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Awesome Privacy

Awesome Privacy - A curated list of services and alternatives that respect your privacy because PRIVACY MATTERS.

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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.

In 2 lists

Owky

💀 - Free and Open Source Two-Factor Authenticator for IOS users.

Proton Authenticator

Proton Authenticator is an open source and end-to-end encrypted 2FA app that’s simple and free to use.

In 2 lists

2FAS Auth

Open source TOTP authenticator for iOS and Android with a companion browser extension and no account required. GPL-3.0 licensed.

Analytics

Ackee

Self-hosted website analytics.

In 3 lists

Aptabase

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

In 2 lists

Cabin

Privacy-first, carbon conscious web analytics.

GoatCounter

Privacy aware, lightweight and open-source analytics platform.

In 5 listsDetails

Matomo

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

In 7 listsDetails

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.

In 2 lists

Plausible

Simple and privacy-friendly alternative to Google Analytics.

In 9 listsDetails

Shynet

Modern, privacy-friendly, and detailed web analytics that works without cookies or JS.

In 5 listsDetails

Swetrix

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

In 3 lists

Umami

A simple, fast, website analytics alternative to Google Analytics.

In 6 listsDetails

Unidentified Analytics

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

Rybbit

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

Android >Android App Store

F-Droid

F-Droid is an installable catalogue of FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) applications for the Android platform.

In 3 lists

Droid-ify

Lightweight F-Droid client with Material UI.

Aurora Droid

Aurora Droid is a modern FOSS client for F-Droid.

Foxy Droid

💀 - 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

Obtainium

Get app updates directly from the source.

In 3 lists

Accrescent

A novel Android app store focused on security, privacy, and usability.

Android >Alternative Google Play Store clients

Aurora Droid

Aurora Droid is a modern FOSS client for F-Droid.

Android >Android Debloat Tools

Universal Android Debloater Next Generation

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 >Android Dialer

Koler

Uniquely stylized phone app with customizable features.

Fossify Phone

A handy phone call manager with phonebook, number blocking and multi-SIM support.

Android >Android File Manager

Amaze File Manager

Simple and attractive Material Design file manager for Android.

In 2 lists

Material Files

An open source Material Design file manager, for Android 5.0+.

In 2 lists

Ghost Commander

Dual-panel file manager.

Android >Android Keyboard

AnySoftKeyboard

The only Android keyboard you'll ever need. Free as in speech and Free as in beer.

FlorisBoard

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.

Futo Keyboard

A modern keyboard that respects your privacy and security, with features such as offline voice input, swipe typing and smart autocorrect.

Heliboard

A privacy-conscious and customizable open-source keyboard, based on AOSP / OpenBoard with many additional features and improvements, including support for custom dictionaries, themes, and glide typing.

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.

OpenBoard

💀 - OpenBoard is a 100% foss keyboard based on AOSP, with no dependency on Google binaries, that respects your privacy. It is no longer updated, but still works.

Simple Keyboard

Simply keyboard and nothing more.

Aves

Beautiful gallery and metadata explorer app, built for Android with Flutter.

Fossify Gallery

Fork of Simple Gallery. Browse your memories without any interruptions with this photo and video gallery.

Android >Android Launcher

Lawnchair

No clever tagline needed.

OpenLauncher

💀 - Customizable and Open Source Launcher for Android.

KISS

Lightning fast, open-source, < 200kb Android launcher.

Olauncher

Minimal AF (ad-free) launcher app for Android.

Pie Launcher

Android home screen launcher that uses a dynamic pie menu instead of fixed positioned icons.

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.

Artificial Intelligence

Jan

Jan is an open source alternative to ChatGPT that runs 100% offline on your computer.

In 8 listsDetails

llama.cpp

Inference of Facebook's LLaMA model in pure C/C++ so it can run locally on a CPU.

In 10 listsDetails

LocalAI

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.

In 4 listsDetails

ollama

Get up and running with Llama 2 and other large language models locally.

In 5 listsDetails

PasteGuard

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.

In 2 lists

Shimmy

Privacy-focused AI inference server with OpenAI API compatibility, zero cloud dependencies, and local model processing.

In 7 listsDetails

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.

Open WebUI

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

In 2 lists

LibreChat

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

In 4 listsDetails

Continue

Open-source autopilot for VS Code and JetBrains—the easiest way to code with any LLM

In 10 listsDetails

Cline

Open source AI coding for VSCode. See every decision and use your own models.

In 4 lists

Zoo Code

Cline fork with some improvements; community successor to the discontinued Roo Code.

OpenCode

The open source coding agent. Connect local models or any providers of your choice.

In 5 listsDetails

Aider

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

In 9 listsDetails

Tabby

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

In 2 lists

Kokoro FastAPI

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

MeloTTS

a high-quality multi-lingual text-to-speech library by MIT and MyShell.ai.

In 2 lists

Piper

A fast, local neural text to speech system that sounds great and is optimized for the Raspberry Pi 4.

In 2 lists

Espeak

eSpeak NG is an open source speech synthesizer that supports more than hundred languages and accents. Voices will sound rather robotic.

In 2 lists

Chatterbox

Local text-to-speech model with voice cloning that runs entirely on your own machine. Open source, MIT licensed.

