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AxCrypt vs Picocrypt: catalog facts
AxCrypt	Picocrypt
Paid Private and Business plans, each with a 14-day free trial.	Free Free and open source, no longer developed.
Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, iOS	Windows, macOS, Linux
Encrypts files stored in Google Drive, OneDrive and Dropbox Share encrypted files with other AxCrypt users	XChaCha20 and Argon2id, with a design deliberately small enough to audit Standalone portable executable on Windows, with no installation
Paid plans after the trial Sharing requires recipients to use AxCrypt	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
Closed source	Open source
License not stated	License: GPL-3.0
Not stated if an account is needed	No account needed
Not stated if it works offline	Works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 23, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 20, 2026

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