• EcoC²S
• About EcoC²S
• Services
• Events
• Events 2
• Surveys
• Products
• Media
• Resources

Table of Contents for the Alternatives to Proprietary, Freedom- and Privacy-Deleting Technologies page

• Fair Use Notice
• Disclaimer
• Quotes
• Reasons for Decentralization
• Break Out of Surveillance
• Alternatives to Apple, Google, and Microsoft
• Alternative Operating Systems (Alternatives to Microsoft Windows and/or Apple Inc.)
• Overall Web hosting framework
• URL Shortening
• Workspaces {Alternatives to Google Workspace}
• Slack, Cisco WebEx, Microsoft Teams, Google Hangouts, Google Meet, Google Workspace Individual, FaceTime, Skype, Zoom, etc. Alternatives
• Free and Open Communication Applications with the Jabber and SIP Protocols
• Electronic mail (e-mail) Communication [Alternatives to Gmail, Yahoo!, Hotmail/Live, etc.]
• Electronic mail (e-mail) Groups [Alternatives to Yahoo! Groups, Google Groups, etc.]
• Electronic mail (e-mail) Marketing [Alternatives to Mailchimp, Constant Contact, etc.]
• Document and Code Secure Signing [Alternatives to DocuSign}
• Online File Storage and Sharing Alternatives to WeTransfer, Dropbox, OneDrive, Google Drive, etc.
• Password Management
• Privacy-Respecting and/or Decentralized Search Engines
• Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) for Non-Profits
• Alternative Social Networking
• Alternatives to Google Maps, etc. (Online and Offline)
• Business Intelligence (BI)
• Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Customer Relationship Management (CRM), and/or Project/Task Management
• Point of Sale (POS) Software
• Logistics Management, e(lectronic) Commerce, Accounting, Billing, Invoicing & Payment Processing
• Event Management Software & Ticket Sales (Alternatives to Cvent, Eventbrite, Whova, etc.)
• Online and Offline Learning Platforms [Learning Management System (LMS)]
• Facebook Live, Flickr, YouTube, Vimeo, SoundCloud, etc. Alternatives
• Calendar/Time Scheduling (Alternatives to Calendly, When2Meet, etc.)
• Polls (Alternatives to Doodle Polls)
• Online Forms (Alternatives to Google Forms, SurveyMonkey, etc.)
• PDF Annotators/Editors
• Reference Managers
• Knowledge Databases (Alternatives to myBase, Confluence, etc.)
• Mind Maps
• Office Suites & Word Processors
• Collaborative Editing (Google, Microsoft, etc. Collaborative Editing Alternatives)
• Collaborative Editing / Online Spreadsheets (Google, Microsoft, etc. Collaborative Editing Alternatives)
• Collaborative Notebook Code Sharing and/or Editing (Alternatives to Google Colab, Deepnote, etc.)
• Remote Desktop Software (Alternatives to TeamViewer and Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection)
• Alternatives to Trello, Jira, etc. (Project Management software)
• Team Project Communication & Collaboration (Mostly for Developers)
• Software Project Localization
• Software Application Performance Monitoring

Fair Use Notice

Note: I have revised the Fair Use Notice found at Virtual Library / https://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/)

This Web page contains links to copyrighted material encountered in the Internet, the use of which has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. This Web page also contains excerpts of printed copyrighted material, the use of which has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner.

I am making such material available in an effort to advance understanding of the world that we live in so that we can heal and change ourselves from the inside out thus making a world that truly thrives and works for all.

I believe this constitutes a “fair use” of any such copyrighted material as provided for in Section 107 of the United States Copyright Law.

In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. (United States Code) Section 107, the material on this Site is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes.

For more information please visit: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/107

Disclaimer

The following resources are provided for reference purposes only. Their inclusion on this Web page, created by EcoC²S/Irucka Embry, does not represent any endorsement on the part of EcoC²S/Irucka Embry nor does it represent their endorsement of EcoC²S/Irucka Embry. The use of any of the listed software libraries, programs, tools, etc. and the interpretation of any results obtained remains the responsibility of the user. As well, the use of any of the resources and the interpretation of any results obtained remains the responsibility of the user. {This disclaimer is a revised version of the one found online at Internet Finite Element Resources (IFER) [Recovered with the Internet Archive: Wayback Machine].}

---

Quotes

“Another world is not only possible, she’s on the way and, on a quiet day, if you listen very carefully you can hear her breathe.”

—Arundhati Roy, From a speech entitled Confronting Empire given at the World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil on 28 January 2003; Source: Wikiquote: Arundhati Roy; License: Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0)

“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”

—Buckminster Fuller, As quoted in Beyond Civilization: Humanity’s Next Great Adventure (1999), by Daniel Quinn, p. 137; Source: Wikiquote: Buckminster Fuller; License: Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0)

“Peter Koenig (PK): Unfortunately digitization is advancing rapidly, without most people noticing it. Publication about it is sparse, and mostly only by the non-mainstream media.”

“Digital money is evolving much faster than digital ID. On purpose.”

“Why?”

“Digital ID has been propagated by the EU to such an extent that rejection became loud.”

“So, they switched to an alternative.”

“Full digitization of money. Because once money is fully digitized, with or without the infamous so-called Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC), a formal digital ID is just a question of converting each one of our QR code into an ID. And bingo. The money is controlled and so are we.”

“Yes, we all have a QR code. During Covid, whether vaccinated or not, each time we were compelled to take a PCR test, we were given a QR code. This personal QR code is automatically linked to all other QR codes we use… in restaurants, purchasing goods, airline tickets / boarding passes …. Just about anything is QR coded nowadays.”

“Back to digital money: In fact, CBDC is not even necessary, if all banks go along with digitization — and if the respective governments tell them they must — they will, no choice, if they don’t want to be sidelined or completely closed then cash can be abandoned basically from one day to the next.”

“Several countries have been selected to test-case the digitization of money. Switzerland is one of them. Selected banks have agreed to do so.”

—Source: “Digital Money and Human Enslavement”: Digitization of Everything — Towards a Dystopian World By Peter Koenig and Dr. Ana Mihalcea, Global Research, July 15, 2024

“When you turn on your computer, you’re making a political statement.”

“If, like most people, your computer boots Microsoft Windows, the statement you’re making is that transnational corporations should control access to the most powerful public media that ever existed. You’re passively accepting, too, that non-industrial nations should be kept from developing, and helping to preserve a monoculture that threatens the existence of minority languages. At a personal level, you’re accepting that these same corporations should control your access to educational and government services and have a right to install lock-down technologies on your computer without your permission — to say nothing of controlling what other software you can use and how you use it.”

“Most people, of course, never think of these implications. When confronted, some will claim that none of this matters. Most, even social activists, accept the situation because they don’t know of any alternative.”

“Yet an alternative does exist, and it’s becoming more viable by the day.”

“It’s called Free Software. It has already built and still runs most of the internet. Now, increasingly, Free Software is finding its way on to the desktops of those who want their ethics to extend to their computers.”

—Source: “Free software!”: You can’t usually do the right thing without inconveniencing yourself. Bruce Byfield reckons free software is a rare opportunity. Featured in Issue 395 of the New Internationalist magazine; License: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0)

---

Reasons for Decentralization

• EcoC²S [Irucka Embry): Decentralizing the Food System @ TN Local Food Summit 2022 — Audience Handout — [Requires PDF Software]
• EConsulting™ and EcoC²S: Decentralizing the Food Economy Resources — [Requires PDF Software]
• Recent Changes in the Global Seed Industry and Digital Agriculture Industries By Phil Howard, January 2023


• Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal (SMBC) - Classified: Security Cartoon


• Questioning the Universe Publishing (QUP) {Irucka Embry]: Resources to help us rethink, reimagine, & reFeel our world: Global Surveillance


• National Security Archive: The Cyber Vault Project: An online resource documenting cyber activities of the U.S. and foreign governments as well as international organizations


• Android Authority: Report: Hundreds of apps have hidden tracking software used by the government: Federal contractors pay to put the tracking code into apps and then sell the data back to the government. By August 7, 2020


• The Intercept: American Phone-Tracking Firm Demo’d Surveillance Powers by Spying on CIA and NSA: Anomaly Six, a secretive government contractor, claims to monitor the movements of billions of phones around the world and unmask spies with the press of a button. By Sam Biddle and Jack Poulson, April 22 2022


• The Hill: Report: Intelligence community can’t keep track of its contractors by Kristina Wong, 02/13/14


• TechCrunch: Popular video doorbells can be easily hijacked, researchers find By Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai, February 29, 2024. Also archived at https://archive.vn/PtY3Z


• LBRY: Why Do Tech Giants Abuse Their Users? By Jeremy Kauffman, Jan 8 2018


• Futurism: Microsoft Released an AI That Answers Medical Questions, But It’s Wildly Inaccurate: Microsoft’s medical AI is pretty impressive — except when it claims vaccines might cause autism, and that hospitals are haunted by ghosts. By Simon Spichak, March 7, 2023


• Vox: AI experts are increasingly afraid of what they’re creating: AI gets smarter, more capable, and more world-transforming every day. Here’s why that might not be a good thing. By Kelsey Piper, Updated Nov 28, 2022. Also archived at https://archive.vn/sLixc


• Beware of the QR Code, Remember Agenda ID2020? By Peter Koenig, Global Research, July 11, 2022


• The QR Code: “Apocalypse”, COVID Vaccine and the “Mark of the Beast” By Peter Koenig and Michael Mustapich, Global Research, March 03, 2022


• Worldwide Freedom Movement against Covid Mandates, QR Codes and Restrictions: The Global Elite’s Technological Coup d’État Against Humanity By Robert J. Burrowes, Global Research, February 14, 2022


• Biggest Lie in World History: There Never Was A Pandemic. The Data Base is Flawed. The Covid Mandates including the Vaccine are Invalid: The PCR “Covid-19 Confirmed Cases” are Meaningless. The Multibillion Dollar Antigen and Home Test Project is Fake By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research, June 11, 2022


• The Crow: In wake of EPIC data breach — Samsung forcing users to accept T&Cs or risk their data By David Rutland, Sep 5, 2022


• Corey’s Digs Investigative Journalism: AMAZON’S IMPENDING TAKEOVER: The One-Stop Shop for Smart Cities with Digital Currency Control By Corey Lynn, April 22, 2021


• Congress.gov | Library of Congress: S.2361 - Video Privacy Protection Act of 1988 from the 100th Congress (1987-1988)


• Democracy Now!: How Amazon “Lied, Spied, Cheated Its Way to the Top”: WSJ Reporter Dana Mattioli, August 14, 2024


• Amazon’s Antitrust Paradox By Lina M. Khan, The Yale Law Journal, Volume 126, Number 3, January 2017


• Top Class Actions: Lawsuit alleges customers who called John Hancock had voiceprints illegally extracted By Meryl Harris, July 29, 2024


• Top Class Actions: Google, OpenAI class actions allege companies use YouTube to train AI products By Anne Bucher, August 12, 2024


• Tutanota: Global Encryption Day: Any backdoor would do more harm than good. By demanding encryption backdoors, politicians are not asking us to choose between security and privacy. They are asking us to choose no security. By Matthias, First published: 2018-9-17


• Lawfare: Security or Surveillance? By Bruce Schneier, February 1, 2016


• The GNU Operating System and the Free Software Movement: Who does that server really serve? by Richard Stallman, originally published in Boston Review


• In re: Zoom Video Communications, Inc. Privacy Litigation


• Wired: Want to Ditch Zoom?: Jitsi Offers an Open-Source Alternative: As we spend more time on videoconferences, concerns mount about trust. Emil Ivov says you shouldn’t have to trust anyone. By Klint Finley, 04.20.2020


• VICE: Zoom iOS App Sends Data to Facebook Even if You Don’t Have a Facebook Account: Zoom’s privacy policy isn’t explicit about the data transfer to Facebook at all. by Joseph Cox, March 26, 2020. Also archived at https://archive.vn/655p3


• The Intercept: Zoom Meetings Aren’t End-to-End Encrypted, Despite Misleading Marketing: The videoconferencing service can access conversations on its platform. By Micah Lee and Yael Grauer, March 31, 2020


• The Intercept: Zoom’s Encryption Is “Not Suited for Secrets” and Has Surprising Links to China, Researchers Discover: Zoom rolled out its own encryption system and included an algorithm with known serious issues, say University of Toronto researchers. By Micah Lee, April 3, 2020


• Spying on Americans: CIA Spies and Their Collaborators By Judge Andrew P. Napolitano, Global Research, February 17, 2022/Creators Syndicate


• A Look into the Privacy Concerns Associated with Zoom By Brandon Arias, September 17, 2020, Rutgers Computer and Technology Law Journal (“RCTLJ”)


• Transcend Media Service: The Uber Files, 11 Jul 2022


• The EveryDay Concerned Citizen: Once Again, A Memo to President Trump: Massive Surveillance State Abuses: Treason on the Ground, in the USA: Public-Private Partners in Targeted Killing of Americans by Ramola D, Posted on July 3, 2019


• Luke’s Webpage: Matrix vs. XMPP


• MintPress News: Censoring Palestine: Swarms of Israeli Bots Are Crippling Pro-Palestinian Twitter Accounts By Jessica Buxbaum, May 17th, 2022


• MintPress News: The NATO to TikTok Pipeline: Why is TikTok Employing So Many National Security Agents? By Alan Macleod, April 29th, 2022


• MadCow: Pegasus Project’s “Modified Limited Hangout” By Daniel Hopsicker, July 27, 2021


