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Mar 22, 2023
File Management and Sharing
- Destiny - Send files directly to the receiver in real-time. Developed for and with HROs as a free Privacy Enhancing Technology alternative.
- Localsend - Share files to nearby devices. Free, open source, cross-platform.
- Paperless (⭐7.8k) - [Now archived] Scan, index, and archive all of your paper documents.
- Paperless-ng (⭐5.4k) - [inactive] A supercharged version of paperless: scan, index and archive all your physical documents.
- PairDrop (⭐538) - An improved version of Snapdrop that also allows you to pair devices and share files outside your network.
- Portal (⭐628) - A command-line file transfer utility for sending encrypted files from any computer to another.
- Winden - A convenient version of Magic Wormhole you can use from within your browser. No need to install an app.
Mar 12, 2023
ChatGPT
- llama.cpp (⭐2.4k) - Inference of Facebook's LLaMA model in pure C/C++ so it can run locally on a CPU.
- llama-dl (⭐2.5k) - High-speed download of LLaMA, Facebook's GPT model
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.
Mar 01, 2023
Android App Store
- Obtainium (⭐1k) - Get app updates directly from the source.
Feb 28, 2023
2FA
- Owky (⭐16) - Free and Open Source Two-Factor Authenticator for IOS users.
Password Managers
- Passbolt - An open source password manager designed for team collaboration.
Feb 26, 2023
Self-Hosted
- Mox (⭐2.4k) - 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.
Anti-tracking / Alternative clients/modifications of Discord:
- LibRedirect (⭐2.1k) - 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 Former Privacy Redirect is no longer maintained, LibRedirect is a maintained fork.
Privacy vs Security vs Anonimity / 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
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, you can use this tool (⭐2.9k), or this other tool to see and disable the tons of privacy-invasive settings of MS Windows.
Desktop / Alternative clients/modifications of Discord:
- Ungoogled Chromium (⭐16k) - A lightweight approach to removing Google web service dependency. Ungoogled-chromium is Google Chromium, sans dependency on Google web services.
Jan 22, 2023
Captchas
- OOPSpam - No-captcha, privacy-friendly anti-spam, anti-bot API. Requires no personal data for detection. Supports popular platforms like WordPress. Privacy commitment in their mission statement.
VPNs / Alternative clients/modifications of Discord:
Jan 19, 2023
Link in Bio Tools
- Keyoxide - A modern, secure and privacy-friendly platform to establish your decentralized online identity.
- LinkFree (⭐3.1k) - Connect to your audience with a single link. Showcase the content you create and your projects in one place. Make it easier for people to find, follow and subscribe.
Jan 15, 2023
Video Editing / Alternative clients/modifications of Discord:
- LosslessCut (⭐16k) - 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.
- Isso (⭐4.8k) - A lightweight, self hosted, commenting server written in Python and JavaScript. It aims to be a drop-in replacement for Disqus.
- Commento - Commento is a fast, privacy-focused commenting platform. Can be selfhosted or use their SaaS.
- Remark42 - Self-hosted, lightweight, and simple (yet functional) comment engine, which doesn't spy on users.
Notes and Tasks
- Trilium Notes (⭐20k) - Build your personal knowledge base with Trilium Notes
Desktop
- BusKill - BusKill is a Dead Man Switch triggered when a magnetic breakaway is tripped, severing a USB connection.
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 26, 2022
Encryption
- Shufflecake - Free open source, plausible deniability for multiple hidden filesystems on Linux
Dec 23, 2022
Blogging platforms (Medium)
- Scribe - Medium alternative forntend inspired by Invidious.
Dec 22, 2022
Self-hosted
- Memos (⭐11k) - An open-source, self-hosted memo hub with knowledge management and socialization.
Dec 16, 2022
2FA
- ente Auth - A free, cross platform, end-to-end encrypted and open source app for managing your 2-step verification tokens. From the makers of ente Photos, and uses the same battle tested infrastructure. Needs an ente.io account.
Decentralized
- Nostr (⭐7.1k) - 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.
Nov 24, 2022
Pokemon
- Pokete (⭐2.6k) - 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 (⭐1.7k) - Lightweight GPS Logging Application For Android. No servers, no internet. Saved to a simple file to local storage.
