awesome-privacy
Awesome Privacy - A curated list of services and alternatives that respect your privacy because PRIVACY MATTERS.
https://github.com/pluja/awesome-privacy
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Operating Systems
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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.
- Raspberry Pi 4
- OSMC - OSMC is a free and open source media center built for the people, by the people.
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PC / MacOS
- Tails
- RedoxOS - A WIP project aiming to provide a Unix-like Operating System written in Rust.
- ReactOS - ReactOS is an operating system able to run Windows software, Windows drivers that looks-like Windows and is free and open source.
- GNU/Linux
- Mint (Cinnamon)
- Live USB Stick
- dual boot
- 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.
- this tool - home/) to see and disable the tons of privacy-invasive settings of MS Windows.
- Fedora
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Android
- LineageOS - A free and open-source operating system for various devices, based on the Android mobile platform.
- GrapheneOS - GrapheneOS is an open source privacy and security focused mobile OS with Android app compatibility.
- CalyxOS - CalyxOS lets you have your cake and eat it too, with "Privacy by Design".
- postmarketOS - Touch optimised and pre-configured version of Alpine Linux.
- AOSP - Android Open Source Project - and it has many versions that will respect the user privacy and data and won't share it with private servers from manufacturers or service providers.
- Read more on PrivacyGuides
- DivestOS - LineageOS fork with increased security and privacy.
- Replicant - A free software mobile operating system putting the emphasis on freedom and privacy/security.
- UBPorts - Ubuntu Touch is the touch-friendly mobile version of Ubuntu.
- PureOS - Operating system developed by purism for the Librem 5.
- mobian - Debian for mobile.
- Read more on PrivacyGuides
- UBPorts - Ubuntu Touch is the touch-friendly mobile version of Ubuntu.
- Plasma Mobile - Plasma, in your pocket. Privacy-respecting, open source and secure phone ecosystem.
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Version Control
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Imgur
- GitLab - GitLab a DevOps software package that can develop, secure, and operate software.
- 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.
- 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.
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Photo Editing and Management
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CRYPTO
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Portfolio trackers
- Czkawka - Multi functional app to find duplicates and similar images etc.
- miniPaint - Open Source alternative to Photopea. miniPaint operates directly in the browser. Nothing will be sent to any server. Everything stays in your browser.
- Krita - Krita is a free and open source digital painting application
- Scrambled Exif - Remove Exif data from pictures before sharing them.
- ImagePipe - Reduces image size and removes exif-tags when sharing images on android devices.
- Pocket Paint - The standard image manipulation app for Catroid.
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Video Editing
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Imgur
- Shotcut - Shotcut is a free, open source and simple cross-platform video editor.
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- Olive Video Editor - Free open-source advanced non-linear video editor currently in Alpha state.
- LosslessCut - LosslessCut aims to be the ultimate cross platform FFmpeg GUI for extremely fast and lossless operations on video, audio, subtitle and other related media files.
- kdenlive - Open source video editor. Free and easy to use for any purpose, forever.
- OpenCut - [beta] A free, open-source video editor for web, desktop, and mobile.
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Media Streaming Platforms
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Email Alias Services (Anonymous Forwarding)
- Stremio - Stremio is a modern media center that's a one-stop solution for your video entertainment.
- Nuclear - Modern music player focused on streaming from free sources.
- Ampache - A web based audio/video streaming application and file manager.
- Koel - a personal music streaming server that works.
- 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.
- Bad privacy policy - privacy.eu.org/en/reports/com.amazon.amazonvideo.livingroom/latest/). Many permissions are required for a streaming app.
- Bad privacy policy - privacy.eu.org/en/reports/com.amazon.amazonvideo.livingroom/latest/). Many permissions are required for a streaming app.
- Very bad privacy policy - privacy.eu.org/en/reports/com.amazon.amazonvideo.livingroom/latest/). Many permissions are required for a streaming app.
- Dubitous privacy policy - privacy.eu.org/en/reports/com.plexapp.android/latest/). Way too many permissions are required for a streaming app.
- Very bad - privacy.eu.org/en/reports/com.spotify.music/latest/).
- Bad privacy policy - privacy.eu.org/en/reports/deezer.android.tv/latest/). Way too many permissions are required for a streaming app.
- Dubitous priavcy policy - privacy.eu.org/en/reports/com.soundcloud.android/latest/). Way too many permissions are required for a streaming app.
- Subsonic - Your complete, personal music streamer.
- filled with trackers
- Very bad - privacy.eu.org/en/reports/com.audible.application/latest/).
- Spotube - A lightweight free Spotify crossplatform-client.
- psst* - Fast and multi-platform Spotify client with native GUI.
- Beatbump - Alternative frontend for YouTube Music; no ads and custom API wrapper.
- Spot* - Native Spotify client built in GTK and Rust.
