🐌 Snail Trails are now social — follow members, love their trails. See the feed
🐌 The social network for the whole web

Follow members.
See their trails on every site.

A Snail Trail is a thought a member leaves on any website — a review, a hot take, a warning, a recommendation. Follow members you trust and their trails become your feed. Comment, give ❤️, earn a following of your own.

Try
Works on every site Free to search & read Never sells your data Open source
Any site
trails attach to every website on the internet — the whole web is the network
❤️ karma
every love a trail or comment earns builds its member's reputation
$0
to read, follow, love, and leave trails — forever
By members
every trail is written, loved, and moderated by real members, not merchants

How it works

Leave trails. Follow members. Get love.

Snailsy is a feed of what the members you follow think about every website they visit.

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1 · Leave a trail anywhere

Any website, any thought — a review, a warning, a hot take, a gem you found. Anchor it to the site and it's on the map in ten seconds.

streamly.example snail trails
🔁 "Free trial converts silently at $29.99/mo. Cancel is buried in Account → Plan."
❤️ 87💬 12

2 · Follow members you trust

Their trails become your feed — every site they visit, every thought they leave. Search any site to see all its trails, from your network and beyond.

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3 · Get love, earn karma

Followers ❤️ your trails and comment on them. Every love builds your karma — reputation you earn by leaving trails people actually value.

What trails are made of

Any thought, any website.
Some trails even save your followers money.

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Deceptive pricing

Headline says $89, checkout says $137. Trails tell you the real number before you fall in love with the thing.

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Shadow UI & dark patterns

Pre-ticked boxes, decoy buttons, cancel flows designed like mazes. Members flag them so you don't fall for them.

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Surprise auto-renewals

"Free trial" that quietly becomes $29.99/mo. Trails tell you it's coming — and where the cancel button actually lives.

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Reviews, gems & hot takes

Most trails are just thoughts: "best coffee gear reviews on the internet", "this newsletter is worth it", "the UI redesign is a downgrade." Your followers see them all. ❤️

Kept honest by design

A crowd is only as good
as its honesty.

No payments, no gatekeeping — spam is handled with engineering instead:

Community reports

Any member can report a trail or comment. Three distinct reports and it disappears from the map — the crowd is the moderator.

Proof-of-work stamp

Leaving a trail makes your browser solve a small puzzle, invisibly. Fine for you; ruinous for a spam bot posting thousands.

Rate limits

A couple of trails per site per day, per member and per network. Nobody floods the map.

PII scrubbing

Emails, card numbers, and long IDs are stripped from every trail — on your device and again on the server.

No merchant money

We take nothing from the sites trails describe — no affiliate fees, no ads. There's no incentive to soften a trail.

Delete everything, anytime

One click removes every trail, comment, love, and follow tied to your username — which is the only identity you have here.

Read the privacy policy Read the source code

The browser extension

Want it to come to you?

Searching here answers “what should I know about this site?” The free Chrome extension brings the same intel onto the checkout page automatically — no searching. It's in early access, so today you install it the developer way — four easy steps.

1Download

Grab snailsy-chrome.zip — free, tiny, no account needed.

2Unzip it

Double-click the file to extract the snailsy folder anywhere you like.

3Enable Developer mode

Open chrome://extensions and flip the Developer mode toggle (top-right).

4Load unpacked

Click Load unpacked, choose the folder — done. Click the 🐌 on any pricing page.

⬇ Download Snailsy for Chrome — Free

ℹ️ Early-access builds update manually. Join the waitlist below and we'll email you the moment the auto-updating Chrome Web Store version is live.

On your phone

No extension needed.
Snailsy is a web app too.

Everything members do — read the feed, love, comment, leave trails — works right here on the website. Add it to your home screen and it feels like an app.

🤖 Android

Share a page, get its trails.

  1. In Chrome, open snailsy.vercel.app → menu ⋮ → Add to Home Screen.
  2. On any pricing page, tap Share → Snailsy.
  3. That site's trails open instantly. Love them, or leave your own.
iPhone & iPad

Add it to your home screen.

  1. In Safari, open snailsy.vercel.app → Share → Add to Home Screen.
  2. Copy any pricing page's link, open Snailsy, and paste it.
  3. Trails appear — same feed, same loves, same members.
🐌 Right now

Try it without installing anything.

The trail page works in any mobile browser — paste a link or type a site name and go.

Open the trail page

Prefer a true extension on your phone? Firefox for Android supports them — a Firefox build of Snailsy already exists.

FAQ

Fair questions, straight answers.

How do I look up a site here?
Type any website into the box at the top of this page and Snailsy shows what real members flagged about it: hidden fees, sneaky auto-renewals, dark patterns, or a plain “all clear.” Looking things up and reading are free and need no account. (It's also a browser extension that surfaces the same info right on the checkout page.)
What exactly is a Snail Trail?
A short tip (up to 280 characters) a member leaves about a website's pricing pages: a fee that only shows up late, a trial that converts silently, a misleading button — or a note that a site is genuinely fair. Trails are anonymous, tagged (💸 hidden fees, 🔁 auto-renewal, 🕳️ dark pattern, ✅ all clear), and votable.
Is it really free? What's the catch?
Free to use, free to read, free to love, free to leave trails. No premium tier gating the good stuff, no data selling, no affiliate money from the sites trails describe. The "catch" is that Snailsy only works if members like you leave trails — that's the deal.
Do I need an account?
Reading is open to everyone — search the map right on this page. To leave trails, comment, love, and follow you become a member: pick a username, sign up with email + password (free, ~20 seconds). Your username is your only public identity; your email is used solely for login and is never shown to anyone. Join here →
How does member reputation work?
Karma is earned, not given: every ❤️ another member gives your trails and comments builds your karma, visible on your profile ("47 trails · ❤️ 312 · 58 followers"). You can't love your own posts and there's no way to buy it — you earn it by leaving trails people value.
How do you stop fake or spam trails?
Four ways: any member can report a trail or comment and three distinct reports hide it; leaving a trail requires a proof-of-work stamp (a puzzle your browser solves invisibly — costly for bots at scale); rate limits cap trails per member, per site, and per network; and PII is scrubbed from every trail automatically.
Which sites does it work on?
All of them. Trails attach to a website's domain, so the moment anyone leaves the first trail on a site, it's on the map. You can also search the whole map right on this page.
Does it work on my phone?
Yes — as a web app. Phones don't allow Chrome extensions, so on mobile Snailsy lives at this website: add it to your home screen and it installs like an app. On Android you can share any page straight to Snailsy to see its trails; on iPhone you paste the page's link. Reading, loving, and leaving trails all work. See how →
Why isn't it on the Chrome Web Store yet?
We're in early access while we finish the store review checklist. The downloadable build is the same code, installed via Chrome's "Load unpacked" — a standard developer flow. Join the waitlist and we'll email you when the one-click version ships.
Why "Snailsy"?
Snails leave trails wherever they go — ours just happen to save the next shopper money. (It started as a Snell's Law joke about price refraction. The snail outlived the physics.)

Be first in line for the Web Store launch.

One email when the auto-updating Chrome version ships. No spam — we're a transparency project, it would be embarrassing.