All Projects → retiolus → privacysec

retiolus / privacysec

Licence: CC-BY-4.0 license
I don't have anything to hide, but I don't have anything to show you either.

Projects that are alternatives of or similar to privacysec

Awesome Privacy
A curated list of services and alternatives that respect your privacy because PRIVACY MATTERS.
Stars: ✭ 303 (+175.45%)
Mutual labels:  microsoft, apps
Interview Process Coding Questions
Interview Coding Questions for Several Companies encapsulated into one Repository
Stars: ✭ 74 (-32.73%)
Mutual labels:  microsoft, adobe
Cloneapp
📦Easily Backup & Restore Windows Programs Settings
Stars: ✭ 163 (+48.18%)
Mutual labels:  microsoft, apps
Azure Devops Migration Tools
Azure DevOps Migration Tools allow you to migrate Teams, Backlogs, Tasks, Test Cases, and Plans & Suits from one Project to another in Azure DevOps / TFS both within the same Organisation, and between Organisations.
Stars: ✭ 218 (+98.18%)
Mutual labels:  microsoft
Languageserver.jl
An implementation of the Microsoft Language Server Protocol for the julia language.
Stars: ✭ 223 (+102.73%)
Mutual labels:  microsoft
Checkedc
Checked C is an extension to C that lets programmers write C code that is guaranteed by the compiler to be type-safe. The goal is to let people easily make their existing C code type-safe and eliminate entire classes of errors. Checked C does not address use-after-free errors. This repo has a wiki for Checked C, sample code, the specification, a…
Stars: ✭ 2,692 (+2347.27%)
Mutual labels:  microsoft
FritzBoxTelefon-dingsbums
Das Fritz!Box Telefon-dingsbums ist ein Outlook-Addin, welches ein direktes Wählen der Kontakte aus Outlook ermöglicht. Zusätzlich bietet es nützliche Funktionen, wie einen Anrufmonitor oder eine Rückwärtssuche.
Stars: ✭ 16 (-85.45%)
Mutual labels:  microsoft
Hololens facial recognition
A Unity hololens app to detect faces and display their attributes
Stars: ✭ 217 (+97.27%)
Mutual labels:  microsoft
Vscode
Visual Studio Code
Stars: ✭ 125,417 (+113915.45%)
Mutual labels:  microsoft
Api Management Developer Portal
Azure API Management developer portal.
Stars: ✭ 229 (+108.18%)
Mutual labels:  microsoft
Azure Powershell
Microsoft Azure PowerShell
Stars: ✭ 2,873 (+2511.82%)
Mutual labels:  microsoft
Cleanmgrplus
🐾 A Improved Replacement for Microsoft Disk Cleanup
Stars: ✭ 224 (+103.64%)
Mutual labels:  microsoft
Msgraph Sdk Powershell
Powershell SDK for Microsoft Graph
Stars: ✭ 239 (+117.27%)
Mutual labels:  microsoft
Airsim Neurips2019 Drone Racing
Drone Racing @ NeurIPS 2019, built on Microsoft AirSim
Stars: ✭ 220 (+100%)
Mutual labels:  microsoft
Fossapps
Fossapps has been abandoned and replaced by Fossapps Creator.
Stars: ✭ 13 (-88.18%)
Mutual labels:  apps
Pixel level land classification
Tutorial demonstrating how to create a semantic segmentation (pixel-level classification) model to predict land cover from aerial imagery. This model can be used to identify newly developed or flooded land. Uses ground-truth labels and processed NAIP imagery provided by the Chesapeake Conservancy.
Stars: ✭ 217 (+97.27%)
Mutual labels:  microsoft
Studentsatbuild
Find all of the resources you might need to try out code presented in the Student Zone at Build 2020 for yourself!
Stars: ✭ 251 (+128.18%)
Mutual labels:  microsoft
Awesome Dotnet Core
🐝 A collection of awesome .NET core libraries, tools, frameworks and software
Stars: ✭ 15,483 (+13975.45%)
Mutual labels:  microsoft
Cognitive Face Python
Python SDK for the Microsoft Face API, part of Cognitive Services
Stars: ✭ 226 (+105.45%)
Mutual labels:  microsoft
Azure Event Hubs
☁️ Cloud-scale telemetry ingestion from any stream of data with Azure Event Hubs
Stars: ✭ 233 (+111.82%)
Mutual labels:  microsoft

Image

PRIVACYSEC

Crowdin

I don't have anything to hide, but I don't have anything to show you either.

Mirror: framagit.org/retiolus/privacysec

Based on data from:

Index

  1. Browser extensions
  2. Replacements/alternatives
    1. Adobe
    2. Android
    3. Facebook
    4. Google
    5. Instagram
    6. Microsoft
    7. Reddit
    8. Twitter
    9. WhatsApp
  3. Useful links, tools, and advice
    1. Resources
    2. Books
    3. Blog posts
    4. News articles

Browser extensions

Name Description
uBlock Origin Mozilla Add-on uBlock Origin is not an "ad blocker", it's a wide-spectrum content blocker with CPU and memory efficiency as a primary feature.
Privacy Badger Mozilla Add-on Privacy Badger automatically learns to block invisible trackers. Instead of keeping lists of what to block, Privacy Badger learns by watching which domains appear to be tracking you as you browse the Web.
HTTPS Everywhere Mozilla Add-on Many sites on the web offer some limited support for encryption over HTTPS, but make it difficult to use. For instance, they may default to unencrypted HTTP, or fill encrypted pages with links that go back to the unencrypted site. The HTTPS Everywhere extension fixes these problems by rewriting all requests to these sites to HTTPS.
Cookie AutoDelete Mozilla Add-on Control your cookies! This WebExtension is inspired by Self Destructing Cookies. When a tab closes, any cookies not being used are automatically deleted. Whitelist the ones you trust while deleting the rest. Support for Container Tabs.
DDG Privacy Essentials Mozilla Add-on Privacy, simplified. Our add-on provides the privacy essentials you need to seamlessly take control of your personal information, no matter where the internet takes you: tracker blocking, smarter encryption, DuckDuckGo private search, and more.
I don't care about cookies Mozilla Add-on This add-on will remove cookie warnings from almost all websites! You can report any website which still warns you about cookies: make a right click and choose 'Report a cookie warning' from the menu.
minerBlock Mozilla Add-on MinerBlock is an efficient browser extension that focuses on blocking browser-based cryptocurrency miners all over the web. This extension uses two different approaches to block miners. The first one is based on blocking requests/scripts loaded from a blacklist, this is the traditional approach adopted by most ad-blockers and other mining blockers. The other approach which makes MinerBlock more efficient against cryptojacking is detecting potential mining behavior inside loaded scripts and kills them immediately. This makes the extension able to block inline scripts as well as miners running through proxies. Source code available on GitHub.
ClearURLS Mozilla Add-on This extension will automatically remove tracking elements from URLs to help protect your privacy when browse through the Internet.
Cloud Firewall Mozilla Add-on Block connections to pages and web resources hosted in major cloud services if the user wishes to do so. Supports blocking Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft and Cloudflare.
CSS Exfil Protection Mozilla Add-on CSS Exfil is a method attackers can use to steal data from web pages using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). This plugin sanitizes and blocks any CSS rules which may be designed to steal data.
Disconnect Mozilla Add-on Visualize and block the otherwise invisible websites that track your search and browsing history.
Don't touch my tabs! (rel=noopener Mozilla Add-on Prevent tabs opened by a hyperlink from hijacking the previous tab by adding the rel=noopener attribute to all hyperlinks (excluding same-domain hyperlinks).
Firefox Multi-Account Containers Mozilla Add-on Firefox Multi-Account Containers lets you keep parts of your online life separated into color-coded tabs that preserve your privacy. Cookies are separated by container, allowing you to use the web with multiple identities or accounts simultaneously.
Google search link fix (also Yandex) Mozilla Add-on This extension prevents Google and Yandex search pages from modifying search result links when you click them. This is useful when copying links but it also helps privacy by preventing the search engines from recording your clicks.
HTTPZ Mozilla Add-on HTTPZ is meant to be unobtrusive and lightweight, it respects your privacy, and is free of trans fats. Additionally, it is very configurable, and should be slightly more secure than some of the alternatives out there, since it has a couple of built-in defenses against SSL-stripping attacks.
Link Cleaner Mozilla Add-on Clean URLs that are about to be visited: removes utm_* parameters; on item pages of aliexpress and amazon, removes tracking parameters; skip redirect pages of facebook, steam and reddit
Privacy-Oriented Origin Policy Mozilla Add-on Prevent Firefox from sending Origin headers when they are least likely to be necessary, to protect your privacy.
Skip Redirect Mozilla Add-on Some web pages use intermediary pages before redirecting to a final page. This add-on tries to extract the final url from the intermediary url and goes there straight away if successful.
Temporary Containers Mozilla Add-on Open tabs, websites, and links in automatically managed disposable containers. Containers isolate data websites store (cookies, storage, and more) from each other, enhancing your privacy and security while you browse.
TrackMeNot Mozilla Add-on An artware browser add-on to protect privacy in web-search. By issuing randomized queries to common search-engines, TrackMeNot obfuscates your search profile and registers your discontent with surreptitious tracking.
Redirect AMP to HTML Mozilla Add-on This web extension enables users to choose to opt-out of using Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) and choose to use the standard web instead.
user.js This is not an extension, instead it is a Firefox user.js config file. This file is a template which aims to provide as much privacy and enhanced security as possible, and to reduce tracking and fingerprinting as much as possible - while minimizing any loss of functionality and breakage (but it will happen).

