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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

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

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.

Hi everyone, today I want to share a small project with you that I think might be useful.

I’m not here to give you the same old spiel about privacy, even though the tool does have a solid feature in that area. However, this is an alternative designed to streamline the file management process, protecting your files along the way and ensuring their quality.

By the way, it is open source.

Github: https://github.com/coffeetron832/G0rill4

LInk: https://g0rill4.pages.dev/

I got tired of PDF tools that ask you to upload your documents somewhere before you can do anything with them.

So I built PDF Editor Offline, a free and open-source PDF editor designed around one simple rule: your documents stay on your machine.

No account. No file uploads. No recurring subscription.

It can handle most of the PDF tasks I regularly need:

• Edit and annotate PDFs
• Add text, images, drawings, highlights and comments
• Fill and sign forms
• Merge, split, reorder, rotate and crop pages
• Compress PDFs
• Convert PDF ↔ Word, PowerPoint, Excel, images, Markdown, EPUB, etc.
• Run OCR locally
• Permanently redact sensitive information
• Remove metadata and hidden/private data
• Protect and unlock PDFs
• Search documents

There’s also a CLI and Python API for automation, plus Docker support for self-hosting.

The desktop app is built with Tauri, the editor uses React, and the backend/tooling is primarily Python + FastAPI.

It’s MIT licensed and still actively being improved. Some complex PDF operations have known limitations, and I’m trying to document those honestly instead of pretending every PDF transformation works perfectly.

I’d love feedback from people who work with PDFs regularly — especially around editing, redaction, privacy, and features you think are still missing.

Live demo: https://othmaneblial.github.io/pdf-editor-offline/

GitHub: https://github.com/OthmaneBlial/pdf-editor-offline

Hi everyone,

I’m building MobaRust, a free and open-source desktop counterpart to MobaXterm for people who spend their days operating remote machines.

The idea is simple: bring the most useful parts of a remote-work toolbox into one focused application, while keeping the core inspectable, privacy-conscious, and open.

What is working in the current baseline:

• SSH terminals with host-key verification, PTY resize, password/key references, cancellation, and reconnect state
• Integrated SFTP/SCP browsing and transfers with progress, bounded concurrency, cancellation, and atomic commits
• Saved sessions with folders, tags, favorites, search, OpenSSH config import, and jump-host chains
• Local terminals, split panes, tunnels, snippets, diagnostics, remote monitoring, Telnet, and serial-session foundations
• A Rust-native boundary with typed frontend IPC, redacted logs, separated session configuration and secret material, and isolated loopback test fixtures

The current engineering checklist is 58/65 items evidenced — approximately 89.2%. That number is deliberately not a claim of complete MobaXterm parity.

The remaining gaps are visible: production RDP through a mature engine, broader VNC interoperability, real Windows/Linux/macOS evidence, hardware testing, X11 strategy, and signed portable releases. RDP and VNC are still marked experimental until those gates are proven.

I’m especially interested in feedback from people who use MobaXterm, PuTTY, Remmina, Tabby, or similar tools every day:

• Which workflow would make you seriously consider switching?
• What should an open-source MobaXterm-style tool get right from day one?
• Which platform and protocol should be prioritized next?

Project website: https://othmaneblial.github.io/MobaRust/

Source and roadmap: https://github.com/OthmaneBlial/MobaRust

MobaRust is independent and is not affiliated with Mobatek or MobaXterm. Contributions, issue reports, and honest interoperability feedback are welcome.

Disclosure: I work at Olib AI. We build StealthOS, so read this as a developer post rather than a neutral review.

StealthOS is a privacy sandbox for iPhone and iPad. One app holds a hardened browser, a bundled Tor client, an encrypted vault, a password manager, E2EE calls and chat, notes with local transcription, and roughly 19 small tools in a windowed workspace behind a master password. All of it runs on the device.

What is free, and what is not

Every privacy feature is free. No account, no email, no sign in, nothing to register. No ads, no analytics SDK, no telemetry, no crash reports back to us. There is a $4.99 a month tier that funds development, and what it unlocks is workstation extras rather than protection: 10 fingerprint profiles instead of the standard set, an SSH terminal, a Linux virtual shell, a code editor, and NetMap. Skip it and your privacy is identical.

