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Free or Fee
Know if a link is free or paid before you click it
Hold a key of your choice, hover over any link, and a card tells you what's behind it: free, freemium, paid or sign-in. It checks a list of known sites, reads the page's own words, and can use Chrome's on-device AI, which has to quote its evidence. No account, no tracking.
Hi everyone! I built Free or Fee, a Chrome extension that lets you hold a key of your choice (Control on a Mac by default) and hover over any link while browsing, and it shows you whether the page behind it is a paid or free product, uses a freemium model or requires sign-in.
I created this because I kept running into paywalls when I wanted to try new AI tools. Usually, you go to the website and then realise you cannot use it without paying for a subscription or creating an account first, or that the "free" version is really a 14-day trial. Now I can know in advance and save time.
The extension is free to use. For the first week after you install it, everything is unlocked, and after that you keep 5 scans a day for free. If you use it a lot, there's a one-time $9 lifetime upgrade for unlimited scans and a few extras. No subscriptions, because a monthly fee on a paywall detector felt a bit ironic. It also doesn't track you; there's no need for accounts, and it reads the pages on your own computer.
At the end of the day, what I hated was not being told that something has a price. I don't mind paying if a product is good and provides value, but we all deserve to know in advance.
I would appreciate it if you could give me some feedback! Especially if you find links where it gets it wrong.
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About Free or Fee on Product Hunt
“Know if a link is free or paid before you click it”
Free or Fee was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 0 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #138 on the daily leaderboard. Hold a key of your choice, hover over any link, and a card tells you what's behind it: free, freemium, paid or sign-in. It checks a list of known sites, reads the page's own words, and can use Chrome's on-device AI, which has to quote its evidence. No account, no tracking.
On the analytics side, Free or Fee competes within Chrome Extensions, Productivity and Artificial Intelligence — topics that collectively have 1.2M followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Free or Fee performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Free or Fee?
Free or Fee was hunted by Francisco Pieklo. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
For a complete overview of Free or Fee including community comment highlights and product details, visit the product overview.
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