Replacements/alternatives

Back to top

Eyes Countries
5 Australia, Canada, New Zeland, UK, USA
9 Denmark, France, Netherlands, Norway
14 Germany, Belgium, Italy, Sweden, Spain

Adobe

Back to top

Adobe After Effects

Back to top

Name Eyes Description
Blender Linux Apple Windows
Blender is the free and open source 3D creation suite. It supports the entirety of the 3D pipeline—modeling, rigging, animation, simulation, rendering, compositing and motion tracking, video editing and 2D animation pipeline.

Adobe Audition

Back to top

Name Eyes Description
Audacity Linux Apple Windows
Audacity is an easy-to-use, multi-track audio editor and recorder for Windows, macOS, GNU/Linux and other operating systems. Developed by a group of volunteers as open source.

Adobe Dreamweaver

Back to top

Adobe Illustrator

Back to top

Name Eyes Description
Inkscape Linux Apple Windows
Free and open-source vector graphics editor used to create vector images, primarily in Scalable Vector Graphics format.

Adobe Photoshop

Back to top

Android

Name Eyes Description
Pocket PaintF-Droid Paintroid (or Pocket Paint) is an open-source graphical paint editor App, that, among others, allows setting parts of pictures to transparent, insert Text / Images, add Layers, use Color filling and picking tools, rotate, resize and position elements...
Scrambled ExifF-Droid Remove Exif data from pictures before sharing them.
ImagepipeF-Droid Reduces image size and removes exif-tags when sharing images on android devices.

Desktop

Name Eyes Description
GIMP Linux Apple Windows
GIMP is a cross-platform image editor available for GNU/Linux, OS X, Windows and more operating systems. It is free software, you can change its source code and distribute your changes.
Krita Linux Apple Windows
Free and open-source raster graphics editor designed primarily for digital painting and 2D animation

Adobe Premiere Pro

Back to top

Name Eyes Description
Kdenlive Linux Apple Windows
Intuitive and powerful open-source multi-track video editor compatible with latest video technologies. Most of the video processing is done by the MLT Framework, which relies on many other open source projects like FFmpeg, frei0r, movit, ladspa, sox, etc.
Shotcut Linux Apple Windows
Shotcut is a free, open source, cross-platform, non-linear video editor.

Android/Fushsia

Back to top

Name Eyes Description
Ubuntu Touch Ubuntu, but for phones.
LineageOS 5-eyes Open-source and based on Android, but without the crap.
SailfishOS Privacy-focused mobile OS by Jolla with a proprietary UI and Android compatibility layer on top of an open-source Mer GNU/Linux base.
GrapheneOS Open-source Android-based OS with an emphasis on security and privacy. Features advanced hardening and privacy protections throughout the system.
postmarketOS Open-source mobile Linux OS. Can install different user interfaces such as Plasma Mobile. Thanks @okias
Replicant 5-eyes Free Android distribution. Puts the emphasis on "freedom and privacy/security".
CalyxOS Open-source Android-based OS with an emphasis on security and privacy. Provides good combination of privacy and security together with usability. Optional support for MicroG.
Mobian Debian for mobile.
  • You'll either need a rooted device with an unlocked bootloader, or a specific device depending on which OS you like.
  • Please see Issue #55 for details on /e/.

Android home screen launchers

Back to top

Name Eyes Description
Shade Launcher Open-source Android launcher styled after the Google Pixel launcher. Available to download from an alternative F-Droid, APK Mirror, or GitHub Releases.
Omega Open-source launcher. Active development with lots of nice features. Downloads available from GitHub. Previously known as ZimLX which has since been replaced by Omega.
Lawnchair F-Droid Another open-source launcher, also built to look similar to Google's launcher (it is built off AOSP Launcher3). Available from F-Droid and also APKMirror. (thanks u/droidonomy)
KISS Launcher F-Droid Fast, open-source and small launcher. KISS mainly relies on an app-search-bar, which makes it very easy to open up apps quickly. Thanks @Glitchy-Tozier

Android Messages(specifically SMS/MMS, not IM)

Back to top

Name Eyes Description
QKSMS F-Droid Open-source. Very clean and feature rich SMS app. Available on F-Droid.
Silence.im F-Droid Open-source and utilizes Signal's encryption protocol. Seamlessly works with SMS. End-to-end encryption with other Silence users. Available on F-Droid.
Signal Signal possesses SMS/MMS capabilities on Android. Using it as your default SMS app has the advantage of having your SMS and your online-messaging-service integrated within one app. Doing so will also show stats within the app of how many messages you send are encrypted, and offers to send invites to your contacts. Thanks @Glitchy-Tozier for suggesting it be listing as SMS/MMS alternative.

Android Studio (not specifically for Android development, just in general)

Back to top

Name Eyes Description
VSCodium VSCodium is Visual Studio Code but without all the Microsoft telemetry and branding.
Vim Open-source text editor. Thanks @moon-chilled
Emacs Another open-source text editor. Thanks @moon-chilled
Atom Atom is a free and open-source text and source code editor for macOS, Linux, and Microsoft Windows with support for plug-ins written in Node.js, and embedded Git Control, developed by GitHub. Atom is a desktop application built using web technologies. (From Wikipedia) Thanks @woutfeys

Android TV

Back to top

Name Eyes Description
Kodi It's incredibly powerful and backed by one of the strongest communities around. Tons of plugins to do nearly anything you want. Software installs on nearly any platform.
OSMC Free, open-source media center OS. Kodi is pre-installed. Thanks to @g4rret and @lgiard for clarifying the difference between Kodi and OSMC!

