privacy
encrypted messaging, anonymous email, VPNs, Tor, password managers, secure file sharing, browser privacy, and self-hosted privacy software.
A curated list of the best privacy tools, open-source privacy tools, encrypted messaging apps, anonymous email services, VPNs, Tor tools, password managers, secure file sharing apps, browser privacy extensions, and self-hosted privacy software.
Awesome Privacy Tools helps people find practical tools for private email, encrypted chat, anonymous browsing, password security, data removal, device hardening, and self-hosted alternatives to surveillance-based products.
Firefox extension that automatically rejects cookie consent banners and sends Global Privacy Control (GPC) signals.
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An LLM-as-a-judge HTTP proxy to secure agents in production .
Deploy agents. Safely. CrabTrap is an LLM-as-a-judge HTTP proxy to secure agents in production. It intercepts every request your AI agent makes, evaluates it against a policy, and allows or blocks it in real time.
The Conversation That Never Happened.
Peer-to-peer, E2EE messaging with no logs, no accounts, and no server memory. nullroom.io is a zero-trace, ephemeral peer-to-peer messaging app built with Rails, Stimulus, WebRTC, and Web Crypto. Two people share a link, establish a direct encrypted data channel, and exchange messages without message persistence on the server.
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A self-hosted, ad-free, privacy-respecting metasearch engine.
Get Google search results, but without any ads, JavaScript, AMP links, cookies, or IP address tracking. Easily deployable in one click as a Docker app, and customizable with a single config file. Quick and simple to implement as a primary search engine replacement on both desktop and mobile.
Offline Hike, Bike, Trails and Navigation.
Organic Maps is a privacy-focused offline maps & GPS app for hiking, cycling, biking, and driving. Absolutely free. No ads. No tracking. Developed with love by the open-source community and the same people, who created MapsWithMe/Maps.Me app. Powered by OpenStreetMap data.
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attempting to detect smart glasses nearby and warn you.
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Monitor your local neighbourhood's bluetooth activity.
Bluetooth Neighborhood - Track BLE devices in your area and analyze traffic patterns.
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App compatibility on de-Googled devices. Crowdsourced de-Googled Android apps status ratings.
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CookieViz is a vizualization tool allowing to view cookies impact during your browsing.
CookieViz analyzes the interactions between your web browser and the remote servers and websites. You will be able to know to which other player the site you're visiting sends information.
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Together, we can build a people-centered, democratic society!
Help us protect human rights and freedoms in the digital age through a monthly donation.
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Orion is a free, lightning-fast, privacy-focused, WebKit-based browser for Mac, iOS, and soon Linux that blocks ads and trackers by default.
Understand Privacy & Legal Terms. Plain-language analysis of Terms & Conditions. Know what you're agreeing to before you sign up.
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paranoid-grade rust-based encryption utility + cross-platform GUI.
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A local AI-powered DLP solution.
PrivacyFirewall is a local-first PII and secrets firewall for AI tools like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini.It blocks risky paste events, warns as you type, and (optionally) uses a lightweight on-device Transformer model for deeper PII detection.
What Your Browser Reveals About You.
This is the data your browser hands out automatically, every time! Discover all the information your browser shares automatically. This project demonstrates the data your browser exposes by default.
Bypass DPI. Implementation of some DPI bypass methods. The program is a local SOCKS proxy server.
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An Android application that locally runs ByeDPI and routes all traffic through it.
For stable operation, you may need to adjust the settings. You can read more about different settings in the ByeDPI documentation.
This application is not a VPN. It uses Android's VPN mode to route traffic but does not transmit anything to a remote server. It does not encrypt traffic or hide your IP address.
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An open-source time-tracking tool for monitoring your productivity with privacy-first approach. Own your hustle, optimize those "grind sessions," and uncover inefficiencies. Built with Rust, Ratatui and Postgres.
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In August 2025, Google announced that starting next year, it will no longer be possible to develop apps for the Android platform without first registering centrally with Google.
deGoogled unGoogled smartphone operating systems and online services - your data is your data. We build desirable, open source, privacy-enabled smartphone operating systems.
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Private, fast, and honest web browser.
The Chromium-based web browser made for people, with love. Best privacy by default, unbiased ad-blocking, no bloat and no noise.
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Your AI.Your Data. Zero Cloud. Offline ChatGPT alternative: open-source, on-device, and 100% private.
By connecting to Ollama local LLMs, NativeMind delivers the latest AI capabilities right inside your favourite browser — without sending a single byte to cloud servers.
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the everything app for those who celebrate trust & autonomy.
Anytype is an encrypted, local-first alternative to the cloud-based Internet. With Anytype, you can build digital Spaces around your interests. These spaces can be personal - for diaries, ideas and drafts, or shared - with your family, small communities, teams, neighbors and people with similar interests.
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Uncensorable Peer-to-Peer. Where Friendship Meets Freedom. Decentralized application with Friend-to-Friend technology.
Xeres allows you to interact with people in a fully decentralized way. No server or account required, which means: nobody can censor you.
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A libre front-end for Quora.
Quetre is an alternative front-end to Quora. It enables you to see answers without ads, trackers, and other such bloat.
Receive and send emails anonymously. Open source anonymous email service.
With email aliases, you can be anonymous online and protect your inbox against spams and phishing. Open source. Based in Switzerland.
the private and secure mobile OS.
The private and secure mobile operating system with Android app compatibility. Developed as a non-profit open source project.
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Tails is a portable operating system that protects against surveillance and censorship.
Tails uses the Tor network to protect your privacy online and help you avoid censorship.
