BetterWispr
Dictate into any Mac app without your voice leaving the machine: Whisper, Parakeet or Apple's speech recognition transcribe locally, meetings included.
// PRIVACY
30 entries tagged with "privacy"
// COMPARISONS
4 Local speech to text Transcribing meetings, dictation or audio files offline: Meetily, Murmure, Scriberr and BetterWispr compared on models, hardware and what leaves the machine. Self-hosted CAPTCHA Replacing reCAPTCHA with a CAPTCHA you host: ALTCHA, Cap and mCaptcha compared on proof of work, server setup, visitor data, licensing and release health. Cloud storage Swapping Google Drive or Dropbox for a server you control: three tools compared on sync clients, encryption, what you need to run and the licence terms. Web analytics Replacing Google Analytics with a tool you host yourself: eight open-source options compared on licence, required database, cookies and their release pace.
// ENTRIES
26 entries
VoiceStudio
Clone a voice, dub a video or make an audiobook on your own machine: local speech synthesis, dictation and transcription, an open-source ElevenLabs alternative.
Cachety
Watermark ID copies and payslips without uploading them: PDFs and photos are processed in the browser, with real redaction, traceable copies and AES-256 PDFs.
Plausible
Website stats with no cookies and no stored IP addresses: open source web analytics, as an EU-hosted cloud or self-hosted on PostgreSQL and ClickHouse.
Mimik
Document a web procedure without taking a single screenshot by hand: this extension turns each click into an annotated step and keeps guides in the browser.
ffmpeg-webCLI
Convert, trim or caption a video without uploading it anywhere: FFmpeg and Whisper run in a browser tab, though encoding is slower than with native ffmpeg.
Swetrix
JavaScript errors and traffic in one dashboard: cookieless, open source web analytics, hosted or self-hosted, plus what the free Community Edition leaves out.
Rybbit
Session replays, funnels and retention without cookies: open source web analytics, on an EU-hosted cloud or self-hosted on ClickHouse behind an HTTPS domain.
mCaptcha
Block bots without image puzzles: a self-hosted Rust CAPTCHA server whose proof of work gets harder as traffic rises. Its only release dates from March 2024.
Open Web Analytics
Click heatmaps and session recordings on your own server: open source PHP and MySQL web analytics, what it takes to run it, and how often it ships releases.
AltSendme
Move files and folders between devices without uploading them anywhere, end-to-end encrypted. AltSendme became DashBeam in July 2026 and runs on Iroh.
Technitium DNS Server
Network-wide ad and malware blocking plus DNS encrypted over DoT, DoH or DoQ: an open source resolver and DNSSEC zone server, written in C# to run on .NET 10.
FingerprintJS
Recognise a returning visitor without cookies, even in incognito: an MIT-licensed TypeScript library that hashes 42 browser signals on the client side.
Yopass
Get a password or file to someone without it sitting in Slack or email: the browser encrypts it with OpenPGP and the self-hosted server stores only ciphertext.
Hoodik
Keep files on your own server without the server being able to read them: encryption in the browser, a single Rust container, but a non-commercial license.
Murmure
Dictate into any app without a connection: NVIDIA's Parakeet model transcribes your voice on the CPU, in 25 European languages, on Windows, macOS and Linux.
Scriberr
Transcribe audio files on your own server with Whisper, Parakeet or Canary and label each speaker. Single user only, and no release since December 2025.
Meetily
Meeting notes transcribed on your own machine with Whisper or Parakeet. The text only reaches a remote LLM if you choose one for the summary. MIT desktop app.
MarkEdit
Edit Markdown on a Mac in an open-source app under 5 MB: strict GFM, multiple carets, your own CSS and JS. No full preview or export, and it requires macOS 26.
msgvault
Keep your own copy of your email and chat history: Gmail, IMAP, Slack and WhatsApp archived on disk, searchable offline and over MCP. Still alpha software.
Codeberg
Free Git hosting for open source projects, run by a Berlin non-profit on Forgejo. Free licences only, and no projects written mostly by generative AI tools.
Matomo
Measure site traffic on your own server: GPL web analytics in PHP with server log import, paid heatmap plugins and a CNIL mode for consent-free tracking.
ALTCHA
Blocks form bots without image puzzles or cookies: an accessible MIT proof-of-work widget, server libraries in 11 languages. Risk-based checks cost extra.
Cap
Stops bots without image grids: the browser solves a proof of work and a Docker server you run checks it, with no cookie and no profiling. Apache 2.0.
Check If Email Exists
Find out whether an email address exists before mailing it: an MIT-licensed Rust library that queries the domain's SMTP server, with a CLI and an HTTP API.
Umami
Traffic stats without cookies, on a single PostgreSQL database: MIT-licensed open source web analytics, self-hosted or on Umami Cloud, with events and funnels.