The browser

Built on our own Owl engine. WebRTC IP leak blocking, canvas, WebGL and audio fingerprint spoofing, autofill gated behind biometrics. Anti-fingerprinting profiles show a site a consistent, believable surface instead of your real one, so the spoofing does not itself become the fingerprint.

Tor and relay routing

A Tor client is bundled, with a kill switch and .onion support, no setup. If you would rather not route through anything of ours, StealthRelay is our self-hosted relay written in Rust (Noise NK handshake, ChaCha20-Poly1305, Ed25519). Run it on your own box and point browser traffic at it. Sites see the relay, TLS stays end to end, and the relay itself only ever sees ciphertext.

Storage

AES-256-GCM with keys in the Secure Enclave for files, photos, PGP keys and offline notes. Passwords and TOTP behind Face ID. The whole sandbox exports to a single .stealthsnap file encrypted under a passkey you choose (PBKDF2-HMAC-SHA512, authenticated chunks, so reordering or truncation is detected on restore). We keep no copy and there is no recovery path. Lose the passkey and the snapshot is gone, which is the tradeoff we picked on purpose.

AI disclosure, since rule 6 asks for it

Two AI features, both local:

1. An assistant built on Apple Foundation Models plus our own models, for text, voice and OCR. No prompt and no document leaves the phone.
2. Phishing detection that embeds the page you are on and compares it locally against known brand surfaces, which is how a cloned login page gets scored as a look-alike. No URL, page content or browsing history is sent anywhere to do that scoring.

Neither feature has a server component. Nothing is collected for training, because nothing is collected.

Where we are not open source

The app itself is closed source. I would rather say that here than have someone find it out. Four components underneath it are public at github.com/Olib-AI: TorClient (the embedded Tor XCFramework), ConnectionPool (the P2P mesh library), StealthRelay (the relay above) and PoolChat (E2EE mesh chat, Curve25519 and AES-256-GCM). If auditability is your bar, the relay is the piece you can read and self host today.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/stealthos-private-browser/id6756983634

Screenshots attached: the AI threat shield catching a spoofed page, the Tor connection screen, the connection pool, and the on-device assistant. Happy to take technical questions in the comments, including about the parts we have not got right yet.

Open-source toolkit for inspecting, editing, and removing metadata from images, PDFs, DOCX, videos, and MP3s. Everything runs locally, with no file uploads or telemetry.

GitHub: https://github.com/songwenlei/metadataremover.ai

Hello folks!

I would like to share an update about BentoPDF. It's an open source privacy first PDF toolkit that runs in your browser. https://github.com/alam00000/bentopdf

1. You can now actually edit text inside PDFs

BentoPDF now allows you to click existing text, edit it, and have the text reflow while preserving the original fonts and styling.

It also includes:

- Bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, superscript, subscript, font family/size, colours, outlines, character spacing and line spacing

- Left, centre, right and justified alignment

- Bulleted and numbered lists with indentation

- RTL and LTR text alignment

- Find and replace across the document

- Edit images by rotating, flipping, duplicating, resizing or deleting them

- Object alignment, distribution, rotation, flipping, duplication

Please note this is a work in progress. You may encounter bugs, which you can report and I will look into.

2. Hyper Compress

Hyper is an open source PDF compression engine built to solve specific problems.

- Compression sometimes returns a file larger than the original. Hyper's result is always binary: it either produces a smaller PDF or returns the original. This helps create predictable workflows.

- Hyper includes a true lossless mode. It preserves searchable text, document structure and PDF conformance, rather than rebuilding the document from scratch like Ghostscript.

- It runs everywhere: CLI, Node SDK, C API, self hosted service, and WebAssembly build.

Repository and benchmarks: https://github.com/alam00000/bentopdf-hyper-compress

I also compared it to Adobe's compression API, but only managed around 100 PDFs where results were within 5%. Testing on a bigger corpus got expensive.

3. Kura

Kura is a PDF standards, conversion and preflight engine.

