledge management system.

Oct 22, 2022

Desktop / Alternative clients/modifications of Discord:

• Brave - Brave offers a pretty good out-of-the-box set of privacy and tracker protections.

Oct 17, 2022

Book and web annotations/highlights management

• Hypothesis (⭐3.2k) - Annotate the web, with anyone, anywhere.

• Kobuddy (⭐184) - Get your Kobo e-reader device bookmarks and annotations in a .txt file.

Oct 13, 2022

P2P

• Berty - The privacy-first messaging app that works with or without internet access, cellular data or trust in the network.

Oct 10, 2022

Teamworking Tools

• See this section for Discord mods and alternative clients (⭐20k)

Translation

• Mozilla Translate - Open Source, runs model locally in your browser.

Oct 05, 2022

Podcasts

• Deezer - Bad privacy policy. Apps have many trackers. Way too many permissions are required for a streaming app.

• Spotify - Very bad privacy policy. They collect tons of data about you: mood, free time, likes, dislikes, friends... Also, their apps have way too many trackers.

• iVoox - Their apps are filled with trackers. Their website has trackers.

• Audible - Very bad privacy policy. Their app has many trackers.

• Antennapod - A podcast player that is completely open. Subscribe to any RSS feed.

• Castopod - Self-host your podcasts with ease, keep control over what you create and talk to your audience without any middleman. Your podcast and your audience belong to you and you only.

• Funkwhale - A social platform to enjoy and share audio.

Oct 04, 2022

Blogging platforms (Medium)

• Medium - website has Google trackers and ads.

• Blogger - Google owned, has google trackers and ads.

Oct 02, 2022

Quora

• Quetre (⭐498) - Quetre is an alternative front-end to Quora. It enables you to see answers without ads, trackers, and other such bloat.

Sep 29, 2022

PC / MacOS

• MacOS.

Other OS:

• RedoxOS - A WIP project aiming to provide a Unix-like Operating System written in Rust.

Web Browser / Alternative clients/modifications of Discord:

• Google Chrome - Owned by google and built upon the open-source Chromium project (also Google-owned). It comes with many privacy-invasive features, it is connected to your Google account most times. It is under Google's privacy policy which is known to be very bad. Google is willing to enforce the Manifest v3 which is outright harmful to privacy efforts.

• Microsoft Edge - It's a Microsoft-themed version of Chromium with Microsoft trackers instead of Google ones. Under Microsoft's privacy policy, which is also very bad. If you still want to use it, you can follow this guide to harden it a bit.

• Opera - Opera was acquired by a consortium of Chinese investors. The app has many trackers.

Useful Tools / Alternative clients/modifications of Discord:

• Single File (⭐22k) - Save a faithful copy of an entire web page in a single HTML file so you can use it offline.

Sep 27, 2022

Cloud Storage

• Proton Drive - End-to-end encrypted Swiss vault for your files that protects your data. Read this article over Climate activist arrest.

Self-Hosted

• Mailcow: dockerized (⭐14k) - The mailserver suite with the 'moo'.

Sep 21, 2022

Cloud Storage

• Google Drive - Google owned, so privacy policy is very bad. The data is stored in their remote servers where you lose control of it. They use trackers. No encryption available.

• DropBox - Bad privacy policy. The app has various trackers and requires many permissions.

• OneDrive - Microsoft owned, privacy policy is very bad. The data is stored in their remote servers where you lose control of it. They use trackers. No encryption available.

• Peergos - Secure and private space online where you can store, share and view your photos, videos, music and documents. Also includes a calendar, news feed, task lists, chat and email client. Open source and self-hostable.

File Management and Sharing

• WeTransfer - Bad privacy policy. Files are not e2e encrypted. Website has many analytics and trackers.

• SendAnywhere - No e2e encryption. Website has loads of analytics and trackers from Facebook, Google, Cloudflare...

Sonic the Hedgehog

• Sonic Robo Blast 2 - Sonic Robo Blast 2 is a 3D open-source Sonic the Hedgehog fangame built using a modified version of the Doom Legacy port of Doom.

Third-Party owned

• Mailfence - Secure and private email.

Pastebin and Secret Sharing

• PrivateBin (⭐8.6k) - A minimalist, open source online pastebin where the server has zero knowledge of pasted data. Data is encrypted/decrypted in the browser using 256 bits AES.

