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Nov 21, 2024

Book and web annotations/highlights management

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

Oct 27, 2024

Bookmarking

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

Oct 22, 2024

Video and Audio Conferencing

• Briefing (⭐1.4k) - Secure direct video group chat. Only open technologies (such as WebRTC) are used, which work with all modern browsers.

• Jitsi Meet (⭐23k) - More secure, more flexible, and completely free video conferencing. If you use the official instance, you will need to login. Self-hosting is recommended.

Sep 26, 2024

Link Shorteners

• Dub (⭐19k) - You can self-host Dub.co for greater control over your data and design.

• Yourls - Self hosted URL shortener in PHP.

Video and Audio Conferencing / Alternative clients/modifications of Discord:

• 🤖 Aliucord (⭐3.7k) - A modification for the Android Discord app that fully disables the Discord Tracking (⭐3.7k).

Sep 15, 2024

Tracking

• Dawarich (⭐2.2k) - Self-hosted alternative to Google Location History.

Aug 28, 2024

Translation

• Simplytranslate - Alternative front-end for Google Translate and LibreTranslate. Demo

Jul 19, 2024

Desktop

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

Jul 07, 2024

Android Keyboard

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

• Heliboard (⭐2.4k) - 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.

Captchas

• hCaptcha

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

Link in Bio Tools

• BioDrop (⭐5.7k) - 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.

Payments

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

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

Search Engines

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

Version Control

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

Video and Audio Conferencing

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

Apr 28, 2024

Notes and Tasks

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

Apr 27, 2024

Maps and Navigation

• Qwant Maps - An OpenStreetMap-based private Google Maps alternative.

Apr 15, 2024

Third-Party owned

• Tuta - Secure email for everybody. Open Source.

Apr 10, 2024

Reddit

• Redlib (⭐1.3k) - An alternative private front-end to Reddit, with its origins in Libreddit.

Apr 06, 2024

Analytics

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

Apr 05, 2024

GNU/Linux

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

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

Version Control

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

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

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

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

Feb 16, 2024

Pastebin and Secret Sharing

• NoPaste (⭐369) - Open Source pastebin alternative that works with no database, and no back-end code. Instead, the data is compressed and stored entirely in the link that you share, nowhere else.

Feb 10, 2024

ChatGPT

• Jan (⭐23k) - Jan is an open source alternative to ChatGPT that runs 100% offline on your computer.

Copilot

• Continue (⭐19k) - Open-source autopilot for VS Code and JetBrains—the easiest way to code with any LLM

Feb 08, 2024

Mario Kart

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

Jan 22, 2024

Android Gallery

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

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

• Samsung, Huawei, Xiaomi, etc. Gallery

• Aves (⭐2.7k) - Beautiful gallery and metadata explorer app, built for Android with Flutter.

• Fossify Gallery (⭐1.7k) - Fork of Simple Gallery. Browse your memories without any interruptions with this photo and video gallery.

Jan 03, 2024

Android Keyboard

• OpenBoard (⭐2.6k) - 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.

Nov 30, 2023

Bookmarking

• Grimorie (⭐2.1k) - Modern, open source, self-hosted bookmark manager.

Oct 27, 2023

ChatGPT

• ollama (⭐97k) - Get up and running with Llama 2 and other large language models locally.

Copilot

• Fauxpilot (⭐15k) - an open-source,local alternative to GitHub Copilot server
  • vscode-fauxpilot (⭐202) - vscode extension for fauxpilot. reminder: use vscodium instead!

• Localpilot (⭐3.4k) - Use GitHub Copilot locally on your Macbook with one-click.

Oct 17, 2023

Analytics

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

Creator Tools

• vdo.ninja - Powerful tool that lets you bring remote video feeds into OBS or other studio software via WebRTC.
  • socialstream.ninja (⭐626) - Consolidate your live social messaging streams and much more.

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

Link in Bio Tools

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

GNU/Linux

• Mint (Cinnamon) is a beginner friendly distribution.

Sep 23, 2023

Notes and Tasks

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

Sep 07, 2023

Video and Audio Conferencing

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

Aug 30, 2023

Photoshop / Illustrator

• Excalidraw (⭐85k) - Virtual whiteboard for sketching hand-drawn like diagrams.

