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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Pastebin and Secret Sharing
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PC / MacOS
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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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Video and Audio Conferencing
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Imgur
- Briefing - Secure direct video group chat. Only open technologies (such as WebRTC) are used, which work with all modern browsers.
- 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.
- BigBlueButton - BigBlueButton is a web conferencing system designed for online learning.
- Chitchatter - Secure P2P chat that is serverless, decentralized, and ephemeral. Supports text, audio, video, screen, and file sharing.
- Jami - P2P audio and video conferences.
- Jitsi Meet - More secure, more flexible, and completely free video conferencing. **No account needed, no installation needed**.
- Mirotalk P2P - Free WebRTC - P2P - Simple, Secure, Fast Real-Time Video Conferences Up to 4k and 60fps, compatible with all browsers and platforms.
- 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).
- Mumble - Mumble is an open source voice communication application with advanced features.
- violates - goosemod-against-discord-tos).
- Jam - Jam is your own open source Clubhouse for mini conferences, friends, communities.
- 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.
- Vencord - A Discord client mod that does things differently.
- 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.
- WebCord - A Discord and Fosscord API-less client made with the Electron.
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2FA
- Aegis - A free, secure and open source app for Android to manage your 2-step verification tokens. Supports variety of imports from other apps (Google Authenticator, Authy etc.), vault encryption and exporting keys (plaintext or encrypted).
- 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.
- RaivoOTP - A native, lightweight and secure one-time-password (OTP) solution for **iOS** users.
- Owky - Free and Open Source Two-Factor Authenticator for IOS users.
- FreeOTPPlus - Enhanced fork of FreeOTP-Android providing a feature-rich 2FA authenticator.
- 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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Analytics
- 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.
- Matomo - Google Analytics alternative that protects your data and your customers' privacy.
- Nullitics - Zero-effort open-source cheap analytics.
- Plausible - Simple and privacy-friendly alternative to Google Analytics.
- Swetrix - Privacy-focused, fully cookieless and opensource (and selfhostable) web-analytics service.
- Umami - A simple, fast, website analytics alternative to Google 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.
- GoatCounter - Privacy aware, lightweight and open-source analytics platform.
- Shynet - Modern, privacy-friendly, and detailed web analytics that works without cookies or JS.
- Unidentified Analytics - Naive ip-based tracking that works everywhere (web, command-line, email, etc). No account required. Developer friendly.
- Aptabase - Open-source, privacy-first and simple analytics for mobile and desktop apps.
- Cabin - Privacy-first, carbon conscious web analytics.
- 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.
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Android
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Android Launcher
- Lawnchair - No clever tagline needed.
- KISS - Lightning fast, open-source, < 200kb Android launcher.
- Posidon Launcher - Posidon launcher is a minimal, one page homescreen with a vertical scrolling feed.
- Bliss Launcher - The default launcher of the /e/ Android-based OS.
- OpenLauncher - Customizable and Open Source Launcher for Android.
- Olauncher - Minimal AF (ad-free) launcher app for Android.
- Pie Launcher - Android home screen launcher that uses a dynamic pie menu instead of fixed positioned icons.
- Rootless Pixel Launcher - The Launcher3 fork known as "Rootless Pixel Launcher".
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Android Keyboard
- Indic Keyboard - Indic Keyboard is a versatile keyboard for Android users who wish to use Indic and Indian languages to type messages, compose emails and generally prefer to use them in addition to English on their phone.
- OpenBoard - OpenBoard is a 100% foss keyboard based on AOSP, with no dependency on Google binaries, that respects your privacy. It is no longer updated, but still works.
- FlorisBoard - FlorisBoard is a free and open-source keyboard for Android 6.0+ devices. It aims at being modern, user-friendly and customizable while fully respecting your privacy. Currently in early-beta state.
- Heliboard - A privacy-conscious and customizable open-source keyboard, based on AOSP / OpenBoard with many additional features and improvements, including support for custom dictionaries, themes, and glide typing.
- Simple Keyboard - Simply keyboard and nothing more.
- AnySoftKeyboard - The only Android keyboard you'll ever need. Free as in speech and Free as in beer.
- Futo Keyboard - A modern keyboard that respects your privacy and security, with features such as offline voice input, swipe typing and smart autocorrect.
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- 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.
- Syncthing - Continuous file synchronization program. It synchronizes files between two or more computers in real time, safely protected from prying eyes.
- Rclone - Rclone is a command line program to manage files on cloud storage. It is a feature rich alternative to cloud vendors' web storage interfaces and like the tools listed above enables encryption for encrypting files in the cloud.
