Shortlists worth trusting, including the one about us.

Most pages ranking for “X alternatives” are paid per signup, which is why they list nine tools, praise all nine, and put the best commission first. These pages take the opposite bet: each one names the job it is ranking for, puts the tool that genuinely fits that job first even when it is not ours, and gives every tool a stated flaw.

That includes the list of alternatives to Autotube. Somebody is going to write it either way, so it may as well be the version that tells you accurately when another tool is the better purchase — and prints our own prices rather than a guess at them.

Every price, cap and policy attributed to another company was read from that company’s own pricing or terms page, and each entry prints the date it was read next to a link to the live source. Where their page does not state something, these pages say “not stated” instead of estimating it.