- Dim - Dim is a self-hosted media manager. With minimal setup, Dim will organize and beautify your media collections, letting you access and play them anytime from anywhere.
- ncspot* - Cross-platform ncurses Spotify client written in Rust, inspired by ncmpc and the likes.ç
- dzr - Command line Deezer player for Linux, BSD, Android+Termux
- ViMusic - [Unmantained] A Jetpack Compose Android application for streaming music from YouTube Music.
- RiMusic - A ViMusic maintained fork.
- Nuclear - Modern music player focused on streaming from free sources.
- Navidrome - Lightweight, fast and self-contained personal music streamer.
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Design Tools
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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.
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Figma
- Penpot - Penpot is an Open Source design and prototyping platform for product teams.
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IDEs
- lack of Linux support - privacy.eu.org/en/reports/com.adobe.psmobile/latest/) further amplifies privacy concerns. They also may be [using users' work to train their AIs](https://mastodon.art/@Krita/109632425661190494), potentially causing intellectual property problems. For these reasons, designers can consider using open-source, privacy-respecting alternatives, bypassing most of these issues.
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Photoshop / Illustrator
- Krita - A free and open-source raster graphics editor designed primarily for digital art and 2D animation.
- Excalidraw - Virtual whiteboard for sketching hand-drawn like diagrams.
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Photo Storage
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Self-hosted
- Nextcloud - The open source self-hosted productivity platform that keeps you in control. It has a [*Photos*](https://github.com/nextcloud/photos) plugin to help you organize and visualize your photos.
- Stingle Photos - Open source solution that provides strong security, privacy and encryption to backup your photos.
- 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.
- Immich - Self-hosted photo and video backup solution directly from your mobile phone.
- LibrePhotos - Active [OwnPhotos](https://github.com/hooram/ownphotos) fork. Self hosted alternative to Google Photos.
- Pigallery2 - A self-hosted directory-first photo gallery website.
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Local
- DigiKam - Awesome Professional Photo Management with the Power of Open Source.
- ImageGlass - ImageGlass is a lightweight software application whose purpose is to help you view images in a clean and intuitive working environment.
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Third-party
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Portfolio trackers
- Google Photos Takeout Helper - Script that organizes the Google Takeout messy archive into one big chronological folder. Use this script to get out of Google Photos :).
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Cloud Storage
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Text
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Bad privacy policy - privacy.eu.org/en/reports/com.dropbox.android/latest/) and requires many permissions.
- Proton Drive - End-to-end encrypted Swiss vault for your files that protects your data. [Read this article over Climate activist arrest](https://protonmail.com/blog/climate-activist-arrest/).
- PrivateStorage - Accountless, privacy-focused cloud storage and folder synchronization with client-side encryption.
- Skiff Drive - Skiff Drive protects your dataq with end-to-end encryption.
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Web Browser
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- Brave - Brave offers a pretty good out-of-the-box set of privacy and tracker protections.
- Tor Browser
- Bromite - It has been known to lag on security patches, so it may be better not to use it.
- LibreWolf - Privacy-focused Firefox fork.
- Mull - Privacy hardened fork of Firefox for Android, with proprietary blobs removed.
- Google's privacy policy - users-beware-manifest-v3-deceitful-and-threatening) which is outright harmful to privacy efforts.
- Microsoft's privacy policy - 19) to harden it a bit.
- acquired by a consortium of Chinese investors - privacy.eu.org/de/reports/com.opera.browser/latest/).
- Firefox - Android/iOS
- Mullvad Browser - Browser with the privacy and security implications of the Tor Browser, without the use of the Tor network.
- Hitchhiker’s Guide to Online Anonymity
- Vanadium - Privacy and security enhanced releases of Chromium by GrapheneOS.
- Cromite - Cromite is a Chromium fork based on Bromite with built-in support for ad blocking and an eye for privacy.
- Ungoogled Chromium - A lightweight approach to removing Google web service dependency. Ungoogled-chromium is Google Chromium, sans dependency on Google web services.
- Firefox - Android/iOS
- Mullvad Browser - Browser with the privacy and security implications of the Tor Browser, without the use of the Tor network.
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Browser Addons
- uBlock Origin - Free, open-source ad content blocker. Easy on CPU and memory.
- Read the extension docs
- Single File - Save a faithful copy of an entire web page in a single HTML file so you can use it offline.
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Browser Sync
- xBrowserSync - Browser syncing as it should be: secure, anonymous and free!
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WebView
- Bromite WebView - Bromite WebView is a version of Android System WebView with support for ad blocking and enhanced privacy.
- WebView Switcher - A tool for installing Bromite WebView on android 10
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Password Managers
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PC / MacOS
- KeeWeb
- KeepassXC - Securely store passwords using industry standard encryption, no sync just storage.