Nov 13, 2022
- Mint (Cinnamon) is a beginner friendly distribution.
YouTube
- Youtube-Local (⭐318) - browser-based client for watching Youtube anonymously and with greater page performance.
Nov 02, 2022
- Libreddit (⭐4.2k) - Private Reddit front-end written in Rust
Oct 23, 2022
Notes and Tasks
- SiYuan (⭐9.1k) - 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 (⭐2.6k) - Annotate the web, with anyone, anywhere.
- Kobuddy (⭐100) - 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 12, 2022
Wikipedia
- Wikiless - Wikiless repository has been removed by Codeberg, follow news here - A free open source alternative Wikipedia front-end focused on privacy Source Code.
Oct 10, 2022
Teamworking Tools
Translation and Speech-to-Text
- Mozilla Translate - Open Source, runs model locally in your browser.
Oct 09, 2022
Video and Audio Conferencing / Alternative clients/modifications of Discord:
- Vencord (⭐658) - A Discord client mod that does things differently.
Oct 05, 2022
2FA
- RaivoOTP - A native, lightweight and secure one-time-password (OTP) solution for iOS users.
Podcasts
- Deezer - Bad privacy policy. Apps have many trackers. Way too many permissions are required for a streaming app.
- Funkwhale - A social platform to enjoy and share audio.
- 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.
Oct 04, 2022
Blogging platforms (Medium)
- Medium - website has Google trackers and ads.
- Blogger - Google owned, has google trackers and ads.
- Plume (⭐1.9k) 🧩 - Federated blogging application, thanks to ActivityPub.
- WriteFreely 🧩 - An open source platform for building a writing space on the web.
- Pixelfed 🧩 - Decentralized, federated and Open Source alternative to Instagram with posts, videos, stories, tags, etc.
- Kbin (⭐88) 🧩 - A reddit-like content aggregator and micro-blogging platform for the fediverse.
- Lemmy 🧩 - A federated and open alternative to Reddit in Rust.
Oct 03, 2022
File Management and Sharing
- Snapdrop (⭐15k) - A Progressive Web App for local file sharing inspired by Apple's Airdrop.
Oct 02, 2022
File Management and Sharing
- Paperless-ngx (⭐7.4k) - A community-supported supercharged version of paperless based on paperless-ng
Quora
- Quetre (⭐227) - 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.
Android / iOS / Alternative clients/modifications of Discord:
- Bromite - It has been known to lag on security patches, so it may be better not to use it.
Vanadium - Privacy and security enhanced releases of Chromium by GrapheneOS.
Useful Tools / Alternative clients/modifications of Discord:
- Single File (⭐10k) - Save a faithful copy of an entire web page in a single HTML file so you can use it offline.
Sep 27, 2022
Android Launcher
- Bliss Launcher - The default launcher of the /e/ Android-based OS. It allows users to easily create and browse group of apps and it displays notification badges on app icons.
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 (⭐6.2k) - The mailserver suite with the 'moo'.
Sep 23, 2022
Translation and Speech-to-Text
- OpenAI Whisper (⭐28k) - Whisper is a general-purpose speech recognition model that can be run locally offline. It can transcribe audio from and to multiple languages.
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...
Pastebin and Secret Sharing
- Yopass (⭐1.2k) - Secure sharing of secrets, passwords and files.
- PrivateBin (⭐4.9k) - 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.
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.
- Skiff - Privacy-first, end-to-end encrypted, open-source email.
Sep 19, 2022
Bookmarking
- Pocket (Formerly Read It Later) - Bad privacy policy. Apps have trackers and requires many permissions.
- Evernote Web Clipper - Bad privacy policy. Apps have many trackers and require too many permissions.
- Wallabag - Open-source, optionally self-hosted, read it later server. Provides paid hosted service with privacy in mind.
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 (⭐888) - An open-source Shazam client for Linux, written in Rust.
- SongID Telegram Bot (⭐52) - 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.
- Jami - P2P audio and video conferences.
- Jitsi Meet - More secure, more flexible, and completely free video conferencing. No account needed, no installation needed.
