friendlyuse

friendlyuse is an accessibility widget plus a WCAG scanner and a customer dashboard, added to a site with one script tag. The widget offers more than 25 visitor aids in six groups, such as text size, contrast, colour correction, a reading ruler and read aloud, in 10 languages. The free scanner lists issues by severity with a fix hint for each.

Pricing is published and simple: every feature is in every plan and only the monthly visitor count differs, from €19 per month (up to 10,000 visitors) to €249 per month (up to 1,000,000), with a 14-day trial and no credit card. That is more transparent than Eye-Able, Silktide or Siteimprove, which sell through demos.

It is also an early-stage, one-person product. The provider is Peter Csipkay as a sole proprietor in Starnberg, Germany. The imprint is still a draft: it has no street address, no register entry or VAT ID, and carries a note that these must be added before go-live. Hosting region and sub-processors are not final. Treat it as pre-launch.

What friendlyuse does well

• Public, all-inclusive visitor-based pricing from €19/month
• 25+ visitor aids in 10 languages
• Built-in WCAG scanner with fix hints and shareable reports
• No raw IP addresses stored; DPA and sub-processor pages provided
• German contracting entity, 14-day trial without card

Where friendlyuse falls short

• Overlay-style widget: does not fix the underlying code, and the vendor itself says it is no replacement for a full WCAG audit
• Imprint is an unfinished draft (no street address, register or VAT ID)
• Hosting region and sub-processors not finalised, no certifications
• Sole proprietor with no track record, unlike established vendors such as Eye-Able or Siteimprove

Standout feature. A transparent, all-features-included widget and scanner from €19 per month, but still a pre-launch solo project.