M5 / Freedom Office / Budget Toolkit

Keep the tools.
Choose the cost.

Compare the software subscriptions you currently pay for against free-to-use creative, budgeting and office tools. The software is the choice; paid support, hosting, AI compute and training remain optional and separate.

The member always chooses. This page is a local software-spend planner, not a payment service, financial-account import, app installer or subscription-cancellation tool. All monthly amounts are entered by you. Some products require technical self-hosting or have open-core/commercial licensing restrictions. Clicking a project link never grants an application access to M5POD or M5-MCP.

Your software budget

Current monthly subscriptions entered
$0.00Only checked alternatives count
Estimated new monthly operating cost
$0.00Enter hosting, compute and support if applicable
Potential monthly difference
$0.00A projection, not guaranteed savings

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Choose your own alternatives

All zero dollar software licenses are separate from the cost of operating or supporting the tools. For each selected item, enter what you currently pay for a comparable product and any new monthly expense you expect. Leave both at zero when unknown; no subscription price is guessed or scraped.

How developers can be paid

Members may use free software on their own computers, contribute voluntarily to upstream development, or separately purchase approved support, managed hosting, installation help or model compute. M5 may later negotiate disclosed referral or partner fees, but **no commission, auto-charge or payment agreement is active in this tool**. A future M5 Desktop installer will require explicit member approval, pinned releases, signature and checksum verification, license notices and revocable permissions.

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Your budget entries stay in this browser unless you export them. They are not written to your Bank of Me account or shared with the listed software developers. The existing M5 Bank of Me Budget entity is separate from this tool. M5's authority root is the human; software vendors and agents are replaceable providers, not owners of your records.