About This Site
Revel Roots is about what apps and software actually cost — the annual figure rather than the monthly one, the charges nobody can account for, and how to decide deliberately.
Who it is for
Somebody with a phone, a dozen subscriptions and a suspicion they are paying more than they think. Not a technical audience.
You do not need another list of the best apps. You need to know what is being charged, how to work out the total, and how to leave.
Who writes it
The current archive does not publish named bylines. Pages should be evaluated by their cited sources, stated review dates, and the method described on this site.
How it is funded
No affiliate links. No sponsorship. No paid placements. No commission on any install or subscription.
That is the load-bearing fact about this site, because affiliate revenue is what shapes almost all app coverage — it determines which products are covered, why subscriptions outrank one-off purchases, and why nobody writes about cancelling.
The corollary is a real limitation. This site cannot tell you which app to buy, and does not try. It can tell you what a listing actually says, what a free tier is calibrated to do, and when the answer is no app at all — which is the half nobody else has a reason to write.
About this domain
This domain belonged to Revel & Roots Events, a wedding and event planning company in Colorado. The business is closed and this site is a different subject on the same domain.
Seven posts from the original blog are preserved at /archive/ — the company's own writing, dated, kept because it was the site's substantive content and because links to it exist.
The couples' pages were removed, deliberately. They contained photographs of real weddings, published with consent for a working planning company. That consent does not transfer to an unrelated site on the same domain, so those pages are gone rather than archived.
What this site will not do
Publish a feed of new releases. That coverage exists in enormous volume and goes stale in months.
Name products in the articles about traps. The mechanics are described generically; the exception is public regulatory action.
Present vendor figures as independent. They are labelled every time they appear.
Or state the regulatory position without a date. It has changed twice in two years.
The standards are on the method page, and errors are logged on corrections.