• Yopass (⭐3.2k) - Secure sharing of secrets, passwords and files.

Sep 19, 2022

Bookmarking

• Evernote Web Clipper - Bad privacy policy. Apps have many trackers and require too many permissions.

Sep 12, 2022

Media Streaming Platforms

• Amazon Prime - Bad privacy policy. Apps have Google trackers. Many permissions are required for a streaming app.

• Netflix - Bad privacy policy. Apps have Google trackers. Many permissions are required for a streaming app.

• Disney Plus - Very bad privacy policy. Apps have various trackers. Many permissions are required for a streaming app.

• Plex - Dubitous privacy policy. Apps have many trackers. Way too many permissions are required for a streaming app.

• Spotify - Very bad privacy policy. Apps have many trackers. Way too many permissions are required for a streaming app.

• SoundCloud - Dubitous priavcy policy. Apps have many trackers. Way too many permissions are required for a streaming app.

Notes and Tasks

• Notesnook - Open source zero knowledge private note taking.

Music Recognition

• Shazam - It's under Apple's privacy policy. The android app has a few Google trackers.

• SoundHound - Has way too many trackers for a music recognition app.

• Musicxmatch - The app has trackers and requires a dangerous amount of permissions.

• SongRec (⭐2k) - An open-source Shazam client for Linux, written in Rust.

• SongID Telegram Bot (⭐109) - A Telegram bot that can identify music in audio/video files you send it.

Video and Audio Conferencing

• Zoom - Very bad privacy policy. Apps have Google trackers. Many permissions required.

• Skype - Very bad privacy policy. Apps have Google and Microsoft trackers. Way too many permissions required.

• Google Meet - Very bad privacy policy. Apps have Google trackers embeded (as it is a Google app). Way too many permissions required.

• Whatsapp - Bad privacy policy. Apps have Google trackers and most probably Facebook trackers embeded (as it is a Facebook app). Way too many permissions required.

• Instagram - Very bad privacy policy. Apps have Facebook trackers. Way too many permissions required.

• Discord - Very bad privacy policy.. Apps have various trackers. Many permissions required.

Sep 02, 2022

Notes and Tasks

• Joplin (⭐57k) - Note taking and to-do application with synchronisation and encryption capabilities.

• Nextcloud Notes (⭐739) - The Notes app is a distraction free notes taking app for Nextcloud.
  • Nextcloud Notes app (⭐1.1k) - An android client for Nextcloud Notes.

• Notally (⭐2.2k) - A beautiful notes app (local only, no sync).

• TinyList - Create and share notes and checklists, without sacrificing your privacy.

• YankNote (⭐6.8k) - A Hackable Markdown Note Application for Programmers.

Aug 30, 2022

Analytics

• Cabin - Privacy-first, carbon conscious web analytics.

Aug 25, 2022

No email verification, accepting monero

• Crypton - Secure SMS Sim Card in the cloud. (Based in Iceland)

• Virtualsim - Virtualsim provides physical SIM cards leasing for SMS verifications. (Based in Ukraine)

Email verification required, accepting crypto

• SmsPVA - SmsPVA is a service providing a phone number you can send any SMS on and get a text of it. (Based in France)

Aug 20, 2022

VPNs / Alternative clients/modifications of Discord:

• Free VPNs from Google Play or any appstore. These services are not free as they will suck your connections' data, keep logs and profile you to sell your data to advertisers. If a government wants to track someone, such apps will be the first ones to fall.

Jul 28, 2022

VPNs / Alternative clients/modifications of Discord:

• Closed source VPN apps such as Surfshark or NordVPN may be less trustworthy as nobody can be sure how they handle your data. Also, paying with Credit Card will get you identified on the payment. Furthermore, if you need to give your email it will also identify you if this same email has been used in other services.

• IVPN - No-logs VPN with open source apps, no-email signup, and cash, Monero, or Bitcoin payment.

• Mullvad VPN - No-logs VPN with open source apps, anonymous numbered accounts, and cash or cryptocurrency payment.

• SPN - Open source, system-wide network that routes each app connection through its own path across multiple nodes, giving per-connection IP separation instead of a single shared exit. Built into the Safing Portmaster firewall for Windows and Linux.

Jul 21, 2022

Plugins for Minecraft

• No-Chat-Reports (⭐1k) - A spigot plugin strips cryptographic signatures from player messages, but it breaks any chat plugin by design.

