Dokyo VS PrivacyNotes

PrivacyNotes's answer:

Honestly? We have no idea, and that is the entire point. Signup is anonymous (a recovery phrase or Google, no email or personal details), the app ships zero analytics and zero trackers, and zero-knowledge encryption means we cannot see who you are or what you store. We could not name a single customer if we tried. A privacy product that tracked its users closely enough to brag about them would be missing the plot.

Dokyo's answer

Dokyo is a full Notion-style workspace (block editor, nested pages, databases with table, kanban, calendar, list, gallery, and chart views, real-time co-editing) that is free with no paid tier, hosted entirely in Europe, and ships with no third-party analytics or tracking. The AI assistant is consent-gated: nothing is sent to a provider until you agree, and one click disables and hides it entirely. There are also native offline desktop apps for Windows, macOS, and Linux that keep working without a connection and sync when you reconnect.

PrivacyNotes's answer:

PrivacyNotes is the only zero-knowledge encrypted workspace that keeps notes, tasks, journals, files, and a password vault behind one set of on-device keys. Most privacy apps do one of those well and rent it to you monthly. We do all five, encrypt everything with XChaCha20-Poly1305 before it leaves your device, and charge once instead of forever. The encryption core is open core, published so the claims can be verified rather than trusted.

Dokyo's answer

Because it gives you the parts of Notion people actually use, without the price, the bloat, or the data trade. It is free with no trial and no credit card, loads fast, stores your data in the EU under GDPR, and never sends anything to an AI provider without explicit consent. You can use it in the browser with nothing to install, or install the desktop app and work offline. GDPR data export and account deletion are built in, so leaving is as easy as joining.

PrivacyNotes's answer:

Three reasons:

• One app, not four subscriptions. Standard Notes, Day One, and Lunatask each rent you a slice (notes, journaling, tasks). PrivacyNotes covers all of them plus files and a vault, for a fair one-time fee.
• Real zero-knowledge. Your keys come from a recovery phrase that never touches our servers, so we cannot read your notes, your filenames, or your metadata. Some encrypted apps leave note or task metadata in the clear; we do not.
• Verifiable, not just trusted. The crypto and schema are open core and published for review, and there is no ad, tracker, or analytics anywhere in the app.

Dokyo's answer

Small teams, startups, students, researchers, and individuals who want a shared workspace for docs, notes, and project tracking. It is a particularly good fit for people in Europe, or anyone with privacy or GDPR requirements, who want an EU-hosted alternative to US workspace tools, and for anyone who finds larger workspace apps too heavy or too expensive.

PrivacyNotes's answer:

Privacy-conscious individuals and independent professionals who handle information they would not want a vendor reading: lawyers, journalists, healthcare and mental-health practitioners, developers, security specialists, researchers, and founders. It also fits anyone who simply wants one private home for their notes, tasks, journaling, and wellness tracking instead of spreading them across surveillance-funded apps.

PrivacyNotes's answer:

React, TypeScript, Vite and Tailwind CSS.

Dokyo's answer

Dokyo started from a simple frustration: the best workspace tools are excellent to write in, but they are heavy, they cost more as your team grows, and your notes end up on servers you have no say over. Dokyo was built as the lighter, calmer version of that idea: the same block editor, databases, and live collaboration, hosted in Europe, free to use, with no tracking and an AI assistant that stays off until you ask for it.

PrivacyNotes's answer:

PrivacyNotes started from a simple frustration: staying organized meant scattering your life across half a dozen apps, most of which could read everything you typed and billed you monthly for the privilege. We wanted one place for notes, tasks, journals, files, and passwords, encrypted so thoroughly that the people running the servers could not read a word of it, and paid for once rather than forever. So we built the encryption first, made the keys live only on your device, and published the crypto as open core so the promise could be checked, not just believed. Everything else grew from one rule: your data is yours, and no one else's to mine.