In 3 lists

Moonshine

Fast and accurate automatic speech recognition (ASR) for edge devices.

In 3 lists

OpenAI Whisper

Whisper is a general-purpose speech recognition model that can be run locally offline. It can transcribe audio from and to multiple languages.

In 11 listsDetails

whisper.cpp

High-performance inference of OpenAI's Whisper automatic speech recognition (ASR) model.

In 6 listsDetails

faster-whisper

Reimplementation of Whisper using CTranslate2 that transcribes locally up to four times faster. MIT licensed.

In 3 lists

ParakeetTDT

Efficient audio transcription. Convert speech to text with unprecedented speed and accuracy using NVIDIA advanced AI speech recognition model.

OpenWhispr

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.

In 3 lists

Sasayaki

Tiny android dictation app that turns speech into clear writing.

Speaches

OpenAI API-compatible server supporting streaming transcription, translation, and speech generation.

ComfyUI

ComfyUI lets you execute advanced image generation pipelines using an advanced interface. Available on Windows, Linux, and macOS.

In 7 listsDetails

Stable Diffusion Web UI

A browser interface for Stable Diffusion and other models.

In 5 listsDetails

InvokeAI

Generate and create stunning visual media using the latest AI-driven technologies locally.

In 3 lists

SwarmUI

Local web interface for Stable Diffusion and other diffusion models, built on a ComfyUI backend. MIT licensed.

Bookmarking

42links

Open-source, self-hosted, minimalist bookmark storage service.

Floccus

Sync your bookmarks privately across browsers and devices.

In 2 lists

Grimoire

💀 - 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.

In 2 lists

LinkAce

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

In 3 lists

LinkDing

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

In 6 listsDetails

Shiori

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

In 7 listsDetails

Wallabag

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

In 2 lists

Linkwarden

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

In 3 lists

Readeck

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

In 2 lists

Bookmarking >Book and web annotations/highlights management

Blasta

A collaborative bookmarks manager for organizing online content.

Hypothesis

Annotate the web, with anyone, anywhere.

In 2 lists

Kobuddy

Get your Kobo e-reader device bookmarks and annotations in a .txt file.

Captchas

Altcha.org

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

mCaptcha

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

Private Captcha

Privacy-first and self-hosted Proof-of-Work CAPTCHA alternative, made in EU.

In 2 lists

Calendar

Nextcloud Calendar

Calendar app for Nextcloud with CalDAV support. Self-hostable.

In 2 lists

Proton Calendar

End-to-end encrypted calendar from Proton. Part of the Proton privacy ecosystem.

In 3 lists

Commenting Engines

Commento

💀 Commento is a fast, privacy-focused commenting platform. Can be selfhosted or use their SaaS.

In 2 lists

Comentario

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

Cusdis

Lightweight, privacy-friendly alternative to Disqus.

Disgus

Embeddable comments for your website, backed by Nostr. Like Disqus but Nostr.

In 2 lists

Isso

A lightweight, self hosted, commenting server written in Python and JavaScript. It aims to be a drop-in replacement for Disqus.

In 2 lists

Remark42

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

In 2 lists

Giscus

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

In 2 lists

Cloaking >Images

Fawkes

💀 - privacy preserving tool against facial recognition systems.

In 2 lists

CloakMe

💀 - Web interface for Fawkes algorithm.

ImageScrubber

A friendly browser-based tool for anonymizing photographs taken at protests (hosted version provided by everestpipkin).

Cloaking >Text

Stegcloak

Hide secrets with invisible characters in plain text securely using passwords (repo).

Cloud Storage

Nextcloud

The open source self-hosted productivity platform that keeps you in control.

In 11 listsDetails

Seafile

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

In 2 lists

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.

In 5 listsDetails

Proton Drive

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

In 3 lists

PrivateStorage

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

Cryptomator

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

In 7 listsDetails

Syncthing

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

In 7 listsDetails

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.

In 9 listsDetails

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.

In 6 listsDetails

Creator Tools

vdo.ninja

Powerful tool that lets you bring remote video feeds into OBS or other studio software via WebRTC.

socialstream.ninja

Consolidate your live social messaging streams and much more.

OBS Studio

Free and open source software for video recording and live streaming.

In 7 listsDetails

Screenity

A screen recorder that's free, private, and friendly.

Databases

Appwrite

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

In 4 listsDetails

Supabase

Open source Firebase alternative (Limited self-hosting)

Pocketbase

Open Source backend in 1 file written in Go.

In 2 lists

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.

In 3 lists

CondensationDB

[Inactive] - Condensation is an open-source zero trust, distributed database enabling to build modern applications while ensuring data ownership and security.

Baserow

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

In 3 lists

Developer Tools

Beekeeper Studio

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

In 7 listsDetails

Developer Tools >IDEs

Neovim

Hyperextensible Vim-based text editor.

In 7 listsDetails

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.

In 6 listsDetails

Dating Apps

Alovoa

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

Design Tools >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.