- Strongbox
- KeepassDX
- Padloc - The last password manager you'll ever want to use.
- Proton Pass - Open-source and encrypted password manager by Proton.
- Passky - Simple, modern, lightweight, open-source and secure password manager.
- CarryPass - Zero-knowledge PWA password manager with deterministic generation, encrypted vaults, and team collaboration. ([Source](https://github.com/racz-zoltan/racz-zoltan.github.io)) `MIT`
- vaultwarden - Unofficial Bitwarden compatible self-hosted server, formerly known as bitwarden_rs.
- CarryPass - Zero-knowledge PWA password manager with deterministic generation, encrypted vaults, and team collaboration. ([Source](https://github.com/racz-zoltan/racz-zoltan.github.io)) `MIT`
- LessPass - Stateless password manager. Remember one master password to access your passwords. No sync needed.
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Remote Access and Control
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Android
- 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.
- Remmina - Remote access screen and file sharing to your desktop (RDP).
- screego - Screen sharing for developers.
- 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.
- 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.
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Office
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Email Alias Services (Anonymous Forwarding)
- LibreOffice - Free and open source offline office.
- OnlyOffice - Free and open source online office for collaboration.
- Etherpad - Highly customizable open source online editor providing collaborative editing in really real-time.
- Cryptpad - Collaboration suite, encrypted and open-source.
- Skiff - End-to-end encrypted real-time document collaboration and file storage.
- Ddocs - enhancing alternative to google docs: onchain, end-to-end encrypted, and decentralized.
- dSheets
- Fileverse - Fileverse is building healthier alternatives with self-sovereignty, privacy by design, and standards compliance at its core.
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Developer Tools
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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](https://code.visualstudio.com/license) and contains telemetry/tracking.
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Creator Tools
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Text
- OBS Studio - Free and open source software for video recording and live streaming.
- vdo.ninja - Powerful tool that lets you bring remote video feeds into OBS or other studio software via WebRTC.
- socialstream.ninja - Consolidate your live social messaging streams and much more.
- Screenity - A screen recorder that's free, private, and friendly.
- Screenity - A screen recorder that's free, private, and friendly.
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Encryption
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Figma
- Cryptomator - Cryptomator encrypts your data quickly and easily. Afterwards you upload them protected to your favorite cloud service.
- 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.
- Stegcloak - Hide secrets with invisible characters in plain text securely using passwords.
- Shufflecake - Free open source, plausible deniability for multiple hidden filesystems on Linux
- Photok - Photok is a free Photo-Safe. It stores your photos encrypted on your device and hides them from others.
- Picocrypt - A very small (hence "Pico"), very simple, yet very secure file encryption tool.
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OS Encryption
- Cryptsetup - Full disk encryption for Linux. Cryptsetup is a utility used to conveniently set up disk encryption based
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Instant Messaging
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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.
- Berty - The privacy-first messaging app that works with or without internet access, cellular data or trust in the network.
- Tinfoil Chat - Onion-routed, endpoint secure messaging system.
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Decentralized
- Conversations - Jabber/XMPP client for Android 4.0+ smartphones that has been optimized to provide a unique mobile experience.
- Matrix (Protocol) - An open network for secure, decentralized communication.
- Element - All-in-one secure chat app for teams, friends and organisations. Keeps conversations in your control, safe from data-mining and ads. End-to-end encryption.
- Jabber / XMPP (Protocol) - The universal and open messaging standard. Tried and tested. Independent. Privacy-focused. E2E encrypted.
- Session - Extreme focus on privacy and anonymity. Blockchain technology.
- Cinny - A Matrix client focusing primarily on simple, elegant and secure interface.
- AstraChat - Another XMPP client.
- SimpleX Chat - The first chat platform that is 100% private by design - it has no access to your connection graph
- Status - Status is a secure messaging app, crypto wallet, and Web3 browser built with state of the art technology.
- DeltaChat - Chat over encrypted e-mail.
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Centralized
- Signal - Extreme focus on privacy, combined with all of the features you expect. Strong encryption by design. 100% Open Source.
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Sonic the Hedgehog
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Video and Audio Conferencing
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Imgur
- Jami - P2P audio and video conferences.
- Jitsi Meet - More secure, more flexible, and completely free video conferencing. **No account needed, no installation needed**.
- Mumble - Mumble is an open source voice communication application with advanced features.
- BigBlueButton - BigBlueButton is a web conferencing system designed for online learning.
- violates - goosemod-against-discord-tos).
- Very bad privacy policy - privacy.eu.org/en/reports/us.zoom.videomeetings/latest/). Many permissions required.
- Bad privacy policy - privacy.eu.org/en/reports/com.whatsapp/latest/) and most probably Facebook trackers embeded (as it is a Facebook app). Way too many permissions required.
- Very bad privacy policy - privacy.eu.org/en/reports/com.instagram.android/latest/). Way too many permissions required.