- 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.
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Creator Tools
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Text
- vdo.ninja - Powerful tool that lets you bring remote video feeds into OBS or other studio software via WebRTC.
- OBS Studio - Free and open source software for video recording and live streaming.
- Screenity - A screen recorder that's free, private, and friendly.
- socialstream.ninja - Consolidate your live social messaging streams and much more.
- Screenity - A screen recorder that's free, private, and friendly.
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Databases
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Text
- Appwrite - Secure open-source backend server for web, mobile & Flutter developers.
- Supabase - Open source Firebase alternative ([Limited](https://github.com/supabase/supabase/issues/4934) [self-hosting](https://github.com/supabase/supabase/issues/4440#issuecomment-992108832))
- Pocketbase - Open Source backend in 1 file written in Go.
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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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Dating Apps
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IDEs
- charge users up to five times more for same service - parties](https://libreddit.kavin.rocks/r/privacy/comments/k7x4s7/tinder_extrapolates_estimations_on_your/), [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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Design Tools
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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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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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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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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.
- 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.
- 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.
- axel - Lightweight CLI download accelerator. It supports HTTP, HTTPS, FTP and FTPS protocols.
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Encryption
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Figma
- Veracrypt - VeraCrypt is a free open source disk encryption software for Windows, macOS and Linux.
- Shufflecake - Free open source, plausible deniability for multiple hidden filesystems on Linux
- Hat.sh - A Free, Fast, Secure and Serverless File Encryption.
- Cryptomator - Cryptomator encrypts your data quickly and easily. Afterwards you upload them protected to your favorite cloud service.
- Stegcloak - Hide secrets with invisible characters in plain text securely using passwords.
- 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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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.
- Blindsend - Open source tool for private, end-to-end encrypted file exchange.
- Croc - Easily and securely send things from one computer to another.
- Dat-cp - Copy files between hosts on a network using the peer-to-peer Dat network.
- Gokapi - Lightweight selfhosted Firefox Send alternative without public upload. AWS S3 supported.
- Lufi - Let's Upload that FIle — File sharing software.
- Magic Wormhole - Get things from one computer to another, safely.
- OnionShare - An open source tool that lets you securely and anonymously share files, host websites, and chat with friends using the Tor network.
- Paperless - [Now archived] Scan, index, and archive all of your paper documents.
- Paperless-ng - [inactive] A supercharged version of paperless: scan, index and archive all your physical documents.
- Paperless-ngx - A community-supported supercharged version of paperless based on paperless-ng
- 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.
- QRcp - Transfer files over wifi from your computer to your mobile device by scanning a QR code without leaving the terminal.
- Send - Simple, private file sharing. (Mozilla Send Fork)
- Sharik - Sharik works with Wi-Fi connection or Tethering (Wi-Fi Hotspot). No internet connection needed. Available for Android, iOS, Linux, MacOS & Windows.
- Snapdrop - A Progressive Web App for local file sharing inspired by Apple's Airdrop.
- Yopass - Secure sharing of secrets, passwords and files.
- 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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Fonts
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Google Fonts Replacements
- coolLabs Fonts - A privacy-friendly drop-in replacement for Google Fonts.
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Foundries
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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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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.
- Mineclonia - Survival sandbox game inspired by Minecraft. Fork of MineClone2 with focus on stability, multiplayer performance and features.
- Luanti - An open source voxel game engine with many 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).
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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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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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Home Assistants
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Sonic the Hedgehog
- 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/).
-  ([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
- Find My Device - Find your Android Device via SMS.
- GPSlogger - Lightweight GPS Logging Application For Android. No servers, no internet. Saved to a simple file to local storage.
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Mail Services
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Third-Party owned
- Riseup - Online communication tools for people and groups working on liberatory social change.
- Mailfence - Secure and private email.
- Tuta - Secure email for everybody. Open Source.
- Forward Email - the 100% open-source and privacy-focused email service.
- Mailfence - Secure and private email.
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Clients
- K9 - Open Source Email App for Android.
- Thunderbird - A free customizable open source email client.
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Self-Hosted
- Docker mail server - A fullstack but simple mail server (SMTP, IMAP, LDAP, Antispam, Antivirus, etc.) using Docker.
- Mailcow: dockerized - The mailserver suite with the 'moo'.
- Mail-in-a-box - Mail-in-a-Box helps individuals take back control of their email by defining a one-click, easy-to-deploy SMTP+everything else server: a mail server in a box.
