VIZSLA

The honest arithmetic

What you stop paying for

Vizsla OS is free, and so is everything in it. That matters most in a quiet way: the apps it ships stand in for subscriptions a lot of households and small businesses are already paying for, month after month, for jobs that are mostly everyday ones. Cancel the stack below and the money stays home.

The rules of this page: every price was read on the vendor’s own pricing page on 27 October 2026, in US dollars, before tax — no intro offers, no student deals. Where a Vizsla app covers the everyday job rather than matching a suite feature for feature, the table says so. If you earn your living inside one of the professional suites, keep it; this page is not aimed at you.

At home

The subscriptionThe Vizsla wayPer year
Grammarly Pro — grammar and writing help Vizsla Keyboard + Text Services. Grammar help lives in the keyboard and the system’s text services — checking as you type, with audience modes and dictation. It was built, on purpose, as the replacement. $144.00
Microsoft 365 Personal — the office suite WordCraft · Dactylo, Write a Letter, Write a Resume, Notes — and the box’s own GridCraft, DeckCraft, and WordCraft. Documents, letters, résumés, and notes are covered — and so are spreadsheets and slide decks: GridCraft is the spreadsheet citizen and DeckCraft builds the decks, both shipping in the box as part of the ArtCraft suite, while Elefunk runs the mail, the calendar, and the tasks. Honest limit: this is the everyday Office — if your living runs on Excel macros and enterprise co-authoring, keep the subscription. $99.99
Adobe Acrobat Pro — PDF work Reader + Scanner + PdfCraft. Read, fill, sign, and truly redact PDFs; scan pages in standing upright and read clean; PdfCraft, the box’s PDF bench, takes the heavier document work. The everyday Acrobat jobs, done. $239.88
Readwise Reader — read-it-later The Attic. Articles clipped and saved in full, on your own machine — nothing rents you back your own reading list. $95.88
myMind — bookmarking (Bookmarker plan) The Attic again. The same clipping box takes your bookmarks too — the owner moved his own myMind library into it. $59.88
1Password Individual — the password vault Secrets. Passwords, bank accounts, and ID documents in one encrypted store on your own machine, opened with your fingerprint — nothing of yours rents a shelf in somebody else’s cloud. $47.88
Backblaze — cloud backup, per computer Retrieve + Drive Utility. Plug in a drive and it becomes a copy target; every copy is fingerprinted and verified, and the drive is recognized wherever it plugs in. Honest limit: your copies live on drives at your house, not in a far-off data center — that is the trade for never renting your own files back. $99.00
HomeZada Premium — home maintenance tracking Upkeep + Garage Log. The house’s quiet deadlines — filters, batteries, flushes — and the car’s service history, kept by miles and by months. $99.00
The home stack, per year$885.51

The business shelf

The same system runs a small business without the per-screen, per-location, per-seat drip. These prices are per unit, as labeled — a real shop’s bill is the unit price times its screens, doors, and people.

The subscriptionThe Vizsla wayPer year
Menu-board software (Yodeck Basic) — per screen Menu Board. Your menu on the big screen, read live from Foodi and never re-typed. $96.00
Square for Restaurants Plus — per location, kitchen display included Foodi + Menu Board. The kitchen’s lists, meal planning, and pantry checks on one side; the board the customers read on the other. Honest limit: Vizsla doesn’t take payments or run a till — this row replaces the kitchen-and-board software, not the card reader. $720.00
Safety & inspection logs (Mitti, formerly SafetyCulture/iAuditor, Premium) — per seat Garage Log + Upkeep. Service histories, inspections, and deadlines kept as records on your own machine — the logbook without the per-seat rent. $288.00
QuickBooks Online Simple Start — the business books Bear Bucks. The register and the books for a small business, with the tax kit and the mileage log kept by the tax authority’s own rates. Honest limit: it keeps a small shop’s everyday books — payroll and a multi-user accounting department are a bigger animal. $456.00
The business shelf, per year (one screen, one location, one seat)$1,560.00

Add the shelves together — $2,445.51 a year at the unit counts above — and that is the quiet pitch: not a cheaper subscription, but no subscription, for the jobs an ordinary household and a small shop actually do every day. One last note, from experience: Pocket, a paid read-it-later app, shut down in 2025, and a home-maintenance app called Centriq closed after it. When a subscription dies, the library you built inside it is suddenly your problem. Vizsla keeps your records and your reading on your own machine, where no company’s decision can sunset them.