Blogger/Sites

Back to top

Name Eyes Description
Joomla Self-hosted and open-source content management system (CMS).
Write.as Self-advertised as privacy-focused.
WordPress self-hosted The open-source version of WordPress. A very popular tool and a recognized name.
concrete5 5-eyes Open-source CMS.
Noblogs 9-eyes A privacy/security focused blogging platform.
Ghost Open-source modern CMS. Boasts "over 19x faster than WordPress". Thanks @peterge1998
Bear 5-eyes Free, no-nonsense, super-fast blogging. No javascript, no stylesheets, no trackers. Just your words.
Simpleblogs FLOSS blogging platform with a focus on privacy. Easy to self-host (standard rails app, ships with AWS deployment scripts. AWS is not required). Access restricted to accounts which you create and hand out. Good for private blogs but not for commercial/public blogging.
Plume Plume is not just a single website, but an entire interconnected, yet independent network of what we call instances. You write content from your own instance, but anyone else on any other Plume instance can enjoy your stories too.
WriteFreely An open source platform for building a writing space on the web.

Calculator

Back to top

Name Eyes Description
Simple Calculator F-Droid Also part of the SMT project. Available on F-Droid.
Calculator N+ or NCalc+ Open-source feature-rich calculator. App itself is no longer in development, but the developer does encourage pull requests. I've used it frequently and it works great. Not on F-Droid, but a 3rd party play store can probably find it; or the APK's are available as releases on GitHub. You can also compile from source.
Calculator++ F-Droid Open-source calculator packed with features. Thanks @ghost

Chromebook

Back to top

Name Eyes Description
TUXEDO 14-eyes Privacy-focused laptop maker out of Germany. Tech specs are very competent and can easily compete with other modern systems. Fully Linux compatible. They also offer desktops. (thanks u/itsec_ho)
Purism Laptops 5-eyes Privacy-focused laptop running PureOS. Good designs and decent hardware.
Pinebook Pro Mid-range Linux/FreeBSD alternative to Chromebook.

Chromecast

Back to top

Name Eyes Description
Microsoft Wireless HDMI adapter 5-eyes The only reason I'm recommending this Microsoft product is because there is no possible way for it to extract any data and ship it off to Microsoft. If anyone is able to find proof that it can, I will remove it.
RaspberryCast(https://github.com/vincelwt/RaspberryCast) Transform your Raspberry Pi into a streaming device. Cast videos from mobile devices or computers to your TV.

Chrome OS

Back to top

Name Eyes Description
GalliumOS "A fast and lightweight Linux distro for ChromeOS devices". Based on Xubuntu.
Qubes OS "A reasonably secure operating system", at least according to their website. Edward Snowden recommends it.
Subgraph OS A desktop computing and communications platform that is designed to be resistant to network-borne exploit and malware attacks.
Tails For the uber-paranoid. Runs live and the entire OS is routed through Tor right from boot. Built on Debian.
Knoppix Another Live OS, runs from CD/DVD/USB. Can also be installed if desired.
Parrot OS Debian-based and privacy focused. Fully sandboxed. (thanks u/Safe_Airport)
PureOS 5-eyes The OS of Purism Laptops (mentioned in the Hardware section). Very clean UI. Editor note: I could not get this working on a UEFI Dell laptop. The group behind PureOS does not provide any UEFI support.
GhostBSD This is a secure open-source OS based on FreeBSD, preconfigured to be a sane desktop environment for all users.
Any other form of Linux Ubuntu; Debian; Mint; Fedora; Arch or Manjaro (Manjaro is objectively much easier to get running than Arch); Trisquel; Gentoo; Alpine (thanks u/privacyfreak555); etc etc etc

Clock

Back to top

Name Eyes Description
Clock + F-Droid Open-source Alarm clock, timer, and stop watch.
Simple Alarm Clock Exactly as it's name says; simple alarm clock yet adds many improvements over other apps. No dock mode or world clock.
Insane Alarm! Developer states that he had "spent a night out with the boys and drank a bit too much but needed to be up in the morning". So, he made the loudest alarm clock possible based off an emergency alarm from when he was in the military. This app doesn't mess around, use it wisely.
AlarmioF-Droid Simple alarm clock focused on design, readability, and Internet radio.

Contacts

Back to top

Name Eyes Description
Fruux (mobile app) Fruux also provides a contacts app.
Simple Contacts F-Droid Open-source. Part of the Simple Mobile Tools project.
Open Contacts F-Droid Open-source contacts. (thanks u/consentio)
EteSync F-Droid Secure, end-to-end encrypted, and open-source sync for your contacts, calendars and tasks.

Facebook

Back to top

FitBit

Back to top

No known alternatives.

Gboard (Google Keyboard)

Back to top

Name Eyes Description
AnySoftKeyboard F-Droid Open-source keyboard. Available on F-Droid.
Hacker's Keyboard F-Droid Also open-source. Very useful for developers or sysadmins on the go.
kboard F-Droid Open-source. Has features for phrases, "lenny faces", macros and more. Note: Project appears to be abandoned.
Simple Keyboard F-Droid Open-source keyboard.
Indic Keyboard Open-source keyboard that supports many languages that other keyboards sometimes don't support. Not on F-Droid, but can be built from source or possibly through a Play Store alternative.
OpenBoard F-Droid New 100% FOSS keyboard, based on AOSP. Similar to "Simple Keyboard". Thanks @Glitchy-Tozier
FlorisBoard FlorisBoard is an open-source keyboard aimed at providing you with an easy way to type while respecting your privacy.

Gmail

Back to top

Application

Name Eyes Description
K-9 Mail F-Droid Available on F-Droid.
FairEmail F-Droid Available on F-Droid.
DeltaChat F-Droid An email app with a chat-based UI and privacy support with autocrypt.
Thunderbird Linux Apple Windows
A free customizable open source email client.

Web-based

Name Eyes Description
Forward Email A free and open-source email forwarding service focused on a user's right to privacy.
Protonmail One of the top privacy-focused email providers. Servers are in Switzerland in an underground guarded bunker that they claim can "survive a nuclear attack".
Tutanota 14-eyes Open-source and one one of the top rated privacy-focused email providers. Located in Germany.
Posteo 14-eyes Completely anonymous mail provider located in Germany.
mailbox.org 14-eyes Paid email provider, also located in Germany.
Disroot 9-eyes Decentralized email service.
StartMail 9-eyes Operated by the same people who run StartPage.
SimpleLogin Open-source, self-hosted, and privacy focused email forwarding service.
Migadu Paid email provider, located in Switzerland. Focus on privacy.
Fastmail 5-eyes Paid email provider, located in Australia and US.
Runbox 9-eyes Privacy focusued email provider. Thanks @petertorelli
NextCloud Now also provides an email service (self-hosted). Thanks @je-vv
Anonymize.com Email Paid secure email service provided by Epik.com.
Thexyz 5-eyes Thexyz is a Canadian company offering privacy-conscious business email. Premium webmail costs USD $2.95 per month.
Mailfence 14-eyes A secure and private email provider much like Protonmail and Tutanota. There are no google analytics nor hidden cookies. There are options to pay anonymously via cryptocurrency. It features a wide array of collaboration tools, such as groups, calendar, contacts, documents with editing space. Offers free, paid, and freemium plans. Can pay with cryptocurrency and has a warrant canary. Thanks @resto1231
CTemplar Privacy-focused email provider located in Iceland.
Anonaddy 9-eyes Open-source Anonymous forwarding email service. Forwarded email can be encrypted (OpenPGP) to prevent Google from reading it. Accepts cryptocurrencies (including Monero).
Mail-in-a-Box GitHub stars 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.

Google

Back to top

Google Ads/AdMob/AdSense

Back to top

Name Eyes Description
EthicalAds A developer-focused, privacy-obsessed ad network from the fine folks at Read the Docs. Source code can be on GitHub.

Google Alerts

Back to top

Name Eyes Description
F5Bot 5-eyes Emails you when your selected keywords are mentioned on Reddit, Hacker News, or Lobsters.

