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Picocrypt vs Picocrypt NG: catalog facts
Picocrypt	Picocrypt NG
Free Free and open source, no longer developed.	Free Free and open source under the GPL-3.0 licence.
Windows, macOS, Linux	Linux, Android, Command line
XChaCha20 and Argon2id, with a design deliberately small enough to audit Standalone portable executable on Windows, with no installation	Small and simple to use Command-line interface as well as a GUI
Permanently archived and read-only since September 2025; there will be no more releases Encrypts individual files, not partitions, drives or cloud folders	A fork with a different maintainer team from the original Picocrypt Focused on files, not whole disks
Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Open source	Open source
License: GPL-3.0	License: GPL-3.0
No account needed	No account needed
Works offline	Works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 20, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 1, 2026

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