• Unlimited Hangout: Meet Toka, the Most Dangerous Israeli Spyware Firm You’ve Never Heard Of: The mainstream media’s myopic focus on Israel’s Pegasus spyware and the threats it poses means that other companies, like Toka, go uninvestigated, even when their products present an even greater potential for abuse and illegal surveillance. by Whitney Webb, July 24, 2021


• Unlimited Hangout: Operation Warp Speed is Using a CIA-Linked Contractor to Keep Covid-19 Vaccine Contracts Secret: $6 billion in Covid-19 vaccine contracts awarded by Operation Warp Speed have been doled out by a secretive government contractor with deep ties to the CIA and DHS, escaping regulatory scrutiny and beyond the reach of FOIA requests. by Whitney Webb, October 6, 2020


• Unlimited Hangout: Ending Anonymity: Why The WEF’s Partnership Against Cybercrime Threatens The Future Of Privacy: With many focusing on tomorrow’s Cyber Polygon exercise, less attention has been paid to the World Economic Forum’s real ambitions in cybersecurity — to create a global organization aimed at gutting even the possibility of anonymity online. With the governments of the US, UK and Israel on board, along with some of the world’s most powerful corporations, it is important to pay attention to their endgame, not just the simulations. by Whitney Webb, July 12, 2021


• Unlimited Hangout: Biden’s Nominee for New Cabinet-Level Science Position Is Epstein-Linked Geneticist: CRISPR gene-editing expert Eric Lander, Biden’s director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, is awaiting Senate confirmation to serve in a new Cabinet-level position in the Biden administration. Jeffrey Epstein, the eugenicist pedophile and sex trafficker, bragged about funding Lander’s research and was photographed taking part in at least one meeting with him. by Whitney Webb, February 5, 2021


• Unlimited Hangout: A “Leap” toward Humanity’s Destruction: The world’s richest medical research foundation, the Wellcome Trust, has teamed up with a pair of former DARPA directors who built Silicon Valley’s skunkworks to usher in an age of nightmarish surveillance, including for babies as young as three months old. Their agenda can only advance if we allow it. by Whitney Webb, June 25, 2021


• Android Authority: Report: Hundreds of apps have hidden tracking software used by the government By C. Scott Brown, August 7, 2020


• Nicky Hager: Author and Investigative Journalist


• DuncanCampbell.org: Investigative journalist and forensic expert


• DuncanCampbell.org: NSA: “yes, there is an ECHELON system”


• The Intercept: My Life Unmasking British Eavesdroppers: Duncan Campbell spent 30 years — and risked his freedom — uncovering the secrets of U.S. and British eavesdropping, including the existence of ECHELON, one of the biggest spy scandals of the Cold War. Now, thanks to Edward Snowden, he has proof of ECHELON’s existence. By Duncan Campbell, August 3 2015, The Intercept


• Revealed: The NSA’s Secret Campaign to Crack, Undermine Internet Security by Jeff Larson, ProPublica, Nicole Perlroth, The New York Times, and Scott Shane, The New York Times, Sep. 5, 2013


• eBook of Secret Power By Nicky Hager


• The Intercept: Snowden Archive —The SidToday Files: The UKUSA SIGINT Relationship, The Intercept


• Top VPN Service: The Five, Nine and Fourteen Eyes Alliance — How to Protect Your Privacy By Jawwad Iqbal, November 4, 2020


• Gang Stalking, Mind Control, and Cults: ECHELON, Industrial Espionage, and the Organized Stalking Terror Police State By Eric Karlstrom, Posted on May 17, 2019


• Lawfare: Newly Disclosed NSA Documents Shed Further Light on Five Eyes Alliance By Scarlet Kim, Paulina Perlin, March 25, 2019


• The Intercept: The Powerful Global Spy Alliance You Never Knew Existed: Documents shine light on a secretive coalition that eavesdrops on communications in countries across the world. By Ryan Gallagher, March 1 2018, The Intercept


• Gaia: One of the Oldest Conspiracies Proven True: Project Echelon By Gaia Staff, April 24, 2018


• Why Does Anyone Still Believe the NSA? By Washington’s Blog, Global Research/Washington’s Blog, January 14, 2014


• Spy Agency Engaged In Internet “False Flag” Attacks By Washington’s Blog, Global Research/Washington’s Blog, February 06, 2014


• SCOTUS Says Domestic Spying Is Too Secret to be Challenged in Court: Officials shield government abuses from litigation by claiming “national security.” The Supreme Court declined to weigh in. By J.D. Tuccille, Global Research, March 01, 2023/Reason 27 February 2023


• Federal Judge Rules NSA Phone Data Collection is Legal and Justified by the 9/11 Attacks By Patrick Martin, Global Research/World Socialist Web Site, December 28, 2013


• Swedish Intelligence Service Spying on Russia for US National Security Agency By Jordan Shilton, Global Research/World Socialist Web Site, December 30, 2013


• NSA Feeds Raw Intelligence Data to Israel By Bill Van Auken, Global Research/World Socialist Web Site, September 13, 2013


• The BRICS “Independent Internet” Cable. In Defiance of the “US-Centric Internet” By Umberto Pascali, Global Research, September 17, 2013


• Undermining Privacy, Internet Spying: The “Hidden” Security Agenda Behind the “Hidden” Browsing Histories” Issue. Theresa May and the Snooper’s Charter By Dr. Binoy Kampmark/Global Research, December 29, 2015


• The Intercept: Mission Creep: How the NSA’s Game-Changing Targeting System Built for Iraq and Afghanistan Ended Up on the Mexico Border: The revolutionary NSA system merged different sources of electronic surveillance to rapidly map enemy fighters. The ramifications are still being felt. By Henrik Moltke, May 29 2019, The Intercept


• ECHELON Today: The Evolution of an NSA Black Program By Tom Burghardt, Global Research, November 14, 2013/Antifascist Calling and Global Research 13 July 2013


• The U.S. Secret State and the Internet: “Dirty Secrets” and “Crypto Wars” from “Clipper Chip” and ECHELON to PRISM By Tom Burghardt, Global Research, May 19, 2015/Antifascist Calling and Global Research 11 November 2013


• Sherman Skolnick’s Report: Carnivore Eats FBI By Sherman H. Skolnick [Recovered with the Internet Archive: Wayback Machine]


• Sherman Skolnick’s Report: Big Brother Internet—Nameless & Faceless in Cyberspace By Sherman H. Skolnick [Recovered with the Internet Archive: Wayback Machine]


• Guardian Weekly: Revealed: how US and UK spy agencies defeat internet privacy and security by James Ball, Julian Borger and Glenn Greenwald, 5 September 2013


• Slate: How to Block the NSA From Your Friends List By April Glaser and Libby Reinish, June 17 2013


• Did NSA Put a Secret Backdoor in New Encryption Standard? By Bruce Schneier, Wired News, November 15, 2007


• Unlimited Hangout: The Chain of Consensus: The Cartel Behind The Blockchain: While often pitched as decentralized, the key infrastructure upholding consensus on Ethereum has been dollarized by stablecoin issuers. These same entities, in addition to the currency speculators behind Block.One, were willing partners in the set up and take down of Terra-LUNA and FTX. by Mark Goodwin, September 11, 2024


• Unlimited Hangout: The Chain of Issuance: The People and Patents That Built The Financial Surveillance Network: The patent hoarding developers and investors associated with PayPal and Google who built the first iteration of e-commerce and digital advertising have turned to the blockchain to fulfill their vision of total financial surveillance and the circumnavigation of government-issued money. by Mark Goodwin and Whitney Webb, August 7, 2024


• MintPress News: Revealed: The Former Israeli Spies Working in Top Jobs at Google, Facebook and Microsoft By Alan Macleod, October 31st, 2022


• Digital Trends: This major Apple bug could let hackers steal your photos and wipe your device By Alex Blake, February 22, 2023


• WIRED: Hey, Apple! ‘Opt Out’ Is Useless. Let People Opt In: It’s not so crazy to want Big Tech to ask for your data—and conversations with AI assistants—before they take it. By Brian Barrett, Aug 2, 2019


• Brasscheck TV: Apple hardware completely compromised: Installed at the time of manufacture


• Infosecurity Magazine: Why Apple’s iCloud+ Provides a Future Unlocking for Authoritarian Government Data Surveillance By Tunio Zafer, 8 Sep 2021. Also archived at https://archive.vn/SGtv7


• Biometric Update: Apple Watch to introduce more extensive biometric health data-tracking By Katya Pivcevic, Sep 7, 2021. Also archived at https://archive.ph/O5v8X


• The Geek Stuff: FBI vs Apple: Should Apple Create a Backdoor for iPhone by Ramesh Natarajan on February 22, 2016


• Free Software Foundation (FSF): Free Software Foundation statement on the new iPhone, Apple Pay, and Apple Watch by Free Software Foundation, Published on Sep 09, 2014


• VentureBeat: Microsoft Teams vulnerability shows danger of collaboration apps By Tim Keary, September 15, 2022


• Sherman Skolnick’s Report: Chief Crook Enters Microsoft Case By Sherman H. Skolnick [Recovered with the Internet Archive: Wayback Machine]


• NSA Backdoor Exploit in Windows 8 Uncovered By Jacob Kleinman, TechnoBuffalo, August 22, 2013


• Report accuses BT of supplying backdoors for GCHQ and NSA: Researchers accuse BT of placing backdoors into firmware, linking their modems to network in the U.K. with IPs assigned to the U.S. Department of Defense By Steve Ragan and Staff Writer, CSO, December 16, 2013


• Spy agencies in the U.S. and U.K. bypass widely used encryption protocols: According to numerous publications, the National Security Agency and Britain’s GCHQ have undermined the protections placed on Web traffic and sensitive information, including HTTPS and SSL, under the flag of national security By Steve Ragan and Staff Writer, CSO, Sep 6, 2013


• Mad in America: Big Tech CEOs Meet with Psychiatry’s Leaders to Decide the Future of Mental Health: The paradox of techno-optimism at a huge conference on the future of mental health led by embattled tech CEOs alongside the most prominent figures of psychiatry. By Tunde Aideyan, August 5, 2023


• Social Media Victims Law Center: Social Media Addiction Lawsuits


• How Social Networks Became a ‘Subsidiary’ of the FBI and CIA: The Twitter Files have lifted the lid on a secret alliance between Silicon Valley, intelligence agencies and the political establishment By Jonathan Cook, Global Research, March 01, 2023/Middle East Eye 20 February 2023


• Amnesty International: Surveillance giants: How the business model of Google and Facebook threatens human rights, November 21, 2019


• New Eastern Outlook: The Lingering Danger of Google & Facebook By Ulson Gunnar, 30.04.2016


• MintPress News: Meet the Ex-CIA Agents Deciding Facebook’s Content Policy By Alan Macleod, July 12th, 2022


• New Eastern Outlook: Facebook Zero and the “People’s Receiver” By Tony Cartalucci, 07.03.2017


• Top Class Actions: Facebook Class Action Lawsuit and Settlement News Archives


• Top Class Actions: Facebook user profile data privacy $725M class action settlement, April 19, 2023


• Social Media Victims Law Center: Meta Lawsuit: Facebook & Instagram: Meta is the parent company of social media and messaging platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. People are now filing social media lawsuits against Meta for the harm and destruction these platforms have allegedly inflicted on users.


• How Facebook Removed “True Content” for Pfizer and the White House: They all made a lot of money while making us sicker By Igor Chudov, Global Research, January 18, 2023/Igor’s Newsletter 17 January 2023


• VICE: Zoom iOS App Sends Data to Facebook Even if You Don’t Have a Facebook Account: Zoom’s privacy policy isn’t explicit about the data transfer to Facebook at all. by Joseph Cox, March 26, 2020. Also archived at https://archive.vn/655p3


• PIRG: Do you know where your data is? Because Facebook doesn’t.: Facebook isn’t sure where all the data it collects on its users goes. Apparently neither is Twitter. September 15, 2022


• Reuters: Meta reaches $37.5 mln settlement of Facebook location tracking lawsuit By Jonathan Stempel, August 23, 2022. Also archived at https://archive.ph/yrWRt


• Business Insider: Meta is being sued for giving US hospitals a data-tracking tool that allegedly ended up disclosing patient information to Facebook By Samantha Delouya, Aug 2, 2022. Also archived at https://archive.ph/ERelA


• The Verge: Hospital websites are sending medical information to Facebook: Experts say it might be a HIPAA violation By Nicole Wetsman, Jun 16, 2022. Also archived at https://archive.vn/tIR8T


• Why you should #DeleteFacebook by Free Software Foundation, Published on Jan 18, 2019


• Amnesty International: The Social Atrocity: Meta and the Right to Remedy for the Rohingya, 2022 — [Requires PDF Software]


• BBC News: Facebook to stop stalking you off-site - but only if asked By Rory Cellan-Jones, 20 August 2019. Also archived at https://archive.vn/XYGlg


• New York Post: Facebook is actually stalking everyone By Post Editorial Board, April 21, 2018. Also archived at https://archive.vn/qJZMH


• WIRED UK: Facebook privacy loophole allows for unrestricted profile stalking By Olivia Solon, 22.03.2012. Also archived at https://archive.vn/zQZhG


• Network World: Facebook stalks users across 200,000 websites: Facebook calls social plugins on 200,000 sites a “landmark privacy innovation” By Jon Brodkin, Jun 8, 2010


• World Economic Forum: Mark Zuckerberg


• Heidrick & Struggles International, Inc. Press Release: Heidrick & Struggles Helps Identify Young Global Leaders for World Economic Forum, 16-Mar-2009. Also archived at https://archive.vn/fKIpq


• Unlimited Hangout: The Military Origins of Facebook: Facebook’s growing role in the ever-expanding surveillance and “pre-crime” apparatus of the national security state demands new scrutiny of the company’s origins and its products as they relate to a former, controversial DARPA-run surveillance program that was essentially analogous to what is currently the world’s largest social network. by Whitney Webb, April 12, 2021


• Vice: 15 Years Ago, the Military Tried to Record Whole Human Lives. It Ended Badly: Before Facebook, the military tried to make an all knowing ‘cyberdiary’ called LifeLog. by David Axe, May 21 2018. Also archived at https://archive.vn/2THh2


• WIRED: Pentagon Kills LifeLog Project By WIRED Staff, 02.04.04. Also archived at https://archive.ph/qMMFW


• American Civil Liberties Union: To the Government, Your Latest Facebook Rant Is Raw Intel By Hugh Handeyside, September 29, 2016


• Tech Wellness: Instagram and Facebook’s Policies: Do You Know What You’ve Agreed To?


