Alternatives

Zen Desktop alternatives for AI agents.

Compare similar skills by workflow fit, trust score, quality, GitHub adoption, maintenance, and install readiness.

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Zen Desktop

Ad-blocker and privacy guard for Windows, macOS and Linux.

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#1

Filterlists

Similarity 139Trust 87Excellent 100

Collection of blocklists to fill in the gaps

3.4K starsJun 10, 2026 pushlegal-compliancePrivacyClaude Code
$ npx skills add yokoffing/filterlists
#2

Caddy

Similarity 133Trust 92Excellent 100

Fast and extensible multi-platform HTTP/1-2-3 web server with automatic HTTPS

73K starsJun 15, 2026 pushlegal-complianceGoPrivacy
$ npx skills add caddyserver/caddy
#3

AdGuardHome

Similarity 133Trust 92Excellent 100

Network-wide ads & trackers blocking DNS server

35K starsJun 16, 2026 pushlegal-complianceGoPrivacy
$ npx skills add AdguardTeam/AdGuardHome
#4

Portmaster

Similarity 132Trust 93Excellent 100

🏔 Love Freedom - ❌ Block Mass Surveillance

13K starsJun 16, 2026 pushlegal-complianceGoPrivacy
$ npx skills add safing/portmaster
#5

Server

Similarity 131Trust 90Excellent 100

screen sharing for developers https://screego.net/

10K starsMay 13, 2026 pushlegal-complianceGoPrivacy
$ npx skills add screego/server
#6

Block

Similarity 131Trust 90Excellent 100

Let's make an annoyance free, better open internet, altogether!

2.8K starsJun 16, 2026 pushlegal-compliancePrivacyClaude Code
$ npx skills add EnergizedProtection/block
#7

Remark42

Similarity 130Trust 92Excellent 100

comment engine

5.5K starsJun 17, 2026 pushlegal-complianceGoPrivacy
$ npx skills add umputun/remark42
#8

Differential Privacy

Similarity 129Trust 91Excellent 100

Google's differential privacy libraries.

3.3K starsJun 11, 2026 pushlegal-complianceGoPrivacy
$ npx skills add google/differential-privacy
#9

Hblock

Similarity 128Trust 86Excellent 94

Improve your security and privacy by blocking ads, tracking and malware domains.

2.0K starsJan 20, 2026 pushlegal-complianceShellPrivacy
$ npx skills add hectorm/hblock
#10

Any Sync

Similarity 128Trust 92Excellent 100

An open-source protocol enabling high-performance, local-first, peer-to-peer, end-to-end encrypted collaborative apps.

1.6K starsJun 15, 2026 pushlegal-complianceGoPrivacy
$ npx skills add anyproto/any-sync
#11

Meshbird

Similarity 128Trust 86Excellent 97

Distributed private networking

3.5K starsMar 4, 2026 pushlegal-complianceGoPrivacy
$ npx skills add meshbird/meshbird
#12

Blacklist

Similarity 128Trust 89Excellent 92

Curated and well-maintained hostfile to block ads, tracking, cryptomining, and more! Updated regularly. ⚡🔒

1.3K starsDec 27, 2025 pushlegal-complianceHosts FilePrivacy
$ npx skills add anudeepND/blacklist
#13

Super Productivity

Similarity 127Trust 95Excellent 100

Super Productivity is an advanced todo list app with integrated Timeboxing and time tracking capabilities. It also comes with integrations for Jira, GitLab, GitHub and Open Project.

20K starsJun 16, 2026 pushlegal-complianceTypeScriptPrivacy
$ npx skills add super-productivity/super-productivity
#14

Dns Blocklists

Similarity 127Trust 93Excellent 100

DNS-Blocklists: For a better internet - keep the internet clean!

24K starsJun 16, 2026 pushlegal-complianceTextPrivacy
$ npx skills add hagezi/dns-blocklists
#15

Keepassxc

Similarity 127Trust 90Excellent 100

KeePassXC is a cross-platform community-driven port of the Windows application “KeePass Password Safe”.

28K starsJun 4, 2026 pushlegal-complianceC++Privacy
$ npx skills add keepassxreboot/keepassxc
#16

Trojan Go

Similarity 126Trust 86Strong 80

Go实现的Trojan代理,支持多路复用/路由功能/CDN中转/Shadowsocks混淆插件,多平台,无依赖。A Trojan proxy written in Go. An unidentifiable mechanism that helps you bypass GFW. https://p4gefau1t.github.io/trojan-go/

8.4K starsJul 14, 2024 pushlegal-complianceGoPrivacy
$ npx skills add p4gefau1t/trojan-go

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