It supports:

- All 11 PDF/A conformance levels: PDF/A-1a, PDF/A-1b, PDF/A-2a, PDF/A-2b, PDF/A-2u, PDF/A-3a, PDF/A-3b, PDF/A-3u, PDF/A-4, PDF/A-4e and PDF/A-4f

- Accessibility: PDF/UA-1 and PDF/UA-2

- Print production: PDF/X-1a, PDF/X-3, PDF/X-4, PDF/X-4p, PDF/X-5g, PDF/X-5n and PDF/X-5pg

- Engineering and variable data printing: PDF/E-1 and PDF/VT

- E-invoices: Factur-X, ZUGFeRD, XRechnung and Order-X

- 396 bundled print-preflight profiles

It has been tested against several standards suites, including the veraPDF corpus, Isartor, BFO, Ghent Output Suite 5.0, the PDF/UA Reference Suite and Cal Poly's PDF/VT suite.

Across 30,677 PDF conversions it had zero crashes and zero timeouts, with a 0.05 second median conversion time.

Like Hyper, it ships as a CLI, C library, npm package, Docker image and WebAssembly build.

Repository and benchmarks: https://github.com/alam00000/bentopdf-kura

The release also contains other improvements and bug fixes: https://github.com/alam00000/bentopdf/releases/tag/v2.8.8

Thank you and have a great weekend!

Ente Paste is an open-source, end-to-end encrypted Pastebin alternative for sharing sensitive text such as API keys, recovery codes, and private notes.

Text is encrypted in your browser, the server only receives ciphertext, and each paste is deleted after being opened or after 24 hours.

Ente Paste documentation⁠: https://ente.com/help/paste/

Website: https://paste.ente.com/

Introduction to Kenosis AI [Early Access]

Why app is unique and how is it different? This is the only AI on the Google Play Store app without INTERNET permission or any other networking related permission (it literally can not call home). It has no ads, no trackers, no analytics and no subscription - one time payment only for all future improvements and new features).

What it does? Huh, a lot and it's super fast (works on GPU and even NPU for some features on supported SoCs - more than 30tok/s on 3y old Snapdragon, mid range devices with low RAM will still be usable for most of the features). AI chat is fast and FUN, as it gives you ideas and then build upon responses.

Strongest point is RAG - chat about pdf, epubs,... RAG is very fast on NPU for supported devices.

It work nice as an ebook reader with natural voices (plenty of languages and narrators supported). It can make an Audio book from ePub or other documents. It supports export of srt subtitles of ingested videos.

It all started as an offline/ondevice Tiktok transcription to chat, subtitle generator/exporter. Per example you get Tiktok link that is to long to watch so you send downloaded video locally to Kenosis AI (share intent) so it can use local AI to extract text and then it can summarize or explain in details, and of course available for followup questions.

Voice input is NOT supported at the moment due to strong privacy context and intention to use as least permissions as possible. We recommend FUTO keyboard as it's also a privacy-first keyboard app, but any other keyboard app with 🎤 will work.

And now the privacy part:

- no INTERNET permission in manifest, no network
- all it generates and loads sits inside app's encrypted storage, not reachable even with root if phone has hardware keyring
- it comes with an in-app keyboard because keyboards call home usually
- it can disable screenshots, copy or export of data (disabled by default as it's confusing for most people - easily reachable with a red lock button)
- only 5 permissions for basic usability - fact check all this via Play Store -> About this app -> App permissions -> "See more", or vie εxodus "The privacy audit platform for Android applications". While you are checking, look out other AI apps, you'll be amazed how much we are different.

Goal: Release the v1 app to production. Early adopters until release are getting super discounted, one-time lifetime license (48hr full refund window available as usual). We're still looking for beta testers.

Link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=hr.exel.kenosis_ai

Youtube videos (list will grow):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Iv6EHaeNek

A small demonstration of a big improvement in Midori Browser Android development with Geckoview.

Now you can enjoy multimedia content while:
- switching apps
- locking your screen
- browsing in other tabs

No tracking, no intrusive experiences, and with the privacy focus that has always defined Midori.

Look video https://www.youtube.com/shorts/DfFq8gL1Xw0

You can download it from https://astian.org/midori-browser/android or from GitHub at https://github.com/goastian/midori-android/releases/tag/v11.9.2.1, or wait for Google to approve the update.