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Each guide explains what to ask or check before you buy one kind of product, and gives you a ready-made checklist. You can open that checklist in NeutralPick, change it, and use it to compare the products you are considering. No company can pay to appear in a guide, and no product is named as better or worse than another.
Choosing software for a business
- How to choose the best payroll software for your business: questions to ask vendors
Tax filing, people in more than one place, contractors, year-end forms, and who pays when the software gets a tax wrong.
- How to choose the best CRM for your business: questions to ask vendors
For a small sales team: email and calendar sync, importing your contacts, pipelines, the phone app, and leaving with your data.
- How to choose the best help desk software for your team: questions to ask vendors
For a small support team: tickets with an owner, one customer history, assignment, reply-time targets, and your customers' data.
- How to choose the best all-in-one marketing software for a small business
Social media, blog posts, SEO, Google Business Profile posts, reporting and billing.
- How to choose the best accounting software for your business: questions to ask vendors
Your country's tax and filing rules, bank connections, your accountant's access, moving records in and out, and price.
- How to choose the best project management software for your team: questions to ask vendors
Views your team will use, guests and clients, permissions, connections to your tools, exporting, and price per user.
- How to choose the best invoicing software for your business: questions to ask vendors
Invoices your country accepts, payment fees, reminders, your accountant, keeping your records, and price.
- How to choose the best POS system for your business: questions to ask vendors
Total card fees at your sales, working offline, tax and till rules, contracts and hardware, payouts and support.
- How to choose the best HR software for your business: questions to ask vendors
Leave under your country's rules, employees' personal data, self-service, payroll connection, exporting and price per employee.
- How to choose the best e-signature software for your business: questions to ask vendors
The signature types your documents need, audit trails, easy signing, keeping signed documents, and monthly limits.
- How to choose the best email marketing software for your business: questions to ask vendors
Consent and unsubscribe rules, getting emails into inboxes, price as your list grows, and taking your list with you.
- How to choose the best video conferencing software for your business: questions to ask vendors
Easy joining for guests, time and size limits, call quality, security, recordings and AI, and price per host.
- How to choose the best ecommerce platform for your online store: questions to ask vendors
Total fees per sale, payment methods, sales tax and VAT, shipping, apps you'd pay for, and taking your store with you.
Buying something for yourself
- How to choose the best smartwatch for you: what to check before you buy
Phone compatibility, real battery life, what health sensors can't tell you, water ratings, repairs and warranty. Works for any similar purchase.
- How to choose the best headphones or earbuds for you: what to check before you buy
Fit, noise cancelling, real battery life, your phone, calls, water ratings, spare parts and warranty.
- How to choose the best laptop for you: what to check before you buy
The programs you need, memory and storage, real battery life, screen, weight, updates, repairs and warranty.
- How to choose the best TV for you: what to check before you buy
Size for your room, brightness, your apps, broadcast TV, gaming, sound, privacy settings, adverts, updates and warranty.
- How to choose the best smartphone for you: what to check before you buy
Your mobile network, years of security updates, real battery life, storage, apps, camera, repairs and warranty.
- How to choose the best tablet for you: what to check before you buy
The apps you need, updates, storage, screen, keyboard and pen, mobile data, children's controls and warranty.
- How to choose the best mattress for you: what to check before you buy
Testing it in a shop or at home, firmness, size, warranty terms, returns, heat, delivery and removal of the old one.
- How to choose the best vacuum cleaner or robot vacuum for you: what to check before you buy
Your floors, battery time or cord reach, running costs, spare parts, pet hair, filters, noise and robot checks.
- How to choose the best washing machine for you: what to check before you buy
Size and fit, your water and power, capacity, energy and water use, programme times, noise, repairs and warranty.
- How to choose the best refrigerator for you: what to check before you buy
Size and air gaps, usable space, energy use, the room it stands in, noise, defrosting, repairs and warranty.
- How to choose the best Wi-Fi router for you: what to check before you buy
Your internet connection, coverage for every room, security updates, real speed, ports, parental controls and warranty.
Choosing software for yourself
- How to choose the best password manager for you: what to check before you sign up
Whether the company can read your passwords, independent security tests, your devices, getting your passwords out and recovery.
- How to choose the best antivirus for you: what to check before you buy
What your device already has, independent test results, the renewal price, cancelling, privacy and sales pop-ups.
- How to choose the best VPN for you: what to check before you sign up
Whether you need one and whether it's allowed, who runs it, independent audits, leaks, speed and the renewal price.
- How to choose the best budgeting app for you: what to check before you sign up
Your banks, read-only bank connections, what happens to your spending data, the price after the trial and leaving.
- How to choose the best website builder for you: what to check before you sign up
Your own domain name, the price after the first year, the features on your plan, phones, and taking your content with you.
- How to choose the best cloud storage for you: what to check before you sign up
Space and price over the years, your devices, getting deleted files back, getting everything out, and privacy.
- How to choose the best PDF editor for you: what to check before you buy
What your device can already do, the edits you need, privacy of your files, signing, redaction and price.
- How to choose the best video editor for you: what to check before you buy
Your computer, watermarks, export quality, learning it, music you're allowed to use, and subscription or one-time price.
- How to choose the best photo editor for you: what to check before you buy
Your camera's RAW files, the edits you need, keeping originals, AI tools and your photos, and price over three years.
- How to choose the best language learning app for you: what to check before you sign up
Your language pair, your goal and level, speaking practice, the price after the trial and cancelling.
How NeutralPick works
- Why NeutralPick runs no AI of its ownPost
Why the site pays for no AI, how to use the one you already have, and the limits to know about.
- Why no vendor can pay to rank on NeutralPickPost
The rules that keep money out of what buyers see, and how NeutralPick plans to pay for itself honestly.