Collection:High Priority Projects
| Description | Homepage | License | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bayonne | Telephony server. | https://www.gnu.org/software/bayonne/ | GPLv3orlater |
| Ccrtp | RTP protocol stack of GNU Common C++ and the GNU project. | https://www.gnu.org/software/ccrtp/ | GPLv2orlater with library exception LGPLv2.1orlater GPLv3orlater PublicDomain Expat |
| Cryptocat | Chat with your friends, securely. | https://crypto.cat/ | GPLv3 |
| Dante | Free implementation of socks version 4, socks version 5, and msproxy | http://www.inet.no/dante/ | GPL |
| Decentraleyes | Protects you against tracking through "free", centralized, content delivery. It prevents a lot of requests from reaching networks like Google Hosted Libraries, and serves local files to keep sites from breaking. Complements regular content blockers. | https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/decentraleyes/ | |
| Diaspora | Server software for the decentralized social network of the same name | https://diasporafoundation.org/ | AGPLv3orlater |
| Ecryptfs-utils | ecryptfs cryptographic filesystem (utilities) | https://launchpad.net/ecryptfs | GPLv2orlater |
| Ekiga | VoIP and video conferencing | http://www.ekiga.org/ | GPLv2orlater |
| Electrum | A secure, forgiving, lightweight and easy to use Bitcoin client | http://electrum.org/ | GPLv3orlater |
| Empathy | a messaging program which supports text, voice, and video chat and file transfers over many different protocols. | https://wiki.gnome.org/action/show/Apps/Empathy | GPLv2orlater LGPLv2.1orlater GFDL Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike 2.5 |
| Enigmail | GPG support for Thunderbird/Icedove | http://www.enigmail.net/home/index.php | GPLv2orlater LGPLv2.1orlater Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 |
| Flashproxy | Pluggable transport to circumvent IP address blocking - nodejs proxy | https://crypto.stanford.edu/flashproxy/ | Expat |
| FoxyProxy Standard | FoxyProxy is an advanced proxy management tool that completely replaces Firefox's limited proxying capabilities. For a simpler tool and less advanced configuration options, please use FoxyProxy Basic. | http://getfoxyproxy.org/ | GPLv2 |
| Freenet | Filesharing program | https://freenetproject.org/ | GPLv2 |
| Friendica | Friendica Communications Platform | http://friendica.com/ | AGPLv3 |
| Gnu-crypto | Full set of Java cryptographic tools. | https://www.gnu.org/software/gnu-crypto/ | GPLv2orlater with library exception |
| Gnucomm | GNU telecommunications project. | https://www.gnu.org/software/gnucomm/ | GPLv3orlater |
| Gnunet | Anonymous peer-to-peer file-sharing. | https://www.gnu.org/software/gnunet/ | GPLv3orlater |
| Gnupg | Complete implementation of the OpenPGP Internet standard. | https://www.gnu.org/software/gnupg/ | GPLv3orlater GPLv2orlater LGPLv3orlater LGPLv2.1orlater Expat BSD 3Clause |
| Gnutls | Library implementing TLS 1.0 and SSL 3.0. | https://www.gnu.org/software/gnutls/ | LGPLv2.1orlater LGPLv3orlater GPLv3orlater |
| Gnuzilla | GNU IceCat is the GNU version of the Firefox browser. | https://www.gnu.org/software/gnuzilla/ | GPL LGPL MPL |
| Gpa | graphical user interface for the GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG). | http://www.gnupg.org/gpa.html | GPLv3orlater |
| HTTPS Everywhere | Browser extension that encrypts your communications with many major websites, making your browsing more secure. | https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere | GPLv3orlater |
| I2P | Invisible Internet Project | https://geti2p.net/ | PublicDomain GPLv2 with exception Artistic BSD |
| IceCat/CanvasBlocker | Blocks the JS-API for modifying <canvas> to prevent Canvas-Fingerprinting.</canvas> | https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/canvasblocker/ | |
| IceCat/Disable WebRTC | WebRTC exposes your internal network IP(s), without user interaction. | https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/happy-bonobo-disable-webrtc/ | |
| IceCat/NoScript | Only enable JavaScript for sites you trust. | http://noscript.net/ | GPLv2 |
| Iptables | program to configure the Linux IP packet filtering rules | http://www.iptables.org/ | GPLv2 |
| Jami | Distributed and encrypted audio/video/text communication. | https://www.gnu.org/software/ring/ | GPLv3orlater |
| Komodo | A Zcash fork. | https://komodoplatform.com/ | AGPLv3orlater Expat |
| Libgcrypt | Cryptographic library. | https://www.gnu.org/software/libgcrypt/ | LGPLv2.1orlater GPLv2orlater |
| Linphone | SIP softphone | http://www.linphone.org | GPLv2 |
| Location Guard | Hide your geographic location from websites. Report a fake location with the addition of random noise in order to protect your privacy. Per site settings with three configurable levels of accuracy or even the possibility to use a fixed location. | https://github.com/chatziko/location-guard | |
| Mailvelope | Mailvelope is an easy-to-use web-browser extension which brings OpenPGP encryption to webmail services | https://www.mailvelope.com | AGPLv3 |
