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I’m not that tech savvy when it comes to encryption, so I’m going to take Henry’s word for it that Notesnook is private. As of today I see no reason not to trust that this app is private. I don’t have a question to ask but I do have some suggestions for the website. You’re free to reject any of my proposals but I’d like to hear your rationale if you do.

Suggestions

FAQs

Under FAQs the answer to “Why not free?” should be altered. Right now it says:

“Yes. Because: Free is not private and privacy is not free. Anyone offering privacy for free is scamming you to sell your data. Why? Because every service out there has a business model. There is no free in business models because businesses need money to run. If they don’t earn, they don’t run.”

This sentence is confusing and hard to read. Saying “Free is not private” is wrong. Many services have a free product included in their business model, like ProtonVPN or Windscribe, and your very website has a free tier so I propose this:

Usually if you’re not paying for the product you’re the product. Companies like Facebook and Google offer free products at the expense of your Privacy; that is their business model. We do offer a free tier for Notesnook, but we offset the costs of that with the money we get from our paying customers. That is our business model.

I feel like this answer is more concise and readable. Plus who doesn’t love throwing shade at Google and FB?

Yes, you can cancel your monthly/yearly subscription at any time. Check this guide to learn how to cancel your subscription.

This is the answer to “Can I cancel my subscription at anytime?” and it should have a hyperlink on “guide”, right now it doesn’t.

When I click on your blog at the top of the website it goes to https://blog.notesnook.com/, but when I click blog at the bottom I get sent to https://blog.streetwriters.co/, which is not the same thing. The social media URLs on the bottom of the page are set to “streetwriters”, not Notesnook. I’m assuming this is left over from whatever website template you guys used to make the site. If that’s the case, then it sounds like development of the website is very rushed.

Conclusion

I can go on, but from what I’ve seen it’s obvious you’re not a native English speaker; which isn’t a bad thing. (I’m assuming you speak some dialect of Arabic as your first language.) I just think the website would be a lot more nicer if someone else could go through all the grammar. There are a lot of inconsistencies that need to be polished for the website to be perfect. This entire reply is probably going to come off harsh but I’d like to see this app succeed, and one of the first steps is fixing the site. I hope you guys only get better with time, and thanks for making the app in the first place! I know development isn’t easy.