The six verdicts
No card, no account wall, no meaningful catch. Use it and go.
A real permanent free plan. Signup and fair limits — but no clock and no card.
A free tier exists, but it's shaped to squeeze you toward paying.
Card up front. It bills you automatically unless you cancel in time.
Marketed as free. It isn't — you pay in money, data, or bandwidth.
People search for a free version. There isn't one.
How we score
Two numbers accompany every stamp. The Free Score (0–100) measures how free it actually is, on a fixed rubric: cards up front, auto-billing, hard time cutoffs, deliberately withheld core features, and paying with your data or attention all cost points. The bands: 90–100 truly free, 70–89 free forever with fair limits, 45–69 a squeezed free tier, 15–44 trial mechanics, below 15 fake or nonexistent.
The Value score (0–10) is editorial: how much real-world worth the free offering delivers, anchored to what the paid equivalent costs. A trap trial can still score a few value points — a kept audiobook is a kept audiobook — and a perfectly free tool can score modestly if it does one small job. Rankings on every page sort by Free Score first, value second.
What we check
For every listing we answer the same questions: Does it ask for a card before you can start? Does anything bill automatically? Do you need an account at all? What are the real limits of the free version — time, features, storage, usage? And when the price is zero, what is actually paying the bills: ads, your data, upgrade pressure, or genuine goodwill?
Those answers become the Free Facts panel on every page. Alongside it, every page lists in plain terms exactly what the free version includes and exactly what sits behind the paywall — so "free" stops being a vibe and becomes a list. The overall pattern earns the stamp.
What the stamp means
A verdict describes the free offering as it is marketed and experienced — not whether the product is good, and not whether paying for it is worth it. Plenty of Trap Trials are excellent products with hostile billing. Plenty of Truly Free tools are clunky. The stamp answers one question only: is it actually free?
Freshness
Free tiers change without notice, so every page carries a “last checked” date. If you catch something that's drifted, tell us and we'll re-verify it: hello@verifiedfree.com.
Independence
Nobody pays to change a verdict. If a listing ever carries a paid or affiliate relationship, it will be labeled on that page — and the stamp stays honest either way, because the stamp is the whole point.