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Nov 05, 2026

VPNs / Apps

• Free VPNs: a 2017 study of 283 Android VPN apps found 75% used trackers and 38% contained malware. _Source

Password Managers / Useful Tools

• LastPass: the UK fined it £1.2 million in 2025 over a 2022 breach that leaked customers' encrypted vaults. _Source

Encryption / Useful Tools

• BitLocker: your recovery key is uploaded to Microsoft by default, and Microsoft has handed such keys to the FBI. _Source

Photo Editing and Management / Deezer alternative clients

• Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom: its 2024 terms say Adobe may access your cloud content through both automated and manual review. _Source

Video Editing / Deezer alternative clients

• Adobe Premiere Pro: its terms allow automated scanning of your Creative Cloud files and human review of flagged ones. _Source

Ebooks / Plugins for Minecraft

• Amazon Kindle: in 2009 Amazon remotely deleted copies of 1984 that people had bought from their Kindles. _Source

Android Debloat Tools / Plugins for Minecraft

• ADB AppControl: its terms let it send your PC's IP, hardware details and the apps you remove to a remote server. _Source

Android Gallery / Plugins for Minecraft

• Google Photos: scans your photos, and in 2022 its scan got a father investigated by police over photos taken for a doctor. _Source

Home Assistants / Other OS

• Siri: in 2025 Apple settled claims that Siri recorded private conversations without consent for $95 million. _Source

Payments / Apps and services

• Visa / Mastercard: your card purchases feed Mastercard audience segments, like affluent shoppers, sold on data marketplaces. _Source

Legend / Apps and services

• ⚠️ closed server: the server code isn't public.

• ⚠️ account required: an account is needed to use it.

Nov 04, 2026

Video and Audio Conferencing / Desktop

• WhatsApp: in 2021 Ireland fined it €225 million for not properly explaining what data it shares with Facebook. _{ToS;DR · Source}

• Zoom: paid $85 million in 2021 to settle claims it shared user data with Facebook, Google and LinkedIn. _{ToS;DR · Source}

• BigBlueButton - Self-hosted web conferencing built for online classes, with whiteboard, breakout rooms and recordings. ⚠️ website trackers _{self-host · LGPL-3.0}

• Briefing - Group video chat in the browser over direct WebRTC connections, with no account. _{self-host · AGPL-3.0}

• Chitchatter - Serverless, ephemeral peer-to-peer chat with audio, video, screen and file sharing. _GPL-2.0

• Jami - Peer-to-peer audio and video calls and chat with no central servers or account needed. _{GPL-3.0 · F-Droid}

• Jitsi Meet - Video conferencing you can self-host; the official instance requires you to log in. _{self-host · Apache-2.0 · F-Droid (Play Store version has trackers)}

• MiroTalk P2P - Browser-based peer-to-peer video calls up to 4K, with nothing to install. _AGPL-3.0

• Mumble - Low-latency voice chat with encrypted connections, on servers you can run yourself. _self-host

Instant Messaging

• Facebook Messenger: chats have been encrypted since 2023, but Meta still sees who you message, when, and who your contacts are. _{ToS;DR · Exodus · Source}

Instagram / Desktop

• Instagram: Ireland fined Meta €405 million in 2022 for exposing children's emails and phone numbers on Instagram. _{ToS;DR · Source}

• Pixelfed - Federated photo sharing with posts, stories and a chronological feed, without ads. _{ActivityPub · AGPL-3.0}

Location Tracking / Apps and services

• Google Find Hub (formerly Find My Device): reports your devices' locations to Google. _ToS;DR

Teamworking Tools / Desktop

• Wire - End-to-end encrypted messaging, calls and file sharing for teams, with public and audited code for both the apps and the server. ⚠️ website trackers _{AGPL-3.0 · F-Droid (Play Store version has trackers)}

• Discord: a 2025 breach at a support vendor exposed government ID photos of about 70,000 users. _{ToS;DR · Source}

• Slack: your messages feed its recommendation models unless a workspace owner emails Slack to opt out. _{ToS;DR · Source}

• Rocket.Chat - Self-hosted team chat with end-to-end encrypted rooms and federation. ⚠️ website trackers _self-host

• Twake Chat - Workplace chat built on Matrix, part of Linagora's Twake Workplace suite. _AGPL-3.0

Maps and Navigation / Apps and services

• Bing Maps: under Microsoft's very poorly rated privacy policy. _ToS;DR

• Yandex Maps: 11 trackers in its Android app, from a company bound by Russian surveillance law. _Exodus

• Sygic: 8 trackers in its Android app. _Exodus

• OpenStreetMap (OSM) - Collaborative world map built by volunteers, and the open data behind most apps in this section. _GPL-2.0
  • OsmAnd - Offline maps and navigation built on OpenStreetMap, with a large set of features. ⚠️ telemetry opt-out _{Android · iOS · F-Droid}

• Pure Maps - Maps and navigation for Linux phones, Sailfish OS and desktop, fully offline with OSM Scout Server. _{Linux · GPL-3.0}

Search Engines / Useful Tools

• Yahoo!: a 2013 breach hit all 3 billion Yahoo accounts, which Yahoo admitted only in 2017. _{ToS;DR · Source}

• Yandex: in 2025 researchers found its Android apps, Yandex Search among them, secretly linked browsing to device IDs. _{ToS;DR · Source}

• Brave Search - Search engine with its own independent index, from the makers of Brave.

• DuckDuckGo - Search engine that doesn't build a profile on you, with results drawn largely from Bing.

• Marginalia - Independent search engine with its own crawler and index that favors text-heavy, non-commercial pages. _self-host

• Mojeek - UK search engine with its own crawler and index and a no-tracking policy.

• Qwant - French search engine, hosted in the EU, that doesn't track your searches.

• SearXNG - Metasearch engine that queries other search services for you; use a public instance or host your own. _{self-host · AGPL-3.0}

• YaCy - Peer-to-peer search engine where every user runs a node and shares the index.

Third-party

• Proton Mail - Email from Switzerland, end-to-end encrypted between Proton users and with PGP, and stored encrypted otherwise, where a court order can still force it to log your IP (2021 case). _GPL-3.0

Self-hosted

• Docker Mailserver - Complete mail server (SMTP, IMAP, antispam, antivirus) in a single Docker container, configured with files. _{self-host · MIT}

• Mail-in-a-box - Turns a fresh Ubuntu server into a complete mail server with one setup script. _{self-host · CC0-1.0}

• Mailcow: dockerized - Docker-based mail server suite with a web admin panel, webmail and groupware. _{self-host · GPL-3.0}

• Mox - Self-contained mail server in a single binary, built to need little maintenance. _{self-host · MIT}

Clients / Android / iOS

• FairEmail - Full-featured email app that blocks tracking images and keeps everything on your device. _{Android · GPL-3.0 · F-Droid}

• Thunderbird for Android - Mozilla's email app for Android, built on K-9 Mail, which still ships from the same code. _{Android · Apache-2.0 · F-Droid}

Clients / Desktop

• NeoMutt - Terminal email client with built-in PGP/GPG support, a maintained fork of Mutt. _{Linux · macOS · CLI · GPL-2.0}

Email Alias Services (Anonymous Forwarding) / Desktop

• addy.io - Email alias and forwarding service you can host yourself, formerly AnonAddy. _{self-host · AGPL-3.0}

• SimpleLogin - Email alias service you can host yourself, owned by Proton. _{self-host · AGPL-3.0}

Alternative clients/modifications of Discord / Desktop

• Aliucord (⭐4.9k) - Mod for the Android Discord app that disables Discord's tracking (⭐4.9k). _{Android · OSL-3.0}

• BetterDiscord - Discord client mod; add the DoNotTrack plugin to block trackers. _Apache-2.0

• Legcord - Lightweight Discord client that blocks Discord's known trackers by default, formerly ArmCord. _OSL-3.0

• OpenAsar - Drop-in replacement for part of the Discord desktop app, with a No Tracking (⭐3k) option that turns off crash and error reporting. _AGPL-3.0

• Replugged - Discord client mod that continues the discontinued Powercord. _MIT

• Vencord - Discord client mod with plugins, including one that blocks Discord's tracking. _GPL-3.0

• Vesktop - Desktop Discord client with Vencord built in, which blocks Discord's telemetry. _GPL-3.0

• WebCord (⭐2.5k) - Discord client that loads the web app in Electron instead of using the Discord API, with extra privacy settings. _MIT

Blogging platforms (Medium) / Desktop

• Medium: the site carries trackers, under a poorly rated privacy policy. _ToS;DR

• Plume - Federated blogging engine where readers can follow and comment from any ActivityPub account. 💀 inactive _ActivityPub

• WriteFreely - Minimal, distraction-free blogging platform that can federate posts over ActivityPub. _{ActivityPub · AGPL-3.0}

YouTube / Desktop

• YouTube: Google paid a record $170 million in 2019 for collecting children's data on YouTube without parental consent. _{ToS;DR · Source}

• PeerTube - Federated video hosting where anyone can run an instance and follow channels across others. _{ActivityPub · AGPL-3.0}

YouTube / Frontends

• Invidious - YouTube frontend with no ads or Google scripts and subscriptions without an account; see the public instances. _AGPL-3.0

• youtube-local (⭐779) - YouTube client that runs on your computer and opens in the browser, with local subscriptions and optional routing through Tor. _{Desktop · AGPL-3.0}

YouTube / Apps

• FreeTube - Desktop YouTube app that keeps subscriptions, playlists and history on your computer, without Google's cookies or scripts. _{Desktop · AGPL-3.0}

• LibreTube - Android YouTube app that fetches videos through Piped instead of Google's servers. _{Android · GPL-3.0 · F-Droid}

• NewPipe - Lightweight Android YouTube app with background play and downloads, no Google services or account needed. _{Android · GPL-3.0 · F-Droid}

• SkyTube (⭐2.8k) - Android YouTube app with local subscriptions, downloads and a channel and video blocker. _{Android · GPL-3.0 · F-Droid}

• Yattee (⭐3.8k) - Native YouTube player for iPhone, iPad, Apple TV and Mac that works through Invidious or Piped. _{iOS · macOS · AGPL-3.0}

Twitter / Apps

• Twitter (X): paid $150 million in 2022 for using phone numbers given for account security to target ads. _{ToS;DR · Source}

Twitter / Decentralized

• Mastodon - Federated microblogging, the largest network in the fediverse. _{ActivityPub · AGPL-3.0 · F-Droid}
  • Mastodon Apps - Official directory of Mastodon apps for Android, iOS, web and desktop.

• Pleroma - Lightweight federated social network server. _ActivityPub
  • Soapbox - Web frontend for Pleroma focused on custom branding and ease of use.

