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  1. Zen Browser icon
     316 likes

    Privacy-centric, open-source browser with unique UI features like vertical tabs, Split View, and Zen Glance, focusing on security and tranquility.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Arch Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
    • AppImage
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    +8
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    108 alternatives
    4.5
    Excellent63 reviews
  2. DuckDuckGo icon
     1578 likes

    Privacy-focused search engine offering Zero-click Info, instant answers, and more, built from open-source software for a user-friendly experience.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • Microsoft Edge
    • Vivaldi
    • Google Chrome
    • Safari
    • F-Droid
    • Yandex Browser
    • Tor
    • Opera
    • Mozilla Firefox
    DuckDuckGo Homepage
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    +16
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    114 alternatives
    4.0
    Very Good86 reviews
  3. Helium Browser icon
     89 likes

    Chromium-based browser with preinstalled open-source blockers, default anti-tracking features, no data collection, full extension support, and a minimal interface.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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    67 alternatives
  4. Mullvad Browser icon
     155 likes

    The Mullvad Browser is a privacy-focused web browser developed in a collaboration between Mullvad VPN and the Tor Project. It’s designed to minimize tracking and fingerprinting. You could say it’s a Tor Browser to use without the Tor Network.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
    • Mozilla Firefox
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    106 alternatives
    4.7
    Excellent29 reviews
  5. Waterfox icon
     438 likes

    Waterfox is an open-source, privacy-focused browser based on the popular open source browser with a red panda as a mascot. It is designed to be a drop-in replacement for said browser that offers enhanced privacy features, performance improvements, and customizability while...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • Android Tablet
    • Flathub
    Desktop
    Mobile
    93 alternatives
    3.8
    Good41 reviews
  6. Floorp icon
     135 likes

    Open-source web browser built on Firefox, prioritizing privacy and anonymity while offering a Chromium-like interface, user customization, and robust tracking protection.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Snapcraft
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
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    Vertical tabs
    145 alternatives
    4.7
    Excellent40 reviews
  7. Adblock Plus icon
     1748 likes

    Adblock Plus is a free extension that allows you to - among other things - block annoying ads, disable tracking and block domains known to spread malware.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • iPhone
    • Chrome OS
    • iPad
    • Microsoft Edge
    • Internet Explorer
    • Vivaldi
    • Google Chrome
    • Safari
    • Yandex Browser
    • Opera
    • Mozilla Firefox
    Adding a filter
    List of blockable items
    Blocking an image ad
    +3
    Adding a filter subscription
    122 alternatives
    2.7
    Poor26 reviews
  8. SponsorBlock icon
     136 likes

    SponsorBlock is a browser extension and open API via crowdsource for skipping sponsor segments in YouTube videos. It's open-source. Users submit when a sponsor happens from the extension, and the extension automatically skips sponsors it knows about using a privacy...

    Cost / License

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Microsoft Edge
    • Google Chrome
    • Safari
    • Opera
    • Mozilla Firefox
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    77 alternatives
    4.9
    Excellent21 reviews
  9. IronFox icon
     57 likes

    IronFox is a fork of DivestOS's Mull Browser based on Firefox. Our goal is to continue the legacy of Mull to provide a secure, hardened and privacy-oriented browser for daily use.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Android
    • Android Tablet
    • F-Droid
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    79 alternatives
    4.4
    Very Good10 reviews
  10. Privacy Badger icon
     323 likes

    Privacy Badger is a free browser extension made by the leading digital rights nonprofit EFF to stop companies from spying on you online.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Microsoft Edge
    • Google Chrome
    • Opera
    • Mozilla Firefox
    • Brave
    Overview of Privacy Badger extension
    67 alternatives
    4.7
    Excellent17 reviews
  11. SingleFile icon
     119 likes

    Browser extension enabling one-click saving of full web pages with images, styles, and fonts as a single HTML file for offline access, annotation, and batch saving.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Microsoft Edge
    • Google Chrome
    • Safari
    • Mozilla Firefox
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    30 alternatives
    4.7
    Excellent11 reviews
  12. NoScript icon
     366 likes

    The NoScript Firefox extension provides extra protection for Firefox, Seamonkey and other mozilla-based browsers: this free, open source add-on allows JavaScript, Java, Flash and other plugins to be executed only by trusted web sites of your choice (e.g. your online bank).