Aug 25, 2023

Notes and Tasks

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

Aug 17, 2023

InDesign

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

Photoshop / Illustrator

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

Figma

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

Aug 09, 2023

Captchas

• mCaptcha (repo (⭐1.7k)) - An open-source CAPTCHA system with seamless UX. mCaptcha uses SHA256 based proof-of-work (PoW) to rate limit users.

Aug 05, 2023

Password Managers

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

Jul 20, 2023

Wikipedia

• Wikiless - A maintained fork of the free open source alternative Wikipedia front-end focused on privacy Source Code (⭐173). (Original instance: wikiless.org, Wikiless repository has been removed by Codeberg, follow news here)

Utilities

• Loggit - Simple and Encrypted Life Tracking & Logging.

Jul 10, 2023

Workout planners

• workout.lol (⭐1.3k) - A small web application to create workouts based on your available equipment and the muscles you want to train that you can selfhost.

Jun 18, 2023

Plugins for Minecraft

• FreedomChat (⭐209) - A great alternative to No-Chat-Reports, since it does not break any chat plugin by design.

May 26, 2023

Analytics

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

Android App Store

• Accrescent (⭐1.1k) - A novel Android app store focused on security, privacy, and usability.

Midjourney

• Stable Diffusion (⭐39k) - High-Resolution Image Synthesis with Latent Diffusion Models.
  • Stable Diffusion Web UI (⭐143k) - A browser interface for Stable Diffusion.

Medical health

• Fasten (⭐1.6k) - Fasten is an open-source, self-hosted, personal/family electronic medical record aggregator, designed to integrate with 1000's of insurances/hospitals/clinics.

Text to Speech

• Bark (⭐36k) - Bark can be run 100% locally and can generate highly realistic, multilingual speech as well as other audio - including music, background noise and simple sound effects.

• Piper (⭐6.5k) - A fast, local neural text to speech system that sounds great and is optimized for the Raspberry Pi 4.

• Espeak (⭐4.2k) - eSpeak NG is an open source speech synthesizer that supports more than hundred languages and accents. Voices will sound rather robotic.

Desktop / Alternative clients/modifications of Discord:

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

Apr 22, 2023

ChatGPT

• LocalAI (⭐25k) - 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.

Apr 13, 2023

Copilot

• Turbopilot (⭐3.8k) - [Archived] Turbopilot is an open source large-language-model based code completion engine that runs locally on CPU.

Apr 05, 2023

Cloud Storage

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

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 (⭐7.9k) - [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 (⭐4.7k) - An improved version of Snapdrop that also allows you to pair devices and share files outside your network.

• Portal (⭐1.5k) - 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 (⭐68k) - Inference of Facebook's LLaMA model in pure C/C++ so it can run locally on a CPU.

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 (⭐8.1k) - Get app updates directly from the source.

Feb 28, 2023

Password Managers

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

Feb 26, 2023

Self-Hosted

• Mox (⭐3.6k) - 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 (⭐3.3k) - 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 Anonymity / Alternative clients/modifications of Discord:

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

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

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

Feb 04, 2023

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 (⭐3.6k), 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 (⭐21k) - A lightweight approach to removing Google web service dependency. Ungoogled-chromium is Google Chromium, sans dependency on Google web services.

Jan 22, 2023

VPNs / Alternative clients/modifications of Discord:

• Azire

• Proton VPN

Jan 19, 2023

Link in Bio Tools

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

Jan 15, 2023

Video Editing / Alternative clients/modifications of Discord:

• LosslessCut (⭐28k) - 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.

Notes and Tasks

• Trilium Notes (⭐27k) - 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 (⭐34k) - An open-source, self-hosted memo hub with knowledge management and socialization.

Dec 16, 2022

Decentralized

• Nostr (⭐10k) - 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 (⭐2.9k) - 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 (⭐2k) - Lightweight GPS Logging Application For Android. No servers, no internet. Saved to a simple file to local storage.

Nov 13, 2022

YouTube

• Youtube-Local (⭐532) - browser-based client for watching Youtube anonymously and with greater page performance.

Nov 02, 2022

Reddit

• Libreddit (⭐5k) - Private Reddit front-end written in Rust No longer working - Read here (⭐5k)

Oct 23, 2022

Notes and Tasks

• SiYuan (⭐22k) - 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 (⭐3k) - Annotate the web, with anyone, anywhere.