- Mox - Modern full-featured open source secure mail server for low-maintenance self-hosted email.
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Email Alias Services (Anonymous Forwarding)
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Maps and Navigation
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Email Alias Services (Anonymous Forwarding)
- OSMAnd - Android/iOS Navigation app using OSM. It is a feature-rich app with all you expect.
- Organic Maps - Great offline maps for hikers and cyclists.
- Open Street Map (OSM) - OpenStreetMap is built by a community of mappers that contribute and maintain data about roads, trails, cafés, railway stations, and much more, all over the world.
- Qwant Maps - An OpenStreetMap-based private Google Maps alternative.
- CoMaps - A community-led free & open source maps app based on OSM
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Media Streaming Platforms
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Email Alias Services (Anonymous Forwarding)
- 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.
- 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.
- Stremio - Stremio is a modern media center that's a one-stop solution for your video entertainment.
- Subsonic - Your complete, personal music streamer.
- Ampache - A web based audio/video streaming application and file manager.
- Koel - a personal music streaming server that works.
- Nuclear - Modern music player focused on streaming from free sources.
- filled with trackers
- Very bad - privacy.eu.org/en/reports/com.audible.application/latest/).
- 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.
- Very bad - privacy.eu.org/en/reports/com.spotify.music/latest/).
- Navidrome - Lightweight, fast and self-contained personal music streamer.
- 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.
- Nuclear - Modern music player focused on streaming from free sources.
- Spotube - A lightweight free Spotify crossplatform-client.
- Spot* - Native Spotify client built in GTK and Rust.
- psst* - Fast and multi-platform Spotify client with native GUI.
- ncspot* - Cross-platform ncurses Spotify client written in Rust, inspired by ncmpc and the likes.ç
- Beatbump - Alternative frontend for YouTube Music; no ads and custom API wrapper.
- ViMusic - [Unmantained] A Jetpack Compose Android application for streaming music from YouTube Music.
- RiMusic - A ViMusic maintained fork.
- dzr - Command line Deezer player for Linux, BSD, Android+Termux
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Notes and Tasks
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Email Alias Services (Anonymous Forwarding)
- 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.
- Logseq - A privacy-first alternative to WorkFlowy.
- Notesnook - Open source zero knowledge private note taking.
- 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.
- Anytype - An open-source Notion alternative. E2EE, cloud and local network sync, can be self-hosted.
- Google Keep Exporter - to-markdown) - Convert your Google Keep notes into a standard markdown + YAML header format.
- Joplin - Note taking and to-do application with synchronisation and encryption capabilities.
- Memos - An open-source, self-hosted memo hub with knowledge management and socialization.
- Notally - A beautiful notes app (local only, no sync).
- SiYuan - A local-first personal knowledge management system.
- Standard Notes - A free, open-source, and completely encrypted notes app.
- Trilium Notes - Build your personal knowledge base with Trilium Notes
- YankNote - A Hackable Markdown Note Application for Programmers.
- Nextcloud Notes - The Notes app is a distraction free notes taking app for Nextcloud.
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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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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.
- Cryptpad - Collaboration suite, encrypted and open-source.
- Etherpad - Highly customizable open source online editor providing collaborative editing in really real-time.
- Skiff - End-to-end encrypted real-time document collaboration and file storage.
- Fileverse - Fileverse is building healthier alternatives with self-sovereignty, privacy by design, and standards compliance at its core.
- Ddocs - enhancing alternative to google docs: onchain, end-to-end encrypted, and decentralized.
- dSheets
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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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Operating Systems
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Android
- Read more on PrivacyGuides
- GrapheneOS - GrapheneOS is an open source privacy and security focused mobile OS with Android app compatibility.
- CalyxOS - CalyxOS lets you have your cake and eat it too, with "Privacy by Design".
- LineageOS - A free and open-source operating system for various devices, based on the Android mobile platform.
- 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.
- postmarketOS - Touch optimised and pre-configured version of Alpine Linux.
- 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.
- 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.
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Smart TV
- Raspberry Pi 4
- Kodi - It is an entertainment hub that brings all your digital media together into a beautiful and user friendly package. It is 100% free and open source, very customisable and runs on a wide variety of devices.
- OSMC - OSMC is a free and open source media center built for the people, by the people.
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PC / MacOS
- 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.
- ReactOS - ReactOS is an operating system able to run Windows software, Windows drivers that looks-like Windows and is free and open source.
- RedoxOS - A WIP project aiming to provide a Unix-like Operating System written in Rust.
