Not a "best of" listicle — just the handful of things I pay for myself and would tell a friend to get, for the same reasons I'd explain anything else: because they work, and they're worth it.
Enterprise-grade equipment and features at consumer prices — and license-free, so no recurring expense. Reliable gear with a clean app, giving you prosumer performance without needing a full IT department to manage it.
Visit site →Privacy and security are their core tenet, not an afterthought. The free tier includes 2GB of data per month, and the paid tier is inexpensive if you decide to go that route — I pay for it myself.
Visit site →Open-source and thoroughly vetted, with a free tier that's more than sufficient for most users. I pay for the premium tier myself, and it's still the single best fix for reused or weak passwords, which is behind most account-lockout issues I see.
Visit site →Real end-to-end encryption, no ads, no data harvesting — what texting should have been from the start.
Visit site →Encrypted by default, based outside typical ad-driven email ecosystems, with a solid free tier to start with. Private and secure without needing to think about it.
Visit site →Free for one computer, and extremely affordable if you need to expand to more devices or support others. It's private and secure, and lets me securely hop onto a device to fix something without anyone leaving their desk.
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