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 nine of them is open source so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source alternatives to Sandboxie Plus are Firejail, 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. Shelter icon
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    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.

    13 Shelter alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Android
    • Android Tablet
    • F-Droid
     
    • Shelter is the most popular Android & Android Tablet alternative to Sandboxie Plus.

    • Shelter is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Sandboxie Plus.

    • Shelter is Free and Open SourceSandboxie Plus is Freemium and Open Source
  2. Firejail icon
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    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.

    20 Firejail alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

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

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • Most users think Firejail is a great Sandboxie Plus alternative.

    • Firejail is the most popular Linux alternative to Sandboxie Plus.

    • Firejail is Free and Open SourceSandboxie Plus is Freemium and Open Source
  3. Cuckoo Sandbox icon
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    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
     
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    • Some users think Cuckoo Sandbox is a great Sandboxie Plus alternative, some don't.

    • Cuckoo Sandbox is the most popular Web-based & Mac alternative to Sandboxie Plus.

    • Cuckoo Sandbox is Free and Open SourceSandboxie Plus is Freemium and Open Source
  4. Island icon
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    Sandbox environment to clone selected apps and isolate them from accessing your personal data.

    19 Island alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

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

    11 Sandboxie alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  6. Bubblewrap icon
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    Unprivileged sandboxing tool.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

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

    10 PhoneProfilesPlus alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Android
    • F-Droid
    • HUAWEI AppGallery
    • Samsung Apps
     
  8. runc icon
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    CLI tool for spawning and running containers according to the OCI specification.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  9. mbox icon
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    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
     
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