Awesome Privacy

<img width="500" src="misc/logo.png"> </img> <img src="https://awesome.re/badge.svg" alt="Awesome"> <a href="https://git.nixnet.services/pluja/awesome-privacy"><img alt="Mirror" src="https://img.shields.io/badge/Mirror-gitea-green"></img></a> List of free, open source and privacy respecting services and alternatives to privative services. <a href="https://github.com/pluja/awesome-privacy/blob/main/misc/ABOUT.md"> About </a> | <a href="https://github.com/pluja/awesome-privacy/blob/main/misc/Contributing.md"> Contributing </a> | <a href="https://github.com/pluja/awesome-privacy/blob/main/misc/QUOTES.md"> Quotes </a> | <a href="https://github.com/pluja/awesome-privacy/discussions"> Discussions </a>

[!IMPORTANT] Anonymity, Privacy, and Security are often used interchangeably, but they actually represent distinct concepts. It is important to understand the differences between them. Read more in this section below.

The primary focus of this list is to provide alternatives that prioritize privacy. These alternatives give you control over your data and do not collect or sell it.

2FA
Analytics
Android
- Android App Store
- Android Dialer
- Android File Manager
- Android Gallery
- Android Keyboard
- Android Launcher
Artificial Intelligence
- ChatGPT
- Copilot
- ElevenLabs Text To Speech
- Midjourney (image generation)
Bookmarking
- Book and web annotations
Captchas
Commenting Engines (disqus)
Cloaking
Cloud Storage
Creator Tools
Databases
Dating Apps
Design Tools
Developer Tools
- IDEs
Domain Registrar
Download Manager
Encryption
File Management and Sharing
Fitness and Health
- Fitness trackers
- Food
- Menstrual cycle trackers
- Medical health
Fonts
Forms
Games
- Mario Kart
- Minecraft
- Pokémon
- Sonic the Hedgehog
Home Assistants
Instant Messaging
Link in Bio Tools
Link Shorteners
Location tracking
Mail Services
Maps and Navigation
Media Streaming Platforms
- Video and Audio
- Audio
- Podcasts
Music Recognition (Shazam-like)
Notes and Tasks
Office
Online Phone Providers (SMS)
Operating Systems
- Android
- PC / MacOS
- Smart TV
Password Managers
Pastebin and Secret Sharing
Payments
Personal Finances
Photo Editing and Management
Photo Storage
Privacy Tools
Remote Access and Control
Search Engines
Social Networks and Platforms
- Blogging platforms (Medium / Blogger)
- Imgur
- Instagram
- Quora
- LBRY and Odysee
- Reddit
- Streaming Platforms (Twitch)
- TikTok
- Twitter
- Wikipedia
- YouTube
Speech to Text
Teamworking Tools
Text To Speech
Translation
Uncategorized
Utilities
Version Control
Video and Audio Conferencing
Video Editing
Virtual Private Networks (VPNs)
Web Browser
- Browser Addons
- Browser Sync
- WebView

2FA

<img width="16" src="misc/forbidden.png"> </img> Avoid using apps that won't let you export your keys easily.

Authy
Google Authenticator

<img width="16" src="misc/check.png"> </img> Instead use

<img width="16" src="misc/android.png"> Aegis - A free, secure and open source app for Android to manage your 2-step verification tokens. Supports variety of imports from other apps (Google Authenticator, Authy etc.), vault encryption and exporting keys (plaintext or encrypted).
ente Auth - A free, cross platform, end-to-end encrypted and open source app for managing your 2-step verification tokens. From the makers of ente Photos, and uses the same battle tested infrastructure. Needs an ente.io account.
Owky - Free and Open Source Two-Factor Authenticator for IOS users.
<img width="16" src="misc/android.png"> FreeOTPPlus - Enhanced fork of FreeOTP-Android providing a feature-rich 2FA authenticator.
<img width="16" src="misc/android.png"> Authenticator Pro - Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) client for Android + Wear OS.

Analytics

<img width="16" src="misc/forbidden.png"> </img> Avoid any analytics service that comes from Google, Facebook, Microsoft or any private service. These kind of analytics hurt user privacy.

<img width="16" src="misc/check.png"> </img> Instead use

Ackee - Self-hosted website analytics.
Aptabase - Open-source, privacy-first and simple analytics for mobile and desktop apps.
Cabin - Privacy-first, carbon conscious web analytics.
GoatCounter - Privacy aware, lightweight and open-source analytics platform.
Matomo - Google Analytics alternative that protects your data and your customers' privacy.
Nullitics - Zero-effort open-source cheap analytics.
Pirsch - Pirsch is a simple, privacy-friendly, open-source alternative to Google Analytics — lightweight, cookie-free and easily integrated into any website or backend.
Plausible - Simple and privacy-friendly alternative to Google Analytics.
Shynet - Modern, privacy-friendly, and detailed web analytics that works without cookies or JS.
Swetrix - Privacy-focused, fully cookieless and opensource (and selfhostable) web-analytics service.
Umami - A simple, fast, website analytics alternative to Google Analytics.
Unidentified Analytics - Naive ip-based tracking that works everywhere (web, command-line, email, etc). No account required. Developer friendly.

