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 subscription | The Vizsla way | Per 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 |
- Grammarly Pro is $12/month billed annually, per member ($30/month month-to-month).
- Acrobat Pro is an annual plan billed monthly at $19.99 — $239.88 a year.
If your Adobe line is Creative Cloud All Apps instead (from $59.99/month,
$719.88/year): the box answers with citizens of its own — PhotoCraft,
LightCraft, VectorCraft, DesignCraft, and EffectCraft from the ArtCraft suite,
alongside the family’s Photos, Upscaler, Art Gallery, and Screensnips. The
everyday photo and design jobs — organizing, editing, enlarging, framing,
snipping — are covered, but not professional studio work. Swapping it in,
this basket is $1,365.51 a year.
- Pay for Instapaper Premium instead of Readwise? It’s $60 a year —
The Attic replaces either one.
- myMind’s higher tiers didn’t show prices on its own pricing page
when checked, so only the verified entry plan is counted.
- 1Password Individual is $3.99 a month billed yearly at the regular price —
$47.88 a year. The cheaper first-year price for new customers isn’t counted.
- Backblaze is $99 a year for one computer, billed annually ($9 month-to-month).
- Design interfaces on Figma’s Professional plan? That’s $16 per editor
a month billed annually — $192 a year. FigCraft, the box’s interface-design
citizen, covers designing screens on your own machine; it doesn’t do Figma’s
live multiplayer co-editing, so it’s named here rather than totaled.
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 subscription | The Vizsla way | Per 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 |
- Yodeck’s first screen is free forever; $96 a year is the paid per-screen
price, so this row is honest from the second screen (or a paid-tier need) on.
- Square’s $60/month is per location, plus $40/month per added register
device, with card processing on top. Toast’s point-of-sale starts at
$69/month ($828/year) if that’s the bill you know.
- Mitti Premium is $24 per seat per month billed annually; a ten-person team
pays ten times this row.
- QuickBooks Simple Start lists at $38 a month — $456 a year at the list
price. New-customer discounts aren’t counted; outgrowing the everyday books
is the honest reason to pay it.
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.