- Mirotalk P2P - Free WebRTC - P2P - Simple, Secure, Fast Real-Time Video Conferences Up to 4k and 60fps, compatible with all browsers and platforms.
- PeerCalls - Group peer to peer video calls for everyone written in Go and TypeScript.
Sep 02, 2022
Notes and Tasks
- AppFlowy - Open Source Notion Alternative. You are in charge of your data and customizations.
- Joplin (⭐35k) - Note taking and to-do application with synchronisation and encryption capabilities.
- Nextcloud Notes (⭐497) - The Notes app is a distraction free notes taking app for Nextcloud.
- Nextcloud Notes app (⭐787) - An android client for Nextcloud Notes.
- Notally (⭐1.1k) - A beautiful notes app (local only, no sync).
- Quillnote - Take beautiful markdown notes and stay organized with task lists.
- Standard Notes - A free, open-source, and completely encrypted notes app.
- TinyList - Create and share notes and checklists, without sacrificing your privacy.
- YankNote (⭐4.6k) - 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 monero
- Onlinesim - Receive SMS online to virtual phone number. (Based in Russia)
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.
Aug 14, 2022
Audio
- ViMusic (⭐3.7k) - A Jetpack Compose Android application for streaming music from YouTube Music.
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.
Jul 21, 2022
Plugins for Minecraft
- No-Chat-Reports (⭐856) - Strips cryptographic signatures from player messages, making it impossible to track and associate them with your Mojang/Microsoft account.
Audio
- Jetispot (⭐224) - Experimental UNOFFICIAL Spotify client for Android built on librespot-java + Jetpack Compose
Jul 13, 2022
Office
- Skiff - End-to-end encrypted real-time document collaboration and file storage.
Jul 11, 2022
Databases
- Pocketbase - Open Source backend in 1 file written in Go.
Search Engines
- SearX - Privacy-respecting metasearch engine.
- SearxNG (⭐4.2k) - Free internet metasearch engine which aggregates results from various search services and databases.
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 (⭐171) - 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
- Ente - End-to-end encrypted storage for photos and videos. Open source clients.
- Stingle Photos - Open source solution that provides strong security, privacy and encryption to backup your photos.
May 27, 2022
Search Engines
- librengine (⭐47) - Privacy Web Search Engine
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.
- Immich (WIP) (⭐9.4k) - Self-hosted photo and video backup solution directly from your mobile phone.
- LibrePhotos (⭐5.3k) - Active OwnPhotos (⭐2.7k) fork. Self hosted alternative to Google Photos.
May 19, 2022
Forms
- TypeBot - Open-source conversational 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 12, 2022
File Management and Sharing
- Blindsend (⭐141) - Open source tool for private, end-to-end encrypted file exchange.
May 09, 2022
Google Fonts Replacements
- coolLabs Fonts - A privacy-friendly drop-in replacement for Google Fonts.
May 08, 2022
Android
- RethinkDNS + Firewall (⭐1.3k) - An open-source, no-root firewall and DNS changer, with anti-censorship capabilities for Android 6+.
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 25, 2022
Alternative Frontends
- Feetter - Create, sync and manage Nitter feeds without registration from any device.
Apr 15, 2022
Decentralized
- Mastodon 🧩 - Free, federated microblogging social network built on open protocols.
- Mastodon Apps - List of Mastodon apps for Android, iOS, Web and Desktop.
- Pleroma 🧩 - Pleroma is a free, federated social networking server built on open protocols.
Apr 14, 2022
Video and Audio Conferencing / Alternative clients/modifications of Discord:
- BetterDiscord - A client modification for Discord, also you need to install a DoNotTrack plugin to block trackers.
- Kernel (⭐74) - A super small and fast Electron client mod with the most capability, also you need to install a Discord Utilities (⭐3) package to block trackers.
Apr 11, 2022
Desktop
- Whoami Project (⭐1.5k) - Whoami provides enhanced privacy, anonymity for Debian and Arch based linux distributions.
Video and Audio Conferencing / Alternative clients/modifications of Discord:
- WebCord (⭐1k) - A Discord and Fosscord API-less client made with the Electron.
