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.
+4
Open Source Sandboxie Plus Alternatives
The best open source alternative to Sandboxie Plus is Firejail. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 10 alternatives to Sandboxie Plus and 11 is open source so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source alternatives to Sandboxie Plus are Shelter, Cuckoo Sandbox, Island and Sandboxie.
Alternatives list
21 Firejail alternatives
14 Shelter alternativesShelter 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.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (GPL-3.0)
Platforms
- Android
- Android Tablet
- F-Droid
35 Cuckoo Sandbox alternativesCuckoo 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...
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application type
Alerts
- Discontinued
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Online
- Android
21 Island alternativesSandbox environment to clone selected apps and isolate them from accessing your personal data.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (Apache-2.0)
Platforms
- Android
12 Sandboxie alternativesThe original Sandboxie Plus (Classic) application, now open source and as Sandboxie-Plus.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Linux
PhoneProfilesPlus allows automatically or with one click configuring the device for life situations (at home, at work, in your car, sleep outside…).
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (Apache-2.0)
Platforms
- Android
- F-Droid
- HUAWEI AppGallery
- Samsung Apps
+4
Some apps need or force storage permission : SeekPrivacy hides what they don’t need to see. Even if you grant all-files access, your private files stay invisible, but you can still access them normally.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (MIT)
Platforms
- Android
- F-Droid
+3
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (Apache-2.0)
Platforms
- Linux
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
"Tree-shaped" sandbox: multi-layer nesting and branching, like a “tree” composed of multiple sub-containers. A sandbox is composed of multiple layered sub-containers. With this design, “untrusted” procs and “semi-trusted” procs run in different layers of a sandbox;...
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (GPL-3.0)
Platforms
- Linux
China
Italy
EU
United Kingdom
Slovakia
Easy to use, and has a very good, but really ugly GUI.