Twitter / Frontends

• Nitter (⭐14k) - Twitter frontend without JavaScript or ads that proxies every request; see the instances list (⭐14k). 💀 inactive _AGPL-3.0

• Squawker (⭐1.5k) - Android Twitter client with no account, tracking or ads, keeping subscriptions on the device; the maintained fork of Fritter. _{Android · MIT · F-Droid}

Reddit / Frontends

• Reddit: sold Google the right to train AI on users' posts in a 2024 deal valued at about $60 million. _{ToS;DR · Source}

Reddit / Alternatives

• Lemmy - Federated link aggregator and discussion forum, organized into communities like subreddits. _{ActivityPub · AGPL-3.0}

• Mbin - Federated link aggregator with microblogging, the community-run continuation of kbin. _{ActivityPub · AGPL-3.0}

Streaming Platforms (Twitch) / Apps and frontends

• Twitch: a 2021 breach leaked 125GB of its data, including source code and three years of creator payouts. _{ToS;DR · Source}

• Owncast - Self-hosted live streaming server with built-in chat, so you own the stream and your viewers' data. _{self-host · MIT}

Streaming Platforms (Twitch) / Apps

• Twire (⭐1.3k) - Android Twitch client with built-in ad blocking, VODs with chat replay, and optional login. _{Android · GPL-3.0 · F-Droid}

Imgur / Apps

• Imgur: a 2014 hack stole about 1.7 million email addresses and passwords, which it only learned of in 2017. _{ToS;DR · Exodus · Source}

• rimgo - Read-only Imgur frontend that works without JavaScript; see the instances.

IMDb / Apps

• IMDb: owned by Amazon, with 8 trackers in its Android app. _{ToS;DR · Exodus}

• libremdb (⭐441) - IMDb frontend without ads or tracking that proxies images and video through the instance. _{self-host · AGPL-3.0}

Fandom / Apps

• Fandom: wikis loaded with ads and autoplaying video, and 8 trackers in the app. _{ToS;DR · Exodus}

Commenting Engines / Apps

• Disqus: tracked visitors across sites for ad profiling without consent, Norway's regulator said in 2021. _{ToS;DR · Source}

• Isso - Lightweight self-hosted comment server, meant as a drop-in replacement for Disqus. _{self-host · MIT}

Translation / Apps

• DeepL: the free version may train on your texts, and its terms forbid entering any personal data. _{ToS;DR · Source}

Text translation / Apps

• LibreTranslate - Self-hosted machine translation API and web app with no ties to proprietary services. _{self-host · AGPL-3.0}

Alternative Google Translate frontends / Apps

• Mozhi - Frontend that proxies Google Translate, DeepL, Yandex and other engines behind one interface. _self-host

• SimplyTranslate - Frontend that proxies your requests to Google Translate and other engines. _self-host

RSS Readers / Apps

• Capy Reader (⭐1.4k) - Small RSS reader, local or synced with Miniflux and FreshRSS. _{Android · GPL-3.0 · F-Droid (Play Store version has trackers)}

• Feeder (⭐3.1k) - RSS reader that fetches feeds directly on your device, with no account. _{Android · GPL-3.0}

• Fluent Reader (⭐9.8k) - Desktop RSS reader that keeps your feeds locally, with optional sync to self-hosted services. _{Linux · Windows · macOS · BSD-3-Clause}

• FreshRSS - Self-hosted feed aggregator with a web interface, multi-user support and an API for mobile apps. _{self-host · AGPL-3.0}

• Miniflux - Minimalist self-hosted feed reader with no tracking, written in Go. _{self-host · Apache-2.0}

• NetNewsWire - RSS reader for Mac, iPhone and iPad that works locally or syncs with self-hosted services. _{macOS · iOS · MIT}

• Newsboat - RSS reader for the terminal, configured with plain text files. _{Linux · macOS · CLI · MIT}

• NewsFlash - RSS reader for Linux that works locally or with self-hosted services such as Miniflux and FreshRSS. _{Linux · GPL-3.0}

• Read You (⭐7.6k) - Material You RSS reader, local or synced with self-hosted services. _{Android · GPL-3.0}

VPNs / Apps

• SPN - Paid add-on to the Portmaster firewall that routes each app's connections over separate multi-hop paths. _{Linux · Windows · GPL-3.0}

Web Browser / Apps

• Opera: 6 trackers in its Android app, and owned by a Chinese consortium since 2016. _{Exodus · Source}

Android / iOS / Apps

• Cromite (⭐8.5k) - Chromium fork, successor to Bromite, with built-in ad blocking and anti-fingerprinting measures. _{Android · Linux · Windows · GPL-3.0}

• Firefox - Mozilla's browser, with its own engine on Android and Enhanced Tracking Protection on by default. ⚠️ website trackers ⚠️ telemetry opt-out
  • IronFox - Hardened Firefox for Android with proprietary blobs removed, a fork of the discontinued Mull. _Android

• Privacy Browser - Browser that keeps JavaScript, cookies and other tracking features off until you allow them per site. _Android

• Vanadium - Hardened Chromium from the GrapheneOS project, and the default browser on GrapheneOS. _Android

Browser Addons / Anti-tracking

• LibRedirect - Redirects YouTube, Reddit, Google Maps and other sites to privacy-friendly front ends, successor to Privacy Redirect. _{Browser · GPL-3.0}
  • Predirect (⭐279) - Similar extension built on Manifest V3 with minimal permissions, for Chromium browsers that no longer run older extensions. _{Browser · GPL-3.0}

Browser Addons / Useful Tools

• SingleFile (⭐23k) - Saves a complete web page as a single HTML file you can open offline. _{Browser · AGPL-3.0}

Domains & Hosting / Useful Tools

• OrangeWebsite - Icelandic web host focused on free speech, with anonymous signup and cryptocurrency or cash payment. ⚠️ website trackers

Link Shorteners / Useful Tools

• Bitly: built to track every click for marketing analytics. _ToS;DR

• Kutt - Shortener with custom domains and password-protected links that you can host yourself. _{self-host · MIT}

• YOURLS - Self-hosted shortener written in PHP, with its own click stats and a plugin system. _{self-host · MIT}

Captchas / Useful Tools

• hCaptcha: its privacy policy says it supplies the answers visitors give to its puzzles as AI training data. _{ToS;DR · Source}

• ALTCHA - Self-hosted proof-of-work captcha with no cookies or tracking. _{self-host · MIT}

• mCaptcha - Proof-of-work captcha that rate-limits bots by making each request cost some computation. _{self-host · AGPL-3.0}

• Private Captcha - EU-made proof-of-work captcha, as a hosted service or on your own server. ⚠️ source-available _self-host

2FA / Useful Tools

• Authy: needs your phone number, and a 2024 leak exposed 33 million of them. _Source

• Microsoft Authenticator: 5 trackers in its Android app, and no way to export your tokens to another app. _Exodus

• 2FAS Auth - Authenticator whose browser extension asks your phone for a code and fills it in, no account needed. _GPL-3.0

• Aegis - Encrypted token vault that imports from most other authenticators and exports in plain or encrypted form. _{Android · GPL-3.0 · F-Droid}

• ente Auth - Authenticator with end-to-end encrypted sync between your devices, from the makers of ente Photos. ⚠️ website trackers _AGPL-3.0

• FreeOTPPlus (⭐750) - Fork of FreeOTP with backups, search and dark mode. _{Android · Apache-2.0 · F-Droid}

• Stratum (⭐4.6k) - Authenticator with Wear OS support and encrypted backups. _{Android · GPL-3.0}

Password Managers / Useful Tools

• KeePassXC - Offline password manager that keeps your vault in an encrypted file you control, with no account or sync service. _{Linux · macOS · Windows}
  • KeePassDX - KeePass-compatible password manager for Android. _{Android · GPL-3.0 · F-Droid}
  • Strongbox - KeePass-compatible password manager for iPhone, iPad and Mac. _{iOS · macOS · AGPL-3.0}

Encryption / Useful Tools

• age - Simple, modern file encryption with small keys and nothing to configure. _{CLI · BSD-3-Clause}

• Cryptomator - Encrypts files on your device before they reach any cloud storage provider. _{GPL-3.0 · F-Droid}

• Shufflecake - Hidden encrypted volumes for Linux with plausible deniability, so nobody can prove the hidden data exists. _Linux

• Stegcloak - Hides password-protected secrets inside ordinary text using invisible characters. ⚠️ website trackers 💀 inactive

• Tomb - Creates and manages encrypted folders on Linux, built on standard LUKS. _{Linux · CLI · GPL-3.0}

• VeraCrypt - Encrypts whole disks, partitions or file containers, with support for hidden volumes. _{Linux · macOS · Windows}

Pastebin and Secret Sharing / Useful Tools

• Deleto - Shares passwords and other secrets with client-side encryption and automatic self-destruction.

Android / Useful Tools

• NetGuard - Blocks internet access per app, no root needed. _{Android · GPL-3.0 · F-Droid}

• Orbot - Routes app traffic through Tor, for all apps or only the ones you choose. Made by the Guardian Project. _Android

• Plexus - Community database of which apps work on de-Googled Android. _{Android · F-Droid}

• RethinkDNS + Firewall (⭐5.8k) - Firewall and encrypted DNS client in one, no root needed. _{Android · Apache-2.0 · F-Droid (Play Store version has trackers)}

• εxodus - Shows which trackers and permissions an Android app contains, before you install it. _AGPL-3.0
  • ClassyShark3xodus - Checks the apps on your phone for known trackers, using the εxodus database. _{Android · F-Droid}

Cloud Storage / Useful Tools

• Dropbox: a 2012 breach exposed 68 million users' emails and passwords, which Dropbox only confirmed in 2016. _{ToS;DR · Exodus · Source}

• Sync-in - Self-hosted file storage, sharing and sync with WebDAV, desktop clients and online document editing. _{self-host · AGPL-3.0}

File Management and Sharing / Useful Tools

• WeTransfer: in 2025 it changed its terms to license your uploaded files for machine learning, then backed down. _{ToS;DR · Source}

• Blaze - Peer-to-peer file sharing in the browser, between two or more devices at once. ⚠️ website trackers 💀 inactive _MIT

• Croc (⭐41k) - Sends files between two computers with end-to-end encryption, using a short code phrase. _{CLI · MIT}

• Gokapi (⭐2.9k) - Lightweight self-hosted alternative to Firefox Send, where only you can upload and links expire. _{self-host · AGPL-3.0}

• Localsend - Shares files with nearby devices over your local network, with no internet connection or account needed. _{Apache-2.0 · F-Droid}

• Lufi - File sharing server that encrypts uploads in your browser, so the server never sees the contents. _self-host

• Magic Wormhole (⭐23k) - Sends files from one computer to another with end-to-end encryption, using a short one-time code. _{CLI · MIT}

• OnionShare (⭐7.2k) - Shares files, hosts websites and runs chat rooms over Tor onion services, anonymously and without a third-party server.

