ReadyList VS PrivacyNotes

ReadyList's answer

Friends and families planning something together: group trips, cabin weekends, bridal showers and weddings, moves. Usually there's one organizer who's tired of chasing everyone in the group chat.

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.

ReadyList's answer

React and TypeScript on the web, Expo (React Native) for the iPhone app, and Supabase for the backend.

PrivacyNotes's answer:

React, TypeScript, Vite and Tailwind CSS.

ReadyList's answer

Most shared list apps give everyone one big list. ReadyList gives each person their own tasks inside a shared list, so the group can see who's ready at a glance, and it puts chat and cost splitting in the same place, so a group trip doesn't need three separate apps.

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.

ReadyList's answer

Expense apps like Splitwise and Tricount handle the money but not the planning, and list apps like Google Keep handle lists but not who's responsible or who paid. ReadyList covers the whole group plan in one place: tasks with owners, progress per person, chat and shared costs. It's free, ad-free, and works on iPhone and the web in English, French and Spanish.

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.

ReadyList's answer

ReadyList is built by a solo founder who got tired of group trips where nobody knew who was bringing what. The goal is simple: a shared list where everyone owns their part, and the whole group can see what's done.

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.

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.