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NUBIGON
NUBIGON
NUBIGON is an advanced point cloud visualization and animation software designed for the reality capture industry. It enables laser scanning professionals to display, analyze, and present complex data clearly and efficiently. NUBIGON offers premium visualization tools that enhance clarity, efficiency, and engagement, allowing users to unlock the full potential of their point cloud data. Users can create captivating point cloud videos to showcase laser scanning and scan-to-BIM projects. NUBIGON allows the fusion of CAD, BIM, and mesh models with point clouds, presenting all deliverables in one place. It also enables the extraction of high-quality orthophotos and screenshots directly from point clouds. Users can take virtual measurements to minimize site visits and improve site documentation. It supports the annotation of points of interest and the creation of guided tours for virtual site exploration. NUBIGON is compatible with various point cloud file formats.Starting Price: $75 per month -
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ARES Touch
Graebert
ARES Touch is a comprehensive mobile CAD solution for iOS and Android devices, enabling users to create and modify DWG drawings on tablets and smartphones with a full suite of 2D drafting and annotation commands. Optimized for touch inputs, it allows field workers to access, annotate, and synchronize drawings in real time, ensuring they always work with the latest versions. Users can view, annotate, and modify DWG files on the go, making it ideal for technical surveys, on-site inspections, maintenance, project coordination, client meetings, and facility management. It supports synchronization with popular cloud storage services like Dropbox, Box, iCloud, Google Drive, and OneDrive, allowing offline access when needed. It offers a complete set of 2D drafting tools, including precise drawing aids such as the loupe, entity snap, tracking, and coordinate input. Additionally, ARES Touch enables users to annotate drawings with pictures taken from the device's camera and text legends.Starting Price: Free -
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ARES Kudo
Graebert
ARES Kudo is a cloud-based CAD solution that enables users to create and modify DWG or DXF files directly within an internet browser, eliminating the need for installations or updates. It offers a comprehensive set of 2D drafting and annotation tools, including layer management, hatches and gradients, dimensions and dimension styles, and the ability to print to PDF. Advanced features such as support for X-refs, raster images, tables, PDF import, DGN import, drawing comparison, and dynamic blocks are also included. The intuitive ribbon interface provides a familiar environment for users transitioning from other CAD platforms. ARES Kudo supports real-time collaboration through features like comments, markups, and view-only links, allowing for efficient feedback collection and project coordination. Integration with popular cloud storage services such as Google Drive, Box, Dropbox, OneDrive, and more ensures easy management and synchronization of CAD files across platforms.Starting Price: $200 per year -
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PlanMan
PlanMan
PlanMan is a cloud-based project management software designed specifically for architects and town planners. It offers a comprehensive suite of features to streamline administrative tasks and enhance productivity. Users can manage unlimited clients, projects, quotes, and invoices, all stored securely in one place. It includes built-in cloud storage for all project documentation, eliminating the need for shared network drives. Each project has a built-in chat room for instant communication, and client emails are stored against the relevant project for easy access. PlanMan's client portal allows clients to log in and view their enquiries, quotes, projects, documents, and invoices 24/7. Clients can also pay invoices online through Stripe or GoCardless integrations. The software supports managing co-consultants, creating and sending quotes from project templates, and generating invoices for clients and suppliers.Starting Price: Free -
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Requs AI Predict Software FMEA
Mission Ready Software
The Requs Suite includes software reliability prediction, software FMEA, software reliability sensitivity analysis and software reliability growth. Requs AI Predict has the only machine learning model to predict defect density in software - before the code is even written. It predicts escaped defects, failure rate, MTBSF, reliability and availability too. The Requs Software FMEA is the only intelligent software tool for software design FMEA. It determines which of the Common Defect Enumerations (CDEs) are applicable and their relative likelihood. It allows for importing of design from MBSE tools. It supports international FMEA standards and can be used for both reliability and safety analyses. The Advanced Sensitivity Analysis supports tradeoffs between reliability, cycle time, people effort, test effort. It shows which factors are most and least important for reducing defect density. The Reliability Growth Module is used during testing to trend defects and forecast MTBSF.Starting Price: $1199/year/user -
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RoboLogix
Logic Design Inc.