Google Analytics

Back to top

Name Eyes Description
Matomo 9/14-eyes (Matomo/parent company) - Open-source analytics platform. (thanks u/Newblik)
Fathom 5-eyes Simple analytics for bloggers & businesses
Plausible 5-eyes Open-source, privacy-focused web analytics.
GoatCounter 14-eyes Simple web statistics. No tracking of personal data. Open-source and may be self-hosted. Free for non-commercial use; paid plans available.
Simple Analytics 9-eyes Great analytics with privacy and simplicity in mind. Paid plans only (with free trials).
Toasted Analytics 5-eyes Simple, privacy friendly analytics with event tracking. Paid only (with free trial)
Shynet Shynet is a self-hosted analytics tool that doesn't make use of cookies. It is privacy focused and fully open-source. Thanks @woutfeys
Supabase Supabase is an opensource alternative to Firebase. As of right now you can use their hosting plan for free as it's in alpha, or you can self host (note on self hosting). Thanks @woutfeys
GoAccess An open-source web server analysis tool. Installs on your web server (ideally), but works just as well if you download your logs someplace else. Interactive; cursor around in the report and see what's going on. Can generate HTML reports. Can also generate realtime interactive HTML reports if you run it in server mode. Lightweight, only requires UTF-8 support and ncurses (ncursesw, if you want a UTF-8 enabled console). Available in the default package repositories of multiple Linux distros. Thanks @virtadpt
Offen Open-source and self-hosted, Offen is a fair and lightweight web analytics alternative that treats operators and users as equal parties.
Umami A simple, easy to use, open-source/self-hosted web analytics solution.
Kindmetrics 5/14-eyes An open-source analytics tool. Landing page and company is based in Sweden, CDN in EU, Servers on Digitalocean (USA) datacenter in Germany.
userTrack Self-hosted alternative to Google Analytics, similar to Matomo but cheaper for premium features. Includes user segments, heatmaps, session recordings and A/B testing.
Piwik PRO 5-eyes An analytics suite with a focus on user privacy and data security.
Panelbear 14-eyes Privacy-focused analytics + web performance monitoring.
Nullitics Zero-effort open-source cheap analytics.

Google Assistant

Back to top

Name Eyes Description
Mycroft Android Android client for Mycroft. Must be built in IDE; no pre-built binaries are available.
Ara Open-source virtual assistant for Android. Can replace Google Assistant (home button functionality) on most devices. Either uses the authors server by default, or you can run your own server. Thanks @FultonBrowne (author of Ara)

Google Authenticator

Back to top

Name Eyes Description
andOTP F-Droid Open-source 2FA app.
FreeOTP+ F-Droid FreeOTP is no longer in development so this fork should be used instead as it is currently in development.
Aegis F-Droid Open-source 2FA for Android. Available on F-Droid.
Authenticator iOS - Open-source 2FA for iOS. (thanks u/SomeoneWannaBe)
Tofu iOS - Open-source 2FA for iOS.

Google Calendar

Back to top

Application

Name Eyes Description
Lightning Calendar (Thunderbird) Developed by Mozilla Foundation and open-source. Integrates into Thunderbird and SeaMonkey.
EteSync Secure, end-to-end encrypted, and open-source sync for your contacts, calendars, tasks and notes.
DAVx⁵ F-Droid DAVx⁵ is an open-source CalDAV/CardDAV suite and sync app for Android.
ICSx⁵ F-Droid ICSx⁵ is an Android app to subscribe to remote (“Webcal”) or local iCalendar files (like time tables of your school/university or event files of your sports team). Thanks @je-vv
Fruux (mobile app) Same service from above provides an Android app.
Etar F-Droid Open-source material design Calendar that integrates with the Android Calendar API. Can integrate with CalDAV/CardDAV servers.
Simple Calendar F-Droid Open-source. Part of the Simple Mobile Tools project.

Web-based

Name Eyes Description
Tutanota Calendar 14-eyes Developed by Tutanota. Free cross-platform encrypted calendar. Allows importing of other Calendar files. Can't be synced to other calendar software.
Fruux 14-eyes Open-source calendar using "sabre/dav" (FOSS WebDAV, CardDAV, and CalDAV). They mention privacy quite a bit on their site. Very large number of features, and supports nearly every device: Windows, iOS, Linux, Android, BlackBerry, SailFish, and also a webapp for browsers.
Baïkal a lightweight CalDAV+CardDAV server. It offers an extensive web interface with easy management of users, address books and calendars. It is fast and simple to install and only needs a basic php capable server. The data can be stored in a MySQL or a SQLite database. Thanks @mahdi1234
Nextcloud Nextcloud also offers a calendar solution using CalDAV and CardDAV. Thanks @mahdi1234 for pointing this out.
Radicale Self-hosted calendar server written in Python. WebUI for desktop, CalDav/CardDav for mobile sync. Can use a reverse proxy with Nginx for HTTPS.
Mailfence Calendar 14-eyes Supports vCal/iCal import, export and can be accessed by using CalDAV. Users can share their calendars with group members and can also create polls.

Google Camera

Back to top

Name Eyes Description
Open Camera F-Droid Open-source camera for Android. Thanks @je-vv

Google Chrome

Back to top

Android

Name Eyes Description
Fennec F-Droid F-Droid A privacy-focused version of Firefox Android available on F-Droid. It's focused on removing any proprietary bits found in official Mozilla's builds. (thanks u/SupremeLisper)
Bromite Privacy-focused/open-source build of Chromium with built-in ad blocking. (thanks u/SupremeLisper)

Desktop

Name Eyes Description
Ungoogled Chromium Chromium (which Chrome and countless other browsers are built on top of) is one of the cleanest and light-weight browsers available. This version cuts out all the Google crap.
Firefox Built by Mozilla, "The Privacy Company". Huge extension library; great for privacy.
Waterfox 5-eyes Based on Firefox, but 64-bit only with an emphasis on speed and privacy. Has a "classic" version built off older Firefox for legacy extension support and also an "alpha" version built off Quantum. It doesn't collect any telemetry and also removes Pocket from the alpha release. Project is run by Alex Kontos and is constantly in active development. Looks very clean and fast. Android versions are in the works too. UPDATE: @Nudin pointed out in Issue #85 that Waterfox is now apart of System1.
Tor Browser Firefox-based browser routed through the Tor network. Automatically has a few privacy extensions installed (such as HTTPS Everywhere). Read this article for more info on how it works and the benefits of using Tor. Available for Windows, Linux, macOS, and Android.
IceCat Linux
GNU IceCat is a fork of Firefox that is more private and secure than Firefox and it contains several privacy-protecting features. IceCat 60 makes no unsolicited connections when you run it. Previous versions had privacy problems, but version 60 doesn't have these problems. You can read about the previous version here: IceCat 59 Review
Otter GitHub stars Linux Apple Windows
Otter Browser aims to recreate the best aspects of the classic Opera (12.x) UI using Qt5. Controlled by the user, not vice versa
Falkon Linux Windows
Falkon is a KDE web browser using QtWebEngine rendering engine, previously known as QupZilla. It aims to be a lightweight web browser available through all major platforms. This project has been originally started only for educational purposes. But from its start, Falkon has grown into a feature-rich browser.

Google Classroom

Back to top

Name Eyes Description
Moodle Self-hosted open-source Classroom software for schools. Very powerful. Thanks @jankapunkt
ILIAS Another self-hosted open-source classroom software. Thanks again to @jankapunkt
Canvas Paid service by Instructure. Also available as a self-hosted, open-source option. To ensure privacy, use the self-hosted option.

Google Docs/Sheets/Slides

Back to top

Applications (cloud)

Name Eyes Description
Etherpad Self-hosted collaborative editor. Does not use the browser. Not the greatest interface, but it's open-source and you have full control over who can see your data.