In 3 lists

Design Tools >Photoshop / Illustrator

GIMP

A free and open-source raster graphics editor used for image manipulation (retouching) and image editing, free-form drawing, transcoding between different image file formats, and more specialized tasks. It is not designed to be used for drawing, though some artists and creators have used it in…

In 15 listsDetails

Inkscape

A free and open-source vector graphics editor for GNU/Linux, Windows and macOS. It offers a rich set of features and is widely used for both artistic and technical illustrations such as cartoons, clip art, logos, typography, diagramming and flowcharting.

In 18 listsDetails

Krita

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

In 7 listsDetails

Excalidraw

Virtual whiteboard for sketching hand-drawn like diagrams.

In 7 listsDetails

Design Tools >Figma

Penpot

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

In 5 listsDetails

Domains & Hosting

OrangeWebsite

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

1984 Hosting

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

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Download Manager

Persepolis Download Manager

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.

In 3 lists

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.

In 2 lists

Motrix

A full-featured download manager.

In 4 listsDetails

Xtreme Download Manager

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.

In 3 lists

axel

Lightweight CLI download accelerator. It supports HTTP, HTTPS, FTP and FTPS protocols.

In 4 lists

Encryption

Veracrypt

VeraCrypt is a free open source disk encryption software for Windows, macOS and Linux.

In 2 lists

Shufflecake

Free open source, plausible deniability for multiple hidden filesystems on Linux

In 3 lists

Hat.sh

A Free, Fast, Secure and Serverless File Encryption.

Cryptomator

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

In 7 listsDetails

Stegcloak

Hide secrets with invisible characters in plain text securely using passwords (repo).

Picocrypt

A very small (hence "Pico"), very simple, yet very secure file encryption tool.

Photok

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

age

Modern command line file encryption tool with small keys and no configuration or keyring to manage. Open source, BSD-3 licensed.

In 3 lists

Encryption >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.

In 3 lists

File Management and Sharing

Blaze

A fast, p2p and radically different way to transfer files.

Blindsend

💀 - Open source tool for private, end-to-end encrypted file exchange.

Croc

Easily and securely send things from one computer to another.

In 8 listsDetails

Dat-cp

💀 - Copy files between hosts on a network using the peer-to-peer Dat network.

Destiny

Send files directly to the receiver in real-time. Developed for and with HROs as a free Privacy Enhancing Technology alternative.

Gokapi

Lightweight selfhosted Firefox Send alternative without public upload. AWS S3 supported.

In 4 listsDetails

Lufi

Let's Upload that FIle — File sharing software.

Localsend

Share files to nearby devices. Free, open source, cross-platform.

In 5 listsDetails

Magic Wormhole

Get things from one computer to another, safely.

In 4 lists

OnionShare

An open source tool that lets you securely and anonymously share files, host websites, and chat with friends using the Tor network.

Paperless-ngx

A community-supported supercharged version of paperless based on paperless-ng

In 3 lists

PairDrop

An improved version of Snapdrop that also allows you to pair devices and share files outside your network.

In 3 lists

Portal

A command-line file transfer utility for sending encrypted files from any computer to another.

In 3 lists

QRcp

Transfer files over wifi from your computer to your mobile device by scanning a QR code without leaving the terminal.

In 4 lists

Send

Simple, private file sharing. (Mozilla Send Fork)

In 3 lists

Sharik

💀 - Sharik works with Wi-Fi connection or Tethering (Wi-Fi Hotspot). No internet connection needed. Available for Android, iOS, Linux, MacOS & Windows.

Snapdrop

A Progressive Web App for local file sharing inspired by Apple's Airdrop.

In 4 lists

Winden

A convenient version of Magic Wormhole you can use from within your browser. No need to install an app.

Yopass

Secure sharing of secrets, passwords and files.

In 2 lists

scrt.link

End-to-end encrypted file transfer. Up to 100GB and 30 days retention. Stored in Switzerland.

Fitness and Health >Fitness trackers

FitTrackee

Self-hosted web app to record and analyze outdoor activities from GPS files, as a Strava alternative (AGPL-3.0).

Fitness and Health >Workout planners

wger

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

workout.lol

A small web application to create workouts based on your available equipment and the muscles you want to train that you can selfhost.

Fitness and Health >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.

Fitness and Health >Menstrual cycle trackers

Euki

The period tracker that doesn’t track you.

Poppy

Poppy is a private period tracker that runs in the browser. It stores data locally, and can sync and backup through Nostr relays without a Poppy server or account, all encrypted end to end.

Fitness and Health >Medical health

Fasten

Fasten is an open-source, self-hosted, personal/family electronic medical record aggregator, designed to integrate with 1000's of insurances/hospitals/clinics.

In 2 lists

Fonts >Google Fonts Replacements

coolLabs Fonts

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

Bunny Fonts

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

Fonts >Foundries

Velvetyne

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

In 2 lists

OpenFoundry

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

In 3 lists

Forms

TypeBot

Open-source conversational forms.

In 2 lists

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.

Formbricks

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

In 2 lists

Games >Mario Kart

SuperTuxKart

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

Sonic Robo Blast 2 Kart

SRB2Kart is a classic styled kart racer, complete with beautiful courses, and wacky items.

Games >Minecraft

Luanti

An open source voxel game engine with many features.

