“Every calorie tracker worth using wants an account, a subscription, or both, and most of them are a wrapper around the same free food database this one reads.”
4khronr6, on github.com ↗
Calorie apps charge a subscription to read a free food database back to you. Scan & Track reads it for free.
Kegel apps slip an upsell in between reps. This one counts your holds in a browser tab and asks for nothing, your data included.
“Most of what’s currently out there seems to involve upsells and/or data collection.”
Canva Pro wants a monthly fee to remove a background. Cutora does it in your browser and asks for nothing.
“While Canva keeps useful tools behind Pro plans, Cutora keeps image editing simple, fast, and accessible.”
Slack bills you per head, per month, forever. Deft puts chat, tasks and notes on your own server and bills you nothing.
“This started with three things: wanting Slack to do more, a growing resentment of SaaS bills, and getting slightly too obsessed with self-hosting.”
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