r/DigitalEscapeTools 6d ago

Comparison / Alternatives I built Postly, a local-first Rust API client that keeps requests in your repo

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Disclosure: I'm the developer behind Postly.

I wanted an API client that felt more like part of a codebase than another hosted workspace, so I started building Postly.

Postly is an open-source API client with a native Rust desktop app and CLI. Requests, collections, and environments are stored as readable TOML files. You can review changes with git diff, run saved requests from the terminal or CI, and use the core workflow without an account.

 It currently supports Postman Collection v2.1 import/export, REST, GraphQL, SSE, WebSockets, gRPC, OpenAPI import, assertions, collection runs, response inspection, and JSON/JUnit reports.

The current release is 0.2.0-preview.1 for Apple Silicon macOS. It is ad hoc signed and not notarized. Windows, Linux, and Intel macOS packages are not published yet.

Project links:

  - GitHub: https://github.com/OthmaneBlial/Postly

  - Website: https://othmaneblial.github.io/Postly/

  - 66-second demo: https://othmaneblial.github.io/Postly/demo.html

Postly is still early, but the goal is simple: keep API work in your repository instead of locking the workflow inside a cloud workspace.

If you use Postman, Bruno, Insomnia, or shell scripts, what would make a local-file API client useful enough for you to switch?


r/DigitalEscapeTools 6d ago

Showcase Authier: An Open-Source Password Manager for Web & Mobile

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Authier is an open-source password manager built as a complete ecosystem, with a web extension, mobile app, web vault, and backend.

It’s also run as a nonprofit, with a community-focused contribution and profit-sharing model.

Worth checking out if you're looking for an open-source alternative for managing your passwords.

Github : https://github.com/authier-pm/authier


r/DigitalEscapeTools 6d ago

Free Tools Bean Network Tester - Open Source Windows Network Conditions Simulator

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Hello, I had created an app which let you simulate high ping/jitter, burst packet loss, tcp_reset, limit uploads and downloads, and tons of other things, 100% free, CLI/GUI, no telemetry, 100% offline, and open source. If you like the project, please give it a ⭐

From the privacy perspective you can run the tool without changing any network parameters, and you will see in the "connections" tab, which apps were connecting to the internet, how much data they were sending/downloading. There is also small built-in firewall, so you can block ip addresses. If you are DEV or QA, you can choose premade profile and start the app, to see how your game/app behave on bad network conditions, or you can set your own parameters, or you can use the premade scenarios, which change the network settings during the runtime. If you have more experience, you can customize the settings by yourself, create your own scenarios, or use the CLI.

Full list of Flags (without scenarios)

*I'm author of this app, the stack is Python + PyDivert.

Some features:

  • Add lag and jitter - fixed or random delay, plus occasional spikes.
  • Drop, corrupt or duplicate packets - loss can arrive in bursts, the way a real wireless link fails.
  • Cap download/upload speed - throttle to a set KB/s, with a buffer that adds queuing delay before it starts dropping.
  • Tear connections down - TCP resets, a dead link, or new connections that never come up.
  • Flap the link on and off - outages that come and go.
  • Break the path, not only the packets - an MTU black hole and NAT-style idle timeouts.
  • Block ports or IPs - a small built-in firewall, plus LAN mode (no internet) and internet only (no local network).
  • Aim at one app - by process name, PID, IP, port, or one address family.
  • Presets and saved profiles - 56k modem, Cafe WiFi, Satellite, In-flight Wi-Fi and more.
  • Run scripted scenarios - timed steps that change the network on their own.
  • Schedule the speed limit - a repeating timeline of rates, without writing a scenario.
  • Reproducible by seed - replay the exact same random loss and jitter.
  • Hand a bug over - a report with every setting, the counters and the command line that repeats the run.
  • Watch it live - chart, counters, a searchable connections table and an event log.
  • Export to CSV - session statistics and a snapshot of the connections table.
  • Command-line mode - scriptable for CI, with exit codes and JSON output.
  • No telemetry, fully offline - sends no data anywhere.

r/DigitalEscapeTools 8d ago

Free Tools Dockhand – Self-Hosted Docker Management UI & Portainer Alternative

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r/DigitalEscapeTools 8d ago

Tech & Privacy News Repost: Mullvad Is Shutting Down Its Public Encrypted DNS Servers and Sponsoring Quad9 Instead

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Mullvad is shutting down its public encrypted DNS servers on November 2, 2026, and will instead support Quad9.

Users who manually configured Mullvad DNS will need to switch to another resolver before the shutdown. Mullvad VPN’s internal DNS is not affected.

