Why Redline is $9, not $89

The first time I priced a design-feedback tool for my own freelance work, the cheapest plan that actually let me run more than one client was $79 a month. Some were $48. The 'enterprise' ones started at $200 a seat. I closed the tab and went back to email.

I get why those tools cost what they cost. They're priced for design teams — five seats, an admin, SSO, an account manager checking in every quarter. The price isn't crazy if you're a thirty-person agency. It's a rounding error against billable rates.

But that's not me. I'm one person. I work with three or four clients at a time. I don't need SSO. I don't need a Customer Success rep. I need a place to send a link, get comments, and close out an approval so I can invoice. So I built Redline for myself first — the kind of person paying out of pocket between projects, the kind of person whose Stripe bill matters when a client takes an extra week to wire.

At $9 a month you get unlimited active projects, pinned and general comments, client approval with time-stamped sign-off, version history, and a PDF export of every approval for your records. No 'Lite / Standard / Business / Enterprise' ladder. No add-ons. No per-seat pricing that punishes you for inviting a second client. And if you write in, you get me on email.

There's a free tier because a tool you've never used isn't worth $9 either. Free until you're running more than one project — which is to say, free until Redline is actually earning you money. If you only ever need it for one client, you never pay. That's fine.

I'd rather have ten thousand freelancers paying $9 than ten agencies paying $300. Different business, different customer, honest pricing. — Philip