Freelancer, small team: which subscriptions can you replace?

Notes, design, invoicing, e-commerce… for each common subscription, an honest verdict on what a custom-built tool can replace and what is better kept. Initial verdicts are adapted and translated from canivibecodeit.com (MIT licence).

170 tools · €707.62 per month combined (published prices only)

Replaceable24Partly replaceable80Not replaceable66

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Abby

💰 Finance & accountingfree (paid plans from €9/month)Not reallyfree (paid plans from €9/month)02

Agorapulse

📈 Marketingfrom €99/month/userNot reallyfrom €99/month/user 03

Arvow

📈 Marketingfrom €34.75/monthPartialfrom €34.75/month 04

Asana

⚡ Productivityfrom €9.79/month/userPartialfrom €9.79/month/user 05

Attio

🤝 Sales & CRMfree (paid plans from €31/month/user)Partialfree (paid plans from €31/month/user)06

Bitly

📈 Marketingfree (paid plans from €8.91/month)Replaceablefree (paid plans from €8.91/month)07

Bitwarden

🔧 Otherfree (paid version from €1.47/month)Replaceablefree (paid version from €1.47/month)08

BookStack

📝 NotesfreeReplaceablefree 09

Bubble

💻 Dev toolsfree (paid plans from €52.56/month)Partialfree (paid plans from €52.56/month)10

Cal.com

⚡ Productivityfree (paid plans from €10.69/month/user)Replaceablefree (paid plans from €10.69/month/user)11

Calendly

⚡ Productivityfrom €8.91/month/userPartialfrom €8.91/month/user 12

Chatwoot

💬 Communicationfree (paid plans from €16.93/month/user)Partialfree (paid plans from €16.93/month/user)13

Crisp

💬 Communicationfree (paid plans from €45/month)Partialfree (paid plans from €45/month)14

Cursor

💻 Dev toolsfrom €17.82/monthNot reallyfrom €17.82/month 15

Datadog

💻 Dev toolsfrom €13.36/month/hostPartialfrom €13.36/month/host 16

DeepL Pro

⚡ Productivityfrom €7.49/month/userNot reallyfrom €7.49/month/user 17

DigitalOcean

🌐 Networking & infrastructurefrom €3.56/monthNot reallyfrom €3.56/month 18

Docker

💻 Dev toolsfree (paid plans from €8.02/month)Replaceablefree (paid plans from €8.02/month)19

Documenso

⚡ Productivityfree (paid plans from €22.28/month)Partialfree (paid plans from €22.28/month)20

Dougs

💰 Finance & accountingfrom €79/monthNot reallyfrom €79/month 21

Dropbox Plus

⚡ Productivity€11.99/monthNot really€11.99/month 22

EspoCRM

🤝 Sales & CRMfree (paid plans from €12.90/month/user)Partialfree (paid plans from €12.90/month/user)23

Evoliz

💰 Finance & accountingfrom €29/monthPartialfrom €29/month 24

folk

🤝 Sales & CRMfrom €22/month/userPartialfrom €22/month/user 25

Formbricks

⚡ Productivityfree (paid plans from €65.93/month)Replaceablefree (paid plans from €65.93/month)26

Framer

🎨 Designfree (paid plans from €8.91/month)Partialfree (paid plans from €8.91/month)27

Freebe

💰 Finance & accountingfrom €12.50/monthNot reallyfrom €12.50/month 28

FreeScout

🤝 Sales & CRMfreeReplaceablefree 29

Freshdesk

🤝 Sales & CRMfrom €17/month/userPartialfrom €17/month/user 30

Front

💬 Communicationfrom €22.28/month/userPartialfrom €22.28/month/user 31

Ghost

📈 Marketingfrom €16.04/monthReplaceablefrom €16.04/month 32

GitLab

💻 Dev toolsfree (paid plans from €25.84/month/user)Partialfree (paid plans from €25.84/month/user)33

Google Drive

⚡ Productivityfree (paid plans from €1.99/month)Not reallyfree (paid plans from €1.99/month)34