- Very bad privacy policy. - privacy.eu.org/en/reports/com.discord/latest/). Many permissions required.
- Chitchatter - Secure P2P chat that is serverless, decentralized, and ephemeral. Supports text, audio, video, screen, and file sharing.
- Mirotalk P2P - Free WebRTC - P2P - Simple, Secure, Fast Real-Time Video Conferences Up to 4k and 60fps, compatible with all browsers and platforms.
- Mumble - Mumble is an open source voice communication application with advanced features.
- PeerCalls - Group peer to peer video calls for everyone written in Go and TypeScript.
- OpenAsar - An open-source alternative of Discord desktop's app.asar that comes with a [No Track](https://github.com/GooseMod/OpenAsar/blob/main/src/noTrack.js) function.
- BetterDiscord - A client modification for Discord, also you need to install a [DoNotTrack](https://betterdiscord.app/plugin/DoNotTrack) plugin to block trackers.
- Replugged - A continuation of the deprecated client mod [Powercord](https://powercord.dev).
- Jitsi Meet - More secure, more flexible, and completely free video conferencing. If you use the official instance, you will need to login. Self-hosting is recommended.
- WebCord - A Discord and Fosscord API-less client made with the Electron.
- Vencord - A Discord client mod that does things differently.
- Jam - Jam is your own open source Clubhouse for mini conferences, friends, communities.
- Kernel - A super small and fast Electron client mod with the most capability, also you need to install a [Discord Utilities](https://github.com/slow/discord-utilities) package to block trackers.
- Briefing - Secure direct video group chat. Only open technologies (such as WebRTC) are used, which work with all modern browsers.
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Teamworking Tools
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Imgur
- Mattermost - Open-source Slack alternative.
- Zulip - Chat for distributed teams.
- Nextcloud Talk - Keep conversations private with Nextcloud Talk.
- Twake - Work in a team faster. Twake covers all of your organizational needs through a single platform.
-  to your ideology/bias. YouTube censors a lot. YouTube collects a LOT of your data: interests, free time, ideology, likes, dislikes, music taste, etc.
- Peertube - A free, open and decentralized alternative to video platforms.
- SimpleerTube - A simple frontend for PeerTube with SepiaSearch [Source](https://git.sr.ht/~metalune/simpleweb_peertube).
- Invidious - Alternative and privacy respecting YouTube frontend.
- Piped - An alternative privacy-friendly YouTube frontend which is efficient by design.
- FreeTube - FreeTube is an open source desktop YouTube player built with privacy in mind. (Uses Local RSS API or Invidious for backend).
- Yattee - Alternative YouTube frontend for iOS, tvOS and macOS built with Invidious and Piped.
- Tubular - A fork of NewPipe that implements SponsorBlock and ReturnYouTubeDislike.
- DTube - A full-featured video sharing website, decentralized.
- Youtube-Local - browser-based client for watching Youtube anonymously and with greater page performance.
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Twitter
- Mastodon - Free, federated microblogging social network built on open protocols.
- Pleroma - Pleroma is a free, federated social networking server built on open protocols.
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- Kbin - A reddit-like content aggregator and micro-blogging platform for the fediverse.
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Instagram
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Blogging platforms (Medium)
- WriteFreely - An open source platform for building a writing space on the web.
- Plume - Federated blogging application, thanks to ActivityPub.
- Scribe - Medium alternative forntend inspired by Invidious.
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Imgur
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Android
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- UntrackMe - Transform Youtube, Twitter & other links to their free and open source alternatives.
- Farside - A smart redirecting gateway for various frontend services.
- LibRedirect - A web extension that redirects YouTube, Twitter... requests to alternative privacy friendly frontends and backends.
- UntrackMe - Transform Youtube, Twitter & other links to their free and open source alternatives.
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LBRY and Odysee
- Librarian - An alternative frontend for LBRY/Odysee. Inspired by Invidious and Libreddit.
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Quora
- privacy policy
- Quetre - Quetre is an alternative front-end to Quora. It enables you to see answers without ads, trackers, and other such bloat.
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TikTok
- . (Original instance: [wikiless.org](https://wikiless.org/), Wikiless repository has been removed by Codeberg, [follow news here](https://orenom.fi/))
- Wikiless manifesto
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Fonts
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Foundries
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Google Fonts Replacements
- coolLabs Fonts - A privacy-friendly drop-in replacement for Google Fonts.
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Databases
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Text
- Appwrite - Secure open-source backend server for web, mobile & Flutter developers.
- Pocketbase - Open Source backend in 1 file written in Go.
- Supabase - Open source Firebase alternative ([Limited](https://github.com/supabase/supabase/issues/4934) [self-hosting](https://github.com/supabase/supabase/issues/4440#issuecomment-992108832))
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Link Shorteners
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P2P
- Yourls - Self hosted URL shortener in PHP.
