Is it really free?
ReallyFree puts a dot next to the results you were going to click. Green means you get everything you need. Yellow means something is missing. Red means it costs money. You find out before you spend an hour on it.
The extension is finished and in review at the Chrome Web Store. The moment the listing is live, this button turns on. Ask us to tell you when it is, and in the meantime the collection works today, in any browser, with nothing installed.
Free should mean you can finish the job and keep what you made. Advanced extras can cost money. Getting your own work out shouldn't.
That is the whole rule. Read the standard we judge by.
Five marks. That's all there is.
Three colours, one dash, one question mark. The colour is the verdict; the word beside it says what the catch is. Every time we're tempted to add a colour, we add a word instead.
Green — you get everything you need
Finish the job, keep what you made. The word beside the dot names what it asks of you instead of money: ads account open source 5 a day
Yellow — something's missing
You can't keep what you made, or you only got part of the tool: watermark no export features locked personal only
Red — it costs money
A paywall, a subscription, a card up front, or a trial with a clock running. A paid product with a sample is still a paid product.
Grey dash — nothing to judge
An article, a review, a list of ten best things. It isn't offering you anything, so we don't give it a verdict.
Blue question mark — we haven't looked yet
Tap it and we'll go and check, then email you the answer. We never guess a colour to fill a gap.
We judge ourselves too. We come out yellow.
reallyfree.app — yellow, limits. Our own free use is capped, so under our own rules we are not green. A test in our build fails if we ever render ourselves green.
We also judge from the United States. Prices and availability differ by country, so we can be wrong about where you are — tell us when we are.
The collection — the things that really are free
Every site we've judged, in one list you can sort, filter and click through. No install, no account, nothing to set up. If we've missed something, there's a box on that page and a person reads it.
The ReallyFree Collective
The dots stay free for everyone, forever. Members keep the lights on, and we keep watching the sites they care about — so they hear the day a free tool starts charging. 5% of what members pay goes to a children's technology-access charity.
Join the collective — $9.95 a year