Librost
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All My Books
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Day One
Notion
Librost is a permanent home for the books you actually own.
Stop losing EPUBs in Downloads folders, scattering PDFs across cloud drives, or forgetting where that audiobook went. Librost gives you one clean place to collect, organize, search, and retrieve your entire digital library from anywhere.
Built for readers, researchers, students, and digital book collectors: - Keep EPUBs, PDFs, audiobooks, notes, and related files together under a single book entry - Automatically extract covers and metadata or customize everything yourself Browse your collection visually like a real bookshelf - Instantly search titles, authors, tags, and metadata to find any book in seconds - Access your library from any device through the browser
Every account includes built-in cloud storage to get started. Want full ownership of your files? Connect your own provider like Dropbox and keep complete control of your library without paying for additional storage.
No subscriptions. No lock-in.
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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Librost was been born from the frustration of digital clutter
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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.
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Three reasons:
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Angular for the frontend, hono on the backend
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React, TypeScript, Vite and Tailwind CSS.
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Librost is built around ownership, not subscriptions. It is a library for books you already own, not a store. Key differentiators include:
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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.
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Librost is for people who buy and own digital books across multiple sources, readers who are tired of having files scattered across Dropbox, Google Drive, publisher apps, and random download folders. It appeals to users who:
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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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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.
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.
Libreture - E-book storage for hardcore readers.
Obsidian - 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.
BookFusion - BookFusion lets you read, share, organize, bookmark and sync all your books.
Standard Notes - A safe place for your notes, thoughts, and life's work
calibre - Ebook manager, viewer & converter
Apple Notes - Apple Notes functions as a service for making short text notes.