- Aliucord (⭐2.2k) - A modification for the Android Discord app that fully disables the Discord Tracking (⭐2.2k).
Apr 08, 2022
Video and Audio Conferencing / Alternative clients/modifications of Discord:
- OpenAsar - An open-source alternative of Discord desktop's app.asar that comes with a No Track (⭐1.6k) function.
Apr 07, 2022
Password Managers
- Passky - Simple, modern, lightweight, open-source and secure password manager.
Apr 04, 2022
Audio
- Spotube (⭐2.5k) - A lightweight free Spotify crossplatform-client.
- Spot* (⭐1.9k) - Native Spotify client built in GTK and Rust.
- psst* (⭐7.4k) - Fast and multi-platform Spotify client with native GUI.
- ncspot* (⭐3.6k) - Cross-platform ncurses Spotify client written in Rust, inspired by ncmpc and the likes.ç
Mar 29, 2022
Audio
- Blade Player (⭐84) - Open source Spotify client, works without premium.
Mar 27, 2022
Databases
- Supabase - Open source Firebase alternative (Limited (⭐47k) self-hosting (⭐47k))
Home Assistants
- Alexa
- Siri
- Mycroft - The Private and Open Voice Assistant.
- Home Assistant - Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first.
Mar 21, 2022
Decentralized
- Session - Extreme focus on privacy and anonymity. Blockchain technology.
Mar 20, 2022
Translation and Speech-to-Text
- Google Translate
- Bing Translator
Dating Apps
Instant Messaging
- WhatsApp |
- Instagram DM |
- Facebook Messenger |
- Zoom |
Payments
Video Editing / Alternative clients/modifications of Discord:
Search Engines
- Brave Search - A privacy respecting search engine with its own index, which for the most part doesn't rely on search engines like Google or Bing, but falls back on them if not enough results are found.
LBRY and Odysee
- Librarian - An alternative frontend for LBRY/Odysee. Inspired by Invidious and Libreddit.
YouTube
- Yattee (⭐1.2k) - Alternative YouTube frontend for iOS, tvOS and macOS built with Invidious and Piped.
- Dawn (⭐439) - A gesture driven, open source reddit client for android
Teamworking Tools
Mar 19, 2022
YouTube
- Piped (⭐4.1k) - An alternative privacy-friendly YouTube frontend which is efficient by design.
- LibreTube (⭐4.6k) - An alternative frontend for YouTube, for Android using Piped.
- LibreTube (⭐4.6k) - An alternative frontend for YouTube, for Android using Piped.
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
- Imgin - A minimalist, tor-friendly, read-only Imgur proxy insipired by software like Invidious, Nitter, and Bibliogram.
- rimgo - An alternative frontend for Imgur. Read-only, no-js, Based on rimgu and rewritten in Go.
Mar 07, 2022
Minecraft
- Minetest - An open source voxel game engine with many features.
- Mineclone5 - Updated version of MineClone2, an attempt to clone Minecraft into Minetest.
TikTok
- ProxiTok (⭐1k) - Open source alternative frontend for TikTok
Mar 03, 2022
Translation and Speech-to-Text
- Simplytranslate - Alternative front-end for Google Translate and LibreTranslate. Demo
Mar 02, 2022
Dating Apps
- Grindr
- Badoo
- Lovoo
- Alovoa - Free and open-source dating platform that respects your privacy.
Android
- εxodus - The privacy audit platform for Android applications. Find how many trackers your apps have.
- ClassyShark3xodus - Checks apk(s) for known trackers (provided by Exodus) +other warnings and specs.
- Plexus - Remove the fear of Android app compatibility on de-Googled devices. Find if an app will work on a De-Googled device.
- Netguard - A simple way to block access to the internet per application.
Feb 26, 2022
Audio
- Beatbump (⭐624) - Alternative frontend for YouTube Music; no ads and custom API wrapper.
Feb 23, 2022
Decentralized
- SimpleX Chat - The first chat platform that is 100% private by design - it has no access to your connection graph
Alternative Frontends
- Nitter (⭐7k) - Nitter is a free and open source alternative Twitter front-end focused on privacy.
- Fritter (⭐1.1k) - A free, open-source Nitter client for Android.
