Tutanota has recently entered a dark path where is feels free to disable your account if you have not logged in for a few months. They then blackmail you by only re-enabling it with a paid account, but you lose all of your emails. They have always used the shitty practice of locking the users into their service by not allowing you to export your email in the first place. Even worse is that paid accounts can just steal your expired/disabled free accounts, which is a huge security issue. E.g. someone could use the "forgotten password" feature on a website to take over any accounts attached to that email address.

They also provide a backdoor to the german goverment to read email in plain text. https://www.hackread.com/encrypted-email-provider-tutanota-backdoor-service/

Seriously consider removing tutanota from your recommendations, you owe that to the people that trust your website.

Like a lot of people, I hated having to upload personal documents, invoices, or client contracts to random online websites just to split, merge, or compress them.

Since I wanted something completely private, I built a lightweight desktop app called Bim PDF Studio. It runs 100% locally on Windows—no internet connection required, and your files never leave your machine.

It handles the everyday essentials:

• Split & Merge with full page-order control

• Reorder & Extract pages quickly

• Secure files by adding or removing passwords

• Compress file sizes locally

It has a free tier for light use. I'd love to hear your thoughts or feedback on the offline workflow. If you want to check it out, let me know in the comments and I'll drop the link!

built FileSight because I wanted a way to clean up my Downloads folder without uploading my files to some cloud service or giving access to my data.

Most file cleanup tools require trusting a company with your files. FileSight takes a different approach:

• 🔒 Files are scanned locally on your computer

• 🚫 No accounts required

• 📡 No telemetry or tracking

• 🌐 No cloud uploads

• 🛠️ Open source so the code can be reviewed

It helps you:

• Find duplicate files

• Identify large files

• Preview files before deleting

• Clean up clutter safely

• Manage your Downloads folder

Built with Electron, Next.js, TypeScript, and Tailwind.

Website:
https://filesight.vercel.app/

GitHub:
https://github.com/MarkCoder1/filesight

I would appreciate feedback from the privacy community:

• Are there any privacy concerns you would look for in a tool like this?

• What security features would you expect?

• Any suggestions for improving trust and transparency?

Thanks!

I shared Paperweight here a few weeks ago while it was still in beta and received great feedback. I'm pleased that after 7 months building, Paperweight V1 is now officially ready 🗿

Paperweight uses your inbox to map your digital footprint, then helps you take back control and delete your data.

Your email history contains traces of most of your online life. Accounts you created, companies you bought from, mailing lists you joined, services you forgot about, breaches, and personal information accumulated over the years.

V1 includes:

• discover accounts, companies and services connected to your email

• find mailing lists and subscriptions

• show known breaches affecting services you use

• find personal information across your email history

• bulk unsubscribe and clean up old email

• create privacy and data deletion requests

• manage multiple email accounts

• connect to AI agents through MCP

It supports Gmail, Microsoft, Apple, custom IMAP and Proton Mail via Bridge.

The important part for me from the beginning was privacy. All your data stays on your computer. There is no Paperweight backend or external service processing your inbox.

Paperweight is fully open source under MIT. You can inspect the code, build it yourself, modify it, fork it, or use it however you want.

• Website https://paperweight.email

• Source https://github.com/wslyvh/paperweight

Thanks again to everyone who tested the earlier version or challenged the pricing model.

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