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24 alternatives to Let's Encrypt

Free SSL/TLS certificates.

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Let's Encrypt launched in 2019; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

  1. 1

    A new Certificate Authority - free, automated, and open.

    2015 · letsencrypt.org · its alternatives →

  2. 2

    TLDR, Let's Seal gives the finger to Adobe and every doc signing tool (docusign, google, etc) who pay to play with the Adobe Approved Trust List and then charge you for something that should be free. Currently even the person checking if a document/contract is sealed or code is authentic has to also be inside the same Adobe walled garden too. Verification, the part that should be free is the part everyone charges for. Thats the shape Let's Encrypt fixed for TLS, and I wanted the same thing for documents and files. The core idea therefore needed to go a bit beyond e signatures and i…

    Jul 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

  3. 3AR

    From the cryptic terminal commands to the innumerable ways to shoot yourself in the foot, I always struggled to use TLS certificates. I love how much easier (and cheaper) Let's Encrypt made it to get certificates, but there are still plenty of things to struggle with. That's why we built Relay: a free, browser-based tool that streamlines the ACME workflow, especially for tricky setups like homelabs. Relay acts as a secure intermediary between your ACME client and public certificate authorities like Let's Encrypt. Some ways Relay provides a better experience: - really fast, streamlined…

    2025 · anchor.dev · its alternatives →

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    TinyCert▲237

    Free SSL certificates for your startup.

    2014 · tinycert.org · its alternatives →

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    A tiny script to issue and renew TLS certs from Let's Encrypt - diafygi/acme-tiny

    2015 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Encrypto▲141

    Encrypt the files you send.

    2015 · macpaw.com · its alternatives →

  9. 9

    Let's Encrypt/ACME client and library written in Go - go-acme/lego

    2015 · github.com · its alternatives →

  10. 10AD
  11. 11SD
  12. 12AL
  13. 13GC
  14. 14

    🔐 Share end-to-end encrypted secrets with others via a one-time URL - sniptt-official/ots

    2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Get and install an https certificate for free

    2016 · startssl.com · its alternatives →

  17. 17MS
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    Secret▲173

    Send a message through a safe, private, and encrypted link

    2017 · getsecret.vercel.app · its alternatives →

  19. 19LA
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    A Let's Encrypt certificates manager for Kubernetes - math-nao/certs

    2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

  21. 21SO
  22. 22SE
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    MagicPad▲110

    Free and open-source encryption suite

    2019 · its alternatives →

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    A collection of free and comprehensive encryption tools

    2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

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