Why we are building this
A short manifesto, and the reasoning we keep coming back to.
Most software you rely on is engineered around a business model that needs your attention or your data. Numori is an attempt to build the same tools around a much duller model: you pay a small amount, we run the service well, and nothing else happens.
The manifesto
Privacy is an architecture, not a policy page
A privacy policy is a promise about what a company will choose to do. Encryption and local-first storage are statements about what it is able to do. We prefer the second kind and design so that the tempting option is not technically available to us.
Open source has to include the servers
Publishing a client while the server stays closed proves very little: the interesting decisions happen where you cannot see them. Every Numori server is public under the AGPL-3.0, which is why we can reasonably ask to be trusted, and why you do not have to.
Refusing AI is a feature
We are not against the technology in the abstract. We are against what it currently requires: your private data moved somewhere it can be processed, a running cost that has to be recovered from you, and a category of feature nobody asked for arriving switched on. So there is none of it, anywhere, and there will not be.
Software should be finished, not fed
A note-taking app does not need a quarterly redesign. We would rather ship fewer, better-considered releases and spend the difference on correctness, accessibility and speed than manufacture activity to look alive.
Accessibility is not an extra
Keyboard navigation, screen-reader support, sensible contrast, reduced-motion handling and real translations are part of the definition of finished. If it only works for someone using a mouse, with perfect vision, in English, it is not finished.
Fair price, no dark patterns
One subscription for everything, cancellation that takes one click, no countdown timers, no interstitials asking whether you are sure you want to leave, and no price rise aimed at people already signed up.
Leaving should be easy
Every app exports everything, in formats other software can read, without a support ticket. If we have to trap you to keep you, we have already failed at the actual job.
Who is building it
A very small team, working carefully rather than quickly. Numori is developed in the open by Erik Bjerke with Yaiza Wadhwani Valderas and TheProcedural Software Ltd, and every repository takes contributions.
Check the claims
This page makes a lot of assertions. All of them are testable against the source code, including the source of this website.