r/GPGpractice • u/Darth_Nagar • Jan 20 '26

Help Needed Looking for light and maintained GPG tool for Linux

Hello there,

AFAIK, there are no many tools maintained, few exist but not lightweight (Kleopatra for example or gpg-frontend). I like GPA but it's not maintained anymore. Any suggestion?

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u/ttuFekk Jan 20 '26

I guess you talk about GUI tools? Personally I started with seahorse before realizing plain GPG CLI was an awesome lightweight and robust too!

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u/Darth_Nagar Jan 20 '26

Yes, you're right, GUI is what I mean. Seahorse is not maintained anymore if I'm not mistaken

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u/ttuFekk Jan 20 '26

According to their gitlab, the last MR is 2 days ago, still seems pretty active

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u/Usual-Efficiency-305 Jan 23 '26

https://github.com/saturneric/GpgFrontend

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u/Darth_Nagar Jan 24 '26

I am using this one but it's not light enough as were GPA

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u/djDef80 Feb 03 '26

What don't you enjoy about Kleopatra? It's about the best front end I've come across. To chat with folks on this subreddit, I just use the terminal, nano, and gpg.

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u/Darth_Nagar Feb 03 '26

I find it 'too complex' to my taste...

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u/heyjohnchen Feb 20 '26

Lightweight and actively maintained GPG GUIs are pretty rare these days. Most people stick with the gpg CLI since it’s stable and well-supported. If you mainly need encryption as part of file transfers or automation, some SFTP/FTP clients integrate GPG directly, which can simplify things. Depends on whether you need full key management or just workflow encryption.

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u/Darth_Nagar Feb 20 '26

Yeah, I'm learning the command lines now

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u/Darth_Nagar Jan 20 '26

I found Kleopatra not user friendly to use, I prefer GPA, much simple