In 2 lists

Mineclonia

Survival sandbox game inspired by Minecraft. Fork of MineClone2 with focus on stability, multiplayer performance and features.

No-Chat-Reports

A spigot plugin strips cryptographic signatures from player messages, but it breaks any chat plugin by design.

FreedomChat

A great alternative to No-Chat-Reports, since it does not break any chat plugin by design.

No-Telemetry

Mod that disables the usage data collection, aka telemetry, introduced in Minecraft 1.18 (snapshot 21w38a).

Games >Pokemon

Pokete

A small terminal based game in the style of a very popular and old game by Gamefreak.

In 4 listsDetails

Games >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.

In 2 lists

Home Assistants

Mycroft

💀 - The Private and Open Voice Assistant.

In 3 lists

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.

In 5 listsDetails

Instant Messaging >Decentralized

Matrix (Protocol)

An open network for secure, decentralized communication.

In 10 listsDetails

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.

In 10 listsDetails

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.

In 4 listsDetails

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.

In 3 lists

Gajim

Cross-platform XMPP client with OMEMO encryption, running on Linux, Windows, and macOS. Open source, GPL-3.0 licensed.

In 3 lists

Snikket

One-command self-hosted XMPP service that bundles a server with matching mobile and desktop clients. Open source and Docker-based.

In 2 lists

DeltaChat

Chat over encrypted e-mail.

In 3 lists

Session

Extreme focus on privacy and anonymity. Blockchain technology.

In 2 lists

SimpleX Chat

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

In 4 listsDetails

Status

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

Instant Messaging >Centralized

Threema

The messenger that puts security and privacy first. Pay once, chat forever. No collection of user data. Open Source client.

Signal

Extreme focus on privacy, combined with all of the features you expect. Strong encryption by design. 100% Open Source.; 🤖 Molly - Signal-compatible fork client with some security enhancements.

In 7 listsDetails

Instant Messaging >P2P

Tox

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

In 7 listsDetails

Briar

Peer-to-peer encrypted messaging and forums.

In 4 listsDetails

Tinfoil Chat

Onion-routed, endpoint secure messaging system.

Berty

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

Keyoxide

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

In 2 lists

LinkStack

Self-hosted open-source Linktree alternative.

In 2 lists

MagLit

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

In 2 lists

Dub

You can self-host Dub.co for greater control over your data and design.

In 3 lists

Yourls

Self hosted URL shortener in PHP.

In 4 listsDetails

tnyr.me

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

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.

In 4 listsDetails

Location tracking >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).

In 2 lists

Traccar

Location tracking software made for dedicated GPS logging devices.

In 2 lists

Dawarich

Self-hosted alternative to Google Location History.

Location tracking >Find My Device

Find My Device

Find your Android Device via SMS.

GPSlogger

Lightweight GPS Logging Application For Android. No servers, no internet. Saved to a simple file to local storage.

Mail Services >Third-Party owned

Forward Email

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

In 6 listsDetails

ProtonMail

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

In 7 listsDetails

Tuta

Secure email for everybody. Open Source.

In 3 lists

Riseup

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

Mailfence

Secure and private email.

In 2 lists

Mail Services >Self-Hosted

Docker mail server

A fullstack but simple mail server (SMTP, IMAP, LDAP, Antispam, Antivirus, etc.) using Docker.

In 3 lists

Mailcow: dockerized

The mailserver suite with the 'moo'.

In 5 listsDetails

Mail-in-a-box

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.

In 5 listsDetails

Mox

Modern full-featured open source secure mail server for low-maintenance self-hosted email.

In 6 listsDetails

Stalwart

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

In 2 lists

Mail Services >Clients

Thunderbird

A free customizable open source email client.

In 5 listsDetails

Mail Services >Email Alias Services (Anonymous Forwarding)

SimpleLogin

Open source, self-hostable email aliasing service now owned by Proton (AGPL-3.0).

In 6 listsDetails

AnonAddy

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

In 3 lists

Maps and Navigation

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.

In 10 listsDetails

OSMAnd

Android/iOS Navigation app using OSM. It is a feature-rich app with all you expect.

In 2 lists

Organic Maps

Great offline maps for hikers and cyclists.

In 3 lists

CoMaps

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

In 3 lists

Media Streaming Platforms

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.

In 4 listsDetails

Dim

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.

Stremio

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

In 4 listsDetails

Funkwhale

A social platform to enjoy and share music (SoundCloud alternative).

In 5 listsDetails

Subsonic

Your complete, personal music streamer.

Ampache

A web based audio/video streaming application and file manager.

In 2 lists

Koel

a personal music streaming server that works.

In 2 lists

Nuclear

Modern music player focused on streaming from free sources.

Navidrome

Lightweight, fast and self-contained personal music streamer.

In 2 lists

Spotube

A lightweight free Spotify crossplatform-client.

In 4 listsDetails

Spot*

Native Spotify client built in GTK and Rust.

In 2 lists

psst*

Fast and multi-platform Spotify client with native GUI.

In 2 lists

ncspot*

Cross-platform ncurses Spotify client written in Rust, inspired by ncmpc and the likes.ç

In 4 listsDetails

Beatbump

💀 - Alternative frontend for YouTube Music; no ads and custom API wrapper.

