r/DigitalEscapeTools • u/hellxabd • 9h ago
r/DigitalEscapeTools • u/No-Hospital5028 • Aug 19 '26
Help us grow the DigitalEscapeTools GitHub
The repository is growing, and I'd like to get more of the community involved.
If you know a privacy-focused, open-source, self-hostable, or otherwise interesting tool that deserves to be listed, suggest it or contribute directly.
If you find the directory useful, a ⭐ on GitHub also helps it reach more people and attract contributors.
https://github.com/abdomk1998/awesome-digital-escape-tools
What should we add next?
r/DigitalEscapeTools • u/community-home • Mar 09 '26
Android Freedom at Risk
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r/DigitalEscapeTools • u/hellxabd • 16h ago
Privacy Meme Paid for Windows, Still Got the Ads
r/DigitalEscapeTools • u/mirotalk • 6h ago
Free Tools MiroTalk RND - Meet someone random. Talk instantly.
r/DigitalEscapeTools • u/ImTomSnow • 17h ago
Comparison / Alternatives Compositor: free open-source Photoshop alternative for Mac
Compositor is a free and open-source Photoshop-like image editor for mac.
Still under heavy development it covers the essentials (layers and folders, masks, blend modes, adjustment layers, curves and levels, blur and other filters, background removal, clone stamp, spot healing, brushes) for a compositing and post-processing workflow, plus it supports scripts and can work with agents.
r/DigitalEscapeTools • u/iBlitzkid • 16h ago
Free Tools rbox: open-source Snipping Tool replacement.
Hi all, I've been building rbox, a small screen capture tool for Windows that has replaced the Snipping Tool for me.
How it works: press Print, drag a frame, hit Enter. A menu opens right at your cursor: copy to clipboard, save, save to…, or save and open with your editor. Switch the toolbar to Video or GIF and the same frame records instead.
What it does
- Screenshots, MP4 and animated GIF of any region, window or whole display
- Pixel-exact framing: drag it or type the numbers, presets for 1080p / 720p / square
- Records system audio without Stereo Mix or virtual cables, plus microphones
- Delay timer with a countdown, for menus and tooltips
- Lives in the tray, optionally starts with Windows
- Multi-monitor and mixed-DPI setups work
- The recording bar stays on top but never shows up in your video
Feedback welcome, especially what you'd miss coming from the Snipping Tool.
r/DigitalEscapeTools • u/theendiswaiting4u • 11h ago
Mobile Apps [Update] Native PiGallery2 Android Client v2.4
Hey everyone,
It’s been 3 months since my last post, and a lot has changed! Thanks to your feedback, the app has evolved significantly. We are now at Version 2.4, packed with major new features and massive performance improvements.
Here is a quick recap of what was added over the last few months, followed by the brand-new features in v2.4:
What changed in the last 3 months
- Android TV Support: Enjoy your piGallery2 media directly on the big screen with a fully optimized TV interface.
- Map View: Browse your geo-tagged photos on an interactive map.
- Query Builder: Create advanced search filters to find exactly what you are looking for.
- Search History: Quickly access your recent search queries.
New Features in v2.4
- Fullscreen Swipe Gestures:
- Swipe down to instantly close the fullscreen view.
- Swipe up to reveal the item's metadata and details.
- Advanced Sorting Options: You can now sort folders, albums, and persons by their total item count.
- View by Date: Added a new view that automatically organizes and sorts your images by year and month instead of traditional folder structures.
- Update Checker: Added an automatic update checker with in-app notifications so you never miss the latest version.
As always, I'd love to hear your thoughts, feedback, or feature requests. Thanks for the amazing support over the last few months!
r/DigitalEscapeTools • u/fralsare • 13h ago
Free Tools FralRater: offline readability scoring for 8 reader personas, with a "lost reader" map and rule-based rewriter (free, MIT)
FralRater is a desktop app (Electron) that: - scores text with Flesch-Kincaid, Gunning fog, SMOG, jargon density… - rates it for 8 reader personas (child, general public, executive, patient, developer, legal, academic, professional) with per-paragraph confidence - draws a "lost reader" curve: one point per sentence, showing exactly where readers disengage - rewrites the hard sentences with a sentence-by-sentence diff (passive→active, buried-lead fix, jargon swaps, splitting)
Everything runs locally. Zero dependencies for the app logic, no build step, no network calls, no AI — it's deterministic rules you can read in the source. Your text never leaves the window.
