How We Test

Every recommendation on Public Art Now follows the same process. This page explains it, so you know exactly what a verdict on this site means.

Hands-on before opinions

We do not review tools from press releases or other people’s reviews. Before anything is recommended, we use it for the task it claims to solve: the same prompts across AI tools, the same documents across note apps, the same workloads across hardware. If we could not test something ourselves, the article says so.

What we score

  • Real output quality, not feature checklists
  • Honest pricing, including what the free tier actually allows
  • Lock-in and exit costs, because leaving a tool matters as much as joining it
  • Longevity, favoring tools likely to exist and stay affordable in two years

Corrections

Software changes fast and sometimes we get things wrong or articles go stale. If you spot an error, tell us through the contact page and we will fix it and note the update.