About me and this site

I’m Miguel Ángel, and I’ve worked in IT professionally since 2002. In that time I’ve done a bit of everything: systems, engineering projects, web development and SEO, which is where I learned that a good page keeps working for you while you sleep. In February 2023, the same month ChatGPT’s paid plan became available in Spain, I was already using it for work and to grow businesses, and I haven’t stopped testing AI tools since. This site is what comes out of that: what I test, what works for me and what doesn’t, with prices I’ve checked and the date I checked them.

I run this site myself: I build it, write it and keep it up to date. I write it with the help of an LLM to verify facts, which, on a site about artificial intelligence, would be odd not to do. What you won’t find behind it is a newsroom, an agency, or an “editorial team” that turns out to be three made-up names. If something here is right, that’s on me; if something’s wrong, that’s on me too.

How I look at a tool

Spending that many years making things work today, not two quarters from now, shapes how I look at an AI tool. I care less about the launch video and more about whether it holds up on a Tuesday morning, what it really costs per month, and what happens the moment you step outside the free plan. When a tool is weak, I say so; when it has solved something for me, I say that too.

What aidyr.com is

This site started in autumn 2022: the first blog post went up on 3 October, and the first tool page on 24 December that same year. It was DALL-E, which back then still felt like black magic. Today there are 115 tool pages and 62 blog posts.

They’re two different things, and it helps to know which one you’re reading:

• Tool pages are the directory part: what a tool does, what it’s for, what it costs and where to find it. Straight to the point.
• Blog posts are the news and the guides. A guide takes one tool slowly: how to get started, what you get on the free plan, what changes when you pay, and what the alternatives are if it doesn’t quite win you over.

How this site pays for itself

The site is free for you and is paid for by the ads you see. I’m telling you here because it’s the least I can do. What there isn’t is paying to be listed: no company has ever bought a tool page, a spot on a list or an opinion from me, and if that ever changed, I’d write it on this very page, with the date.

How I test what I write about

Before writing about a tool, I open it and use it. Every piece says once when I checked the prices, the screenshots are mine, and when a feature depends on a paid plan or on your own hardware, I tell you what it does and where to find it so you can try it yourself. The full method, in case you want to know where every fact on this site comes from, is here: how I test tools.

If you spot something wrong

It’ll happen. This industry changes prices, names and plans every few weeks, and a tool page written in March can be telling a whole different story by September 🙂. If you find something out of date or just plain wrong, tell me in the comments on the tool page or post where you saw it: I read them myself, and I fix it with the date of the change.