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.
- The Facebook Phone Numbers Are Now Searchable in Have I Been Pwned
- Have you been ‘pwned’ in a data breach? Troy Hunt can tell (AP)
- The Legitimisation of Have I Been Pwned
- Donate
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.
- 1Password Support
- Use 1Password as an authenticator for sites with two-factor authentication
- Securely share 1Password items with anyone
- How to create a strong 1Password account password
- 1Password Strong Password Generator
- Security is not just a feature. It’s our foundation.
- 1Password Security Design white paper
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.
- Bitwarden Help Center
- Bitwarden Authenticator (TOTP)
- Bitwarden Send
- Bitwarden Strong Password Generator
- Compliance, Audits, and Certifications
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.
- Introducing iVerify, the security toolkit for iPhone users
- This App Will Tell You if Your iPhone Gets Hacked (Motherboard/VICE)
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.
- Customizable disappearing messages
- View-once media messages
- Private contact discovery
- Sealed sender
- Private groups
- Encrypted profiles
- Face blurring tools
- Note to Self feature
- Private link previews
- Private GIF search
- Encrypted stickers
- Always Relay Calls feature
- Signal Support
- Government Requests
- Privacy Policy
- Donate to Signal
Proton Mail
Proton AG
Secure email that protects your privacy. Keep your conversations private. Proton Mail is an encrypted email service based in Switzerland.
- Email that puts your security first
- Proton Easy Switch
- Enhanced tracking protection
- Proton Mail encryption explained
- We believe in the power of open source
- Transparency report
- How to pay for Proton services in Russia
- Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte talk about Proton Mail on an episode of the Security Now podcast
Proton Calendar
Proton AG
Your schedule is worth protecting. Your calendar is a record of your life. Proton Calendar helps keep it private.
- The world’s most secure calendar
- Proton Easy Switch
- We believe in the power of open source
- Transparency report
- How to pay for Proton services in Russia
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.
- Free subscription renewal for those living in Russia, Belarus or Ukraine
- Secure email made for you
- Secure email
- Zero-knowledge calendar
- Transparency Report & Warrant Canary
Jitsi Meet
8×8
Start & join meetings for free. No account needed.
- Jitsi Meet Security & Privacy
- Jitsi User FAQ
- meet.jit.si Privacy Supplement
- The Tor Project endorsement
- Amnesty International endorsement
- This is what end-to-end encryption should look like!
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.
- CryptPad Calendar
- About CryptPad
- CryptPad Documentation
- What we can’t know, what we must know, what we want to know
- Privacy, distributed computation, and architectures of resilience
- CryptPad discussed in an episode of the FLOSS Weekly podcast
- Donate
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.
- Features
- Stand for Privacy
- Built to Last
- Write Fearlessly
- Our Principles
- Blog
- Listed blogging platform
- Help center
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.
- Your privacy, secured by math
- We believe in the power of open source
- Transparency report
- How to pay for Proton services in Russia
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.
- Introduction
- Beginner’s Tutorial
- Documentation
- Frequently Asked Questions
- Downloads
- Encryption toolkit for media makers: VeraCrypt guide (FPF)
- Donation to VeraCrypt
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.
- Mozilla Support
- Switching from Chrome to Firefox
- Enhanced Tracking Protection in Firefox for desktop
- Enhanced Tracking Protection in Firefox for iOS
- Enhanced Tracking Protection in Firefox for Android
- How Firefox Sync keeps your data safe
- HTTPS-Only Mode in Firefox
- Firefox DNS-over-HTTPS
- Common Myths about Private Browsing
- Facebook Container extension
- Firefox Multi-Account Containers extension
- How is Facebook Container different from Multi-account Containers?
- Permission request messages for Firefox extensions
- Mozilla Manifesto
- Donate to Mozilla now
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.
Simple Search
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.
Cookie Consent Speed.Run
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.
- App launch blog post (WHW)
- In Post Roe v. Wade Era, Mozilla Labels 18 of 25 Popular Period and Pregnancy Tracking Tech With *Privacy Not Included Warning (Mozilla)
- Donate to Women Help Women
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.
- Mullvad help center
- Connection check
- What is privacy?
- Why Mullvad VPN?
- Kill switch feature
- Always require VPN feature
- Block ads and Block trackers options
- Mullvad’s account numbers get longer – and safer
- We value open source
- Third-party security audits
- Privacy policy
- No-logging of user activity policy
- The ownership and future of Mullvad VPN
- How we handle government requests for user data
- Swedish legislation relevant to us as a VPN provider
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.
- In support of Ukraine: distributing free IVPN accounts
- Help Center
- What is a VPN?
- Do you offer a kill switch or VPN firewall?
- AntiTracker
- Third-party security audits
- For a future free from surveillance
- Privacy Policy
- Transparency Report
1.1.1.1
Cloudflare
The free app that makes your Internet safer.
- Announcing 1.1.1.1: the fastest, privacy-first consumer DNS service
- Sure, The Internet Is Broken. So Let’s Go Fix It, Shall We? (Newco Shift)
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.
- Tor Browser User Manual
- How can we help?
- Tor Check
- The Tor Social Contract
- Donate Now to the Tor Project
- Support 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.
- Browser extension for Firefox
- Browser extension for Brave, Chrome and others
- Donate Now to the Tor Project
Tails
Tails is a portable operating system that protects against surveillance and censorship.
- How Tails works
- Download and install Tails
- Documentation
- Warnings: Tails is safe but not magic!
- Donate to fight 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.
- Documentation
- Tutorials
- GIMP open source image editor forked to fix ‘problematic’ name (Tim Anderson – The Register)
- A Project On Hiatus (Glimpse)
- Donate
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.