Methodology
How we check
Every category on this site is built around a single question, and the question is always a version of the same one: on the free or cheapest plan, what can you actually walk away with? A category that cannot be given that question in a checkable form does not get published here.
The question, per category
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AI Meeting & Transcription Tools
On the free plan, can you export the full transcript as a file you keep — or does download only unlock when you pay?
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AI Coding Assistants
On the free tier, is your code used to train models — and if it is, can you turn that off without upgrading?
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AI Voice & Text-to-Speech
Audio you generate on the free plan — can you use it commercially, must you credit the vendor, or is it non-commercial only?
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AI Resume Builders
After you finish the resume on the free plan, does the PDF download — or does a paywall appear at the download button?
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AI Presentation Tools
Does a deck exported on the free plan carry the vendor's branding — and what is the cheapest plan that removes it?
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General AI Assistants
On the free tier, do your conversations train the model by default — and can you switch that off without paying?
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Screen Recording Tools
On the free plan, can you download the recording as a video file you keep — and how long can each recording run before it stops?
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AI Subtitle & Caption Tools
On the free plan, can you download the subtitle file itself — and does the exported video carry the vendor's watermark?
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Online PDF Tools
On the free tier, how many documents can you process before it stops — and does the file come back clean?
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Background Removal Tools
On the free plan, does the finished cutout download at full resolution — or only as a reduced preview?
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AI Logo Makers
After the generator makes a logo you like, does a free account download a vector file — or does nothing leave until you pay?
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Writing Correction Tools
On the free plan, how much text can you run through it in one go — and do you see the corrected text, or only a count of problems?
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Website Builders
On the free plan, can the site go live on your own domain without the builder's badge — and can you export the code and leave?
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Form Builders
On the free plan, how many responses can you collect before the form stops — and can you remove the vendor's branding?
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Translation Tools
On the free plan, can you translate a whole document and download the translated file — and how many before it stops?
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AI Image Upscalers
On the free plan, does the upscaled image download at full size without a watermark — or is the free output marked, shrunk, or counted?
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Newsletter Platforms
On the free plan, how many subscribers before sending stops — and can you export the list and leave?
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AI Chatbot Builders
On the free plan, how many conversations does the bot answer before it stops — and can you export the transcripts it collected?
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AI Research Assistants
On the free plan, how much can you run through it — and can you export the results into your own reference manager?
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AI Music Generators
Music you generate on the free plan — does the file download at all, and may you use it commercially?
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Whiteboard & Diagramming Tools
On the free plan, how many boards stay usable — and does a board export as a file you own?
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E-Signature Services
On the free plan, how many documents can you get signed — and does the completed PDF download with its audit trail?
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AI Video Generators
Video you generate on the free plan — does it download without a vendor watermark, and may you use it commercially?
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Browser Development Environments
On the free plan, how much compute do you get before it stops — and is there a documented way to get your code out?
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Note & Document Apps
Can you get everything you wrote out in a format readable without this app — and where do the notes actually live?
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Project & Task Management
On the free plan, can you export your tasks as a structured file you can open somewhere else?
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Password Managers
On the free plan, can you export the entire vault in a format another password manager can read?
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Time Tracking Tools
On the free plan, do your hours come out as data you can compute on — and for how many people?
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Scheduling & Booking Tools
On the free plan, can you send someone a booking page that does not carry the vendor's name?
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Cloud Storage & File Transfer
How long do files on the free plan survive before the vendor deletes them?
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CRM Software
On the free plan, can you export your contact records as a file you keep — and how many records before it stops?
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Web Analytics Tools
How long is your data kept before the vendor deletes it — and can you export the raw rows?
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AI Image Generators
Images you generate on the free tier — may you use them commercially, and does the file come back unmarked?
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Invoicing Tools
On the free plan, can you send a client an invoice that carries no vendor branding — and what does removing it cost?
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Two-Factor Authenticator Apps
Can you export your 2FA secrets in a form another authenticator can read?
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Static Hosting Platforms
When a free site reaches its stated limit, does the host stop serving it — or can it charge you?
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Email Providers
On the free plan, can your mailbox reach another client through IMAP or POP — or leave as a documented export file?
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Design Tools
On the free plan, can your work leave in a format another tool can open without a documented output condition?
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Podcast Hosting Platforms
When you leave a podcast host, does it document both a feed redirect for subscribers and a way to retrieve your audio files?
Where the answers come from
Only from the vendor. We open the product's own pricing page, terms of service, or help documentation, read the sentence ourselves, quote it, link it, and stamp it with the date we read it. We do not take numbers from roundups or aggregators, because a wrong number propagates between them faster than any of them corrects it.
Each verdict says which kind of evidence it rests on. Read on the vendor's own page means we read the vendor's sentence — a primary source, but not us using the product. We ran this ourselves means we performed the action and watched what happened. Those are different claims and this site never merges them into one word.
What the three verdicts mean
The mark next to each verdict draws the same thing every time: a boundary, and whether the thing you made crossed it. Below the line means it left with you. Sitting on the line means it left with a condition attached. Above an unbroken line means it did not leave without payment. A dashed line means we could not confirm what happens, so we draw nothing.
Why some values are blank
If a vendor does not state something, the field stays empty and the page says so. Several products on this site have blank prices because their own pricing page rendered no number for us, or priced only in the local currency of wherever the page was served. A blank is a fact about the vendor's page. A plausible-looking estimate would be a fact about us.
How these pages are produced
Large language models are used to produce these pages, and we would rather say so here than have you wonder. What they are used for is narrow and worth being precise about, because the part that matters — whether a number is true — is not left to them.
Every value starts as a sentence on a vendor's own page. It is stored with the URL it was read from and the date it was read, and the site's schema rejects a verdict that arrives without both: a claim with no source does not build. A sample of values is then re-opened independently against the live vendor page and compared before publication — that is how the contradiction in one vendor's pricing page, which lists two different prices for the same plan, ended up recorded rather than silently resolved.
What models are not used for: inventing a number that a page did not show, filling a blank with something plausible, or describing a product we have not opened the pages of. Those are the failure modes this whole site is arranged against, and they are the reason so many fields here are empty. Every verdict also states which kind of evidence it rests on, so reading a vendor's sentence is never presented as having used the product.
Corrections
Prices change, plan tables get rewritten, and a page that was accurate in August is not automatically accurate in November. Every review carries a change log, and corrections are published there rather than edited in silently. If something here is wrong, out of date, or reads as if we tested something we only read about, write to support@movoai.app and we will re-check it against the vendor's page.