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BUYER'S GUIDES
Long-form, independent buyer's guides for consumer technology. How to pick the right product for your specific use case, from a publication that takes no affiliate compensation.
GUIDE · HEALTH TECH · BOSTON · AUG 1
A wire-service guide to tracking food you didn't cook, can't weigh and didn't portion — what actually works on a campus meal plan, and which apps suit the dining-hall problem better than the kitchen-scale workflow they were designed around.
GUIDE · HEALTH TECH · BOSTON · JUL 15
A wire-service, app-by-app guide to pulling your logged nutrition history out of MyFitnessPal, Lose It!, Cronometer, Noom and other calorie trackers before you delete the account — so switching apps doesn't mean starting from zero.
GUIDE · HEALTH TECH · BOSTON · JUL 8
A wire-service guide to the three things the word 'free' hides in the 2026 calorie-tracking category — the usable free tier, the card-required free trial, and freemium bait — plus a shortlist of trackers you can start with no payment method on file.
GUIDE · HEALTH TECH · BOSTON · JUN 16
A wire-service how-to for canceling a MyFitnessPal Premium subscription on iOS, Android and the web, plus the refund and chargeback steps to take if the charges keep coming.
GUIDE · HEALTH TECH · BOSTON · APR 27
A wire-service buyer's guide to selecting a consumer calorie-tracking application, organized around the four user profiles that account for the overwhelming majority of category use.
GUIDE · HEALTH TECH · BOSTON · APR 15
A practical evaluation framework for picking a calorie-tracking application in 2026, organized around the eight criteria that actually predict whether you will still be using the app in ninety days.
GUIDE · AI TOOLS · SAN FRANCISCO · MAR 22
A practical guide to picking a primary AI chatbot for daily knowledge work in 2026, organized around six work profiles and the model that actually fits each one.
GUIDE · PRODUCTIVITY · NEW YORK · MAR 5
A buyer's guide to assembling a productivity app stack in 2026, organized around the seven categories that account for nearly all knowledge-worker productivity software, with specific recommendations and the trade-offs that determine the right choice.
GUIDE · PRIVACY & SECURITY · LONDON · FEB 14
A buyer's guide to picking a consumer VPN in 2026, organized around the seven evaluation criteria that actually predict whether the provider will protect what you think it is protecting.
GUIDE · SMART HOME · SEATTLE · JAN 18
A buyer's and setup guide for building a smart home in 2026 that actually maintains a defensible security posture, organized around the decisions that matter most and the ones consumers most often get wrong.