GhostDocs VS PrivacyNotes

GhostDocs's answer

Privacy-conscious professionals, remote workers, legal and financial consultants, journalists, and everyday web users who need to handle sensitive documents (such as tax filings, bank statements, contracts, and ID scans) without risking cloud leaks.

PrivacyNotes's answer:

People who want their private life in one private place: notes, plans, passwords, a journal and health records. It fits independent professionals who keep sensitive material, such as lawyers, journalists, therapists, doctors, developers, researchers and founders. It also fits anyone who is tired of paying for five apps that each hold one part of their life.

GhostDocs's answer

React, TypeScript, Vite, WebAssembly, HTML5 Canvas API, pdf-lib, pdfjs-dist, and binary EXIF parsers.

PrivacyNotes's answer:

React, TypeScript, Vite and Tailwind CSS.

GhostDocs's answer

GhostDocs operates on a 100% zero-upload architecture. While conventional document tools upload files to remote servers, GhostDocs executes all PDF splitting, merging, redaction, and image conversions locally inside your browser using HTML5 Canvas and WebAssembly. You can disconnect your internet, turn on Airplane Mode, and every tool still works.

PrivacyNotes's answer:

PrivacyNotes keeps your notes, tasks, passwords, journal, files, calendar, contacts and bookmarks in one app, with mood and medication tracking. Everything is encrypted on your device with XChaCha20-Poly1305, under a key from a 12-word recovery phrase. Most privacy apps do one of these jobs and charge for it every month. PrivacyNotes does all of them, and Pro is a one-time purchase. The apps are open source, so anyone can check what they do.

GhostDocs's answer

Complete privacy, no paywalls, and no file limits. Competitors like iLovePDF and Smallpdf upload your files to their servers and restrict usage behind daily limits or paid subscriptions. GhostDocs processes documents directly in your device's RAM with no file size limits, no watermarks, and zero account sign-up required.

PrivacyNotes's answer:

Three reasons:

• One app, not a stack of subscriptions. Standard Notes, Day One, Daylio and Bitwarden each cover one part of your life. PrivacyNotes covers all of them, with one price, paid once.
• Encrypted on your device. Your notes are always encrypted, on your device and on the way to our servers in Zurich, Switzerland. With self-custody, the server holds nothing that opens your notes.
• Open source, no ads, no trackers. The apps and the encryption code are published for review, and there is no ad, tracker or analytics of what you write anywhere in the app.

GhostDocs's answer

We created GhostDocs after realizing that simple everyday tasks—like blacking out an account number or combining two pages—forced users to upload confidential documents to anonymous cloud servers. We engineered a suite of zero-upload browser tools to prove that modern web apps can deliver fast, professional utility without sacrificing user privacy.

PrivacyNotes's answer:

PrivacyNotes started from a simple frustration: staying organized meant spreading your life across half a dozen apps, each with its own monthly bill. We wanted one place for notes, tasks, a journal, files and passwords, encrypted on your device, and paid for once instead of forever. So we built the encryption first, made it the base of every feature, and published the apps as open source so the promise can be checked, not just believed. Everything else grew from one rule: your data is yours.

GhostDocs's answer

• Independent legal and accounting professionals
• Freelancers and remote teams
• Privacy-conscious everyday web users

PrivacyNotes's answer:

We do not keep a customer list to show, and that is on purpose. You can sign up with only a 12-word phrase, with no email and no name, and the app has no trackers and no analytics. So we do not profile the people who use it. A privacy product that watched its users closely enough to name them would miss its own point.