A curated list of tools, services, and resources for achieving anonymity and privacy online.
PRs are welcome as long as they are not advertisements.
- Fake Identity
- Accounts
- SMS Verification
- Cryptocurrency
- Messengers
- Overlay Networks
- VPN
- Proxy
- Hosting
- Domain Registration
- Web Access
- Operating Systems
- Encryption
- Password Managers
- Secure Notes
- Fake Name Generator — Generate random fake identities with name, address, phone number, email, and other personal details for anonymous registrations.
- This Person Does Not Exist — AI-generated realistic human faces for fake profile photos. Each refresh produces a unique non-existent person.
- TrueAccs — Account marketplace (successor of BuyAccs.com). Accepts Visa, Mir card, and crypto payments.
- OnlineSim — Online SMS receiving service for anonymous phone verification. Accepts crypto and Visa payments.
- BestChange — Aggregator for finding the best rates to buy and sell cryptocurrency across multiple exchangers.
- Monero — Privacy-focused cryptocurrency with untraceable transactions by default, using ring signatures and stealth addresses.
- Mail.tm — Free disposable email service for anonymous temporary mailboxes, no registration required.
- Proton Mail — End-to-end encrypted email service based in Switzerland. No personal information required to sign up. Requires a small crypto donation to register on some external services.
- Delta Chat — Decentralized messenger that works over email, requiring no phone number or central server. End-to-end encrypted via Autocrypt.
- OMEMO — End-to-end encryption protocol for XMPP/Jabber, considered one of the best ways to secure your chats with forward secrecy and deniability. Recommended client: Gajim with built-in OMEMO support.
- I2P — Anonymous overlay network for censorship-resistant communication. Still rough around the edges but worth mentioning as a Tor alternative.
- Tor — Privacy-focused overlay network and browser that routes traffic through multiple relays, preventing tracking and enabling access to .onion sites.
- Amnezia VPN — Trusted VPN provider with open-source clients and self-hosted server support.
- Red Shield VPN — Reliable VPN provider focused on privacy and anonymity.
- FineProxy — Proxy service offering residential and datacenter proxies for anonymous web browsing and scraping.
- Cloudzy — VPS hosting provider accepting crypto payments for anonymous server deployment.
- IncogNet — Privacy-focused hosting provider that accepts crypto and respects user anonymity.
- SporeStack — Anonymous server hosting paid with cryptocurrency, no account required.
- Njalla — Privacy-focused domain registration service that acts as a proxy owner for your domains, keeping your identity hidden from WHOIS. Accepts crypto payments.
- Wayback Machine (Archive.org) — View cached snapshots of websites, useful for accessing content when blocked by IP restrictions.
- GrapheneOS — Privacy and security focused mobile OS for Pixel devices, hardened Android with no Google services by default.
- Tails — Portable amnesic Linux distribution that runs from USB, routes all traffic through Tor, and leaves no trace on the host machine.
- Whonix — Security-focused Linux distribution that runs inside a VM and routes all traffic through Tor, providing strong anonymity and IP leak protection.
- VeraCrypt — Free open-source disk encryption software. Supports full-disk encryption, hidden volumes, and plausible deniability.
- KeePassXC — Free open-source offline password manager. Cross-platform, stores everything locally with no cloud dependency.
- Privnote — Send self-destructing notes that can only be read once. A way to share sensitive information over an open channel.
- Remove audio from video - Free, browser-based audio remover. Local processing via WebAssembly. No signup, no watermarks. Batch up to 20 clips.