Jul 11, 2022

Databases

• Pocketbase - Open Source backend in 1 file written in Go.

Jun 27, 2022

OS Encryption

• Cryptsetup - Full disk encryption for Linux. Cryptsetup is a utility used to conveniently set up disk encryption based on the DMCrypt kernel module.

Plugins for Minecraft

• No-Telemetry (⭐266) - Mod that disables the usage data collection, aka telemetry, introduced in Minecraft 1.18 (snapshot 21w38a).

Jun 01, 2022

Analytics

• Swetrix - Privacy-focused, fully cookieless and opensource (and selfhostable) web-analytics service.

Third-party

• Stingle Photos - Open source solution that provides strong security, privacy and encryption to backup your photos.

May 23, 2022

Self-hosted

• Nextcloud - The open source self-hosted productivity platform that keeps you in control. It has a Photos plugin to help you organize and visualize your photos.

• LibrePhotos (⭐8.1k) - Active OwnPhotos (⭐2.8k) fork. Self hosted alternative to Google Photos.

May 19, 2022

Forms

• CryptPad Forms - Part of the Cryptpad end-to-end encrypted and open-source collaboration suite.

• FramaForms - Design your online surveys easily while respecting your audience.

May 09, 2022

Google Fonts Replacements

• coolLabs Fonts - A privacy-friendly drop-in replacement for Google Fonts.

May 07, 2022

Password Managers

• LessPass - Stateless password manager. Remember one master password to access your passwords. No sync needed.

Apr 30, 2022

Link Shorteners

• Bit.ly

• MagLit - An encrypted and privacy respecting Link Shortener service that also supports Magnet Links.

Apr 07, 2022

Password Managers

• Passky - Simple, modern, lightweight, open-source and secure password manager.

Apr 04, 2022

Audio

• Spot* (⭐2.4k) - Native Spotify client built in GTK and Rust.

• psst* (⭐9.5k) - Fast and multi-platform Spotify client with native GUI.

• ncspot* (⭐6.8k) - Cross-platform ncurses Spotify client written in Rust, inspired by ncmpc and the likes.

Mar 27, 2022

Home Assistants

• Alexa

• Siri

Mar 20, 2022

Translation

• Google Translate

• Bing Translator

Dating Apps

Instant Messaging

• WhatsApp |

• Instagram DM |

• Facebook Messenger |

• Zoom |

Payments

• PayPal

Video Editing / Alternative clients/modifications of Discord:

Search Engines

• Yahoo!

• Yandex

• Ecosia

Teamworking Tools

Mar 19, 2022

YouTube

• Piped (⭐10k) - An alternative privacy-friendly YouTube frontend which is efficient by design.

Mar 09, 2022

Mario Kart

• SuperTuxKart - A 3D open-source arcade racer with a variety characters, tracks, and modes to play.

Mar 08, 2022

Imgur

• rimgo - An alternative frontend for Imgur. Read-only, no-js, Based on rimgu and rewritten in Go.

Mar 07, 2022

TikTok

• ProxiTok (⭐2.1k) - Open source alternative frontend for TikTok

Mar 02, 2022

Dating Apps

• Grindr

• Badoo

• Lovoo

• Alovoa - Free and open-source dating platform that respects your privacy.

Feb 02, 2022

Anti-tracking / Alternative clients/modifications of Discord:

• uBlock Origin - Free, open-source ad content blocker. Easy on CPU and memory.
  • Read the extension docs (⭐68k) and pick one of the recommended modes to increase your privacy.
  • Go to settings > filters list > annoyances, turn on easylist-cookies. This will avoid you the annoying Cookie popups.

Jan 29, 2022

Local

• ImageGlass - ImageGlass is a lightweight software application whose purpose is to help you view images in a clean and intuitive working environment.

• Photok (⭐974) - Photok is a free Photo-Safe. It stores your photos encrypted on your device and hides them from others.

Jan 24, 2022

Video Editing / Alternative clients/modifications of Discord:

• Sony Vegas

• DaVinci Resolve

• kdenlive - Open source video editor. Free and easy to use for any purpose, forever.

• Olive Video Editor - Free open-source advanced non-linear video editor currently in Alpha state.

• Shotcut - Shotcut is a free, open source and simple cross-platform video editor.

