Harbor is on Product Hunt today

Harbor is on Product Hunt today. Here’s the listing.

If you’ve been sitting on a question, today’s the day to ask it. I’m in the comments from midnight Pacific until they go quiet, and the harder the question the better. Nobody should move twenty years of notes into an app because a launch page was well designed.

The short version

Harbor is a private second brain. Notes, yes, but also the scanned mail, the PDFs, the photos of whiteboards, the kids’ report cards, the recording of the meeting you’ll need three years from now. All of it in one place, all of it searchable. Search reads the words inside photos and scanned PDFs, and it reads handwriting. A recording becomes a transcript you can search too.

It runs natively on Mac, Windows, iPhone, iPad, Android and the web, and there’s a command line if you’re that kind of person. Every app signs into the same library. Everything works offline.

If you’re leaving Evernote, the import is one step. Notebooks, tags, checklists, attachments, web clips.

The part we’d want you to check

Anyone can promise privacy and permanence. The pricing page is where you find out who a company thinks you are.

So ours is in writing. Harbor is one plan, $9.99 a month or $99 a year, with a free plan to start. Your price doesn’t go up for three years after you subscribe, and after that it can’t rise more than 10% a year. Stop paying and your account goes read-only. You can still read everything, export everything, and delete everything. That promise is a dated blog post, it’s in the terms, and it’s written into every new account as a note the day you join.

What Harbor isn’t

It isn’t for teams. There’s no shared workspace, no admin console, no enterprise tier coming. It’s a personal product and it’s staying one.

It doesn’t have a built-in AI. You already pay for ChatGPT or Claude, and either is better than anything we’d bolt on. Harbor gives them a door instead: an open API, a CLI, and an MCP server, so your AI can search and organize your notes while you keep the keys.

And encryption is optional, not on by default. That’s deliberate. When you encrypt a note we genuinely can’t read it, which also means we can’t search inside it or OCR it. So you encrypt the tax returns and the medical records, and leave the rest fully searchable. Here’s the trade-off spelled out.

About us

Harbor is built by Cloudmanic Labs, a self-funded software company that’s been shipping and running products for more than twenty years. We built Harbor because we’d watched what happens to a second brain when the company behind it changes hands, and we thought the original promise deserved to be kept by someone with a track record long enough to keep it.

Come say hello. We’re on Product Hunt today.