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 (⭐35k) 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
- Photok (⭐282) - Photok is a free Photo-Safe. It stores your photos encrypted on your device and hides them from others.
- ImageGlass - ImageGlass is a lightweight software application whose purpose is to help you view images in a clean and intuitive working environment.
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.
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)
Alternative Frontends
- Kizie - Cleaner, better and privacy focussed Twitter client for Web.
Jan 10, 2022
FIAT
- Budget Zen - Simple and Encrypted Budget Management.
Jan 06, 2022
2FA
- Authy
- Aegis - A free, secure and open source app for Android to manage your 2-step verification tokens. Supports variety of imports from other apps (Google Authenticator, Authy etc.), vault encryption and exporting keys (plaintext or encrypted).
- FreeOTPPlus (⭐471) - Enhanced fork of FreeOTP-Android providing a feature-rich 2FA authenticator.
- Authenticator Pro (⭐1.2k) - Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) client for Android + Wear OS.
Analytics
- Matomo - Google Analytics alternative that protects your data and your customers' privacy.
- Plausible - Simple and privacy-friendly alternative to Google Analytics.
- Umami - A simple, fast, website analytics alternative to Google Analytics.
- Nullitics - Zero-effort open-source cheap analytics.
- Ackee - Self-hosted website analytics.
- Shynet (⭐2.2k) - Modern, privacy-friendly, and detailed web analytics that works without cookies or JS.
- Pirsch - Pirsch is a simple, privacy-friendly, open-source alternative to Google Analytics — lightweight, cookie-free and easily integrated into any website or backend.
Android App Store
- F-Droid - F-Droid is an installable catalogue of FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) applications for the Android platform.
- Droid-ify (⭐1.1k) - Lightweight F-Droid client with Material UI.
- Aurora Droid - Aurora Droid is a modern FOSS client for F-Droid.
- Foxy Droid (⭐388) - Unofficial F-Droid client in the style of the classic one.
- FossDroid - Fossdroid's aim is to promote free and open source apps on the Android platform: newest, trendiest and the most popular ones.
- SkyDroid - Decentralized App Store for Android
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.
Android Dialer
- Simple Dialer (⭐470) - A lightweight app for handling your calls, no matter where are you. Comes with a handy call log for easy call initiation.
- Koler (⭐685) - Uniquely stylized phone app with customizable features.
Android File Manager
- Simple File Manager (⭐1.2k) - A simple file manager for browsing and editing files and directories.
- Amaze File Manager (⭐4.4k) - Simple and attractive Material Design file manager for Android.
- Material Files (⭐3.2k) - An open source Material Design file manager, for Android 5.0+.
- Ghost Commander - Dual-panel file manager.
Android Keyboard
- OpenBoard (⭐2k) - 100% FOSS keyboard, based on AOSP.
- FlorisBoard (⭐3.9k) - FlorisBoard is a free and open-source keyboard for Android 6.0+ devices. It aims at being modern, user-friendly and customizable while fully respecting your privacy. Currently in early-beta state.
- AnySoftKeyboard - The only Android keyboard you'll ever need. Free as in speech and Free as in beer.
- Indic Keyboard - Indic Keyboard is a versatile keyboard for Android users who wish to use Indic and Indian languages to type messages, compose emails and generally prefer to use them in addition to English on their phone.
- Simple Keyboard (⭐707) - Simply keyboard and nothing more.
Android Launcher
- Lawnchair - No clever tagline needed.
- OpenLauncher (⭐1.3k) - Customizable and Open Source Launcher for Android.
- KISS - Lightning fast, open-source, < 200kb Android launcher.
- Olauncher (⭐1k) - Minimal AF (ad-free) launcher app for Android.
- Posidon Launcher - Posidon launcher is a minimal, one page homescreen with a vertical scrolling feed.
- Pie Launcher (⭐78) - Android home screen launcher that uses a dynamic pie menu instead of fixed positioned icons.
- Simple App Launcher (⭐353) - A simple holder for favourite apps for quick & easy app launcher icon management.
- Rootless Pixel Launcher (⭐3.7k) - The Launcher3 fork known as "Rootless Pixel Launcher".
