About
About Freebase
What Freebase is, what it lists, and what it deliberately does not.
Operator details still to be supplied
The following information still needs to be supplied by the operator and has not been invented here:
- Legal name and jurisdiction of the operator
- Registered address
- Contact details
Freebase is a register of free alternatives to paid software. It answers one question: “I use this tool — what can replace it without a subscription?”
Every entry separates three facts that are usually blurred together: the offer (entirely free, a permanent free plan, a trial, or paid), the licence (open source, proprietary, or other), and the hosting model (hosted, self-hosted, or both). A badge is only shown for what is known; everything else says “Not verified”.
Alternatives are editorial relations: a tool is not an alternative because it shares keywords, but because an editor approved it as a replacement for a specific product. Approval of a tool and approval of a relation are two separate decisions.