Jan 15, 2022

Third-Party owned

• Riseup - Online communication tools for people and groups working on liberatory social change.

Email Alias Services (Anonymous Forwarding)

• SimpleLogin (⭐7k) - Open source, self-hostable email aliasing service now owned by Proton (AGPL-3.0).

• AnonAddy (⭐4.9k) - Open source, self-hostable email aliasing and forwarding service, now named addy.io (AGPL-3.0).

Jan 06, 2022

2FA

• Authy

Analytics

• Ackee - Self-hosted website analytics.

• Matomo - Google Analytics alternative that protects your data and your customers' privacy.

• Nullitics - Zero-effort open-source cheap analytics.

• Pirsch - Pirsch is a simple, privacy-friendly, open-source alternative to Google Analytics — lightweight, cookie-free and easily integrated into any website or backend.

• Plausible - Simple and privacy-friendly alternative to Google Analytics.

• Shynet (⭐3.2k) - Modern, privacy-friendly, and detailed web analytics that works without cookies or JS.

• Umami - A simple, fast, website analytics alternative to Google Analytics.

Alternative Google Play Store clients

• Aurora Store - Aurora Store is an open-source alternative Google Play Store frontend client with privacy and modern design in mind.

Cloud Storage

• Cryptomator - Cryptomator encrypts your data quickly and easily. Afterwards you upload them protected to your favorite cloud service

Databases

• Appwrite - Secure open-source backend server for web, mobile & Flutter developers.

Developer Tools

• Beekeeper Studio - Open Source SQL Editor and Database Manager with a privacy commitment in their mission statement.

IDEs

• Neovim - Hyperextensible Vim-based text editor.

• VSCodium - Free/Libre Open Source Software Binaries of VSCode. Vscode source code is open source (MIT-licensed), but the product available for download (Visual Studio Code) is licensed under this not-FLOSS license and contains telemetry/tracking.

Desktop

• GIMP - The Free & Open Source Image Editor.

• Inkscape - Inkscape is a free and open-source vector graphics editor used to create vector images.

• Krita (⭐10k) - Krita is a free and open source digital painting application

• Czkawka (⭐34k) - Multi functional app to find duplicates and similar images etc.

Domains & Hosting

• OrangeWebsite - Iceland-based, free-speech web hosting with anonymous signup and cryptocurrency or cash payment.

Download Manager

• Persepolis Download Manager (⭐7.5k) - Persepolis is a download manager & a GUI for Aria2. It's written in Python. Persepolis is a sample of free and open source software. It's developed for GNU/Linux distributions, BSDs, MacOS, and Microsoft Windows.

• Motrix (⭐56k) - A full-featured download manager.

• Xtreme Download Manager (⭐8k) - Xtreme Download Manager (XDM) is a powerful tool to increase download speeds up to 500%, save streaming videos from YouTube, DailyMotion, Facebook, Vimeo, Google Video and 1000+ other websites, resume broken/dead downloads, schedule and convert downloads.

• axel (⭐3.4k) - Lightweight CLI download accelerator. It supports HTTP, HTTPS, FTP and FTPS protocols.

Workout planners

• wger - A free, open source, self-hosted web application that manages your exercises, workouts and nutrition.

Food

• OpenFoodFacts - Open Food Facts is a food products database made by everyone, for everyone. You can use it to make better food choices.
  • OFF Apps - Open source Android and iOS apps to scan food barcodes and read ingredient, additive, and nutrition data.

Foundries

• Velvetyne - French type foundry distributing libre, open source typefaces free for personal and commercial use.

• OpenFoundry - Curated platform showcasing open source typefaces that are free to use and modify.

Tracking

• Nextcloud Phonetrack - Nextcloud app to track location history with an Android app (other apps also supported). Supports caching positions offline and sending them to the server in batches. The first-party app has good battery saving options.

• OwnTracks - Location tracking for displaying the current location only (limited location history functionality).

• Traccar - Location tracking software made for dedicated GPS logging devices.

Find My Device

• Find My Device - Find your Android Device via SMS.

Maps and Navigation

• Google Maps

• Apple Maps

• Yandex Maps

• Bing Maps

• Waze

• Sygic

• HERE WeGo

• Petal Maps

• Open Street Map (OSM) - OpenStreetMap is built by a community of mappers that contribute and maintain data about roads, trails, cafés, railway stations, and much more, all over the world.
  • OSMAnd - Android/iOS Navigation app using OSM. It is a feature-rich app with all you expect.

