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Criptext

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Finally, an email service that's built around your privacy. Get your @criptext.com email address and see what it's like to have peace of mind and privacy in every email you send.

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  • Free PersonalOpen Source

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  • Mac
  • Windows
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  • Android
  • iPhone
Discontinued

Creator recently sent and email about going solo, but since then support has been unresponsive, as have nearly all new issues on github for a year now if not more...

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  1.  Privacy focused
  2.  Security & Privacy

Features

  1.  Support for Aliases

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Criptext information

  • Developed by

    Criptext
  • Licensing

    Open Source and Free Personal product.
  • Pricing

    One time purchase (perpetual license) that costs $0.
  • Rating

    Average rating of 3.7
  • Alternatives

    26 alternatives listed
  • Supported Languages

    • English
    • French
    • German
    • Russian
    • Spanish

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Office & Productivity

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  •   Updated Aug 17, 2021
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Our users have written 7 comments and reviews about Criptext, and it has gotten 11 likes

Criptext was added to AlternativeTo by serg10 on Aug 10, 2018 and this page was last updated Oct 24, 2022.

Comments and Reviews

   
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Jerry Agbon
  
Top positive commentMar 20, 2020

From using Criptext for the past 6 months now, I've come to consider it one of the best open source, security and privacy minded email application out there. I also use other open source privacy minded email, but criptext is quickly becoming my favorite. Their UX design is well thought through, and this gives it such a solid look and feel. Furthermore that fact that your email is not stored in any 3rd-party server is such a big plus!

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uuu

HI Jerry.

  1. Criptext use AWS meaning AMAZON WEB SERVERS. Tehy do not have own servers. You can check by yourself , I got this information straight from Criptext costumer service. If you send and email to someone and that someone for some reason can not receive the email , your email will stack in Amazon Servers for 30 days before they delete it.
  2. When you send an email from Criptext to another Criptext user , the email is encypted . BUt if you send an email from criptext to NON criptext user , so for example gmail the email NOT encrypted at all and everyone can read your private email. You can check by yourself you will see.
  3. Its not true they are based in Switzerland. Its fake.

Reply written Apr 27, 2020

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jasonbrown1965

@uuu who said they were based in Switzerland? But you're right, their terms and conditions state "The Service is controlled and offered by Company from its facilities in the United States of America."

Reply written May 6, 2021

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jasonbrown1965

Oh dear:

"Mayer Mizrachi has been associated with one company, according to public records. The company was incorporated in Florida seven years ago and is no longer active."

See: https://www.corporationwiki.com/p/2fetkn/mayer-mizrachi for Criptext info

Reply written May 6, 2021

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Aleksander Isaac
  
Top negative commentApr 19, 2022

Can't signup for new user.... Seems it is nearing its lifetime

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jim zhou
  
Positive commentSep 16, 2021

App is great, but signups are suspended for now.

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CommentSep 8, 2021
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Guest
  
Positive commentJul 7, 2021

As a non-techie person who wanted an email provider that was anonymous and private Criptext did it all. E2E. Stored locally. Open source. Free. Custom domains!

My one issue with Criptext is this: running Windows 10, the desktop app crashes if loading more than one email or if I stress the app a little. This is a real deal-breaker for me, but it may work fine on your machine. Criptext is still in beta and I'm hoping they can resolve this error quickly. Until then, I'll have to switch to something like tutanota, or msgsafe.io.

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jayaramkasi
  
Positive commentJan 11, 2021

Been evaluating alternativeTo Gmail. Used protonmail for a bit, but was not totally comfortable, which has opensourced only part of their UI (They are not an opensource product).

Criptext looks promising so far. Been using it for the last 2 months, and migrating all banking/finance apps to this email.

Still using gmail for login to third party apps though.

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choomaque
  
Negative commentNov 15, 2020

buggy

expect errors preventing signing up

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What is Criptext?

Finally, an email service that's built around your privacy. Get your @criptext.com email address and see what it's like to have peace of mind and privacy in every email you send.

Features:

+End-to-end Encryption: Criptext uses the open source Signal Protocol library to encrypt your emails. Your emails are locked with a unique key that‘s generated and stored on your device alone, which means only you and your intended recipient can read the emails you send.

+No data collection: unlike every other email service out there, Criptext doesn't store your emails in its servers. Instead, your entire inbox is stored exclusively on your device.

+Open Source: our source code is open for everyone to see that Criptext actually works the way it's advertised. You don't have to trust us, you can verify for yourself: https://github.com/Criptext

+Easy to use: our app is designed to work as simple as any other email app — so much so, you'll forget how secure it is.

Get Criptext and see how easy it is to email with more security and privacy!

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