PrivacyNotes VS BootsTracker

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.

BootsTracker's answer:

Footballers across Europe, from weekend amateurs to academy players and their parents, who want a specific boot (often an Elite or Pro model) at a fair price in their size. Also teammates and coaches who buy boots for others and need to know where a size is actually in stock.

PrivacyNotes's answer

React, TypeScript, Vite and Tailwind CSS.

BootsTracker's answer:

Python scrapers, one per retailer platform (Shopify, Algolia, Demandware, Next.js and private JSON APIs), a Next.js front end with next-intl for the 7 languages, PostgreSQL with Drizzle ORM, and Tailwind CSS.

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.

BootsTracker's answer:

BootsTracker matches the same boot across 45+ European web stores by the exact supplier code and colourway, not by its name, and tracks stock size by size. You see every shop selling that exact boot, which ones actually have your size, and its price history. Soleplate labels from every shop and language are normalised into one set (SG-Pro, SG, FG, AG, TF, IC), so the soleplate filter means the same thing everywhere.

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.

BootsTracker's answer:

General price comparison sites like Google Shopping or idealo list offers by product name and rarely know which sizes are in stock. BootsTracker is built only for football boots: it shows only the shops that have your size, filters by soleplate, brand, price and the country a shop ships to, converts prices to EUR and keeps a price history for every boot, so you can tell a real deal from a fake discount. It is free and available in 7 languages.

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.

BootsTracker's answer:

I play amateur football every week. Nothing special, but I have always loved Elite boots and never wanted to pay full price for them. My teammates started asking me to find them top boots at an honest price too, and every time that meant checking dozens of shops by hand: one had the price, another had the size, a third had the right soleplate. BootsTracker is that search, done automatically. It has been online since 2024.

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.