Design Alternatives is an independent guide to design, branding and website-building software — every listing is signed up for, used, and compared by hand before it ever gets a rating.
Picking design and branding software used to mean wading through sponsored "best of" lists written by people who never opened the product. We built Design Alternatives to fix that: every tool here is signed up for, used on a real project, and re-checked on a schedule — not once and forgotten.
No tool pays for a better ranking, and no listing goes live until someone on the team has actually used it. If a product changes its pricing or drops a feature, we update the page — we don't leave stale info live just to keep an affiliate link working.
The same process, applied to everything we publish.