We got tired of rubbish software.

It always starts with something small. A PDF that has to be under 2 MB. A song you want to sing without the singer. A PC with no Wi-Fi after a reinstall. You search, and the internet hands you a wall of download buttons, half of them fake.

The app you finally install wants an account. Or it works, right up until you press Save, and then it wants $14.99 a month. Or it quietly adds a toolbar, changes your browser's home page and starts nagging you from the corner of the screen. Or it simply doesn't work, because whoever made it moved on years ago. So you uninstall it, and search again.

Most of that software isn't built to help you. It's built to earn from you in some other way: ads, bundled "offers", your data, fear, or a subscription for a job that takes two minutes. Its makers have no reason to make it good, because they'll never see you again.

So we did the opposite

Vow is a collection of Windows apps made by one company, XTO Pty Ltd, to one standard. Each app does one job and does it better than the alternatives we could find, because we studied them first and built what they should have been. Each one is free to use every day, for real work. And if you need more, you pay once, a small amount, and it's yours.

Because you pay us honestly, we have no reason to cripple the free version, fill it with ads or hide anything in the installer. That's the whole business model, and it's why we can make every promise below.