About

There are many software comparison sites on the internet, but many only cover one specific category of applications, have a messy UI or profit through applications paying to rank their application higher. SoftwareCompare solves these issues by providing objective data on applications and letting the user decide which application works best for them. Through our approach of keeping development open source, we not only ensure that our website's code is visible, but we also allow contributors to suggest changes directly to the site. This project's stance on open development and openness to accept requests ensures that the comparisons reflect what the community cares about in the software they use.

The charts on the site compare an assortment of criteria such as privacy, security, convenience, ethics, etc. since we want to ensure that the site not only caters to technology-minded people, but also to everyday people.

Who Maintains this Site?

This website is maintained by David Collini. I am currently majoring in Computer Science at Stevens Institute of Technology. My main focus is on digital privacy, digital freedom, and open source software.

How is this site funded?

This site does not make money on its own, but instead relies on donations. Donations are currently supported through multiple crypto wallets, Liberapay, Brave Creators, Github Sponsors and XMRchat. If you want to support the continued development of this site, please consider making a donation to support development.

Work in progress

This site is under continuous development, if you are interested in the behind the scenes, you can visit the test site here or check out our To-Do list. If you have any suggestions, please open an issue on Github. I am open to reviewing and merging pull requests if you would like to contribute.

Transparency & Open Source

This site is licensed under the Open Source AGPLv3 license and is currently being hosting on Cloudflare pages. The repository can be found here.

I do hold and accept BAT, but apart from that, Software Compare is not associated with any of the software it portrays on its site.

Criteria

• The software project has to be maintained in at least the last eight months
• The software project has to be at least a year old
• Must not be in an alpha or beta release

Similar Projects / Inspirations

This website was inspired mainly by PrivacyTests.org, Secure Messaging Apps, Eylenburg's Site and Techlore's Vpn Toolkit. Thank you for all your amazing work on these projects!

Thanks

Thanks to everyone who has contributed to the project including Stephen Radice, Sooraj Sathyanarayanan and gnukeith.