- MagLit - An encrypted and privacy respecting Link Shortener service that also supports Magnet Links.
- Dub - You can self-host Dub.co for greater control over your data and design.
- MagLit - An encrypted and privacy respecting Link Shortener service that also supports Magnet Links.
- tnyr.me - A zero-trust URL shortener with paswordless end-to-end encryption.
- tnyr.me - A zero-trust URL shortener with paswordless end-to-end encryption.
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Analytics
- Matomo - Google Analytics alternative that protects your data and your customers' privacy.
- Plausible - Simple and privacy-friendly alternative to Google Analytics.
- Umami - A simple, fast, website analytics alternative to Google Analytics.
- GoatCounter - Privacy aware, lightweight and open-source analytics platform.
- Ackee - Self-hosted website analytics.
- Aptabase - Open-source, privacy-first and simple analytics for mobile and desktop apps.
- Cabin - Privacy-first, carbon conscious web analytics.
- 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.
- Swetrix - Privacy-focused, fully cookieless and opensource (and selfhostable) web-analytics service.
- Unidentified Analytics - Naive ip-based tracking that works everywhere (web, command-line, email, etc). No account required. Developer friendly.
- Shynet - Modern, privacy-friendly, and detailed web analytics that works without cookies or JS.
- Rybbit - Open-source and privacy-friendly alternative to Google Analytics that is 10x more intuitive.
- Rybbit - Open-source and privacy-friendly alternative to Google Analytics that is 10x more intuitive.
- Cabin - Privacy-first, carbon conscious web analytics.
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Home Assistants
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Sonic the Hedgehog
- Mycroft - The Private and Open Voice Assistant.
- Home Assistant - Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first.
- 1 - assistants-hear-everything-so-watch-what-you-say-i-m-not-kidding.html), [4](https://www.democracynow.org/2017/1/4/privacy_advocates_warn_of_potential_surveillance), [5](https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/woman-finds-amazon-thousands-recordings-25240984), [6](https://www.seattletimes.com/business/locked-down-lawyers-warned-alexa-is-hearing-confidential-calls/), [7](https://hide.me/en/blog/assistant-devices-are-a-privacy-nightmare/).
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- Simplytranslate - Alternative front-end for Google Translate and LibreTranslate. [Demo](https://simplytranslate.org/)
- Lingva - Alternative front-end for Google Translate. [Demo](https://lingva.ml/).
- Mozilla Translate - Open Source, runs model locally in your browser.
- TranslateLocally - source neural MT, runs offline on your computer
- TranslateLocally - source neural MT, runs offline on your computer
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Android
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Android App Store
- F-Droid - F-Droid is an installable catalogue of FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) applications for the Android platform.
- FossDroid - Fossdroid's aim is to promote free and open source apps on the Android platform: newest, trendiest and the most popular ones.
- SkyDroid - Decentralized App Store for Android
- Obtainium - Get app updates directly from the source.
- Accrescent - A novel Android app store focused on security, privacy, and usability.
- Foxy Droid - Unofficial F-Droid client in the style of the classic one.
- Droid-ify - Lightweight F-Droid client with Material UI.
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Android Keyboard
- AnySoftKeyboard - The only Android keyboard you'll ever need. Free as in speech and Free as in beer.
- , and uses the same battle tested infrastructure. Needs an ente.io account.
- RaivoOTP - A native, lightweight and secure one-time-password (OTP) solution for **iOS** users.
- FreeOTPPlus - Enhanced fork of FreeOTP-Android providing a feature-rich 2FA authenticator.
- Owky - Free and Open Source Two-Factor Authenticator for IOS users.
- ente Auth - A free, cross platform, end-to-end encrypted and open source app for managing your 2-step verification tokens. From the makers of [ente Photos](https://ente.io), and uses the same battle tested infrastructure. Needs an ente.io account.
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Notes and Tasks
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Email Alias Services (Anonymous Forwarding)
- Logseq - A privacy-first alternative to WorkFlowy.
- Notesnook - Open source zero knowledge private note taking.
- Anytype - An open-source Notion alternative. E2EE, cloud and local network sync, can be self-hosted.
- HedgeDoc - Formerly CodiMD (community). An awesome platform to write and share markdown.
- Quillnote - Take beautiful markdown notes and stay organized with task lists.
- TinyList - Create and share notes and checklists, without sacrificing your privacy.
- Quillpad - Take beautiful markdown notes and stay organized with task lists. Fork of Quillnote.
- Joplin - Note taking and to-do application with synchronisation and encryption capabilities.
- Trilium Notes - Build your personal knowledge base with Trilium Notes
- Memos - An open-source, self-hosted memo hub with knowledge management and socialization.
- SiYuan - A local-first personal knowledge management system.
