“While looking for tools to prepare for the test, I found most are either hard to use, full of annoying ads, or ask for a ridiculous amount of money.”
to_milon, on reddit.com ↗
Test-prep sites charge a ridiculous amount to quiz you on Canada. This one does 500 questions free, no ads, no account.
Speechify charges $29 a month to read text out loud. Earful reads your PDFs, books and photos of pages aloud on your own device, for nothing.
“The popular reading apps lock the basics behind a subscription of around $139 a year.”
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.”
Snapchat put your own old photos behind a storage plan. Snapback opens the free export in your browser and gives you the grid, the year scrubber and the flashbacks back. Nothing leaves your device.
“In 2025 Snapchat started charging for Memories storage above 5 GB.”
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