About

One person. I read privacy policies, audit reports, and transparency reports so you can read one page instead. This started as a document I kept re-sending to friends who asked "okay but what should I actually use?"; at some point a website was less work.

There's no team, no company, and no plan for either. When I write "I", it's because there's an I.

Primary sources first. Audit reports, court documents, transparency reports, source code, and pricing pages, not other people's listicles. If a claim on this site can't be traced to something verifiable, it gets hedged or cut.

Track record over feature lists. A provider that handled a subpoena well, disclosed a breach honestly, or survived an audit with grace tells you more than any comparison matrix.

Nothing here is paid for. No sponsorships, no affiliate links, no review units, no "partnerships". If I recommend something paid, I pay for it like you would. That's also why there are no coupon codes: there's nobody to give me one.

Objective means the facts are checked, the trade-offs are stated, and the comparison tables don't tilt. Opinionated means I'll still tell you where I'd start, because a wall of neutral options is its own kind of useless.

The mechanism that keeps those honest is the changelog: every recommendation change is dated and explained. When the facts change, the page changes, and you can watch it happen. No ranked lists, ever: verdict tags say who a tool is for, and a tool further down a page is not worse, it's for someone else.

Found an error, a stale price, or a dead link? Please tell me. I'm very keen on any and all criticism based on fact.

[email protected] - PGP key available on request. I'll credit corrections in the changelog unless you'd prefer I don't.

The site is static HTML: no analytics, no cookies, no third-party requests except fonts. Content is licensed CC BY-SA 4.0: share it, translate it, fork it, just keep attribution and the same license. Source is on GitHub.