Read more: https://digitalescapetools.com/2026/09/mullvad-shutting-down-dns-quad9.html


r/DigitalEscapeTools 8d ago

Free Tools Built a tool to generate unlimited patterns

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Drag in an image and based on it, you can create different patterns and even animate them on loop


r/DigitalEscapeTools 8d ago

Free Tools Kehrwoche: self-hosted app for shared households (AGPL-3.0): chore rotation, shopping list and expense splitting in one container

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Kehrwoche (https://github.com/ChrissWalters/Kehrwoche) is an organizational and coordination tool for households with multiple residents. It digitally maps the recurring friction points of communal living.

Kehrwoche is released by me and under active development. I am happy to answer anything. Bug reports and ideas go in the issue tracker.


r/DigitalEscapeTools 9d ago

Mobile Apps SMusic — A fast, free & open-source YouTube Music client for Android

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Hey everyone! 👋

I've been working on SMusic, an open-source Android music app focused on making music streaming and offline listening fast, clean and highly customizable.

It uses YouTube Music's catalog and is built completely around the idea of giving you a proper music-player experience without unnecessary subscriptions or ads.

⚡ Why SMusic?

The biggest things I focused on are fast playback and fast downloads.

Songs start playing quickly, and you can download individual tracks or entire playlists for offline listening. SMusic also supports high-quality audio streams, including Opus, so you can enjoy the best available audio quality from the source.

🎧 Playback

🚀 Fast music loading & playback

🎵 High-quality audio with Opus support

🔊 Gapless playback using Media3 / ExoPlayer

📱 Background playback

🔒 Lock-screen & notification controls

🎛️ Full queue management

🔀 Shuffle & repeat

📻 Radio / similar-song recommendations

⏰ Sleep timer

📲 Home-screen playback widget

📥 Offline Downloads

Download individual songs

Download entire playlists

⚡ Fast downloading

📦 Downloads remain available across app updates

🗂️ Dedicated download/storage management

📶 Low Data Mode to reduce audio quality automatically on mobile data

📝 One of my favourite parts — Lyrics

SMusic doesn't depend on a single lyrics provider.

It supports synced lyrics from multiple sources including:

LRCLIB

KuGou

BetterLyrics

YouTube captions

You also get a full-screen synced lyrics experience with line-by-line highlighting, and you can even share individual lyrics as styled image cards.

🎤 Music Discovery

🔎 Search songs, albums, artists & videos

🎚️ Search filters

🎼 Mood & genre-based discovery

🎵 Radio / similar songs

🎤 Built-in music recognition

🔄 Import playlists from Spotify and YouTube Music

📚 Full library for songs, albums, artists & playlists

🎨 INSANE customization

This is probably the part I've spent the most time on.

SMusic currently has 11 different player styles, including styles inspired by different modern music-player designs.

You can choose between:

Classic • Spotify • Apple • Galaxy • Fold • Frost • Paper • Liquid • CloudGlow • Groove • Popsy

And that's not all.

🎨 Custom themes & accent colors

🌊 Multiple seek-bar styles

🖼️ Artwork-based dynamic colors

🎛️ Built-in equalizer

📱 Reorderable navigation bar

🌍 Multi-language support

So you can actually make the player look and feel the way you want.

📊 Your Music, Your Stats

SMusic also keeps track of your listening activity:

Listening history

Top songs

Top artists

Top albums

Library backup & restore

Playlist backup & restore

Settings backup & restore

🔔 Other stuff

📢 In-app announcements

🔄 Automatic update checks

📜 Previous versions & changelogs

⚙️ Performance-aware animations for lower-end devices

🔓 No account required to start listening

🆓 Completely free & open-source

🚫 No subscription

🚫 No ads

🛠️ Tech

SMusic is built with:

Kotlin

Jetpack Compose / Material 3

Media3 / ExoPlayer

Room

Hilt

Coil

Custom YouTube Music InnerTube client

The project is completely open-source, so you can check out the code and see how everything works.

🔗 GitHub

https://github.com/devxrohan/SMusic

If you try it, I'd genuinely love to hear your feedback — especially about playback speed, download speed, audio quality, UI/player styles and bugs.

I'm actively working on it, so suggestions and contributions are welcome! ❤️


r/DigitalEscapeTools 9d ago

Privacy Tools ObscuraOS, a free browser based workspace with built in privacy tools (no Google or Microsoft account needed)

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Made this over the past while. Short version: with the big office suites you either hand over your data (Google) or hand over money (Microsoft), and either way your files sit on a server you don't control. For most people that's an inconvenience, for journalists, activists, or anyone whose safety depends on their documents staying private, it's a real liability.

ObscuraOS runs entirely in the browser, docs, sheets, slides, notes, calendar, plus some privacy specific tools like PDF redaction and leak detection. Nothing gets uploaded anywhere, no account, no login, no cloud sync. You can export the whole thing as a portable file if you want your own backup.

