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Index

1. Passwords and data breaches

2. Device security

3. Private conversations and meetings

4. Collaborative documents and file sharing

5. Personal notes and office suite

6. Cloud storage, data encryption and backups

7. Web browsing

8. Sexual and reproductive health

9. Identity and Internet traffic protection

10. Maps and navigation

11. Translators

12. Decentralized social networks

13. Creative suite

14. Internet censorship and shutdowns

15. Playful things

16. Advanced tools

Passwords and data breaches

Firefox Monitor

Mozilla

Find out if you’ve been in a data breach. Stay safe with a simple yet powerful tool that tracks whether your personal information has been exposed in a data breach. We’ll help you understand what to do next and continuously monitor for any new breaches — all at no cost to you.

Have I Been Pwned?

Troy Hunt

Check if your email or phone is in a data breach.

1Password

The world’s most-loved password manager. 1Password is the easiest way to store and use strong passwords. Log in to sites and fill forms securely with a single click.

Bitwarden

Move fast and securely with the password manager trusted by millions. Drive collaboration, boost productivity, and experience the power of open source with Bitwarden, the easiest way to secure all your passwords and sensitive information.

Pwned Passwords

Have I Been Pwned/Troy Hunt

Pwned Passwords are hundreds of millions of real world passwords previously exposed in data breaches. This exposure makes them unsuitable for ongoing use as they’re at much greater risk of being used to take over other accounts. They’re searchable online as well as being downloadable for use in other online systems.

Password Strength Testing Tool

Bitwarden

Think you have a strong password? Find out here.

FreeOTP

Red Hat

FreeOTP is a two-factor authentication application for systems utilizing one-time password protocols. Tokens can be added easily by scanning a QR code. If you need to generate a QR code, try our QR code generator.

Aegis Authenticator

Beem Development

Aegis Authenticator is a free, secure and open source app for Android to manage your 2-step verification tokens for your online services.

Authy

Twilio

Enable 2FA for your favorite sites. Go beyond the password and protect yourself from hackers and account takeovers.

YubiKey

Yubico

The industry’s #1 security key, enabling strong two-factor, multi-factor and passwordless authentication.

SoloKeys

Secure Login. Open Source. Easy. The first open-source FIDO2 security key: Protect your online accounts against unauthorized access by using the most secure login method.

Nitrokey

Nitrokey protects emails, files, hard drives, server certificates and online accounts.

Device security

iVerify

Trail of Bits

Protect Your Digital Life. Built by the leaders in security research at Trail of Bits, iVerify helps you keep your devices and online accounts secure from vulnerabilities.

VirusTotal

Chronicle/Alphabet

Analyse suspicious files, domains, IPs and URLs to detect malware and other breaches, automatically share them with the security community.

Private conversations and meetings

Signal

Signal is an end-to-end encrypted messaging app. Privacy isn’t an optional mode, it’s just the way that Signal works. Every message, every call, every time.

Proton Mail

Proton AG

Secure email that protects your privacy. Keep your conversations private. Proton Mail is an encrypted email service based in Switzerland.

Proton Calendar

Proton AG

Your schedule is worth protecting. Your calendar is a record of your life. Proton Calendar helps keep it private.

Tutanota

Tutao

Tutanota is the world’s most secure email service, easy to use and private by design. You get fully encrypted calendars and contacts with all our personal and business email accounts.

Ricochet Refresh

Blueprint for Free Speech

Ricochet Refresh is an open-source project to allow private and anonymous instant messaging.

OnionShare’s “Chat Anonymously” feature

Micah Lee

Chat with friends securely and anonymously using the Tor network.

Collaborative documents and file sharing

CryptPad

CryptPad is a collaborative office suite that is end-to-end encrypted and open-source.

Skiff Pages

Protect your notes, documents, and wikis with Skiff Pages – end-to-end encrypted and fully collaborative.

Tresorit Send

Share confidential files with our end-to-end encrypted links. Your files get encrypted before they leave your device and never get decrypted until accessed by your recipient.

FileSend

Standard Notes

Simple, encrypted file sharing. FileSend secures files with client-side AES-256 encryption and does not log IP addresses. Files are permanently deleted from our servers on download or after specified duration.

OnionShare

Micah Lee

OnionShare is an open source tool that lets you securely and anonymously share files, host websites, and chat with friends using the Tor network.

Personal notes and office suite

Standard Notes

Stand for privacy. Write fearlessly. Standard Notes helps you gain control in a world that often feels out of control. Protect your life’s work with end-to-end encryption, advanced security, and unmatched privacy controls.

