How a tool gets evaluated, how often a guide gets rechecked, and what happens when we get something wrong.
A tool profile goes up when Marcus has used the tool directly, not just read the marketing page. A switch-guide alternative gets named because it comes up repeatedly when people search for a way off the tool it is compared against, checked against what current users actually say in reviews and forums rather than what the alternative's own marketing claims. A use-case roundup groups the tools that keep showing up for that specific job.
Every price on this site is pulled from the vendor's own pricing page at the time of writing and carries the date it was checked. Annual-versus-monthly billing gets called out where it changes the number meaningfully. When a vendor restructures its plans, the guide gets a pricing correction rather than sitting stale until the next full rewrite; the "Updated" date on a page reflects the last time a number or a recommendation actually changed, not a cosmetic edit.
A recommendation weighs three things: whether the core feature works well against a comparable free option, whether the pricing holds up once you are past the free tier, and whether we have seen the tool actually break or lag during real use. It does not weigh how good a vendor's marketing site looks, and it is not for sale. An affiliate relationship with a vendor, where one exists, has no bearing on which tool a guide names first.
When a reader flags something wrong through the contact page, Marcus checks it against the current vendor page and updates the guide if the correction holds. Material corrections (a wrong price, a discontinued feature, a tool that changed category) get the same "Updated" date treatment as a routine pricing pass. We do not quietly edit a page to erase a mistake; if something was materially wrong, the fix is visible in the update date.
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