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 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".
• Posidon Launcher - Posidon launcher is a minimal, one page homescreen with a vertical scrolling feed.

Android Keyboard

• 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 It is no longer updated, but still works.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.
• Indic Keyboard - Indic Keyboard is a versatile keyboard for Android users who wish to use Indic and Indian languages to type messages, compose emails and generally prefer to use them in addition to English on their phone.
• Simple Keyboard - 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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Android App Store

• 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.
• 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
• Droid-ify - Lightweight F-Droid client with Material UI.

Android Dialer

• Koler - Uniquely stylized phone app with customizable features.

Android File Manager

• Amaze File Manager - Simple and attractive Material Design file manager for Android.
• Material Files - An open source Material Design file manager, for Android 5.0+.
• Ghost Commander - Dual-panel file manager.

Android Gallery

• 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.
• privacy policy - flags-photos-of-fathers-sick-son-as-child-abuse-informs-police/). They also use your photos to improve their AI technology.
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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.

Alternative Google Play Store clients

• 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.

Android Launcher

• 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.
• llama.cpp - Inference of Facebook's LLaMA model in pure C/C++ so it can run locally on a CPU.
• Jan - Jan is an open source alternative to ChatGPT that runs 100% offline on your computer.
• Stable Diffusion Web UI - A browser interface for Stable Diffusion.
• 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.
• 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
• ollama - Get up and running with Llama 2 and other large language models locally.

Android Launcher

• Bad privacy policy - privacy.eu.org/en/reports/com.ideashower.readitlater.pro/latest/) and requires many permissions.
• Grimorie - Modern, open source, self-hosted bookmark manager.
• LinkAce
• LinkDing
• Shiori
• 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.
• Floccus - Sync your bookmarks privately across browsers and devices.

Book and web annotations/highlights management

• Kobuddy - Get your Kobo e-reader device bookmarks and annotations in a .txt file.
• Hypothesis - Annotate the web, with anyone, anywhere.

Book and web annotations/highlights management

• 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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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.

Text

• 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.
• Cryptomator - Cryptomator encrypts your data quickly and easily. Afterwards you upload them protected to your favorite cloud service
• 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.

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.

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.

Text

• Beekeeper Studio - Open Source SQL Editor and Database Manager with a privacy commitment in their mission statement.

IDEs

• Neovim - Hyperextensible Vim-based text editor.
• VSCodium - Free/Libre Open Source Software Binaries of VSCode. Vscode source code is open source (MIT-licensed), but the product available for download (Visual Studio Code) is licensed under [this not-FLOSS license](https://code.visualstudio.com/license) and contains telemetry/tracking.

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.

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

Figma

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

Figma

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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.

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.

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.
• 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-ng - [inactive] A supercharged version of paperless: scan, index and archive all your physical documents.
• Winden - A convenient version of Magic Wormhole you can use from within your browser. No need to install an app.

Workout planners

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

Food

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

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.

Google Fonts Replacements

• coolLabs Fonts - A privacy-friendly drop-in replacement for Google Fonts.

Foundries

• Velvetyne
• OpenFoundry

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.

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.

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.
• Minetest - An open source voxel game engine with many features.
• Mineclonia - Survival sandbox game inspired by Minecraft. Fork of MineClone2 with focus on stability, multiplayer performance and features.

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.

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.

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/).
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• Mycroft - The Private and Open Voice Assistant.
• Home Assistant - Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first.

Sonic the Hedgehog

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Decentralized

• 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.
• Cinny - A Matrix client focusing primarily on simple, elegant and secure interface.
• Jabber / XMPP (Protocol) - The universal and open messaging standard. Tried and tested. Independent. Privacy-focused. E2E encrypted.
• Conversations - Jabber/XMPP client for Android 4.0+ smartphones that has been optimized to provide a unique mobile experience.
• AstraChat - Another XMPP client.
• DeltaChat - Chat over encrypted e-mail.
• Session - Extreme focus on privacy and anonymity. Blockchain technology.
• 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.

Centralized

• Threema - The messenger that puts security and privacy first. Pay once, chat forever. No collection of user data. Open Source client.
• Signal - Extreme focus on privacy, combined with all of the features you expect. Strong encryption by design. 100% Open Source.

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.

P2P

• Keyoxide - A modern, secure and privacy-friendly platform to establish your decentralized online identity.
• LinkStack - Self-hosted open-source Linktree alternative.

P2P

• MagLit - An encrypted and privacy respecting Link Shortener service that also supports Magnet Links.

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.

