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Page last edited → 24 January 2023
Page last reviewed → 30 June 2021

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 and data encryption

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. Other tools

Passwords and data breaches

Firefox Monitor

Mozilla

Firefox Monitor warns you if your email address has been exposed in an online data breach. See if your information has been exposed, learn how to better protect your online accounts, and get alerted if your email address appears in a new breach.

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

The Most Trusted Open Source Password Manager for Business. Bitwarden offers the easiest and safest way for teams and individuals to store and share sensitive data from any device.

Pwned Passwords

Have I Been Pwned/Troy Hunt

Pwned Passwords are 613,584,246 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

Analyze suspicious files and URLs to detect types of malware, automatically share them with the security community.

Dangerzone

Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF)

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

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

Secure email for everybody. Tutanota is the world’s most secure email service, easy to use and private by design. Sign up for encrypted email now.

Jitsi Meet

8×8

Start & join meetings for free. No account needed.

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

XWiki

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

Skiff Pages

Be a producer, not a product. Take your thoughts and ideas to the next level with a private, end-to-end encrypted workspace.

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 and data encryption

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

Everything in Sync. Sync makes it easy to store, share and access your files from just about anywhere. Best of all, Sync protects your privacy with end-to-end encryption — ensuring that your data in the cloud is safe, secure and 100% private.

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.

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.

Brave

Brave Software

The best privacy online. Browse privately. Search privately. And ditch Big Tech.

DuckDuckGo

The search engine that doesn’t track you.

uBlock Origin

Raymond Hill

An efficient blocker add-on for various browsers. Fast, potent, and lean.

Privacy Badger

Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)

Privacy Badger automatically learns to block invisible trackers.

Ghostery Browser Extension

The webs most advanced ad and tracker blocker. Equipped with award-winning AI tracking technology to browse the web safe and quick.

DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials

DuckDuckGo

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.

The Markup

Have you noticed that Google search results often turn up a lot of Google content at the top? We did. This extension highlights “traditional” or “ten blue link” search results provided by the search engine, laying them over the info boxes and other content. Compatible with Bing and Google search engines.

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. Want to learn more about tracking? Read how it works with our guide.

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.

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.

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

Hide your real email address to help protect your identity. Share ⁨Relay⁩ email aliases instead of your real email address to protect your online accounts from hackers.

Mullvad VPN

Amagicom AB

You have a right to privacy. In a society increasingly determined to erode that right, a fast, trustworthy and easy-to-use VPN is a good first step toward reclaiming it.

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 your app traffic private and unblocked.

Snowflake

Tor Project

Help people in censored countries access the Internet without restrictions.

Tails

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

Is BGP safe yet?

Cloudflare

Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is the postal service of the Internet. It’s responsible for looking at all of the available paths that data could travel and picking the best route. Unfortunately, it isn’t secure, and there have been some major Internet disruptions as a result. But fortunately there is a way to make it secure. You can use this tool to test if your ISP is implementing BGP safely.

Maps and navigation

OsmAnd

Offline mobile maps & navigation based on OpenStreetMap.

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

Translate

Apple

The new Translate app in iOS lets you quickly and easily translate your voice and text between any combination of eleven languages. On-device mode enables a fully offline experience for Translate. Use all the app features for downloaded languages and keep your translations private without needing to turn off your phone’s internet connection.

DeepL Translator

DeepL

DeepL Translate is the go-to translation tool for fast, accurate, and high-quality translations.

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)

G*MP is a cross-platform free and open source 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

Open source video editor. Free and easy to use for any purpose, forever.

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.

Other tools

LibreSpeed

Federico Dossena

Free and Open Source Speedtest.

Image Scrubber

Everset 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.

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.

TinEye

Idée

Reverse Image Search. Find where images appear online.

YouTube DataViewer

Amnesty International

The YouTube DataViewer is a simple tool to extract hidden data from videos hosted on YouTube.

Crytch

Moritz Ebeling and Leon Lukas Plum

Crytch is a webtool that makes private messaging fun, easy and secure.

QuickHash GUI

Ted Smith

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

Haven: Keep Watch

Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF) and Guardian Project

Haven is for people who need a way to protect their personal spaces and possessions without compromising their own privacy, through an Android app and on-device sensors.

Qubes OS

Qubes OS is a free and open-source, security-oriented operating system for single-user desktop computing. Qubes OS leverages Xen-based virtualization to allow for the creation and management of isolated compartments called qubes.

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