LibreOffice and Collabora Office

LibreOffice is a free and powerful office suite, and a successor to OpenOffice.org (commonly known as OpenOffice). Its clean interface and feature-rich tools help you unleash your creativity and enhance your productivity.

Note: LibreOffice is available as a desktop app for Linux, macOS, and Windows. On mobile the Document Foundation team (the people behind LibreOffice) recommends Collabora Office from Collabora.

Cloud storage, data encryption and backups

Proton Drive

Secure cloud storage and file sharing. Proton Drive is an end-to-end encrypted Swiss vault for your files that protects your data.

Sync

The safe space to get your best work done. Sync is a file storage and document collaboration platform that helps teams stay safe, secure and connected in the cloud.

VeraCrypt

IDRIX

VeraCrypt is a free open source disk encryption software for Windows, macOS and Linux. Brought to you by IDRIX and based on TrueCrypt 7.1a.

Cryptomator

Skymatic

Put a lock on your cloud. With Cryptomator, the key to your data is in your hands. Cryptomator encrypts your data quickly and easily. Afterwards you upload them protected to your favorite cloud service.

FreeFileSync

Zenju

FreeFileSync is a folder comparison and synchronization software that creates and manages backup copies of all your important files. Instead of copying every file every time, FreeFileSync determines the differences between a source and a target folder and transfers only the minimum amount of data needed. FreeFileSync is Open Source software, available for Windows, macOS, and Linux.

Web browsing

Firefox

Mozilla

Get the browsers that put your privacy first — and always have. Get the privacy you deserve. Enhanced Tracking Protection is automatic in every Firefox browser.

Mullvad Browser

Amagicom AB + Tor Project

The Mullvad Browser is a privacy-focused web browser developed in a collaboration between Mullvad VPN and the Tor Project. It’s designed to minimize tracking and fingerprinting. You could say it’s a Tor Browser without the Tor Network. Instead, you can use it with a trustworthy VPN. The idea is to provide one more alternative – beside the Tor Network – to browse the internet with more privacy. To get as many people as possible to fight the big data gathering of today. To free the internet from mass surveillance.

Firefox Focus

Mozilla

Simply private mobile browsing. Firefox Focus is your dedicated privacy browser with automatic tracking protection. With Focus, your pages load faster and your data stays private.

DuckDuckGo

Private Search. Search anonymously. We don’t track you. Ever.

uBlock Origin

Raymond Hill

Finally, an efficient wide-spectrum content blocker. Easy on CPU and memory.

Privacy Badger

Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)

Privacy Badger is a browser extension that automatically learns to block invisible trackers.

Blacklight

The Markup/Surya Mattu

A Real-Time Website Privacy Inspector. Who is peeking over your shoulder while you work, watch videos, learn, explore, and shop on the internet? Enter the address of any website, and Blacklight will scan it and reveal the specific user-tracking technologies on the site—and who’s getting your data. You may be surprised at what you learn.

Cover Your Tracks

Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)

See how trackers view your browser. Test your browser to see how well you are protected from tracking and fingerprinting.

TinEye

Idée

Reverse Image Search. Find where images appear online.

LibreSpeed

Federico Dossena

Free and Open Source Speedtest.

WhereGoes

Have you ever wondered: Where does this link go? The URL redirect checker follows the path of the URL. It will show you the full redirection path of URLs, shortened links, or tiny URLs.

Sexual and reproductive health

Euki

Women Help Women (WHW)

Euki: A sexual health app that adapts to YOU. Euki helps you get answers that you can trust without making assumptions about who you are, what you do or don’t already know, or how you identify.

Identity and Internet traffic protection

Firefox Relay

Mozilla

Protect your identity with secure phone and email masking. Our secure, easy-to-use email and phone masks help keep your identity private so you can sign up for new accounts anonymously, stop spam texts and junk calls, and get only the emails you want in your inbox.

Image Scrubber

Everest Pipkin

This is a tool for anonymizing photographs taken at protests. It will remove identifying metadata (Exif data) from photographs, and also allow you to selectively blur parts of the image to cover faces and other identifiable information. All processing happens directly in the browser- no information is stored or sent anywhere.

Mullvad VPN

Amagicom AB

You have a universal right to privacy. Browse the web securely and privately with Mullvad VPN. It’s fast, trustworthy, and easy to use.

IVPN

Privatus Limited

Resist Online Surveillance. What you do online can be tracked by organizations you may not know or trust and become part of a permanent record. A VPN can’t solve this on its own, but can prevent your ISP from being able to share or sell your data.

1.1.1.1

Cloudflare

The free app that makes your Internet safer.

DNS leak test

Privatus Limited

A web tool that lets you check to make sure your VPN is not leaking your DNS requests.

