Privacy, security & networking
Firewalls, network monitors, encryption and password tools. Read the caveats here more carefully than anywhere else.
Category: Privacy
- Design, graphics & illustration15
- Developer & terminal tools15
- Documents, PDF & office13
- Email, calendar & tasks15
- Files, disk & backup14
- Launchers, clipboard & automation12
- Menu bar & system utilities12
- Privacy, security & networking13
- Screenshots, recording & annotation15
- Video, audio & media14
- Window management & desktop control14
- Writing, notes & markdown14
Licence
- PerpetualUpdates included, forever35
- This versionThe next major is a new purchase47
- Paid upgradesMajor versions cost again25
- Lifetime tierA one-time plan of a subscription app14
- FreewareNothing to buy9
- Open sourceNothing to buy; source published36
Each mark reads left to right: this major version, the next, the one after. Filled is included, half is a paid upgrade, hollow is bought again.
Price
11 apps priced in £ or € sit outside these bands, because we don’t convert currencies.
 1Blocker1Blocker LLC | $39.99Lifetime tier | Lifetime lasts as long as the company keeps shipping blocklist updates |
 CharlesXK72 Ltd (Karl von Randow) | $50Paid upgrades | The next major version costs 40% of what you paid; your licence stops before it |
 CryptomatorSkymatic GmbH | FreeOpen source | Free on the desktop only — the iOS app is a separate €29.99 purchase |
 EnpassEnpass Technologies Private Limited | $99.99Lifetime tier | The lifetime tier is only reliably buyable as an App Store in-app purchase |
 KeePassXCKeePassXC Team | FreeOpen source | No sync of its own, and the iOS app is a separate paid purchase from someone else |
 Little SnitchObjective Development Software GmbH | €59This version | Major versions are a paid upgrade unless your licence was bought after 1 January 2024 |
 LuLuObjective-See Foundation | FreeOpen source | No commercial support, and rule handling is rougher than the paid alternatives |
 Micro SnitchObjective Development Software GmbH | $3.99Perpetual | It reports that the mic or camera turned on — it cannot block anything |
 Radio SilenceRadio Silence | $9Perpetual | No upgrade policy is stated, so treat the $9 as buying the version shipping today |
 SecretsOuter Corner, Unipessoal LDA | $59.99Paid upgrades | Editing and Sharing unlock separately; both together is $79.99, not $59.99 |
 StrongboxPhoebe Code Limited | $124.99Lifetime tier | Lifetime costs five years of the yearly plan before it starts paying off |
 VeraCryptIDRIX / VeraCrypt project | FreeOpen source | Needs macFUSE, a system extension that can lag weeks behind a new macOS release |
 Wipr 2Kaylee Calderolla | $4.99Perpetual | Blocking outside Safari needs the separate, recurring Filtr subscription |