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.

Markdown Web Clipper's answer

Fidelity and ownership. Code blocks, tables, math, and footnotes survive conversion intact, images are saved next to the file, and everything lands as plain Markdown files on your own disk — a local folder, an Obsidian vault, a Gist, or the clipboard. No account, no cloud, no telemetry. Free and MIT-licensed.

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.

Markdown Web Clipper's answer

Honest answer: most clippers convert HTML similarly these days. The differences are in what happens after — this one saves images locally, writes straight into a local folder or Obsidian vault with YAML frontmatter, works without an account, and the optional Pro upgrade is a one-time purchase, not a subscription. If you need mobile capture or a full read-later ecosystem, a hosted service will fit better; if you want your clips as files you own, that's exactly what this is for.

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.

Markdown Web Clipper's answer

People who live in Markdown: Obsidian and Logseq users, developers, researchers, and anyone piping web content into LLMs — clipping a selection as Markdown is far more token-efficient than screenshots.

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.

Markdown Web Clipper's answer

TypeScript and React on Manifest V3, built with WXT. Extraction uses Defuddle, HTML→Markdown conversion is Turndown with GFM plus math/footnote handling, and the built-in editor is CodeMirror 6. Conversion runs entirely in your browser — no server involved.

PrivacyNotes's answer:

React, TypeScript, Vite and Tailwind CSS.

Markdown Web Clipper's answer

I built it because every clipper I tried either mangled code blocks and tables or wanted to keep my articles in its cloud. After Pocket shut down and MarkDownload disappeared in Chrome's Manifest V2 purge, "your notes should be plain files you own" stopped being a preference and became a requirement. It's open source (MIT) and the core is free forever.

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.