Binder vs Rune Secure Notes

Binder is your personal journal, diary, and life organiser — now on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Everything syncs seamlessly via iCloud. Capture every kind of moment in one place: notes, to-do lists, voice memos, links, events, recommendations, locations, photos, files, and daily mood entries. No other journal app gives you this much flexibility. YOUR PRIVATE DIARY Write freely in a beautiful, distraction-free editor. Binder is your space - private, personal, and always available. Use it as a daily diary, a gratitude journal, or a place to think out loud. TO-DO LISTS & DAILY PLANNER Create to-do lists with color-coded labels to prioritise at a glance. Set reminders on any entry so nothing slips through the cracks. Plan your day, track your habits, and organise your life — all in one app. FIND ANYTHING INSTANTLY Search across all your entries — notes, voice memo transcriptions, lists, links, and more. On iPhone, pull down to search. On Mac, use the dedicated Search tab with smart type suggestions. Even items inside Collections are searchable. ORGANISE WITH COLLECTIONS Group related entries into Collections — trip plans, project notes, reading lists, recipes, whatever you need. A beautiful card grid view keeps everything visual and easy to browse. CAPTURE MORE THAN TEXT - Voice memos - Photo galleries with cover images - Links that unfurl with rich previews - Locations with map thumbnails - Events with dates and details - Recommendations with star ratings - Daily mood tracking - File attachments ON EVERY DEVICE Your journal lives on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. iCloud sync was rebuilt from the ground up — changes propagate instantly and conflicts resolve gracefully. Browse from the Mac menu bar or save links straight from Safari with the Share Extension. SET REMINDERS, STAY ON TRACK Attach reminders to any entry. Reminder notifications sync across all your devices so you never miss what matters. Binder is free. No subscriptions, no ads, no tracking. Your data stays on your devices and in your private iCloud account — we never see it. Just your life, beautifully organised.

Rune is a calm, fast notes app for people who don't want to trust an app with their data. Your notes never leave your device, they are encrypted at rest, and the app makes no network connections at all. There is no account, no cloud, and no sign-up. Privacy by construction, not by promise: • No telemetry, no analytics, no crash reporting, no advertising, no tracking, none, not "anonymised", not "aggregated". • No networking code. Put your device in airplane mode and everything still works. If anything ever tries to reach the network, that is a bug. • No account and no server. There is no "we" that could hold your data. Real encryption: • Your passphrase derives a key with Argon2id; notes are sealed with XChaCha20-Poly1305 authenticated encryption. Only ciphertext is ever written to disk. • The passphrase is never stored and is not recoverable. If you forget it, your notes are gone, no reset, no backdoor. That is the price of real privacy. • A wrong passphrase simply cannot decrypt your notes. • Optional Face ID / Touch ID unlock: opt in to unlock with biometrics. Even then the passphrase is never stored — only the in-memory key is cached behind the biometric prompt. What you can do: • Create, edit, search, and organise plain-text notes with a clean, calm layout. • Auto-lock on inactivity and lock-on-background; the app starts locked. • Export an encrypted backup (safe to keep anywhere); plaintext export is gated behind an explicit warning. • Capture voice notes and transcribe them to text entirely on your device with on-device speech recognition — no audio and no transcript ever leaves your phone. Free and open source under the GNU GPLv3. The security-critical code is a small, dependency-light core so it can be read and audited. Releases ship with cryptographic provenance and are built reproducibly, so you can verify the binary was built from this source.