awesome-privacy

🦄 A curated list of privacy & security-focused software and services

⭐ 9,315 stars on GitHub · 🍴 498 forks · 📜 License: cc0-1.0 · 💻 Language: Astro

What is awesome-privacy?

Privacy tooling is scattered, noisy, and often hard to evaluate. awesome-privacy gives you a single curated directory of privacy- and security-focused software, services, and self-hosted alternatives, with enough structure to make discovery practical rather than overwhelming.

Main components

• Curated catalog of privacy-respecting apps, services, and self-hosted tools across many categories
• Coverage for common needs like email, messaging, browsers, search, DNS, VPNs, cloud storage, analytics, and password management
• Self-hosted software recommendations for replacing commercial SaaS with infrastructure you control
• Security-focused alternatives to mainstream tools that rely on tracking, profiling, or closed ecosystems
• Web-based presentation built with Astro for easier browsing beyond a plain README
• Community-maintained list that evolves as privacy tools appear, disappear, or change direction

Clear use cases

• Build a privacy-first personal stack for email, search, storage, messaging, and browsing
• Find self-hosted replacements for Google Drive, Google Analytics, Slack, Dropbox, or proprietary password managers
• Research safer software options before rolling out tools to a small business or nonprofit
• Create an internal shortlist of approved privacy-friendly apps for developers, admins, or remote teams
• Discover niche security tools when hardening your personal devices, home lab, or small infrastructure

The biggest strength is curation across the whole privacy stack — you are not just getting one app recommendation, but a map of alternatives across daily computing, infrastructure, and online services. Compared with commercial “privacy suite” offerings, the value is independence: you can choose separate tools, prefer open-source options, self-host where it makes sense, and avoid being locked into a single vendor’s interpretation of privacy.

Best for privacy-conscious developers, sysadmins, IT managers, home lab users, and anyone building a self-hosted or privacy-first software toolkit.

Topics: the project is tagged with popular topics:

• 🏷️ awesome
• 🏷️ awesome-list
• 🏷️ privacy
• 🏷️ security
• 🏷️ self-hosted
• 🏷️ software

Quick install

See the README for detailed install instructions. Most projects support Docker — if the repo has a Dockerfile, use:

git clone https://github.com/Lissy93/awesome-privacy.git
cd awesome-privacy
docker build -t awesome-privacy .
docker run -d -p 8080:8080 awesome-privacy

Minimum system requirements

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• One-command docker compose up -d deploy in 2 minutes
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• Daily snapshot backup
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Resources

• 🔗 GitHub: Lissy93/awesome-privacy
• 🌐 Homepage: https://awesome-privacy.xyz
• 📚 Official docs: see README in the repo
• 💬 Community: GitHub Issues + Discussions

Article compiled from GitHub data on 05/05/2026. Star/fork counts may have changed — see live numbers via the GitHub link.