• Kobuddy (⭐149) - Get your Kobo e-reader device bookmarks and annotations in a .txt file.

Oct 13, 2022

P2P

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

Oct 10, 2022

Teamworking Tools

• See this section for Discord mods and alternative clients (⭐13k)

Translation

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

Oct 09, 2022

Video and Audio Conferencing / Alternative clients/modifications of Discord:

• Vencord (⭐9.1k) - A Discord client mod that does things differently.

• Replugged - A continuation of the deprecated client mod Powercord.

Oct 05, 2022

Podcasts

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Oct 04, 2022

Blogging platforms (Medium)

• Medium - website has Google trackers and ads.

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

Oct 03, 2022

File Management and Sharing

• Snapdrop (⭐18k) - A Progressive Web App for local file sharing inspired by Apple's Airdrop.

Oct 02, 2022

File Management and Sharing

• Paperless-ngx (⭐22k) - A community-supported supercharged version of paperless based on paperless-ng

Quora

• Quetre (⭐441) - 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.

GNU/Linux

• Fedora

Other OS:

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

Web Browser / Alternative clients/modifications of Discord:

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

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

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

Useful Tools / Alternative clients/modifications of Discord:

• Single File (⭐16k) - 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 (⭐9k) - The mailserver suite with the 'moo'.

Sep 23, 2022

Speech to Text

• OpenAI Whisper (⭐71k) - Whisper is a general-purpose speech recognition model that can be run locally offline. It can transcribe audio from and to multiple languages.
  • whisper.cpp (⭐36k) - High-performance inference of OpenAI's Whisper automatic speech recognition (ASR) model.
  • Whishper - A whisper frontend with subtitle editing and translation capabilities.

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 (⭐1.9k) - Secure sharing of secrets, passwords and files.

• PrivateBin (⭐6.5k) - 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.

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.

• LinkAce (⭐2.6k)

• LinkDing (⭐6.7k)

• Shiori (⭐9.5k)

• 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 (⭐1.4k) - An open-source Shazam client for Linux, written in Rust.

• SongID Telegram Bot (⭐87) - 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.

• 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 (⭐46k) - Note taking and to-do application with synchronisation and encryption capabilities.

• Nextcloud Notes (⭐621) - The Notes app is a distraction free notes taking app for Nextcloud.
  • Nextcloud Notes app (⭐940) - An android client for Nextcloud Notes.

• Notally (⭐1.7k) - A beautiful notes app (local only, no sync).

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

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

• YankNote (⭐5.6k) - 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 (⭐9.1k) - [Unmantained] A Jetpack Compose Android application for streaming music from YouTube Music.
  • RiMusic (⭐2.5k) - A ViMusic maintained fork.

Jul 28, 2022

VPNs / Alternative clients/modifications of Discord:

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

• IVPN

• Mullvad VPN

• SPN

Jul 21, 2022

Plugins for Minecraft

• No-Chat-Reports (⭐950) - A spigot plugin strips cryptographic signatures from player messages, but it breaks any chat plugin by design.

Audio

• Jetispot (⭐353) - Experimental UNOFFICIAL Spotify client for Android built on librespot-java + Jetpack Compose

Jul 11, 2022

Databases

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

Search Engines

• SearX - Privacy-respecting metasearch engine.
  • SearxNG (⭐14k) - 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 (⭐227) - 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.

Self-hosted

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

Third-party

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

May 27, 2022

Search Engines

• librengine (⭐67) - 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) (⭐52k) - Self-hosted photo and video backup solution directly from your mobile phone.

• LibrePhotos (⭐7k) - Active OwnPhotos (⭐2.8k) 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 (⭐175) - 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 (⭐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 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 (⭐87) - A super small and fast Electron client mod with the most capability, also you need to install a Discord Utilities (⭐5) package to block trackers.

Apr 11, 2022

Desktop

• Whoami Project (⭐2k) - Whoami provides enhanced privacy, anonymity for Debian and Arch based linux distributions.

Video and Audio Conferencing / Alternative clients/modifications of Discord:

• WebCord (⭐2k) - A Discord and Fosscord API-less client made with the Electron.

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 (⭐2.5k) function.

