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KeePass 2.61.1 locks the whole vault into one file and types the password for you
KeePass keeps every account inside a single encrypted database and asks you to remember one master key. Version 2.61.1 arrived on 1 May 2026 with a list of fixes, and Auto-Type fills forms by simulating keystrokes.
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KeePassXC 2.7.12 keeps every password in one encrypted file you place yourself
KeePassXC 2.7.12 is free and open source on Windows, macOS and Linux, storing every account in one local encrypted file with a browser extension for autofill and a generator built in. Data never sits on a vendor server, and no subscription is charged.
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Passbolt 5.16 puts an encrypted open source vault on your own server
Passbolt is an open source credential platform for teams, with the vault running on your own server or inside the firewall. A browser extension, mobile apps and a command line tool share one encrypted set of data, sharing uses OpenPGP public keys, and private keys stay on the client.
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Password Safe: the password manager that never phones home
One encrypted file on your own disk, no cloud sync, no telemetry, no account: a password vault whose trust model is a file and a master password, nothing else.
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CryFS: hiding the shape of your files, not just their contents
CryFS is an open source encrypted filesystem for cloud folders: it splits files into encrypted blocks, scrambles names and directory structure, and gives you a normal mounted folder on the desktop while the cloud only ever stores unreadable chunks.
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Cryptomator: encrypt files on your own machine before the cloud ever sees them
Cryptomator is an open-source tool that encrypts files in a local vault with AES-256 before they sync, so a cloud provider only ever stores unreadable data.
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2FAS: the free, open-source authenticator that fills in codes from a browser click
A two-factor app with no account to create: approve the login on your phone and the code lands in the browser by itself, keys stay local by default, and an encrypted export is there before you need it.
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Padloc: passwords that live on your own server, open source and zero knowledge
Almost every password manager is a commercial service with the passwords on somebody else's machine, and asking to run the server yourself usually gets nowhere. This one, published under the AGPL, keeps both roads open: the official cloud is free for one person, or the whole thing can be deployed on your own hardware so that the data really stays with you. Client and server code are both public, and every platform behaves the same.
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Permanent Eraser: thirty-five passes, and the file is not coming back
Emptying the bin only takes the entry out of the index; the bytes stay on the disk. This free open source program for macOS writes over them again and again until nothing is left to recover, offers a faster three pass standard when thirty-five is more patience than the job deserves, and lets the algorithm, the sound and the icon be changed. It is at its most dependable on a mechanical disk, and it says so.
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ClearURLs: it cuts the tracking tail off a link before you share it
An open source browser extension that leans on a community maintained rule library to strip tracking parameters out of addresses in the background. It cleans a whole list at once, copies a clean link straight from the context menu, blocks link auditing and redirection hops, and sits there so lightly that you forget it is running.
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Ghostery: see which company is following you, and answer the cookie prompt with no
An open-source privacy extension that has been running for more than a decade. It blocks ads and trackers, swaps personal identifiers in requests for random values, and answers cookie consent prompts with a refusal on your behalf. Every page shows how many trackers it carried and which companies they belong to.
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AdGuard DNS 2.23: block ads one layer earlier, for every device in the house
A public resolver that answers ad, tracking and phishing domains with a name that does not exist, so nothing on the network can reach them. It speaks every mainstream encrypted protocol, keeps no logs, needs no client, and its core is open enough to host yourself. The base service is free.
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Zen: blocking ads and trackers across the whole system, not only in the browser
An open-source privacy tool that filters advertising and tracking requests for every application on the machine through a local proxy, rather than working as a browser extension. MIT licence, no telemetry, no account.
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