• The Markup: Facebook Is Receiving Sensitive Medical Information from Hospital Websites: Experts say some hospitals’ use of an ad tracking tool may violate a federal law protecting health information By Todd Feathers, Simon Fondrie-Teitler, Angie Waller, and Surya Mattu, June 16, 2022. Also archived at https://archive.ph/GT4nq


• American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU): Facebook Is Tracking Me Even Though I’m Not on Facebook By Daniel Kahn Gillmor, April 5, 2018


• Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF): Randi Zuckerberg Runs in the Wrong Direction on Pseudonymity Online Commentary by Eva Galperin, August 2, 2011


• Business Insider: Well, These New Zuckerberg IMs Won’t Help Facebook’s Privacy Problems by Nicholas Carlson, May 13, 2010


• Google and Facebook Discussed Secret Systems for the U.S. Government to Spy on Users By Pratap Chatterjee, Global Research, June 11, 2013/CorpWatch 8 June 2013


• Top Class Actions: Google Class Action Lawsuit and Settlement News Archives


• Top Class Actions: Google faces several lawsuits, agrees to settlements in others By Abraham Jewett, February 9, 2024


• Digital Trends: Spellcheckers in Google Chrome could expose your passwords By Monica J. White, September 19, 2022


• GreenMedInfo: How Google Uses Mind Control Tactics To Promote Pro-Vaccine Industry Propaganda Written By: Sayer Ji, April 6th 2023


• Dr. Mercola’s Censored Library (Private Membership): Is Censorship of Private Communications the “New Normal”?: Censorship of private communications is knocking on the door. By: Tessa Lena, Jan 19, 2023. Also available as a PDF document


• Children’s Health Defense’ The Defender: Google Shared Sensitive User Data With Sanctioned Russian Ad Company: As recently as June 23, Google was sharing unique mobile phone IDs, IP addresses, location information and details about users’ interests and online activity with a sanctioned Russian ad tech company owned by Russia’s largest state bank. By ProPublica, 07/12/22


• Gigablast - blog


• Democracy Now!: Google Is a Monopoly: Judge Rules Against Tech Giant in Landmark Antitrust Case, August 06, 2024


• MintPress News: National Security Search Engine: Google’s Ranks are Filled with CIA Agents By Alan Macleod, July 25th, 2022


• Geoengineering Watch: Google & Soros-backed ‘Fact-Checkers’ Join Forces To Control News Search Results, October 28, 2017


• ABC News: Building a search engine to rival Google could cost billions — and that’s not the only problem By James Purtill, 13 Feb 2021


• The Truth About Cancer: In Orwellian Dystopia, Is the Internet Surfing You? By Charlene Bollinger, July 18, 2019


• Newsweek: Google Accused Of ‘Constant Surveillance’, Deceptive Methods to Maintain Access to User Data By Natalie Colarossi On 1/24/22. Also archived at https://archive.vn/CAdFB


• The Truth About Cancer: Android 101: How to stop location tracking: Make it harder to know where you are and where you’ve been By Barbara Krasnoff, Updated Nov 30, 2021


• Top Class Actions: Home Depot class action alleges retailer allows Google to eavesdrop on customer calls By Jon Styf, February 21, 2024


• The Truth About Cancer: Project Nightingale: How Google is Secretly Collecting Patient Data By Charlene Bollinger, November 15, 2019


• HackerNoon: Data Privacy Concerns with Google By Christian Stewart, March 29th 2018


• How private is your Gmail, and should you switch? By Kate O’Flaherty, 9 May 2021, The Guardian. Also archived at https://archive.ph/o0cvz


• Why You Shouldn’t Use The Gmail App On Your iPhone After New Privacy Disclosure By Zak Doffman, Mar 6, 2021, Forbes. Also archived at https://archive.ph/cImK6


• New Warning Reveals Gmail’s Major Privacy Problem By Kate O’Flaherty, Jun 27, 2019, Forbes. Also archived at https://archive.ph/RZZof


• Corey’s Digs Investigative Journalism: Google & Realtor.com Partner To Install Surveillance Nests In Your New Home By Corey Lynn, March 23, 2022


• WIRED: All the Ways Google Tracks You—And How to Stop It: Google knows more about you than you might think. Here’s how to keep it from tracking your location, web browsing, and more. By David Nield, May 27, 2019. Also archived at https://archive.ph/pZHaN


• WIRED: Google Tracks You Even If Location History’s Off. Here’s How to Stop It: A new report shows that Google still tracks your location even if you thought you opted out. By Emily Dreyfuss, Aug 13, 2018


• Tessa Fights Robots: Unloved: Why Google Is Undeserving of My Love by Tessa Lena


• Chinese hackers who breached Google gained access to sensitive data, U.S. officials say By Ellen Nakashima, May 20, 2013, The Washington Post


• U.S. enables Chinese hacking of Google By Bruce Schneier, Special to CNN, January 23, 2010


• In-Q-Tel


• The Washington Standard: 21 Tech Firms Unconstitutionally Funded By CIA-Front Group In-Q-Tel By Tim Brown, March 13, 2018


• NPR: All Things Considered: In-Q-Tel: The CIA’s Tax-Funded Player In Silicon Valley By Steve Henn, July 16, 2012


• The Solari Library: The CIA, NSA & Google with Nafeez Ahmed, February 11, 2015


• Medium: How the CIA made Google: Inside the secret network behind mass surveillance, endless war, and Skynet— part 1 By Nafeez Ahmed, Jan 22, 2015. Also archived at https://archive.vn/kqQsK


• Medium: Why Google made the NSA: Inside the secret network behind mass surveillance, endless war, and Skynet— part 2 by Nafeez Ahmed, Jan 22, 2015. Also archived at https://archive.ph/EXjOM


• Google Leaks: Censorship Exposed: Zach Vorhies is the Google Whistleblower


• Quartz: Google’s true origin partly lies in CIA and NSA research grants for mass surveillance By Jeff Nesbit, December 8, 2017. Also archived at https://archive.vn/W9zRb


• Venture Giants: The World’s Greatest Angel Investment: Google


• TomDispatch: Tomgram: How to Act Like a Billionaire & Welcome to the (Don’t Be) Evil Empire: Google Eats the World By Rebecca Solnit


• Consumer Watchdog: Google


• Yahoo! News: Alphabet Inc (GOOGL) Investment Portfolio: Top 15 Companies By Hamna Asim, November 17, 2022


• The Truth About Cancer: Project Nightingale: How Google is Secretly Collecting Patient Data By Charlene Bollinger, November 15, 2019


• CNBC Disruptor 50: One of Google’s earliest genetic experiments, 23andMe, paid off — here’s what will make or break its future By David Spiegel, Jan 25 2022


• Vox: Google Already Consulted With Top Geneticist on Mosquito Project, Hinting at Next Alphabet Moonshot: A leading geneticist has had talks with Larry Page and a top Google exec about the field. By Mark Bergen Aug 13, 2015


• NSA Spying and Search Engine “Tracking Technologies“: It’s not Okay if the NSA Spies on us, but it’s okay when Google does… By Ming Chun Tang, Global Research, January 19, 2014


• CNET News: NSA disguised itself as Google to spy, say reports: If a recently leaked document is any indication, the US National Security Agency — or its UK counterpart — appears to have put on a Google suit to gather intelligence. by Edward Moyer, CNET, September 12, 2013


• Social Media is A Tool of the CIA: “Facebook, Google and Other Social Media Used to Spy on People” By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research, December 14, 2017/Global Research 28 August 2017


• The Verge: Verizon might be collecting your browsing history and here’s how to stop it: Verizon says it’s to better “understand your interests” By Emma Roth, Dec 5, 2021


• The Verge: Why Apple’s new privacy feature is such a big deal: What does App Tracking Transparency actually mean? By Chaim Gartenberg, Apr 27, 2021


• Free Software Foundation (FSF): Free Software Foundation statement on the new iPhone, Apple Pay, and Apple Watch by Free Software Foundation, Published on Sep 09, 2014

Break Out of Surveillance

• EcoC²S [Irucka Embry): EcoC²S Online Resources: Break Out of Surveillance


• EcoC²S [Irucka Embry): EcoC²S Online Resources: Freeing and Opening
• Restore Privacy: Your online privacy resource center

Hardware, Information, Knowledge, Society, Software, and the World

• Privacy Academy: We teach you how to be private and secure online.


• Free Software Foundation (FSF): Email Self-Defense: a guide to fighting surveillance with GnuPG encryption


• Electronic Frontier Foundation: Cover Your Tracks: See how trackers view your browser


• Surveillance Self-Defense: Tips, Tools and How-tos for Safer Online Communications: A Project of the Electronic Frontier Foundation


• Stop Watching Us: A Coalition Against Mass Surveillance


• Reset The Net - Privacy Pack


• Lumen database


• PRISM Break: Opt out of global data surveillance programs like PRISM, XKeyscore, and Tempora


• Open Source Alternatives to Proprietary Software: Discover 400+ popular open source alternatives to your proprietary SaaS


• Corey’s Digs Investigative Journalism: Loosen Technology’s Grip on Your Mind By Corey Lynn, May 23, 2021


• Corey’s Digs Investigative Journalism: Loosen Technology’s Grip on Your Mind By Corey Lynn, May 23, 2021 — [Requires PDF Software]


• MediaGoblin: On Prism By Christopher Allan Webber on Monday, 10 Jun 2013


• Free Software Foundation - working together for free software: Free Software Foundation statement on PRISM revelations by John Sullivan - Published on Jun 07, 2013


• Free Software Foundation Free Software Directory: Collection:PRISM


• Free Software Foundation (FSF): Protect your freedom and privacy; join us in creating an Internet that’s safer from surveillance by Zak Rogoff — Published on Jul 18, 2013


• The GNU Operating System and the Free Software Movement: Who does that server really serve? by Richard Stallman


• Fourmilab: Tools for Online Privacy by John Walker, October 2019


• Free Software Foundation (FSF): GNU Project: GNUzilla and IceCat: GNUzilla is the GNU version of the Mozilla suite, and GNU IceCat is the GNU version of the Firefox browser. Its main advantage is an ethical one: it is entirely free software. While the Firefox source code from the Mozilla project is free software, they distribute and recommend nonfree software as plug-ins and addons. Also their trademark license imposes requirements for the distribution of modified versions that make it inconvenient to exercise freedom 3

Alternatives to Apple, Google, and Microsoft

• LinuxLinks: Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Apple’s Products By Steve Emms, November 12, 2021


• LinuxLinks: Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft’s Products and Services By Steve Emms, August 20, 2021


• LinuxLinks: Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Google’s Products and Services By Steve Emms, February 22, 2021


• RestorePrivacy: Alternatives to Google Products — The Big List By Sven Taylor, October 3, 2022


• DeGoogle: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


• GitHub: Degoogle-your-life: A repository for general degoogling info and links to my other degoogling repositories.


• degoogle: A huge list of alternatives to Google products. Privacy tips, tricks, and links.


• CyberGhost VPN: How to DeGoogle Your Life: Why You Need to Take Control of Your Privacy By Naiyie Lamb, Last updated: Jan 20, 2024

Alternative Operating Systems (Alternatives to Microsoft Windows and/or macOS)

• EcoC²S [Irucka Embry): EcoC²S Online Resources: Free & Open Source Operating Systems


• The OpenBSD project produces a FREE, multi-platform 4.4BSD-based UNIX-like operating system. Our efforts emphasize portability, standardization, correctness, proactive security and integrated cryptography. As an example of the effect OpenBSD has, the popular OpenSSH software comes from OpenBSD.


• FreeBSD is an operating system used to power modern servers, desktops, and embedded platforms. A large community has continually developed it for more than thirty years. Its advanced networking, security, and storage features have made FreeBSD the platform of choice for many of the busiest web sites and most pervasive embedded networking and storage devices.

Overall Web hosting framework

• GitHub: Alternative Internet: A collection of interesting networks and technology aiming at re-decentralizing the Internet.


• A/I (Autistici/Inventati, pronounced [au’tistiʧi]-[iŋ’vɛntati], or [iŋvɛn’tati]) was born in 2001 from an encounter of individuals and collectives of the autonomous anticapitalist movement interested in technology and active in the digital rights struggle. We believe that this world is far from being the best world possible. We react by providing a platform and tools for digital self-defense addressing the need of secure, free communication and privacy for activists and other individuals. All of our services are provided for free, without any form of control or commoditization of the personal user data. We don’t receive any form of compensation for our work. We are volunteers exploiting the experiences we accumulated over years of technological, political and legal research while doing radical activism, and we are motivated and inspired by the principles of solidarity and self organization.


• qortal: Truly Decentralized infrastructure for individual sovereignty - Qortal Blockchain Technology - web hosting, data storage, decentralized trading, etc - true decentralization


• Ethereum is a global, open-source platform for decentralized applications. On Ethereum, you can write code that controls digital value, runs exactly as programmed, and is accessible anywhere in the world.


