Every tool on this site is free, and there is no account to create. This page explains how ScreenTail is paid for, and how you can tell when a link on it stands to earn something.
Where things stand today
No affiliate programme is active on this site. Nothing here currently earns a commission, and no page carries an affiliate link. As of August 2026 that is the whole position.
It will change — links that may earn a commission are one of the two ways this site is meant to pay for itself. The rules below are written now, before the first one ships, because a disclosure arriving at the same moment as the thing it discloses is one nobody had the chance to read first. This page is updated on the day the first affiliate link goes live, not after it.
How an affiliate link works here
An affiliate link is an ordinary link to a shop or a manufacturer with a code attached, which tells the destination that the visit came from here. Three things are true of every one of them:
- A commission may be earned. If you buy something after following one, the seller may pay this site a share of the sale.
- It costs you nothing extra. The price is the same as it would be if you had typed the address in yourself. A commission comes out of the seller's margin, not your bill.
- It is marked, twice. The link is labelled in the text where it appears, and it carries
rel="sponsored"in the page source — so it is identifiable both by a person reading the page and by a machine reading the markup.
Where the disclosure appears
Any article containing an affiliate link carries a notice at the top of the page, above the article, before you have read anything you might act on. The links themselves are marked again where they sit in the text.
It is deliberately not a line in the footer. A notice you have to go looking for, after the fact, has not told you anything while it still mattered.
What a commission does not change
Two things, stated narrowly, because an overclaim here defeats the purpose.
What gets built is decided by what a reader needs to diagnose. The tools and the guides come from the questions people actually arrive with when a screen is behaving oddly. Neither the catalogue nor the order of it is arranged around what pays.
A commission never changes what a test reports or what a guide concludes. The tools measure what they measure and show you the result; the code producing it has no idea whether a link elsewhere on the page earns anything.
What is not being claimed matters as much. There is no editorial board here, no formal review process, and no independent testing lab. The site is run by one person, and what he can and cannot verify is set out in detail on how the tools are tested. Where a recommendation appears, take it for what it is — one person's view, with the commercial interest disclosed.
Advertising
The site may carry display advertising in future. It does not today.
Advertising is not editorial. An advertiser has no say in what is written or in what a tool reports, and no advert will ever appear inside a tool while it is being used — a diagnostic surface has to show you the panel, not a banner.
What an advertising or affiliate network would be able to see about your visit is a separate question, and it belongs on the privacy policy rather than here.
Questions
If something on this page is unclear, or a link looks like it should have been marked and was not, write to contact@screentail.com or use the contact page. It reaches the one person who runs the site, and he reads all of it.
See also the privacy policy, the terms of use and the about page.