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What this site is
The Comparer reviews the software, services and hardware people pay for every month, and explains what you actually get for the money. Reviews, guides and head-to-heads — no press releases rewritten, no scores traded for a discount.
How a review gets made
We buy what we write about at the normal price, on our own card, and use it for long enough to know where it gets annoying. If a company gives us access we say so in the piece.
Everything in a sector is asked the same questions: what it costs once the introductory price ends, what it is like to live with, what breaks, and who it is not for. That is what makes two reviews a year apart worth comparing.
What we will tell you
The downsides, the pricing that only looks cheap for a year, and the cases where the free or open-source option is the sensible answer. A review that cannot name a drawback is an advert.
If a product gets worse after an update, the review changes and says why. Nothing is scored once and left.
How it pays for itself
Some links to the products we cover are affiliate links: if you buy through one, we may get a commission at no extra cost to you. It never changes a verdict, a score or the order of a list, and we do not take payment to review anything.
The commercial side, in full
Which links earn us anything, what we refuse, and what a partner can and cannot ask for.
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