Android

Android App Store

<img width="16" src="misc/forbidden.png"> </img> Avoid

Google Play Store

<img width="16" src="misc/check.png"> </img> Instead use

F-Droid - F-Droid is an installable catalogue of FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) applications for the Android platform.
- Droid-ify - Lightweight F-Droid client with Material UI.
- Aurora Droid - Aurora Droid is a modern FOSS client for F-Droid.
- Foxy Droid - Unofficial F-Droid client in the style of the classic one.
FossDroid - Fossdroid's aim is to promote free and open source apps on the Android platform: newest, trendiest and the most popular ones.
SkyDroid - Decentralized App Store for Android
Obtainium - Get app updates directly from the source.
Accrescent - A novel Android app store focused on security, privacy, and usability.

Alternative Google Play Store clients

Aurora Store - Aurora Store is an open-source alternative Google Play Store frontend client with privacy and modern design in mind.

Android Dialer

<img width="16" src="misc/forbidden.png"> </img> Avoid

Third-party dialers found on the play store. They may contain ads/trackers and may ask for unnecessary permissions.

<img width="16" src="misc/check.png"> </img> Instead use

Koler - Uniquely stylized phone app with customizable features.

Android File Manager

<img width="16" src="misc/forbidden.png"> </img> Avoid

Preinstalled file managers and third-party file manager apps found on the play store. They may contain ads/trackers and may ask for unnecessary permissions.

<img width="16" src="misc/check.png"> </img> Instead use

Amaze File Manager - Simple and attractive Material Design file manager for Android.
Material Files - An open source Material Design file manager, for Android 5.0+.
Ghost Commander - Dual-panel file manager.

Android Keyboard

<img width="16" src="misc/forbidden.png"> </img> Avoid

GBoard (Google)
SwiftKey

<img width="16" src="misc/check.png"> </img> Instead use

AnySoftKeyboard - The only Android keyboard you'll ever need. Free as in speech and Free as in beer.
FlorisBoard - FlorisBoard is a free and open-source keyboard for Android 6.0+ devices. It aims at being modern, user-friendly and customizable while fully respecting your privacy. Currently in early-beta state.
Futo Keyboard - A modern keyboard that respects your privacy and security, with features such as offline voice input, swipe typing and smart autocorrect.
Heliboard - A privacy-conscious and customizable open-source keyboard, based on AOSP / OpenBoard with many additional features and improvements, including support for custom dictionaries, themes, and glide typing.
Indic Keyboard - Indic Keyboard is a versatile keyboard for Android users who wish to use Indic and Indian languages to type messages, compose emails and generally prefer to use them in addition to English on their phone.
OpenBoard - OpenBoard is a 100% foss keyboard based on AOSP, with no dependency on Google binaries, that respects your privacy. It is no longer updated, but still works.
Simple Keyboard - Simply keyboard and nothing more.

Android Gallery

Your phone gallery is a deeply personal aspect of your life, it may contain images and videos that capture intimate moments, locations, and people important to you. Protecting its privacy is essential to prevent misuse of this information, not only for you, but it also ensures the privacy of friends and family captured in these photos, who may not consent to having their images shared.

[!NOTE] For a private way to store and backup your photos see Photo Storage section.

<img width="16" src="misc/forbidden.png"> </img> Avoid

Google Photos has privacy issues. They collect a lot of data about you, which you can see in their privacy policy. Google can scan your photos and might flag them for different reasons, as shown in this incident. They also use your photos to improve their AI technology.
Amazon Photos also has similar privacy problems. Like Google Photos, it gathers a lot of information from your photo gallery. You can see a bit of what kind of data they collect in their examples list.
Samsung, Huawei, Xiaomi, etc. Gallery

<img width="16" src="misc/check.png"> </img> Instead use

Aves - Beautiful gallery and metadata explorer app, built for Android with Flutter.
Fossify Gallery - Fork of Simple Gallery. Browse your memories without any interruptions with this photo and video gallery.

Android Launcher

<img width="16" src="misc/forbidden.png"> </img> Avoid

Third-party launchers found on the play store. They may contain ads/trackers and may ask for unnecessary permissions.

<img width="16" src="misc/check.png"> </img> Instead use

Lawnchair - No clever tagline needed.
OpenLauncher - Customizable and Open Source Launcher for Android.
KISS - Lightning fast, open-source, < 200kb Android launcher.
Olauncher - Minimal AF (ad-free) launcher app for Android.
Posidon Launcher - Posidon launcher is a minimal, one page homescreen with a vertical scrolling feed.
Pie Launcher - Android home screen launcher that uses a dynamic pie menu instead of fixed positioned icons.
Rootless Pixel Launcher - The Launcher3 fork known as "Rootless Pixel Launcher".
Bliss Launcher - The default launcher of the /e/ Android-based OS. It allows users to easily create and browse group of apps and it displays notification badges on app icons.

Artificial Intelligence

When using cloud-based AI services, the data you input is often collected and stored by the service provider. This may include not only the content of your requests but