Open Source Sandboxie Plus Alternatives

The best open source alternative to Sandboxie Plus is Shelter. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 10 alternatives to Sandboxie Plus and 12 is open source so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source alternatives to Sandboxie Plus are Firejail, Island, Cuckoo Sandbox and Sandboxie.

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  1. Shelter icon
     72 likes

    Shelter is a Free and Open-Source (FOSS) app that leverages the “Work Profile” feature of Android to provide an isolated space that you can install or clone apps into.

    15 Shelter alternatives

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Android
    • Android Tablet
    • F-Droid
    • OpenAPK
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  2. Firejail icon
     39 likes

    Firejail is a SUID security sandbox program that reduces the risk of security breaches by restricting the running environment of untrusted applications using Linux namespaces and seccomp-bpf.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
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  3. Island icon
     20 likes

    Sandbox environment to clone selected apps and isolate them from accessing your personal data.

    22 Island alternatives

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Android
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  4. Cuckoo Sandbox icon
     26 likes

    Cuckoo Sandbox is a modular, automated malware analysis system. Running from command-line on a Linux or Mac host, it uses python and virtualization (VirtualBox, QEMU-KVM, etc) to create an isolated Windows guest environment to safely and automatically run and analyze files to...

    38 Cuckoo Sandbox alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Android
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  5. Sandboxie icon
     5 likes

    The original Sandboxie Plus (Classic) application, now open source and as Sandboxie-Plus.

    Cost / License

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  6. Bubblewrap icon
     4 likes

    Unprivileged sandboxing tool.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
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  7. PhoneProfilesPlus allows automatically or with one click configuring the device for life situations (at home, at work, in your car, sleep outside…).

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Android
    • F-Droid
    • HUAWEI AppGallery
    • Samsung Apps
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  8. SeekPrivacy icon
     2 likes

    Some apps need or force storage permission : SeekPrivacy hides what they don’t need to see. Even if you grant all-files access, your private files stay invisible, but you can still access them normally.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Android
    • F-Droid
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  9. Tree Sandbox icon
     1 like

    "Tree-shaped" sandbox: multi-layer nesting and branching, like a “tree” composed of multiple sub-containers. A sandbox is composed of multiple layered sub-containers. With this design, “untrusted” procs and “semi-trusted” procs run in different layers of a sandbox;...

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Linux
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  10. runc icon
     Like

    CLI tool for spawning and running containers according to the OCI specification.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Linux
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  11. mbox icon
     3 likes

    Mbox is a lightweight sandboxing mechanism that any user can use without special privileges in commodity operating systems.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
    Good alternative?
     
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