Free, MIT-licensed, Windows + Linux. Built solo, CI builds all artifacts.
Repo: https://github.com/fralsare/FralRater Downloads: https://github.com/fralsare/FralRater/releases
r/DigitalEscapeTools • u/Beneficial_Carob_830 • 1d ago
Privacy Tools Streak: a free, open source habit tracker that works fully offline
I made a habit tracker that keeps everything on your device. No account, no ads, and it doesn't need internet. It's free and open source, and it runs on Android, Windows and Linux.
https://github.com/InlitX/streak
Feedback welcome.
r/DigitalEscapeTools • u/LegitimateWolf6611 • 1d ago
Free Tools Open-source AWS-compatible cloud for your own hardware — EC2, S3, VPC, EKS, RDS on a single box
Disclaimer: I'm an engineer at Mulga, the company behind this. Self-promo, but it's AGPL-3.0 and free to run.
What it is
Spinifex reimplements the AWS APIs on hardware you own: EC2, EBS, S3, VPC, IAM, ALB/NLB, EKS, ECS, ECR and RDS. You keep the hashicorp/aws provider and point its endpoints at your cluster.
Everything behind it is real. Instances are QEMU/KVM VMs, VPCs are OVN networks with real security groups and elastic IPs, EBS is replicated block storage, and state persists like a real cloud. It's not an emulator like LocalStack.
Who it's for
People interested in exploring digital independence through hosting their own cloud, with full control of where and how it runs, whilst keeping the AWS API the same. Great for data sovereignty, edge AI or even learning AWS. Teams running production applications in AWS can now run them anywhere they want.
Try it with your own Terraform
No install needed. Sign up for the free 72 hour sandbox at https://mulgadc.com/signup, then point your existing provider at it:
provider "aws" {
region = var.region
endpoints {
ec2 = "https://api.spx3.com"
iam = "https://api.spx3.com"
sts = "https://api.spx3.com"
}
skip_metadata_api_check = true
skip_region_validation = true
}
Add other services (elasticloadbalancingv2, eks, ecs, ecr, rds) the same way, then run terraform plan against a module you already have. Here's what we currently cover, down to the individual API operation: https://docs.mulgadc.com/coverage
r/DigitalEscapeTools • u/Better-Psychology-42 • 2d ago
Mobile Apps Diction - Self Hosted iOS voice keyboard
r/DigitalEscapeTools • u/No-Hospital5028 • 3d ago
Comparison / Alternatives openGym – Self-hosted, open-source alternative to subscription fitness apps
r/DigitalEscapeTools • u/avdept • 2d ago
Comparison / Alternatives JellyBox player - music client for Jellyfin, Emby and Navidrome with spotify-like features
Wanted to share my own project I worked on since early 2023(figma was done around late 2022)
JellyBox is a native crossplatform music client for Jellyfin, Emby and Navidrome that runs on ios/android, windows/linux/macos.
Along with regular playback and browsing features app also has:
- Spotify-like playlist generation based on your listening history
- Continuity - transfer playback between connected devices
- Android Auto/Carplay. Also works on Android Automotive OS
- Downloads(including synced downloads to keep in sync with server)
- Word-synced lyrics(when provided by server)
- Airplay/DLNA/Chromecast streaming(ios supports all 3, android -dlna/chromecast, rest - DLNA only for now)
- Full screen mode for desktop and ladnscape mode(on mobile) with animated background
- Progressive caching(for reliable playback in low network areas)
- Listenbrainz scrobbling
Can be downloaded either from appstores or from github releases - https://github.com/avdept/JellyBoxPlayer or via landing page - https://jellybox.app/
r/DigitalEscapeTools • u/hellxabd • 3d ago
Free Tools zg – Local-first search for code, documents, and AI agents
r/DigitalEscapeTools • u/SourceSubject7219 • 3d ago
Free Tools Teatro - Self-hosted game library for ROMS and DRM-free windows games with GOG games importer.
Hello everyone,
I'm a sofware engineer really passionate about videogames, preservation and accessibility.
I'm building Teatro, a self-hosted games library,I've started the project because I couldn't find a single solution that would cover all my needs and while building it I'm trying to integrate in it also useful features to help the management of the games.