• Organic Maps - Great offline maps for hikers and cyclists.

Notes and Tasks

• Evernote

• Squid

• Notion

• OneNote

• HedgeDoc - Formerly CodiMD (community). An awesome platform to write and share markdown.

• Logseq - A privacy-first alternative to WorkFlowy.

• Vikunja - The open-source to-do app to organize your life.

Office

• LibreOffice - Free and open source offline office.

• OnlyOffice - Free and open source online office for collaboration.

• Cryptpad - Collaboration suite, encrypted and open-source.

• Etherpad - Highly customizable open source online editor providing collaborative editing in really real-time.

Password Managers

• LastPass

• Dashlane

• Bitwarden - An open source cloud based password manager.
  • vaultwarden (⭐68k) - Unofficial Bitwarden compatible self-hosted server, formerly known as bitwarden_rs.

• KeepassXC - Securely store passwords using industry standard encryption, no sync just storage.
  • KeepassDX for Android.
  • Strongbox for iOS.
  • KeeWeb for Web and other platforms.

• Padloc - The last password manager you'll ever want to use.

Photo Editing and Management

• VSCO

Web

• miniPaint (⭐3.5k) - Open Source alternative to Photopea. miniPaint operates directly in the browser. Nothing will be sent to any server. Everything stays in your browser.

Local

• DigiKam - Awesome Professional Photo Management with the Power of Open Source.

Android

• Pocket Paint (⭐501) - The standard image manipulation app for Catroid.

• Scrambled Exif - Remove Exif data from pictures before sharing them.

• ImagePipe - Reduces image size and removes exif-tags when sharing images on android devices.

Self-hosted

• Photoprism - Feature rich server-based application for browsing, organizing and sharing your personal photo collection. The most similar to Google Photos.

• Pigallery2 - A self-hosted directory-first photo gallery website.

• Photoview - Photo gallery for self-hosted personal servers with Facial Recognition.

• Photostructure - Self-hosted photo library that makes browsing and sharing a lifetime of memories delightful.

Third-party

• Crypt.ee - A private and encrypted place for all your photos, documents, notes and more.

Remote Access and Control

• TeamViewer

• AnyDesk

• RustDesk - Open-source remote desktop client software, written in Rust. Works out of the box, full control of your data, with no concerns about security.

• screego - Screen sharing for developers.

• Remmina - Remote access screen and file sharing to your desktop (RDP).

• UltraVNC - UltraVNC is a powerful, easy to use and free - remote pc access softwares - that can display the screen of another computer (via internet or network) on your own screen.

• MeshCentral - The open source, multi-platform, self-hosted, feature packed web site for remote device management.

Search Engines

• Bing

YouTube

• Invidious (⭐25k) - Alternative and privacy respecting YouTube frontend.

Streaming Platforms (Twitch)

• Owncast (⭐12k) - Take control over your live stream video by running it yourself. Streaming + chat out of the box.

Teamworking Tools

• Zulip - Chat for distributed teams.

• Twake - Work in a team faster. Twake covers all of your organizational needs through a single platform.

• RocketChat - Control your communication, manage your data, and have your own collaboration platform to improve team productivity.

• Nextcloud Talk - Keep conversations private with Nextcloud Talk.

• Mattermost - Open-source Slack alternative.

Translation

• DeepL

• Libretranslate - Open Source Machine Translation - 100% Self-Hosted. No Limits. No Ties to Proprietary Services.

• Apertium - A free/open-source machine translation platform, runs offline on your computer

• Softcatala - Open Source Translation tool - Only Catalan/Spanish/English/French (uses apertium)

Utilities

• Deskreen (⭐22k) - Turn any device into a secondary screen for your computer.

Video and Audio Conferencing

• Clubhouse

Desktop / Alternative clients/modifications of Discord:

• Tor Browser - Hardened Firefox that routes traffic through the Tor network to resist tracking, surveillance, and censorship.

Browser Sync / Alternative clients/modifications of Discord:

• xBrowserSync - Browser syncing as it should be: secure, anonymous and free!

Oct 27, 2021

Self-Hosted

• Docker mail server (⭐19k) - A fullstack but simple mail server (SMTP, IMAP, LDAP, Antispam, Antivirus, etc.) using Docker.

