How we pick products

Affiliate links

Famzy has no affiliate links right now. When a guide links to a product, we earn nothing if you buy it.

If that changes, it will be easy to tell:

• Every guide with an affiliate link will say so at the top, before any product link.
• Product boxes with an affiliate link will be labelled "Affiliate link".
• This page will be updated to say which links are affiliate links and how they work.

What our picks are based on

We don't run a test lab. Unless a guide says someone tested a product hands-on, a pick is based on:

• The product's published specs and the maker's own documentation. Every pick uses these.
• Independent reviews, when the guide links one.
• What creators report about using it, for example in forums, when the guide says that's a source.

Some picks rest on the maker's own pages alone. Each guide says what its picks are based on, so you can tell which kind you're reading.

Every pick says why it's there and who it's best for. Prices are in US dollars with the date we checked them, because prices change. Check the seller's page before you buy.

A product shown in a guide's product box is a pick. A guide may also name a product in its text: as an example, for instance to show how a kind of tool works or what it costs, or as one of the options it compares.

What we don't do

• We don't accept payment to include a product in a guide.
• We don't show star ratings unless they come from a source we name.
• We don't hand-write affiliate links into guides. Product boxes and product links come from one product list, so their labels are always right. Guides also link to some makers' pages directly, as sources or steps to follow; none of those are affiliate links.

Promotions

The team behind Famzy also builds software for creators. If Famzy ever promotes a product, including software our team makes, it will sit in a separate box labelled as a promotion, after a guide or on the homepage, never inside a guide. It will never appear among a guide's picks or change what a guide recommends.

The toolkit

Every product from our product list that a guide links to is listed in one place, the Famzy toolkit, with what it's for, who it suits, its price and the date we checked it. Products shown in a guide's product box are marked "Pick".