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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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  • 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.
    • Proton Authenticator - Proton Authenticator is an [open source](https://proton.me/community/open-source#apps) and [end-to-end encrypted](https://proton.me/blog/password-encryption) 2FA app that’s simple and free to use.
    • 2FAS Auth - Open source TOTP authenticator for iOS and Android with a companion browser extension and no account required. GPL-3.0 licensed.
  • Analytics

    • Ackee - Self-hosted website analytics.
    • 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.
    • Pirsch - Pirsch is a simple, privacy-friendly, open-source alternative to Google Analytics — lightweight, cookie-free and easily integrated into any website or backend.
    • Plausible - Simple and privacy-friendly alternative to Google Analytics.
    • Swetrix - Privacy-focused, fully cookieless and opensource (and selfhostable) web-analytics service.
    • Umami - A simple, fast, website analytics alternative to Google Analytics.
    • GoatCounter - Privacy aware, lightweight and open-source analytics platform.
    • 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.
  • Android

    • Alternative Google Play Store clients

      • Aurora Store - Aurora Store is an open-source alternative Google Play Store frontend client with privacy and modern design in mind.
    • Android 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
      • Foxy Droid - Unofficial F-Droid client in the style of the classic one.
      • Obtainium - Get app updates directly from the source.
      • Accrescent - A novel Android app store focused on security, privacy, and usability.
      • Droid-ify - Lightweight F-Droid client with Material UI.
      • SkyDroid - Decentralized App Store for Android
    • Android Debloat Tools

    • Android Dialer

      • Koler - Uniquely stylized phone app with customizable features.
      • Fossify Phone - A handy phone call manager with phonebook, number blocking and multi-SIM support.
    • Android File Manager

      • privacy policy - flags-photos-of-fathers-sick-son-as-child-abuse-informs-police/). They also use your photos to improve their AI technology.
      • **examples** list
      • Aves - Beautiful gallery and metadata explorer app, built for Android with Flutter.
      • Fossify Gallery - Fork of Simple Gallery. Browse your memories without any interruptions with this photo and video gallery.
    • Android Keyboard

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      • 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.
      • 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.
      • Indic Keyboard - Indic Keyboard is a versatile keyboard for Android users who wish to use Indic and Indian languages to type messages, compose emails and generally prefer to use them in addition to English on their phone.
      • OpenBoard - OpenBoard is a 100% foss keyboard based on AOSP, with no dependency on Google binaries, that respects your privacy. It is no longer updated, but still works.
      • Simple Keyboard - Simply keyboard and nothing more.
    • 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".
  • Artificial Intelligence

    • Android Launcher

      • LMStudio - Run LLMs on your laptop, entirely offline with a beautiful UI.
      • 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
      • 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.
      • Stable Diffusion - High-Resolution Image Synthesis with Latent Diffusion Models.
      • Stable Diffusion Web UI - A browser interface for Stable Diffusion and other 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.
      • 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.
      • 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.
      • PasteGuard - Privacy proxy for LLM APIs that masks PII and secrets before they reach cloud providers. Self-hosted, OpenAI-compatible, and restores original data in responses.
      • llama.cpp - Inference of Facebook's LLaMA model in pure C/C++ so it can run locally on a CPU.
      • Moonshine - Fast and accurate automatic speech recognition (ASR) for edge devices.
      • ParakeetTDT - Efficient audio transcription. Convert speech to text with unprecedented speed and accuracy using NVIDIA advanced AI speech recognition model.
      • OpenWhispr - Voice-to-text dictation and productivity app with AI agents, meeting transcription, notes, and local/cloud speech recognition. Privacy-first and available cross-platform. Open source alternative to wisprflow.
      • Sasayaki - Tiny android dictation app that turns speech into clear writing.
      • Speaches - OpenAI API-compatible server supporting streaming transcription, translation, and speech generation.
      • Open WebUI - Self-hosted web interface for Ollama and other local models that gives you a private ChatGPT-style chat. BSD-3 licensed.
      • Zoo Code - Cline fork with some improvements; community successor to the discontinued Roo Code.
      • Piper - A fast, local neural text to speech system that sounds great and is optimized for the Raspberry Pi 4.
      • Chatterbox - Local text-to-speech model with voice cloning that runs entirely on your own machine. Open source, MIT licensed.
      • faster-whisper - Reimplementation of Whisper using CTranslate2 that transcribes locally up to four times faster. MIT licensed.
      • SwarmUI - Local web interface for Stable Diffusion and other diffusion models, built on a ComfyUI backend. MIT licensed.
  • Bookmarking

    • Android Launcher

      • Bad privacy policy - privacy.eu.org/en/reports/com.ideashower.readitlater.pro/latest/) and requires many permissions.
      • Bad privacy policy - privacy.eu.org/en/reports/com.evernote/latest/) and require too many permissions.
      • Wallabag - Open-source, optionally self-hosted, read it later server. Provides paid hosted service with privacy in mind.
      • Grimoire - Modern, open source, self-hosted bookmark manager.
      • LinkAce
      • LinkDing
      • Shiori
      • Floccus - Sync your bookmarks privately across browsers and devices.
      • 42links - Open-source, self-hosted, minimalist bookmark storage service.
      • Karakeep - (previously Hoarder) Open source "Bookmark Everything" app that uses AI for automatically tagging the content you throw at it.
      • 42links - Open-source, self-hosted, minimalist bookmark storage service.
    • Book and web annotations/highlights management

