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age vs Picocrypt: catalog facts
age	Picocrypt
Free Free and open source under the BSD 3-Clause licence.	Free Free and open source, no longer developed.
Windows, macOS, Linux, Command line	Windows, macOS, Linux
No options to choose, so there is no insecure configuration to fall into Keys are short strings that fit in a password manager	XChaCha20 and Argon2id, with a design deliberately small enough to audit Standalone portable executable on Windows, with no installation
Command line only; there is no official graphical front end No key server or web of trust, so you exchange keys yourself	Permanently archived and read-only since September 2025; there will be no more releases Encrypts individual files, not partitions, drives or cloud folders
Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Open source	Open source
License: BSD-3-Clause	License: GPL-3.0
No account needed	No account needed
Works offline	Works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 21, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 20, 2026

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