    Cost / License

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Google Chrome
    • SeaMonkey
    • Mozilla Firefox
    Diablog of blocked scripts
    NoScript Anwhere (Firefox Mobile version).
    23 alternatives
    4.1
    Very Good12 reviews
  13. Cromite icon
     80 likes

    Cromite is a Chromium fork based on Bromite with privacy-focused features, built-in ad-blocking, user agent switching, and DNS modification to improve security.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • Android Tablet
    • F-Droid
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    settings page
    46 alternatives
  14. LanguageTool icon
     184 likes

    An AI-powered proofreading tool supports over 20 languages, offering free and premium versions with extensive grammar checks across multiple apps.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • iPhone
    • iPad
    • Microsoft Edge
    • ONLYOFFICE
    • Google Chrome
    • Microsoft Outlook
    • Safari
    • Visual Studio Code
    • Microsoft Word
    • Eclipse
    • TinyMCE
    • Google Docs
    • Thunderbird
    • Vim
    • Cloudron
    • Sublime Text
    • GNU Emacs
    • Opera
    • Gmail
    • LibreOffice
    • Apache OpenOffice
    • Mozilla Firefox
    • LibreOffice - Writer
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    103 alternatives
    3.7
    Good22 reviews
  15. Floccus icon
     111 likes

    Sync your bookmarks privately across browsers and devices.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Android
    • iPhone
    • iPad
    • Self-Hosted
    • Microsoft Edge
    • Vivaldi
    • Google Chrome
    • Nextcloud
    • Google Drive
    • F-Droid
    • Brave
    • Chromium
    • Mozilla Firefox
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    +11
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    62 alternatives
    4.8
    Excellent17 reviews
  16. HTTrack icon
     343 likes

    Free software that downloads entire sites to local storage for offline use, maintaining the original link structure for seamless browsing.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
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    34 alternatives
    4.1
    Very Good12 reviews
  17. Firefox Focus icon
     115 likes

    Firefox Focus is the Mozilla-made browser that considers your privacy first and foremost. By default, it blocks ad-trackers and it helps keep things secure by providing easy ways to clear your browsing history, including passwords and cookies.

    Cost / License

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • Samsung Galaxy Store
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    +4
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    127 alternatives
    3.7
    Good10 reviews
  18. SeaMonkey icon
     245 likes

    Web-browser, advanced e-mail, newsgroup and feed client, IRC chat, and HTML editing in one application. Itis built on the open source Mozilla Gecko engine, the same code which underlies Thunderbird and is the base for the Firefox browser.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • PortableApps.com
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    +3
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    187 alternatives
    4.0
    Very Good16 reviews
  19. Falkon icon
     172 likes

    Falkon, formerly QupZilla, is a QtWebEngine based cross-platform web browser.

    It aims to be a lightweight web browser available through all major platforms.

    Falkon has all standard functions you expect from a web browser. It includes bookmarks, history (both also in sidebar).

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • KDE Plasma
    • Flathub
    • Haiku
    • Snapcraft
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    193 alternatives
    4.1
    Very Good16 reviews
  20. Arc Browser icon
     60 likes

    Experience a calmer, more personal internet in this browser designed for you. Let go of the clicks, the clutter, the distractions.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Android
    • iPhone
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    33 alternatives
    2.8
    Poor29 reviews
  21. Orion Browser icon
     49 likes

    WebKit-based privacy browser supporting Firefox and Chrome extensions, zero telemetry, built-in ad-blocker, anti-tracking, fast performance, and native integration.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • iPhone
    • iPad
    • Linux
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    +8
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    87 alternatives
    4.5
    Excellent11 reviews
  22. GNU IceCat icon
     128 likes

    Gnuzilla is the GNU version of the Mozilla suite, and GNU IceCat is the GNU version of the Mozilla Firefox browser. Its main advantage is an ethical one: it is entirely free software.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Android
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    177 alternatives