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Paranoia File & Text Encryption vs Picocrypt: catalog facts
Paranoia File & Text Encryption	Picocrypt
Freemium Free version available; a Pro version adds more ciphers.	Free Free and open source, no longer developed.
Windows, macOS, Linux	Windows, macOS, Linux
Choice of several strong ciphers JPEG steganography with F5 or J-UNIWARD	XChaCha20 and Argon2id, with a design deliberately small enough to audit Standalone portable executable on Windows, with no installation
Extra ciphers require the Pro version Windows build requires 64-bit Windows 10 or later	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
Works offline	Works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 2, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 20, 2026

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