Applications (offline)

Name Eyes Description
LibreOffice Open-source offline document suites.
LyX It's an open-source (and offline) document processor using TeX/LaTeX. It's different than Docs or Word but amazing, once you get used to it. Thanks @Glitchy-Tozier
ONLYOFFICE Offline version of ONLYOFFICE, an open-source private cloud replacement for Google Docs'suite and Office 360. Also available as a self contained rich application. Thanks @PalmoliveDev
Cryptee Offline version of Cryptee for web. Runs as a progressive web app. Works most modern phone browsers (Chrome, Opera or Firefox on Android; Safari on iOS). Also works in desktop browsers that support PWA (the website lists that only Chrome works, but others will work too.
Calligra Calligra Suite is an office and graphic art suite by KDE. It is available for desktop PCs, tablet computers, and smartphones. It contains applications for word processing, spreadsheets, presentation, vector graphics, and editing databases. (Free and Open-source Software)

Web-based

Name Eyes Description
CryptPad 9-eyes Open-source "zero knowledge" collaborative cloud editor. They offer Rich Text, Code, Presentation, Sheet (beta), Poll, Kanban, Whiteboard, and CryptDrive. 100% Client side encryption. Tons of useful features.
Cryptee Open-source and privacy focused photo and document storage/editing. Based in Estonia, so your files are outside the reach of any 14-eyes country. They don't even require an email address to sign up.
LibreOffice Online 14-eyes Self-hosted instance of LibreOffice that you can run in your browser. Thanks @flubberding
ONLYOFFICE Open-source private cloud replacement for Google Docs'suite and Office 360. Also available as a self contained rich application.
Arcane Office A decentralized office suite with high-security and zero-knowledge on your data. With Arcane Office, you have maximum control on your personal stuff. Full-featured online document and spreadsheet editor. Secure storage to save your photos. All free for personal use. Thanks @taraletti

Google Domains

Back to top

Name Eyes Description
Njalla 14-eyes Privacy-focused domain registration. Competitive pricing and a large list of available domain extensions. They also offer VPS hosting. Built by people who built The Pirate Bay among others. (thanks u/brais33 and u/HumbleBasis6). Note: some users may have issues with them legally owning your domain.
Orangewebsite An Iceland-based freedom of speech web hosting provider. They never actually ask for your name, at least when you pay in Bitcoin.

Google Drive

Back to top

Application

Name Eyes Description
Syncthing 9-eyes An open-source continuous file synchronization program. It synchronizes files between two or more computers in real time, safely protected from prying eyes. Your data is your data alone and you deserve to choose where it is stored, whether it is shared with some third party, and how it's transmitted over the internet.
Seafile Open source file sync&share solution designed for high reliability, performance and productivity. Sync, share and collaborate across devices and teams. Build your team's knowledge base with Seafile's built-in Wiki feature.

Web-based

Name Eyes Description
ownCloud Open-source and self-hosted. Provide your own storage.
Nextcloud Also self-hosted. Spin-off of ownCloud. Also offers Calendar and Contacts (thanks @chribre)
Sia Fully decentralized cloud storage.
Tresorit Primarily meant for businesses, but offers a free version for individuals as well. (thanks u/xNick26)
Sync 5-eyes End-to-end encrypted Google Drive/Dropbox replacement.
JottaCloud 9-eyes Norway based cloud storage provider with free and paid plans. Thanks @mynamesleon
seafile Open-source and self-hosted file sync&share solution.
Cozy Cloud 9-eyes French based cloud storage provider with free and paid plans. Can also be self-hosted and is open-Source. And it also offers a collaborative notes editor.
Mailfence Documents 14-eyes Documents can be accessed using WebDAV or edited online. Users can drag and drop files in folders and categorize them with tags.
Filecloud Community Edition Powerful, secure Dropbox-like enterprise class file sharing and sync solution for home or business.
Cryptomator Cryptomator encrypts your data quickly and easily. Afterwards you upload them protected to your favorite cloud service.

Google Duo

Back to top

Name Eyes Description
Jitsi Meet (F-Droid) F-Droid Jitsi is an open-source secure video conferencing platform. No account is needed to use it, simply enter a Room Name to join or host a meeting. The host is able to kick rogue users from the call. Works directly in your browser, with apps available for iOS and Android. It is not necessary to self-host, but self-hosting is an option for those who wish to. Very low latency and easy to set up. A free public server is available at meet.jit.si. (5-eyes server)
Jami F-Droid 5-eyes Audio / Video Calls, Conferences, Messaging app with peer-to-peer and end-to-end encrypted communications.

Google Fonts

Back to top

Name Eyes Description
Open Font Library 5-eyes Lots of Serif and Sans-Serif fonts that can be directly embedded into a website.
google webfonts helper 5-eyes Hassle-free way for webmasters to self-host open-source fonts from Google Fonts
Brick 9-eyes Open-source fonts that work in a very similar way to Google fonts. Most of the fonts render nicer than Google Fonts.
Velvetyne Free and open source typefaces

Google Earth

Back to top

Name Eyes Description
KDE Marble Strong alternative for G Earth. Currently only on Linux, but is being ported to other platforms. Thanks to @PopeRigby

Google Forms

Back to top

Name Eyes Description
BlockSurvey BlockSurvey enables digital rights (identity and data ownership) to users using Blockstack's blockchain. Users truly own their data with BlockSurvey. All your data is protected using your key and only you can access it. There are no trackers, cookies, or fingerprints on the forms of data providers. Thanks @compressstudio
Nextcloud Forms Simple surveys and questionnaires, self-hosted! No mass of options, only the essentials. Works well on mobile of course. Results are visualized and can also be exported as CSV in the same format used by Google Forms. Unlike in Google Forms, Typeform, Doodle and others, the survey info and responses are kept private on your instance.

Google Groups

Back to top

Applications

Name Eyes Description
GNU Mailman Mailman is free software for managing electronic mail discussion and e-newsletter lists. Mailman is integrated with the web, making it easy for users to manage their accounts and for list owners to administer their lists. Mailman supports built-in archiving, automatic bounce processing, content filtering, digest delivery, spam filters, and more.

Web-based

Name Eyes Description
Sympa Sympa is an open-source mailing list manager. It provides advanced features with a rich and secure web interface.
Discourse 5-eyes Discourse is the 100% open-source discussion platform built for the next decade of the Internet. Use it as a mailing list, discussion forum, or long-form chat room.
Groups.io 5-eyes a privacy focused email list system that does not track you, nor your members. It is not open source. Data is hosted on one central server but the server is encrypted. It has modern email group features such as a wiki, integrations, and RSS import support.
  • Use other forum sites relating to specific topics. This is a very broad service.

Google Home

Back to top

Name Eyes Description
Mycroft 5-eyes Open-source virtual personal assistant. Can be run on a Raspberry Pi. (thanks u/Kentto7)
Home Assistant Open-source home automation. (thanks u/bilange)

Google Keep

Back to top

Application

Name Eyes Description
Joplin Open-source notes/todo app. Available for Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, and iOS. Also offers a terminal version. It can import Evernote .enex files if you use that. It can also sync with Nextcloud (mentioned above).
Standard Notes F-Droid Encrypted note storage with loads of features. Offers a web app as well as downloads for most operating systems. Has a paid plan, but the free tier has many useful features as well.
Turtl Encrypted collaborative notebook with possibility of running your own server.
QOwnNotes Open-source file editor with Markdown support. (thanks u/maqp2)
EteSync Secure, end-to-end encrypted, and open-source sync for your contacts, calendars, tasks and notes.
GitJournal Your Markdown notes stores in any Git Repo. Available for both Android (Play Store) and iOS.
Nextcloud Notes A distraction free notes taking app for Nextcloud. It provides categories for better organization and supports formatting using Markdown syntax. Notes are saved as files in your Nextcloud, so you can view and edit them with every Nextcloud client.
Notepad F-Droid Open-source. Supports Markdown and HTML. Very clean and feature-rich. Offline only.
Omni Notes F-Droid Very feature rich, open-source, material design notes app. Very active development. Available on F-Droid.
Carnet F-Droid I had some trouble finding info on this one. Looks like it has pretty seamless/painless ownCloud and NextCloud integration. Also available on F-Droid.
Markor F-Droid Open-source notes/to-do app for Android. Supports Markdown editing. Available on F-Droid. App is 100% offline, as stated on the GitHub README.
Orgzly F-Droid Open-source. Notes are stored in the plain-text Org mode format. Supports searching, metadata, and manual sync with Dropbox or local directory, which can be synced using e.g. Syncthing.
Notally F-Droid A beautiful, light and minimalistic notes app with no trackers, ads or analytics of any kind.

