ReallyFree
See what's really 'free' before you click
Details
- External ID
- 1251832
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- ReallyFree
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 22, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 67
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.9727122086807782
- Tags
- Browser Extensions, Privacy, Security
- Fetched at
- Sept. 23, 2026, 5:01 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 23, 2026, 5:01 p.m.
Description
You search for a free PDF editor. Four results in, you've made an account, hit a paywall, and downloaded something with a watermark. ReallyFree puts a coloured dot on every search result before you click. GREEN: genuinely free. YELLOW: free with a condition, named in one word. RED: it costs money. No one can buy a green rating. It's earned. No account, no signup, no tracking. Nothing about your browsing reaches us. Free, and staying free.
Enrichment
- Theme
- document and PDF utility tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Search & retrieval
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- free tier scanner for software shoppers
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial The browser extension and SERP DOM injection are straightforward, but labeling thousands of web tools with accurate pricing tiers requires an extensive, maintained database or web-crawling verification system.
What it would actually take: The client is a simple Chrome extension (manifest v3) that parses Google search results and injects visual badges. The bottleneck is the backend knowledge base: either a crowdsourced database or an automated scraping pipeline using headless browsers and LLMs to navigate target homepages, locate pricing/terms pages, verify feature limits (watermarks, trials, credit card requirements), and cache fresh ratings across millions of domains.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 336 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #2 of 337 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 263 days after the earliest competitor.
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- WipePDF · ph · 2026-09-27 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- PDF tools with no uploads, no account · ph · 2026-09-29 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- PDF to Word Free · ph · 2026-09-15 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- RealEditPDF · ph · 2026-09-16 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- PDFLY · ph · 2026-09-11 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- FreeToolkit · ph · 2026-09-13 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Sign PDF Online · ph · 2026-09-15 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.47
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.