- Tails
- this tool - home/) to see and disable the tons of privacy-invasive settings of MS Windows.
- Fedora
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Password Managers
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PC / MacOS
- KeepassXC - Securely store passwords using industry standard encryption, no sync just storage.
- KeepassDX
- Strongbox
- KeeWeb
- Padloc - The last password manager you'll ever want to use.
- Passky - Simple, modern, lightweight, open-source and secure password manager.
- Proton Pass - Open-source and encrypted password manager by Proton.
- 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.
- 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.
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Payments
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PC / MacOS
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- Qwant - A zero tracking search engine made and hosted in France, EU.
- Whoogle Search - A self-hosted, ad-free, privacy-respecting Google metasearch engine.
- librengine - Privacy Web Search Engine
- SearxNG - Free internet metasearch engine which aggregates results from various search services and databases.
- DuckDuckGo - A privacy respecting search engine.
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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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Budget Management
- ProExpense - A simple free finance note to safely record daily expenses.
- ProExpense - A simple free finance note to safely record daily expenses.
- My Expenses - Featureful GPL licenced Android Expense Tracking App.
- Budget Zen - Simple and Encrypted Budget Management.
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Shared Expenses
- MoneyBuster - Android client for Nextcloud Cospend and IHateMoney servers.
- Spliit - Share Expenses with Friends & Family. No ads. No account. Open Source. Forever Free.
- PeerSplit - [Website](peersplit.app) - Track and split group expenses. 100% free, 100% private.
- SplitPro - [Website](https://splitpro.app) - Split Expenses with your friends for free. An open source alternative to SplitWise.
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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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Others
- Debitum - With Debitum you can track all kinds of IOUs, be it money or lent items.
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Portfolio trackers
- Ghostfolio - open source wealth management software built with web technology.
- PortfolioPerformance - An open source tool to calculate the overall performance of an investment portfolio-
- Rotki - An awesome portfolio tracking, analytics, accounting and tax reporting application that protects your privacy.
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Photo Storage
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Self-hosted
- 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.
- Stingle Photos - Open source solution that provides strong security, privacy and encryption to backup your photos.
- 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.
- 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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Third-party
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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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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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Privacy Tools
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Android
- εxodus - The privacy audit platform for Android applications. Find how many trackers your apps have.
- ClassyShark3xodus - Checks apk(s) for known trackers (provided by Exodus) +other warnings and specs.
- Netguard - A simple way to block access to the internet per application.
- Plexus - Remove the fear of Android app compatibility on de-Googled devices. Find if an app will work on a De-Googled device.
- RethinkDNS + Firewall - An open-source, no-root firewall and DNS changer, with anti-censorship capabilities for Android 6+.
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Desktop
- BusKill - BusKill is a Dead Man Switch triggered when a magnetic breakaway is tripped, severing a USB connection.
- Whoami Project - Whoami provides enhanced privacy, anonymity for Debian and Arch based linux distributions.
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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.
- screego - Screen sharing for developers.
- Remmina - Remote access screen and file sharing to your desktop (RDP).
- UltraVNC - UltraVNC is a powerful, easy to use and free - remote pc access softwares - that can display the screen of another computer (via internet or network) on your own screen.
- MeshCentral - The open source, multi-platform, self-hosted, feature packed web site for remote device management.
- 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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Social Networks and Platforms
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Android
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- UntrackMe - Transform Youtube, Twitter & other links to their free and open source alternatives.
- 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.
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Blogging platforms (Medium)
- WriteFreely - An open source platform for building a writing space on the web.
- Scribe - Medium alternative forntend inspired by Invidious.
- Plume - Federated blogging application, thanks to ActivityPub.
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Instagram
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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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YouTube
-  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).
- Odysee - Odysee is a video platform backed by the creators of lbry and uses the lbry blockchain protocol.
- NewPipe - Alternative Android YouTube app. No account needed, privacy respecting, no ads.
- DTube - A full-featured video sharing website, decentralized.
- Invidious - Alternative and privacy respecting YouTube frontend.
- Piped - An alternative privacy-friendly YouTube frontend which is efficient by design.
- Youtube-Local - browser-based client for watching Youtube anonymously and with greater page performance.
- Tubular - A fork of NewPipe that implements SponsorBlock and ReturnYouTubeDislike.
- FreeTube - FreeTube is an open source desktop YouTube player built with privacy in mind. (Uses Local RSS API or Invidious for backend).