Web-based

Name Eyes Description
TiddlyWiki GitHub stars Firefox
An open-source personal note-taking system that can run in the browser as a single HTML file or as a NodeJS application. It can be stored locally on a hard drive or removable drive, self-hosted on one's own server, or use various web-based storage options.

Google Maps/Street View

Back to top

Application

Name Eyes Description
Maps F-Droid Open-source navigation app based on MAPS.ME. Searching for addresses doesn't always work and finding businesses can be a slight hassle, but overall one of the better apps I've used.
OsmAnd F-Droid OpenStreetMap for Android. (thanks u/masao77). As OsmAnd is primarily crowdsourced, many regions may not be totally accurate. If you would like to help improve OpenStreetMap and OsmAnd, check out StreetComplete (available from F-Droid.
Transportr Primarily European, this is an open-source public transport app. Thanks to @lgiard
Öffi (Offi) F-Droid Öffi is a public transport Android app (also shows delays and replacement bus service for more and more transport authorities in Europe and beyond) - similar to Transportr
Organic Maps GitHub stars F-Droid Android iOS
Great offline maps for hikers and cyclists.

Web-based

Name Eyes Description
OpenStreetMap 9-eyes Collaborative project to create a free, editable map of the world (from Wikipedia). Completely crowdsourced. Very strong alternative to Maps.
Qwant Maps Maps from the makers of Qwant search engine. Thanks @mynamesleon
Benmaps Another maps alternative based on OpenStreetMap. Thanks @dimqua

Google News

Back to top

Application

Name Eyes Description
Flym F-Droid Open-source Material Design RSS reader.
Feeder F-Droid Use good old-fashioned RSS feeds with Feeder

Web-based

Name Eyes Description
Local newspaper Support independent and qualitative journalism in your community.
AllSides Unbiased news source (primarily for US politics). Thanks @jeanofthedead
Miniflux Miniflux is a minimalist and opinionated feed reader. Completely open-source, along with automatically removing pixel trackers.

Google Photos

Back to top

Application

Name Eyes Description
Piwigo Android You need to have Piwigo set up first.
Stingle Photos 5-eyes A convenient, easy to use Gallery/Camera application with Backup and Sync functionality for your photos and videos which seamlessly provides strong security, privacy and encryption. All photos and videos are encrypted prior to being stored and backed up, so they are secure at rest, in transit and on cloud storage.

Web-based

Name Eyes Description
Photoprism Self-hosted and open-source Personal Photo Management powered by Go and Google TensorFlow.
ownPhotos Self-hosted and open-source Google Photos alternative.
Piwigo 9-eyes Self-hosted and open-source cloud photo manager. You can also sign up for an "as a service" account.
JottaCloud 9-eyes Norway based cloud storage provider with free and paid plans. Thanks @mynamesleon
Cryptee Encrypted photo storage in a simple solution similar to Google Photos.
PhotoStructure Self-hosted photo and video manager. Cross-platform (macOS, Windows, Linux, Docker). Scales to millions of assets, with automatic organization, auto-transcoding, and advanced de-duplication.
Lychee An open-source self-hosted photo-management tool that includes built-in support for videos. Thanks @m0yP
LibrePhotos GitHub stars Active OwnPhotos fork. Self hosted alternative to Google Photos.
Nextcloud Photos The open source self-hosted productivity platform that keeps you in control. It has a Photos plugin to help you organize and visualize your photos.

Google Pixel/Nexus

Back to top

Name Eyes Description
This list Shows compatibility for rooting Android devices.
Purism Librem 5 5-eyes From the company that makes Purism laptops. Runs PureOS. Thanks @brandonnodnarb
PinePhone 5-eyes From the company that makes the Pine A64 Single Board Computer. Runs a variety of mainline Linux OSs with UIs adapted for mobile.

Google Play Music, Movies, & TV

Back to top

Application

Name Eyes Description
Jellyfin Open-source alternative to the Play media services. You do need to provide your own content, however. In active development with frequent updates (to the source, that is).
Music Player Daemon A "flexible, powerful, server-side application for playing music".
Popcorn Time Open-source software for desktop and mobile that let you easily stream movie/TV torrents. Be careful if your country or ISP has policies against torrenting, a VPN is recommended. Thanks @je-vv
Nuclear Music Player Streaming music player that finds music from free sources automatically.
Tribler Open-source peer-to-peer file sharing that provides a "Youtube"-like streaming experience. Tribler uses Tor-like onion routing to protect the privacy of its users.
Audinaut F-Droid An open-source Airsonic client for Android.
MALP F-Droid An open-source Android client for MPD. Available on F-Droid.

Web-based

Name Eyes Description
Funkwhale Self-hosted, decentralized music service. Provide your own audio. (thanks u/DashEquals)
Airsonic Self-hosted open-source media streamer. Has features for transcoding audio on-the-fly for "virtually any audio format". You can also set bandwidth limits if you need to. Looks very powerful.
Ampache GitHub stars Open-source and self-hosted web based media manager and media server. API available to allow usage on various platforms. On-the-fly transcoding available. Supports both music and video.
  • I can no longer recommend Emby as they are no longer open source.
  • Thanks to u/eA8KESARaW6iqCpHsbE4 for suggesting Jellyfin and pointing out that Emby isn't open source.

Google Play Services Framework

Back to top

Name Eyes Description
microG A re-implementation of Google’s proprietary Android user space apps and libraries. It allows to use more precise navigation (which is proprietary in standard Android ROMs) and optionally receive push messages (requires connection to Google's servers, but also supports routing this connection through Tor). Thanks @notpushkin

Google Play Store

Back to top

Name Eyes Description
F-Droid Catalogue of FOSS apps for Android. Easy to install and keeps track of updates. Also has a browser version if you don't want to install the app.
Yalp Store (fork) F-Droid Yalp downloads Play Store apps as APK files. Helpful if you want to stay away from the Play Store, but require an app that is only available there. This version is a fork of the original project that is no longer active. Thank @onlyjob
APKMirror An online library of user-uploaded APK files. Helpful if you need a specific older version of an app or don't want to download it through Google Play.
Aurora Store F-Droid Aurora Store is simply a fork of the Yalp Store no longer a fork of Yalp, but is now its own project (see their readme). Update: Removed note on using microG as Aurora Store does not use it. Thanks @notpushkin
Fossdroid Uses the same library as F-Droid, but with a modern UI similar to that of the Play Store and the ability to view apps by popularity.
G-Droid Also uses the F-Droid repo but with a different UI.
APKGrabber Fork of APKUpdater. Both are great tools for avoiding app stores (on Android).
Aurora Droid Yet another F-Droid client, potentially has a few bugs (thanks u/OfficialJohnGL4)
  • When searching for replacements, check the alternative stores (such as F-Droid) before checking the Play Store.

