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24 alternatives to Sanctum VPN daemon for OpenBSD, Linux and macOS
Sanctum is a small, reviewable, experimental and fully privilege seperated VPN daemon that runs on openbsd linux and macos. It takes privilege separation to the extreme to make sure all assets are isolated and each component is sandboxed with only the permissions they require.
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Sanctum VPN daemon for OpenBSD, Linux and macOS launched in 2024; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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2022 · justine.lol · its alternatives →
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SANCTUM▲1Secure SSH access orchestration for your teams
Apr 2026 · sanctum.craftxlogic.com · its alternatives →
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1-click, self-hosted deployment of OpenVPN with DNS ad blocking sinkhole - ezaquarii/vpn-at-home
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Sanctum▲6Build Docker homelabs the right way — no magic, no lock-in
Dec 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Shuru is a lightweight sandbox that spins up Linux VMs on macOS using Apple's Virtualization.framework. Boots in about a second on Apple Silicon, and everything is ephemeral by default. There's a checkpoint system for when you do want to persist state, and sandboxes run without network access unless you explicitly allow it. Single Rust binary, no dependencies. Built it for sandboxing AI agent code execution, but it works well for anything where you need a disposable Linux environment.
Feb 2026 · shuru.run · its alternatives →
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SSH-based "VPN for poors". Contribute to ivanilves/xiringuito development by creating an account on GitHub.
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
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OpenConnect proxy. Contribute to cernekee/ocproxy development by creating an account on GitHub.
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Keep your browsing secure with the handsome new TunnelBear
2016 · tunnelbear.com · its alternatives →
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Make a self hosted OpenVPN server in 15 minutes. Contribute to robbintt/popup-openvpn development by creating an account on GitHub.
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Lightweight system monitor for Linux VPS. Contribute to leodeim/vpsmon development by creating an account on GitHub.
Aug 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Free VPN for Desktop — Privacy & Speed for Everyone.
2021 · one.one.one.one · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, For the past few months, I've been exploring tools that integrate with the Linux networking stack. This led me to build SafeHaven, a lightweight and configurable VPN implementation written in Go. The goal was to better understand how virtual private networks work at a fundamental level. Would love feedback from the community! Repo link: https://github.com/kwakubiney/safehaven
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Having been regularly annoyed by Proton and even Gmail search on emails, especially after working every day with coding agents in the past year or so, I wanted to catch up the experience of searching emails to the rest of the world. Not a big innovation, but a real itch scratcher as far as I'm concerned.
Jun 2026 · margaine.com · its alternatives →
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Pluto Door▲86Secure MacOS SSH with AI editor, file browser, drag-drop
Mar 2026 · plutodoor.com · its alternatives →
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Serverbox is an agentless desktop control panel for Linux servers. Dashboards, terminals, file management, Docker, services, cron, users, firewalls and SSH tunnels — over plain SSH, with nothing installed on your servers. Free for macOS, Windows and Linux.
Aug 2026 · serverbox.stupidlabs.lol · its alternatives →
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Every privacy-focused DNS service requires an account: NextDNS, Cloudflare for Families, Apple's iCloud Private Relay (paid, iOS-only). The protocol that doesn’t require one - ODoH - had basically one well-known public relay operator (Frank Denis on Fastly Compute, default in dnscrypt-proxy). I built a second one and the client to talk to it.
May 2026 · numa.rs · its alternatives →
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MozWire is an unofficial configuration manager giving Linux, macOS users (among others), access to MozillaVPN. - NilsIrl/MozWire
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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termique▲90A free SSH client for Mac, Windows and Linux. Every host in one place, with end-to-end encrypted sync, SFTP, SSH key management, and an AI terminal assistant.
Jun 2026 · termique.app · its alternatives →
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A smart VPN security solution for SME businesses
2018 · keepsolid.com · its alternatives →
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Sanctum▲3Official sanctions screening for AML & KYC
Jun 2026 · sanctions-saas.onrender.com · its alternatives →
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bVisor is an SDK and runtime for safely executing bash commands directly on your host machine. We built it on the belief that "sandbox" doesn't need to mean shipping off to remote sandbox products, or spinning up local VMs / containers. Sometimes, you just want to run that bash command locally. bVisor boots a sandbox from user-space without special permissions, powered by seccomp user notifier. This allows us to intercept syscalls from guest processes and selectively virtualize them to block privilege escalation, isolate process visibility, and keep filesystem changes isolated per…
Feb 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, I've built an app for macOS that allows performing common SSH operations on Linux servers using a native GUI. The problem: Managing multiple Linux servers usually means juggling terminal windows and copy-pasting snippets/scripts. After dealing with tens of production/staging VPSes at previous jobs, I realized there had to be a better way for common operations I did on a daily basis than my collection of bash snippets. Features: - Quickly switch between different servers. Tag servers with arbitrary key values for easy search. - Real-time dashboard with CPU/memory graphs,…
2025 · serverbuddy.app · its alternatives →
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