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Top 23 Privacy Open-Source Projects

  1. awesome-selfhosted

    A list of Free Software network services and web applications which can be hosted on your own servers

    Project mention: Down the Rabbit Hole of creating a Home Lab | dev.to | 2025-04-23

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  2. InfluxDB

    InfluxDB – Built for High-Performance Time Series Workloads. InfluxDB 3 OSS is now GA. Transform, enrich, and act on time series data directly in the database. Automate critical tasks and eliminate the need to move data externally. Download now.

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  3. Caddy

    Fast and extensible multi-platform HTTP/1-2-3 web server with automatic HTTPS

    Project mention: How I made my Home Server accessible outside my home | dev.to | 2025-05-01

    This single record will suffice as we will be using a reverse proxy to map each of our application. For the reverse proxy solution, we will be using Caddy, particularly xcaddy.

  4. quivr

    Opiniated RAG for integrating GenAI in your apps 🧠 Focus on your product rather than the RAG. Easy integration in existing products with customisation! Any LLM: GPT4, Groq, Llama. Any Vectorstore: PGVector, Faiss. Any Files. Anyway you want.

    Project mention: Ask HN: Local RAG with private knowledge base | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-10-29
  5. AdGuardHome

    Network-wide ads & trackers blocking DNS server

    Project mention: Down the Rabbit Hole of creating a Home Lab | dev.to | 2025-04-23

    AdGuard Home - Network-wide DNS privacy and ad blocking

  6. hosts

    🔒 Consolidating and extending hosts files from several well-curated sources. Optionally pick extensions for porn, social media, and other categories.

    Project mention: Digital Hygiene | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-03-19

    Why use NextDNS when you can use a lightweight, native solution[1]? Sorry if this sounds condescending but I need less services and not more.

    [1]: https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts

  7. web-check

    🕵️‍♂️ All-in-one OSINT tool for analysing any website

    Project mention: Web Check – X-Ray Vision for Any Webstie | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-01-23
  8. keepassxc

    KeePassXC is a cross-platform community-driven port of the Windows application “Keepass Password Safe”.

    Project mention: UK rolls out passkeys across Gov.uk services | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-05-08

    Thanks for your reply. I do want this tech to work, so I keep hoping I'm wrong here. Unfortunately, you haven't convinced me yet.

    > some of them may reject Passkeys without certain metadata or attestations. But you will find out quickly on sign up with that key.

    I don't think that's applicable to the case I'm talking about. A relying party could change their implementation to ban the client you are using, after you set up the passkey.

    The spec compliance at issue is the truth of the "User Verification" boolean when submitting your unlocked private key to the site for authentication. While it's true that your client could lie about this and the RP would not know, the spec authors view this as a violation of the spec, and a valid reason for RPs to ban users using that client. They even maintain a list of clients they feel violate the spec for UV.

    The spec authors are very explicit that clients not meeting their standards are at risk of being blocked by relying parties. See:

    >> RP's blocking arbitrary AAGUIDs doesn't seem like a thing that's going to happen or that can even make a difference

    > It does happen and will continue to happen because of non-spec compliant implementations and authenticators with poor security posture.

    https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc/issues/10406#iss...

    The spec authors' comments on these issues make it very clear that they feel RPs may correctly block users for using clients that do not handle user data in the way the spec authors want them to. This isn't come corner case, it is explicitly built into the spec. I consider that to be incompatible with open source. It's my data and my software. It's my choice what software to use and how to handle my data.

  9. SaaSHub

    SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives

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  10. ungoogled-chromium

    Google Chromium, sans integration with Google

    Project mention: Digital Hygiene | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-03-19

    Chromium is Chrome with "less" (but, still substantial) Google. ungoogled-chromium[1] is Chromium with no Google.

    [1] https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium

  11. Plausible Analytics

    Simple, open source, lightweight and privacy-friendly web analytics alternative to Google Analytics.

    Project mention: Open source Google Analytics replacement | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-05-07
  12. macOS-Security-and-Privacy-Guide

    Community guide to securing and improving privacy on macOS.

  13. Matomo

    Empowering People Ethically 🚀 — Matomo is hiring! Join us → https://matomo.org/jobs Matomo is the leading open-source alternative to Google Analytics, giving you complete control and built-in privacy. Easily collect, visualise, and analyse data from websites & apps. Star us on GitHub ⭐️ – Pull Requests welcome!

    Project mention: Indie Hacking with Open Source Tools: Innovating on a Budget | dev.to | 2025-05-04

    Another case involves a duo launching an eco-friendly e-commerce website. Using WordPress paired with WooCommerce, they built a fully featured site with a sustainable operational model. Enhanced analytics from Matomo brought data-driven insights and growth strategies to life. This project highlights the benefits of cost-effective, community-driven solutions in the competitive e-commerce landscape.

  14. Win11Debloat

    A simple, easy to use PowerShell script to remove pre-installed apps from Windows, disable telemetry, remove Bing from Windows search as well as perform various other changes to declutter and improve your Windows experience. This script works for both Windows 10 and Windows 11.