Google Workspace Business Starter

⚡ Productivityfrom €6.80/month/userNot reallyfrom €6.80/month/user 35

Gorgias

🤝 Sales & CRMfrom €8.91/monthPartialfrom €8.91/month 36

Grammarly

⚡ Productivityfree (paid plans from €12/month)Partialfree (paid plans from €12/month)37

Help Scout

🤝 Sales & CRMfrom €22.28/month/userPartialfrom €22.28/month/user 38

Henrri

💰 Finance & accountingfreeNot reallyfree 39

Heroku

💻 Dev toolsfrom €4.45/monthPartialfrom €4.45/month 40

Hostinger

🌐 Networking & infrastructurefrom €2.99/month (48-month commitment)Not reallyfrom €2.99/month (48-month commitment)41

iCloud Plus

⚡ Productivityfrom €0.99/monthNot reallyfrom €0.99/month 42

Indy

💰 Finance & accountingfree (paid plans from €9/month)Not reallyfree (paid plans from €9/month)43

Invoice Ninja

💰 Finance & accountingfree (paid plans from €12.47/month)Partialfree (paid plans from €12.47/month)44

Kimai

⚡ Productivityfree (paid plans from €2.99/month/user)Replaceablefree (paid plans from €2.99/month/user)45

Lemlist

🤝 Sales & CRMfrom €49/monthNot reallyfrom €49/month 46

Libeo

💰 Finance & accountingon requestNot reallyon request 47

LimeSurvey

⚡ Productivityfree (paid plans from €29/month)Replaceablefree (paid plans from €29/month)48

Linear

⚡ Productivityfrom €8.91/month/userPartialfrom €8.91/month/user 49

listmonk

📈 MarketingfreeReplaceablefree 50

Loom

💬 Communicationfrom €16.04/month/userPartialfrom €16.04/month/user 51

MailerLite

📈 Marketingfree (paid plans from €10.69/month)Partialfree (paid plans from €10.69/month)52

Mailgun

💻 Dev toolsfree (paid plans from €13.36/month)Not reallyfree (paid plans from €13.36/month)53

Mailmeteor

📈 Marketingfree (paid plans from €5.34/month)Replaceablefree (paid plans from €5.34/month)54

Make

⚡ Productivityfrom €8.02/monthPartialfrom €8.02/month 55

Mautic

📈 MarketingfreePartialfree 56

Metabase

💻 Dev toolsfree (paid plans from €89.10/month)Partialfree (paid plans from €89.10/month)57

Miro

⚡ Productivityfrom €7.13/month/userPartialfrom €7.13/month/user 58

Mistral Le Chat

⚡ Productivityfree (paid plans from €13.35/month)Partialfree (paid plans from €13.35/month)59

Mixpanel

📈 Marketingfree (paid options)Partialfree (paid options)60

monday.com

⚡ Productivityfrom €9/month/userPartialfrom €9/month/user 61

n8n Cloud

💻 Dev toolsfrom €20/monthReplaceablefrom €20/month 62

Netlify

💻 Dev toolsfrom €17.82/monthPartialfrom €17.82/month 63

Node-RED

💻 Dev toolsfreePartialfree 64

Notion

📝 Notesfrom €9.50/month/userPartialfrom €9.50/month/user 65

Obat

💰 Finance & accountingfrom €25/monthNot reallyfrom €25/month 66

Obsidian

📝 Notesfree (paid options from €3.56/month)Partialfree (paid options from €3.56/month)67

OpenProject

⚡ Productivityfree (paid plans from €5.95/month/user)Partialfree (paid plans from €5.95/month/user)68

OVHcloud

🌐 Networking & infrastructurefrom €3.81/monthNot reallyfrom €3.81/month 69

Pipedrive

🤝 Sales & CRMfrom €14/month/userPartialfrom €14/month/user 70

Plane

⚡ Productivityfree (paid plans from €5.35/month/user)Partialfree (paid plans from €5.35/month/user)71

Plausible Analytics

📈 Marketingfrom €8.02/monthPartialfrom €8.02/month 72

PrestaShop

🛒 E-commercefreePartialfree 73

Qonto

💰 Finance & accountingfrom €9/monthNot reallyfrom €9/month 74

Resend

💻 Dev toolsfrom €17.82/monthNot reallyfrom €17.82/month 75

Retool

💻 Dev toolsfree (paid plans from €9/month/user)Replaceablefree (paid plans from €9/month/user)76