In 2 lists

ViMusic

[Unmantained] A Jetpack Compose Android application for streaming music from YouTube Music.

SimpMusic

Open source, actively maintained YouTube Music client for Android (successor to the discontinued ViMusic and RiMusic).

dzr

Command line Deezer player for Linux, BSD, Android+Termux

In 4 listsDetails

Antennapod

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

In 3 lists

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.

In 3 lists

Notes and Tasks

Keep To Markdown

Convert your Google Keep notes into a standard markdown + YAML header format.

Anytype

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

In 6 listsDetails

AppFlowy

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

In 4 listsDetails

HedgeDoc

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

In 3 lists

Joplin

Note taking and to-do application with synchronisation and encryption capabilities.

In 6 listsDetails

Logseq

A privacy-first alternative to WorkFlowy.

In 8 listsDetails

Memos

An open-source, self-hosted memo hub with knowledge management and socialization.

In 8 listsDetails

Nextcloud Notes

The Notes app is a distraction free notes taking app for Nextcloud.

Nextcloud Notes app

An android client for Nextcloud Notes.

Notally

A beautiful notes app (local only, no sync).

Notesnook

Open source zero knowledge private note taking.

In 2 lists

Obsidian

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

In 19 listsDetails

Quillpad

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

SiYuan

A local-first personal knowledge management system.

In 6 listsDetails

Standard Notes

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

In 3 lists

TinyList

Create and share notes and checklists, without sacrificing your privacy.

Trilium Notes

Build your personal knowledge base with Trilium Notes

In 4 lists

Vikunja

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

In 3 lists

YankNote

A Hackable Markdown Note Application for Programmers.

In 2 lists

Music Recognition

SongRec

An open-source Shazam client for Linux, written in Rust.

In 4 lists

SongID Telegram Bot

A Telegram bot that can identify music in audio/video files you send it.

Office

LibreOffice

Free and open source offline office.

In 8 listsDetails

OnlyOffice

Free and open source online office for collaboration.

In 5 listsDetails

Cryptpad

Collaboration suite, encrypted and open-source.

In 2 lists

Etherpad

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

In 4 listsDetails

Fileverse

Fileverse is building healthier alternatives with self-sovereignty, privacy by design, and standards compliance at its core.

In 2 lists

Ddocs

privacy-enhancing alternative to google docs: onchain, end-to-end encrypted, and decentralized.

dSheets

decentralized alternative to Excel and Google Sheets.

Grist

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

In 2 lists

Online Phone Providers >No email verification, accepting monero

Crypton

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

In 2 lists

Virtualsim

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

MoneroSMS

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

In 2 lists

Online Phone Providers >Email verification required, accepting monero

Onlinesim

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

Online Phone Providers >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)

Operating Systems >Android

GrapheneOS

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

In 2 lists

CalyxOS

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

In 2 lists

LineageOS

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

In 4 listsDetails

Replicant

Replicant is a fully free Android distribution running on several devices.

In 2 lists

/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.

UBPorts

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

postmarketOS

Touch optimised and pre-configured version of Alpine Linux.

In 2 lists

PureOS

Operating system developed by purism for the Librem 5.

In 2 lists

Plasma Mobile

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

mobian

Debian for mobile.

Operating Systems >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.

In 10 listsDetails

OSMC

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

In 4 lists

Operating Systems >PC / MacOS

Fedora

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

In 3 lists

Mint (Cinnamon)

is a beginner friendly distribution.

Qubes OS

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

In 9 listsDetails

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.

In 2 lists

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.

ReactOS

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

In 2 lists

RedoxOS

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

In 2 lists

Password Managers

AliasVault

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

In 3 lists

Bitwarden

An open source cloud based password manager.

In 13 listsDetails

vaultwarden

Unofficial Bitwarden compatible self-hosted server, formerly known as bitwarden_rs.

In 8 listsDetails

CarryPass

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

KeepassXC

Securely store passwords using industry standard encryption, no sync just storage.

In 7 listsDetails

KeepassDX

for Android.

Strongbox

for iOS.

In 4 listsDetails

KeeWeb

for Web and other platforms.

In 2 lists

LessPass

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

In 4 listsDetails

Padloc

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

In 2 lists

Passbolt

An open source password manager designed for team collaboration.

In 9 listsDetails

Passky

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

Proton Pass

Open-source and encrypted password manager by Proton.

In 5 listsDetails

Pastebin and Secret Sharing

crypt.fyi

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

In 2 lists

NoPaste

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.

In 2 lists

PrivateBin

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.

In 5 listsDetails

Yopass

Secure sharing of secrets, passwords and files.

In 2 lists

scrt.link

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

In 2 lists

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.

Payments

Monero

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

In 3 lists

Payments >Wallets

Sparrow Wallet

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

In 4 listsDetails

Wasabi Wallet

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

In 3 lists

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.

Payments >Payment Processors

BTCPay Server

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

In 3 lists

Payments >Where to use Monero and Bitcoin

kycnot.me

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

Actual

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

In 3 lists

Firefly III

A free and open source personal finance manager.

In 3 lists

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.

