Transparency

Our approach to sustainability is to help you understand the trade-offs between product performance, price, accessibility, and environmental and health impact.

Our mission to recommend only the best means we sometimes choose new picks. By and large, we stand by our older picks, but when we don’t, we’ll tell you why.

The business decisions at Wirecutter never affect our journalists.

We keep our pool of sources above-board and diverse by finding them outside our personal networks, through legitimate institutions, and with careful research.

Maintaining our editorial independence means ultimately returning, donating, or discarding every product we get.

Wirecutter guides are organized in a particular, idiosyncratic way. Here’s why.

Our refusal to recommend low-quality products means that sometimes our picks can be pricey.

Wirecutter journalists are data nerds. Our rigorous testing produces mountains of information and we use comparison tables to make sense of it all.

Our picks are based on tons of research and testing, but they may not always be right for you. Here’s why you should read past the picks for other good options.