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Geardex vs Htmlslides

Photographers, videographers and small studios who need one record of every camera, lens and drone - serials, receipts, values, loans and maintenance - instead of a spreadsheet beside a shared drive · Creating, playing, sharing, and embedding interactive HTML slide decks from a topic or brief

Decision pointGearDexHtmlSlides
Best forPhotographers, videographers and small studios who need one record of every camera, lens and drone - serials, receipts, values, loans and maintenance - instead of a spreadsheet beside a shared driveCreating, playing, sharing, and embedding interactive HTML slide decks from a topic or brief
CategoryProductivityProductivity
PriceStarter free (25 gear items, 10 categories, 25 AI actions a week, one 50 MB client gallery, a 3-page site); Pro $4/mo or $39/yr; Studio $19/mo or $179/yr; no free trial on paid plansFree + Pro $9.90/mo (launch offer) + credit packs from $1
AIToolsEssentials editorial score4.2/53.9/5

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GearDex

Starter free: up to 25 gear items in 10 categories, 3 shoot plans, 1 client gallery with 50 MB, 1 gear document, 1 kit on the Site, 25 AI actions a week, QR label per item, CSV import and export. Pro $4/month or $39/year ($3.25/month billed yearly, saving $9): unlimited gear in 50 categories, 3 Site themes and 10 pages with own domain, 3 client galleries at 200 MB each, 150 AI actions a week, market price lookup 10/week. Studio $19/month or $179/year (~$14.92/month billed yearly, saving $49): 10-seat team workspace, all 12 themes, Stories, 10 active galleries at 10 GB each with 100 GB total, booking, quotes, contracts, invoices, Studio Agent API and webhooks, unlimited AI actions. Prices in USD with taxes calculated at checkout. No free trial on paid plans; refunds not automatic. The site's llms.txt states that older third-party listings quoting $9 and $29 are out of date.

Official sources checked 2026-10-21

Submitted via form by the vendor 2026-10-22 05:38 UTC (2026-10-21 22:38 PDT); editorial entry written independently from live pages on the site's Pacific working date 2026-10-21. Prices were read from three surfaces that agree: the application/ld+json Offer array on /pricing (0.00, 4.00, 39.00, 19.00, 179.00), the rendered plan cards and the limit-by-limit comparison table on the same page, and /legal/billing which restates US$4/month or US$39/year and US$19/month or US$179/year; the site's llms.txt carries the same figures. Category was reclassified from the submitted 'Writing & Productivity' to Productivity after reading the product pages - it is a gear-inventory and studio-operations app, not a writing tool. Legal pages read in full: /legal/privacy (last updated 2026-10-19, 16 sections), /legal/terms (2026-10-02, 13 sections, California governing law, liability cap of the greater of six months' fees or US$100), /legal/billing (refunds, renewals, California Automatic Renewal Law notice) and /legal/notice; all four return 200 and the Terms' reference to /legal/billing resolves. Privacy section 1 names the controller as Dylan Andersen, GearDex, 842 St Vincent, Irvine, CA 92618, matching /legal/notice and /contact. Trackers were checked on the served pages rather than assumed: Google Analytics G-BNVX42Q1BT loads with Consent Mode defaulting analytics_storage and ad_storage to denied and send_page_view false, and the policy scopes Analytics to accepted cookies, with an Accept All / Reject All banner present in the markup. Contact route: geardex.app publishes no MX (DNS returns only the SOA for the apex), so the address on every page and in the submission - geardex.help@gmail.com - is the working route, not a @geardex.app address. Domain registered 2025-06-28 with Namecheap on Vercel DNS, 16 months old at the check. The privacy policy describes iPhone and Android apps that are not shipped - /download offers Safari Add to Home Screen for iPhone, lists no Android app and carries no App Store or Play link - and that discrepancy is recorded in cons rather than treated as a blocker. Vendor usage claims (300+ photographers, 6,100+ items tracked, $722K+ managed) are unverified by us. No purchase or account was created and no checkout was exercised.

HtmlSlides

Free: $0, 10 templates, 50MB storage. Pro: $9.90/month (launch offer), all official templates free, 1GB storage, text/speaker-notes editing, Speaker Mode, video export. Credit packs: $1/10 credits, $5/60 credits, $10/150 credits. Credits non-refundable, may expire.

Official sources checked 2026-09-18

Submitted via form by vendor; editorial entry written independently. Official site, pricing, terms, and privacy pages verified 2026-08-27. Terms last updated July 11, 2026. Pricing may change — launch offer price noted.

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