Captchas
- hCaptcha - Privacy-first CAPTCHA for web, mobile, and more.
Images
- Fawkes (⭐4.9k) - privacy preserving tool against facial recognition systems.
- CloakMe (⭐47) - Web interface for Fawkes algorithm.
- ImageScrubber (⭐858) - A friendly browser-based tool for anonymizing photographs taken at protests (hosted version provided by everestpipkin).
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.
- CondensationDB (⭐434) [Inactive] - Condensation is an open-source zero trust, distributed database enabling to build modern applications while ensuring data ownership and security.
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.
Domain Registrar
- Njalla - Privacy-aware domain service, sitting in between the domain service registrations and you, acting like a privacy shield.
Download Manager
- Persepolis Download Manager (⭐5.6k) - 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.
- uGet Download Manager - uGet is a lightweight yet powerful Open Source download manager for GNU/Linux developed with GTK+, which also comes packaged as a portable Windows app. It is also available for Android.
- Motrix (⭐36k) - A full-featured download manager.
- Xtreme Download Manager (⭐5k) - 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 (⭐2.4k) - Lightweight CLI download accelerator. It supports HTTP, HTTPS, FTP and FTPS protocols.
Fitness and Health
- wger - A free, open source, self-hosted web application that manages your exercises, workouts and nutrition.
- Fitotrack - A privacy oriented fitness tracker for Android.
- OpenFoodFacts - Open Food Facts is a food products database made by everyone, for everyone. You can use it to make better food choices.
- Drip - Menstrual cycle and fertility tracking. Everything you enter stays on your device.
- log28 (⭐29) - a (very) simple no-frills period tracker for Android.
- OpenTracks (⭐597) - OpenTracks is a sport tracking application that completely respects your privacy.
Foundries
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.
- Qwant Maps - An OpenStreetMap-based private Google Maps alternative.
- Organic Maps - Great offline maps for hikers and cyclists.
Notes and Tasks
- Google Keep
- Google Keep Exporter (⭐206) - Convert your Google Keep notes into a standard markdown + YAML header format.
- 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.
Android
- DivestOS - LineageOS fork with increased security and privacy.
- Pocket Paint (⭐248) - 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.
Password Managers
- LastPass
- Dashlane
- Bitwarden - An open source cloud based password manager.
- vaultwarden (⭐24k) - Unofficial Bitwarden compatible self-hosted server, formerly known as bitwarden_rs.
- KeepassXC - Securely store passwords using industry standard encryption, no sync just storage.
- Padloc - The last password manager you'll ever want to use.
Photo Editing and Management
- VSCO
Web
- miniPaint (⭐1.6k) - Open Source alternative to Photopea. miniPaint operates directly in the browser. Nothing will be sent to any server. Everything stays in your browser.
Desktop
- GIMP - The Free & Open Source Image Editor.
- Krita (⭐4.6k) - Krita is a free and open source digital painting application
- Czkawka (⭐9.8k) - Multi functional app to find duplicates and similar images etc.
- Inkscape - Inkscape is a free and open-source vector graphics editor used to create vector images.
Local
- DigiKam - Awesome Professional Photo Management with the Power of Open Source.
Photo Storage
- Amazon Photos
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
- Whoogle Search (⭐7.2k) - A self-hosted, ad-free, privacy-respecting Google metasearch engine.
- DuckDuckGo - A privacy respecting search engine.
YouTube
- Peertube 🧩 - A free, open and decentralized alternative to video platforms.
- SimpleerTube - A simple frontend for PeerTube with SepiaSearch Source.
- Odysee - Odysee is a video platform backed by the creators of lbry and uses the lbry blockchain protocol.
- DTube (⭐771) - A full-featured video sharing website, decentralized.
- Invidious (⭐9.6k) - Alternative and privacy respecting YouTube frontend.
- ViewTube (⭐663) - ViewTube is an alternative privacy-friendly YouTube frontend written in Vue.js
- NewPipe - Alternative Android YouTube app. No account needed, privacy respecting, no ads.
- NewPipe x Sponsorblock (⭐2.8k) - NewPipe fork that incorporates Sponsorblock.
