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WHAT CHANGED

What changed, and when we checked.

A dated record of changes to the products we cover—prices, plan limits, free plans, import and export—and of corrections to our own pages. Each entry links to its sources and the pages it affects.

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September 2026

  1. Plan change Newsletter software

    Kit’s help centre now calls its top plan “Pro”, the same name as its pricing page, so our pages no longer point out a naming difference that has gone away.

    Kit rewrote the article behind our paid-plan source and retitled it “Creator vs Pro: choose the right plan”. It calls the plan Pro throughout, where it used to say Creator Pro. The prices are unchanged: Creator $39 a month and Pro $79 a month, each covering up to 1,000 subscribers, with annual billing giving two months free.

  2. Re-checked Cloud storage and backup

    Sixteen of the vendor pages we cite had moved to new addresses, so we opened each one, re-checked every fact we take from it, and updated the links.

    Microsoft moved eight OneDrive and Windows help articles, Apple moved two, and Dropbox, Google, Backblaze and Kit each moved one. No price, storage size, people count or retention window changed. Two pages were rewritten rather than renamed: Microsoft’s “files save to OneDrive by default” article is now about changing the default save location, and Google replaced its storage-plan article with a new one. Both still state what we use them for. One wording fix followed: Microsoft’s sharing page says private items do not appear in the shared Family locations, and names appointments rather than calendars.

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  3. Correction Newsletter software

    Several Kit pages still said its free plan allows one automation and one sequence, a limit Kit no longer publishes, so we removed the claim everywhere it appeared.

    Kit retired the help article that stated it. Its pricing page now lists unlimited Visual Automations and email sequences as something the paid plans add, without giving the free plan a number, so the pages say that instead and tell you to check your own account. The Kit pricing page also still named the free tier “Newsletter” in one worked example; Kit calls it Free.

  4. Re-checked Cloud storage and backup

    We re-checked the documentation behind our two storage guides and added the pages covering what we had not explained: how each system reports capacity, and what the Windows storage tools actually do.

    The GB/GiB guide now separates the unit conversion from formatting, reserved storage, recovery partitions and unallocated space, and names what the conversion does not explain. The full-drive guide starts by measuring before anything is moved, and covers OneDrive placeholders, folder backup, the hibernation file and the page file as the vendor documents them. No figure we already published changed.

  5. Re-checked Displays and connections

    We re-checked Dell and Microsoft on USB-C video and added VESA, Intel and two more Dell pages, so the USB-C guide can give a diagnosis order instead of a capability warning.

    The guide now works down the chain in a fixed order — laptop port, cable, dock, monitor input, resolution and bandwidth, then drivers and firmware — with a test that isolates each link, and it says plainly which questions only a test or the manufacturer can answer. No figure we already published changed.

  6. Correction Password managers

    Our Chrome export guide had a button labelled “Read Proton Pass import guidance” that opened a product page, so we replaced it with links to the Chrome import instructions Bitwarden and Proton Pass publish.

  7. Correction Password managers

    We removed a step suggesting a freelancer’s access could be revoked while the owner’s passwords stayed the same, because removing someone from a vault does not stop them using a password they have already seen.

    Bitwarden documents that offline apps can keep cached items after a member is removed and advises changing credentials if misuse is a concern. The guide now covers service accounts, shared passwords, active sessions, and vault membership separately.

  8. Re-checked Password managers

    We re-checked 1Password’s personal pricing page and added Bitwarden’s family-plan page as a source before publishing annual price figures in the 1Password vs Bitwarden comparison.

    No price had changed. Bitwarden’s family-plan page was added as a second source so both sides of the comparison are cited.

  9. Correction Newsletter software

    We removed a claim that Kit has deeper automation than MailerLite, because MailerLite documents click-triggered automations and purchase triggers through supported shop integrations.

    The comparison now asks you to build the same workflow in both products instead of implying a ranking we had not tested.

  10. Correction Newsletter software

    Our 500-subscriber example compared MailerLite with paid beehiiv Scale without saying that beehiiv’s free Launch plan would fit, so it now starts from both free plans’ documented limits.

    500 subscribers × 4 emails is 2,000 sends: within beehiiv Launch’s listed limits, but above MailerLite Free’s 250-subscriber limit.

  11. Correction Newsletter software

    We removed shorthand labels from our newsletter comparisons that implied one product had tested advantages; the pages now list what to check in each product instead.

    The removed labels described products by reputation (for example, as a growth tool or as the cheaper email option) rather than by documented features. Kit vs beehiiv now says the business model alone does not rule out either product.

  12. Correction Newsletter software

    Our Kit comparisons gave a rounded “$33/mo equivalent annually” for the Creator plan; they now state Kit’s documented rule that annual billing costs ten months.

    At $39 a month, ten months spread over twelve is $32.50 a month, so $33 was our rounding, not a figure Kit publishes.

  13. Correction Newsletter software

    Newsletter pages showed one fixed “prices verified August 27” label; they now show the dates the sources on each page were actually checked.

    When a page cites sources checked on different days, it shows the range, so checking one source cannot make the others look current.

  14. Re-checked Newsletter software

    We re-checked Kit, beehiiv, and MailerLite plan prices and limits, including every beehiiv Scale tier we store; none of the prices or limits we list had changed.

    beehiiv was checked with monthly billing selected and MailerLite with monthly billing, USD, at 500 subscribers.

  15. Re-checked Newsletter software

    We re-checked Substack’s fee documentation and MailerLite’s pricing page; the figures we publish did not change.

    No price, fee, or limit had changed since the previous check on 27 August.

Sources checked in the last 30 days

A date here means we read the source and compared it with our pages, either as a routine re-check or when we first cited it. It does not mean anything changed. Real changes appear in the timeline above. This list covers the 30 days before Oct 13, 2026, when this page was last built.

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