In 3 lists

Sure

Open Source and secure OS for your personal finances. Community maintained fork of the archived Maybe project.

In 3 lists

ezBookkeeping

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

In 3 lists

Personal Finances >Budget Management

Budget Zen

Simple and Encrypted Budget Management.

ProExpense

A simple free finance note to safely record daily expenses.

My Expenses

Featureful GPL licenced Android Expense Tracking App.

Wallos

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

In 2 lists

Personal Finances >Shared Expenses

Spliit

Share Expenses with Friends & Family. No ads. No account. Open Source. Forever Free.

PeerSplit

Website - Track and split group expenses. 100% free, 100% private.

SplitPro

Website - Split Expenses with your friends for free. An open source alternative to SplitWise.

IHateMoney

Manage your shared expenses, easily. Lacks unequal splitting.

In 2 lists

MoneyBuster

Android client for Nextcloud Cospend and IHateMoney servers.

Nextcloud Cospend

A group/shared budget manager inspired by the great IHateMoney.

Personal Finances >Others

Debitum

With Debitum you can track all kinds of IOUs, be it money or lent items.

Personal Finances >Portfolio trackers

Ghostfolio

open source wealth management software built with web technology.

In 3 lists

PortfolioPerformance

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

Rotki

An awesome portfolio tracking, analytics, accounting and tax reporting application that protects your privacy.

Photo Editing and Management

miniPaint

Open Source alternative to Photopea. miniPaint operates directly in the browser. Nothing will be sent to any server. Everything stays in your browser.

In 2 lists

GIMP

A free and open-source raster graphics editor used for image manipulation (retouching) and image editing, free-form drawing, transcoding between different image file formats, and more specialized tasks. It is not designed to be used for drawing, though some artists and creators have used it in…

In 15 listsDetails

Krita

Krita is a free and open source digital painting application

In 5 listsDetails

Czkawka

Multi functional app to find duplicates and similar images etc.

In 5 listsDetails

DigiKam

Awesome Professional Photo Management with the Power of Open Source.

In 4 listsDetails

Inkscape

A free and open-source vector graphics editor for GNU/Linux, Windows and macOS. It offers a rich set of features and is widely used for both artistic and technical illustrations such as cartoons, clip art, logos, typography, diagramming and flowcharting.

In 18 listsDetails

ImageGlass

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

In 2 lists

darktable

darktable is an open source photography workflow application and raw developer

In 4 listsDetails

RapidRAW

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.

In 3 lists

Pocket Paint

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.

Photo Storage

Google Photos Takeout Helper

Script that organizes the Google Takeout messy archive into one big chronological folder. Use this script to get out of Google Photos :).

Photo Storage >Self-hosted

Immich

Self-hosted photo and video backup solution directly from your mobile phone.

In 3 lists

LibrePhotos

Active OwnPhotos fork. Self hosted alternative to Google Photos.

In 6 listsDetails

Nextcloud

The open source self-hosted productivity platform that keeps you in control.

In 11 listsDetails

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.

In 3 lists

Photostructure

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

Stingle Photos

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

Ente

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

In 2 lists

Photo Storage >Third-party

Crypt.ee

A private and encrypted place for all your photos, documents, notes and more.

In 3 lists

Ente

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

In 2 lists

Stingle Photos

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

Photo Storage >Local

DigiKam

Awesome Professional Photo Management with the Power of Open Source.

In 4 listsDetails

Photok

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.

In 2 lists

Privacy Tools >Desktop

Whoami Project

Whoami provides enhanced privacy, anonymity for Debian and Arch based linux distributions.

In 2 lists

BusKill

BusKill is a Dead Man Switch triggered when a magnetic breakaway is tripped, severing a USB connection.

Privacy Tools >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.

In 2 lists

RethinkDNS + Firewall

An open-source, no-root firewall and DNS changer, with anti-censorship capabilities for Android 6+.

In 2 lists

Remote Access and Control

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.

In 6 listsDetails

screego

Screen sharing for developers.

In 2 lists

Remmina

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

In 5 listsDetails

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.

In 4 listsDetails

Apache Guacamole

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

In 4 listsDetails

Sunshine + Moonlight

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

In 2 lists

Search Engines

Whoogle Search

A self-hosted, ad-free, privacy-respecting Google metasearch engine.

In 6 listsDetails

librengine

💀 - Privacy Web Search Engine

SearX

Privacy-respecting metasearch engine.

SearxNG

Free internet metasearch engine which aggregates results from various search services and databases.

In 9 listsDetails

DuckDuckGo

A privacy respecting search engine.

In 8 listsDetails

Brave Search

A privacy respecting search engine with its own independent index.

In 5 listsDetails

Qwant

A zero tracking search engine made and hosted in France, EU.

In 4 listsDetails

Marginalia

Independent search engine with its own crawler and index that favors text-heavy, non-commercial pages. Self-hostable, AGPL-3.0 licensed.

YaCy

Peer-to-peer decentralized search engine where every user runs a node and shares the index. Open source, GPL-2.0 licensed.

In 3 lists

Social Networks and Platforms

Farside

A smart redirecting gateway for various frontend services.

