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24 alternatives to Certbot

Automatically enable HTTPS on your website

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Certbot launched in 2016; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1
LocalCan™▲269
Develop your apps locally with local domains and HTTPS
2023 · localcan.com · its alternatives →
2
Moving to HTTPS Guide▲176
A community site to help site owners migrate to HTTPS
2017 · movingtohttps.com · its alternatives →
3
lcl.host▲308
Get HTTPS in your local dev environment
2024 · lcl.host · its alternatives →
4MW
My Weekend Project, AutoSSL▲38
2019 · autossl.co · its alternatives →
5
Caddy, a cross-platform HTTP/2 web server▲208
Caddy is a powerful, enterprise-ready, open source web server with automatic HTTPS written in Go
2015 · caddyserver.com · its alternatives →
6
HTTPS Everywhere▲294
Chrome extension that encrypts and secures your browser
2017 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
7
Scripting News - The HTTPS Mystery▲66
Where we're at with Google and Mozilla and HTTPS
2016 · scripting.com · its alternatives →
8CS
CertStream – See SSL certs as they're issued in real time▲142
2017 · certstream.calidog.io · its alternatives →
9
Snitch▲86
SSL Certificate Monitoring and Alerting
2014 · its alternatives →
10
Free Certificate Monitoring via RSS▲120
2024 · raphting.dev · its alternatives →
11
Localdots – HTTPS domains for localhost with autoconfig and hot reload▲75
HTTPS domains for localhost. 🏠. Contribute to lufzle/localdots development by creating an account on GitHub.
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
12
TrackSSL▲11
Stop worrying about your SSL certificates expiring
2017 · trackssl.com · its alternatives →
13
CertSimple▲81
EV SSL certificates delivered in hours, not days
2015 · certsimple.com · its alternatives →
14
CertMagic – Caddy's automagic HTTPS features as a Go library▲33
Automatic HTTPS for any Go program: fully-managed TLS certificate issuance and renewal - caddyserver/certmagic
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
15
Authority Hacker - Why You Must Switch To HTTPS This Year▲55
Those who don't will lose out
2016 · authorityhacker.com · its alternatives →
16
I made a script to generate self-signed SSL certs for local development▲107
A bash script for generating trusted self-signed SSL certs for local development on your Mac - kingkool68/generate-ssl-certs-for-local-development
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
17
Acmedns Authenticator Plugin for Certbot▲36
Certbot ACME-DNS DNS01 plugin for Certbot. Contribute to pan-net-security/certbot-dns-acmedns development by creating an account on GitHub.
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
18
CertRadar – Find every certificate ever issued for your domain▲21
Free tools for SSL/TLS certificate transparency search, configuration analysis, and security monitoring.
Jan 2026 · certradar.net · its alternatives →
19
Let's Encrypt▲26
A new Certificate Authority - free, automated, and open.
2015 · letsencrypt.org · its alternatives →
20
KeyBox▲70
A web-based SSH console
2014 · sshkeybox.com · its alternatives →
21
Certmaster – Automatically issue and install Let's Encrypt certificates▲11
Automatically renew certs and install to destinations - poundifdef/certmaster
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
22
Verisign▲33
SSL certificate
2014 · verisign.com · its alternatives →
23
CertPing▲4
Presenting AI-Powered Domain Security
Dec 2025 · certping.com · its alternatives →
24
No command line SSL: Custom domains with automatic, self-renewing, wildcard SSL/TLS▲4
Git push and your site is live
2016 · its alternatives →

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