How PrivacyNotes and PrivacyTools.io are connected

Lifetime Labs builds privacy software, and it part-owns the place where privacy software gets found. This page explains how that fits together.

Since 2015

PrivacyTools.io has been helping people replace Big Tech since 2015, longer than almost anything else in this space. That’s where the experience behind Lifetime Labs comes from: a decade of testing and recommending privacy software before building any. The site has history, including a public split years ago; it outlasted it, and that’s the last we’ll say about it. We build for this audience because we are this audience.

One roof

Lifetime Labs LLC and PrivacyTools.io share ownership, by design. We tell you to block ad networks, so we were never going to buy our distribution from them. We own it instead: the directory reaches people who already want out, and our apps live under the same roof.

The honest consequence: when PrivacyNotes appears on PrivacyTools.io, that’s first-party coverage. Read it as us showing you our own work.

Private by default

There’s no team page because we don’t publish information that doesn’t need to be public, and that rule covers us too. No names, no photos, no locations, no headcount. The product carries the trust here: code, architecture, and verification you can run yourself.

Run the verification

PrivacyNotes is open-core. The core is public, and the encryption verification script lets you confirm that notes are encrypted on your device before anything leaves it. No account required, no word-taking required.

Open-sourcing the apps and an independent audit are on our roadmap. We ship milestones, not promises.

Less about us, more you can check. That’s the trade, and we’re glad to be judged on it.