Apr 07, 2022

Password Managers

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

Apr 04, 2022

Audio

• Spotube (⭐31k) - A lightweight free Spotify crossplatform-client.

• Spot* (⭐2.3k) - Native Spotify client built in GTK and Rust.

• psst* (⭐8.5k) - Fast and multi-platform Spotify client with native GUI.

• ncspot* (⭐5.1k) - Cross-platform ncurses Spotify client written in Rust, inspired by ncmpc and the likes.ç

Mar 27, 2022

Databases

• Supabase - Open source Firebase alternative (Limited (⭐74k) self-hosting (⭐74k))

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 20, 2022

Translation

• 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 independent index.

LBRY and Odysee

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

Teamworking Tools

Mar 19, 2022

YouTube

• Piped (⭐8.4k) - An alternative privacy-friendly YouTube frontend which is efficient by design.

Mar 09, 2022

Mario Kart

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

Mar 08, 2022

Imgur

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

TikTok

• ProxiTok (⭐1.9k) - Open source alternative frontend for TikTok

Mar 02, 2022

Dating Apps

• Grindr

• Badoo

• Lovoo

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

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 (⭐1.1k) - Alternative frontend for YouTube Music; no ads and custom API wrapper.

Feb 23, 2022

Alternative Frontends

• Nitter (⭐10k) - Nitter is a free and open source alternative Twitter front-end focused on privacy.
  • Fritter (⭐1.4k) - A free, open-source Nitter client for Android (feed no longer available).
    • • Squawker (⭐946) - An active fork of Fritter that fixes the feed.

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 (⭐47k) 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 (⭐532) - 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)

• SimpleLogin (⭐5.1k)

• AnonAddy (⭐3.4k)

Jan 10, 2022

FIAT

• Budget Zen - Simple and Encrypted Budget Management.

Jan 06, 2022

2FA

• Authy

Analytics

• Ackee - Self-hosted website analytics.

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

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

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

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

• Shynet (⭐2.9k) - Modern, privacy-friendly, and detailed web analytics that works without cookies or JS.

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

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 (⭐3.9k) - Lightweight F-Droid client with Material UI.
  • Aurora Droid - Aurora Droid is a modern FOSS client for F-Droid.
  • Foxy Droid (⭐535) - 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

• Koler (⭐955) - Uniquely stylized phone app with customizable features.

Android File Manager

• Amaze File Manager (⭐5.3k) - Simple and attractive Material Design file manager for Android.

• Material Files (⭐6.1k) - An open source Material Design file manager, for Android 5.0+.

• Ghost Commander - Dual-panel file manager.

Android Keyboard

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

• FlorisBoard (⭐6.1k) - 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.

• 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 (⭐1.1k) - Simply keyboard and nothing more.

Android Launcher

• Lawnchair - No clever tagline needed.

• OpenLauncher (⭐1.4k) - Customizable and Open Source Launcher for Android.

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

• Olauncher (⭐2.1k) - 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 (⭐364) - Android home screen launcher that uses a dynamic pie menu instead of fixed positioned icons.

• Rootless Pixel Launcher (⭐3.8k) - The Launcher3 fork known as "Rootless Pixel Launcher".

Images

• Fawkes (⭐5.2k) - privacy preserving tool against facial recognition systems.
  • CloakMe (⭐67) - Web interface for Fawkes algorithm.

• ImageScrubber (⭐937) - 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 (⭐442) [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.

Desktop

• GIMP - The Free & Open Source Image Editor.

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

• Krita (⭐7.5k) - Krita is a free and open source digital painting application

• Czkawka (⭐20k) - Multi functional app to find duplicates and similar images etc.

Domain Registrar

• OrangeWebsite

• 1984 Hosting

Download Manager

• Persepolis Download Manager (⭐6.3k) - 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 (⭐46k) - A full-featured download manager.

• Xtreme Download Manager (⭐6.8k) - Xtreme Download Manager (XDM) is a powerful tool to increase download speeds up to 500%, save streaming videos from YouTube, DailyMotion, Facebook, Vimeo, Google Video and 1000+ other websites, resume broken/dead downloads, schedule and convert downloads.

• axel (⭐3k) - Lightweight CLI download accelerator. It supports HTTP, HTTPS, FTP and FTPS protocols.

