The first stop for measuring your own security: check addresses and passwords against known breaches, subscribe to alerts, and let the results shape which tools you actually need. Free and run by a researcher with a decade of credibility. It only knows public breaches, so treat clean results as reassurance rather than proof. Security starts […]
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 […]
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, […]
Privacy Guides is the independent nonprofit reference the privacy community trusts: threat modeling guides, strict tool criteria and no affiliate links. If a tool appears there, it survived real scrutiny. Its strictness excludes usable-but-imperfect options, and the depth assumes you read. The map for anyone navigating this field.
Paperless-ngx is self-hosted document management for people drowning in paper: scan, and the system OCRs, tags, files and indexes everything so any document is findable in seconds. Open source, community governed, and the standard answer to shoeboxes of receipts. You run it on a server or a spare machine, and the initial tagging teaches it […]
AAWireless is a small Dutch-made dongle that adds wireless Android Auto to cars with only wired support, so your phone stops being cabled to the dashboard. Firmware updates are frequent and the community around it is engaged. It is Android-only, pairing takes a minute on first connection, and it costs more than a cable. Convenience […]
NAPS2, Not Another PDF Scanner, is free open-source scanning software that works with almost any scanner and saves straight to searchable PDFs, with OCR in dozens of languages. Profiles per scanner, no ads, no account, Windows Mac and Linux. It scans and organizes; document management beyond that belongs to other tools. Exactly what scanning software […]
The canonical database of known data breaches: search your email addresses for exposure across everything from forum leaks to mega-breaches, check passwords against what attackers already have, and subscribe to alerts. Free, transparent and run by a single well-known researcher. It catalogs what leaked publicly, so absence is not proof of safety, and entered data […]
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 […]
Organic Maps brings the whole planet to your phone as offline OpenStreetMap maps: search, bookmarks and navigation with no internet and no account. Free, open source, and governed by a foundation with nothing to sell. Depth of detail trails desktop mapping tools and live layers like traffic are absent by design. The map that works […]
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.
