Free! *

Every time I need to decide between a free and a paid service I think about it long and hard.

Why is this free? How does this company make money? Is it open source?

If I don’t understand why they are offering a service for free, I will usually go with the paid option.

Here are some of the free applications that I’ve used:

I don’t usually go for the free option right away. I recently bought Airmail 2 to handle my email accounts, even though there were some decent free options out there.

When you go with the free alternative, you need to be careful. You are accepting their terms and conditions, which probably say that they can do whatever they want with your account.