• The LBRY community invites everyone to join us in building a more free and open way to share content and information online. The LBRY Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to the growth, development, and adoption of the LBRY network in a way that the community of LBRYans decides themselves.


• MediaGoblin is a free software media publishing platform that anyone can run. You can think of it as a decentralized alternative to Flickr, YouTube, SoundCloud, etc.


• Sandstorm is an open source platform for self-hosting web apps


• Freedom of expression, control of personal data, private and secure communications; and a whole new economy. Welcome to the SAFE Network.


• Nomagic aims to be a trusted partner of your digital life. To achieve this, we provide a large catalogue of services hosted on our servers. We do not engage in data monetization whatsoever, and believe that people’s data and online activity should not be traded in any way. {Email, Webmail / Contacts / Calendar, File Hosting, Temporary file transfer, Password manager, Messaging platform, News feed aggregator, Shared notepad, Markdown notepad, Office suite, Kanban projects, Instant messaging, Wiki, Blogging, Static website, Non-linear notebook, Microblogging, Repository manager, Video streaming, Audio streaming, Read-later, Temporary images, Short URL, Videoconference, Online survey, Mailing list, Organize and Mobilise, Event scheduler, Notebook, Private paste, Shared spreadsheet, News feeds generator}


• Free-software services from the CHATONS collective, to decentralize and discover a web on a human scale, united and respectful of your privacy. {Collaborative writing, Video-conference, Find a schedule, Collaborative spreadsheet, File sharing, Picture sharing, Post-it board, Link shortener, and Secure text sharing}


• WikiSuite: The most comprehensive and integrated Free / Libre / Open Source enterprise software suite. WikiSuite is especially suited to knowledge-centric organizations and offers most (80%+) of the data and information management features all organizations need.

URL Shortening

• YOURLS: The de facto standard self-hosted URL shortener

Workspaces {Alternatives to Google Workspace}

• eXo: Open Source Digital Workplace


• OpenPaas: Smart Open Source Digital Workplace


• CryptPad is a private-by-design alternative to popular office tools and cloud services. All the content stored on CryptPad is encrypted before being sent, which means nobody can access your data unless you give them the keys (not even us).


• CryptPad Public instances


• ONLYOFFICE: Secure Online Office


• TWAKE: The open digital workplace. Open-source alternative to Microsoft Teams. Simple and secure collaboration platform that improves your team productivity.


• Group-Office is an enterprise CRM and groupware tool. Share projects, calendars, files and e-mail online with co-workers and clients. Easy to use and fully customizable.


• Collabora: the world’s leading LibreOffice services company - online & pc


• Kolab Community: The world’s most loved open source collaboration software


• Kolab Now: secure and private email, calendars and more


• Nextcloud: The self-hosted productivity platform that keeps you in control


• The Open Collaboration Services API is an open, independent REST API designed for integrating with a content collaboration platform. The OCS API is a pragmatic, REST and WebDAV based API designed to make it easy to connect apps to a content collaboration platform. The API covers basic file handling functionality like file access, sharing, versioning and commenting on files. It also covers communication (chat, video calls), calendaring, tasks and more. Currently, Nextcloud implements and develops the OCS API, with parts also supported in various other projects and by many third party apps and tools.


• Nextcloud: Share and collaborate on documents, send and receive email, manage your calendar and have video chats without data leaks. As fully on-premises solution, Nextcloud Hub provides the benefits of online collaboration without the compliance and security risks.


• Zimbra: Secure Private Business Email & Collaboration


• WikiSuite: The most comprehensive and integrated Free / Libre / Open Source enterprise software suite. WikiSuite is especially suited to knowledge-centric organizations and offers most (80%+) of the data and information management features all organizations need.

Slack, Cisco WebEx, Microsoft Teams, Google Hangouts, Google Meet, Google Workspace Individual, FaceTime, Skype, Zoom, etc. Alternatives

• LibrePlanet: Remote Communication


• A/I (Autistici/Inventati, pronounced [au’tistiʧi]-[iŋ’vɛntati], or [iŋvɛn’tati]) was born in 2001 from an encounter of individuals and collectives of the autonomous anticapitalist movement interested in technology and active in the digital rights struggle. We believe that this world is far from being the best world possible. We react by providing a platform and tools for digital self-defense addressing the need of secure, free communication and privacy for activists and other individuals. All of our services are provided for free, without any form of control or commoditization of the personal user data. We don’t receive any form of compensation for our work. We are volunteers exploiting the experiences we accumulated over years of technological, political and legal research while doing radical activism, and we are motivated and inspired by the principles of solidarity and self organization.


• Opensource.com: 5 open source alternatives to Skype: Communicate without compromising your open source ethos with these alternatives to proprietary web conferencing software. 02 Jul 2018


• Signal: State-of-the-art end-to-end encryption (powered by the open source Signal Protocol) keeps your conversations secure. We can’t read your messages or listen to your calls, and no one else can either. Privacy isn’t an optional mode — it’s just the way that Signal works. Every message, every call, every time.


• Briar: Secure messaging, anywhere


• Tinode is a free, unlimited, and flexible open source messaging platform that’s been built mobile-first.


• Gitter: Where developers come to talk.


• TWAKE: The open digital workplace. Open-source alternative to Microsoft Teams. Simple and secure collaboration platform that improves your team productivity.


• Jitsi is a set of open-source projects that allows you to easily build and deploy secure videoconferencing solutions. At the heart of Jitsi are Jitsi Videobridge and Jitsi Meet, which let you have conferences on the internet, while other projects in the community enable other features such as audio, dial-in, recording, and simulcasting.


• Jitsi Meet [Use online]


• Jitsi Meet is a fully encrypted, 100% open source video conferencing solution that you can use all day, every day, for free — with no account needed. [Download]


• Jitsi Videobridge: It’s a Selective Forwarding Unit (SFU) designed to run thousands of video streams from a single server — and it’s fully open source and WebRTC compatible. (For developers)


• Jami is a free and universal communication platform which preserves the user’s privacy and freedoms. Designed for the general public as well as the industry, Jami aims to provide all of its users a universal communication tool, free, secure and built on a distributed architecture requiring no authority nor central server to operate.


• Jami: All features by client


• Discord is a voice, video and text communication service used by over a hundred million people to hang out and talk with their friends and communities.


• Matrix is an open source project that publishes the Matrix open standard for secure, decentralised, real-time communication, and its Apache licensed reference implementations.


• Element (previously riot.im): All-in-one secure chat app for teams, friends and organisations. Keeps conversations in your control, safe from data-mining and ads. Talk to everyone through the open global Matrix network, protected by proper end-to-end encryption.


• Rocket.Chat is free, unlimited and open source. Replace email, HipChat & Slack with the ultimate team chat software solution.


• Kopano Meet: Digital sovereign video meetings mean providing users with secure communication channels on a system that is completely under your control. Kopano Meet is open source, lean, end-to-end encrypted and self-hosted. Thanks to progressive web apps, you don’t even need an app store to install a client.


• Calls, chat and video conferencing with Nextcloud Talk


• Retroshare: Secure communication for everyone


• OpenVidu: Easy videoconference in your web or mobile app


• Licode: Open Source WebRTC Communications Platform.


• Apache OpenMeetings provides video conferencing, instant messaging, white board, collaborative document editing and other groupware tools. It uses API functions of Media Server for Remoting and Streaming (Red5 or Kurento).


• Opencast is a flexible, scalable and reliable video capture, management, and distribution system for academic institutions. Opencast is built by a growing community of developers from leading universities and organizations worldwide.


• BigBlueButton: Web Conferencing System Designed For Online Learning


• Apereo Projects & Communities (Geared towards educational institutions)


• AnyRoom: Open Source Conference Calling


• Linphone is an open source SIP client for HD voice/video calls, 1-to-1 and group instant messaging, conference calls etc. Available for iOS, Android, Windows, macOS and GNU/Linux.


• qTox: A New Kind of Instant Messaging: With the rise of government monitoring programs, qTox provides an easy to use application that allows you to connect with friends and family without anyone else listening in. While other big-name services require you to pay for features, qTox is totally free, and comes without advertising.


• Tox: A New Kind of Instant Messaging: Whether it’s corporations or governments, digital surveillance today is widespread. Tox is easy-to-use software that connects you with friends and family without anyone else listening in. While other big-name services require you to pay for features, Tox is completely free and comes without advertising — forever.


• Discourse is the 100% open source discussion platform built for the next decade of the Internet. Use it as a mailing list, discussion forum, long-form chat room, and more!


• WikiSuite: The most comprehensive and integrated Free / Libre / Open Source enterprise software suite. WikiSuite is especially suited to knowledge-centric organizations and offers most (80%+) of the data and information management features all organizations need.


• WikiSuite: Chat and Video Conference


• Asterisk is a free and open source framework for building communications applications and is sponsored by Sangoma. Asterisk powers IP PBX systems, VoIP gateways, conference servers, and is used by SMBs, enterprises, call centers, carriers and governments worldwide.


• Mumble is a free, open source, low latency, high quality voice chat application. Mumble was the first VoIP application to establish true low latency voice communication over a decade ago. But low latency and gaming are not the only use cases it shines in. We heard from users who record podcasts with our multi-channel audio recorder, players seeking realism with our positional audio in games, Eve Online players with huge communities of over 100 simultaneous voice participants (I bet they make good use of our extensive permission system 😄), the competitive Team Fortress 2 community making us their required voice communication platform, hobby radio transmission users, and a variety of workplaces adapting Mumble to fit their needs - be it on-head mobile devices or communicating across countries or into airplanes. Administrators appreciate Mumble for being able to self host and have control over data security and privacy. Some make use of the extensive permission system for complex scenarios (for example separating two groups but leaders being able to talk to both). Some love to provide their users with additional functionality with scripts making use of server APIs, or host music bots and the like that connect to the server. Those that have an existing user database often make use of authenticators to allow authenticating with existing account login data.


• Yate (Yet Another Telephony Engine) is written in C++ and can be used as: a VoIP server/client, an SS7 switch, an H.323<->SIP Proxy, a Jabber server/client, a Conference server, an IVR engine, an ISDN passive and active recorder, a PC2Phone or a VoIP to PSTN gateway as well as for many other applications.

Free and Open Communication Applications with the Jabber and SIP Protocols

• XMPP is the open standard for messaging and presence


• JMP: Your phone number on every device. JMP gives you a real phone number that is yours for calling and texting, including group and picture messages, that works from all your devices at once. Because we use the Jabber and SIP open protocols, you can use any existing client even if we don’t have an official recommendation for your device yet!


• Cheogram is a set of services that connect all open communication networks together, allowing you to reach all your contacts from a single app.


• Blink is the best real-time communications client using the SIP protocol. You can use it with many SIP providers, on the LAN using Bonjour and with SIP2SIP, a free service.


• blabber.im Messenger App: Ein Jabber/XMPP Client für Android Smartphones, der für ein einzigartiges mobiles Erlebnis optimiert wurde.


• Conversations is a Jabber/XMPP client for Android 5.0+ smartphones that has been optimized to provide a unique mobile experience.


• Siskin IM: Lightweight & powerful XMPP client for iPhone and iPad


• Jitsi Desktop: Secure video calls, conferencing, chat, desktop sharing, file transfer, support for your favorite OS, and IM network. All this, and more, in Jitsi — the most complete and advanced open source communicator.


• Pidgin is a chat program which lets you log into accounts on multiple chat networks simultaneously. This means that you can be chatting with friends on XMPP and sitting in an IRC channel at the same time. Pidgin runs on Windows, Linux, and other UNIX-like operating systems.


• Adium is a free instant messaging application for macOS that can connect to XMPP (Jabber), IRC and more.


• Psi+ is a development branch of Psi XMPP client. Thanks to rolling release development model users recieve new features and fixes of bugs very quickly.


• Psi is a free instant messaging application designed for the XMPP network. Fast and lightweight, Psi is fully open’source and compatible with Windows, Linux, and macOS. With Psi’s full Unicode support and localizations, easy file transfers, customizable iconsets, and many other great features, you’ll learn why users around the world are making the switch to free, open instant messaging.


• Gajim: A fully-featured XMPP client


• Dino is a modern open-source chat client for the desktop. It focuses on providing a clean and reliable Jabber/XMPP experience while having your privacy in mind.


• Linphone open source VoIP SIP softphone — voice, video and instant messaging


• Yate (Yet Another Telephony Engine) is written in C++ and can be used as: a VoIP server/client, an SS7 switch, an H.323<->SIP Proxy, a Jabber server/client, a Conference server, an IVR engine, an ISDN passive and active recorder, a PC2Phone or a VoIP to PSTN gateway as well as for many other applications.


• aTalk (XMPP/Jabber) Client: An encrypted instant messaging with video call and GPS features for android

Electronic mail (e-mail) Communication [Alternatives to Gmail, Yahoo!, Hotmail/Live, etc.]

• Free Software Foundation (FSF): Free Software Webmail Systems


• Mailvelope is a browser add-on that you can use in Chrome, Edge and Firefox to securely encrypt your emails with PGP using webmail providers


• A/I (Autistici/Inventati, pronounced [au’tistiʧi]-[iŋ’vɛntati], or [iŋvɛn’tati]) was born in 2001 from an encounter of individuals and collectives of the autonomous anticapitalist movement interested in technology and active in the digital rights struggle. We believe that this world is far from being the best world possible. We react by providing a platform and tools for digital self-defense addressing the need of secure, free communication and privacy for activists and other individuals. All of our services are provided for free, without any form of control or commoditization of the personal user data. We don’t receive any form of compensation for our work. We are volunteers exploiting the experiences we accumulated over years of technological, political and legal research while doing radical activism, and we are motivated and inspired by the principles of solidarity and self organization.


