Trust before clicks

How we review lifetime software

A large discount is not a verdict. We separate vendor facts, marketplace terms, and editorial judgment so you can see what is known—and what still needs scrutiny.

01Canonical products

One product page can contain multiple marketplace offers.

02Freshness labels

Verification status is based on the offer check date.

03Limits first

Usage caps and exclusions appear beside the benefits.

Our publication standard

A product becomes public only after it has a canonical identity, a complete editorial review, at least one traceable offer, and a comparable recurring alternative. Imported listings that do not meet this standard remain unpublished candidates.

Verification labels

A source outage preserves the previous record. It does not automatically turn an offer into an expired deal.

Editorial confidence

Confidence reflects the completeness and consistency of public evidence: vendor identity, support access, tier terms, refund terms, and the stability of the published deal page. It is not a prediction that a vendor will survive indefinitely.

Break-even and savings

We select a reasonable subscription alternative for each product or capability and record its monthly price and verification date. Break-even is the one-time stack total divided by the selected alternatives' combined monthly cost, rounded up to a whole month. Estimated savings at 12, 24, or 36 months equals recurring cost over that period minus the one-time cost.

These are planning estimates. Taxes, currency conversion, add-ons, migration effort, promotions, and future price changes are excluded.

Automated marketplace checks

Dealify, ProductCanyon, and RocketHub adapters may update known offer fields after validation. New products and uncertain duplicate matches are not published automatically. Large price swings, unsafe destinations, missing required values, or unusual record-count drops stop the update for review.

Corrections

If a product page is wrong or stale, contact the editorial team with the product name, source URL, and the field that needs correction. Material corrections update the editorial date.