Google Search

Back to top

Name Eyes Description
DuckDuckGo 5-eyes One of the best privacy-focused search engines. Domain is hosted in USA which could potentially be problematic for some.
Startpage 9-eyes Another privacy search engine that claims to not track any of your data. They operate servers in both USA and Europe. Note: Startpage was recently acquired. See Issue #12. Thanks @pydo, @ThijsRay, and @DatAres37. Also see this comment in Issue #99 from @danarel on Startpage.
searx.me Open-source (thanks for clarification u/Sheezdudeln) privacy search engine. Domain hosted in Germany.
MetaGer 14-eyes MetaGer is the search engine project from the registered nonprofit organization SUMA E.V. in Germany.
Qwant 9-eyes Major improvements since 2018's guide. would prefer better info other than an outdated reference
Swisscows A Swiss search engine that offers a unique search experience for the web, images, videos, music, and more. They are currently funding a mail service. Read through their datacenter about page, it's really interesting.
Mojeek 5-eyes Unlike other privacy search engines which act as a "middle man" between you and Google/Bing/Yahoo, Mojeek has their own crawler and index. The results aren't as complete as some of the others, but it is still impressive and they are actively building their index to include more results with better accuracy.
Ekoru Privacy focused search engine that also aims to clean up the oceans. Thanks @mynamesleon
Cyberd Decentralized Google. A web 3 alternative for the Google search engine. In Beta testing mode. Uses IPFS and Tendermint consensus for security and economic incentives. Please see their ELI-5 FAQ for more info.
Infinity Search 5-eyes Infinity Search is a privacy metasearch engine that does not log any information about its users. In terms of privacy, it works the same way as DuckDuckGo. It is free to use and is funded by non-tracking advertisements and affiliate links. It is also completely open-source.
Runnaroo 5-eyes "Runnaroo was built from the ground up to provide an all around better search experience." Thanks @codingepaduli
Whoogle Search A self-hosted, ad-free, privacy-respecting Google metasearch engine.

G suite (enterprise cloud)

Back to top

Name Eyes Description
Nextcloud Nextcloud 19 now has Community Document Server and ONLYOFFICE apps integrated which allows self-hosted instances of docs/sheets/slides. Users are able to edit documents in real time. Thanks @k3tan172 and @plutocrat
Open-Xchange A secure hosted email and productivity platform, designed for providers of all sizes to offer their customers email, calendar, storage, encryption and more.
Sandstorm GitHub stars An open-source self-hosted web hosting platform for a wide set of web applications, including Etherpad (collaborative text editing), Radicale (calendar), Lychee (image hosting), Wekan (Kanban)

Google Translate

Back to top

Web-based

Name Eyes Description
LibreTranslate Free and Open Source Machine Translation API, entirely self-hosted. Unlike other APIs, it doesn't rely on proprietary providers such as Google or Azure to perform translations.
DeepL 14-eyes DeepL is an artifical intelligence translation service. Please keep in mind DeepL tracks the text you translate unless you purchase Pro. See sections 4 & 5 of their privacy policy for more information. Thanks u/TheCy-FiJuggernaut
Apertium A free, open-source translation system.

Google Transit

Back to top

Name Eyes Description
Transportr An open-source Transit app on Android that takes information from several providers (e.g Deutsche Bahn in Germany) and enables you to use them in the app. Visualises the routes on an online OpenStreetMap map. Works in most of Western-Europe, as well as the USA, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Brazil, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, the UAE and Ghana. Beware: most information-providers only have beta or alpha support, it may be a good idea to keep a second app as a fallback option

Instagram

Back to top

Application

Name Eyes Description
PixelDroidGitHub stars Free (as in freedom) Android client for Pixelfed, the federated image sharing platform.
Barinsta F-Droid The beautiful, open source, and privacy-friendly alternative Instagram client for Android.

Web-based

Name Eyes Description
Pixelfed Decentralized, federated and Open Source alternative to Instagram with posts, videos, stories, tags, etc.
Bibliogram Bibliogram is an open-source website that takes data from Instagram's public profile views and puts it into a friendlier page that loads faster, gives downloadable images, eliminates ads, generates RSS feeds, and doesn't urge you to sign up.

Microsoft

Back to top

Microsoft Office

Back to top

Microsoft OneDrive

Back to top

Microsoft Teams

Back to top

Name Eyes Description
Jitsi Meet Android iOS Linux Apple Windows
Jitsi is a collection of free and open-source multiplatform voice, videoconferencing and instant messaging applications for the web platform, Windows, Linux, macOS, iOS and Android.
WireGitHub stars Android iOS Linux Apple Windows Firefox
Wire is the most secure collaboration platform featuring messenger, voice, video, conference calls, file-sharing, and external collaboration –all protected by the most secure end-to-end-encryption.

Microsoft Visual Studio

Back to top

Name Eyes Description
Atom Linux Apple Windows
Atom is a free and open-source text and source code editor for macOS, Linux, and Microsoft Windows with support for plug-ins written in Javascript, and embedded Git Control, developed by GitHub.

Reddit

Back to top

Application

Name Eyes Description
lemmurGitHub stars Android
A mobile client for lemmy - a federated reddit alternative
InfinityF-DroidGitHub stars Android
Infinity is a beautiful, feature-rich app that offers a smooth Reddit browsing experience. It is completely free and ad-less; you can browse Reddit without interruptions or distractions. Built by a passionate university student, Infinity is open source.
RedReaderGitHub stars Android
An unofficial, open source Android client for Reddit.
SlideF-DroidGitHub stars Android
Slide is an open source, ad free Reddit browser for Android. It is based around the Java Reddit API Wrapper.

Web-based

Name Eyes Description
LemmyGitHub stars Firefox
Lemmy is similar to sites like Reddit, Lobste.rs, or Hacker News: you subscribe to forums you're interested in, post links and discussions, then vote, and comment on them. Behind the scenes, it is very different; anyone can easily run a server, and all these servers are federated (think email), and connected to the same universe, called the Fediverse.

Slack

Back to top

Name Eyes Description
MattermostGitHub stars Android iOS Linux Apple Windows Firefox
Mattermost is an open source, private cloud, Slack-alternative built for developers.

Spotify

Back to top

Name Eyes Description
Funkwhale Funkwhale is a community-driven project that lets you listen and share music and audio within a decentralized, open network.

TeamViewer

Back to top

Name Eyes Description
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.

Twitter

Back to top

Application

Name Eyes Description
TwidereGitHub starsF-Droid Android
An Open Source, fully featured Twitter/Mastodon/StatusNet/Fanfou app. There is also TwidereX, currently in development, available for Android and iOS.

Web-based

Name Eyes Description
MastodonGitHub stars Mastodon is software for web-based federated microblogging, intended to be an "actually viable alternative to Twitter". Users can post 500-character status messages which can optionally include images, topic tags, and linked mentions of other users. It is open source and there are a number of independent instances online in addition to the flagship at mastodon.social.
Pleroma Pleroma is a free, federated social networking server built on open protocols. It is compatible with GNU Social, Mastodon, and many other ActivityPub implementations.
NitterGitHub stars Nitter is a free and open source alternative Twitter front-end focused on privacy.
YotterGitHub stars Yotter allows you to follow and gather all the content from your favorite Twitter and YouTube accounts in a beautiful feed so you can stay up to date without compromising your privacy at all.