• PairDrop (⭐12k) - Snapdrop fork that shares files in the browser on your local network, and with paired devices beyond it. _{fork · GPL-3.0}

• Paperless-ngx (⭐47k) - Self-hosted document manager that scans, indexes and archives your paperwork on your own server. _{self-host · GPL-3.0}

• QRcp (⭐11k) - Transfers files over Wi-Fi from your computer to your phone by scanning a QR code in the terminal. _{CLI · MIT}

• scrt.link - End-to-end encrypted file transfer of up to 100 GB, stored in Switzerland for up to 30 days. _MIT

• Send - Fork of Firefox Send that encrypts files in the browser and expires links after a set time or number of downloads. _{self-host · fork}

• Snapdrop - Local file sharing in the browser, inspired by Apple's AirDrop. _{self-host · GPL-3.0}

• Winden - Magic Wormhole in the browser, for end-to-end encrypted transfers without installing anything. _MIT

Download Manager / Useful Tools

• Motrix - Full-featured download manager for HTTP, FTP, BitTorrent and magnet links. _Desktop

• Persepolis Download Manager - Graphical front end for aria2 with download scheduling and video grabbing. _{Desktop · GPL-3.0}

• Xtreme Download Manager - Download accelerator that resumes broken downloads and saves streaming video from many sites. ⚠️ website trackers _{Desktop · GPL-3.0}

Bookmarking / Useful Tools

• Evernote Web Clipper: in 2016 Evernote changed its policy to let staff read users' notes, until users pushed back. _{ToS;DR · Source}

• Karakeep - Self-hosted app for saving links, notes and images, with full-text search and optional AI tagging, formerly Hoarder. _{self-host · AGPL-3.0}

Notes and Tasks / Useful Tools

• Notion: no end-to-end encryption, so Notion can read everything in your workspace. _ToS;DR

• Lockbook - End-to-end encrypted notebook for notes, documents and drawings, as an Evernote alternative. _Unlicense

• OpenHabitTracker - Habit, task and note tracker that keeps your data on the device, or syncs to a server you run yourself. ⚠️ website trackers

• Super Productivity - To-do list and time tracker that keeps data local with no account, with optional sync over WebDAV or Dropbox. _MIT

• Tasks.org - To-do and task manager that works offline, with CalDAV sync. ⚠️ website trackers _{Android · GPL-3.0 · F-Droid (Play Store version has trackers)}

Office / Useful Tools

• Collabora Office - LibreOffice-based office suite for desktop and mobile, from the team behind Collabora Online.

• CryptPad - Collaborative documents, spreadsheets and more, end-to-end encrypted so the server can't read them. _{self-host · AGPL-3.0}

PDF Tools / Useful Tools

• iLovePDF: uploads your documents to its servers, and the Android app has 7 trackers. _{ToS;DR · Exodus}

• Smallpdf: uploads your documents to its servers, and the Android app has 3 trackers. _{ToS;DR · Exodus}

• BentoPDF - Browser-based PDF toolkit to merge, split, compress, sign and redact, with files processed on your device. _{Web · self-host · AGPL-3.0}

Calendar / Useful Tools

• Etar (⭐2.6k) - Calendar app that works with any CalDAV server through a sync adapter. _{Android · GPL-3.0 · F-Droid}

• Fossify Calendar (⭐2.3k) - Offline calendar with widgets and no ads, which can also sync with your device's CalDAV accounts. _{Android · GPL-3.0 · F-Droid}

• KashCal (⭐468) - Offline-first calendar with built-in iCloud and CalDAV sync, full-text search and widgets. _{Android · F-Droid}

• Nextcloud Calendar - Calendar app for your Nextcloud server, with CalDAV sync to your other devices. _{self-host · AGPL-3.0}

• Proton Calendar - End-to-end encrypted calendar from the makers of Proton Mail.

Media Streaming Platforms / Useful Tools

• Netflix: in 2024 Dutch regulators fined Netflix €4.75 million for not telling users what it does with their data. _{ToS;DR · Source}

• Amazon Prime Video: 3 trackers in its Android app, under a poorly rated privacy policy. _{ToS;DR · Exodus}

• Disney Plus: in 2026 Disney paid California $2.75 million for sharing streaming viewers' data after they had opted out. _{ToS;DR · Source}

• SoundCloud: a 2025 breach exposed the email addresses of about 28 million users, a fifth of its community. _{ToS;DR · Exodus · Source}

Podcasts / Deezer alternative clients

• Spotify: in 2023 Sweden fined Spotify 58 million kronor for not clearly explaining how it uses your data. _{ToS;DR · Exodus · Source}

• Funkwhale - Federated platform for hosting, sharing and listening to podcasts and music. _{self-host · ActivityPub}

• iVoox: 13 trackers in its Android app, and more on its website. _Exodus

• Deezer: a partner leaked a 2019 backup of 229 million users' names, birth dates, IPs and locations, published in 2022. _{Exodus · Source}

• AntennaPod - Podcast player that subscribes to any RSS feed, with no account needed. _{Android · GPL-3.0 · F-Droid}

Audio / Useful Tools

• Ampache - Web-based server for streaming your own music and video collection. _{self-host · AGPL-3.0}

• Koel - Personal music streaming server with a web player. _{self-host · MIT}

• mucke (⭐268) - Player for local music files with custom playback rules. _{Android · GPL-3.0 · F-Droid}

• Navidrome - Lightweight music server for your own collection, compatible with Subsonic apps. ⚠️ website trackers _{self-host · GPL-3.0}

• Nuclear - Desktop music player that streams from free sources, with no account. _{Linux · macOS · Windows · AGPL-3.0}

Audio / Spotify alternative clients

• ncspot (⭐6.8k) - Terminal Spotify client written in Rust, inspired by ncmpc. Needs Spotify Premium. _{CLI · BSD-2-Clause}

• psst (⭐9.5k) - Fast Spotify client with a native GUI written in Rust. Needs Spotify Premium. _{Linux · macOS · Windows · MIT}

• Spotube - Plugin-based music player that can load your Spotify playlists and stream the audio from other sources, no Premium needed. _AGPL-3.0

Audio / YouTube Music alternative clients

• SimpMusic - YouTube Music client with no ads and SponsorBlock built in, successor to the discontinued ViMusic and RiMusic. ⚠️ website trackers _{Android · Desktop · GPL-3.0 · F-Droid}

Home Assistants / Other OS

• Alexa: the FTC fined Amazon $25 million in 2023 for keeping children's Alexa voice recordings indefinitely. _{ToS;DR · Source}

• OpenVoiceOS - Voice assistant you run on your own hardware, a community successor to Mycroft. _Apache-2.0

Music Recognition / Deezer alternative clients

• Shazam: owned by Apple, and its Android app carries Google's analytics trackers. _Exodus

• SoundHound: 11 trackers in its Android app. _Exodus

• Musixmatch: 8 trackers in its Android app. _Exodus

Android Gallery / Plugins for Minecraft

• Amazon Photos: its privacy notice says Amazon uses the images you store with it to improve its services. _Source

• Fossify Gallery - Photo and video gallery with no ads, a fork of Simple Gallery. _{Android · GPL-3.0 · F-Droid}

Self-hosted / Deezer alternative clients

• Immich - Self-hosted photo and video backup straight from your phone, the closest match to Google Photos. _{self-host · AGPL-3.0 · F-Droid}

• PhotoPrism - Self-hosted photo library with automatic tagging and face recognition that runs on your own server. _self-host

• PiGallery2 - Self-hosted, directory-first photo gallery website. _{self-host · MIT}

Third-party / Deezer alternative clients

• Cryptee - Encrypted storage for your photos, documents and notes, based in Estonia.

Desktop / Deezer alternative clients

• digiKam - Photo manager for large collections, with tagging, face recognition and editing, all on your own files. _{Linux · macOS · Windows}

Photo Editing and Management / Deezer alternative clients

• VSCO: 14 trackers in its Android app, under a very poorly rated privacy policy. _{ToS;DR · Exodus}

Video Editing / Deezer alternative clients

• Kdenlive - Non-linear video editor from KDE. _{Linux · macOS · Windows · GPL-3.0}

• OpenCut - CapCut alternative, still in beta. _MIT

InDesign / Deezer alternative clients

• Scribus (⭐652) - Desktop publishing app for print-ready layouts, typesetting and interactive PDFs. _{Linux · macOS · Windows}

Photoshop / Illustrator / Deezer alternative clients

• Excalidraw - Virtual whiteboard for hand-drawn style sketches and diagrams, with end-to-end encrypted collaboration. _{Web · MIT}

• LibreSprite - Sprite editor and pixel-art animation tool, forked from Aseprite before its license change. _{Linux · macOS · Windows · GPL-2.0}

Maya / 3ds Max / Cinema 4D / Deezer alternative clients

• Blender - 3D creation suite for modelling, sculpting, animation, rendering and video editing, developed in the open by the Blender Foundation. _{Linux · macOS · Windows}

Creator Tools / Deezer alternative clients

• VDO.Ninja - Brings remote cameras and guests into OBS or other studio software over peer-to-peer WebRTC. _{Web · AGPL-3.0}
  • Social Stream Ninja - Gathers live chat from many streaming platforms into one feed and overlay. _GPL-3.0

Minecraft / Plugins for Minecraft

• No Chat Reports (⭐1k) - Mod that strips the signatures from your chat messages, so they can't be tied to your Microsoft account or reported. _WTFPL

• No Telemetry (⭐265) - Mod that turns off the telemetry added in Minecraft 1.18 (snapshot 21w38a). _MPL-2.0

• Prism Launcher - Launcher for managing multiple instances and mods without the official launcher. _{Linux · macOS · Windows · GPL-3.0}

Unity / Unreal Engine / Plugins for Minecraft

• Godot Engine - 2D and 3D game engine with no account, royalties or telemetry. _MIT

Ebooks / Plugins for Minecraft

• Kavita - Self-hosted digital library for ebooks and comics with a built-in web reader. ⚠️ website trackers _{self-host · GPL-3.0}

• Komga - Self-hosted server for comics, magazines and ebooks with a web reader and OPDS support. _{self-host · MIT}

Android App Store / Plugins for Minecraft

• Accrescent - App store that pins each app's signing key on first install and signs its repository metadata, still in alpha. _{Android · Apache-2.0}

• F-Droid - Catalogue of open source Android apps, built from source and labelled when they contain trackers or ads. _Android
  • Droid-ify - F-Droid client with a clean interface that can browse any F-Droid repository. _{Android · GPL-3.0 · F-Droid}

• Obtainium - Installs and updates apps straight from their release pages, such as GitHub or GitLab, and tells you about new versions. _{Android · GPL-3.0 · F-Droid}

