Disclosure.

Some “Visit” buttons on tool pages use affiliate links. If you click one and end up paying for the tool, the vendor pays us a commission. You pay the same price either way.

Affiliate revenue has no effect on rankings. The ranking math doesn’t know which tools have affiliate programs, and most tools in the directory don’t have one. Affiliate links carry a rel="sponsored" attribute, which is the standard way to declare them to search engines.

Two kinds of reviews appear on tool pages. User reviewsare written by signed-in visitors. We don’t edit them, and one account gets one review per tool.

Editorial reviewsare written by our team. We research what real users say about a tool on public platforms — G2, Trustpilot, Reddit, app stores — and distill that sentiment into short reviews so that pages aren’t empty while our community is young. They carry the persona of a typical user (a teacher, a developer) rather than a real person’s name. Every editorial review is labeledEditorialon the page.

Editorial reviews don’t move rankings. A tool’s position comes from its popularity score, not from review counts or review averages.

The 👍 number on a tool combines two things: real saves from signed-in users, plus a baseline derived from the tool’s popularity score (the same 0–100 score that drives rankings).

We use a baseline because raw counts on a young site would show 0–3 for everything, which tells you nothing. The baseline is deterministic — the same for every visitor, computed from public market position — and real saves add on top of it. As the community grows, real saves will dominate the number.