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Cryptee is a safety and privacy focused, encrypted and cross-platform personal data storage service. You can write personal documents, notes, journals, store photos and all sorts of other files.

Create blank files, custom file types, templates, whole batches, and reusable folder setups exactly where you are working on macOS.

Which is more popular?
Based on our record, Cryptee seems to be more popular. It has been mentioned 79 times since March 2021.
Website, pricing, platforms and company facts side by side.
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| Website | crypt.ee | createfilesplus.com |
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| Company | Startup from Estonia · 2018 | Startup from the United States · 1 - 9 employees · 2026 |
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In their own words, as submitted to SaaSHub.


Cryptee is a safety and privacy focused, encrypted and cross-platform personal data storage service. You can write personal documents, notes, journals, store photos and all sorts of other files. It works on all your devices and provides a zero-knowledge place to keep all your sensitive digital...
CreateFiles+ adds the file creation workflow macOS should have had all along. Create a new file exactly where you are working, without opening TextEdit, saving-as, using Terminal, or dragging template files around. Use Finder right-click menus where macOS allows them, or fall back to the Finder...
What each product offers, as listed by its team.


An editorial look at what each product does well and who it suits.


Overall verdict
Why this product is good
Recommended for
Individuals or organizations that require secure storage and privacy for their documents and photos, particularly those concerned about data tracking, surveillance, or needing a privacy-first cloud service alternative.
Overall verdict
Why this product is good
Recommended for
Walkthroughs and reviews on video.
Google Photos Alternative: Cryptee (Encrypted and Open-Source Cloud Photo Storage)
CreateFiles+ Demo
How often each product is chosen within a category, 0–100% relative to the other.


As answered by people managing Cryptee and CreateFiles+.
CreateFiles+'s answer:
Xcode and Swift
CreateFiles+'s answer:
macOS should have created this feature out of the box but does not exist. Windows users have had this feature for over a decade. I created this to remove that gap for macOS users.
CreateFiles+'s answer:
I am not familiar with any competitors doing this today.
CreateFiles+'s answer:
Power Users, Developers, Productivity focused users, students, teachers, creators.
CreateFiles+'s answer:
Its brand new so that is yet to be determined.
CreateFiles+'s answer:
I have struggled with not having this capability in Finder for years and decided I would fix the problem for me and then see if other users would want the same solution.
Share your experience with using Cryptee and CreateFiles+. For example, how are they different and which one is better?
External articles and on-site reviews we used to compare the two products.


Cryptee allows you to create, upload, preview, edit and save your formatted text, PDF files, to-do lists, math equations, photos, and code in 22 different languages. You can import files from other apps, organize all...
Cryptee isn’t the only privacy-minded documents app. Turtl is a private platform built with a similar mission. It is currently free to use and, like Cryptee, it does not store user passwords or information and is...
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Recommendations tracked on public social media and blogs since March 2021.


> The only major hurdle to this is Apple continuing to treat web apps as second class citizens on iOS If you add a site to iOS' homescreen it automatically becomes a PWA. The best example I found of a site fully leveraging this feature... - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago
Well, then - if self hosting is not your thing - something like crypt.ee might be your thing? Clearly a different pricing model, data is fully encrypted, open source, across platforms. Source: almost 3 years ago
Https://crypt.ee now. I used to mostly use local markdown editors like Ulysses and Zettlr. Source: about 3 years ago
Tracking CreateFiles+ since Jun 2026.
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