Alternative Google Play Store clients / Plugins for Minecraft

• Aurora Store - Google Play client that can download apps anonymously, without a Google account. ⚠️ website trackers _Android

Android Debloat Tools / Plugins for Minecraft

• Universal Android Debloater Next Generation (⭐9.7k) - Desktop app that removes preinstalled bloatware from Android phones over ADB, no root needed. _{Desktop · GPL-3.0}

Android Dialer / Plugins for Minecraft

• Fossify Phone - Phone app with a phonebook, number blocking and multi-SIM support, part of the Fossify fork of Simple Mobile Tools. _{Android · GPL-3.0 · F-Droid}

Android File Manager / Plugins for Minecraft

• Amaze File Manager (⭐6.5k) - Material Design file manager with root access and a built-in FTP server. _{Android · GPL-3.0 · F-Droid}

• Fossify File Manager - File manager with no ads or tracking that works without internet access. _{Android · GPL-3.0 · F-Droid}

• Ghost Commander - Dual-panel file manager. _{Android · F-Droid}

• Material Files (⭐9.4k) - Material Design file manager with root, archive, FTP, SFTP, SMB and WebDAV support. _{Android · GPL-3.0 · F-Droid}

Android Keyboard / Plugins for Minecraft

• SwiftKey: a 2016 sync bug showed users strangers' email addresses and phone numbers as text predictions. _{Exodus · Source}

• AnySoftKeyboard - Keyboard with more than 50 languages through add-on packs, plus themes. _{Android · Apache-2.0}

• FlorisBoard - Customizable keyboard with themes and add-ons, still in beta. _{Android · Apache-2.0 · F-Droid}

• FUTO Keyboard - Keyboard that works fully offline, including voice input, swipe typing and autocorrect. ⚠️ source-available _Android

• HeliBoard (⭐6.5k) - Maintained fork of OpenBoard with glide typing, custom dictionaries and themes, and no internet permission. _{Android · GPL-3.0 · F-Droid}

• Indic Keyboard - Keyboard for typing in Indic languages alongside English. _{Android · F-Droid}

• Simple Keyboard (⭐1.6k) - Minimal keyboard under 1 MB whose only permission is vibrate. _{Android · Apache-2.0 · F-Droid}

Android Launcher / Plugins for Minecraft

• Bliss Launcher - Default launcher of /e/OS, with app folders and notification badges on icons. _Android

• KISS - Search-first launcher that finds apps, contacts and settings as you type. _{Android · GPL-3.0 · F-Droid}

• Kvaesitso - Search-focused launcher that finds apps, contacts, files and more from one search bar. _{Android · GPL-3.0}

• Lawnchair - Launcher in the style of the Pixel Launcher, with more customization. _Android

• Olauncher (⭐3.9k) - Minimal text-only launcher with no ads, meant to cut your screen time. _{Android · GPL-3.0 · F-Droid}

• Pie Launcher (⭐574) - Launcher that opens apps from a pie menu instead of a grid of icons. _{Android · MIT · F-Droid}

Android SMS / Plugins for Minecraft

• Fossify Messages - SMS and MMS app with no ads that works without internet access, a fork of Simple SMS Messenger. _{Android · GPL-3.0}

Android / Android-Based

• /e/OS - Degoogled Android from Murena that bundles microG and optional Murena cloud services.

• iodéOS - Degoogled Android with a built-in firewall that blocks ads and trackers across apps.

Android / Based on Linux

• Mobian - Debian packaged for mobile devices such as the PinePhone and Librem 5.

• Plasma Mobile - KDE's Plasma desktop adapted for phones, offered by distributions such as Nura.

• Ubuntu Touch - Mobile version of Ubuntu, maintained by the UBports community.

Smart TV / Based on Linux

• LibreELEC - Minimal Linux system that boots straight into Kodi on Raspberry Pi, x86 and other devices.

PC / MacOS / GNU/Linux

• Mint (Cinnamon) - Beginner-friendly distribution based on Ubuntu, with a desktop that feels familiar to Windows users.

• Qubes OS - Runs each part of your digital life in its own isolated virtual machine, so one compromise doesn't spread.

Developer Tools / Other OS

• CrowdSec - Collaborative intrusion prevention for servers, like fail2ban with crowd-sourced blocklists. ⚠️ website trackers _MIT

• Hetty - HTTP toolkit for security research, as an alternative to Burp Suite Pro. _MIT

Version Control / Other OS

• GitHub: owned by Microsoft, and public code hosted there was used to train Copilot. _ToS;DR

• Gitea - Lightweight self-hosted Git forge, and the project Forgejo was forked from. ⚠️ website trackers _{self-host · MIT}

Remote Access and Control / Other OS

• Aspia - Remote desktop and file transfer with a router you can host yourself, so connections don't depend on a vendor. _{self-host · GPL-3.0}

• UltraVNC - VNC server and viewer for Windows, with file transfer and optional encryption plugins. ⚠️ website trackers _{Windows · GPL-3.0}

ChatGPT / Other OS

• Jan - Desktop chat app that runs open models offline, with optional connections to cloud providers.

• LibreChat - Self-hosted chat interface that puts many AI providers and local models behind one UI you control. _{self-host · MIT}

• LocalAI - Self-hosted OpenAI-compatible API that runs language, image and voice models on your own hardware. _{self-host · MIT}

• ollama - Runs open models locally with one command; its optional cloud models can be switched off entirely. _MIT

• PasteGuard - Proxy that masks personal data and secrets before your prompts reach a cloud AI provider, then restores them in the reply. _{self-host · Apache-2.0}

AI Coding / Other OS

• OpenCode - Coding agent that connects to local models or any of more than 75 model providers. _MIT

• Tabby - Self-hosted code completion server that runs on your own hardware, an alternative to GitHub Copilot. ⚠️ telemetry opt-out ⚠️ website trackers _self-host

Text to Speech / Other OS

• eSpeak NG (⭐7k) - Compact offline speech synthesizer for more than a hundred languages, robotic-sounding but very light. _{GPL-3.0 · F-Droid}

Speech to Text / Models

• FunASR (⭐21k) - Local speech recognition toolkit with voice detection, punctuation and speaker labels; it downloads models from ModelScope by default. _MIT

• Moonshine - Speech recognition models built for fast, low-latency transcription on the device itself.

• OpenAI Whisper (⭐112k) - Speech recognition model you can run offline to transcribe many languages and translate them into English. _MIT
  • faster-whisper (⭐26k) - Whisper reimplemented on CTranslate2, up to four times faster with less memory. _MIT
  • whisper.cpp (⭐55k) - C/C++ port of Whisper that runs efficiently on ordinary CPUs and GPUs. _MIT

• Parakeet TDT - NVIDIA speech recognition model that transcribes quickly and accurately on your own hardware.

Speech to Text / Apps and services

• FUTO Voice Input - Voice input for Android that works with other keyboards and runs entirely on the device. ⚠️ source-available _Android

• Minutes - Records and transcribes meetings and voice memos on your device, with search over the history for local AI tools.

• OpenWhispr - Desktop dictation app that can transcribe fully offline with local models, with cloud processing as an option. ⚠️ website trackers _{Linux · macOS · Windows · MIT}

• Sasayaki - Tiny dictation app that types what you say using any OpenAI-compatible speech server, including your own. _Android

• Speaches - Self-hosted OpenAI-compatible server for streaming transcription, translation and speech generation. _MIT

• Vocalinux - Voice dictation for Linux that types into any app, with speech recognition running on your computer. ⚠️ website trackers _{Linux · AGPL-3.0}

Image Generation / Apps and services

• ComfyUI - Node-based interface for building image and video generation pipelines that run on your own machine. ⚠️ website trackers _GPL-3.0

Automation / Apps and services

• IFTTT: your workflows run on its servers, holding tokens to all your connected accounts. _ToS;DR

• Zapier: in 2025 an intruder got into its code repositories, where some customer data had been copied. _{ToS;DR · Source}

Payments / Apps and services

• PayPal: fined $2 million by New York in 2025 after a 2022 breach exposed 35,000 customers' Social Security numbers. _{ToS;DR · Source}

• Cash - Paying in person with notes and coins leaves no record linked to you.

Full Featured Financial Management / Apps and services

• Sure - Self-hosted personal finance app, a community fork of the archived Maybe (⭐54k). ⚠️ website trackers _{self-host · AGPL-3.0}

Budget Management / Apps and services

• My Expenses - Expense tracker with multiple accounts, budgets and optional sync through your own cloud storage. _{Android · GPL-3.0 · F-Droid (Play Store version has trackers)}

• ProExpense (⭐104) - Expense notebook for recording your daily spending on the phone. _{Android · GPL-3.0 · F-Droid (Play Store version has trackers)}

Shared Expenses / Apps and services

• Tricount: 8 trackers in its Android app, from Facebook, Google and Huawei among others. _Exodus

• Splitwise: Google and Amazon trackers in its Android app, under a poorly rated privacy policy. _{ToS;DR · Exodus}

• Spliit - Splitwise alternative for sharing expenses with friends and family, no account needed. _MIT

• SplitPro - Splitwise alternative for sharing expenses with friends, which you can self-host. _MIT

Portfolio trackers / Apps and services

• Ghostfolio - Wealth management app for tracking stocks, ETFs and crypto, which you can self-host. _AGPL-3.0

• Portfolio Performance - Desktop app that calculates the overall performance of your investment portfolio, with data kept in local files. _{Desktop · EPL-1.0}

• Rotki - Portfolio tracking, accounting and tax reporting for crypto and other assets, with your data stored locally. _AGPL-3.0

Fitness trackers / Apps and services

• FitoTrack - Workout tracker that records your GPS activities and keeps them on the device. _{Android · F-Droid}

• FitTrackee - Self-hosted Strava alternative for recording and analyzing outdoor activities from GPS files. _self-host

• Gadgetbridge - Use your smartwatch or fitness band without the vendor's app or cloud. _Android

• OpenTracks - Sport tracker that records your activities on the device and has no internet permission. _Android

• RunnerUp (⭐961) - Run and bike tracker that keeps activities on the device, with optional sync to services like Strava. _{Android · GPL-3.0}

Workout planners / Apps and services

• wger - Self-hosted manager for your workouts, exercises and nutrition. _{self-host · AGPL-3.0}

Food / Apps and services

• Open Food Facts - Collaborative database of food products, with ingredients, additives and nutrition data. _AGPL-3.0
  • OFF Apps - Mobile apps that scan a product's barcode and show its ingredients, additives and nutrition data. _{Android · iOS · Apache-2.0}

Menstrual cycle trackers / Apps and services

• Bluemoon - Period tracker that keeps your data on the device. _{Android · F-Droid}

• Drip - Menstrual cycle and fertility tracker that keeps everything you enter on your device. _{Android · iOS · F-Droid}

• Euki - Period and sexual health tracker built to keep your data on your phone. ⚠️ website trackers _{Android · iOS · GPL-3.0}

• Periodical - Calendar for tracking your period and estimating fertile days. _{Android · F-Droid}

• Poppy - Period tracker in the browser that stores data locally and can sync end-to-end encrypted through Nostr relays, no account needed.