- SkyTube (⭐1.9k) - Alternative Android YouTube app. No account needed, privacy respecting, no ads.
- FreeTube (⭐6.8k) - FreeTube is an open source desktop YouTube player built with privacy in mind. (Uses Local RSS API or Invidious for backend).
- Aether - Peer-to-peer ephemeral public communities.
- SaidIt - Open source Reddit clone.
- Teddit - Alternative Reddit front-end focused on privacy
- Infinity (⭐2.8k) - A beautiful Reddit client for Android.
Slide (⭐1.7k) - Slide is an open sourced, ad free Reddit browser for Android and iOS.
Streaming Platforms (Twitch)
- Owncast (⭐7.1k) - Take control over your live stream video by running it yourself. Streaming + chat out of the box.
- livego (⭐8.7k) - Live video streaming server in golang.
Teamworking Tools
- Zulip - Chat for distributed teams.
- Revolt - User-first chat platform built with modern web technologies.
- 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 and Speech-to-Text
- 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)
- TranslateLocally – Free/open-source neural MT, runs offline on your computer
- Lingva (⭐1k) - Alternative front-end for Google Translate. Demo.
Uncategorized
- Visited (⭐64) - Locally collect browsing history over browsers.
Utilities
- Deskreen (⭐14k) - Turn any device into a secondary screen for your computer.
Video and Audio Conferencing
- Clubhouse
- BigBlueButton - BigBlueButton is a web conferencing system designed for online learning.
- Jam (⭐1.2k) - Jam is your own open source Clubhouse for mini conferences, friends, communities.
- Mumble - Mumble is an open source voice communication application with advanced features.
Android / iOS / Alternative clients/modifications of Discord:
- Firefox - Android/iOS
- Mull - Privacy hardened fork of Firefox for Android, with proprietary blobs removed.
Desktop / Alternative clients/modifications of Discord:
Browser Sync / Alternative clients/modifications of Discord:
- xBrowserSync - Browser syncing as it should be: secure, anonymous and free!
WebView / Alternative clients/modifications of Discord:
- Bromite WebView - Bromite WebView is a version of Android System WebView with support for ad blocking and enhanced privacy.
- WebView Switcher - A tool for installing Bromite WebView on android 10
Jan 04, 2022
File Management and Sharing
- Magic Wormhole (⭐16k) - Get things from one computer to another, safely.
Dec 27, 2021
Audio
- BlackHole (⭐4.7k) - A Music Player App made with Flutter
Oct 29, 2021
Centralized
- Signal - Extreme focus on privacy, combined with all of the features you expect. Strong encryption by design. 100% Open Source.
- Molly (⭐815) - Signal-compatible fork client with some security enhancements.
Android / iOS
- FairEmail (⭐1.6k) - Fully featured, open source, privacy friendly email app for Android.
- K9 - Open Source Email App for Android.
Oct 27, 2021
Self-Hosted
- Docker mail server (⭐11k) - A fullstack but simple mail server (SMTP, IMAP, LDAP, Antispam, Antivirus, etc.) using Docker.
- Mail-in-a-box (⭐12k) - 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 (⭐3.2k) - 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.
Oct 21, 2021
File Management and Sharing
- Sharik (⭐911) - Sharik works with Wi-Fi connection or Tethering (Wi-Fi Hotspot). No internet connection needed. Available for Android, iOS, Linux, MacOS & Windows.
Sep 28, 2021
Third-Party owned
- ProtonMail - Secure Email. Based in Switzerland. Read this article over Climate activist arrest.
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.
Jul 13, 2021
FIAT
- Debitum (⭐60) - With Debitum you can track all kinds of IOUs, be it money or lent items.
Jun 02, 2021
File Management and Sharing
- OnionShare (⭐5.5k) - An open source tool that lets you securely and anonymously share files, host websites, and chat with friends using the Tor network.
Jun 01, 2021
FIAT
- 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 (⭐123) - Command line Deezer player for Linux, BSD, Android+Termux
May 27, 2021
Desktop
- Thunderbird - A free customizable open source email client.
May 26, 2021
Encryption
- Cryptomator - Cryptomator encrypts your data quickly and easily. Afterwards you upload them protected to your favorite cloud service.
