About us
Foldercrate is an independent software studio in Solothurn, Switzerland. No investors, no exit plan, no surveillance. Just focused products, built and run by people who answer directly to their customers.
The story
Foldercrate began in 2013 in Solothurn, Switzerland, with a conviction that sounded naive then and sounds necessary now: software can be useful, private and profitable, without outside money and without harvesting its users.
By 2015, that conviction was a product. The Foldercrate platform offered cloud storage, collaboration and email where privacy was the product, not the price you paid for it. For four years we ran it, grew it, and learned firsthand what it costs to compete with surveillance-subsidized giants on their own terms. They can give everything away for free, because their users' data pays the bill.
In 2019, we changed the strategy, not the mission. Instead of one platform fighting on every front, Foldercrate became a studio of focused, independent SaaS products. Each one does a single job completely. Each one is affordable because it's efficient, not because someone's data is subsidizing it. From 2021 the focus widened deliberately: a shared Swiss-hosting backbone, shared design standards, and a growing catalog. Bravli arrived in 2023, Uptimewolf and Snippli in 2024, Smart SEO Audit in 2025, and Logiwolf in 2026.
The plan is simple: keep building, keep improving, keep our promises.
Our creed
More than a privacy company. A stance on what the internet should be.
When we started in 2013, "privacy-focused" was enough to feel like the opposition. It isn't anymore. The threats to a healthy internet grew past data collection into something bigger: platforms that decide which voices carry, gatekeepers that lock your content inside their walls, and infrastructure that quietly treats some users better than others. We think good software should refuse all of it, not just the tracking.
So Foldercrate products are built on a wider set of commitments. Free speech: we host your links and pages, we don't editorialize them. Neutrality: every request is treated identically, with no hidden throttling or preference. No discrimination: the same tool at the same terms, whether you're in Bern or Bogotá, a solo creator or a global brand. An open web: real exports, real APIs, real standards, so you're never trapped. Privacy is the foundation. This is the house we build on it.
The principles, in plain terms
Cookieless by default, Swiss-hosted by architecture, never resold. What happens on your site stays on your site.
We're infrastructure, not a moral referee. Within the law, what you publish through our tools is your call, not ours.
Every link and request is treated the same. No shadow-throttling, no political filters, no thumb on the scale.
We don't rank users by geography, size or belief. A one-person project gets the product a global brand gets.
Open web standards, honest exports, a real API. Your data can always leave, which is exactly why people stay.
Self-funded since 2013. No investors to appease, no advertisers to please. The only interest we serve is our users'.
Since 2013
From one privacy platform to a five-product studio. The long way, on purpose.
Foldercrate starts in Solothurn, Switzerland, with the conviction that software can be useful, private and profitable without outside money.
The privacy-focused platform launches: cloud storage, collaboration and email where privacy is the product, not the price you pay for it.
The platform era ends. Foldercrate takes what four years of competing with surveillance-subsidized giants taught it and shifts toward focused, independent SaaS products.
The studio model takes shape: a shared Swiss-hosting backbone, shared design standards, and a roadmap of focused tools instead of one platform fighting on every front.
The all-in-one link platform arrives. Short links, bio pages, QR codes and file sharing on one privacy-first analytics layer. The studio has its flagship.
The catalog doubles: around-the-clock monitoring with Uptimewolf, and conversion widgets without the bloat with Snippli.
SEO auditing joins the family, with 50+ checks, AI-prioritized fixes and white-label reports, built for site owners and agencies alike.
The newest product closes the loop: cookieless web analytics, hosted in Switzerland, running on every Foldercrate website. The studio now covers links, uptime, conversion, SEO and analytics.
How we work
Five rules that survived thirteen years of temptation to break them.
A product should do one job so well that switching away feels irrational. We'd rather ship five sharp tools than one dull platform. We tried the platform, and learned.
Self-funded since 2013. No board, no burn rate, no pressure to grow faster than our customers need us to. Our roadmap answers to users, not term sheets.
Where your data lives is a design decision, not a legal footnote. Ours lives in Switzerland. Permanently, structurally, for every product we ship.
Real numbers or no numbers. Honest comparison pages that name our competitors' strengths. Pricing without dark patterns. Trust is our only marketing budget.
We run our products for the long term. Nothing gets acquired, sunset or "consolidated into a new experience". When you build on Foldercrate, you build on ground that stays put.
Sound like your kind of studio?
Five focused products, one Swiss backbone, zero compromises on your data.