Salesforce

🤝 Sales & CRMfrom €25/month/userNot reallyfrom €25/month/user 77

Scaleway

🌐 Networking & infrastructurefrom €4.99/monthNot reallyfrom €4.99/month 78

Semrush

📈 Marketingfrom €134/monthNot reallyfrom €134/month 79

Sendcloud

🛒 E-commercefrom €26/monthNot reallyfrom €26/month 80

Sentry

💻 Dev toolsfree (paid plans from €23.16/month)Partialfree (paid plans from €23.16/month)81

Shine

💰 Finance & accountingfrom €9/monthNot reallyfrom €9/month 82

Shopify

🛒 E-commercefrom €36/monthNot reallyfrom €36/month 83

Sketch

🎨 Designfrom €10.69/month/userNot reallyfrom €10.69/month/user 84

Slack Pro

💬 Communicationfrom €8.25/month/userNot reallyfrom €8.25/month/user 85

Squarespace

📈 Marketingfrom €17/monthPartialfrom €17/month 86

Supabase

💻 Dev toolsfrom €22.27/monthPartialfrom €22.27/month 87

SurveyMonkey

📈 Marketingfree (paid plans from €39/month)Partialfree (paid plans from €39/month)88

Systeme.io

📈 Marketingfrom €15.14/monthPartialfrom €15.14/month 89

Taiga

⚡ ProductivityfreeReplaceablefree 90

Tailscale

🌐 Networking & infrastructurefree (paid plans from €7.13/month/user)Partialfree (paid plans from €7.13/month/user)91

Tally

⚡ Productivityfree (paid plans from €20/month)Replaceablefree (paid plans from €20/month)92

Trello

⚡ Productivityfrom €4.45/month/userPartialfrom €4.45/month/user 93

Twenty

🤝 Sales & CRMfree (paid plans from €8.02/month/user)Partialfree (paid plans from €8.02/month/user)94

Typeform

📈 Marketingfrom €24.94/monthPartialfrom €24.94/month 95

UptimeRobot

🌐 Networking & infrastructurefree (paid plans from €9/month)Replaceablefree (paid plans from €9/month)96

Vercel

💻 Dev toolsfrom €17.82/monthPartialfrom €17.82/month 97

Vikunja

⚡ ProductivityfreeReplaceablefree 98

Waalaxy

🤝 Sales & CRMfrom €19/month/userNot reallyfrom €19/month/user 99

Weglot

📈 Marketingfrom €15/monthNot reallyfrom €15/month 100

WiziShop

🛒 E-commercefrom €24.90/monthPartialfrom €24.90/month 101

Zammad

🤝 Sales & CRMfrom €7/month/userPartialfrom €7/month/user 102

Zapier

⚡ Productivityfrom €17.81/monthPartialfrom €17.81/month 103

Zendesk

🤝 Sales & CRMfrom €55/month/userNot reallyfrom €55/month/user 104

1Password

🔧 Otherprice not publishedPartialprice not published 105

Adobe Creative Cloud

🎨 Designprice not publishedNot reallyprice not published 106

Agicap

💰 Finance & accountingprice not publishedPartialprice not published 107

Ahrefs

📈 Marketingprice not publishedNot reallyprice not published 108

Airtable

⚡ Productivityprice not publishedPartialprice not published 109

Alan

🏥 Insurance & healthprice not publishedNot reallyprice not published 110

Algolia

💻 Dev toolsprice not publishedReplaceableprice not published 111

Axonaut

💰 Finance & accountingprice not publishedPartialprice not published 112

Bear

📝 Notesprice not publishedReplaceableprice not published 113

beehiiv

📈 Marketingprice not publishedPartialprice not published 114

Brevo

📈 Marketingprice not publishedPartialprice not published 115

Buffer

📈 Marketingprice not publishedPartialprice not published 116

Canva

🎨 Designprice not publishedPartialprice not published 117

ChatGPT

⚡ Productivityprice not publishedNot reallyprice not published 118

Clerk

💻 Dev toolsprice not publishedNot reallyprice not published 119

ClickUp

⚡ Productivityprice not publishedPartialprice not published 120

Cloudflare

🌐 Networking & infrastructureprice not publishedNot reallyprice not published 121

