Included software

GNOME, an intuitive and attractive desktop environment (More...)

Networking

Tor with:
- stream isolation
- the Onion Circuits graphical frontend (More...)
NetworkManager for easy network configuration (More...)
Tor Browser (More...), a web browser based on Mozilla Firefox and modified to protect your anonymity with:
- all cookies are treated as session cookies by default;
- HTTPS Everywhere transparently enables SSL-encrypted connections to a great number of major websites
- NoScript to have even more control over JavaScript.
- uBlock Origin to remove advertisements.
Pidgin preconfigured with OTR for Off-the-Record Messaging (More...)
OnionShare for anonymous file sharing
Thunderbird email client with support for OpenPGP and RSS and Atom news feeds (More...)
Aircrack-ng for wireless network auditing
Electrum, an easy-to-use bitcoin client (More...)
Wget and curl

Desktop edition

LibreOffice (More...)
Gimp and Inkscape to edit images (More...)
GNOME Sound Recorder for recording sound (More...)
Audacity for recording and editing sounds (More...)
Document Scanner to scan documents
Brasero to burn CD/DVDs
Sound Juicer to rip audio CDs
BookletImposer to convert linear PDF documents into booklets, and vice-versa

Encryption and privacy

Support for both LUKS and VeraCrypt encrypted volumes (like USB sticks) (More...)
GnuPG, the GNU implementation of OpenPGP for email and data encyption and signing
- Kleopatra provides a graphical interface to manage and use GnuPG on text and files
- Thunderbird has an integrated OpenPGP feature for encrypted emails
GNOME screen keyboard for accessibility, and as a countermeasure against hardware keyloggers (More...)
Metadata Cleaner and mat2 to remove metadata from files (More...)
KeePassXC password manager (More...)
GtkHash to calculate checksums (More...)
Tesseract OCR to convert images containing text into a text document
FFmpeg to record and convert audio and video

Additional software

Additionally, you can install in Tails any other software available in Debian.

To install additional software automatically when starting Tails, use the Additional Software feature of the Persistent Storage.

Additional features

automatic mechanism to upgrade a USB stick to newer versions
can be run as a virtualized guest inside VirtualBox (More...)
64-bit PAE-enabled kernel with NX-bit and SMP support on hardware that supports it
Some basic accessibility features
Some application isolation with AppArmor
To prevent cold-boot attacks and various memory forensics, Tails erases most memory on shutdown and when the boot media is physically removed.

Multilingual support

When starting Tails, you can choose between a large number of languages, including Arabic, English, Farsi, French, German, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Turkish, and more.

Some of these languages could not be thoroughly tested as we don't speak every language in the world. If you find issues using one of the supposedly supported languages, don't hesitate to tell us about it. E.g. Tails probably lacks some non-Latin fonts or input systems.

If you wish to make it easier to use Tails for your language speakers, see the translators guidelines.