Open Source Sandboxie Plus Alternatives

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

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Sandboxie Plus alternatives are mainly Virtualization Tools, but if you're looking for Anti-Malware Apps you can filter on that. Other popular filters include Android, Mac, Windows and Linux. These are just examples - use the filter bar below to find more specific alternatives to Sandboxie Plus.
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  1. Firejail icon
     38 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.

    21 Firejail alternatives

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    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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    Firejail vs Sandboxie Plus Comments
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    Easy to use, and has a very good, but really ugly GUI.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    • Firejail is Free and Open SourceSandboxie Plus is Freemium and Open Source
  2. Shelter icon
     64 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.

    14 Shelter alternatives

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Android
    • Android Tablet
    • F-Droid
     
  3. 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...

    32 Cuckoo Sandbox alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Android
     
  4. Island icon
     20 likes

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

    20 Island alternatives

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    Platforms

    • Android
     
  5. Sandboxie icon
     5 likes

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

    Cost / License

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  6. Bubblewrap icon
     3 likes

    Unprivileged sandboxing tool.

    18 Bubblewrap alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

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

    11 PhoneProfilesPlus alternatives

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Android
    • F-Droid
    • HUAWEI AppGallery
    • Samsung Apps
     
  8. SeekPrivacy icon
     1 like

    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

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Android
    • F-Droid
     
  9. runc icon
     Like

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

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  10. mbox icon
     3 likes

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

    13 mbox alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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