ė.co is published by LABS, the studio that builds labs.llc. Our own tools sit in the first column of every matrix — how we keep the other columns fair.
Method · disclosure · the marks
How a checklist is built here.
A matrix looks neutral. It is not: somebody chooses the rows. This page says who chose them, how each mark was earned, and where our position as the maker of the tools could tilt the result.
What our ownership means here
LABS builds every tool in the first column of every matrix on this site. That is a conflict of interest, and no layout removes it. What we can do is make each mark checkable and choose rows that cost us something. Three rules follow.
- Every review contains rows the labs.llc tool loses. In several reviews it loses most of them. If a matrix read as a clean sweep, we would have chosen the wrong rows.
- Every labs.llc mark points at evidence — a file and line in the tool's source, or a measurement with its UTC time — and the notes carry those references.
- No rival is marked from memory. A rival's mark comes from its own public page or documentation, fetched on 27 September 2026 between about 20:05 and 20:10 UTC. When a page did not settle a question, the cell says “?”, not “—”.
We publish no star ratings, no aggregate scores and no review markup that search engines would read as an independent rating. The only structured data on these pages describes the site, the articles and their breadcrumbs, and names LABS as publisher.
One row belongs in our own matrix: ė.co uses Google Analytics 4, a property of its own, to count page views, with Google’s _ga cookies.
How a labs.llc tool was tested
We did not test the public site. We ran a local copy of labs.llc build 537, byte for byte the build that is live, and sent every request to that copy, so no test traffic reached the production host. For each tool we read the source that runs it — the page, its scripts, and any relay it uses — and wrote down which outside services it really contacts and whether the work happens in your browser or on a labs.llc server.
Then we measured: the page itself, each relay we could safely call with a good request and, where it takes input, a deliberately bad one, and the upstream a browser would call. Each result on a review carries its UTC time. Where a measurement was not possible — no second device for a peer-to-peer transfer, no upload to a third-party host — the log says “not run” and the matrix does not pretend otherwise.
The marks
Five marks are used, and each has a spoken label for screen readers.
- Yes: does it
- Partly: partly — read the note
- No: does not
- Not checked: not checked: no claim either way
- Not applicable: does not apply
A half mark always has a note. The note says what is missing, with the source. A dash for a rival is used only when its own page shows the absence — WeTransfer's statement that sending needs an account, for example. Some cells hold a value instead of a mark, such as a file-size limit, where a tick would hide the difference that matters.
The row labels
Every row carries one of four labels. labs.llc ahead: the tool has a verified mark that no rival matches on the evidence we have. Rival ahead: at least one rival has a verified mark the tool does not. Level: the verified marks agree. Unconfirmed: the tool has the feature, but the rivals' pages left it open, so we decline to call it a win. The counts at the top of each review are these labels added up — a tally of rows we chose, not a score for the tool.
How rows are chosen
Rows are the questions a person picking between these tools would ask, including the ones whose answer we would rather not print. The labs.llc tool's own distinctive features appear as rows only when they change what a user gets.
What this site will not do
- Show a rival's logo, screenshot or look. Pictures on this site are captures of labs.llc tools only, from the local copy, with descriptions of what they show.
- Guess a rival's price, or say a rival “cannot” do something we did not check.
- Quote a user, a testimonial or a user count. There are none here.
- Link to other review sites run by LABS. Each stands on its own evidence.
Corrections
If a mark is wrong — for a rival especially — write to labs@labs.llc with the page and row. A corrected cell is changed in place and its note says what changed and when.