• Open-Xchange: The leader in open email platforms


• Kopano Groupware is an e-mail and calendaring solution, which can be operated digitally sovereign. Its functionality is comparable to that of Microsoft Outlook and Exchange. Kopano Groupware installations can be operated with more than 100,000 users.


• iRedMail: Open Source Mail Server Solution. The right way to build your mail server with open source softwares. Works on Red Hat, CentOS, Debian, Ubuntu, FreeBSD, OpenBSD. Since 2007.


• Skiff: Private Encrypted Email and Collaboration


• posteo.de: Email green, secure, simple and ad-free


• Mailnesia: Anonymous E-Mail In Seconds


• spamgourmet: free auto-creating email addresses, strong spam blocker, short learning curve


• Guerrilla Mail: Disposable Temporary E-Mail Address


• Riseup Email


• Safe-mail.net


• Kolab Now: secure and private email, calendars and more: Owned and Operated in Switzerland


• Tutanota free encrypted email


• Lavabit: Secure email for the world


• ProtonMail is free encrypted email


• Cock.li: Yeah it’s mail with cocks


• Haraka is an open source SMTP server written in Node.js which provides extremely high performance coupled with a flexible plugin system allowing Javascript programmers full access to change the behaviour of the server. It is used heavily in some high traffic sites — see the "Known Users" link above for testimonials. Haraka makes no attempt to be a mail store (like Exchange or Postfix/Exim/Qmail), a LDA, nor an IMAP server (like Dovecot or Courier). Haraka is typically used with such systems.

Electronic mail (e-mail) Groups [Alternatives to Yahoo! Groups, Google Groups, etc.]

• Schleuder is a group’s email-gateway: subscribers can exchange OpenPGP-encrypted emails among themselves, receive emails from non-subscribers and send emails to non-subscribers via the list.


• The GNU Operating System and the Free Software Movement: Mailman, the GNU Mailing List Manager is free software for managing electronic mail discussion and e-newsletter lists. Mailman is integrated with the web, making it easy for users to manage their accounts and for list owners to administer their lists. Mailman supports built-in archiving, automatic bounce processing, content filtering, digest delivery, spam filters, and more.


• Sympa is an open source mailing list manager. It provides advanced features with a rich and secure web interface.


• Framagroupes allows you to create an email group: any person subscribed to your group can receive the emails sent to the group and can in turn participate. It is down to you to choose whether your group is semi-private or private.


• Dada Mail is a contemporary mailing list manager, enabling you to easily run a verified mailing list that your subscribers can trust — right on your own website!


• Discourse is the 100% open source discussion platform built for the next decade of the Internet. Use it as a mailing list, discussion forum, long-form chat room, and more!


• GroupServer: An open source web-based mailing list manager


• FreeLists, where for more than 20 years we have strived to be the premier mailing list host on the Internet. Millions of people from across the globe use FreeLists every day to connect with friends, customers, co-workers, and more. Our focus on high-quality topics and groups means you’re part of a special community.

Electronic mail (e-mail) Marketing [Alternatives to Mailchimp, Constant Contact, etc.]

• phpList is Open Source newsletter and email marketing software: it is free to download.


• phpList.com: Email Marketing Powered by Open Source


• Mautic Community: Open Source Marketing Automation


• Sympa is an open source mailing list manager. It provides advanced features with a rich and secure web interface.


• Maily Herald is a Ruby on Rails engine that helps you send and manage your mailings. Think of Maily as a self-hosted Mailchimp® you can easily integrate with your site. Works with Amazon SES, Mandrill and other email delivery services.


• Dada Mail is a contemporary mailing list manager, enabling you to easily run a verified mailing list that your subscribers can trust — right on your own website!


• listmonk: Free and open source self-hosted newsletter and mailing list manager

Document and Code Secure Signing [Alternatives to DocuSign}

• Odoo Sign: Send, sign and approve documents online. Upload your PDF and drag & drop fields easily.


• SignServer digitally signs your documents and code while keeping signature keys secure and workflows easy, secure and auditable. Start signing documents and code in a secure way today.


• iSafePDF is a free open source PDF protection software. It allows you to encrypt PDF document, signe them using a certificate and timestamp the signature. All those features are PDF standards so your document will be readable/editable with all standard PDF programs.


• JSignPdf is an open source Java application which adds digital signatures to PDF documents.


• FOXopen was built to create complex workflow-based systems, so it’s perfect for: Regulatory systems; Form-based web applications; Workflow systems; Document management; Digital signing; e-Government systems; Licensing and consents applications; and GIS


• OpenKM is a management solution that allows businesses to control the production, storage, management and distribution of electronic documents, yielding greater effectiveness and the ability to reuse information and to control the flow of the documents. OpenKM is a document management software that integrates all essential document management, collaboration and an advanced search functionality into one easy to use solution. The system also includes administration tools to define the roles of various users, access control, user quota, level of document security, detailed logs of activity and automation setup. OpenKM document management software builds a highly valuable repository of corporate information assets to facilitate knowledge creation and improve business decision making, boosting workgroups and enterprise productivity through shared practices, greater, better customer relations, faster sales cycles, improved product time-to-market, and better-informed decision making.


• LibreSign: Assinatura eletrônica de documentos digitais

Online File Storage and Sharing Alternatives to WeTransfer, Dropbox, OneDrive, Google Drive, etc.

• Awesome Open Source: The Top 57 File Sharing Open Source Projects


• Interplanetary File System (IPFS) powers the Distributed Web: A peer-to-peer hypermedia protocol designed to preserve and grow humanity’s knowledge by making the web upgradeable, resilient, and more open.


• Filecoin: A decentralized storage network for humanity’s most important information


• WikiSuite: The most comprehensive and integrated Free / Libre / Open Source enterprise software suite. WikiSuite is especially suited to knowledge-centric organizations and offers most (80%+) of the data and information management features all organizations need.


• FOXopen was built to create complex workflow-based systems, so it’s perfect for: Regulatory systems; Form-based web applications; Workflow systems; Document management; Digital signing; e-Government systems; Licensing and consents applications; and GIS


• OpenKM is a management solution that allows businesses to control the production, storage, management and distribution of electronic documents, yielding greater effectiveness and the ability to reuse information and to control the flow of the documents. OpenKM is a document management software that integrates all essential document management, collaboration and an advanced search functionality into one easy to use solution. The system also includes administration tools to define the roles of various users, access control, user quota, level of document security, detailed logs of activity and automation setup. OpenKM document management software builds a highly valuable repository of corporate information assets to facilitate knowledge creation and improve business decision making, boosting workgroups and enterprise productivity through shared practices, greater, better customer relations, faster sales cycles, improved product time-to-market, and better-informed decision making.


• ownCloud: The leading OpenSource Cloud Collaboration Platform. With over 50 million users worldwide, ownCloud is the market-leading open source software for cloud-based collaboration platforms. As an alternative to Dropbox, OneDrive and Google Drive, ownCloud offers real data security and privacy for you and your data.


• Nextcloud offers the industry-leading, on-premises content collaboration platform. Our technology combines the convenience and ease of use of consumer-grade solutions like Dropbox and Google Drive with the security, privacy and control business needs.


• CryptPad is a private-by-design alternative to popular office tools and cloud services. All the content stored on CryptPad is encrypted before being sent, which means nobody can access your data unless you give them the keys (not even us).


• CryptPad Public instances


• MEGA: The Most Trusted, Best-Protected Cloud Storage


• GNUnet is a framework for secure peer-to-peer networking that does not use any centralized or otherwise trusted services. Our high-level goal is to provide a strong free software foundation for a global network that provides security and in particular respects privacy. GNUnet started with an idea for anonymous censorship-resistant file-sharing, but has grown to incorporate other applications as well as many generic building blocks for secure networking applications. In particular, GNUnet now includes the GNU Name System, a privacy-preserving, decentralized public key infrastructure.


• Tahoe-LAFS (Least-Authority File System) is a Free and Open cloud storage system. It distributes your data across multiple servers. Even if some of the servers fail or are taken over by an attacker, the entire filesystem continues to function correctly, preserving your privacy and security.


• Cryptomator: Free client-side encryption for your cloud files. Open source software: No backdoors, no registration.


• Aurora Files is an open-source file storage platform for small teams and personal users.


• SparkleShare: Self hosted, instant, secure file sync


• ProjectSend is a self-hosted application (you can install it easily on your own VPS or shared web hosting account) that lets you upload files and assign them to specific clients that you create yourself! Secure, private and easy. No more depending on external services or e-mail to send those files!


• YouTransfer is a simple but elegant self-hosted file transfer & sharing solution. It is an alternative to paid services like Dropbox and WeTransfer by offering similar features but without limitations, price plans and a lengthy privacy policy. You remain in control of your files. Created to be installed behind the firewall on private servers, YouTransfer aims to empower organisations and individuals that wish to combine easy-to-use file transfer tooling with security and control.


• Send lets you share files with end-to-end encryption and a link that automatically expires. So you can keep what you share private and make sure your stuff doesn’t stay online forever. A fork of Mozilla’s Firefox Send. Mozilla discontinued Send, this fork is a community effort to keep the project up-to-date and alive.


• Oshi: Anonymous file storage


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


• LinShare is an Open Source secure file sharing application intended to cover your business security and file transfer needs. If confidentiality and traceability are paramount for your business file transfers, then LinShare is your solution and better yet it’s free ! We also offer high quality support services provided by our IT teams to suit your network at best


• Seafile is an open source file sync & share solution designed for high reliability, performance and productivity. Sync, share and collaborate across devices and teams. Build your team’s knowledge base with Seafile’s built-in Wiki feature.


• NitroShare is designed to make transferring files from one device to another extremely simple.


• Ceph is a unified, distributed storage system designed for excellent performance, reliability and scalability.


• Riot: Chat, exchange files, make voice or video calls and conferences, add bots.


• GitHub: FileDrop is a small web-based file-sharing UI. It can be used as a standalone server in trusted LANs, but it can optionally use Sandstorm for ACLs and sharing.


• share.riseup.net


• Retroshare: Secure communication for everyone


• qTox: A New Kind of Instant Messaging: With the rise of government monitoring programs, qTox provides an easy to use application that allows you to connect with friends and family without anyone else listening in. While other big-name services require you to pay for features, qTox is totally free, and comes without advertising.


• Tox: A New Kind of Instant Messaging: Whether it’s corporations or governments, digital surveillance today is widespread. Tox is easy-to-use software that connects you with friends and family without anyone else listening in. While other big-name services require you to pay for features, Tox is completely free and comes without advertising — forever.


• Modern file management platform built according to your business needs and regulations, Pydio is open-source software deployed on your servers or wherever you decide.


• GitHub: magic-wormhole: get things from one computer to another, safely


• Jirafeau: a simple way to upload a file


• Lufi (Let’s Upload that FIle) — File sharing software


• File2Link: PHP online file sharing service


• GitHub: Sharik is an open-source, cross-platform solution for sharing files via Wi-Fi or Mobile Hotspot


• GitHub: Simply exchange files with WOOF (requires Python on a unix’ish operating system)


• PrivateBin: A minimalist, open source online pastebin where the server has zero knowledge of pasted data. Data is encrypted/decrypted in the browser using 256 bits AES.


• GitHub: Up1 is a simple host that client-side encrypts images, text, and other data, and stores them, with the server knowing nothing about the contents. It has the ability to view images, text with syntax highlighting, short videos, and arbitrary binaries as downloadables.

Password Management

• Bitwarden Open Source Password Manager


• KeePass Password Safe: This is the official website of KeePass, the free, open source, light-weight and easy-to-use password manager.

Privacy-Respecting and/or Decentralized Search Engines

• Searx is a free internet metasearch engine which aggregates results from more than 70 search services. Users are neither tracked nor profiled. Additionally, searx can be used over Tor for online anonymity.


• SearXNG is a free internet metasearch engine which aggregates results from more than 70 search services. Users are neither tracked nor profiled. Additionally, SearXNG can be used over Tor for online anonymity.


• SearXNG and SearX instances


• GitHub: LibreY is a fork of LibreX, a framework-less and javascript-free privacy respecting meta search engine, made by hnhx. LibreY changed some features like automatic redirection. The original code is written by hnhx and contributors


• LibreY instances


• Private.sh: the search engine that cryptographically protects your privacy


• Gigablast


• Stract is an open source search engine where the user has the ability to see exactly what is going on and customize almost everything about their search results. It’s a search engine made for hackers and tinkerers just like ourselves.


• Presearch is a Decentralized Search Engine. Search securely, receive better results and customize your experience with the Presearch decentralized search engine, powered by blockchain technology.


• Alexandria Search


• MetaGer: Privacy Protected Search & Find


• Seeks is a websearch proxy and collaborative distributed tool for websearch.


• Mwmbl is a non-profit, open source search engine where the community determines the rankings. We aim to be a replacement for commercial search engines such as Google and Bing.


• Qwant: The search engine that respects your privacy


• YaCy is a free search engine that anyone can use to build a search portal for their intranet or to help search the public internet. When contributing to the world-wide peer network, the scale of YaCy is limited only by the number of users in the world and can index billions of web pages. It is fully decentralized, all users of the search engine network are equal, the network does not store user search requests and it is not possible for anyone to censor the content of the shared index. We want to achieve freedom of information through a free, distributed web search which is powered by the world’s users.


• Swisscows: Your private and anonymous search engine


• DuckDuckGo: Privacy, simplified.


• BT4G (bt4g.com) is not a tracker and doesn’t store any content and only collects torrent metadata (such as file names and file sizes) and a magnet link (torrent identifier).


