Independent reviews

Products that fix an everyday annoyance — tested before you spend.

Most products here go through weeks of real use. When we haven’t tested something, we say so at the top of the page — and the verdict comes anyway: what it delivers, where it disappoints, and whether the price holds up.

The English edition is being built

Creative Solutions started in Brazilian Portuguese. The English edition is not a machine translation of it: every review is being rewritten for readers in the United States, with prices, retailers and shipping costs checked against American sources. That takes longer, and it is the only way the pages are worth reading.

Reviews will appear here as they are finished. In the meantime, the Portuguese edition is complete.

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Reads

The problems behind the products — the reasons a thing is worth buying, or is not. These follow the reviews.

How we test

We buy the product with our own money, use it for at least four weeks in daily life, and compare it with the most obvious alternative on the market. If a product does not justify its price, we write that — even when we earn a commission on the sale. And when we publish an assessment without having tested the product, the notice sits at the top of the page, before the first paragraph.

4+ weeks of real use Compared with the obvious rival Pros and cons, always Commission disclosed