Annual Software Awards

The Tool Money Lab Annual Software Awards.

One awards series, published once a year, drawn entirely from our own review archive. Every winner already holds a dated TTML review, every judgement is labelled with how it was formed, and no award has ever been sponsored, sold or shown to a vendor before publication.

4 editions31 awards issued18 honourable mentions
How we judge the awards
2026 editions
How the awards work
  1. 01We start from the full TTML review database and shortlist only products that already hold a published, dated review with a recorded evidence classification.
  2. 02Each shortlisted product is re-read against the current judging criteria during the awards cycle, and any score that no longer reflects the product is sent back for a review refresh before it can be considered.
  3. 03Award decisions are made by the editorial team against the criteria above. Where two products are close, the tie is broken by value for money and by which product we would deploy on our own work.
  4. 04Every award records how the judgement was formed — hands-on testing, documentation review or editorial analysis — and that label is derived automatically from the underlying review, not chosen by the writer.
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