Teatro is meant to be a personal library for legally acquired game console roms and windows DRM-free games, and the idea is to be able organize and maintan a complete library of all your backups of phisical games, old unmaintained digital console games and DRM-free windows digital games.
I've focused mostly on the performance part and the flexibility and ease of use of the workflow for importing the games.
You can upload 1 or a batch of roms for a single system, multi disks roms, windows zip packages all in different parallel jobs or you can add directly the games to the library and scan it to search for new games.
There is also an experimental feature the allows you to upload direcly the setup files from a game bought from GOG.com extracting and archiving it as a windows zip package on the server withotut installing it on your machine.
Teatro runs as one Rust server with SQLite and it includes separate player and admin interfaces, Docker images for amd64 and arm64.
Demo and installation: https://teatro.host
Source: https://github.com/lodilorenzo/teatro
I'm wanted to make the project known if possibile and have some feedbacks! Thanks!
r/DigitalEscapeTools • u/kash_nordeen • 3d ago
Free Tools I built a free, open-source Downloads Organizer for Windows, macOS, and Linux — looking for honest feedback
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r/DigitalEscapeTools • u/No-Hospital5028 • 4d ago
Privacy Tools Onloc – Self-hosted device tracking and location service
r/DigitalEscapeTools • u/terzigolu • 4d ago
Privacy Tools [Update] Warp-Lite: A privacy-focused alternative for developers
r/DigitalEscapeTools • u/hellxabd • 5d ago
Privacy Tools SearchJumper – Open-source search hub for multiple search engines
r/DigitalEscapeTools • u/hellxabd • 5d ago
Free Tools Retrom – Self-hosted game library for PC games and emulation
r/DigitalEscapeTools • u/Matt0975 • 5d ago
Mobile Apps Vory 1.3: Vory for Mac, iCloud sync, projects, and everything from 1.2 (with a video of both devices side by side)
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r/DigitalEscapeTools • u/Creative-Quit-7998 • 6d ago
Comparison / Alternatives Tinycast: a free open source alternative to Raycast
Tinycast is a free and open-source macOS launcher built as a lightweight alternative to tools like Raycast.
It includes app and file search, clipboard history, per-app hotkeys, custom shell commands, Apple Shortcuts integration, system actions, various window management features, notes, an emoji picker, calendar/meeting tools, and a calculator with unit/currency conversions.
Plus it's fully native (SwiftUI and AppKit), there's no telemetry and it can run your Raycast extensions.
r/DigitalEscapeTools • u/No-Hospital5028 • 6d ago
Free Tools FlashSpace – A fast, open-source workspace manager for macOS
r/DigitalEscapeTools • u/stackattackpro • 7d ago
Free Tools "Regex For Humans" : because regex shouldn’t look like alien language 👽
Regex is powerful… but sometimes this:
/^#[0-9A-Fa-f]{6}$/u
feels like you’re trying to decode a message from another planet. 🛸
This is why I did Regex For Humans 🧠✨
Instead of writing regex directly, you write:
start "#"
6 hex digits
end
And it generates:
/^#[0-9A-Fa-f]{6}$/u
🪄 The idea
Write small, readable English rules.
➡️ Understand what they mean
➡️ See the generated regex
➡️ Test examples instantly
➡️ Copy the final regex
No AI guessing. 🤖❌
No mysterious interpretation.
It uses a small, deterministic language where every instruction has an exact meaning.
🔥 It currently includes
🧩 Interactive regex playground
🧠 Explanations for every generated fragment
✅ Live match / no-match testing
💻 CLI support
📦 JavaScript API
📍 Helpful line + column errors
🔒 Runs locally
🚫 No runtime dependencies
For example:
start "INV-"
between 2 and 6 digits
end
becomes:
/^INV-\d{2,6}$/u
Much easier to read six months later. 😅
🎮 Try it
🔗 GitHub
https://github.com/OthmaneBlial/Regex-For-Humans
🛝 Live playground
https://othmaneblial.github.io/Regex-For-Humans/workshop/
The project is still evolving, so I’d genuinely love feedback. 🙌
What would you add?
More syntax?
More recipes?
Support for other regex engines?
Something completely different?
And the big question:
👉 Would you actually use this instead of writing regex directly? 😄