    Project mention: I Tried Windows Gaming on a Mac and It's Amazing | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-04-26

    I simply run this Powershell script once on a fresh install of Windows 11 and don't have to deal with any annoyances even after updates.

    https://github.com/Raphire/Win11Debloat

    I daily drive MacOS, Windows 11 and Linux Mint on different devices and Windows doesn't particularly bother me post de-bloating, and it easily has the most reliable multi monitor / variable DPI support of the three in my experience.

  15. GoAccess

    GoAccess is a real-time web log analyzer and interactive viewer that runs in a terminal in *nix systems or through your browser.

    Project mention: Open source Google Analytics replacement | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-05-07

    I use https://goaccess.io/ to parse the logs and generate a html report.

    As mentioned elsewhere in the thread, there is a lot of bot activity there, that using JS might cleanup a bit.

    If you are interested, I have a write up of my setup here, with the report generation down at the bottom:

  16. ente

    🔒 End-to-end encrypted platform for photos, videos and 2FA secrets.

    Project mention: Show HN: First major release of Ente Photos – v1.0 | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-03-29

    Hi HN,

    We started building Ente in 2020 as an end-to-end encrypted[1] alternative to Google Photos.

    We've come a long way since then,

    - deploying on-device machine learning[2]

    - undergoing a cryptography audit[3]

    - open sourcing everything[4]

    - replicating to 3 clouds[5]

    - and shipping a lot of features[6]

    We're trying to build a business that can outlive us, so we have a long way to go – this is only v1.0.

    HN has been historically kind with feedback[7][8], a lot of which has influenced our culture in engineering, product, and marketing.

    If you've any thoughts on what we could do better, please do share.

    Thank you!

    [1]: https://ente.io/architecture

    [2]: https://ente.io/ml

    [3]: https://ente.io/blog/cryptography-audit

    [4]: https://ente.io/blog/open-sourcing-our-server

    [5]: https://ente.io/reliability

    [6]: https://ente.io

    [7]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28347439

    [8]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39570692

  17. personal-security-checklist

    🔒 A compiled checklist of 300+ tips for protecting digital security and privacy in 2024

    Project mention: Personal Security Checklist | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-02-11
  18. FreeTube

    An Open Source YouTube app for privacy

    Project mention: Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-04-30
  19. universal-android-debloater

    Cross-platform GUI written in Rust using ADB to debloat non-rooted android devices. Improve your privacy, the security and battery life of your device.

  20. Leon

    🧠 Leon is your open-source personal assistant.

    Project mention: The era of open voice assistants has arrived | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-12-19

    I tried years ago, I don't think I got it working, ended up using Rhasspy/voice2json instead (TIL: the creator of both is now the Voice Eng Lead for Home Assistant).

    Looks like the GitHub is still somewhat active, although their roadmap links to a dead Trello: https://github.com/leon-ai/leon

  21. optimizer

    The finest Windows Optimizer

    Project mention: My Windows Computer Just Doesn't Feel Like Mine Anymore | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-06-21

    every software that ever updates has options that are subject to change; a user needs to be proactive in knowing whats running. i do agree we shouldnt need a the privacy treadmill, but until we have better consumer laws the treadmill will continue...

    as far as powershell scripts; i cant say i am a fan (i do like the potential targeting of offline machines with something like the mentioned website) - but my favorite to date is still: https://github.com/hellzerg/optimizer/

  22. Atlas

    🚀 An open and lightweight modification to Windows, designed to optimize performance, privacy and usability.

    Project mention: Atlas: A Windows modification to optimize performance, privacy and usability | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-08-11
  23. awesome-privacy

    Awesome Privacy - A curated list of services and alternatives that respect your privacy because PRIVACY MATTERS.

    Project mention: Why privacy is important, and having "nothing to hide" is irrelevant (2016) | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-07-06
  24. openvpn-install

    Set up your own OpenVPN server on Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, CentOS, Arch Linux and more (by angristan)

  25. Self-Hosting-Guide

    Self-Hosting Guide. Learn all about locally hosting (on premises & private web servers) and managing software applications by yourself or your organization. Including Cloud, LLMs, WireGuard, Automation, Home Assistant, and Networking.

  26. SaaSHub

    SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives

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NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).

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Index

What are some of the best open-source Privacy projects? This list will help you:

# Project Stars
1 awesome-selfhosted 227,678
2 Caddy 64,141
3 quivr 37,830
4 AdGuardHome 28,283
5 hosts 28,049
6 web-check 24,992
7 keepassxc 23,088
8 ungoogled-chromium 22,386
9 Plausible Analytics 22,326
10 macOS-Security-and-Privacy-Guide 21,717
11 Matomo 20,488
12 Win11Debloat 19,791
13 GoAccess 19,299
14 ente 19,173
15 personal-security-checklist 18,478
16 FreeTube 17,784
17 universal-android-debloater 16,917
18 Leon 16,221
19 optimizer 16,018
20 Atlas 15,474
21 awesome-privacy 14,944
22 openvpn-install 14,566
23 Self-Hosting-Guide 13,242

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