The Promise

Your life. Your data. Your home.

The photos of your children, the messages to the people you love, the passwords you'd never say out loud: they belong on a machine you own, in a place you can walk into, with nobody watching.

LibrePortal is free software, and it always will be. This is our commitment to you, in plain language, so you can hold us to it.

Why it exists

Made by one person, for everyone

LibrePortal is built by one person. It started about three years ago, when I wanted to protect my own family's photos, messages and passwords without handing them to companies that watch. The tools were out there, but running them meant long nights of commands and guesswork.

So I started building something to do the hard parts for me, and then for anyone who wants the same without needing to be technical.

It began as scripts written by hand, line by line. Then AI started helping, and today it does much of the building while I steer, test and decide. However it gets made, every change still has to answer one question: does this keep your data yours?

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What "free" means here

You can run, study, modify, share, and fully use 100% of LibrePortal, every feature, for free, forever.

The entire platform is licensed under the GNU AGPL-3.0-or-later (see LICENSE). There are no feature paywalls in the software, no crippled "community edition," and no telemetry phoning home.

If you self-host LibrePortal, you get everything. No asterisks.

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How we keep the lights on

Building and maintaining this takes real work, and we want to do it sustainably, without betraying a word of the above. So we charge only for things that aren't the software, and only for services we can run without ever needing to see your data:

LibrePortal Connect

Optional help reaching your server from anywhere and keeping off-site backups. Your data stays locked, and only you hold the key.

Support

Free community help, plus optional paid priority support for those who want guaranteed fast answers.

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The line we will not cross

Every service we offer can be hosted by yourself.

You pay us for the convenience of not running it yourself, never to unlock a capability. Want to run your own relay or point backups at your own storage? The code to do that is right here, free.

Our litmus test
Before anything becomes paid, we ask: could you do this yourself with the open code? If yes, we may also offer a hosted version. If the only way to get it is to pay us, we don't ship it.

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What we will never do

Paywall a feature of the software you run on your own machine.
Add tracking or telemetry.
Rug-pull. What is open stays open. We will never relicense released code out from under the community.

See what every app does with your data →

That's the deal.

Thanks for trusting us with your corner of the internet.

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