Medical health / Apps and services

• MedTimer (⭐648) - Medication reminder that keeps all data on the device and has no internet permission. _{Android · MIT · F-Droid}

Dating Apps / Apps and services

• Tinder: a 2020 Norwegian Consumer Council study found it shared user data with at least 45 Match Group firms. _{ToS;DR · Exodus · Source}

• Grindr: fined NOK 65 million in Norway in 2021 for sharing users' data with advertisers without valid consent. _Source

• Badoo: settled for $40 million in 2024, with Bumble, over claims it scanned Illinois users' faces. _{Exodus · Source}

• Lovoo: in 2019 journalists used its Radar feature to locate users to within 30 to 50 meters. _{Exodus · Source}

Tracking / Apps and services

• Dawarich - Self-hosted alternative to Google Timeline for storing and browsing your location history. _{self-host · AGPL-3.0}

• Nextcloud PhoneTrack - Nextcloud app for your location history, fed by its Android app or other loggers (⭐183), which can cache positions offline and upload them in batches. _AGPL-3.0

Find My Device / Apps and services

• Find My Device - Locate and control your Android phone remotely over SMS, messengers or a self-hosted FMD Server. _Android

• GPSLogger - Lightweight GPS logger that saves your tracks to local files, with optional uploads to places you choose. _{Android · F-Droid}

Utilities / Apps and services

• Deskreen - Turns any device with a web browser into a second screen for your computer over the local network. ⚠️ website trackers _{Desktop · AGPL-3.0}

• JustDeleteMe - Directory of direct links for deleting your accounts from web services, rated by difficulty; sister project JustGetMyData (⭐169) covers getting your data out. _MIT

• OpenTabletDriver - User-mode driver for drawing tablets that replaces vendor drivers, some of which report every app you open. _{Desktop · LGPL-3.0}

Privacy vs Security vs Anonymity / Apps and services

• Privacy is control over your personal information: knowing what is collected about you, and deciding who can access it and how.

• Security is protection of your information from unauthorized access or theft, so attackers can't get at it.

• Anonymity means your actions can't be traced back to you. Someone may see what is done, but not who did it.

Legend / Apps and services

• 💀 inactive: development has stalled. It still works and has no maintained alternative, so check before relying on it.

• ⚠️ closed source: the code isn't public. Listed only because of a long, trusted record.

• ⚠️ source-available: the code is public, but the license isn't an open source one.

• ⚠️ website trackers: the project's website loads third-party trackers. That says nothing about the app itself.

• ⚠️ telemetry opt-out: the app sends usage data by default, but a setting turns it off.

Nov 03, 2026

Desktop / Useful Tools

• BusKill - USB dead man's switch that locks or wipes your computer when the cable is pulled away. _GPL-3.0

• dnscrypt-proxy (⭐14k) - Local DNS proxy with encrypted DNS and anonymized relays, so resolvers can't link your lookups to your IP. _ISC

• MAT2 (⭐387) - Removes metadata from images, documents, audio and many other file types. _{Linux · CLI · LGPL-3.0}

• Metadata Cleaner - Simple desktop app to view and remove file metadata, built on MAT2. _Linux

• Mobile Verification Toolkit (⭐16k) - Amnesty International's tool for checking Android and iOS devices for traces of spyware such as Pegasus. ⚠️ source-available _CLI

• OpenSnitch (⭐14k) - Application firewall that asks before any program connects to the internet. _{Linux · GPL-3.0}

Nov 02, 2026

Centralized

• Signal - Messenger with end-to-end encryption for everything by default, run by a nonprofit that keeps almost no user data. _AGPL-3.0

• Threema - Paid messenger from Switzerland that works without a phone number or email. _AGPL-3.0

Third-party

• Posteo - Ad-free email from Germany, funded only by its users, with optional encrypted storage and sign-up and payment that need no personal details.

Browser Addons / Anti-tracking

• uBlock Origin (⭐69k) - Light, efficient ad and tracker blocker, in full only on Firefox since Chrome dropped Manifest V2 extensions. _{Browser · GPL-3.0}

Cloud Storage / Useful Tools

• Filen - End-to-end encrypted cloud storage from Germany, with desktop, mobile and web clients you can inspect.

Other useful tools / Useful Tools

• git-annex - Manages and syncs large files with git without storing their contents in git, across drives and many cloud and offline backends.

Shazam alternative clients / Deezer alternative clients

• Audile (⭐1.4k) - Music recognition app that queries Shazam, AudD or ACRCloud and keeps your history on the device. _{Android · GPL-3.0}

Desktop / Deezer alternative clients

• qView (⭐3.7k) - Minimal, fast image viewer that shows just the image with no clutter. _{Linux · macOS · Windows · GPL-3.0}

Mario Kart / Deezer alternative clients

• Dr. Robotnik's Ring Racers - Technical kart racer built on the Sonic Robo Blast 2 engine, the sequel to SRB2Kart. _GPL-2.0

Minecraft / Deezer alternative clients

• Cubyz (⭐3.8k) - Voxel sandbox game with far view distances, 3D chunks and procedural crafting. _GPL-3.0

Android SMS / Plugins for Minecraft

• QUIK (⭐2.9k) - SMS and MMS app, a maintained fork of QKSMS. _{Android · GPL-3.0}

Android / Android-Based

• LineageOS for microG - LineageOS builds that ship microG instead of Google Play Services, with F-Droid included.

IDEs / Other OS

• GNU Emacs - Extensible, self-documenting editor from the GNU Project that you can shape into a full IDE.

Automation / Apps and services

• Huginn (⭐50k) - Self-hosted agents that watch websites, feeds and APIs and act for you, an alternative to IFTTT and Zapier. _{self-host · MIT}

Oct 01, 2026

Twitter / Decentralized

• Nostr - Open protocol where posts are signed with your own keys and spread across relays, so no single server controls your account.

Sep 30, 2026

Third-party

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

Email verification required, accepting monero / Desktop

• Onlinesim - Temporary virtual numbers for receiving verification codes. ⚠️ website trackers

Teamworking Tools / Desktop

• Stoat - Discord-like chat platform with servers and channels, which you can host yourself, formerly Revolt. _self-host

YouTube / Frontends

• ViewTube (⭐1.5k) - YouTube frontend without ads or tracking, with its own accounts, subscriptions and SponsorBlock. _AGPL-3.0

Commenting Engines / Apps

• Comentario - Small self-hosted comment engine that adds discussions to static pages. _{self-host · MIT}

• Disgus (⭐54) - Embeddable comments for your website, stored on Nostr instead of a company's servers. _GPL-2.0

• Giscus - Comments stored in GitHub Discussions, with no database, ads or tracking; readers need a GitHub account to post. _MIT

• Remark42 - Lightweight self-hosted comment engine that doesn't track your readers. _{self-host · MIT}

VPNs / Apps

• nadanada - Pay-per-use WireGuard VPN with no account, payable in Bitcoin, Monero and other cryptocurrencies, formerly LNVPN.

Desktop / Apps

• Firefox - Independent browser from Mozilla that needs some hardening for strong privacy. ⚠️ website trackers ⚠️ telemetry opt-out
  • LibreWolf - Firefox fork with telemetry removed, stricter defaults and uBlock Origin built in. _{Linux · macOS · Windows}

Domains & Hosting / Useful Tools

• 1984 Hosting - Icelandic hosting and domain registrar focused on civil liberties, with anonymous signup and Monero payment.

Analytics / Useful Tools

• Rybbit - Cookie-free web analytics, as a hosted service or on your own server. _AGPL-3.0

Routers / Useful Tools

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

• OpenWrt - Linux firmware that replaces the stock software on hundreds of consumer routers and keeps them updated.

• OPNsense - FreeBSD-based firewall and router for dedicated hardware or a spare PC. ⚠️ website trackers _BSD-2-Clause

Password Managers / Useful Tools

• AliasVault - End-to-end encrypted password manager with a built-in email alias server. _{self-host · AGPL-3.0}

Pastebin and Secret Sharing / Useful Tools

• crypt.fyi - Self-destructing secret sharing with end-to-end encryption, from the web, the command line or a browser extension.

Whistleblowing / Useful Tools

• GlobaLeaks - Whistleblowing platform for organisations, newsrooms and activists, reachable over Tor. _{self-host · AGPL-3.0}

• SecureDrop - Submission system that lets newsrooms receive documents from anonymous sources over Tor. _self-host

Notes and Tasks / Useful Tools

• AppFlowy - Notion alternative for docs, wikis and task boards that you can run locally or host yourself. ⚠️ website trackers _AGPL-3.0

• Standard Notes - End-to-end encrypted notes app that syncs across all your devices. _{AGPL-3.0 · F-Droid}

• Trilium Notes (⭐38k) - Hierarchical personal knowledge base you can sync through your own server, with optional encryption for individual notes. _{self-host · AGPL-3.0}

Bookmarking / Useful Tools

• 42links - Minimalist self-hosted bookmark storage. _self-host

• Floccus - Syncs your bookmarks across browsers and devices through your own Nextcloud, WebDAV or Git server. _{MPL-2.0 · F-Droid}

• Grimoire (⭐2.9k) - Self-hosted bookmark manager that extracts and keeps the readable content of what you save. _{self-host · MIT}

• LinkAce (⭐3.3k) - Self-hosted bookmark archive that monitors and organizes your saved links. _{self-host · GPL-3.0}

• LinkDing (⭐11k) - Minimal, fast self-hosted bookmark manager that is easy to run with Docker. _{self-host · MIT}

• Linkwarden - Self-hosted bookmark manager that saves and archives full copies of the pages you collect. _{self-host · AGPL-3.0}

• Readeck - Single-binary self-hosted read-it-later app that saves articles for offline reading. _self-host

• Shiori (⭐12k) - Self-hosted bookmark manager written in Go, usable from the command line or a web interface. _{self-host · MIT}

• Wallabag - Read-it-later server you can host yourself, or use through a paid hosted service. _{self-host · MIT · F-Droid}

Forms / Useful Tools

• TypeBot - Builder for conversational, chat-style forms that you can host yourself. ⚠️ source-available _self-host

Databases / Useful Tools

• Supabase - Postgres-based Firebase alternative with auth, storage and realtime APIs, though self-hosting (⭐114k) is limited (⭐114k). _{self-host · Apache-2.0}

Third-party / Deezer alternative clients

• Ente - End-to-end encrypted photo and video backup whose cryptography was independently audited. ⚠️ website trackers _{self-host · AGPL-3.0}

Creator Tools / Deezer alternative clients

• Screenity - Screen recorder and annotation tool for Chrome that keeps your videos on your device, with no sign-in. _{Browser · GPL-3.0}

Minecraft / Plugins for Minecraft

• FreedomChat (⭐232) - Server plugin that makes player chat unreportable while staying compatible with other plugins. _GPL-3.0

Ebooks / Plugins for Minecraft

• Calibre - Ebook manager with format conversion, metadata editing and a built-in reader, all offline. ⚠️ website trackers _{Linux · macOS · Windows · GPL-3.0}

Android / Based on Linux

• Nura - Alpine Linux tuned for phones and other devices, built to keep old hardware useful, formerly postmarketOS.