- YankNote - A Hackable Markdown Note Application for Programmers.
- Google Keep Exporter - to-markdown) - Convert your Google Keep notes into a standard markdown + YAML header format.
- Notally - A beautiful notes app (local only, no sync).
- Standard Notes - A free, open-source, and completely encrypted notes app.
- Nextcloud Notes - The Notes app is a distraction free notes taking app for Nextcloud.
- Nextcloud Notes app - An android client for Nextcloud Notes.
- Anytype - An open-source Notion alternative. E2EE, cloud and local network sync, can be self-hosted.
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Captchas
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Book and web annotations/highlights management
- , [it may know more about you than yourself](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/sep/26/tinder-personal-data-dating-app-messages-hacked-sold), and many more bad things you can find on the internet.
- , [it may know more about you than yourself](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/sep/26/tinder-personal-data-dating-app-messages-hacked-sold), and many more bad things you can find on the internet.
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Download Manager
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Figma
- 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 - A full-featured download manager.
- Xtreme Download Manager - Xtreme Download Manager (XDM) is a powerful tool to increase download speeds up to 500%, save streaming videos from YouTube, DailyMotion, Facebook, Vimeo, Google Video and 1000+ other websites, resume broken/dead downloads, schedule and convert downloads.
- Persepolis Download Manager - Persepolis is a download manager & a GUI for Aria2. It's written in Python. Persepolis is a sample of free and open source software. It's developed for GNU/Linux distributions, BSDs, MacOS, and Microsoft Windows.
- axel - Lightweight CLI download accelerator. It supports HTTP, HTTPS, FTP and FTPS protocols.
- 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.
- 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.
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Online Phone Providers
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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)
- MoneroSMS - Virtual numbers for SMS/MMS messaging and verifications. CLI and web app. (Based in United States)
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Email verification required, accepting monero
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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)
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File Management and Sharing
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OS Encryption
- Bad privacy policy
- Blaze - A fast, p2p and radically different way to transfer files.
- 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.
- Winden - A convenient version of Magic Wormhole you can use from within your browser. No need to install an app.
- Gokapi - Lightweight selfhosted Firefox Send alternative without public upload. AWS S3 supported.
- Croc - Easily and securely send things from one computer to another.
- Magic Wormhole - Get things from one computer to another, safely.
- Paperless - [Now archived] Scan, index, and archive all of your paper documents.
- Paperless-ngx - A community-supported supercharged version of paperless based on paperless-ng
- QRcp - Transfer files over wifi from your computer to your mobile device by scanning a QR code without leaving the terminal.
- PairDrop - An improved version of Snapdrop that also allows you to pair devices and share files outside your network.
- Portal - A command-line file transfer utility for sending encrypted files from any computer to another.
- Send - Simple, private file sharing. (Mozilla Send Fork)
- Paperless-ng - [inactive] A supercharged version of paperless: scan, index and archive all your physical documents.
- Yopass - Secure sharing of secrets, passwords and files.
- Dat-cp - Copy files between hosts on a network using the peer-to-peer Dat network.
- Sharik - Sharik works with Wi-Fi connection or Tethering (Wi-Fi Hotspot). No internet connection needed. Available for Android, iOS, Linux, MacOS & Windows.
- Lufi - Let's Upload that FIle — File sharing software.
- Snapdrop - A Progressive Web App for local file sharing inspired by Apple's Airdrop.
- OnionShare - An open source tool that lets you securely and anonymously share files, host websites, and chat with friends using the Tor network.
- Blindsend - Open source tool for private, end-to-end encrypted file exchange.
- scrt.link - End-to-end encrypted file transfer. Up to 100GB and 30 days retention. Stored in Switzerland.
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Fitness and Health
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Workout planners
- wger - A free, open source, self-hosted web application that manages your exercises, workouts and nutrition.
- workout.lol - A small web application to create workouts based on your available equipment and the muscles you want to train that you can selfhost.
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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
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Menstrual cycle trackers
- Drip - Menstrual cycle and fertility tracking. Everything you enter stays on your device.
- Bluemoon - Open source, privacy friendly menstruation tracking app. Your period, your data!
- Drip - Menstrual cycle and fertility tracking. Everything you enter stays on your device.
- Euki - The period tracker that doesn’t track you.
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Medical health
- Fasten - Fasten is an open-source, self-hosted, personal/family electronic medical record aggregator, designed to integrate with 1000's of insurances/hospitals/clinics.
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Forms
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Foundries
- 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.
- FramaForms - Design your online surveys easily while respecting your audience.
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Games
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Pokemon
- collects user data - news/the-latest-nintendo-switch-update-secretly-turns-on-user-data-sharing-adSyV7t35NPg). Also, it has a paid plan that is not accessible to everyone economically.
- Pokete - A small terminal based game in the style of a very popular and old game by Gamefreak.