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 25, 2021
Encryption
- Picocrypt (⭐1.2k) - A very small (hence "Pico"), very simple, yet very secure file encryption tool.
May 24, 2021
FIAT
- My Expenses (⭐520) - Featureful GPL licenced Android Expense Tracking App.
May 23, 2021
FIAT
- IHateMoney - Manage your shared expenses, easily.
Uncategorized
- CrowdSec (⭐6.2k) - An open-source, modernized and collaborative fail2ban.
May 21, 2021
Encryption
- Stegcloak - Hide secrets with invisible characters in plain text securely using passwords.
- Veracrypt - VeraCrypt is a free open source disk encryption software for Windows, macOS and Linux.
- Hat.sh - A Free, Fast, Secure and Serverless File Encryption.
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.
File Management and Sharing
- Blaze - A fast, p2p and radically different way to transfer files.
- Croc (⭐22k) - Easily and securely send things from one computer to another.
- Dat-cp (⭐304) - Copy files between hosts on a network using the peer-to-peer Dat network.
- Lufi - Let's Upload that FIle — File sharing software.
- QRcp (⭐9.1k) - Transfer files over wifi from your computer to your mobile device by scanning a QR code without leaving the terminal.
- Send - Simple, private file sharing. (Mozilla Send Fork)
Decentralized
- Matrix (Protocol) - An open network for secure, decentralized communication.
- 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.
- DeltaChat - Chat over encrypted e-mail.
- Status - Status is a secure messaging app, crypto wallet, and Web3 browser built with state of the art technology.
Centralized
- Threema - The messenger that puts security and privacy first. Pay once, chat forever. No collection of user data. Open Source client.
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 (⭐989) - Onion-routed, endpoint secure messaging system.
Mail Services
- Gmail
- Outlook
- Yandex Mail
- Yahoo! Mail
Third-Party owned
- Tutanota - Secure email for everybody. Open Source.
Smart TV
- 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.
- 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.
- RaspberryCast (⭐849) - Transform your Raspberry Pi into a streaming device. Cast videos from mobile devices or computers to your TV.
Audio
- Subsonic - Your complete, personal music streamer.
- Ampache - A web based audio/video streaming application and file manager.
- Koel - a personal music streaming server that works.
- Nuclear - Modern music player focused on streaming from free sources.
- Navidrome - Lightweight, fast and self-contained personal music streamer.
Android
- GrapheneOS - GrapheneOS is an open source privacy and security focused mobile OS with Android app compatibility.
- CalyxOS - CalyxOS lets you have your cake and eat it too, with "Privacy by Design".
- LineageOS - A free and open-source operating system for various devices, based on the Android mobile platform.
- Replicant - A free software mobile operating system putting the emphasis on freedom and privacy/security.
Based on Linux
- UBPorts - Ubuntu Touch is the touch-friendly mobile version of Ubuntu.
- postmarketOS - Touch optimised and pre-configured version of Alpine Linux.
- 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.
Payments
- Visa / Mastercard
- _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.
- Bitcoin - Bitcoin is not anonymous nor private. Bitcoin is traceable, transparent and pseudonymous. For a basic introduction, see aantonop's video. More advanced users can watch this Bitcoin privacy series.
- Samourai Wallet - An open source, privacy-focused Bitcoin wallet available on Android.
- Sparrow Wallet - An open source, cross-platform desktop wallet that gives you many of the privacy-preserving spending tools available in Samourai Wallet.
- Wasabi Wallet - An open source, non-custodial, privacy-focused Bitcoin wallet available on Desktop.
FIAT
- ProExpense (⭐78) - A simple free finance note to safely record daily expenses.
- Nextcloud Cospend - A group/shared budget manager inspired by the great IHateMoney.
- MoneyBuster - Android client for Nextcloud Cospend and IHateMoney servers.
CRYPTO
- Rotki (⭐2.1k) - An awesome portfolio tracking, analytics, accounting and tax reporting application that protects your privacy.
Uncategorized
- Skymap - Open online planetarium program.
- Hetty (⭐5.2k) - Hetty is an HTTP toolkit for security research. It aims to be an open-source alternative to Burp Suite Pro.