- Yattee - Alternative YouTube frontend for iOS, tvOS and macOS built with Invidious and Piped.
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TikTok
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- Redlib - An alternative private front-end to Reddit, with its origins in Libreddit.
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Streaming Platforms (Twitch)
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Wikipedia
- . (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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Teamworking Tools
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- TranslateLocally - source neural MT, runs offline on your computer
- Mozilla Translate - Open Source, runs model locally in your browser.
- TranslateLocally - source neural MT, runs offline on your computer
- Lingva - Alternative front-end for Google Translate. [Demo](https://lingva.ml/).
- Simplytranslate - Alternative front-end for Google Translate and LibreTranslate. [Demo](https://simplytranslate.org/)
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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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Video Editing
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- Olive Video Editor - Free open-source advanced non-linear video editor currently in Alpha state.
- Shotcut - Shotcut is a free, open source and simple cross-platform video editor.
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- kdenlive - Open source video editor. Free and easy to use for any purpose, forever.
- 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.
- OpenCut - [beta] A free, open-source video editor for web, desktop, and mobile.
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VPNs
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Imgur
- 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.
- Azire
- 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
- LNVPN
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Web Browser
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- acquired by a consortium of Chinese investors - privacy.eu.org/de/reports/com.opera.browser/latest/).
- Bromite - It has been known to lag on security patches, so it may be better not to use it.
- Firefox - Android/iOS
- Mull - Privacy hardened fork of Firefox for Android, with proprietary blobs removed.
- LibreWolf - Privacy-focused Firefox fork.
- Mullvad Browser - Browser with the privacy and security implications of the Tor Browser, without the use of the Tor network.
- Tor Browser
- Cromite - Cromite is a Chromium fork based on Bromite with built-in support for ad blocking and an eye for privacy.
- Microsoft's privacy policy - 19) to harden it a bit.
- Google's privacy policy - users-beware-manifest-v3-deceitful-and-threatening) which is outright harmful to privacy efforts.
- Brave - Brave offers a pretty good out-of-the-box set of privacy and tracker protections.
- Vanadium - Privacy and security enhanced releases of Chromium by GrapheneOS.
- Hitchhiker’s Guide to Online Anonymity
- Firefox - Android/iOS
- Mullvad Browser - Browser with the privacy and security implications of the Tor Browser, without the use of the Tor network.
- Ungoogled Chromium - A lightweight approach to removing Google web service dependency. Ungoogled-chromium is Google Chromium, sans dependency on Google web services.
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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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Artificial Intelligence
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Android Launcher
- Cline - Open source AI coding for VSCode. See every decision and use your own models.
- RooCode - Cline fork with some improvements.
- ComfyUI - ComfyUI lets you execute advanced image generation pipelines using an advanced interface. Available on Windows, Linux, and macOS.
- InvokeAI - Generate and create stunning visual media using the latest AI-driven technologies locally.
- 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.
- Jan - Jan is an open source alternative to ChatGPT that runs 100% offline on your computer.
- Stable Diffusion - High-Resolution Image Synthesis with Latent Diffusion Models.
- Stable Diffusion Web UI - A browser interface for Stable Diffusion and other models.
- Fauxpilot - an open-source,local alternative to GitHub Copilot server
- vscode-fauxpilot - vscode extension for fauxpilot. **reminder**: use [vscodium](https://vscodium.com/) instead!
- Localpilot - Use GitHub Copilot locally on your Macbook with one-click.
- Turbopilot - [Archived] Turbopilot is an open source large-language-model based code completion engine that runs locally on CPU.
- LMStudio - Run LLMs on your laptop, entirely offline with a beautiful UI.
- Continue - Open-source autopilot for VS Code and JetBrains—the easiest way to code with any LLM
- 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.
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Photo Editing and Management
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Portfolio trackers
- 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
- Czkawka - Multi functional app to find duplicates and similar images etc.
- Pocket Paint - The standard image manipulation app for Catroid.
- Scrambled Exif - Remove Exif data from pictures before sharing them.
- ImagePipe - Reduces image size and removes exif-tags when sharing images on android devices.
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Version Control
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Imgur
- 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.
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Speech to Text
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- 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.
- whisper.cpp - High-performance inference of OpenAI's Whisper automatic speech recognition (ASR) model.
- Whishper - A whisper frontend with subtitle editing and translation capabilities.
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Text to Speech
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Imgur
- 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.
- 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.
- Espeak - eSpeak NG is an open source speech synthesizer that supports more than hundred languages and accents. Voices will sound rather robotic.
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