Editorial Policy

Who creates DroidCrunch

DroidCrunch has been publishing since 2016. The people who write and film our content are the same people who test the tools:

Every article carries a named author. There’s more about the team on our About page.

How we choose what to cover

We cover WordPress, hosting, SaaS, SEO and AI tools for bloggers, creators, marketers and small businesses. Our topics come from:

• questions readers ask us in comments, emails and on YouTube
• tools we use in our own work and on client projects
• what people search for and struggle to find good answers to
• notable launches, price changes and updates in the tools our readers rely on

Companies are welcome to suggest products, but we decide what we cover. Paying us doesn’t guarantee coverage, and it can’t buy a better write-up.

How we test

“Tested first” is the core of how we work. Before we review a tool, we use it for real:

1. Real setup. We sign up and set the tool up on a live project, such as one of our own sites or a client build, not just a demo account.
2. Real tasks. We use it for the jobs it’s meant to do, over days or weeks, and note where it helps and where it gets in the way.
3. Category checks. We measure what matters for that kind of product, for example speed and uptime for hosting, output quality for AI tools or ease of use for page builders.
4. Costs and limits. We read the pricing page, plan limits, renewal prices and cancellation terms, because that’s where the surprises hide.
5. Alternatives. We compare it with tools we’ve used, so a verdict means something.

Screenshots in our reviews come from our own use. When part of an article is based on research rather than hands-on testing, for example a feature we couldn’t access, we say so in that section. We’d rather tell you what we didn’t test than pretend we did.

Ratings and verdicts

Review scores are editorial judgements based on our testing, not formulas or payments. Performance figures come from our own tests or from sources we cite. Every review says who a tool suits and who should skip it, because a great tool for one reader can be the wrong choice for another.

Facts, sources and prices

• Features, prices and plan limits are checked against the vendor’s official website and documentation, and we note when prices were last checked.
• We prefer primary sources: official docs, original research, standards bodies and government data.
• We check that outbound links work before we publish.
• We keep facts and opinions clearly apart, and our opinions are labelled as ours.

Money and independence

DroidCrunch earns money mainly through affiliate links, plus the occasional clearly labelled sponsorship. To keep that money away from our judgement:

• we decide what to recommend based on testing, never on commission rates
• companies can’t review, approve or edit our content before it’s published
• sponsored content is labelled before you start reading or watching
• free licences and review access are disclosed in the review

The details are in our Affiliate Disclosure.

How we use AI

We use AI tools the way we use any other software: to work faster, not to replace judgement. Here’s where AI does and doesn’t show up in our work.

Where AI helps

• summarising documentation, changelogs and pricing pages during research
• suggesting outlines, headings and first drafts of explanatory sections
• checking grammar, clarity and readability
• creating illustrations and featured images

Where it never does

• testing tools, recording results or forming opinions: people do that
• inventing experiences, quotes, ratings or test data
• producing product screenshots, which always come from our own use
• publishing without review: an editor reads, fact-checks and approves every article before it goes live

If you ever spot something that looks machine-generated and wrong, tell us. We’ll fix it and look at how it slipped through.

Keeping articles current

Software changes constantly, so an article that’s accurate today can be wrong in six months. We revisit our most-read reviews and guides regularly, recheck prices and features, and update or remove outdated recommendations and expired deals. The “last updated” date on an article reflects a real content update, not a cosmetic tweak.

Corrections

We get things wrong sometimes. When we do, we fix them quickly and openly:

• Minor errors, such as typos or broken links, are fixed straight away.
• Factual errors that change the meaning of an article, such as a wrong price, feature or verdict, are corrected with a dated note explaining what changed.
• Bigger problems, such as a review that no longer reflects the product, lead to a full update or a clear note at the top of the article.

To report an error, email [email protected] with “Correction” in the subject line, or use our contact form. Include the article link, what’s wrong and a source if you have one. We read every report.

Guest contributors

We sometimes publish articles from guest contributors. They go through the same editing and fact-checking as our own work, must follow our Write for Us guidelines, and must tell us about any relationship with the products they write about. We edit contributed articles for accuracy, clarity and style, and we don’t publish promotion dressed up as advice.

Comments

Comments are for questions, corrections and experiences that help other readers. We read and moderate every comment before it appears. We don’t publish spam, promotional links, personal attacks or off-topic posts, and we remove anything that shares other people’s personal information.