• Sphinx: Open Source Search Engine


• The Apache Lucene™ project develops open-source search software. The project releases a core search library, named Lucene™ core, as well as PyLucene, a python binding for Lucene.


• Solr is the popular, blazing-fast, open source enterprise search platform built on Apache Lucene™.


• Typesense is a modern, privacy-friendly, open source search engine built from the ground up using cutting-edge search algorithms, that take advantage of the latest advances in hardware capabilities.


• Manticore Search: easy to use open source fast database for search


• Elasticsearch is a distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine capable of addressing a growing number of use cases. As the heart of the Elastic Stack, it centrally stores your data for lightning fast search, fine‑tuned relevancy, and powerful analytics that scale with ease.


• Elastic Enterprise Search provides the tools you need to build powerful website and ecommerce search — with no learning curve. The maintenance-free crawler keeps content current, while intuitive customization features and robust analytics provide full control over search relevance. All that, at scale, backed by Elasticsearch.


• OpenSearch is a community-driven, Apache 2.0-licensed open source search and analytics suite that makes it easy to ingest, search, visualize, and analyze data. Developers build with OpenSearch for use cases such as application search, log analytics, data observability, data ingestion, and more. OpenSearch consists of a data store and search engine (OpenSearch), and a visualization and user interface (OpenSearch Dashboards). Users can extend the functionality of OpenSearch with a selection of plugins that enhance search, security, performance analysis, machine learning, and more.


• Meilisearch


• Anonymouse.org: Anonymization since 1997. Protect your privacy, protect your data, protect it for free. It is fast, it is easy, and it is free!


• searchcode: source code search engine

Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) for Non-Profits

• EcoC²S [Irucka Embry): EcoC²S Online Resources: Freeing and Opening the Nonprofit Sectors


• The Non-Profit FOSS Institute (NPFI) is a 501(c)(3) organization that supports the development of customized free and open source software (FOSS) applications to fit the needs of individual non-profit client organizations.

Alternative Social Networking

• It’s FOSS: 11 Decentralized, P2P and Open Source Alternatives to Mainstream Social Media Platforms Like Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and Reddit: Tired of Big Tech prying on your data and invading your privacy? Here are some open source, decentralized alternate social platforms. By Abhishek Prakash, 04 Dec 2023


• GNUnet is a framework for secure peer-to-peer networking that does not use any centralized or otherwise trusted services. Our high-level goal is to provide a strong free software foundation for a global network that provides security and in particular respects privacy. GNUnet started with an idea for anonymous censorship-resistant file-sharing, but has grown to incorporate other applications as well as many generic building blocks for secure networking applications. In particular, GNUnet now includes the GNU Name System, a privacy-preserving, decentralized public key infrastructure.


• Mastodon: Decentralized social media


• The diaspora* Project: The online social world where you are in control


• GNU social is web software you can use to run your own social network, either privately or publicly.


• pump.io: It’s a stream server that does most of what people really want from a social network


• Minds


• Aether: Peer-to-peer ephemeral public communities: Open source, self-governing communities with auditable moderation and mod elections


• Steemit


• Pixelfed: Decentralized social media


• Lemmy is a selfhosted social link aggregation and discussion platform. It is completely free and open, and not controlled by any company. This means that there is no advertising, tracking, or secret algorithms. Content is organized into communities, so it is easy to subscribe to topics that you are interested in, and ignore others. Voting is used to bring the most interesting items to the top.


• DTube


• PeerTube, developed by Framasoft, is the free and decentralized alternative to video platforms, providing you over 400,000 videos published by 60,000 users and viewed over 15 million times.


• Riseup provides online communication tools for people and groups working on liberatory social change. We are a project to create democratic alternatives and practice self-determination by controlling our own secure means of communications.


• Cryptocat is free software that aims to provide an open, accessible Instant Messaging environment that encrypts your conversations and works right in your browser. Cryptocat is an open source experiment — the goal is to provide the easiest, most accessible way to chat while maintaining your privacy online, because privacy needs to be accessible.


• Signal: State-of-the-art end-to-end encryption (powered by the open source Signal Protocol) keeps your conversations secure. We can’t read your messages or listen to your calls, and no one else can either. Privacy isn’t an optional mode — it’s just the way that Signal works. Every message, every call, every time.


• Element (previously riot.im): All-in-one secure chat app for teams, friends and organisations. Keeps conversations in your control, safe from data-mining and ads. Talk to everyone through the open global Matrix network, protected by proper end-to-end encryption.

Alternatives to Google Maps, etc. (Online and Offline)

• U.S. Department of Commerce U.S. Census Bureau: Census geocoder provides interactive & programmatic (REST) access to users interested in matching addresses to geographic locations and entities containing those addresses.


• Pelias: A modular, open-source geocoder built on top of Elasticsearch for fast and accurate global search.


• jsprit is a java based, open source toolkit for solving rich traveling salesman (TSP) and vehicle routing problems (VRP).


• Gisgraphy provides forward and reverse geocoding, geolocalisation, and vehicle tracking web services. Open source geocoder and addresses / POIs databases


• World Geocoding: Free opensource geocoder and webservices for Geonames and Openstreetmap data.


• Nominatim uses OpenStreetMap data to find locations on Earth by name and address (geocoding). It can also do the reverse, find an address for any location on the planet.


• OSMNames: Open-source geocoder and data from OpenStreetMap


• Geocode Earth


• OpenCage: Easy, Open, Worldwide, Affordable Geocoding and Geosearch


• Open Door Logistics: Intelligent software for vehicle routing & territory management


• GitHub: R5: Rapid Realistic Routing on Real-world and Reimagined networks. R5 is the routing engine for Conveyal, a web-based system that allows users to create transportation scenarios and evaluate them in terms of cumulative opportunities accessibility indicators. See the Conveyal user manual for more information.


• Valhalla is an open source routing engine and accompanying libraries for use with OpenStreetMap data. Valhalla also includes tools like time+distance matrix computation, isochrones, elevation sampling, map matching and tour optimization (Travelling Salesman).


• OpenTripPlanner (OTP) is a family of open source software projects that provide passenger information and transportation network analysis services. The core server-side Java component finds itineraries combining transit, pedestrian, bicycle, and car segments through networks built from widely available, open standard OpenStreetMap and GTFS data. This service can be accessed directly via its web API or using a range of Javascript client libraries, including modern reactive modular components targeting mobile platforms.


• Navit is a car navigation system with routing engine. Navit’s modular design is capable of using vector maps of various formats for routing and rendering on the screen. It’s even possible to use multiple maps at the same time. The GTK+ or SDL user interfaces are designed to work well with touch screen displays. Points of Interest of various formats are displayed on the map. The current vehicle position is either read from gpsd or directly from NMEA GPS sensors. The routing engine not only calculates an optimal route to your destination, but also generates directions and even speaks to you using espeak. Navit currently speaks 49 languages, can run on various platforms (Linux, Windows, Android, OpenMoko Freerunner, Wince, Nokia n800 Internet tables, iPhone, Zaurus.)


• OsmAnd: Offline Mobile Maps and Navigation


• Organic Maps is a free Android & iOS offline maps app for travelers, tourists, hikers, and cyclists based on top of crowd-sourced OpenStreetMap data and curated with love by MapsWithMe (Maps.Me) founders.


• Project OSRM (Open Source Routing Machine): Modern C++ routing engine for shortest paths in road networks.


• Openrouteservice is a open source route planner with plenty of features for car, heavy vehicles, hiking and cycling.


• Openrouteservice Maps: Driving Directions


• GraphHopper Directions API with Route Optimization


• GraphHopper Maps: Driving Directions


• Mapbox: An open source mapping platform for custom designed maps. Our APIs and SDKs are the building blocks to integrate location into any mobile or web app.


• Mapbox Navigation map APIs and SDKs: Navigation maps for people, packages, and vehicles


• MAPS.ME is an open source cross-platform offline maps application, built on top of crowd-sourced OpenStreetMap data. It was publicly released for iOS and Android.


• Qwant Maps


• uMap lets you create maps with OpenStreetMap layers in a minute and embed them in your site.


• KDE Applications: Marble is a virtual globe and world atlas — your swiss army knife for maps.


• Leaflet is the leading open-source JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps. Weighing just about 38 KB of JS, it has all the mapping features most developers ever need. Leaflet is designed with simplicity, performance and usability in mind. It works efficiently across all major desktop and mobile platforms, can be extended with lots of plugins, has a beautiful, easy to use and well-documented API and a simple, readable source code that is a joy to contribute to.


• Modest Maps is a small, extensible, and free library for designers and developers who want to use interactive maps in their own projects. It provides a core set of features in a tight, clean package with plenty of hooks for additional functionality.


• OpenAerialMap creates a place for mappers to store and share their work with the rest of the community. Through this database, everyone has a go to point to start helping out, whether it’s drone pilots in areas of crisis, or mappers who want to trace from home.


• Free Open Street Map generator based on Leaflet - Alternative to Google Maps!


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


• Photon, search-as-you-type with OpenStreetMap


• OpenStreetMap US: We help grow OpenStreetMap, the free and editable map of the world, in the United States.


• Emacsen’s Blog: Why OpenStreetMap is in Serious Trouble Posted by Serge Wroclawski, 16 February 2018


• Switch2OSM: Take back control of your maps


• OpenMapTiles: World maps you can self-host — powered by free OpenStreetMap vector tiles and open-source software.


• OpenLayers makes it easy to put a dynamic map in any web page. It can display map tiles, vector data and markers loaded from any source. OpenLayers has been developed to further the use of geographic information of all kinds. It is completely free, Open Source JavaScript, released under the 2-clause BSD License (also known as the FreeBSD).


• KeplerJs is a open source geosocial general-purpose solution that lets users share favorite places and join discussions in real-time. Out of the box, it can be seen as a platform where users can interact with other Open Data platforms OpenStreetMap among other sources.


• Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) is an international team dedicated to humanitarian action and community development through open mapping.


• TransforMap works towards an online platform to visualize the myriad of alternatives to the dominant economic thinking on a single mapping system. It will give everyone the opportunity to map the initiatives, communities, projects, worker-owned, self-managed, democratically organised companies and other institutions dedicated to meeting people’s needs, serving the common good and/ or contributing to a sustainable way of life.

Business Intelligence (BI)

• Apache Superset is a modern data exploration and visualization platform


• LinceBi: Solución Business Intelligence Open Source Líder


• Mprove: Open Source Business Intelligence with data modeling layer


• Metabase: Business Intelligence, Dashboards, and Data Visualization


• The JasperReports Library is the world’s most popular open source reporting engine. It is entirely written in Java and it is able to use data coming from any kind of data source and produce pixel-perfect documents that can be viewed, printed or exported in a variety of document formats including HTML, PDF, Excel, OpenOffice and Word.


• Pentaho Community Edition tightly couples data integration with business analytics in a modern platform that brings together IT and business users to easily access, visualize and explore all data that impacts business results. Use it as a full suite or as individual components that are accessible on-premise in the cloud or on-the-go (mobile). Pentaho Kettle enables IT and developers to access and integrate data from any source, and deliver it to your business applications, all from within an intuitive and easy to use graphical tool.


• Tad: A Desktop Viewer App for Tabular Data

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Customer Relationship Management (CRM), and/or Project/Task Management

• Odoo: Open Source ERP and CRM


• Flectra, The Open Source ERP and CRM (forked from Odoo)


• Tryton: Modularity, scalability & security for your business


• SalonERP


• SuiteCRM: Open Source CRM Software Application for Businesses


• ERPNext: Free and Open Source Cloud ERP Software


• EspoCRM.com: Free Self Hosted & Cloud CRM software


• Orangescrum: Project Management Software | Task Management Tool


• OpenProject: online project management software — free and open source



• Wekan: Open-Source kanban



• Kanboard is a free and open source Kanban project management software.



• Taiga is the project management platform for agile teams who want a beautiful tool to make work truly enjoyable.



• Restyaboard: Open source Trello alternative, kanban board for task management



• TaskBoard: A simple, visual way to keep track of what needs to get done



• WebCollab is a light, but robust web-based project management tool that is functional, easy to install and use. It is not a “one size fits all” solution, nor is it meant to be a feature rich “be all, end all” solution. WebCollab is intended to be a compact and elegant solution that will be at home on a small business intranet, yet capable of scaling up to meet the requirements of a large scale internet deployment. WebCollab aims to be secure, functional, and reliable without unnecessary glitz.



• Planner: Cross-platform project management tool based on the Work breakdown structure (WBS). Its goal is to be an easy-to-use no-nonsense project management application. Projects are stored in XML files and can be printed to PDF or exported to HTML for easy viewing from any web browser.

Point of Sale (POS) Software

• ViewTouch Point of Sale under the GNU Free Software License


• uniCenta oPOS: powerful commercial-grade open source Point Of Sale


• Chromis: Free Open Source Point of Sale Software
• Odoo: Open Source ERP and CRM


• Flectra, The Open Source ERP and CRM (forked from Odoo)


• Tryton: Modularity, scalability & security for your business


• SalonERP

Logistics Management, e(lectronic) Commerce, Accounting, Billing, Invoicing & Payment Processing

• Budibase: Open-Source Logistics Software


• Stansoft Accounting: A Streamlined Accounting Software Solution for Every Business


• GnuCash is personal and small-business financial-accounting software


• Frappe Books: Free Desktop Accounting Software


• FOSS Post: Top Open Source eCommerce Platforms to Create Online Store, Last Updated on: July 3, 2024


• OpenCart: Open Source Shopping Cart Solution


• Odoo eCommerce: Modern open source online store. Awesome product pages. Mobile friendly. Easy.


