I’m trying to remember when I last had a real “free trial” and not these “give me your credit card subscription scams”. A bonafide “try our thing for real” situation made me buy it.
Free food or drinks for sure. Maybe a newspaper or magazine when I was a kid?
I know exactly. I started getting into music creation with a DAW and wanted a good drums plugin. Toontrack Superior Drums claims to be the industry standard but I couldn’t use their trial without a credit card. Addictive Drums 2, their closest competitor, actually had a free trial. Guess which one I ended up buying after trying it out for a couple months?
Lightburn (laser cutter software) lets you trial the full version for 1 month free. It doubles as an excellent way to get up to speed on the software without tying up the laser cutter’s computer (community machine).
TP link’s Tapo Cares thingy for their camera (basically a subscription for cloud camera storage and a few extra app features) has a 28 day free trial with no card needed. It’s also 28 days per camera, rather than 28 days per account, which I thought was nice
Whatpulse offers free trials sometimes, 14 days and don’t require card details. They’ve given me 2 on the same account
