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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.

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169 free tools for PDFs, images, text and everyday maths that run entirely in your browser, so your files are never uploaded to a server.

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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| Company | Startup from Estonia · 2018 | Startup from Pakistan · 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...
Orpheus is a collection of 169 free web tools: PDF merging, splitting, watermarking and page numbering; image conversion, compression, cropping and favicon generation; JSON, regex, cron, SQL and encoding utilities; and 96 calculators and unit converters. What makes it different is where the work...
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.
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As answered by people managing Cryptee and OrpheusTools.app.
OrpheusTools.app's answer:
Every other online file converter uploads your document to a server, processes it there and sends it back. Orpheus does the work in the browser: the file is read into memory on your own machine, processed with WebAssembly and the browser's own codecs, and handed straight back. No file is transmitted, and you can verify that rather than trust it — open the network tab and watch it stay empty while a tool runs. There is no account, no queue, no watermark and no file size limit.
OrpheusTools.app's answer:
Three reasons. Privacy is structural rather than a policy: there is no server holding your file, so there is no retention promise to trust. Breadth: 169 tools covering PDF, image, text, developer utilities and 96 calculators, so one site replaces several. And speed: with no upload and no download round trip, a 30 MB PDF is finished in less time than the upload alone would take. Pages hold LCP under a second on a throttled mobile connection.
OrpheusTools.app's answer:
People handling documents they would rather not hand to a third party: contracts, CVs, medical letters, bank statements, passport photos. In practice that is a wide group — students, freelancers, small businesses, developers, and anyone who has hit a file size paywall on a free converter. The site is built mobile-first, because people convert a file on the device it is already on.
OrpheusTools.app's answer:
It started from noticing that every mainstream online converter receives your file, and that for the documents people actually convert — a signed contract, a CV, a scan of an ID — that is a bad trade for a thirty-second task. The browser turned out to be far more capable than expected: createImageBitmap and OffscreenCanvas already handle the JPEG/PNG/WebP triangle with no library at all, and pdf-lib handles PDFs inside a Web Worker. Everything grew from there to 169 tools and 43 guides, each one a single config file checked by a build gate.
OrpheusTools.app's answer:
Next.js 16 with the App Router, statically exported — every page is prerendered, there is no server and no cold start, and the site is served as assets from Cloudflare. Processing runs in Web Workers: createImageBitmap and OffscreenCanvas for JPEG, PNG and WebP, WebAssembly for formats the browser cannot decode natively, and pdf-lib for PDFs, loaded as its own chunk so it arrives only when you click the button. TypeScript throughout, in a pnpm workspace.
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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: over 3 years ago
Tracking OrpheusTools.app since Aug 2026.
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