Editorial Independence & Disclosure
We take no money from the companies we test. Here is what that means in practice, and how the site pays for itself instead.
Last updated: 2026-08-13
The commitments
Every one of these is a standing rule, not an aspiration.
- We do not accept payment for coverage. No sponsored posts, no paid reviews, no “featured tool” slots, no paid inclusion in a comparison, and no payment to change or remove a published verdict. There is no price for any of these, because they are not for sale.
- We do not accept vendor-supplied accounts. We sign up like any other user. We use free tiers where a free tier exists, and where a test needs a paid plan we buy it ourselves. If we ever do accept a comped account — for a tool with no free tier and no self-serve purchase, say — the article will say so in its opening section, not in a footnote.
- We use no affiliate links. No referral codes, no commission, no revenue share on a signup. Every link to a tool is a plain link. If that ever changes, this page will say so before any such link is published, and affected articles will be labeled individually.
- Vendors get no advance look. No pre-publication review, no embargo arrangements, no approval of quotes or screenshots. A vendor finds out what we published when you do.
- We publish failures. When a tool loses, we show it losing, at full size, including the outputs vendors would crop. A test we ran and did not like is still published.
- We own no stake in the tools we test and do not sell software, services or consulting to the companies behind them.
How the site is funded
Display advertising, served by Google AdSense, is our only planned source of revenue. As of 2026-08-13 the site carries no advertising yet and has earned nothing. Testing costs us money — paid plans, credits, and the time to run every tool through the same task — and ads are how we intend to cover it without taking a cent from the companies under test.
Which ads you see is decided by Google's automated systems and your own browser settings, not by us. We do not choose advertisers, we cannot exclude a specific one from appearing beside a critical review, and we are not told which companies bought the space. It is entirely possible to see an ad for a tool that came last in the test on the page immediately below the result. That is how programmatic advertising works, and it has no effect on what we publish. What advertising touches on the technical side is covered in our privacy policy.
Why you should still check our work
Independence is a claim, and claims are cheap. The reason to believe this one is that our articles are built so you do not have to take it on trust: we publish every raw output at full size, state the exact input each tool received, and date every price and usage limit to the day we verified it. Our full method is on the How We Test page. If our conclusion does not follow from the evidence on the page, the evidence is right there for you to say so.
Corrections
These tools change weekly. Prices move, free tiers shrink, model updates change output quality, and a result that was accurate on the test date can go stale. Every article states when it was tested. When something is wrong or has changed materially, we correct the article and note the change and its date rather than quietly editing it.
If you work for a company we tested and we got something wrong, send evidence to xezw211@gmail.com and we will check it and correct the record at no charge. What we will not do is take payment, remove a critical result, or hand you a preview of an upcoming test.
Who to contact
Questions about independence, funding, or a specific article go to xezw211@gmail.com. More on what to send is on the contact page.