How we review

One rule above all: we never invent a number. Every price, cap and claim in our reviews is pulled from the vendor's own published pages, dated, and backed by evidence you can check. And when the honest answer is “skip it” — that's the verdict you'll read.

The method, step by step

Live pricing research. We open the vendor's own pricing page (rendered in a real browser, so JavaScript-built pages and regional pricing don't fool us) and record tiers, meters, billing conditions and trial terms — with the year attached.
The dossier. Every tool gets the same five-part treatment: real pricing · the honest knock (the catch the sales page won't tell you) · who it's genuinely best for · who should skip it · and the natural head-to-head comparison.
Evidence screenshots. Reviews carry dated captures of the vendor's own pricing page and product — shown as evidence for the figures above, marked with when we took them, and refreshed automatically.
Bottom line up front. Every review opens with the verdict in two sentences — worth it for whom, skip it when — so you can decide in ten seconds whether to read on.
The same dossier everywhere. Our video reviews, comparison pages and the Honest Software Atlas are all generated from the same researched dossier — one source of truth, no channel where the story conveniently changes.

What we never do

No invented numbers. If a price isn't public, we say so — we don't guess.
No third-party star ratings. We don't launder other people's scores into authority. Our claims carry their own evidence.
No pay-to-say. Vendors can't buy a verdict, a ranking, or the removal of an honest knock. Marketplace listings by vendors are always labeled as vendor-submitted.
No vendor copy-paste. Partner announcements are verified against the live product before a word reaches a review.

Corrections — public, dated, fast

When we get something wrong, we fix it quickly and say so on the page, with a dated correction note — not a silent edit. Vendors are welcome to flag inaccuracies; the fastest way is a reply through any of our partner channels or the contact route on our About page. Recent example: when a vendor pointed out our pricing framing was outdated, the review, its screenshot and the video were corrected within a day — with the note to prove it.

How we make money — and why it doesn't bend the verdict

Reviews contain affiliate links: if you buy through them, we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. Every review discloses this. The reason it doesn't bend the verdict is structural: our “skip it if” sections and critical knocks apply to paying partners exactly as to anyone else — you'll find them on every single review, including our best-earning ones. An honest “skip it” today is why you'll trust the “worth it” tomorrow.

Reader reviews

Readers can leave their own experience on every review page. Critical reviews are published — our only filter is spam. We don't aggregate them into a score while the volume is small, because a rating built on three opinions is a number pretending to be data.

Who does this

The research and every verdict come from Daan (Daniel Haket) — twenty years in international banking (trade finance, operations, risk & control) before building this platform on the tools he actually runs. The ex-banker filter is simple: does a tool remove a real cost bigger than what it charges?