      • Kobuddy - Get your Kobo e-reader device bookmarks and annotations in a .txt file.
      • Blasta - A collaborative bookmarks manager for organizing online content.
      • Hypothesis - Annotate the web, with anyone, anywhere.
  • Calendar

    • Book and web annotations/highlights management

      • Nextcloud Calendar - Calendar app for Nextcloud with CalDAV support. Self-hostable.
      • Proton Calendar - End-to-end encrypted calendar from Proton. Part of the Proton privacy ecosystem.
  • Captchas

    • Book and web annotations/highlights management

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      • hCaptcha - Privacy-first CAPTCHA for web, mobile, and more.
      • mCaptcha - An open-source CAPTCHA system with seamless UX. mCaptcha uses SHA256 based proof-of-work (PoW) to rate limit users.
      • OOPSpam - No-captcha, privacy-friendly anti-spam, anti-bot API. Requires no personal data for detection. Supports popular platforms like WordPress. Privacy commitment in their mission statement.
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      • Altcha.org - Free, open-source and self-hosted CAPTCHA alternative using proof-of-work mechanism.
      • Private Captcha - Privacy-first and self-hosted Proof-of-Work CAPTCHA alternative, made in EU.
  • Cloaking

    • Images

      • Fawkes - privacy preserving tool against facial recognition systems.
      • CloakMe - Web interface for Fawkes algorithm.
      • ImageScrubber - A friendly browser-based tool for anonymizing photographs taken at protests ([hosted version provided by everestpipkin](https://everestpipkin.github.io/image-scrubber/)).
  • Cloud Storage

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      • Bad privacy policy - privacy.eu.org/en/reports/com.dropbox.android/latest/) and requires many permissions.
      • Seafile - High performance file syncing and sharing. It includes a Wiki, WYSIWYG editing and other knowledge management features.
      • 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.
      • 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.
      • 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.
  • Commenting Engines

    • Book and web annotations/highlights management

      • Commento - Commento is a fast, privacy-focused commenting platform. Can be selfhosted or use their SaaS.
      • Remark42 - Self-hosted, lightweight, and simple (yet functional) comment engine, which doesn't spy on users.
      • Comentario - Tiny, Privacy-focused, Open-source web comment engine, which adds discussion functionality to plain, boring web pages.
      • Cusdis - Lightweight, privacy-friendly alternative to Disqus.
      • Disgus - Embeddable comments for your website, backed by Nostr. Like Disqus but Nostr.
      • Isso - A lightweight, self hosted, commenting server written in Python and JavaScript. It aims to be a drop-in replacement for Disqus.
  • Creator Tools

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      • 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.
      • socialstream.ninja - Consolidate your live social messaging streams and much more.
      • Screenity - A screen recorder that's free, private, and friendly.
  • Databases

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      • 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.
      • TrailBase - Open source, single-executable Firebase alternative built on Rust and SQLite, with type-safe REST and realtime APIs, auth, and an admin UI. OSL-3.0 licensed.
      • CondensationDB - Condensation is an open-source zero trust, distributed database enabling to build modern applications while ensuring data ownership and security.
      • Baserow - Self-hosted no-code database and spreadsheet that works as an open source Airtable alternative. MIT licensed core.
  • Dating Apps

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

    • Figma

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

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

      • Krita - A free and open-source raster graphics editor designed primarily for digital art and 2D animation.
      • Excalidraw - Virtual whiteboard for sketching hand-drawn like diagrams.
  • Developer Tools

    • 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.
  • Domains & Hosting

  • Download Manager

    • 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.
      • 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.
  • Encryption

    • Figma

      • Stegcloak - Hide secrets with invisible characters in plain text securely using passwords.
      • Veracrypt - VeraCrypt is a free open source disk encryption software for Windows, macOS and Linux.
      • 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.
      • 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.
      • Picocrypt - A very small (hence "Pico"), very simple, yet very secure file encryption tool.
      • age - Modern command line file encryption tool with small keys and no configuration or keyring to manage. Open source, BSD-3 licensed.
    • OS Encryption

      • Cryptsetup - Full disk encryption for Linux. Cryptsetup is a utility used to conveniently set up disk encryption based
  • File Management and Sharing

    • 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.
  • Fitness and Health

    • Fitness trackers

      • FitTrackee - Self-hosted web app to record and analyze outdoor activities from GPS files, as a Strava alternative (AGPL-3.0).
    • 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
    • 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.
    • 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.
      • Poppy - Poppy is a private period tracker that runs in the browser. It stores data locally, and can sync and backup through Nostr relays without a Poppy server or account, all encrypted end to end.