Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Online



Shred is described as 'Command on Unix-like operating systems that can be used to securely delete files and devices so that it is extremely difficult to recover them, even with specialized hardware and technology; assuming recovery is possible at all, which is not always the case' and is an app in the security & privacy category. There are 2 alternatives to Shred for Linux and Web-based. The best Shred alternative is ichini!. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try wipe.



Command-line tool for securely erasing files from magnetic media with multiple overwrites, open source under GPL, supports Linux, BSD, Solaris, and more, no graphical interface, precompiled for many distributions, for secure data removal.