You've been burned before.
We get it.

Your data leaves when you do

The reason leaving Notion feels painful isn't the price — it's that your data is trapped in their database in a format only they can read. That's not a coincidence. It's a business model.

VaultWeb is built on the opposite premise. Your vault is plain .md files. Every note you write is a file you already own. You can export everything as a .zip at any time — subscribed, on trial, or on an expired account. Your data remains fully readable and exportable regardless of your payment status, forever.

Open your vault in Obsidian. Open it in VS Code. Open it in Notepad. We don't get a vote.

What this means in practice: if VaultWeb disappeared tomorrow, you'd lose the web interface. You'd keep every note you ever wrote, in a format every text editor on earth understands.

Private means private

Every note-taking app says it takes privacy seriously. Here's the difference between a policy and an architecture.

When you log in to VaultWeb, your password never leaves your device. Instead, it's used to derive an encryption key using PBKDF2 — a standard key derivation function — entirely in your browser. That key encrypts every note, every attachment, every file before it's sent anywhere. VaultWeb's servers receive ciphertext. Encrypted bytes. Nothing readable.

This means:

• VaultWeb employees cannot read your notes — not because policy says they can't, but because they don't have the key
• If VaultWeb receives a legal order demanding your data, what we can hand over is encrypted blobs that are useless without your password
• If VaultWeb were breached, the attacker would get encrypted data they cannot decrypt

Your recovery key — shown once when you create your account — is the only way to regain access if you forget your password. We cannot reset it for you. This is a deliberate design choice, not a gap we haven't got around to fixing.

We built VaultWeb so that trusting us is optional. The privacy isn't contingent on our good intentions. It's in the architecture.

Your vault in any browser. No install required.

Obsidian is excellent software. It's also a desktop application you have to install, sync separately, and can't easily open on a work computer, a hotel laptop, or a tablet you don't own.

VaultWeb is the product Obsidian has said they won't build — a web-native vault that works in any browser without installing anything. Your existing Obsidian vault — every wikilink, every tag, every folder — drops in and works. Nothing to rebuild, no migration cost, no learning curve.

• Open your vault from a browser at work without installing software
• Pick up on your phone exactly where you left off on your laptop
• After your first visit, the app keeps working even without a connection — edits queue locally and sync when you're back online
• Available in English, French, German, and Spanish from day one

Set up in three minutes

Create an account. Choose how you want to use VaultWeb — start fresh, import an existing vault, or install a ready-made system. Start writing.

No plugins to configure. No settings to learn before you can use it. No tutorial required before it feels useful. The editor is familiar if you've used Obsidian, Bear, or any Markdown tool. If you haven't, it works the way you'd expect a writing tool to work.

The 30-day trial is full access to everything — all features, all systems, no limitations. No card required to start.

More than notes — without more complexity

VaultWeb ships with four purpose-built systems you can install in one click: a Focus system designed around ADHD workflows, a Personal CRM for relationship tracking, a Book Writing workspace for long-form work, and a Cookbook for private recipe management.

Each system is plain Markdown files in your vault — encrypted, portable, and fully yours. There's no separate subscription, no additional product to learn, and nothing you have to install if you don't need it.

This is the part of VaultWeb that no other note tool offers: structured, opinionated systems that adapt to how you think, not the other way around.

On pricing — the honest version

We can't promise prices will never change. Infrastructure costs are real and we won't pretend otherwise. What we can promise is that your decision to stay will always be yours to make freely.

Your vault is plain Markdown files you can export in one click and take anywhere. We have to earn your subscription every year. We can't hold your data hostage to do it.

For those who want certainty: the Pioneer plan is a one-time payment that covers VaultWeb for as long as it exists. No future price changes affect you. It's available to a limited number of early adopters while seats remain — the people who bet on VaultWeb before the crowd.

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