Workout planners

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

Food

• OpenFoodFacts - Open Food Facts is a food products database made by everyone, for everyone. You can use it to make better food choices.
  • OFF Apps

Foundries

• Velvetyne

• OpenFoundry

Tracking

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

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

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

Find My Device

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

Maps and Navigation

• Google Maps

• Apple Maps

• Yandex Maps

• Bing Maps

• Waze

• Sygic

• HERE WeGo

• Petal Maps

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

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

Notes and Tasks

• Google Keep
  • Google Keep Exporter (⭐296) or Keep To Markdown (⭐95) - 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.

Password Managers

• LastPass

• Dashlane

• Bitwarden - An open source cloud based password manager.
  • vaultwarden (⭐39k) - Unofficial Bitwarden compatible self-hosted server, formerly known as bitwarden_rs.

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

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

Photo Editing and Management

• VSCO

Web

• miniPaint (⭐2.8k) - Open Source alternative to Photopea. miniPaint operates directly in the browser. Nothing will be sent to any server. Everything stays in your browser.

Local

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

Android

• Pocket Paint (⭐383) - 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

• 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 (⭐9.6k) - A self-hosted, ad-free, privacy-respecting Google metasearch engine.

• DuckDuckGo - A privacy respecting search engine.

YouTube

• Invidious (⭐16k) - Alternative and privacy respecting YouTube frontend.

• ViewTube (⭐1.3k) - ViewTube is an alternative privacy-friendly YouTube frontend written in Vue.js

Streaming Platforms (Twitch)

• Owncast (⭐9.5k) - Take control over your live stream video by running it yourself. Streaming + chat out of the box.

• livego (⭐9.7k) - 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

• 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 (⭐1.5k) - Alternative front-end for Google Translate. Demo.

Uncategorized

• Visited (⭐83) - Locally collect browsing history over browsers.

Utilities

• Deskreen (⭐17k) - 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 (⭐1.3k) - Jam is your own open source Clubhouse for mini conferences, friends, communities.

Desktop / Alternative clients/modifications of Discord:

• Tor Browser

Browser Sync / Alternative clients/modifications of Discord:

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

Jan 04, 2022

File Management and Sharing

• Magic Wormhole (⭐20k) - Get things from one computer to another, safely.

Oct 27, 2021

Self-Hosted

• Docker mail server (⭐15k) - A fullstack but simple mail server (SMTP, IMAP, LDAP, Antispam, Antivirus, etc.) using Docker.

• Mail-in-a-box (⭐14k) - 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 (⭐3.8k) - 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 (⭐1.2k) - 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 (⭐86) - With Debitum you can track all kinds of IOUs, be it money or lent items.

Jun 02, 2021

File Management and Sharing

• OnionShare (⭐6.3k) - 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 (⭐199) - 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 (⭐2.5k) - A very small (hence "Pico"), very simple, yet very secure file encryption tool.

May 24, 2021

FIAT

• My Expenses (⭐839) - Featureful GPL licenced Android Expense Tracking App.

May 23, 2021

FIAT

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

Uncategorized

• CrowdSec (⭐9k) - 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 (⭐28k) - Easily and securely send things from one computer to another.

• Dat-cp (⭐315) - Copy files between hosts on a network using the peer-to-peer Dat network.

• Lufi - Let's Upload that FIle — File sharing software.

• QRcp (⭐10k) - 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)

P2P

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

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

• Tinfoil Chat (⭐1.2k) - Onion-routed, endpoint secure messaging system.

Mail Services

• Gmail

• Outlook

• Yandex Mail

• Yahoo! Mail

Video and Audio

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

Android-Based

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

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

• LineageOS - A free and open-source operating system for various devices, based on the Android mobile platform.
  • DivestOS - LineageOS fork with increased security and privacy.

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

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.

Smart TV

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

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

Payments

• Visa / Mastercard

• WeChat

• _insertBigTechHere_Pay

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

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

FIAT

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

• ProExpense (⭐89) - A simple free finance note to safely record daily expenses.

CRYPTO

• Rotki (⭐2.9k) - An awesome portfolio tracking, analytics, accounting and tax reporting application that protects your privacy.

Uncategorized

• Skymap - Open online planetarium program.

• Hetty (⭐6.1k) - Hetty is an HTTP toolkit for security research. It aims to be an open-source alternative to Burp Suite Pro.