PC / MacOS / GNU/Linux

• Fedora - Community distribution sponsored by Red Hat, with recent software on a six-month release cycle.

• Kicksecure - Debian hardened by the Whonix developers, with security settings turned on by default.

• secureblue - Hardened images built on Fedora Atomic Desktops, with security-focused defaults and a hardened browser. _Apache-2.0

• Whonix - Runs inside virtual machines and forces every connection through Tor, so apps can't leak your real IP.

Home Assistants / Other OS

• Home Assistant - Home automation hub that runs on your own hardware and controls your devices locally, no cloud account needed. _Apache-2.0

Version Control / Other OS

• Radicle - Peer-to-peer code collaboration on Git, with repositories replicated across peers and no central server in control.

Jul 04, 2026

Decentralized

• DeltaChat - Messenger that runs over email, with end-to-end encryption and no phone number needed. _{GPL-3.0 · F-Droid}

• Jabber / XMPP (Protocol) - Long-standing open messaging standard with many servers and clients, and OMEMO for end-to-end encryption.
  • Conversations - XMPP client built for phones, with OMEMO encryption on by default. _{Android · F-Droid}
  • Dino - Desktop XMPP client with OMEMO and OpenPGP end-to-end encryption. _{Linux · GPL-3.0}
  • Gajim - Desktop XMPP client with OMEMO encryption. _{Linux · macOS · Windows · GPL-3.0}
  • Snikket - Self-hosted XMPP service you set up with one command, with matching apps for your family or group. _{self-host · Apache-2.0 · F-Droid}

• Matrix (Protocol) - Open standard for federated chat and calls, with end-to-end encryption between clients. _Apache-2.0
  • Cinny - Matrix client with a clean, minimal interface. _AGPL-3.0
  • Element - The flagship Matrix client, with end-to-end encryption on by default for private chats. ⚠️ website trackers _AGPL-3.0

• Session - Messenger that needs no phone number and routes messages through an onion network of community-run nodes. _{GPL-3.0 · F-Droid}

• SimpleX Chat - Messenger with no user IDs at all, so its servers can't see who talks to whom. _{AGPL-3.0 · F-Droid}

Self-hosted

• Stalwart - All-in-one mail and collaboration server in Rust covering SMTP, IMAP and JMAP, with two independent security audits. _self-host

Fandom / Apps

• BreezeWiki - Fandom frontend that strips ads, video and suggested content; also on several mirrors. _self-host

VPNs / Apps

• Amnezia VPN - VPN client that sets up a server on a VPS you rent, with protocols designed to get past censorship. _{self-host · GPL-3.0}

• Find more at kycnot.me (VPN Category) - Directory of VPN providers that don't ask for identity documents.

Desktop / Apps

• Floorp - Firefox fork with telemetry disabled and extensive layout customization. _{Linux · macOS · Windows · MPL-2.0}

• Zen Browser - Firefox-based browser with vertical tabs and workspaces, keeping Firefox's tracking protection on by default. _{Linux · macOS · Windows · MPL-2.0}

Browser Addons / Anti-tracking

• ClearURLs - Strips tracking parameters from links and URLs. _{Browser · LGPL-3.0}

• Privacy Badger - EFF extension that learns to block trackers by watching them follow you across sites. _Browser

Domains & Hosting / Useful Tools

• Find more at kycnot.me (VPS Category) - Directory of VPS and hosting providers that don't ask for identity documents.

Link Shorteners / Useful Tools

• Shlink - Self-hosted shortener that keeps its click statistics on your own server. _{self-host · MIT}

Office / Useful Tools

• Grist - Spreadsheet and database hybrid you can host yourself, as an Airtable alternative. ⚠️ website trackers _{self-host · Apache-2.0}

Databases / Useful Tools

• Baserow - Self-hosted no-code database and spreadsheet, as an Airtable alternative. ⚠️ website trackers _self-host

• TrailBase - Single-executable Firebase alternative built on Rust and SQLite, with REST and realtime APIs, auth and an admin UI. _{self-host · OSL-3.0}

Desktop / Deezer alternative clients

• RapidRAW (⭐11k) - Lightweight, GPU-accelerated non-destructive raw editor, a Lightroom alternative. _AGPL-3.0

• RawTherapee - Offline raw photo developer that pairs well with darktable as a Lightroom alternative. _{Linux · macOS · Windows · GPL-3.0}

Remote Access and Control / Other OS

• Apache Guacamole - Self-hosted gateway that gives you RDP, VNC and SSH access from a browser, with no client to install. _{self-host · Apache-2.0}

• Sunshine + Moonlight - Low-latency desktop and game streaming, with Sunshine on the host and Moonlight clients connecting to it. ⚠️ website trackers _{self-host · GPL-3.0}

ChatGPT / Other OS

• Open WebUI - Self-hosted ChatGPT-style web interface for Ollama and other local or OpenAI-compatible models. ⚠️ source-available ⚠️ website trackers _self-host

AI Coding / Other OS

• Aider - Terminal pair programmer that edits code in your local git repository with the model you choose. _{CLI · Apache-2.0}

Text to Speech / Other OS

• Chatterbox (⭐28k) - Text-to-speech model with voice cloning that runs entirely on your own machine. _MIT

• Piper (⭐6.1k) - Fast local neural text-to-speech that runs well even on a Raspberry Pi. _GPL-3.0

Image Generation / Apps and services

• SwarmUI (⭐4.7k) - Local web interface for Stable Diffusion and other image models, running on a ComfyUI backend. _MIT

Wallets / Apps and services

• Cake Wallet - Non-custodial wallet for Monero, Bitcoin and other coins. _MIT

• Feather Wallet - Lightweight Monero desktop wallet with built-in Tor and coin control. _{Desktop · BSD-3-Clause}

Payment Processors / Apps and services

• BTCPay Server - Self-hosted, non-custodial processor for accepting Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies without a middleman. _{self-host · MIT}

Where to use Monero and Bitcoin / Apps and services

• kycnot.me - Directory of exchanges, payment processors and other services that don't require identity verification (KYC). ⚠️ source-available

Budget Management / Apps and services

• Wallos - Self-hosted tracker for subscriptions and recurring expenses, with renewal reminders. _{self-host · GPL-3.0}

Mar 21, 2026

ChatGPT / Other OS

• llama.cpp (⭐133k) - C/C++ engine that runs open language models locally on ordinary CPUs and GPUs. _MIT

Mar 17, 2026

Google Fonts Replacements / Deezer alternative clients

• Bunny Fonts - Drop-in Google Fonts replacement from EU-based bunny.net, with a no-logging policy.

Oct 21, 2025

ChatGPT / Other OS

• Shimmy (⭐6k) - Rust inference server with an OpenAI-compatible API that runs GGUF models locally on your GPU. _Apache-2.0

• Tinfoil - Cloud AI chat and API that run models inside attested confidential-computing enclaves, so the operator can't read your prompts. _AGPL-3.0

Full Featured Financial Management / Apps and services

• ezBookkeeping - Lightweight self-hosted bookkeeping app with a mobile-friendly web interface. ⚠️ website trackers _{self-host · MIT}

Aug 26, 2025

Text translation / Apps

• Linguist - Browser extension for translating pages and selected text, with a built-in offline translator and custom translators. _{Browser · BSD-3-Clause}

Link Shorteners / Useful Tools

• tnyr.me - Shortener with passwordless end-to-end encryption, so the server can't see where links point. _MIT

AI Coding / Other OS

• Cline - Coding agent for your editor that works with your own API keys or local models. ⚠️ telemetry opt-out _Apache-2.0
  • Zoo Code - Community continuation of Roo Code, itself a Cline fork, after the Roo team archived it. _{fork · Apache-2.0}

Text to Speech / Other OS

• Kokoro FastAPI (⭐5.6k) - Self-hosted OpenAI-compatible server for the Kokoro-82M text-to-speech model, on CPU or GPU. _Apache-2.0

Image Generation / Apps and services

• InvokeAI (⭐29k) - Local image generation studio with a canvas for editing, inpainting and outpainting. _Apache-2.0

Jul 21, 2025

Office / Useful Tools

• Fileverse - End-to-end encrypted workspace and collaboration apps, as an alternative to Google Workspace.
  • dDocs - End-to-end encrypted, decentralized alternative to Google Docs. _AGPL-3.0
  • dSheets - Decentralized alternative to Excel and Google Sheets. _AGPL-3.0

Jul 04, 2025

Maps and Navigation / Apps and services

• CoMaps - Community-led fork of Organic Maps with offline maps and navigation. _{Android · iOS · fork · F-Droid}

Jun 17, 2025

Third-party / Deezer alternative clients

• Stingle Photos - End-to-end encrypted photo backup and sync for your phone. _{Android · iOS · GPL-3.0 · F-Droid}

May 13, 2025

Pastebin and Secret Sharing / Useful Tools

• scrt.link - Shares end-to-end encrypted secrets that disappear after they're read.

Jan 20, 2025

Full Featured Financial Management / Apps and services

• Actual - Envelope budgeting app that runs locally, with optional end-to-end encrypted sync through your own server. _{self-host · MIT}

• Firefly III - Self-hosted personal finance manager with budgets, rules and reports. _{self-host · AGPL-3.0}

Shared Expenses / Apps and services

• IHateMoney - Shared budget manager for groups and trips, hosted or self-hosted.
  • MoneyBuster - Android client for Nextcloud Cospend and IHateMoney. _{Android · F-Droid}

• Nextcloud Cospend - Nextcloud app for managing shared budgets, inspired by IHateMoney. _AGPL-3.0
  • MoneyBuster - Android client for Nextcloud Cospend and IHateMoney. _{Android · F-Droid}

Nov 20, 2024

Book and web annotations/highlights management / Useful Tools

• Blasta - Federated, collaborative bookmark manager built on XMPP PubSub.

Sep 05, 2024

Android / Android-Based

• CalyxOS - Degoogled Android with optional microG, for Pixel, Fairphone and Motorola phones.

• GrapheneOS - Hardened Android with optional sandboxed Google Play, for Google Pixel phones only.

• LineageOS - Community Android distribution that keeps a wide range of devices updated after their makers stop.