• Mail-in-a-box (⭐15k) - Mail-in-a-Box helps individuals take back control of their email by defining a one-click, easy-to-deploy SMTP+everything else server: a mail server in a box.

Video and Audio

• Dim (⭐4.1k) - Dim is a self-hosted media manager. With minimal setup, Dim will organize and beautify your media collections, letting you access and play them anytime from anywhere.

Sep 26, 2021

Other OS:

• ReactOS - ReactOS is an operating system able to run Windows software, Windows drivers that looks-like Windows and is free and open source.

Jun 01, 2021

Full Featured Financial Management

• GnuCash - GnuCash is personal and small-business financial-accounting software, freely licensed under the GNU GPL and available for GNU/Linux, BSD, Solaris, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows.

May 29, 2021

Audio

• dzr (⭐265) - Command line Deezer player for Linux, BSD, Android+Termux

May 27, 2021

Desktop

• Thunderbird - A free customizable open source email client.

May 26, 2021

Video and Audio

• Stremio - Stremio is a modern media center that's a one-stop solution for your video entertainment.

Payments

• Bank payments (wire, SEPA, etc)

May 24, 2021

Budget Management

• My Expenses (⭐1.2k) - Featureful GPL licenced Android Expense Tracking App.

May 23, 2021

Shared Expenses

• IHateMoney - Manage your shared expenses, easily. Lacks unequal splitting.
  • MoneyBuster - Android client for Nextcloud Cospend and IHateMoney servers.

Uncategorized

• CrowdSec (⭐15k) - An open-source, modernized and collaborative fail2ban.

May 21, 2021

Cloud Storage

• Seafile - High performance file syncing and sharing. It includes a Wiki, WYSIWYG editing and other knowledge management features.

• Syncthing - Continuous file synchronization program. It synchronizes files between two or more computers in real time, safely protected from prying eyes.

• Rclone - Rclone is a command line program to manage files on cloud storage. It is a feature rich alternative to cloud vendors' web storage interfaces and like the tools listed above enables encryption for encrypting files in the cloud.

P2P

• Tox - Tox is easy-to-use software that connects you with friends and family without anyone else listening in.

• Briar - Peer-to-peer encrypted messaging and forums.

• Tinfoil Chat (⭐1.3k) - Onion-routed, endpoint secure messaging system.

Mail Services

• Gmail

• Outlook

• Yandex Mail

• Yahoo! Mail

Video and Audio

• Jellyfin - Jellyfin is the volunteer-built media solution that puts you in control of your media. Stream to any device from your own server, with no strings attached.

Android-Based

• GrapheneOS - GrapheneOS is an open source privacy and security focused mobile OS with Android app compatibility. Only Google Pixel phones are supported.

• CalyxOS - Privacy by Design ROM. Offers better security than LineageOS or Replicant.

• LineageOS - A free and open-source operating system for various devices, based on the Android mobile platform.

Based on Linux

• UBPorts - Ubuntu Touch is the touch-friendly mobile version of Ubuntu.

• PureOS - Operating system developed by purism for the Librem 5.

• Plasma Mobile - Plasma, in your pocket. Privacy-respecting, open source and secure phone ecosystem.

• mobian - Debian for mobile.

Smart TV

• Kodi - It is an entertainment hub that brings all your digital media together into a beautiful and user friendly package. It is 100% free and open source, very customisable and runs on a wide variety of devices.

• OSMC - OSMC is a free and open source media center built for the people, by the people.

Payments

• Visa / Mastercard

• WeChat

• _insertBigTechHere_Pay

• Monero - Monero is cash for a connected world. It's fast, private, untraceable and secure.

• Cash - Use person-to-person payments using physical notes and coins.

Budget Management

• ProExpense (⭐104) - A simple free finance note to safely record daily expenses.

Shared Expenses

• Nextcloud Cospend - A group/shared budget manager inspired by the great IHateMoney.
  • MoneyBuster - Android client for Nextcloud Cospend and IHateMoney servers.

Portfolio trackers

• Rotki (⭐4k) - An awesome portfolio tracking, analytics, accounting and tax reporting application that protects your privacy.

Uncategorized

• Skymap - Open online planetarium program.

• Hetty (⭐13k) - Hetty is an HTTP toolkit for security research. It aims to be an open-source alternative to Burp Suite Pro.