Third-Party owned

• Forward Email - the 100% open-source and privacy-focused email service.
• ProtonMail - Secure Email. Based in Switzerland. [Read this article over Climate activist arrest](https://protonmail.com/blog/climate-activist-arrest/).
• Tutanota - Secure email for everybody. Open Source.
• Riseup - Online communication tools for people and groups working on liberatory social change.
• Mailfence - Secure and private email.
• Skiff - Privacy-first, end-to-end encrypted, open-source email.
• Tuta - Secure email for everybody. Open Source.

Self-Hosted

• 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.

Clients

• K9 - Open Source Email App for Android.
• Thunderbird - A free customizable open source email client.

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.

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.
• 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.
• Stremio - Stremio is a modern media center that's a one-stop solution for your video entertainment.
• Funkwhale - A social platform to enjoy and share audio.
• 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.
• Navidrome - Lightweight, fast and self-contained personal music streamer.
• psst* - Fast and multi-platform Spotify client with native GUI.
• filled with trackers
• Very bad - privacy.eu.org/en/reports/com.audible.application/latest/).
• Antennapod - A podcast player that is completely open. Subscribe to any RSS feed.
• Castopod - Self-host your podcasts with ease, keep control over what you create and talk to your audience without any middleman. Your podcast and your audience belong to you and you only.
• 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/).

Email Alias Services (Anonymous Forwarding)

• Anytype - An open-source Notion alternative. E2EE, cloud and local network sync, can be self-hosted.
• AppFlowy - Open Source Notion Alternative. You are in charge of your data and customizations.
• 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.
• Obsidian - Obsidian is the private and flexible note‑taking app. Closed source but has no trackers (website / apps) and E2EE sync.
• Quillnote - Take beautiful markdown notes and stay organized with task lists.
• SiYuan - A local-first personal knowledge management system.
• Standard Notes - A free, open-source, and completely encrypted notes app.
• TinyList - Create and share notes and checklists, without sacrificing your privacy.
• Vikunja - The open-source to-do app to organize your life.
• Quillpad - Take beautiful markdown notes and stay organized with task lists. Fork of Quillnote.

Email Alias Services (Anonymous Forwarding)

• Apple's privacy policy - privacy.eu.org/en/reports/com.shazam.android/latest/).
• trackers
• has trackers

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.

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)

Email verification required, accepting monero

• Onlinesim - Receive SMS online to virtual phone number. (Based in Russia)
• Onlinesim - Receive SMS online to virtual phone number. (Based in Russia)

Email verification required, accepting crypto

• SmsPVA - SmsPVA is a service providing a phone number you can send any SMS on and get a text of it. (Based in France)

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.
• Plasma Mobile - Plasma, in your pocket. Privacy-respecting, open source and secure phone ecosystem.
• mobian - Debian for mobile.

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.

PC / MacOS

• GNU/Linux
• Fedora
• 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

PC / MacOS

• Bitwarden - An open source cloud based password manager.
• KeepassXC - Securely store passwords using industry standard encryption, no sync just storage.
• KeepassDX
• Strongbox
• KeeWeb
• LessPass - Stateless password manager. Remember one master password to access your passwords. No sync needed.
• Padloc - The last password manager you'll ever want to use.
• Passbolt - An open source password manager designed for team collaboration.
• Passky - Simple, modern, lightweight, open-source and secure password manager.
• Proton Pass - Open-source and encrypted password manager by Proton.

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• Monero - Monero is cash for a connected world. It's fast, private, untraceable and secure.
• Bitcoin - Bitcoin is not anonymous nor private. Bitcoin is traceable, transparent and pseudonymous. For a basic introduction, [see aantonop's video](https://yewtu.be/watch?v=JN1Bowgcle8). More advanced users can watch this [Bitcoin privacy series](https://yewtu.be/watch?v=QEnL5k0R08w).
• Samourai Wallet - An open source, privacy-focused Bitcoin wallet available on Android.
• Sparrow Wallet - An open source, cross-platform desktop wallet that gives you many privacy-preserving spending tools.

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• SearX - Privacy-respecting metasearch engine.
• DuckDuckGo - A privacy respecting search engine.
• Brave Search - A privacy respecting search engine with [its own independent index](https://brave.com/search-independence/).
• Qwant - A zero tracking search engine made and hosted in France, EU.

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.
• Budget Zen - Simple and Encrypted Budget Management.
• MoneyBuster - Android client for Nextcloud Cospend and [IHateMoney](https://ihatemoney.org/) servers.

CRYPTO

• 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 :).

Self-hosted

• Immich (WIP) - Self-hosted photo and video backup solution directly from your mobile phone.
• Photoprism - Feature rich server-based application for browsing, organizing and sharing your personal photo collection. The most similar to Google 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.
• 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.

