File Encryption Tools

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  1. 7-Zip icon
     4750 likes

    Efficient file archiver offering superior compression and encryption. Supports multiple formats such as TAR, ZIP, with a unique self-extracting feature.

    • File Archiver
    • FreeOpen Source
    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • PortableApps.com
    • ReactOS
    Main Window
    111 alternatives
    4.6
    Excellent136 reviews
  2. VeraCrypt icon
     540 likes

    Secure and encrypt entire partitions or devices, including system drives, with automated, real-time protection and enhanced security measures.

    Langage
    67 alternatives
    4.6
    Excellent28 reviews
  3. Cryptomator icon
     350 likes

    Cryptomator provides transparent, client-side encryption for your cloud. Protect your documents from unauthorized access. Cryptomator is free and open source software, so you can rest assured there are no backdoors.

    • File Encryption Software
    • FreemiumOpen Source
    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • Flathub
    • F-Droid
    • Homebrew
    • Chocolatey
    Cryptomator screenshot 1
    74 alternatives
    4.2
    Very Good35 reviews
  4. WinRAR icon
     1164 likes

    Compress and encrypt files with versatile software, supporting multiple formats for secure data transfer and offering efficient storage options.

    • File Archiver
    • FreemiumProprietary
    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • BSD
    • ReactOS
    WinRAR screenshot 1
    97 alternatives
    3.6
    Good34 reviews
  5. Glary Utilities icon
     404 likes

    Optimize your Windows PC with powerful tools to fix, speed up, and maintain systems, offering one-click registry cleaning, privacy protection, and disk cleanup.

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    229 alternatives
    4.1
    Very Good20 reviews
  6. Picocrypt icon
     41 likes

    Picocrypt is a very small (hence Pico), very simple, yet very secure encryption tool that you can use to protect your files. It's designed to be the go-to tool for encryption, with a focus on security, simplicity, and reliability.

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    31 alternatives
  7. GnuPG icon
     153 likes

    GnuPG allows to encrypt and sign your data and communication, features a versatile key management system as well as access modules for all kinds of public key directories. GnuPG, also known as GPG, is a command line tool with features for easy integration with other applications.

    GnuPG Shell running GnuPG on Windows
    41 alternatives
  8. Tresorit icon
     113 likes

    End-to-end encrypted file sync and sharing with secure workspace, robust permission management, two-factor authentication, and mobile offline access.

    Access encrypted documents from any device and stay in sync with your team.
    107 alternatives
    3.4
    Fair7 reviews
  9. Bandizip icon
     170 likes

    Bandizip is a powerful archiver which provides an ultrafast processing speed and convenient features. Available free of charge, and its paid editions support a variety of advanced features.

    Main screen
    91 alternatives
    3.5
    Good27 reviews
  10. ZipXtract icon
     14 likes

    ZipXtract is a comprehensive, open-source file extraction utility designed to handle a wide range of compressed file formats, including RAR, ZIP, TAR, BZ2, GZ, 7Z, XZ, JAR, and Z. This versatile application offers users the ability to extract files from both standard and...

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    16 alternatives
  11. DroidFS icon
     25 likes

    DroidFS is an alternative way to use encrypted overlay filesystems on Android that uses its own internal file explorer instead of mounting virtual volumes. It currently only works with gocryptfs but support for CryFS could be added in the future.

    • FreeOpen Source
    • Android
    • F-Droid
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    31 alternatives
  12. Mailvelope icon
     48 likes

    Mailvelope is a browser extension that allows to exchange encrypted emails following the OpenPGP encryption standard.

    • Free PersonalOpen Source
    • Microsoft Edge
    • Google Chrome
    • Mozilla Firefox
    Mailvelope screenshot 1
    13 alternatives
  13. Hat.sh icon
     13 likes

    hat.sh is a javascript app that provides secure file encryption using the AES-256-GCM algorithm from WebCryptoAPI provided by your browser. it was coded following the WebCrypto Documentations .

    • FreeOpen Source
    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Online
    Hat.sh screenshot 1
    54 alternatives
  14. GPGTools icon
     23 likes

    Use GPG Suite to encrypt, decrypt, sign and verify files or messages. Manage your GPG Keychain with a few simple clicks and experience the full power of GPG easier than ever before.

    • FreemiumOpen Source
    • Mac
    • Apple Mail
    • GPG Suite
    GPGTools screenshot 1
    14 alternatives
  15. Yamicsoft Windows managers are powerful software tools to tweak, optimize, maintain and tune up Windows XP,Vista, 7 and 8. They include over thirty different utilities to help your system to be stable, fast, secure and personal!

    Yamicsoft Windows Manager
    94 alternatives
  16. Encrypto icon
     22 likes

    Encrypto lets you encrypt files before sending them to friends or coworkers. Just drop a file into Encrypto, set a password, and then send it however you normally would — but this time with added security. It’s free for both Mac and Windows.

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    93 alternatives
  17. BetterZip icon
     34 likes

    Supports over 30 archive formats, enables archive editing and AES-256 encryption, includes password manager, macOS Finder integration, and file preview.

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    78 alternatives
  18. SiriKali icon
     14 likes

    SiriKali is a Qt/C++ GUI application that manages ecryptfs,cryfs,encfs,gocryptfs and securefs based encrypted folders. These projects are compared here.SiriKali can also connect to ssh servers using sshfs.

    • FreeOpen Source
    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
    SiriKali screenshot 1
    12 alternatives
  19. e2ee cloud icon
     8 likes

    e2ee-cloud is a open source, self-hosted, end-to-end encryption software. You can upload and download files in your browser. All files and folders will be encrypted before upload and decrypted after download.

    e2ee cloud screenshot 1
    71 alternatives