~/generaltext · a workspace of your own
Own your tools, not just your data. A workspace for apps you build, evolve, and keep. Use them locally or sync collaboratively, end-to-end encrypted. Open them on your desktop, phone, or browser.
The gallery
From one-shot widgets to tools you lean on every day. Keep one as it is, or change it until it's the thing you actually need.
Browse the full gallery →Installing is not borrowing. That copy is yours, running from your own folder, at the version you chose.
The app builder
Build your own apps right from General Text. Start fresh or open an app you already use. Edit, iterate, prompt - a working app appears in your sidebar, reading and writing files in your folder. No database to stand up, no account to wire, nothing to deploy.
Built the way we want our data, privacy, and code to work. Collaborative and synced. End-to-end encrypted. Local-first, over plain files you own. Offline friendly. Available across all devices. Free to make and share. Yours to keep.
The desktop app keeps a real folder of your plain files on your machine. It syncs end-to-end encrypted when you are online and keeps working when you are not. The same workspaces open in any browser and are available on mobile as a PWA.
On mobile, install it straight from your browser.
It stays yours.
The apps can't change the terms on you, retire the feature you depend on, or price you out of your own work. It all runs locally, over plain text, and you keep the version you like for as long as you like. And when it syncs, it syncs encrypted: your files are encrypted on your device before they travel, and our servers store bytes we cannot read.
You can build on your own, or tell us what you need. We're happy to build apps for people and make them available to the whole community.