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Mario Kart
- SuperTuxKart - A 3D open-source arcade racer with a variety characters, tracks, and modes to play.
- Sonic Robo Blast 2 Kart - SRB2Kart is a classic styled kart racer, complete with beautiful courses, and wacky items.
- collects user data - news/the-latest-nintendo-switch-update-secretly-turns-on-user-data-sharing-adSyV7t35NPg). Also, it has a paid plan that is not accessible to everyone economically.
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Minecraft
- forces the user - us/articles/360050865492-Minecraft-Java-Edition-Account-Migration-FAQ), [1](https://libreddit.kavin.rocks/r/Minecraft/comments/sl8pkv/how_can_my_friend_migrate_her_account_to/hvq2sv6/), [2](https://libreddit.kavin.rocks/r/privacy/comments/spcuj4/microsoft_is_going_to_attempt_to_move_everyone_on/)
- telemetry embeded in it since v21w38a which you can't opt-out - us/terms) to the [Microsoft privacy terms](https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/privacystatement) which are a privacy nightmare.
- Mineclonia - Survival sandbox game inspired by Minecraft. Fork of MineClone2 with focus on stability, multiplayer performance and features.
- No-Chat-Reports - A spigot plugin strips cryptographic signatures from player messages, but it breaks any chat plugin by design.
- No-Telemetry - Mod that disables the usage data collection, aka telemetry, introduced in Minecraft 1.18 (snapshot 21w38a).
- Luanti - An open source voxel game engine with many features.
- FreedomChat - A great alternative to No-Chat-Reports, since it does not break any chat plugin by design.
- Mineclonia - Survival sandbox game inspired by Minecraft. Fork of MineClone2 with focus on stability, multiplayer performance and features.
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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.
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Link in Bio Tools
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P2P
- Keyoxide - A modern, secure and privacy-friendly platform to establish your decentralized online identity.
- LinkStack - Self-hosted open-source Linktree alternative.
- BioDrop - 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.
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VPNs
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Imgur
- Azire
- Free VPNs - cautious-free-vpns-are-selling-your-data-to-3rd-parties). If a government wants to track someone, such apps will be the first ones to fall.
- SPN
- Free VPNs - cautious-free-vpns-are-selling-your-data-to-3rd-parties). If a government wants to track someone, such apps will be the first ones to fall.
- IVPN
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Location tracking
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Tracking
- Nextcloud Phonetrack - Nextcloud app to track location history with an [Android app](https://gitlab.com/eneiluj/phonetrack-android) ([other apps also supported](https://gitlab.com/eneiluj/phonetrack-oc/-/wikis/userdoc#logging-methods)). 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.
- Dawarich - Self-hosted alternative to Google Location History.
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Find My Device
- GPSlogger - Lightweight GPS Logging Application For Android. No servers, no internet. Saved to a simple file to local storage.
- Find My Device - Find your Android Device via SMS.
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Music Recognition
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Email Alias Services (Anonymous Forwarding)
- Apple's privacy policy - privacy.eu.org/en/reports/com.shazam.android/latest/).
- trackers
- has trackers
- SongRec - An open-source Shazam client for Linux, written in Rust.
- SongID Telegram Bot - A Telegram bot that can identify music in audio/video files you send it.
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Personal Finances
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FIAT
- IHateMoney - Manage your shared expenses, easily.
- Nextcloud Cospend - A group/shared budget manager inspired by the great IHateMoney.
- 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.
- MoneyBuster - Android client for Nextcloud Cospend and [IHateMoney](https://ihatemoney.org/) servers.
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Full Featured Financial Management
- Firefly III - A free and open source personal finance manager.
- Sure - Open Source and secure OS for your personal finances. Community maintained fork of the archived [Maybe](https://github.com/maybe-finance/maybe) project.
- ezBookkeeping - A lightweight, self-hosted personal finance app with a user-friendly interface and powerful bookkeeping features.
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Portfolio trackers
- Ghostfolio - open source wealth management software built with web technology.
- Rotki - An awesome portfolio tracking, analytics, accounting and tax reporting application that protects your privacy.
- PortfolioPerformance - An open source tool to calculate the overall performance of an investment portfolio-
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Budget Management
- My Expenses - Featureful GPL licenced Android Expense Tracking App.
- ProExpense - A simple free finance note to safely record daily expenses.
- ProExpense - A simple free finance note to safely record daily expenses.
- Budget Zen - Simple and Encrypted Budget Management.
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Shared Expenses
- Spliit - Share Expenses with Friends & Family. No ads. No account. Open Source. Forever Free.
- SplitPro - [Website](https://splitpro.app) - Split Expenses with your friends for free. An open source alternative to SplitWise.
- PeerSplit - [Website](peersplit.app) - Track and split group expenses. 100% free, 100% private.