Tor Browser and Onion Browser

Browse Privately. Explore Freely. Defend yourself against tracking and surveillance. Circumvent censorship.

Note: The Tor Browser is available for Android, Linux, macOS, and Windows. On iOS and iPadOS the Tor Project recommends the Onion Browser.

Orbot

Guardian Project

Tor VPN for Smartphones. Keep Apps Safe.

Snowflake

Tor Project

Help people in censored countries access the Internet without restrictions. Once you install and enable the extension, wait for the snowflake icon to turn green, this means a censored user is connecting through your extension to access the Internet!

Maps and navigation

OsmAnd

Offline Maps and Navigation.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap Foundation (OSMF)

OpenStreetMap is a map of the world, created by people like you and free to use under an open license.

Translators

Firefox Translations

Mozilla

Translate web sites in your browser without using the cloud. Firefox Translations provides automated translation of web content. Unlike cloud-based alternatives, translation is done locally, on the client-side, so that the text being translated does not leave your machine.

Translate

Apple

Translate lets you quickly and easily translate your voice and text between any combination of 11 languages. Designed to be the best and easiest-to-use app for translating phrases, conversations, and even the text around you. Translate combines high-quality translations with an intuitive design, so that translating is quick and easy.

Feature highlight: On-device mode – Enable a fully offline experience in Translate and for downloaded languages. Keep your translations private without needing to turn off your internet connection.

DeepL Translator

DeepL

The world’s most accurate and nuanced machine translation.

Decentralized social networks

Mastodon

Social networking that’s not for sale. Your home feed should be filled with what matters to you most, not what a corporation thinks you should see. Radically different social media, back in the hands of the people.

Creative suite

GNU Image Manipulation Program (G*MP)

The Free & Open Source Image Editor. G*MP is a cross-platform image editor available for GNU/Linux, macOS, Windows and more operating systems.

Krita

Krita is a professional free and open source painting program. It is made by artists that want to see affordable art tools for everyone.

Inkscape

Draw Freely. Inkscape is a Free and open source vector graphics editor for GNU/Linux, Windows and macOS.

Kdenlive

KDE

Free and Open Source Video Editor.

Audacity

Free, open source, cross-platform audio software.

Scribus

Open Source Desktop Publishing.

Internet censorship and shutdowns

OONI Explorer

Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI)

OONI Explorer is an open data resource on internet censorship around the world. Since 2012, millions of network measurements have been collected from more than 200 countries. OONI Explorer sheds light on internet censorship and other forms of network interference worldwide.

OONI Probe

Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI)

Are websites and social media apps blocked? Is your network unusually slow? Run OONI Probe to find out! With this app, you will examine the blocking of websites and instant messaging apps, measure your network’s speed and performance, and check whether systems that could be responsible for censorship and surveillance are in your network.

Cost Of Shutdown Tool (COST)

NetBlocks

NetBlocks Cost of Shutdown Tool™ (COST) is a data-driven online service that enables anyone – including journalists, researchers, advocates, policy makers, businesses, and others – to quickly and easily produce rough estimates of the economic cost of Internet disruptions.

Playful things

Fred Wordie

Since GDPR came into our lives, we’ve all had to struggle with obtaining our basic privacy rights. With each cookie banner we have all been honing our skills, learning to navigate ambiguous options and distrust obvious buttons. Now is your chance to show what you have learnt.

Are you anonymous?

Gautam Krishna R

Do you think that switching to your browser’s private browsing mode or incognito mode will make you anonymous? Sorry to disappoint you, but you are wrong! Everyone can track you. You can check it out for yourself.

Click Click Click

Moniker and VPRO

Created by Moniker (Roel Wouters & Luna Maurer) and made in conjuction with We Are Data travelling installation, Clickclickclick.click reveals the browser events used to monitor our online behaviour.

Crytch

Moritz Ebeling and Leon Lukas Plum

Crytch (“encrypt a sketch”) is an online tool for creating encrypted messages. It follows the concept of visual cryptography: The information is present but hidden in chaos while only the correct key can reassemble the correct image. Inspired by the techniques from Moni Naor and Adi Shamir, we translated the idea to digital vector line-drawings: When anchorpoints are separately moved in different directions, the original image becomes distorted, lines that previously displayed information become meaningless.

Advanced tools

Dangerzone

Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF)

Take potentially dangerous PDFs, office documents, or images and convert them to safe PDFs.

Haven: Keep Watch

Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF) and Guardian Project

Protect personal spaces and possessions without compromising privacy.

Tails

Tails is a portable operating system that protects against surveillance and censorship.

QuickHash GUI

Ted Smith

QuickHash GUI is an open-source graphical interface data hashing tool for Linux, Windows, and macOS.

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