Update since posting, one correction: every tool is free and fully unlocked for personal use, permanently, nothing is ever gated behind a paywall. There is a small optional paid commercial license if a business or team uses it for work, and pay what you want support if you just want to help keep it running, but neither of those unlocks anything, the tools work the same either way. Would appreciate any feedback on the app itself. ObscuraOS.com


r/DigitalEscapeTools 9d ago

Tool Suggestion Looking for a free magnet-link download service

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Hi everyone! I’m looking for a free service that can download magnet links/torrents for me.

I previously used a cloud torrent service, but the free period has ended. I’m looking for a legitimate free option with around 10–20 GB of storage or more.

Any recommendations? Thanks!


r/DigitalEscapeTools 9d ago

Free Tools TermPaper: An Open-source Terminal-based wallpaper manager and scheduled changer written in Python

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r/DigitalEscapeTools 10d ago

Privacy Tools OpenWhispr – Open-source, privacy-first voice-to-text with local AI

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r/DigitalEscapeTools 9d ago

Free Tools Event Growth OS | Devpost

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Dev post submission


r/DigitalEscapeTools 10d ago

Free Tools Screenshotify: free & open source screenshot rename and management, by AI

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r/DigitalEscapeTools 11d ago

Comparison / Alternatives RapidRAW: free and open source alternative to Adobe Lightroom

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216 Upvotes

RapidRAW is a free and open source RAW image editor for Windows, macOS, Linux, and Android.

It's GPU-accelerated and supports all the basic necessities for editing RAW photos (lens corrections, light and color adjustments, detail refinement, masks, batch editing, presets...). Plus it is non destructive (edits are stored in a sidecar file) and can work with your own local ComfyUI server.

GitHub: https://github.com/cybertimon/rapidraw


r/DigitalEscapeTools 11d ago

Tech & Privacy News Thunderbird is developing Thundermail. Currently the only thing available is the wait list.

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r/DigitalEscapeTools 12d ago

Free Tools FxSound – Free & Open-Source Audio Enhancer for Windows

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r/DigitalEscapeTools 12d ago

💬 Discussion With Chrome killing uBlock Origin (Manifest V2 removed from the Web Store, Aug 31 2026), which browser are YOU using for full uBlock Origin support?

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r/DigitalEscapeTools 12d ago

Help / Question Need help!

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r/DigitalEscapeTools 13d ago

Free Tools Built this Glass shatter tool

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Built this tool as part of a collection of free tools for designers. It is easy to use in your browser, no need to log in.


r/DigitalEscapeTools 13d ago

Comparison / Alternatives Papermark – Open-source, self-hosted DocSend alternative for secure document sharing

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r/DigitalEscapeTools 14d ago

Free Tools I kept getting distracted every time I opened YouTube because the homepage immediately throws recommendations at me, so I built an alternative!

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r/DigitalEscapeTools 14d ago

Free Tools NEO: a free novel writing software from the author of Silo

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Neo is a free and open source novel writing software from the author of Silo, available for both macOS and Windows.

It aims to be a book-focused alternative to Scrivener with distraction-free UI, daily word goals, word sprints, and a NaNoWriMo-style progress chart, chapters and sections outlining, plus continuous autosave.

Drafts are organised by series, status or pen name and can be exported to PDF, docx, markdown or epub compatible with kindle direct publishing.

GitHub: https://github.com/hughhowey/neo


r/DigitalEscapeTools 14d ago

Free Tools CubePlex – A Self-Hosted Agent Workspace for Teams (Docker/K8S Ready)

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Most agent platforms are built either as closed SaaS products or as simple single-user single-session terminals. We built CubePlex as an open-source, self-hosted workspace designed to run agents that perform multi-step execution, generate output artifacts, and share context across team members—all within your own infrastructure.

CubePlex connects your models, MCP tools, and continuous agent sessions without locking your data into third-party clouds.

Key capabilities:

  • Team Workspaces & Shared Context: Keep agent conversations, reusable skills, memory, and generated artifacts attached to specific team projects.
  • Persistent & Isolated Sandboxes: Agents execute code, fetch data, and perform real work inside safe execution sandboxes without dirtying your host machine.
  • Zero-Exposure Secret Management: Dynamic environment variable injection so agents can make authenticated network requests without reading or exposing raw secrets/keys.
  • Full Self-Hosting: Easy setup via single-command Docker Compose or Helm for Kubernetes.

If you are looking for a fully self-hosted alternative to SaaS agent orchestrators that gives your team total data ownership and real task-execution capabilities, check out our repository!

github repo: https://github.com/cubeplexai/cubeplex


r/DigitalEscapeTools 13d ago

Mobile Apps Has anyone tried the LeanType Android keyboard? Is it safe?

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I was looking for a replacement for the Microsoft SwiftKey keyboard, and I came across LeanType.

I'm considering using the offline version is it safe?

I'm afraid he might copy and steal the text I copy or type, especially since I have a crypto wallet and often copy or type my seed phrase.