Plainsight vs Pyramid Notes

PlainSight: The Disguised Note Vault Keep your most sensitive notes completely invisible to everyone else. No obvious PIN pads. No suspicious lock screens. Just total privacy, hidden in plain sight. PlainSight looks and functions like a beautiful, minimal note-taking app on the surface—perfect for daily tasks, grocery lists, and quick thoughts. But underneath its calm interface holds a powerful secret. By typing your own custom secret command phrase directly into a standard note field, PlainSight instantly unlocks your hidden workspaces. To an outside observer or anyone browsing your phone, your private vaults don't even exist. HOW IT WORKS: THE SECRET KNOCK CREATE YOUR TRIGGER Choose absolutely any secret phrase or word like .banana, ..manage, or a custom string of text. TYPE TO REVEAL Type your secret phrase anywhere in the text field to instantly slide open your private workspaces. TOTAL PLAUSIBLE DENIABILITY PlainSight doesn't broadcast that you have something to hide. There are no "Incorrect Password" errors or biometric pop-ups to raise suspicion if you hand your phone to a friend, colleague, or family member. POWERFUL PRIVACY, MINIMALIST DESIGN WRITE WITH CLARITY Open instantly into a clean, distraction-free editor. No toolbars, no clutter—just a smooth, fast writing space that stays out of your way. ORGANIZE EFFORTLESSLY Group your sensitive data using lightweight tags and categories. Keep your personal journals, account numbers, business ideas, or travel itineraries meticulously structured. SECURE EMAIL RECOVERY Forget your secret word? Don't panic. You can securely reset your access via an encrypted recovery code sent to your email. Your notes remain completely local, encrypted, and yours—but you'll never be locked out. SECURE REAL-TIME COLLABORATION Need to share a shopping list with a partner or collaborate on a private project with a teammate? Turn any workspace into a shared space. PlainSight syncs instantly across devices in real time, giving you seamless multi-user collaboration without the bloat of heavy corporate productivity tools. FEATURES BUILT TO STAY INVISIBLE Fast writing tools and clean formatting Custom tags and categories Real-time multi-user collaboration Archive, delete, and restore controls Secure workspace management Smooth, instant cloud sync NO SUBSCRIPTIONS. NO SURPRISES. PlainSight is fully free for simple, personal note-taking. If you want advanced power—including multi-user shared workspaces, unlimited hidden spaces, and full real-time cloud sync across devices—unlock everything with a single, small, one-time upgrade. No monthly fees, ever. Protect your thoughts with absolute discretion. Download PlainSight and secure your notes today.

Pyramid is a quiet and private place to write your notes, synced automatically between your phone and Mac. You write. It saves. Everything lives as plain Markdown on disk. Real .md files in iCloud Drive, sitting in a folder you can open in Finder and read with anything. Notes, lists, half-formed thoughts, the daily log you keep meaning to keep. All your own data, completely portable and yours. The formatting stays visible while you write, so a heading looks like a heading and a bullet looks like a bullet, and nothing hides behind a menu. Turn the syntax off if you'd rather not see it. Put a checkbox anywhere and it becomes a todo. Pyramid finds them all, across every file, and tells you which line each one came from. Tag things. Nest the tags if it helps: personal can have daily underneath it. Search reads the insides of your files, not just their names. It syncs through iCloud on its own. Nothing to set up, no account to make, no settings to go and find. A small number of things, done plainly, and then it gets out of the way so you can focus on your work.