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Dumbledor is live metrics for builders.
Send events with a small SDK. Signups, checkouts, page views, and custom actions land in a live stream. Dashboards cover visitors, funnels, and top pages. Uptime monitors sit next to the same charts.
Hash visitor IDs. Honor DNT if you turn it on. Keep PII out of exports. Query the same data over REST. Tracker on a CDN, ingest and query on separate hosts.
You pay for volume, not seats.
Starter: $0/mo, 10k events, 3 uptime monitors, 30-day retention. Pro: $29/mo, 500k events, 25 monitors, 90-day retention. Scale: $99/mo, 5M events, unlimited monitors, 180-day retention.
PrivacyNotes is a zero-knowledge encrypted workspace that brings your notes, tasks, journals, files, and passwords into one app, so you stop juggling four separate subscriptions.
Everything is encrypted on your device with XChaCha20-Poly1305 before it ever syncs. Your keys are derived from a recovery phrase that never touches our servers, so we cannot read your content, your filenames, or anything else. This is real zero-knowledge, not a marketing label.
Five pillars, one encrypted app:
Built for privacy, not surveillance:
Pricing that respects you:
Works on web, macOS, and soon iOS, Android, Windows and Linux with a responsive mobile layout. Import from Apple Notes, Standard Notes, Google Keep, Obsidian, and markdown in a few clicks.
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PrivacyNotesPrivacyNotes'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.
dumbledor's answer
Events, dashboards, and uptime live in one product. Charts update as events arrive, not on a next-day batch. Privacy is switches on every plan: hashed IDs, optional DNT, PII kept out of exports. You pay for event volume, not seats.
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.
dumbledor's answer
Live events, funnels, and monitors in one SDK, with a free Starter plan at 10k events. If a signup does not show within a minute, something is wrong, and you can see that without opening a second tool.
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Three reasons:
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Builders and small product teams. Solo founders, two-person studios, and early SaaS crews that need to see signups, checkouts, and downtime on the same morning. People who outgrew Google Analytics and do not want to rent an enterprise analytics suite.
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.
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React, TypeScript, Vite and Tailwind CSS.
dumbledor's answer
Lenny and Leif run Netchase, a two-person studio in Berlin. They were shipping small products and bouncing between a traffic tool, an event tool, and an uptime tab. They built Dumbledor so their own sites had live events, dashboards, and monitors in one place, then opened it up.
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.
This app checks every box for me. Clean interface, no learning curve, local-first encryption, and secure sync across all of my devices.
The biggest surprise is how many apps it replaced. Instead of juggling separate apps for notes, habits, mood, activities, and important dates, everything lives in one place now. It's made staying organized a lot simpler.
Paying once and knowing I won't lose access to my workflow because I canceled yet another subscription is incredibly refreshing. That peace of mind is worth a lot to me.
The best thing about this: No subscription model, it's a one-time fee for a lifetime license. But you can start for free with the generous freemium model. I only needed to upgrade to pro because I wanted to use the app on my phone, laptop and desktop. Highly recommended! Btw, it's a perfect markdown editor as well, not sure why they don't emphasize this more.
PostHog - An open source suite of product and data tools including product analytics, feature flags, session replay, A/B testing, surveys, and more.
Obsidian.md - A second brain, for you, forever. Obsidian is a powerful knowledge base that works on top of a local folder of plain text Markdown files.
Mixpanel - Mixpanel is the most advanced analytics platform in the world for mobile & web.
Standard Notes - A safe place for your notes, thoughts, and life's work
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Apple Notes - Apple Notes functions as a service for making short text notes.