In 2 lists

LibRedirect

A web extension that redirects YouTube, Twitter... requests to alternative privacy friendly frontends and backends.

In 2 lists

UntrackMe

Transform Youtube, Twitter & other links to their free and open source alternatives.

Social Networks and Platforms >Blogging platforms (Medium)

Plume

🧩 - Federated blogging application, thanks to ActivityPub.

In 5 listsDetails

WriteFreely

🧩 - An open source platform for building a writing space on the web.

In 6 listsDetails

Scribe

Medium alternative forntend inspired by Invidious.

Social Networks and Platforms >Instagram

Pixelfed

🧩 - Decentralized, federated and Open Source alternative to Instagram with posts, videos, stories, tags, etc.

In 6 listsDetails

Social Networks and Platforms >LBRY and Odysee

Librarian

💀 - An alternative frontend for LBRY/Odysee. Inspired by Invidious and Libreddit.

In 3 lists

Social Networks and Platforms >Quora

Quetre

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

In 3 lists

Social Networks and Platforms >YouTube

Peertube

🧩 - A free, open and decentralized alternative to video platforms.

In 2 lists

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

A full-featured video sharing website, decentralized.

Invidious

Alternative and privacy respecting YouTube frontend.

In 5 listsDetails

Piped

An alternative privacy-friendly YouTube frontend which is efficient by design.

In 3 lists

ViewTube

ViewTube is an alternative privacy-friendly YouTube frontend written in Vue.js

In 2 lists

Youtube-Local

browser-based client for watching Youtube anonymously and with greater page performance.

In 2 lists

Tubular

A fork of NewPipe that implements SponsorBlock and ReturnYouTubeDislike.

FreeTube

FreeTube is an open source desktop YouTube player built with privacy in mind. (Uses Local RSS API or Invidious for backend).

In 3 lists

Yattee

Alternative YouTube frontend for iOS, tvOS and macOS built with Invidious and Piped.

In 3 lists

Social Networks and Platforms >TikTok

ProxiTok

Open source alternative frontend for TikTok

In 3 lists

Social Networks and Platforms >Twitter

Memos

An open-source, self-hosted memo hub with knowledge management and socialization.

In 8 listsDetails

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…

In 4 listsDetails

Mastodon

🧩 - Free, federated microblogging social network built on open protocols.

In 8 listsDetails

Mastodon Apps

List of Mastodon apps for Android, iOS, Web and Desktop.

In 2 lists

Pleroma

🧩 - Pleroma is a free, federated social networking server built on open protocols.; 🤖 Husky - Android client for Pleroma and Mastodon.

In 7 listsDetails

Soapbox

A frontend for Pleroma with a focus on custom branding and ease of use.

Nitter

Nitter is a free and open source alternative Twitter front-end focused on privacy.

In 6 listsDetails

Fritter

A free, open-source Nitter client for Android (feed no longer available).

In 2 lists

Squawker

An active fork of Fritter that fixes the feed.

Feetter

💀 - Create, sync and manage Nitter feeds without registration from any device.

Social Networks and Platforms >Reddit

Aether

Peer-to-peer ephemeral public communities.

In 2 lists

Mbin

🧩 - A reddit-like content aggregator and micro-blogging platform for the fediverse; the community-maintained continuation of kbin.

In 2 lists

Lemmy

🧩 - A federated and open alternative to Reddit in Rust.

SaidIt

Open source Reddit clone.

Libreddit

Private Reddit front-end written in Rust No longer working - Read here

In 3 lists

Redlib

An alternative private front-end to Reddit, with its origins in Libreddit.

In 4 listsDetails

Social Networks and Platforms >Streaming Platforms (Twitch)

Owncast

Take control over your live stream video by running it yourself. Streaming + chat out of the box.

In 5 listsDetails

livego

Live video streaming server in golang.

In 4 lists

Social Networks and Platforms >Wikipedia

Wikiless

A maintained fork of the free open source alternative Wikipedia front-end focused on privacy Source Code. (Original instance: wikiless.org, Wikiless repository has been removed by Codeberg, follow news here)

Social Networks and Platforms >Imgur

Imgin

A minimalist, tor-friendly, read-only Imgur proxy insipired by software like Invidious, Nitter, and Bibliogram.

In 2 lists

rimgo

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

In 3 lists

Social Networks and Platforms >IMDb

libremdb

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

In 3 lists

Social Networks and Platforms >Fandom

BreezeWiki

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

In 2 lists

Teamworking Tools

Zulip

Chat for distributed teams.

In 3 lists

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.

In 10 listsDetails

Nextcloud Talk

Keep conversations private with Nextcloud Talk.

In 2 lists

Mattermost

Open-source Slack alternative.

In 8 listsDetails

Screen recording

Screenity

A screen recorder that's free, private, and friendly.

OBS Studio

Free and open source software for video recording and live streaming.

In 7 listsDetails

Translation

Mozilla Translate

Open Source, runs model locally in your browser.

Libretranslate

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

In 2 lists

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

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.

In 2 lists

Lingva

💀 - Alternative front-end for Google Translate. Demo.

