Termly

termly.iocontributed by Samuele Ongaro

KEEP IT

The value is the network, the data or the infrastructure. Keep paying.

Generates and maintains privacy policies, terms and cookie notices from a questionnaire, updating them as the underlying regulations change.

Promptfree, for everyone, and the only version there is
Do not build this. Policies updated when the law moves is the product, and it is legal work wearing software.

A privacy policy, terms and a cookie notice are not text you generate once. They change when the law changes, and knowing that a rule moved in a jurisdiction you sell into is what the subscription provides. Generating a policy yourself and leaving it untouched for three years is worse than not having one, because it documents things you no longer do.

WHAT TO DO INSTEAD
- Keep it if you sell across borders and want the updates
- Or have a lawyer write the documents once and diarise a review. For a small business selling in one country, that is often cheaper over three years
- Either way, put a review date in a calendar. That single habit is most of the value

WHAT YOU CAN BUILD, AND SHOULD

**A record of what your site actually does**, which is what a policy is supposed to describe and is usually wrong about:
- Crawl your own site with a real browser, twice: once with consent refused and once granted. Record every cookie, every storage key and every outbound request
- The difference between those two runs is the whole compliance question, and the first run is where you find the tag firing before anybody agreed to anything
- Classify each finding against a list of known providers and leave the unknown ones for a human
- Re-run on a schedule and alert on anything new. A marketing tag added by somebody with tag-manager access is the usual way a compliant site stops being one
- That inventory is the input to an accurate policy, and it is the part no generator can know

AND THE CONSENT RECORD
If you ask for consent, store what was agreed, when, how, and which version of the banner and the policy were shown. That record is what a regulator asks for, and it is a table.

THE HONEST SENTENCE
None of this is legal advice, and a generated document is not a substitute for advice about your own business. What software can do is tell you the truth about your own site — do that part yourself, and let a lawyer handle the words.

THE ONE-LINE VERSION
Buy or commission the words. Build the scanner that tells you whether they are still true.

What you lose

  • Policy text reviewed by lawyers and revised when regulations change, which is the entire product
  • A record of which version of a policy was live on a given date
  • Coverage across several jurisdictions from one questionnaire

If you would rather not build

  • A lawyer, once, which is often cheaper than a subscription
  • Markdown policies versioned in your repository
  • Iubenda, for the same service

What it costs

as published on their pricing page

PlanBilled monthlyBilled yearlyLast read
—$15/mo——

Their pricing page is where these came from. Seeing a different price? Tell us.

The escape hatch

open source · no votes, no paid placement

docusaurus

$0

Versioned document publishing, so old policy versions stay readable.

facebook/docusaurusfree · open source

Astro

$0

Content collections give dated, diffable policy pages with no service.

withastro/astrofree · open source

Why this verdict

our own opinion · changed only by a person

30/100

Verdict no at 30, and not for technical reasons: this is legal drafting. The useful build is the data inventory a lawyer will ask for anyway.

History

tracked since 10 Aug 2026 · nothing is ever overwritten

Interest · last 30 dayspeak 5/day
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Questions about Termly

answered from the record above

Is Termly free?

No — the plan we track is $15 a month. Pro at around $15/month billed monthly per website.

Can you replace Termly by building your own?

KEEP IT. The value is the network, the data or the infrastructure. Keep paying. Replacement score 30 out of 100, build time longer than it saves. Read what you lose before you decide.

How much does Termly cost?

$15 a month on Pro — $180 a year. Recorded 10 Aug 2026.

What do you lose by replacing Termly?

Policy text reviewed by lawyers and revised when regulations change, which is the entire product; A record of which version of a policy was live on a given date; Coverage across several jurisdictions from one questionnaire. If any of those carry weight for you, keep paying.

Is there an open-source alternative to Termly?

Yes: docusaurus, Astro. The prompt on this page is for when you want it your way instead.

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