Third-party

• Crypt.ee - A private and encrypted place for all your photos, documents, notes and more.
• Ente - End-to-end encrypted storage for photos and videos. Open source, [audited](https://ente.io/blog/cryptography-audit/) independently.

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.

Desktop

• BusKill - BusKill is a Dead Man Switch triggered when a magnetic breakaway is tripped, severing a USB connection.

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.

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.

Android

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• UntrackMe - Transform Youtube, Twitter & other links to their free and open source alternatives.

Blogging platforms (Medium)

• WriteFreely - An open source platform for building a writing space on the web.

Instagram

• Pixelfed - Decentralized, federated and Open Source alternative to Instagram with posts, videos, stories, tags, etc.
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Quora

• privacy policy

YouTube

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• radicalization tool - youtube-is-addictive-259d5c575883). It never shows you [alternative opinions](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1908.08313.pdf) 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.

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• Mastodon - Free, federated microblogging social network built on open protocols.
• Mastodon Apps - List of Mastodon apps for Android, iOS, Web and Desktop.
• Pleroma - Pleroma is a free, federated social networking server built on open protocols.
• Husky - Android client for Pleroma and Mastodon.
• Nitter - Nitter is a free and open source alternative Twitter front-end focused on privacy.
• Kizie - Cleaner, better and privacy focussed Twitter client for Web.
• Soapbox - A frontend for Pleroma with a focus on custom branding and ease of use.

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• Aether - Peer-to-peer ephemeral public communities.
• Lemmy - A federated and open alternative to Reddit in Rust.
• SaidIt - Open source Reddit clone.
• Teddit - Alternative Reddit front-end focused on privacy
• Slide - Slide is an open sourced, ad free Reddit browser for Android and iOS.

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• Wikiless - A maintained fork of the free open source alternative Wikipedia front-end focused on privacy [Source Code](https://github.com/Metastem/wikiless). (Original instance: [wikiless.org](https://wikiless.org/), Wikiless repository has been removed by Codeberg, [follow news here](https://orenom.fi/))

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• Imgin - A minimalist, tor-friendly, read-only Imgur proxy insipired by software like Invidious, Nitter, and Bibliogram.

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• Zulip - Chat for distributed teams.
• Revolt - User-first chat platform built with modern web technologies.
• Twake - Work in a team faster. Twake covers all of your organizational needs through a single platform.
• RocketChat - Control your communication, manage your data, and have your own collaboration platform to improve team productivity.
• Nextcloud Talk - Keep conversations private with Nextcloud Talk.
• Mattermost - Open-source Slack alternative.

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• Libretranslate - Open Source Machine Translation - 100% Self-Hosted. No Limits. No Ties to Proprietary Services.
• Apertium - A free/open-source machine translation platform, runs offline on your computer
• Softcatala - Open Source Translation tool - Only Catalan/Spanish/English/French (uses apertium)
• TranslateLocally - source neural MT, runs offline on your computer
• Simplytranslate - Alternative front-end for Google Translate and LibreTranslate. [Demo](https://simplytranslate.org/)

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• Skymap - Open online planetarium program.
• CrowdSec - An open-source, modernized and collaborative fail2ban.
• 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.

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• Deskreen - Turn any device into a secondary screen for your computer.
• Loggit - Simple and Encrypted Life Tracking & Logging.

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• 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.
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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.
• kdenlive - Open source video editor. Free and easy to use for any purpose, forever.
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• 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
• IVPN
• Mullvad VPN
• Proton VPN
• SPN

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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.
• Privacy Browser
• Ungoogled Chromium - A lightweight approach to removing Google web service dependency. Ungoogled-chromium is Google Chromium, sans dependency on Google web services.
• Firefox - Open Source, independent browser. It needs some [hardening and tweaking](https://anonymousplanet.org/guide.html#firefox-1) to achieve great privacy.
• 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

Browser Addons

• uBlock Origin - Free, open-source ad content blocker. Easy on CPU and memory.
• Read the extension docs

Browser Sync

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

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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• GIMP - The Free & Open Source Image Editor.
• darktable - darktable is an open source photography workflow application and raw developer
• Inkscape - Inkscape is a free and open-source vector graphics editor used to create vector images.

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• 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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• Codeberg - Codeberg is a collaboration platform providing Git hosting and services for free and open source software, content and projects.
• Forgejo - Forgejo is a self-hosted lightweight software forge.
• GitLab - GitLab a DevOps software package that can develop, secure, and operate software.