Dashlane

🔧 Otherprice not publishedPartialprice not published 122

Deel

👥 HR & payrollprice not publishedNot reallyprice not published 123

Doctolib

🏥 Insurance & healthprice not publishedNot reallyprice not published 124

DocuSign

⚡ Productivityprice not publishedNot reallyprice not published 125

Eurécia

👥 HR & payrollprice not publishedPartialprice not published 126

Eventbrite

🎉 Events & private hireprice not publishedNot reallyprice not published 127

Evernote

📝 Notesprice not publishedPartialprice not published 128

Figma

🎨 Designprice not publishedNot reallyprice not published 129

Finary

💰 Finance & accountingprice not publishedPartialprice not published 130

Firebase

💻 Dev toolsprice not publishedPartialprice not published 131

Gandi

🌐 Networking & infrastructureprice not publishedNot reallyprice not published 132

GitHub

💻 Dev toolsprice not publishedPartialprice not published 133

Gumroad

💰 Finance & accountingprice not publishedNot reallyprice not published 134

Harvest

💰 Finance & accountingprice not publishedPartialprice not published 135

Hootsuite

📈 Marketingprice not publishedNot reallyprice not published 136

HubSpot

🤝 Sales & CRMprice not publishedPartialprice not published 137

Infomaniak

🌐 Networking & infrastructureprice not publishedNot reallyprice not published 138

Intercom

💬 Communicationprice not publishedNot reallyprice not published 139

Jotform

⚡ Productivityprice not publishedPartialprice not published 140

Kit (ex-ConvertKit)

📈 Marketingprice not publishedPartialprice not published 141

Klaviyo

📈 Marketingprice not publishedNot reallyprice not published 142

Legalstart

🔧 Otherprice not publishedNot reallyprice not published 143

Lemon Squeezy

💰 Finance & accountingprice not publishedNot reallyprice not published 144

Lengow

🛒 E-commerceprice not publishedNot reallyprice not published 145

Linktree Pro

📈 Marketingprice not publishedReplaceableprice not published 146

Livestorm

💬 Communicationprice not publishedNot reallyprice not published 147

Mailchimp

📈 Marketingprice not publishedPartialprice not published 148

Microsoft Teams Essentials

💬 Communicationprice not publishedNot reallyprice not published 149

ngrok

🌐 Networking & infrastructureprice not publishedReplaceableprice not published 150

PayPal

🏦 Online paymentsprice not publishedNot reallyprice not published 151

Planity

📅 Reservationsprice not publishedPartialprice not published 152

PostHog

📈 Marketingprice not publishedNot reallyprice not published 153

Postman

💻 Dev toolsprice not publishedReplaceableprice not published 154

Procreate

🎨 Designprice not publishedNot reallyprice not published 155

Proton VPN

🌐 Networking & infrastructureprice not publishedNot reallyprice not published 156

Qare

🏥 Insurance & healthprice not publishedNot reallyprice not published 157

Sellsy

🤝 Sales & CRMprice not publishedPartialprice not published 158

Spendesk

💰 Finance & accountingprice not publishedNot reallyprice not published 159

Stripe

💰 Finance & accountingprice not publishedNot reallyprice not published 160

Substack

📈 Marketingprice not publishedPartialprice not published 161

Swile

👥 HR & payrollprice not publishedNot reallyprice not published 162

Todoist

⚡ Productivityprice not publishedPartialprice not published 163

Toggl Track

⚡ Productivityprice not publishedReplaceableprice not published 164

Twilio

💻 Dev toolsprice not publishedNot reallyprice not published 165

Webflow

🎨 Designprice not publishedPartialprice not published 166

Wix

📈 Marketingprice not publishedPartialprice not published 167

WordPress

📈 Marketingprice not publishedPartialprice not published 168

Youtrust

⚡ Productivityprice not publishedNot reallyprice not published 169

Zoho CRM

🤝 Sales & CRMprice not publishedNot reallyprice not published 170

Zoom Workplace Pro

💬 Communicationprice not publishedNot reallyprice not published

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