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One job, done properly
Every product here solves a single problem and stops. No dashboards bolted onto tools that did not need them, no feature added because a competitor has it.
About us
About
BasilBase makes small software and sells it directly: a handful of desktop applications, mobile apps and one WordPress plugin, each priced as a monthly subscription. The people who write the code are the people who answer the support email.
We make small software and sell it ourselves
BasilBase is a software company with a deliberately narrow output: a handful of small applications, each one built to do a single job properly. We write them, we ship them, we answer the support email, and we sell them directly from this site as monthly subscriptions. There is nobody in between.
What we sell
Desktop applications for Windows, mobile applications for Android, and a WordPress plugin. Each one costs a few dollars a month, and every one is listed on the products page with its real price, its real system requirements and screenshots of the software actually running — not a mock-up of something we hope to build.
Each subscription includes the software, every update we ship while it is active, and email support from the person who wrote the code. You can cancel from the customer portal at any time; cancelling stops the next renewal and does nothing else.
Why the products look like this
All of them started as something we needed. A portfolio that was tedious to read in a broker interface. An options position that needed checking against a payoff diagram rather than a spreadsheet. A dollar-cost-averaging plan nobody wanted to recalculate by hand. A box of contact lenses with a replacement date that is easy to forget.
That origin explains the shape of the catalogue. The applications are small because the problems were small. They have very few settings because we only ever needed one way of doing the thing. And they are cheap because they are not trying to be a platform — you are paying for a tool, not for a seat in somebody’s ecosystem.
How we work
Software ships when it is finished rather than when a roadmap says so. Bugs that affect people who paid us are fixed before new features are started. When a product stops being worth maintaining we say so on its page and stop charging for it, instead of leaving it quietly rotting in the catalogue.
Support goes to a person. Write to us with a question before you subscribe and you will get a straight answer — including “no, that product will not do what you need”, which we would much rather send than process a refund a week later.
Your data
The desktop applications run on your own machine and keep their data there. Where a product shows live prices, those come from public market-data providers — your holdings are never sent to us, and there is no analytics SDK inside the applications. What we hold is only what you gave us in order to buy: your email address and your billing record, which our payment provider stores as merchant of record.
The full detail is on the privacy and terms pages, and neither of them is written to be unreadable.
What we sell
- Desktop applications for Windows
- Mobile applications for Android
- A WordPress plugin for investing sites
- Monthly subscriptions from $1.99 a month, cancel any time
- Software runs locally — your data stays on your machine
We do not publish headline statistics, user counts or satisfaction scores. The products on this site are the evidence — subscribe to one for a month and judge it yourself.
How we behave
The rules the catalogue is built on
These are not poster values — each one is checkable against the products themselves. If you find somewhere we have broken one, point at this page and tell us.
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Priced like a tool, not a platform
A few dollars a month, with the price printed on every product page. No sales call to find out what it costs, no per-seat maths, no enterprise tier that quietly holds the useful feature hostage.
v/03
Your machine, your data
The applications run locally and keep what they produce on your own disk. There is no account to create inside the software, no telemetry and no cloud copy of your numbers.
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Boring technology
We spend the novelty budget on the product, not the stack. Proven, well-documented tools are why a small catalogue can be maintained by a small team for years.
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Cancelling is one click
One click in the customer portal stops the next renewal — no retention flow and no “are you sure” maze — and you keep access for the period you already paid for. A product should earn its place each month.
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Support is the developer
The person who answers your email is the person who can fix the bug. That is only possible while the company stays small, so it stays small.
Ground rules
The parts customers check twice
Things we will not do
- Hide the price behind a “request a quote” form
- Make cancelling harder than subscribing
- Raise the price of a running subscription without telling you first
- Sell, share or mine anything the software produces on your machine
- Add you to a mailing list because you bought something
- Advertise a feature that is not in the version you can download today
What a subscription actually buys
A licence to use the software for as long as you pay for it, every update released in that time, and email support from the developer. The download arrives immediately after checkout — there is nothing to install on our side, no seat to provision and no onboarding call.
Payment is handled by our payment provider acting as merchant of record, so your card details never reach us and the total is shown before you confirm. Cancel from the customer portal whenever you like; it stops the next renewal and nothing else.