Too many privacy-focused tools ask you to compromise on an important part of modern software: a great user experience. Clunky screens, keys to manage by hand, features that were missing. So most people never switched, and their data stayed readable by whoever ran the server.
We think security only helps the people who actually use it. So in jellysuite the encryption happens quietly in the background, and what you see is a modern app you'd pick even if it weren't private. Writing a document, planning a week or dropping in a folder of photos should feel good.
When something does need your attention, like saving your recovery key or comparing safety words, we explain it once, in plain words, and then get out of the way.
Promises you can hold us to.
What you write, send and store is encrypted on your device before it reaches us, with keys only you hold. So we can't read it, sell it or train a model on it, and neither can anyone who asks us to. Where a server does need to see something, the transparency page says exactly what.
No ads, no tracking and no selling anything about you. We don't take money from anyone who'd want us to change that. Subscriptions pay for the servers, the people, the community and the next feature.
Everything you store sits on our servers in Germany and Finland, run by a small company in Germany, under European law. You always know where your work is and whose rules apply to it.
You'll get at least six months' notice and a full export of your mail, pages, spreadsheets, files and calendars, unlocked on your own device. And we'll release the server as a free open source version, so you or anyone you trust can keep running it.
The encryption library and the client core are open source today, so anyone can see how your keys are made. The apps will follow. Trust should come from reading the code, not from a promise on a website.
Some organisations can't put their data on anyone else's computer, however it's encrypted. The on-prem edition is on its way: the same apps on your hardware, with your existing mail server if you have one.
Not all of this is finished yet. See what's coming
A free plan sounds generous, but servers, storage and people still cost money every month. Somebody always pays.
Usually it's one of two people. Either it's you, through your data and your attention, which is the one thing an encrypted service must never sell. Or it's investors, covering the bill until they need their money back. That's when free plans shrink, ads appear, or the company gets sold or shut down.
So we charge a fair price from the first day: from €4 a month. It's the only arrangement where the people who pay us and the people we work for are the same people.