| Mastodon | Microblogging server software which follows OStatus and ActivityPub standards, is compatible with GNU Social, supports content warnings and private messages | https://joinmastodon.org | AGPLv3 |
| Matrix-synapse | Synapse: Matrix reference homeserver | https://matrix.org/ | Apache2.0 |
| Mediagoblin | Server software that allows you to share your media with the world. | https://www.gnu.org/software/mediagoblin/ | AGPLv3orlater Common Public License 1.0 |
| Monero Core | Monero (XMR), after the Esperanto word for money, is a CryptoNight-based cryptocurrency forked from Bytecoin (BCN). | https://getmonero.org/ | BSD 3Clause |
| OnionShare | OnionShare is a free software tool that lets you securely and anonymously share a file of any size. | https://onionshare.org/ | GPLv3orlater |
| Openbazaar-desktop | OpenBazaar 2.0 Desktop Client (talks to openbazaar-go server daemon) | https://openbazaar.org/ | |
| Openbazaar-go | OpenBazaar 2.0 Server Daemon in Go | https://openbazaar.org/ | X11 |
| Osip | Library supporting the Session Initiation Protocol. | https://www.gnu.org/software/osip/ | LGPLv2.1orlater |
| OwnCloud | Web application for storage and synchronization of files | http://owncloud.org/ | Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 GPLv2orlater |
| Pica Pica Messenger | Secure decentralized instant messaging platform with e2e encryption | https://picapica.im | GPLv3 |
| Pidgin-otr | A Pidgin plugin for off-the-record conversations | https://otr.cypherpunks.ca | |
| Privacy Badger | Browser extension that detects and prevents third-party tracking | https://www.eff.org/privacybadger | GPLv3 |
| Privoxy | Web proxy with advanced filtering capabilities | https://www.privoxy.org/ | GPLv2 |
| Pump.io | Blogging server software that federates using the Activity Streams standard | http://pump.io | Apache2.0 |
| PyBitmessage | Reference client for Bitmessage | https://bitmessage.org/wiki/Main Page | |
| Ricochet | Decentralized Instant messenger via the Tor network | https://ricochet.im/ | BSD 3Clause |
| Searx | Searx a privacy-respecting, hackable metasearch engine inspired by the Seeks websearch proxy | https://github.com/asciimoo/searx/wiki/ | AGPLv3 |
| Sipwitch | SIP-based office telephone call server. | https://www.gnu.org/software/sipwitch/ | GPLv3orlater |
| Social | Powerful social network that is federated. | https://www.gnu.org/software/social/ | AGPLv3orlater |
| Speex | Speech compression format. | https://www.gnu.org/software/speex/ | Xiph |
| Taler | One-Click Cash Payments! | https://www.gnu.org/software/taler/ | AGPLv3orlater GPLv3orlater LGPLv2.1orlater |
| Tor | Anonymous Internet communication system | https://torproject.org | BSD 3Clause |
| Tor Browser | A Firefox ESR-based web browser for use of the TOR network | https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser.html | GPLv3orlater |
| TorBirdy | Provides safe Tor support for Icedove/Mozilla Thunderbird | https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/torbirdy | |
| Torsocks | use SOCKS-friendly applications with Tor | https://gitweb.torproject.org/torsocks.git | GPLv2 |
| Tribler | Python based BitTorrent/Internet TV application | http://www.tribler.org/ | LGPLv2.1orlater Expat GPLv2orlater |
| Twinkle | SIP VoIP Phone | http://www.xs4all.nl/~mfnboer/twinkle/home.html | GPLv2orlater |
| Twister | Twister is the fully decentralized P2P microblogging platform leveraging from the free software implementations of Bitcoin and BitTorrent protocols | http://twister.net.co/ | Expat |
| UBlock Origin | A wide-spectrum blocker. Easy on CPU and memory. | https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock | GPLv3orlater |
| UMatrix | Point & click to forbid/allow any class of requests made by your browser. Use it to block scripts, iframes, ads, facebook, etc. | https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/umatrix/ | GPLv3 |
| Websocket | WebSocket pluggable transport - server | https://gitweb.torproject.org/pluggable-transports/websocket.git | Other |
| Weechat-scripts | script collection for the WeeChat IRC client | http://weechat.flashtux.org/plugins.php | |
| Wire | Modern communication tool, full privacy. | https://wire.com/ | GPLv3orlater AGPLv3orlater |
| Zcash | Zcash is a decentralized cryptocurrency that offers privacy and selective transparency of transactions. Zcash payments are published on a public blockchain, but the sender, recipient, and amount of a transaction remain private | https://z.cash/ | AGPLv3orlater Expat |
| Zclassic | Zclassic is a Zcash fork with no 20% Founders Tax. | http://zclassic.org/ | AGPLv3orlater Expat |
| Zcoin | Private financial transactions using the Zcoin protocol | http://zcoin.tech/ | Expat |
| Zunozap | Web Browser | http://www.zunozap.com/ | LGPLv3 |
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the page “GNU Free Documentation License”.
The copyright and license notices on this page only apply to the text on this page. Any software or copyright-licenses or other similar notices described in this text has its own copyright notice and license, which can usually be found in the distribution or license text itself.