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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.
IssuePilot combines issue tracking, task management and customer feedback in one tool. Clients report bugs and requests through a website widget or a personal portal link โ with annotated screenshots and browser, OS and console data attached automatically, and without needing an account. Teams triage in the inbox, plan in cycles and ship releases.
Includes projects with milestones, roadmap and timeline, subtasks, blockers and relations, time tracking with a timer, an encrypted vault for client credentials, and imports for Jira, Trello, Asana and Linear.
Free plan for up to 3 members and 100 tasks; Pro at โฌ4.90 per active member per month with a 30-day trial, no credit card. Interface in English and German. Developed and hosted in Germany, GDPR-compliant.
No GitHub/GitLab/Slack integrations, no SSO/SCIM, no AI features, no self-hosted option.
PrivacyNotes
IssuePilot.appPrivacyNotes'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.
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.
IssuePilot.app's answer:
The customer feedback channel is part of the issue tracker, not a second product bolted on.
Most small teams run a project tool and a separate feedback widget, then keep both in sync by hand. In IssuePilot it is one product: clients report through a snippet on your website or through a personal portal link โ no account needed on their side. The report arrives with an annotated screenshot plus browser, OS, viewport and console data attached, and lands in the same inbox as your internal work. From there it is a normal issue with priority, assignee, labels, blockers and a cycle.
Two smaller things that usually live in separate tools are also included: time tracking with a timer, and an encrypted vault for client credentials with an audit log.
PrivacyNotes's answer
Three reasons:
IssuePilot.app's answer:
Three concrete reasons, and one reason not to.
You replace two subscriptions with one. A project tool plus a dedicated feedback widget typically costs $40โ100 per month on top of your seats; here the widget and the client portal are part of the Pro plan, and client contacts never count towards your seat price โ you only pay for your own team members.
You can start the same day. There is no configuration project: no workflow modelling, no custom field schema. Tasks, board, list, projects and cycles work right after sign-up. Pricing is one flat rate of โฌ4.90 per active member per month, with no tiers and no seat minimum.
Your data is covered. Everything is hosted in Germany, GDPR-compliant, with a data processing agreement on request. Interface and support are available in English and German.
The reason not to choose it: if you need modelled workflows, heavy automation, SSO/SCIM, Gantt charts or GitHub/GitLab/Slack integrations, IssuePilot does not do those and they are not on the roadmap. Jira is the better fit in that case.
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.
IssuePilot.app's answer:
Teams of roughly 2 to 50 people who work on software or websites for others or on their own product.
Four groups use it most. Agencies and web teams, who need client sign-offs and change requests to stop scattering across email, chat and phone. Software teams, who want bugs, blockers, cycles and releases in one place. Product teams planning a roadmap with milestones. Support and QA, who triage incoming reports before they become tasks.
It is a poor fit for large organisations with their own process frameworks, and for anyone needing enterprise identity management.
PrivacyNotes's answer
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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.
IssuePilot.app's answer:
IssuePilot came out of a web team's own day-to-day work, not out of a corporation.
For years, feedback arrived from everywhere: by email, in chat, as a screenshot, mentioned in a meeting. Tracking down what had actually been reported regularly took longer than fixing it. No existing tool was a proper fit โ some were too heavy to set up, others had no way to collect feedback directly from a website, and almost all of them kept the data somewhere in a US cloud.
So the team built the tool it had been wishing for: one place that covers the whole path from a report to a finished task, with a widget that pulls feedback straight from the website, and with the data staying in Germany. It is developed and operated by Schneider & Liska Webservice, founded 2026.
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.
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