Every cloud tool for salespeople is a copy of your book of business in somebody else’s database. youdou is the other way round: the app runs on your machine, and the only copy of your records is the one on your disk.
youdou is the local-first alternative to cloud sales tools: the app runs on your machine and the only copy of your records — accounts, people, mail, notes, deals, documents — is one SQLite file in your user folder. Credentials are sealed at rest with a key that lives only on your machine, there is no youdou server holding your book, every click reads a local file instead of a server, an egress ledger lists every outbound call the app can make, and the free tier is the whole app rather than a trial.
Everything — accounts, people, mail, notes, deals, documents — is one SQLite file in your user folder. Copy it. Back it up. Put it on a second machine. Open it with any SQLite tool. Walk away with it.
Mail passwords, API keys and tokens are encrypted with a key that lives only on your machine. The app never asks us to hold them and we could not read them if it did.
There is no youdou database of your customers to breach, subpoena, mine or throttle. The only things that touch our servers are the ones you publish on purpose — a zone, an event page — scoped to that one thing.
Every click reads a local file, not a server across the country. Pages render in milliseconds; search is instant at thousands of records; the plane, the dead zone and the hotel wifi do not matter.
The app ships a list of every outbound call it can make and why — mail servers you configured, the AI provider you chose, the pages you published. Nothing else leaves, and the map fetches no tiles unless you switch that on.
The free tier is the whole app, not a trial. A paid tier that ends takes hosting and sharing with it and nothing else; your file keeps opening the next morning exactly as it did.
Where the data cannot leave the building, an app that never sends it anywhere is not a compromise — it is the only design that fits. No server means no business-associate agreement to negotiate, no data-processing addendum, no residency question. The records stay where the regulation already says they should.
Local first is a rule with a short, published list of exceptions, each one something you did on purpose.
In a single SQLite database file in your user folder on your own computer. Copy it, back it up, put it on a second machine, open it with any SQLite tool, or walk away with it.
No. There is no youdou database of your customers to breach, subpoena, mine or throttle. The only things that reach our servers are pages you publish on purpose — a zone or an event page — and each carries only the snapshot you chose.
Nothing. A paid tier that ends takes hosting and sharing with it and nothing else. Your file keeps opening the next morning exactly as it did; the free tier is the whole app, not a trial.
Yes. Every page reads a local file, so the app is fully usable on a plane, in a dead zone or on hotel wifi. Mail sync, AI calls and published pages resume when you are connected.
Healthcare, legal, financial advisory, accounting, mortgage and lending, consulting and real estate — anywhere client data should not leave the building. No server means no business-associate agreement, data-processing addendum or residency question to negotiate.
Only what you set up: your own mailbox traffic to your provider, AI requests on the route you chose, zones and shares you explicitly publish, and a licence check carrying your install id. The app logs every outbound request in Settings → Where your data goes.
Download, open, and your file exists. Delete the app and the file is still yours.