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Picocrypt vs rage: catalog facts
Picocrypt	rage
Free Free and open source, no longer developed.	Free Free and open source under the MIT or Apache-2.0 licence.
Windows, macOS, Linux	Command line
XChaCha20 and Argon2id, with a design deliberately small enough to audit Standalone portable executable on Windows, with no installation	Compatible with the age file format Small explicit keys and no configuration to get wrong
Permanently archived and read-only since September 2025; there will be no more releases Encrypts individual files, not partitions, drives or cloud folders	Command-line only Not a drop-in for existing PGP keys or workflows
Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Open source	Open source
License: GPL-3.0	License: MIT OR Apache-2.0
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 September 23, 2026

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