- MoneyBuster - Android client for Nextcloud Cospend and IHateMoney servers.
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Others
- Debitum - With Debitum you can track all kinds of IOUs, be it money or lent items.
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Uncategorized
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Imgur
- Skymap - Open online planetarium program.
- CrowdSec - An open-source, modernized and collaborative fail2ban.
- Hetty - Hetty is an HTTP toolkit for security research. It aims to be an open-source alternative to Burp Suite Pro.
- Visited - Locally collect browsing history over browsers.
- Skymap - Open online planetarium program.
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Utilities
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Artificial Intelligence
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Android Launcher
- LMStudio - Run LLMs on your laptop, entirely offline with a beautiful UI.
- Stable Diffusion - High-Resolution Image Synthesis with Latent Diffusion Models.
- Stable Diffusion Web UI - A browser interface for Stable Diffusion and other models.
- InvokeAI - Generate and create stunning visual media using the latest AI-driven technologies locally.
- Turbopilot - [Archived] Turbopilot is an open source large-language-model based code completion engine that runs locally on CPU.
- ComfyUI - ComfyUI lets you execute advanced image generation pipelines using an advanced interface. Available on Windows, Linux, and macOS.
- Jan - Jan is an open source alternative to ChatGPT that runs 100% offline on your computer.
- Continue - Open-source autopilot for VS Code and JetBrains—the easiest way to code with any LLM
- Fauxpilot - an open-source,local alternative to GitHub Copilot server
- Localpilot - Use GitHub Copilot locally on your Macbook with one-click.
- vscode-fauxpilot - vscode extension for fauxpilot. **reminder**: use [vscodium](https://vscodium.com/) instead!
- Cline - Open source AI coding for VSCode. See every decision and use your own models.
- LocalAI - Self-hosted, community-driven simple local OpenAI-compatible API written in go. Can be used as a drop-in replacement for OpenAI, running on CPU with consumer-grade hardware.
- RooCode - Cline fork with some improvements.
- Shimmy - Privacy-focused AI inference server with OpenAI API compatibility, zero cloud dependencies, and local model processing.
- Tinfoil - Verifiably private AI Chat and OpenAI-compatible inference in the cloud. Uses NVIDIA confidential computing and open source code pinned to a transparency log for end-to-end verifiability.
- llama.cpp - Inference of Facebook's LLaMA model in pure C/C++ so it can run locally on a CPU.
- ollama - Get up and running with Llama 2 and other large language models locally.
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Speech to Text
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Imgur
- OpenAI Whisper - Whisper is a general-purpose speech recognition model that can be run locally offline. It can transcribe audio from and to multiple languages.
- Whishper - A whisper frontend with subtitle editing and translation capabilities.
- whisper.cpp - High-performance inference of OpenAI's Whisper automatic speech recognition (ASR) model.
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Text to Speech
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Imgur
- Espeak - eSpeak NG is an open source speech synthesizer that supports more than hundred languages and accents. Voices will sound rather robotic.
- MeloTTS - a high-quality multi-lingual text-to-speech library by MIT and MyShell.ai.
- Piper - A fast, local neural text to speech system that sounds great and is optimized for the Raspberry Pi 4.
- Kokoro FastAPI - Dockerized FastAPI wrapper for [Kokoro-82M](https://huggingface.co/hexgrad/Kokoro-82M) text-to-speech model w/CPU, ONNX and NVIDIA GPU support, handling, and auto-stitching.
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Pastebin and Secret Sharing
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PC / MacOS
- PrivateBin - A minimalist, open source online pastebin where the server has zero knowledge of pasted data. Data is encrypted/decrypted in the browser using 256 bits AES.
- NoPaste - Open Source pastebin alternative that works with no database, and no back-end code. Instead, the data is compressed and stored entirely in the link that you share, nowhere else.
- dele-to - Open Source. Modern app to share sensitive credentials and secrets securely with client-side AES-256 encryption, zero-knowledge architecture, and automatic self-destruction.
- crypt.fyi - Ephemeral zero-knowledge sensitive data sharing platform with web, cli, and chrome-extension clients
- crypt.fyi - Ephemeral zero-knowledge sensitive data sharing platform with web, cli, and chrome-extension clients
- scrt.link - Share a secret. End-to-end encrypted. Ephemeral. Open-source.
- dele-to - Open Source. Modern app to share sensitive credentials and secrets securely with client-side AES-256 encryption, zero-knowledge architecture, and automatic self-destruction.
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Cloaking
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Images
- Fawkes - privacy preserving tool against facial recognition systems.
- ImageScrubber - A friendly browser-based tool for anonymizing photographs taken at protests ([hosted version provided by everestpipkin](https://everestpipkin.github.io/image-scrubber/)).
- CloakMe - Web interface for Fawkes algorithm.
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Domain Registrar
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