In 4 lists

Simplytranslate

Alternative front-end for Google Translate and LibreTranslate. Demo

Mozhi

Alternative frontend that aggregates Google Translate, DeepL, Yandex, and other engines behind one private UI. Self-hostable, AGPL-3.0 licensed.

Uncategorized

Skymap

Open online planetarium program.

CrowdSec

An open-source, modernized and collaborative fail2ban.

In 6 listsDetails

Hetty

Hetty is an HTTP toolkit for security research. It aims to be an open-source alternative to Burp Suite Pro.

In 5 listsDetails

Visited

Locally collect browsing history over browsers.

Utilities

Deskreen

Turn any device into a secondary screen for your computer.

In 3 lists

Loggit

Simple and Encrypted Life Tracking & Logging.

Version Control

Codeberg

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

In 2 lists

Forgejo

Forgejo is a self-hosted lightweight software forge.

In 5 listsDetails

GitLab

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

In 13 listsDetails

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.

In 3 lists

Gitea

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

In 4 listsDetails

Video and Audio Conferencing

BigBlueButton

BigBlueButton is a web conferencing system designed for online learning.

In 2 lists

Briefing

Secure direct video group chat. Only open technologies (such as WebRTC) are used, which work with all modern browsers.

Chitchatter

Secure P2P chat that is serverless, decentralized, and ephemeral. Supports text, audio, video, screen, and file sharing.

In 3 lists

Jam

💀 - Jam is your own open source Clubhouse for mini conferences, friends, communities.

Jami

P2P audio and video conferences.

In 7 listsDetails

Jitsi Meet

More secure, more flexible, and completely free video conferencing. If you use the official instance, you will need to login. Self-hosting is recommended.

In 5 listsDetails

Mirotalk P2P

Free WebRTC - P2P - Simple, Secure, Fast Real-Time Video Conferences Up to 4k and 60fps, compatible with all browsers and platforms.

In 2 lists

Mumble

Mumble is an open source voice communication application with advanced features.

In 3 lists

PeerCalls

Group peer to peer video calls for everyone written in Go and TypeScript.

Nextcloud Talk

Keep conversations private with Nextcloud Talk.

In 2 lists

OpenAsar

An open-source alternative of Discord desktop's app.asar that comes with a No Track function.

Vencord

A Discord client mod that does things differently.

In 3 lists

BetterDiscord

A client modification for Discord, also you need to install a DoNotTrack plugin to block trackers.

Kernel

💀 - A super small and fast Electron client mod with the most capability, also you need to install a Discord Utilities package to block trackers.

Replugged

A continuation of the deprecated client mod Powercord.

WebCord

A Discord and Fosscord API-less client made with the Electron.

Vesktop

Standalone desktop client for Discord that blocks its telemetry and ships with Vencord built in. Open source, GPL-3.0 licensed.

Video Editing

kdenlive

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

In 6 listsDetails

LosslessCut

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.

In 7 listsDetails

Olive Video Editor

Free open-source advanced non-linear video editor currently in Alpha state.

In 6 listsDetails

OpenCut

[beta] A free, open-source video editor for web, desktop, and mobile.

Shotcut

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

In 7 listsDetails

VPNs

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.

IVPN

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

In 3 lists

LNVPN

Pay-per-use WireGuard VPN with no account, paid by Lightning Network or other cryptocurrency.

Mullvad VPN

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

In 4 listsDetails

Proton VPN

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

In 6 listsDetails

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.

In 2 lists

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.

Web Browser

Brave

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

In 10 listsDetails

Firefox

Android/iOS; 🤖 IronFox - Mull browser fork. A hardened fork of Firefox for Android, with proprietary blobs removed.

Tor Browser

iOS/Android. Defend yourself against tracking and surveillance and circumvent censorship.

In 14 listsDetails

Cromite

Cromite is a Chromium fork based on Bromite with built-in support for ad blocking and an eye for privacy.

In 2 lists

Ungoogled Chromium

A lightweight approach to removing Google web service dependency. Ungoogled-chromium is Google Chromium, sans dependency on Google web services.

In 5 listsDetails

Firefox

Open Source, independent browser. It needs some hardening and tweaking to achieve great privacy.

In 2 lists

LibreWolf

Privacy-focused Firefox fork.

In 6 listsDetails

Mullvad Browser

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

In 4 listsDetails

Zen Browser

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

In 5 listsDetails

Floorp

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

Web Browser >Browser Addons

uBlock Origin

Free, open-source ad content blocker. Easy on CPU and memory.; Go to settings > filters list > annoyances, turn on easylist-cookies. This will avoid you the annoying Cookie popups.

In 2 lists

Read the extension docs

and pick one of the recommended modes to increase your privacy.

In 10 listsDetails

LibRedirect

A web extension that redirects YouTube, Twitter... requests to alternative privacy friendly frontends and backends.

In 2 lists

Privacy Badger

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

In 2 lists

ClearURLs

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

Single File

Save a faithful copy of an entire web page in a single HTML file so you can use it offline.

In 4 lists

Web Browser >Browser Sync

xBrowserSync

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

In 2 lists
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A curated list of awesome search engines useful during Penetration testing, Vulnerability assessments, Red/Blue Team operations, Bug Bounty and more

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🐶 A curated list of Web Security materials and resources.

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