privacy

A list of Free Software network services and web applications which can be hosted on your own servers

Fast and extensible multi-platform HTTP/1-2-3 web server with automatic HTTPS

A simple, lightweight PowerShell script that allows you to remove pre-installed apps, disable telemetry, as well as perform various other changes to declutter and customize your Windows experience. Win11Debloat works for both Windows 10 and Windows 11.

The fastest, cheapest, most efficient open-source agent harness. Run more than 500 agents on a $10 VPS.

An open-source engine that turns continuous content streams into search and monitoring. Durable ingestion, hybrid search, alerts, and plugins for formats, models and business rules.

SearXNG is a free internet metasearch engine which aggregates results from various search services and databases. Users are neither tracked nor profiled.

Network-wide ads & trackers blocking DNS server

🕵️‍♂️ All-in-one OSINT tool for analysing any website

🔒 Consolidating and extending hosts files from several well-curated sources. Optionally pick extensions for porn, social media, and other categories.

Open source, privacy-first web analytics. Lightweight, cookie-free Google Analytics alternative. Self-hosted or cloud.

💚 End-to-end encrypted cloud for everything.

KeePassXC is a cross-platform community-driven port of the Windows application “KeePass Password Safe”.

Set up your own IPsec VPN server in just a few minutes, with IPsec/L2TP, Cisco IPsec and IKEv2. Supports Ubuntu, Debian, CentOS/RHEL, Alpine Linux and Raspberry Pi OS. Includes client config and management scripts.

Google Chromium, sans integration with Google

DNS-Blocklists: For a better internet - keep the internet clean!

FHEVM, a full-stack framework for integrating Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) with blockchain applications

⚡️A native, local-first alternative to Logitech Options+, written in Rust 🦀 — remap buttons, DPI, and SmartShift over HID++. No account, no telemetry.

Self-Hosting Guide. Learn all about locally hosting (on premises & private web servers) and managing software applications by yourself or your organization. Including Cloud, LLMs, WireGuard, Automation, Home Assistant, and Networking.

Super Productivity is an advanced todo list app with integrated Timeboxing and time tracking capabilities. It also comes with integrations for Jira, GitLab, GitHub and Open Project.

🔒 A compiled checklist of 300+ tips for protecting digital security and privacy in 2026

Community guide to securing and improving privacy on macOS.

An Open Source YouTube app for privacy

YC (S26) | Open Computer History | Continuously record your company computer work, map your workflows, help you find work worth automating, and power your agents' context

Empowering People Ethically 🚀 — Matomo is hiring! Join us → https://matomo.org/jobs Matomo is the leading open-source alternative to Google Analytics, giving you complete control and built-in privacy. Easily collect, visualise, and analyse data from websites & apps. Star us on GitHub ⭐️ – Pull Requests welcome!

🚀 An open and lightweight modification to Windows, designed to optimize performance, privacy and usability.

Private, fast, and honest web browser

GoAccess is a real-time web log analyzer and interactive viewer that runs in a terminal in *nix systems or through your browser.

Get Android app updates straight from the source.

Cross-platform GUI written in Rust using ADB to debloat non-rooted android devices. Improve your privacy, the security and battery life of your device.

Awesome Privacy - A curated list of services and alternatives that respect your privacy because PRIVACY MATTERS.

🩵 A free, open-source app store for developers' releases on GitHub, Codeberg & Forgejo — browse, discover, and install apps with one click. Formerly GitHub Store.

SimpleX - the first messaging network operating without user identifiers of any kind - 100% private by design! iOS, Android and desktop apps 📱!

The finest Windows Optimizer

🧠 Leon is your open-source personal assistant.

Cryptomator for Windows, macOS, and Linux: Secure client-side encryption for your cloud storage, ensuring privacy and control over your data.

Set up your own OpenVPN server on Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, CentOS, Arch Linux and more

A simple server for sending and receiving messages in real-time per WebSocket. (Includes a sleek web-ui)

The Privacy First PDF Toolkit

🍃 Organic Maps is a free Android & iOS offline maps app for more than 6M travelers, tourists, hikers, and cyclists. It uses crowd-sourced OpenStreetMap data and is developed with love by the community. No ads, no tracking, no data collection, no crapware. Please donate to support the development!

Offline speech recognition API for Android, iOS, Raspberry Pi and servers with Python, Java, C# and Node

A fully open source & end-to-end encrypted note taking alternative to Evernote.

Alternative Twitter front-end

Application designed to optimize, customize and enhance your Windows experience.

🏔 Love Freedom - ❌ Block Mass Surveillance

Force Remove Copilot, Recall and More in Windows 11

[MLsys2026 Best Paper]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08276. RAG on Everything with LEANN. Enjoy 97% storage savings while running a fast, accurate, and 100% private RAG application on your personal device.

Firefox privacy, security and anti-tracking: a comprehensive user.js template for configuration and hardening

An alternative frontend for YouTube, for Android.

Community guide to using YubiKey for GnuPG and SSH - protect secrets with hardware crypto.

A self-hosted, ad-free, privacy-respecting metasearch engine

An open-source framework for detecting, redacting, masking, and anonymizing sensitive data (PII) across text, images, and structured data. Supports NLP, pattern matching, and customizable pipelines.

WireGuard VPN installer for Linux servers

Monero: the secure, private, untraceable cryptocurrency

Firefox user.js for optimal privacy and security. Your favorite browser, but better.

Experience email the way you want with Mail0 – the first open source email app that puts your privacy and safety first. Join the discord: https://mail0.link/discord

screen sharing for developers https://screego.net/

Free, open-source Windows optimization tool for performance, privacy, and simplicity.

An alternative privacy-friendly YouTube frontend which is efficient by design.

Technitium DNS Server

Perform data science on data that remains in someone else's server