File Encryption Tools

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  1. 7-Zip icon
     4759 likes

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

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • PortableApps.com
    • ReactOS
    Main Window
    Add to Archive
    Options
    111 alternatives
    4.6
    Excellent136 reviews
  2. VeraCrypt icon
     541 likes

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • PortableApps.com
    • Homebrew
    • Chocolatey
    Langage
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    Encrypted volume wizard. Step 1.
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    67 alternatives
    4.6
    Excellent28 reviews
  3. Cryptomator icon
     353 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.

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • Flathub
    • F-Droid
    • Homebrew
    • Chocolatey
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    74 alternatives
    4.2
    Very Good36 reviews
  4. WinRAR icon
     1166 likes

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

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • BSD
    • ReactOS
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    97 alternatives
    3.6
    Good34 reviews
  5. Glary Utilities icon
     405 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.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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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.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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    30 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.

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    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • PortableApps.com
    • Xfce
    • OpenPGP
    GnuPG Shell running GnuPG on Windows
    41 alternatives
  8. Tresorit icon
     114 likes

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

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    Access encrypted documents from any device and stay in sync with your team.
    Securely share anything within the company, or with clients and contractors.
    Replace attachments with encrypted links. Send files even directly from Outlook with download limit, expiry data and password protection.
    +5
    Keep track of changes and stay safe and productive. Users can roll back to any previous version of a document.
    107 alternatives
    3.4
    Fair7 reviews
  9. Bandizip icon
     171 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.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    Main screen
    Settings
    Create an archive
    +9
    Archiving
    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...

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Android
    • F-Droid
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    16 alternatives
  11. DroidFS icon
     26 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.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Android
    • F-Droid
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    32 alternatives
  12. Axcrypt icon
     92 likes

    Provides strong file encryption with AES-256 for premium users and AES-128 in free version, secure file sharing, password management, and cloud integration.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • iPad
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    98 alternatives
  13. Mailvelope icon
     48 likes

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

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Microsoft Edge
    • Google Chrome
    • Mozilla Firefox
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    13 alternatives
  14. AES Crypt icon
     61 likes

    Encryption software using AES for secure file protection, compatible with Windows, macOS, and Linux, employing strong 256-bit encryption.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
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    86 alternatives
  15. BitLocker Drive Encryption is a data protection feature that integrates with the operating system and addresses the threats of data theft or exposure from lost, stolen, or inappropriately decommissioned computers.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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    95 alternatives
  16. 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 .

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Online
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    54 alternatives
  17. 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.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Apple Mail
    • GPG Suite
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    14 alternatives
  18. 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!

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    Yamicsoft Windows Manager
    94 alternatives
  19. 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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
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    94 alternatives
  20. 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.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
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    78 alternatives
  21. 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.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
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    12 alternatives
  22. 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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
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    71 alternatives