WhatsApp

Back to top

Application

Name Eyes Description
Signal 5-eyes Whistleblower and privacy advocate Edward Snowden recommends Signal.
Molly GitHub stars 5-eyes Signal-compatible fork client with some security enhancements.
ToxGitHub stars Tox is unique as it uses P2P technology to ensure the network never goes down, as long as there are users to keep it alive. They specifically say on the website "Tox has no central servers that can be raided, shut down, or forced to turn over data".
Wire 5-eyes Uses end-to-end encryption. Looks to be more of a corporate service with tiered plans.
Element 5-eyes Open-source privacy-focused chat service with end-to-end encryption. They offer webapps, desktop apps, iOS, and Android (Play Store and F-Droid). Uses the "Matrix" protocol for decentralized communication.
Threema Swiss-based GDPR-compliant instant messenger. Has apps for both iOS and Android. Unlike Signal, no phone number is required (nor is an email) to sign up. End-to-end encrypted. Thanks to @nathanvogel
Keybase 5-eyes encrypted chat like Signal with features like Slack. Does not require a phone number to sign up. Also has file storage. Note: Keybase was acquired by Zoom, Inc. in May 2020 (Keybase blog, Zoom blog). Thanks @notpushkin & @multimob.
Jami 5-eyes Audio / Video Calls, Conferences, Messaging app with peer-to-peer and end-to-end encrypted communications.
Mumble A free, open-source, low latency, high quality voice chat application.
Session Open-source. It is an end-to-end encrypted messenger that removes sensitive metadata collection. No phone number required to create an account.
Conversations F-Droid 14-eyes An open-source Android Jabber/XMPP client. It's a paid app on Google Play, but you can also build it from source for free if you want to.
Jitsi Meet (F-Droid) F-Droid Jitsi is an open-source secure video conferencing platform. No account is needed to use it, simply enter a Room Name to join or host a meeting. The host is able to kick rogue users from the call. Works directly in your browser, with apps available for iOS and Android. It is not necessary to self-host, but self-hosting is an option for those who wish to. Very low latency and easy to set up. A free public server is available at meet.jit.si. (5-eyes server)
Mumla (client for Mumble) Third-party Android client for Mumble.
Briar An open-source app which supports Peer-to-Peer encrypted messaging. No phone number required for signing up. If the internet’s down, Briar can sync via Bluetooth or Wi-Fi, keeping the information flowing in a crisis. If the internet’s up, Briar can sync via the Tor network, protecting users and their relationships from surveillance. Can install through a third-party F-Droid repo.

Web-based

Name Eyes Description
Jitsi 5-eyes Jitsi is an open-source secure video conferencing platform. No account is needed to use it, simply enter a Room Name to join or host a meeting. The host is able to kick rogue users from the call. Works directly in your browser, with apps available for iOS and Android. It is not necessary to self-host, but self-hosting is an option for those who wish to. Very low latency and easy to set up. A free public server is available at meet.jit.si. (5-eyes server)

Wear OS

Back to top

Name Eyes Description
AsteroidOS 14-eyes The cleanest (and only) open-source alternative for Wear OS. Make sure you buy a watch that supports it!

YouTube

Back to top

Applications

Name Eyes Description
NewPipe GitHub stars Open-source desktop YouTube client that uses the Invidio.us API to serve content.
FreeTube GitHub stars Open-source desktop YouTube client that uses the Invidio.us API to serve content.
YouTube Vanced Please read the XDA post before deciding to use this.
youtube-local Linux Apple
Open-source browser-based client for watching Youtube anonymously and with greater page performance. Non-video requests can be routed through Tor. Optionally the videos can be routed through Tor as well. Can be used without Javascript. No server software installation required. Uses self-hosted subscriptions and playlists.
SkyTube
GitHub stars F-Droid
Android
Alternative android YouTube app on F-Droid. No account needed, privacy respecting. No ads.

Web-based

Name Eyes Description
PeerTube GitHub stars Decentralized, federated video hosting network. Still quite small, but is growing and has a dedicated community. Although there is no central database/server, all the separate instances can still talk to one another. This allows for data exchange and a way to view anyone's videos while only associating with one instance. Thanks @kdkasad for clarifying federation.
BitChute 5-eyes Also P2P, but not decentralized. Due to it being proprietary, if BitChute goes down then the whole thing goes down (unlike PeerTube). (thanks u/up-sky-7)
DTube Looks very similar to YouTube. Advertised as "first crypt-decentralized video-platform". Built on Steemit and IPFS.
Bit.tube Appears to be a crypto-powered decentralized video sharing service. (thanks u/rudolf323)
Invidious GitHub stars An open-source front-end alternative to YouTube. Seems to work pretty well from my experience so far, and it hasn't triggered anything on my adblocker/privacy extensions. Also offers downloads in many formats for videos (including .vtt subtitles).
Hooktube A slightly better way to use actual YouTube. (Use as a "last resort")
LBRY A decentralized platform for distributing and supporting creators's work. It aims to be Open, Community driven "digital marketplace". It can be used in a similar way to YouTube: browsing, subscribing to channels, there is a mechanism to send "tips" to creators. Looks up videos based on a blockchain and is open-source and uncensored. It already has some "larger" creators like Minutephysics, Veritasium, Barnacules and Lunduke.
YotterGitHub stars Youtube and Twitter with privacy. Never share any of your data to Youtube, yet be able to watch Youtube videos.
Piped GitHub stars Yet another alternative frontend for YouTube.

Other

Name Eyes Description
Blokada F-Droid From the website: "If you want to efficiently block ads, trackers, malware, save on your data plan, speed up your device and protect your privacy with just one application, then Blokada is for you. It is free, secure and open-source." Uses internal VPN on Android to block ads.
TrackerControl F-Droid From the GitHub README: Allows users to monitor and control the widespread, ongoing, hidden data collection in mobile apps about user behaviour ("tracking"). To detect tracking, TrackerControl checks all network traffic against the Disconnect blocklist, used and trusted by the Mozilla Firefox browser. Thanks @E5dZEUpc3BKaJrHnQVZd5zE

Useful links, tools, and advice

Back to top

Resources

Everything you need to become a Privacy Wizard.

Books

Back to top

Title Published Author
Permanent Record Published Edward Snowden
Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now Published Jaron Lanier
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism Published Shoshana Zuboff
The Attention Merchants Published Tim Wu
Zucked Published Roger McNamee

Blog posts

Back to top

Title Published Author
Google Chrome’s users take a back seat to its bottom line Published Bennett Cyphers and Mitch Stoltz - EFF
Quitting Facebook & Google Published J. Nathan Matias
How to fight back against Google AMP as a web user and a web developer Published Marko Saric

News articles

Back to top

Title Published Author
Google Can Survive Too Much Innovation. You Can't. Published Robert Sher - Forbes
The truth about Google's famous '20% time' policy Published Jillian D'Onfro - Business Insider
The Binge Breaker Published Bianca Bosker - The Atlantic
How Malware Keeps Sneaking Past Google Play’s Defenses Published Lily Hay Newman - WIRED
Forget Killer Robots — Bias Is the Real AI Danger Published Will Knight - MIT Technology Review
Google managers kept blacklists of conservative employees and one manager considered holding 'trials,' a new lawsuit alleges Published Julie Bort - Business Insider
A longtime Google engineer quits, saying the company is ’100% competitor-focused’ and ‘can no longer innovate’ Published Jillian D'Onfro - CNBC
Facebook and Google are doomed, George Soros says Published Hamza Shaban - Washington Post
Google Isn't Listening, So Its Employees Are Suing Published Kate Conger - Gizmodo
Google sees major claims of harassment and discrimination as lawsuits proceed Published Sam Levin - The Guardian
How to stop Google from tracking everything you do online Published Todd Haselton - CNBC
Google will always do evil Published Jessica Conditt - Engadget
Google’s new ‘AI principles’ forbid its use in weapons and human rights violations Published Devin Coldewey - TechCrunch
Google Plans to Launch Censored Search Engine in China, Leaked Documents Reveal Published Ryan Gallagher - The Intercept
Google’s China plan isn’t just evil — it’s bad for business Published Josh Rogin - Washington Post
How Google Protected Andy Rubin, the ‘Father of Android’ Published Daisuke Wakabayashi and Katie Benner - New York Times
A New Google+ Blunder Exposed Data From 52.5 Million Users Published Lily Hay Newman - WIRED
Three Years of Misery Inside Google, the Happiest Company in Tech Published Nitasha Tiku - WIRED
Google’s latest user-hostile design change makes ads and search results look identical Published Natasha Lomas - TechCrunch
You Are Now Remotely Controlled Published Shoshana Zuboff - New York Times

Stargazers over time

Stargazers over time

Note that the project description data, including the texts, logos, images, and/or trademarks, for each open source project belongs to its rightful owner. If you wish to add or remove any projects, please contact us at [email protected].