• GNU Taler: We provide a payment system that makes privacy-friendly online transactions fast and easy.


• Kill Bill: Open-Source Billing and Payment Platform


• OpenACH, the world’s first free, open-source, secure web-based ACH origination and payment processing platform… Payment processing made simple.


• Omnipay is a payment processing library for PHP. It has been designed based on ideas from Active Merchant, plus experience implementing dozens of gateways for CI Merchant. It has a clear and consistent API, is fully unit tested, and even comes with an example application to get you started.


• Invoice Ninja: Small Business Invoicing & Payments


• jBilling: The world’s leading open source billing solution gives you all the flexibility and customizable options you need for highly complex billing.


• InvoicePlane is a self-hosted open source application for managing your quotes, invoices, clients and payments.


• BoxBilling: Open source billing and client management software


• siwapp: Free Online Invoicing Software


• BambooInvoice is free Open Source invoicing software intended for small businesses and independent contractors. Our number one priorities are ease of use, user-interface, and beautiful code.


• DAC (David Allen Capital) Business Services: No Fee Payment Processing Services (Irucka Embry’s Affiliate Link)


• Avant-Garde Marketing Solutions (AGMS): Online Payment Services | Business Payment Solutions

Event Management Software & Ticket Sales (Alternatives to Cvent, Eventbrite, Whova, etc.)

• Odoo Events: Manage on-site & online events. Organize, publish, promote, and sell.


• pretix: Reinventing ticket sales for conferences, festivals, exhibitions, …


• Attendize is an Open-source ticket selling and event management platform and is everything you need for a successful event. Attendize has a wide array of features aimed at making organising events as effortless as possible.


• Indico: The effortless open-source tool for event organisation, archival and collaboration


• OSEM (Open Source Event Manager): Event Management App Tailored to Free Software Conferences


• Apache OpenMeetings provides video conferencing, instant messaging, white board, collaborative document editing and other groupware tools. It uses API functions of Media Server for Remoting and Streaming (Red5 or Kurento).


• gathio: A quick and easy way to make and share events which respects your privacy.


• Event Always: Explore Top Upcoming Events Near You | List Your Event Now for Free

Online and Offline Learning Platforms [Learning Management System (LMS)]

• Opigno LMS: On-Demand eLearning engegment


• Moodle.org


• Forma Learning Management System


• Open edX: Deliver Inspiring Learning Experiences On Any Scale


• Kolibri is an open-source educational platform specially designed to provide offline access to a wide range of quality, openly licensed educational resources in low-resource contexts like rural schools, refugee camps, orphanages, and also in non-formal school programs.


• It’s FOSS: Best Open Source LMS for Creating Online Course and e-Learning Websites By Ankush Das, Last updated October 25, 2021


• GoodFirms: The Best 8 Free and Open Source Learning Management System (LMS) Software

Facebook Live, Flickr, YouTube, Vimeo, SoundCloud, etc. Alternatives

• Invidious is an open source alternative front-end to YouTube.


• Invidious Documentation: Invidious Instances


• iv.melmac.space Invidious Instance


• inv.nadeko.net Invidious Instance


• invidious.jing.rocks Invidious Instance


• invidious.nerdvpn.de Invidious Instance


• invidious.privacyredirect.com Invidious Instance


• FreeTube: The Private YouTube Client


• PeerTube, developed by Framasoft, is the free and decentralized alternative to video platforms, providing you over 400,000 videos published by 60,000 users and viewed over 15 million times.


• PeerTube Instances


• MediaGoblin is a free software media publishing platform that anyone can run. You can think of it as a decentralized alternative to Flickr, YouTube, SoundCloud, etc.


• Omeka: Open-source web publishing platforms for sharing digital collections and creating media-rich online exhibits.


• Opensource.com: Create your own video streaming server with Linux: Set up a basic live streaming server on a Linux or BSD operating system. By Aaron J. Prisk, 08 Jan 2019


• Universal Media Server: Stream your media to your devices, whether they are TVs, smartphones, gaming consoles, computers, audio receivers, and more!


• Streamlabs: Free Live Streaming & Recording Software


• OBS (Open Broadcaster Software) Studio: Free and open source software for video recording and live streaming.


• Opencast Studio: A web-based recording studio for Opencast. Opencast Studio allows you to record your camera, your display and your microphone’s audio. You can then either download your recordings or upload them directly to an Opencast instance (usually the one of your university).


• Agora.io: Real-Time Voice and Video Engagement. The Real-Time Engagement Platform for meaningful human connections.People engage longer when they see, hear, and interact with each other. With Agora, you can embed vivid voice and video in any application, on any device, anywhere.


• Video.js is a web video player built from the ground up for an HTML5 world. It supports HTML5 video and modern streaming formats, as well as YouTube, Vimeo, and even Flash (through plugins, more on that later). It supports video playback on desktop and mobile devices. The project was started mid 2010, and now has hundreds of contributors and is used on over 450,000 websites.


• Open Streaming Platform (OSP) is an open-source, RTMP streamer software front-end for Arut’s Nginx-RTMP Module. OSP was designed as a self-hosted alternative to services such as Twitch.tv, Ustream.tv, Mixer, and Youtube Live. OSP uses Python 3, the Flask Micro-Framework, Nginx-RTMP, VideoJS, Bootstrap, and other modules to build a home for your live streams, videos, and community.


• Icecast is a streaming media (audio/video) server which currently supports Ogg (Vorbis and Theora), Opus, WebM and MP3 streams. It can be used to create an Internet radio station or a privately running jukebox and many things in between. It is very versatile in that new formats can be added relatively easily and supports open standards for communication and interaction.


• Ant Media Server is a powerful and scalable ultra-low-latency video streaming engine using WebRTC for your streaming project. Streaming solutions…


• VideoLAN: Free multimedia solutions for all OS!


• ClipBucket: Open Source OTT, VOD and Enterprise Video Hosting Solution


• MistServer Open Source: Basic media streaming for enthousiasts under the aGPLv3 license.


• OpenFLIXR Media Server is an all-in-one media server for automated downloading and serving media. Tools like CouchPotato, SickChill, Headphones and SABnzbd to download and Plex Media Server to bring everything to your screens. Be it tablets, TVs, PCs, you name it. Completely web-based and includes monitoring and management tools. Smart auto-updating will keep everything up-to-date and running smooth. All programs are optimised to work together so it takes very little time to set it up. Being a virtual appliance gives you the advantage to run it on any platform. The only thing you need is a hypervisor like VirtualBox (Open Source), VMWare Fusion / Workstation / Player / ESXi, Parallels Desktop, KVM / unRAID or Microsoft Hyper-V.


• Kurento is a WebRTC media server and a set of client APIs making simple the development of advanced video applications for WWW and smartphone platforms. Kurento Media Server features include group communications, transcoding, recording, mixing, broadcasting and routing of audiovisual flows. As a differential feature, Kurento Media Server also provides advanced media processing capabilities involving computer vision, video indexing, augmented reality and speech analysis. Kurento modular architecture makes simple the integration of third party media processing algorithms (i.e. speech recognition, sentiment analysis, face recognition, etc.), which can be transparently used by application developers as the rest of Kurento built-in features.


• Red5 Pro: Low Latency WebRTC Live Video Streaming at Scale


• Red5 is an open source media server for live streaming solutions of all kinds. It is designed to be flexible with a simple plugin architecture that allows for customization of virtually any VOD and live streaming scenario. Red5 has been and is being used by thousands of companies from Amazon to Facebook.


• Matrix is an open source project that publishes the Matrix open standard for secure, decentralised, real-time communication, and its Apache licensed reference implementations.


• Modular: Awesome hosting for Matrix chat and integrations: Built on the Matrix open ecosystem for secure, decentralised communication, by the creators of Matrix.


• Interplanetary File System (IPFS) powers the Distributed Web: A peer-to-peer hypermedia protocol designed to preserve and grow humanity’s knowledge by making the web upgradeable, resilient, and more open.


• Filecoin: A decentralized storage network for humanity’s most important information


• A/I (Autistici/Inventati, pronounced [au’tistiʧi]-[iŋ’vɛntati], or [iŋvɛn’tati]) was born in 2001 from an encounter of individuals and collectives of the autonomous anticapitalist movement interested in technology and active in the digital rights struggle. We believe that this world is far from being the best world possible. We react by providing a platform and tools for digital self-defense addressing the need of secure, free communication and privacy for activists and other individuals. All of our services are provided for free, without any form of control or commoditization of the personal user data. We don’t receive any form of compensation for our work. We are volunteers exploiting the experiences we accumulated over years of technological, political and legal research while doing radical activism, and we are motivated and inspired by the principles of solidarity and self organization.

Calendar/Time Scheduling (Alternatives to Calendly, When2Meet, etc.)

• Framadate: Schedule a meeting or create an opinion poll


• Crab Fit helps you fit your event around everyone’s schedules. Simply create an event above and send the link to everyone that is participating. Results update live and you will be able to see a heat-map of when everyone is free.


• Cal.com: Open Scheduling Infrastructure


• Easy!Appointments: Open Source Appointment Scheduler


• GitHub: Croodle is a web application to schedule a date or to do a poll on a general topics.


• Meetsy: Simple and open source Calendly Alternative


• KDE Applications: Calindori is a touch friendly calendar application. It has been designed for mobile devices but it can also run on desktop environments. Users of Calindori are able to check previous and future dates and manage tasks and events.

Polls (Alternatives to Doodle Polls)

• CryptPad: Poll


• CryptPad Public instances


• Rallly lets you and your friends vote on a date to host an event


• Framadate: Schedule a meeting or create an opinion poll


• Nuages: Create polls easily, and publish them for your mates, in order to plan meetings and activities.


• dudle


• dudle: anonymous poll


• GitHub: jawanndenn is a simple web application to schedule meetings and run polls, a libre alternative to Doodle. There are links at the bottom of the Web page for other like-minded free/libre open source polls


• dudle


• GitHub: Croodle is a web application to schedule a date or to do a poll on a general topics.


• Nextcloud App Store: Polls: A polls app, similar to Doodle/Dudle with the possibility to restrict access (members, certain groups/users, hidden and public).

Online Forms (Alternatives to Google Forms, SurveyMonkey, etc.)

• EtherCalc is a web spreadsheet. Your data is saved on the web, and people can edit the same document at the same time. Everybody’s changes are instantly reflected on all screens. Work together on inventories, survey forms, list management, brainstorming sessions and more!


• OhMyForm is the best open source form solution for the web


• LimeSurvey: Easy online survey tool [Hosted version]


• LimeSurvey: Open Source Survey Tool [Self-hosted version]


• Quackit Tutorials: HTML Form To Email


• Form.IO: A Form and Data Management Platform


• Orbeon Forms is your solution to build and deploy web forms on-premises. It handles very large forms with complex validations, as well as extensive collections of forms that are typical of the enterprise or the government. Orbeon Forms is available in an open source Community Edition, as well as a commercially supported Professional Edition. Orbeon Forms is used around the world in a number of industries, including governments, banking, healthcare, telecom, and education.


• Laraform: Form Builder for Laravel & Vue.js


• Nextcloud App Store: Forms: Simple surveys and questionnaires, self-hosted!


• SurveyJS: Survey and Form JavaScript Libraries


• JD eSurvey delivers an exceptionally intuitive, open source system with easy-to-use interfaces to design, collect, and analyze survey data.


• Budibase: Build internal apps in mins


• Yakforms: Free software to take back control of your forms

PDF Annotators/Editors

• Xournal++ (/ˌzɚnl̟ˌplʌsˈplʌs/) is an open-source and cross-platform note-taking software that is fast, flexible, and functional. A modern rewrite and a more feature-rich version of the wonderful Xournal program.


• Okular (The Universal Document Viewer): Multi-platform, fast and packed with features, Okular allows you to read PDF documents, comics and EPub books, browse images, visualize Markdown documents, and much more.


• Apache OpenOffice Draw


• LibreOffice Draw


• GitHub: PDF4QT: Open source PDF editor. This software is consisting of PDF rendering library, and several applications, such as advanced document viewer, command line tool, and document page manipulator application. Software is implementing PDF functionality based on PDF Reference 2.0. It is written and maintained by Jakub Melka.


• Cryptee: Encrypted Secure Photo Storage & Encrypted Documents Editor


• Scribus is an Open Source program that brings professional page layout to Linux, BSD UNIX, Solaris, OpenIndiana, GNU/Hurd, Mac OS X, OS/2 Warp 4, eComStation, Haiku and Windows desktops with a combination of press-ready output and new approaches to page design. Underneath a modern and user-friendly interface, Scribus supports professional publishing features, such as color separations, CMYK and spot colors, ICC color management, and versatile PDF creation.


• Inkscape: An Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, or Xara X, using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format. Inkscape supports many advanced SVG features (markers, clones, alpha blending, etc.) and great care is taken in designing a streamlined interface. It is very easy to edit nodes, perform complex path operations, trace bitmaps and much more. We also aim to maintain a thriving user and developer community by using open, community-oriented development.


• GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It has many capabilities. It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert quality photo retouching program, an online batch processing system, a mass production image renderer, an image format converter, etc. GIMP is expandable and extensible. It is designed to be augmented with plug-ins and extensions to do just about anything. The advanced scripting interface allows everything from the simplest task to the most complex image manipulation procedures to be easily scripted.

Reference Managers

• Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, annotate, cite, and share research.


• JabRef: Free Reference Manager - Stay on top of your Literature

Knowledge Databases (Alternatives to myBase, Confluence, etc.)

• cherrytree: A hierarchical note taking application, featuring rich text and syntax highlighting, storing data in either a single file (xml or sqlite) or multiple files and directories.