Jul 18, 2024

Desktop / Deezer alternative clients

• darktable - Raw developer and photo workflow app, a Lightroom alternative. _{Linux · macOS · Windows · GPL-3.0}

Jun 23, 2024

Wallets / Apps and services

• Sparrow Wallet - Bitcoin desktop wallet with coin control and support for connecting to your own node. _{Desktop · Apache-2.0}

• Wasabi Wallet - Non-custodial Bitcoin desktop wallet with built-in Tor and coinjoin support. _{Desktop · MIT}

Apr 27, 2024

Notes and Tasks / Useful Tools

• Quillpad - Markdown notes and task lists for Android, with optional Nextcloud sync, forked from Quillnote. _{Android · fork · GPL-3.0 · F-Droid}

Apr 15, 2024

Third-party

• Tuta - Email and calendar from Germany, end-to-end encrypted between Tuta users, that stores everything encrypted, subject lines included. _GPL-3.0

Apr 10, 2024

Reddit / Apps and frontends

• Redlib (⭐3.9k) - Reddit frontend without JavaScript that proxies all requests, media included; see the instances (⭐195). Formerly Libreddit. _AGPL-3.0

Apr 04, 2024

PC / MacOS / GNU/Linux

• Tails - Portable system that routes everything through Tor and forgets everything when you shut it down.

Mar 23, 2024

Version Control / Other OS

• Codeberg - Non-profit Git hosting for free software projects, run on Forgejo by a German association.

• Forgejo - Lightweight self-hosted Git forge developed by a community under the non-profit Codeberg e.V. _self-host

• GitLab - Full DevOps platform with Git hosting, CI and issue tracking that you can run on your own server. ⚠️ website trackers

Feb 16, 2024

Pastebin and Secret Sharing / Useful Tools

• NoPaste (⭐453) - Pastebin with no server storage at all; the text is compressed into the link you share. _MIT

Jan 22, 2024

Android Gallery / Plugins for Minecraft

• Aves (⭐5.5k) - Gallery and metadata explorer that can view, edit and remove photo metadata such as location. _{Android · BSD-3-Clause · F-Droid}

Jan 02, 2024

Minecraft / Deezer alternative clients

• Luanti - Voxel game engine and platform for Minecraft-like games and mods, formerly Minetest. _F-Droid
  • Mineclonia - Minecraft-like survival game for Luanti, a fork of MineClone2 focused on stability and multiplayer performance.

Oct 08, 2023

Other useful tools / Useful Tools

• Restic - Backup tool that encrypts and deduplicates snapshots before storing them locally or with a cloud provider. _{CLI · BSD-2-Clause}

Creator Tools / Deezer alternative clients

• OBS Studio - Video recording and live streaming studio that records everything locally. ⚠️ website trackers _{Linux · macOS · Windows · GPL-2.0}

Sep 28, 2023

Analytics / Useful Tools

• Ackee - Self-hosted website analytics with no cookies and no tracking of unique users. _{self-host · MIT}

• Aptabase - Analytics for mobile and desktop apps, built to collect no personal data. _AGPL-3.0

• Cabin - Lightweight web analytics with no cookies, IP logging or fingerprinting, plus a carbon footprint report.

• GoatCounter - Lightweight web analytics, as a hosted service or on your own server.

• Plausible - Lightweight, cookie-free web analytics, as a hosted service or on your own server. _AGPL-3.0

• Shynet (⭐3.2k) - Self-hosted web analytics that works without cookies or JavaScript. _Apache-2.0

• Umami - Lightweight, cookie-free web analytics, as a hosted service or on your own server. ⚠️ website trackers _MIT

Sep 27, 2023

Link in Bio Tools / Useful Tools

• LinkStack - Linktree alternative you host yourself. _{self-host · AGPL-3.0}

Aug 25, 2023

Notes and Tasks / Useful Tools

• Obsidian - Markdown notes kept as plain files on your device, with optional end-to-end encrypted sync. ⚠️ closed source

Aug 16, 2023

Photoshop / Illustrator / Deezer alternative clients

• Krita - Digital painting app built for artists. _GPL-3.0

Figma / Deezer alternative clients

• Penpot - Design and prototyping platform for product teams that you can host yourself. _{self-host · MPL-2.0}

Aug 05, 2023

Password Managers / Useful Tools

• Proton Pass - End-to-end encrypted password manager with built-in email aliases, from the makers of Proton Mail. _F-Droid

May 02, 2023

Desktop / Apps

• Mullvad Browser - Tor Browser's anti-fingerprinting without the Tor network, made by the Tor Project and Mullvad. _{Linux · macOS · Windows}

Mar 06, 2023

Cloud Storage / Useful Tools

• PrivateStorage - Client-side encrypted storage and folder sync with no account, paid for in a way that isn't linked to your files.

Feb 28, 2023

Password Managers / Useful Tools

• LessPass - Stateless password manager that computes each password from your master password, so there's nothing to store or sync. _{GPL-3.0 · F-Droid}

• Passbolt - Password manager built for teams, with end-to-end encrypted sharing. ⚠️ website trackers _{self-host · AGPL-3.0}

Jan 31, 2023

Desktop / Apps

• Ungoogled Chromium (⭐28k) - Chromium with Google's web services and background requests stripped out. _{Linux · macOS · Windows · BSD-3-Clause}

Jan 22, 2023

Third-party

• Forward Email - Email forwarding and hosting for your own domain, with its server code published. ⚠️ source-available

Jan 21, 2023

VPNs / Apps

• Mullvad VPN - No-logs VPN with anonymous numbered accounts instead of email, payable in cash or cryptocurrency. _{GPL-3.0 · F-Droid}

• Proton VPN - Swiss no-logs VPN with audited apps and a free tier with no data cap. ⚠️ telemetry opt-out _F-Droid

Jan 18, 2023

Link in Bio Tools / Useful Tools

• Keyoxide - Proves you own your online accounts with cryptographic signatures, with no central service to trust. _F-Droid

Jan 12, 2023

Video Editing / Deezer alternative clients

• LosslessCut (⭐46k) - FFmpeg front end for fast, lossless trimming and cutting of video and audio files. _{Linux · macOS · Windows · GPL-2.0}

Jan 01, 2023

PC / MacOS / Other OS

• AtlasOS - Modified Windows that strips out built-in tracking and tunes it for performance and latency. _GPL-3.0

Dec 20, 2022

Notes and Tasks / Useful Tools

• Memos (⭐64k) - Self-hosted hub for quick notes and memos, shown as a timeline. _{self-host · MIT}

Nov 23, 2022

No email verification, accepting monero / Desktop

• MoneroSMS - Virtual numbers for sending and receiving SMS, paid in Monero, with a web app, a CLI and Tor support.

Pokemon / Plugins for Minecraft

• Pokete (⭐3.2k) - Small terminal game in the style of the classic Pokemon games. _{CLI · GPL-3.0}

Oct 23, 2022

Notes and Tasks / Useful Tools

• SiYuan (⭐47k) - Local-first personal knowledge base built from blocks you can link, embed and query. _AGPL-3.0

Oct 22, 2022

Desktop / Apps

• Brave - Chromium-based browser that blocks ads and trackers out of the box. ⚠️ telemetry opt-out _MPL-2.0

Oct 17, 2022

Book and web annotations/highlights management / Useful Tools

• Hypothesis (⭐3.2k) - Annotates web pages and PDFs, privately or in shared groups. _BSD-2-Clause

• Kobuddy (⭐184) - Extracts highlights, notes and reading progress from your Kobo e-reader's database. _{CLI · MIT}

Oct 13, 2022

P2P

• Berty - Peer-to-peer messenger that works with or without internet access, with no phone number or email.

Oct 05, 2022

Podcasts / Deezer alternative clients

• Castopod - Podcast hosting you run yourself, so your show and your audience stay yours, with fediverse integration. _{self-host · ActivityPub · AGPL-3.0}

Sep 29, 2022

PC / MacOS / Other OS

• RedoxOS - Unix-like operating system written in Rust, still in development.

Sep 27, 2022

Cloud Storage / Useful Tools

• Proton Drive - End-to-end encrypted cloud storage from the makers of Proton Mail.

Sep 21, 2022

Third-party

• Mailfence - Email suite from Belgium with built-in OpenPGP encryption.

Pastebin and Secret Sharing / Useful Tools

• PrivateBin (⭐8.7k) - Minimal pastebin where everything is encrypted in the browser, so the server knows nothing about what you paste. _self-host

File Management and Sharing / Useful Tools

• Yopass (⭐3.2k) - Shares encrypted secrets and files through one-time links that expire. _{self-host · Apache-2.0}

Cloud Storage / Useful Tools

• Peergos - End-to-end encrypted space for files, photos and documents, with calendar, tasks, chat and email built in. _{self-host · AGPL-3.0}

Sonic the Hedgehog / Plugins for Minecraft

• Sonic Robo Blast 2 - 3D Sonic the Hedgehog fan game built on a modified Doom Legacy engine. _GPL-2.0

Sep 12, 2022

Notes and Tasks / Useful Tools

• Notesnook - End-to-end encrypted notes app with sync across your devices, as an Evernote alternative. _{GPL-3.0 · F-Droid}

Shazam alternative clients / Deezer alternative clients

• SongID Telegram Bot (⭐110) - Telegram bot that identifies the music in audio and video files you send it. _Apache-2.0

• SongRec (⭐2k) - Shazam client for Linux written in Rust, no account needed. _{Linux · GPL-3.0}

Sep 02, 2022

Notes and Tasks / Useful Tools

• Joplin (⭐57k) - Markdown notes and to-dos with optional end-to-end encrypted sync through a server of your choice. _F-Droid

• Nextcloud Notes (⭐743) - Distraction-free notes app for your Nextcloud server. _{self-host · AGPL-3.0}
  • Nextcloud Notes app (⭐1.1k) - Android client for Nextcloud Notes. _{Android · GPL-3.0 · F-Droid}

• Notally (⭐2.2k) - Minimal notes app that keeps everything on your device, with no sync. _{Android · GPL-3.0 · F-Droid}

• TinyList - Notes and checklists you can share without an account, with no ads or tracking. _MIT

• YankNote (⭐6.8k) - Extensible Markdown editor for programmers that stores notes as local files. _{Desktop · AGPL-3.0}

Aug 25, 2022

No email verification, accepting monero / Desktop

• Crypton - Rents real SIM cards hosted in the cloud, with incoming SMS encrypted under a key you choose.

