DAVx⁵ review: private calendar and contact sync
DAVx⁵ is open-source calendar sync for Android. Learn where contacts and events live, what the app costs, and how to set up the first account.
DAVx⁵ is open-source calendar sync for Android. Learn where contacts and events live, what the app costs, and how to set up the first account.
FairEmail is an open-source Android email app that asks before loading remote images. See what it protects, what it costs, and how setup works.
Inter is a free open-source font you install yourself, so pages need not ask Google for the letters. See the licence, platforms, and first steps.
Openverse is a free Creative Commons search engine for reusable images and audio. Learn what it stores, how licences work, and how to start.
Pexels offers free stock photos and videos you can download without an account. See the licence limits, what the site collects, and who should use it.
Krita is open-source painting built by artists: brushes with real engine quality, animation support, and a stabilization system for linework that professionals use daily. Free across every desktop, funded by a nonprofit foundation. It is a painting and sketching tool rather than a photo retoucher, and the brush library rewards tuning. For illustration without subscriptions, […]
GIMP is the free, open-source image editor that has carried the mantle since the nineties: layers, masks, retouching, scripting and batch processing, with no subscription and no account. Nearly every proprietary editor borrows from it. Single-window mode finally made it feel modern, but CMYK print work still needs plugins. The default answer for private image […]
Reactive Resume is a free, open-source resume builder with no tracking, no watermarks and no forced account, self-hostable if you want the whole process on your own server. Job hunting already leaks data everywhere; this keeps the resume out of it. Template choices are deliberately constrained, and design freedom stops where privacy begins. Export clean […]
Tuta’s calendar comes encrypted the same way as its mail: appointment titles, locations and details are unreadable to the server, and the free tier includes it. German jurisdiction, open-source apps, no ads anywhere. Sharing calendars with outside users is limited by the encryption model, and it works best inside the Tuta ecosystem. The most private […]
EteSync syncs calendars, contacts and tasks between your devices through end-to-end encryption, open source with published security audits, and a self-host option for people who want the server too. It is infrastructure rather than an app: you keep using your calendar program, EteSync just moves the data safely. Some calendar apps integrate more smoothly than […]
BellCrier breach check
Most people are, and never hear about it. BellCrier checks your email against known data breaches for free, then alerts you when it turns up in a new one, with exactly what leaked and how to fix it.