• eXo: Knowledge Sharing Platform


• GitHub: nb is a command line and local web note‑taking, bookmarking, archiving, and knowledge base application.


• TreeSheets: A “hierarchical spreadsheet” that is a great replacement for spreadsheets, mind mappers, outliners, PIMs, text editors and small databases. Suitable for any kind of data organization, such as todo lists, calendars, project management, brainstorming, organizing ideas, planning, requirements gathering, presentation of information, etc.


• Knowfox: Personal Knowledge Management


• SiYuan is a privacy-first personal knowledge management system that supports complete offline use, as well as end-to-end encrypted data sync. Fuse blocks, outlines, and bidirectional links to refactor your thinking.


• GitHub: Trilium Notes is a hierarchical note taking application with focus on building large personal knowledge bases.


• Notesnook: Open source & zero knowledge private note taking app


• Logseq: A privacy-first, open-source knowledge base


• Zettlr: Your One-Stop Publication Workbench. From idea to publication in one app: Zettlr accompanies you while writing your blog post, newspaper article, term paper, thesis, or entire book.


• Cryptee: Encrypted Secure Photo Storage & Encrypted Documents Editor


• GitHub: KeyNote NF: Tabbed notebook with RichText editor, multi-level notes and strong encryption.


• Tomboy is a desktop note-taking application for Linux, Unix, Windows, and Mac OS X. Simple and easy to use, but with potential to help you organize the ideas and information you deal with every day.


• RedNotebook is a desktop journal. It lets you format, tag and search your entries. You can also add pictures, links and customizable templates, spell check your notes, and export to plain text, HTML or LaTeX. RedNotebook is Free Software under the GPL.


• GitHub: Documize Community is an open source, modern, self-hosted, enterprise-grade knowledge management solution.


• Zim is a graphical text editor used to maintain a collection of wiki pages. Each page can contain links to other pages, simple formatting and images. Pages are stored in a folder structure, like in an outliner, and can have attachments. Creating a new page is as easy as linking to a nonexistent page. All data is stored in plain text files with wiki formatting. Various plugins provide additional functionality, like a task list manager, an equation editor, a tray icon, and support for version control.


• Joplin is an open source note-taking app. Capture your thoughts and securely access them from any device.

Mind Maps

• TreeSheets: A “hierarchical spreadsheet” that is a great replacement for spreadsheets, mind mappers, outliners, PIMs, text editors and small databases. Suitable for any kind of data organization, such as todo lists, calendars, project management, brainstorming, organizing ideas, planning, requirements gathering, presentation of information, etc.


• Freeplane is a free and open source software application that supports thinking, sharing information, getting things done at work, in school and at home. It provides you a set of tools for mind mapping (also known as concept mapping or information mapping) and navigating the mapped information. Freeplane is also a more robust and superuser alternative to Xmind, Mindmeister, and similar mind mapping software.


• WiseMapping: Free Online Mind Mapping


• Semantik (formerly kdissert) is a mind-mapping application for KDE that helps creating documents such as reports or presentations.

Office Suites & Word Processors

• LibreOffice: Free Office Suite - Based on OpenOffice - Compatible with Microsoft


• Apache OpenOffice: The Free and Open Productivity Suite


• Calligra Suite is an office and graphic art suite by KDE. It is available for desktop PCs, tablet computers, and smartphones. It contains applications for word processing, spreadsheets, presentation, vector graphics, and editing databases.


• AbiWord

Collaborative Editing (Google, Microsoft, etc. Collaborative Editing Alternatives)

• ONLYOFFICE: Secure Online Office


• CryptPad is a private-by-design alternative to popular office tools and cloud services. All the content stored on CryptPad is encrypted before being sent, which means nobody can access your data unless you give them the keys (not even us).


• CryptPad Public instances


• CKEditor is a modern, feature-rich JavaScript text editor with clean UI and perfect UX. Easily customizable to any use case.


• TWAKE: The open digital workplace. Open-source alternative to Microsoft Teams. Simple and secure collaboration platform that improves your team productivity.


• Etherpad is a highly customizable Open Source online editor providing collaborative editing in really real-time.


• This is an etherpad service hosted by Riseup.


• AFFiNE: There can be more than Notion and Miro. AFFiNE is a next-gen knowledge base that brings planning, sorting and creating all together. Privacy first, open-source, customizable and ready to use.


• Firepad: Open source collaborative code and text editing


• Gobby is a collaborative editor supporting multiple documents in one session and a multi-user chat. [Download and build]


• Airborn: Create and edit files online​, securely​.


• Turtl: The secure, collaborative notebook


• ProseMirror: A toolkit for building rich-text editors on the web


• GitHub: yjs: Shared data types for building collaborative software

Collaborative Editing / Online Spreadsheets (Google, Microsoft, etc. Collaborative Editing Alternatives)

• ONLYOFFICE: Secure Online Office


• CryptPad is a private-by-design alternative to popular office tools and cloud services. All the content stored on CryptPad is encrypted before being sent, which means nobody can access your data unless you give them the keys (not even us).


• CryptPad Public instances


• Skiff: Private Encrypted Email and Collaboration


• TWAKE: The open digital workplace. Open-source alternative to Microsoft Teams. Simple and secure collaboration platform that improves your team productivity.


• Keikai: Effortlessly Build Spreadsheet-driven Web Apps


• EtherCalc is a web spreadsheet. Your data is saved on the web, and people can edit the same document at the same time. Everybody’s changes are instantly reflected on all screens. Work together on inventories, survey forms, list management, brainstorming sessions and more!


• Framacalc: Online collaborative spreadsheet


• Luckysheet is an online spreadsheet like excel that is powerful, simple to configure, and completely open source.

Collaborative Notebook Code Sharing and/or Editing (Alternatives to Google Colab, Deepnote, etc.)

• CoCalc: Collaborative Calculation and Data Science


• Renku: An open-source knowledge infrastructure for collaborative and reproducible data science


• Apache Zeppelin: Web-based notebook that enables data-driven, interactive data analytics and collaborative documents with SQL, Scala, Python, R and more.


• Project Jupyter: Free software, open standards, and web services for interactive computing across all programming languages


• Binder: Turn a Git repo into a collection of interactive notebooks


• ReviewNB: Jupyter Notebook Code Reviews & Collaboration


• Weblab notebooks are a great way to code interactively. By running small snippets of code you can directly see their effect. Additionally, Weblab let’s you add text or illustrations to your source code. Making it easier to understand your code for yourself and others


• CodeSandbox: Online Code Editor and IDE for Rapid Web Development


• Starboard: The shareable in-browser notebook


• Polynote: The polyglot notebook with first-class Scala support.


• GitHub: Pluto.jl: Simple reactive notebooks for Julia


• Querybook is Pinterest’s open-source big data IDE via a notebook interface.


• RStudio Cloud: Do, share, teach and learn data science


• nteract: building the future of interactive computing. nteract is an open-source organization committed to creating fantastic interactive computing experiences that allow people to collaborate with ease. We build SDKs, applications, and libraries that help you and your team make the most of interactive notebooks and REPLs.

Remote Desktop Software (Alternatives to TeamViewer and Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection)

• RustDesk: Open source virtual / remote desktop infrastructure for everyone! A remote desktop software, the open source TeamViewer alternative, works out of the box, no configuration required. You have full control of your data, with no concerns about security. You can use our public rendezvous/relay server, or self-hosting, or write your own server.


• Apache Guacamole is a clientless remote desktop gateway. It supports standard protocols like VNC, RDP, and SSH. We call it clientless because no plugins or client software are required. Thanks to HTML5, once Guacamole is installed on a server, all you need to access your desktops is a web browser.


• FreeRDP: A Remote Desktop Protocol Implementation


• Remmina: Remote desktop client with RDP, SSH, SPICE, VNC, and X2Go protocol support.


• mRemoteNG is a fork of mRemote: an open source, tabbed, multi-protocol, remote connections manager for Windows. mRemoteNG adds bug fixes and new features to mRemote and allows you to view all of your remote connections in a simple yet powerful tabbed interface.


• X2Go enables you to access a graphical desktop of a computer over a low bandwidth (or high bandwidth) connection.


• MeshCentral is a community driven open source remote management web site built on NodeJS and available freely on NPM. You can get started with the “Public Server Login” button on the upper right to use the public at your own risk community server for free and then move on to installing your own server. The server and management agent run on Windows, Linux, MacOS and FreeBSD.


• UltraVNC is a powerful, easy to use and free — remote pc access softwares — that can display the screen of another computer (via internet or network) on your own screen. The program allows you to use your mouse and keyboard to control the other PC remotely. It means that you can work on a remote computer, as if you were sitting in front of it, right from your current location. VNC, the Remote Frame Buffer protocol (RFB) allows a desktop to be viewed and controlled remotely over the Internet. A VNC server must be run on the computer sharing the desktop, a VNC client must be run on the computer that will access the shared desktop.


• TigerVNC is a high-performance, platform-neutral implementation of VNC (Virtual Network Computing), a client/server application that allows users to launch and interact with graphical applications on remote machines. TigerVNC provides the levels of performance necessary to run 3D and video applications, and it attempts to maintain a common look and feel and re-use components, where possible, across the various platforms that it supports. TigerVNC also provides extensions for advanced authentication methods and TLS encryption.

Alternatives to Trello, Jira, etc. (Project Management software)

• OpenProject: online project management software — free and open source


• Wekan: Open-Source kanban


• Kanboard is a free and open source Kanban project management software.


• Taiga is the project management platform for agile teams who want a beautiful tool to make work truly enjoyable.


• Restyaboard: Open source Trello alternative, kanban board for task management


• TaskBoard: A simple, visual way to keep track of what needs to get done


• WebCollab is a light, but robust web-based project management tool that is functional, easy to install and use. It is not a “one size fits all” solution, nor is it meant to be a feature rich “be all, end all” solution. WebCollab is intended to be a compact and elegant solution that will be at home on a small business intranet, yet capable of scaling up to meet the requirements of a large scale internet deployment. WebCollab aims to be secure, functional, and reliable without unnecessary glitz.


• Planner: Cross-platform project management tool based on the Work breakdown structure (WBS). Its goal is to be an easy-to-use no-nonsense project management application. Projects are stored in XML files and can be printed to PDF or exported to HTML for easy viewing from any web browser.

Team Project Communication & Collaboration (Mostly for Developers)

• Free Software Foundation (FSF) Free Software Directory: Category/Protocol/irc


• The GNU Operating System and the Free Software Movement: ERC (Emacs IRC client) is a powerful, modular, and extensible Internet Relay Chat client distributed with GNU Emacs since version 22.1.


• Irssi is a modular text mode chat client. It comes with IRC support built in.


• The Lounge: The self-hosted web IRC client


• Konversation is a user-friendly Internet Relay Chat (IRC) client which provides easy access to standard IRC networks such as Libera, where the KDE IRC channels can be found. Konversation supports popular platforms like Linux, Windows and FreeBSD. It is the default IRC client in many prominent Linux distributions, such as openSUSE, the KDE spin of Fedora, and Kubuntu.


• HexChat is an IRC client based on XChat, but unlike XChat it’s completely free for both Windows and Unix-like systems.


• Quassel IRC is a modern, cross-platform, distributed IRC client, meaning that one (or multiple) client(s) can attach to and detach from a central core — much like the popular combination of screen and a text-based IRC client such as WeeChat, but graphical. In addition to this unique feature, we aim to bring a pleasurable, comfortable chatting experience to all major platforms (including Linux®, Windows®, and MacOS X® as well as Android smartphones), making communication with your peers not only convenient, but also ubiquitous available.


• Discord is a voice, video and text communication service used by over a hundred million people to hang out and talk with their friends and communities.


• Pidgin is a chat program which lets you log into accounts on multiple chat networks simultaneously. This means that you can be chatting with friends on XMPP and sitting in an IRC channel at the same time. Pidgin runs on Windows, Linux, and other UNIX-like operating systems.


• Adium is a free instant messaging application for macOS that can connect to XMPP (Jabber), IRC and more.


• Trac is an enhanced wiki and issue tracking system for software development projects. Trac uses a minimalistic approach to web-based software project management. Our mission is to help developers write great software while staying out of the way. Trac should impose as little as possible on a team’s established development process and policies.


• Fluxday: opensource task & productivity management tool for startups. Fluxday was developed by Foradian starting in 2014 and was a critical part of Foradian’s hyper growth and success. Fluxday is engineered based on the concepts of OKR — Objectives and Key Results.


• Gitter: Where developers come to talk.


• Rocket.Chat is free, unlimited and open source. Replace email, HipChat & Slack with the ultimate team chat software solution.


• Element (previously riot.im): All-in-one secure chat app for teams, friends and organisations. Keeps conversations in your control, safe from data-mining and ads. Talk to everyone through the open global Matrix network, protected by proper end-to-end encryption.


• Zulip combines the immediacy of real-time chat with an email threading model. With Zulip, you can catch up on important conversations while ignoring irrelevant ones.


• Signal: State-of-the-art end-to-end encryption (powered by the open source Signal Protocol) keeps your conversations secure. We can’t read your messages or listen to your calls, and no one else can either. Privacy isn’t an optional mode — it’s just the way that Signal works. Every message, every call, every time.


• Briar: Secure messaging, anywhere


• TWAKE: The open digital workplace. Open-source alternative to Microsoft Teams. Simple and secure collaboration platform that improves your team productivity.

Software Project Localization

• Weblate: web-based localization


• Project Fluent: A localization system for natural-sounding translations.

Software Application Performance Monitoring

• Sentry: Application Performance Monitoring & Error Tracking Software

---

EcoC²S Home | About Us | Services | Events | 1 Stop Shop | Contact Us | Privacy | Disclaimer | Web site map