De-centralized privacy tools and more — free for personal use
A short list, each with the one job we use it for. None of them are ours, and none of them pay to be here.
Each one does a single job properly, in the same plain language, with no account anywhere.
Send a file from the browser, encrypted before it is uploaded, or use the Windows application for larger files and whole folders.
Visit filesender.io →Send a private message as a link that can be opened once and then disappears. No account and no phone number.
Visit textme.im →A one-time encrypted conversation that opens from a link. No account, no phone number and no history kept.
Visit protected.chat →Reach your own PC from anywhere over a direct, encrypted channel between the two machines, using credentials of your own choosing, with no provider or service in the middle.
Visit mypc.direct →Hand a whole gallery of photos and videos to family directly from your computer, using one-time codes that expire on their own and can be revoked at any moment.
Visit sending.pics →Reads the drive’s own file table instead of walking folders, so the whole disk appears quickly, sorted by size. Delete, move and rename from the same window, with a running total of the space reclaimed.
Visit claimdisk.com →Shows the devices on your network in about thirty seconds, explains in plain English what is wrong, and fixes it in one click — with a link straight to your own router’s security advisories and firmware.
Visit lanfixer.com →Draws the connections your PC makes on a map of the world, shows which program made it, and blocks any address, region or whole country that has no business being there.
Visit mapblocker.com →Free for personal use, all of them. Business, government and non-profit use of the Windows applications begins with a free two-week trial.