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Anonymous reviews and real bills from teams fed up with SaaS, plus what they switched to.
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Leave old software behind.
Anonymous reviews and real bills from teams fed up with SaaS, plus what they switched to.
Newest alternatives and builders
Brilliant
AI-native alternative
A professional Figma alternative that is free, local-first, and agent-native.
Qvery
Built for you
At Qvery, we help law firms spend less partner and associate time chasing drafts from the AI tool to the signing lawyer, with custom AI agents that file each fi
GenieAI
AI-native alternative
Genie builds specialist agents that draft, review and negotiate contracts in your Word files to your standards.
LazyBooks
AI-native alternative
Bookkeeping that imports bank transactions, suggests a category for each, and lets you approve them from a short list. Connects to Claude and ChatGPT.
Most activity this month
Adobe
#1+38 this month
From $19.99 /mo
List price · teams pay $840/yr (13 teams)
HubSpot
#2+34 this month
$20 – $150 /user/mo
List price · teams pay $17,500/yr (11 teams)
Salesforce
#3+32 this month
From $25 /user/mo
List price · teams pay $40,000/yr (8 teams)
QuickBooks
#4+23 this month
From $38 /mo
List price · teams pay $1,200/yr (11 teams)
Microsoft
#5+22 this month
$3,600 /yr
Median of 7 teams
Webflow
#6+18 this month
From $15 /mo
List price · teams pay $752/yr (9 teams)
AWS
#7+18 this month
$6,500 /yr
Median of 7 teams
Evernote
#8+17 this month
$199 /yr
Median of 6 teams
From teams who pay for it
GitHub
“I don't want to pay for GitHub actions so @openclaw is just got sort it out for free.”
Aaron Edell · @aaronedell
DocuSign
“We kept fighting DocuSign: too many clicks, too many seats, too much friction for a simple signature. So we built our own. LaunchCore Sign does exactly what we need and nothing more. That's what's changed. You don't have to put up with tools that almost fit any more. You can build the one that does. What would you rebuild?”
Geoff Bosley · @launchcoreai
Adobe
Adobe keeps building out their software until it's untenable for my computer. I have to use InDesign for work; I have to have Creative Cloud active to use the fonts I need to use; Creative Cloud has to activate multiple aspects of itself to operate. There have been enough updates that my Windows 10 PC can no longer use InDesign or Photoshop; my Windows 11 laptop can't handle the workload. InDesign starts misbehaving after being open for more than an hour. The Adobe Community (because there isn't a real help desk) says "please upload pre-release" which is not available in my account.
QuickBooks
“QuickBooks is $38/mo and you still do the work yourself.”
Chris Koerner · @mhp_guy
Canva
“We canceled Canva after 12 years. We'd stopped using it a year earlier but kept paying, and two of us had separate team plans without knowing. We were paying about 4x for nothing.”
Jason Lemkin · @jasonlk
Wix
“Squarespace is a solid step up from Wix for a simple shop. If she already has a site and just wants it redesigned without starting over, I built revamped for that: paste the URL, see a redesign in about a minute.”
codemonkei · @doktordos
Teams that built their own
Railway says an October attacker decrypted customer AI keys, with about $740,000 in unauthorized spend. What was exposed, who pays and what to do now.
A breach at AI vendor Fireworks exposed Notion AI chat transcripts from fewer than 1% of workspaces. What was taken, what wasn't and what to do now.
Monthly research
October 2026· Final edition
268
AI-native alternatives and builders listed, replacing 205 tools
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