What is Tablif?
A record of what software products say about themselves, in their own words.
What we do
We watch 12 launch boards. When a product shows up, we open its actual pages: the home page, the pricing page, the contact page, the launch post.
Then we put the same set of questions to every one of them. Does it charge monthly? Does it name a company? Does it work offline? Who does it say it is for? An answer is only recorded when the page says it, and we keep the sentence it came from.
What we do not do
We do not rate quality, and there is no score. Nothing here says a product is good. It says what the product claims, and where the claim is written.
We do not guess from a tagline, and we do not fill gaps. When a page does not answer a question, the answer is recorded as we could not find it, and that is kept too. A missing answer is a real finding, not an empty cell.
Why it is worth reading
A tagline is written to be liked. A pricing page is written to be paid. The second one is much harder to fake, and it is the one almost nobody reads across thousands of products at once.
The useful question is rarely one thing. It is two or three at once: monthly pricing and a named company and no cloud upload. That combination is what the archive is for.
How fresh it is
Sources are read once a day. Every tracked site is fetched and its content compared to the day before, so a page that changed is visible the next morning, in both directions: one that started shipping again, and one that went quiet.
Reading the archive is free and stays free. An account exists for one reason: combining criteria and getting the whole result instead of the first page of it.