Paralegal is a static analyzer for Rust code that enforces privacy and security policies on programs.
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Private front-end for Reddit. An alternative private front-end to Reddit, with its origins in Libreddit.
Redlib hopes to provide an easier way to browse Reddit, without the ads, trackers, and bloat. Redlib was inspired by other alternative front-ends to popular services such as Invidious for YouTube, Nitter for Twitter, and Bibliogram for Instagram.
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Sortez couvert·es est un site qui donne des conseils juridiques et des rappels légaux sur l’usage du numérique, dans l’optique de protéger ses utilisateurices dans des situations d’urgence, de stress, comme nous pouvons les vivre au moment de grèves ou de manifestations.
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Lock a device and wipe its data on emergency.
You can use PanicKit, tile, shortcut or send a message with a secret code. On trigger, using Device Administration API, it locks a device and optionally runs wipe (factory reset). Or it can send a broadcast message instead of the wipe.
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Duress password trigger.
Tiny app to listen for a duress password on the lockscreen. When found, it can send a broadcast message or wipe the device.
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A browser extension to use Youtube without G👀gle.
With the help of LocalTube Manager, like videos, subscribe to channels, and create & manage playlists all without a Google account. Your data stays private and is stored locally in your browser.
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An open source anti-detect browser with robust fingerprint injection. 🦊 A stealthy, minimalistic, custom build of Firefox for web scraping 🦊
The new firewall for the modern Internet.
NextDNS protects you from all kinds of security threats, blocks ads and trackers on websites and in apps and provides a safe and supervised Internet for kids — on all devices and on all networks.
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The IndieWeb is a people-focused alternative to the “corporate web”.
We are a community of independent and personal websites based on the principles of: owning your domain and using it as your primary online identity, publishing on your own site first (optionally elsewhere), and owning your content.
(WIP) Zed fork focused on privacy and being local-first
This is Zedless, a fork of Zed that's designed to be privacy-friendly and local-first.
Searloc is a fast, local randomizer for searXNG instances and for !!external bang users.
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Up-to-date developments and analyses of the EU AI Act.
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This website aims at studying the diversity of browser fingerprints and providing developers with data to help them design good defenses. Contribute to the efforts by viewing your own browser fingerprint or consult the current statistics of data provided by users around the world! If you click on this button.
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Decentralized search engine & automatized press reviews
- Explore the press with no middlemen between the newspapers and your web browser.
- Discover millions of results within seconds and explore the last ones in Firefox via this addon.
- Schedule searches, select your press review and export it in a few clicks.
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A web extension that redirects YouTube, Instagram, Reddit, TikTok and other websites to alternative privacy-friendly frontends.
🛡️ PII Guard is an LLM-powered tool that detects and manages Personally Identifiable Information (PII) in logs — designed to support data privacy and GDPR compliance
Swaps non-privacy respecting sites with open source privacy frontends.
Privacy Please is a browser extension that automatically redirects users from major websites to privacy-respecting frontend alternatives. Instead of feeding surveillance capitalism, you get clean access to content without tracking, ads, or engagement profiling.
disposable email server with an easy setup.
Whenever you sign up with your email on a website, your email address is stored and sometimes sold to advertisers. This is where you get your bulk of spam emails. Whenever a data breach happens, you also risk having your primary email address leaked and informations stolen.
Using Nortix Mail, you can create disposable email addresses that can be used to sign up to website that requires email verification. This is very useful when you just want to try out new website / services without giving away your real email address. It significantly enhances privacy, security and reduces spam. It's like running your own Gmail server.
Secure peer-to-peer chat that is serverless, decentralized, and ephemeral.
Chitchatter is a free (as in both price and freedom) communication tool. Designed to be the simplest way to connect with others privately and securely.
DMH will execute action when you will not be able to. Dead-man-switch software with privacy in mind.
Dead-Man-Hand will execute pre-added actions when you will no longer be "available".
All actions are encrypted and when properly configured nobody will be able to get action details till you are alive.
Main goal of DMH is to ensure that actions can be executed only when you are dead. And before that time, every action should be confidential - even for people who have access to DMH.
Interface with Home Connect appliances in Python.
Python tool to talk to Home Connect appliances over the local network (no cloud required).
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Continuing the legacy of Vanced.
Customize your mobile experience through ReVanced by applying patches to your applications.
Bypass Microsoft Account creation during Windows 11/10 install.
With Microsoft’s recent Windows 11 updates, the bypass for the network requirement (NRO) was "effectively" blocked, forcing users into an online account creation. MSAPatcher brings back the simplicity of the bypassnro.cmd one-liner, allowing you to bypass the NRO without having to manually add registry keys or deal with complex workarounds.
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Make Windows Yours.
Open-source tool to build your Windows script from scratch. It features debloat, privacy, performance & app installing scripts.
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A privacy-focused alternative frontend to Tumblr with a touch of modern design
Rust tool to detect cell site simulators on an orbic mobile hotspot. Rayhunter is an IMSI Catcher Catcher for the Orbic mobile hotspot.
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Automated Command Line Identity Generation Tool for OSINT Investigators. Command Line Sock Puppet Creator for Investigators.
Loki can create a sock puppet identity, that you can use to create a fake online presence to start your investigations. As an OSINT, Private or any other Investigator who seeks to conduct OSINT investigations; you need a sock puppet which cannot be traced back to you. Setting up a sock puppet is easy; only if you know where to look for.
A lightweight, GDPR and CCPA compliant Consent Management Tool written in vanilla JS.
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Transfer your audience from X to BlueSky and/or Mastodon.
Find the ones you follow. In just a few clicks.
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