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rage vs Picocrypt: catalog facts
rage	Picocrypt
Free Free and open source under the MIT or Apache-2.0 licence.	Free Free and open source, no longer developed.
Command line	Windows, macOS, Linux
Compatible with the age file format Small explicit keys and no configuration to get wrong	XChaCha20 and Argon2id, with a design deliberately small enough to audit Standalone portable executable on Windows, with no installation
Command-line only Not a drop-in for existing PGP keys or workflows	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: MIT OR Apache-2.0	License: GPL-3.0
No account needed	No account needed
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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