Email verification required, accepting crypto / Desktop

• SmsPVA - Temporary virtual numbers in many countries for receiving verification codes. ⚠️ website trackers

Jul 28, 2022

VPNs / Apps

• IVPN - No-logs VPN that needs no email to sign up and takes cash, Monero or Bitcoin. _F-Droid

Jul 11, 2022

Databases / Useful Tools

• Pocketbase - Backend in a single Go binary, with an embedded SQLite database, realtime subscriptions, auth and an admin UI. _self-host

Jun 27, 2022

OS Encryption / Useful Tools

• Cryptsetup - The standard tool for full disk encryption on Linux, built on the kernel's dm-crypt module. _Linux

Jun 01, 2022

Analytics / Useful Tools

• Swetrix - Cookie-free web analytics, as a hosted service or on your own server. _{self-host · AGPL-3.0}

May 23, 2022

Self-hosted / Deezer alternative clients

• Nextcloud - Self-hosted cloud suite whose Photos (⭐725) app organizes and displays your pictures. _{self-host · AGPL-3.0}

• LibrePhotos (⭐8.1k) - Self-hosted photo management service, an active fork of OwnPhotos (⭐2.8k). _{self-host · MIT}

May 19, 2022

Forms / Useful Tools

• CryptPad Forms - End-to-end encrypted forms and polls, part of the CryptPad collaboration suite. _{self-host · AGPL-3.0}

• FramaForms - Online form and survey service run by the French nonprofit Framasoft.

May 09, 2022

Google Fonts Replacements / Deezer alternative clients

• coolLabs Fonts - Drop-in Google Fonts replacement that logs nothing about your visitors. _Apache-2.0

Apr 30, 2022

Link Shorteners / Useful Tools

• MagLit - Shortener that encrypts links with a password and also handles torrent magnet links. _AGPL-3.0

Apr 07, 2022

Password Managers / Useful Tools

• Passky - Small, simple password manager with a server you can host yourself. _{self-host · EUPL-1.2 · F-Droid}

Mar 09, 2022

Mario Kart / Deezer alternative clients

• SuperTuxKart - 3D arcade kart racer with many characters, tracks and modes, including online play. _F-Droid

Mar 02, 2022

Dating Apps / Apps and services

• Alovoa - Dating platform with no ads, no paid features and no selling of your data. _{AGPL-3.0 · F-Droid}

Jan 29, 2022

Local / Deezer alternative clients

• Photok (⭐998) - Photo vault that encrypts your pictures on the device and hides them from your gallery. _{Android · Apache-2.0 · F-Droid}

Desktop / Deezer alternative clients

• ImageGlass - Lightweight image viewer with a clean interface. ⚠️ website trackers _Windows

Jan 24, 2022

Video Editing / Deezer alternative clients

• Shotcut - Cross-platform video editor with wide format support. ⚠️ website trackers _{Linux · macOS · Windows · GPL-3.0}

Jan 15, 2022

Third-party

• Riseup - Email and other tools for activists, run by a collective that doesn't log your IP address.

Jan 06, 2022

Teamworking Tools / Desktop

• Nextcloud Talk - Chat and video calls that run inside your own Nextcloud server. _{self-host · AGPL-3.0 · F-Droid}

• Mattermost - Self-hosted Slack alternative for teams. ⚠️ website trackers _self-host

• Zulip - Team chat organized into topic threads, which you can host yourself. _{self-host · Apache-2.0 · F-Droid}

YouTube / Frontends

• Piped (⭐10k) - YouTube frontend that never connects your browser to Google, with feeds, playlists and SponsorBlock. _AGPL-3.0

Text translation / Apps

• Apertium - Rule-based machine translation platform that can run offline on your computer. _GPL-2.0

• Softcatala - Online translator between Catalan and languages such as Spanish, English, French and Portuguese, run by a nonprofit. ⚠️ website trackers

Desktop / Apps

• Tor Browser - Hardened Firefox that routes your traffic through the Tor network to resist tracking and censorship. _{Android · Linux · macOS · Windows}

Browser Sync / Useful Tools

• xBrowserSync - Syncs bookmarks between browsers with client-side encryption and no account, just a sync ID. 💀 inactive _GPL-3.0

Analytics / Useful Tools

• Matomo - Full-featured Google Analytics replacement that keeps the data on your own server. ⚠️ website trackers _GPL-3.0

• Nullitics - Minimal cookie-free analytics for a flat monthly fee, also usable as a library on your own server. 💀 inactive _MIT

• Pirsch - Cookie-free web analytics that can also track server-side from your backend. _AGPL-3.0

Password Managers / Useful Tools

• Bitwarden - Password manager with end-to-end encrypted sync across all your devices. ⚠️ website trackers _self-host
  • Vaultwarden (⭐70k) - Lightweight, unofficial Bitwarden-compatible server you can host yourself. _{self-host · AGPL-3.0}

Other useful tools / Useful Tools

• Cryptomator - Encrypts files on your device before they reach any cloud storage provider. _{GPL-3.0 · F-Droid}

Download Manager / Useful Tools

• axel (⭐3.4k) - Lightweight download accelerator for HTTP, HTTPS, FTP and FTPS. _{CLI · GPL-2.0}

Notes and Tasks / Useful Tools

• HedgeDoc - Self-hosted collaborative Markdown editor for writing and sharing notes in real time, formerly CodiMD. _{self-host · AGPL-3.0}

• Logseq - Outliner for linked notes and journals, stored as plain Markdown files on your device. ⚠️ telemetry opt-out _{AGPL-3.0 · F-Droid}

• Vikunja - Self-hosted to-do app with lists, kanban boards and Gantt charts. _{self-host · AGPL-3.0}

Office / Useful Tools

• Etherpad - Self-hosted editor for writing documents together in real time. _{self-host · Apache-2.0}

• LibreOffice - Full desktop office suite that works entirely offline and opens Microsoft Office formats. _{Desktop · GPL-3.0}

• OnlyOffice - Office suite built around Microsoft formats, with a document server you can host for real-time collaboration. ⚠️ website trackers _{self-host · AGPL-3.0}

Databases / Useful Tools

• Appwrite - Self-hosted backend with auth, databases, storage and functions for web and mobile apps. _{self-host · BSD-3-Clause}

Self-hosted / Deezer alternative clients

• Photoview - Self-hosted photo gallery that works on your existing folders, with face recognition. _{self-host · AGPL-3.0}

Web / Deezer alternative clients

• miniPaint (⭐3.5k) - Photopea alternative that edits images entirely in your browser, with nothing sent to a server. _Web

Desktop / Deezer alternative clients

• Czkawka (⭐35k) - Finds duplicate files, similar images and other clutter in your photo folders. _{Linux · macOS · Windows}

Photoshop / Illustrator / Deezer alternative clients

• GIMP - Raster image editor for retouching, compositing and drawing, a Photoshop alternative. _{Linux · macOS · Windows}

• Inkscape - Vector graphics editor, an Illustrator alternative. _{Linux · macOS · Windows}

Android / Deezer alternative clients

• ImagePipe - Shrinks images and strips their Exif data when you share them. _{Android · F-Droid}

• Pocket Paint (⭐506) - Image editor and painting app from the Catrobat project. _{Android · F-Droid}

• Scrambled Exif - Removes Exif data from pictures before you share them. _Android

Foundries / Deezer alternative clients

• OpenFoundry - Curated showcase of open source typefaces that you can use and modify.

• Velvetyne - French type foundry that publishes libre typefaces for personal and commercial use.

Developer Tools / Other OS

• Beekeeper Studio - Desktop SQL editor and database manager for Postgres, MySQL, SQLite and many other databases. _{Linux · macOS · Windows}

IDEs / Other OS

• Neovim - Extensible Vim-based editor with built-in Lua scripting and language server support.

• VSCodium - VS Code built from its open source code, without Microsoft's telemetry or its proprietary license. _{Linux · macOS · Windows · MIT}

Remote Access and Control / Other OS

• MeshCentral - Self-hosted web server for managing and remotely controlling many devices from a browser. _{self-host · Apache-2.0}

• Remmina - Remote desktop client for Linux that connects over RDP, VNC, SPICE and SSH. _Linux

• RustDesk - Remote desktop app that connects through its developers' public servers by default, which log your IP address, device and session details, or through a server you host. ⚠️ website trackers _{self-host · AGPL-3.0 · F-Droid}

• screego - Self-hosted screen sharing over WebRTC, built for developers. _{self-host · GPL-3.0}

Maps and Navigation / Apps and services

• Organic Maps - Offline maps and navigation built on OpenStreetMap, popular with hikers and cyclists. _{Android · iOS · F-Droid}

Tracking / Apps and services

• OwnTracks - Phone app that sends your location to your own server, focused on where you are now rather than full history. _{Android · iOS · EPL-1.0 · F-Droid}

• Traccar - Self-hosted GPS tracking server, made for dedicated GPS tracking devices. ⚠️ website trackers _{self-host · Apache-2.0}

Sep 26, 2021

PC / MacOS / Other OS

• ReactOS - Reimplementation of Windows that can run Windows apps and drivers, still in alpha. _GPL-2.0

Jun 01, 2021

Full Featured Financial Management / Apps and services

• GnuCash - Double-entry accounting for personal and small-business finances, stored in local files. _Desktop

May 29, 2021

Audio / Deezer alternative clients

• dzr (⭐265) - Command line Deezer player for Linux, BSD and Android with Termux. _{CLI · Unlicense}

May 27, 2021

Clients / Desktop

• Thunderbird - Email, calendar and contacts app with built-in OpenPGP encryption (setup guide).

May 26, 2021

Video and Audio / Useful Tools

• Stremio - Media center that gathers video from add-ons into one library and player. ⚠️ website trackers _GPL-2.0

May 21, 2021

P2P

• Briar - Peer-to-peer messenger that syncs over Tor, Wi-Fi or Bluetooth, so it keeps working when the internet is down.

• Tinfoil Chat (⭐1.3k) - Onion-routed messaging system that keeps keys on separate, isolated computers to resist endpoint compromise.

• Tox - Peer-to-peer protocol for encrypted chat and calls, with no central servers or accounts. _GPL-3.0

Cloud Storage / Useful Tools

• Seafile - Fast self-hosted file sync and sharing, with optional per-library client-side encryption and a built-in wiki. _self-host

Other useful tools / Useful Tools

• Rclone - Command-line tool to manage files on dozens of cloud providers, with an encryption layer so they only see ciphertext. _{CLI · MIT}

• Syncthing - Continuous file sync directly between your own devices, with no central server holding your data. _MPL-2.0

Video and Audio / Useful Tools

• Jellyfin - Media server you host yourself for films, shows and music, with no account on anyone else's servers. _{self-host · GPL-2.0}

Android / Based on Linux

• PureOS - Purism's Debian-based system for its Librem laptops and the Librem 5 phone.

Smart TV / Based on Linux

• Kodi - Media center that plays your local and network media libraries on almost any device.

• OSMC - Kodi-based media center system for the Raspberry Pi and OSMC's own Vero boxes. _GPL-2.0

Payments / Apps and services

• Monero - Cryptocurrency that hides the sender, receiver and amount of every transaction by default.