RoboLogix is a state-of-the-art robotics simulation software package that is designed to emulate real-world robotics applications. With RoboLogix, you teach, test, run, and debug programs that you have written yourself using a five-axis industrial robot in a wide range of practical applications. These applications include pick-and-place, palletizing, welding, and painting, and allow for customized environments so that you can design your own robotics application. With RoboLogix, the user can run the simulator to test and visually examine the execution of robot programs and control algorithms. RoboLogix is ideal for students as well as robot designers and engineers. It is the only robotics simulation tool that provides engineering-level simulation at such an affordable price. The simulation software allows for verification of the reachability, travel ranges, and collisions.Starting Price: $295 one-time payment -
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Capital X Panel Designer
Siemens
Capital X Panel Designer is a cloud-native electrical CAD solution that simplifies complex electrical design processes. It features a drag-and-drop interface, smart schematic automation tools, and real-time collaboration capabilities, allowing users to create circuits quickly and efficiently. It supports automatic wiring, symbol and wire tagging, circuit reuse, and real-time cross-referencing. Accessible via web browsers on various devices, it offers intelligent numbering for symbols and wires, automatic terminal generation, and seamless integration with cloud services. Designed for ease of use, it requires no downloads or installations, enabling teams to collaborate globally with version control and secure access permissions.Starting Price: $93.45 per month -
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Moment of Inspiration (MoI)
Triple Squid Software Design
Moment of Inspiration (MoI) is a 3D modeling program that is focused on combining CAD accuracy with an intuitive, fluid UI. MoI is CAD software that's a little different. Focused on being easy to use, it's a great tool for designers and artists who want to construct accurate models. Booleans and 2D profile curve-driven workflow make a great companion modeler for rendering/DCC projects. Best-in-industry mesh export supporting n-gon mesh generation. Moment of Inspiration (MoI) works great for 3D printing.Starting Price: $295 one-time payment -
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Robot Operating System (ROS)
Robot Operating System (ROS)
The Robot Operating System (ROS) is an open source set of software libraries and tools designed to aid in building robot applications. It provides services expected from an operating system, including hardware abstraction, low-level device control, implementation of commonly-used functionality, message-passing between processes, and package management. ROS offers tools and libraries for obtaining, building, writing, and running code across multiple computers. At its core, ROS provides a message-passing system, often called "middleware" or "plumbing," which manages communication between distributed nodes via an anonymous publish/subscribe pattern. This system is crucial for implementing new robot applications or any software system that interacts with hardware. ROS is a meta-operating system for robots, offering hardware abstraction, device drivers, libraries, visualizers, message-passing, package management, and more. It is licensed under an open source, BSD license.Starting Price: Free -
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SCAPE CoCreator
SCAPE Technologies
SCAPE CoCreator is a no-code robotic automation platform that empowers users to build, simulate, and deploy robotic workflows without programming expertise. It seamlessly integrates hardware and software within a user-friendly environment, enabling the creation of robotic applications powered by 3D vision and AI. Users can test and validate solutions in a digital twin environment and on actual hardware, significantly reducing development time and costs, up to 95% compared to traditional methods. It supports effortless integration with 3D scanners conforming to the GenICam standard, ensuring smooth communication and operation. With support for Python and C++, CoCreator allows for the development of custom solutions tailored to specific tasks. Its intuitive interface enables users to create robotic applications without any coding, making it accessible to users of all skill levels.Starting Price: Free -
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Gazebo
Gazebo
Gazebo is an open source robotics simulator that provides high-fidelity physics, rendering, and sensor models for developing and testing robot applications. It supports multiple physics engines, including ODE, Bullet, and Simbody, enabling accurate dynamics simulation. Gazebo offers advanced 3D graphics through rendering engines like OGRE v2, delivering realistic environments with high-quality lighting, shadows, and textures. It includes a wide array of sensors, such as laser range finders, 2D/3D cameras, IMUs, GPS, and more, with the ability to simulate sensor noise. Users can develop custom plugins for robot, sensor, and environment control, and interact with simulations via a plugin-based graphical interface powered by Gazebo GUI. Gazebo provides access to numerous robot models, including PR2, Pioneer2 DX, iRobot Create, and TurtleBot, and allows users to build new models using SDF.Starting Price: Free -
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SkyCAD
SkyCAD
SkyCAD automates wire and component numbering, manages parts lists and BOMs, updates cross‑references, creates panel layout designs, and more. It features automated numbering, BOMs, and parts‑lists management, automated cross‑references, license sharing, and requires no training. With unique design‑reuse features such as design‑by‑systems and configuration management, the software ensures efficiency and consistency. It offers intuitive, user‑friendly tools for generating PLC and other component blocks automatically and can generate PLC drawings from an I/O list in Excel. The panel layout design is supported directly within the platform. SkyCAD supports European and American drawing styles. A rich tutorial library and responsive support forums empower users to get up to speed quickly. Standard (free) and advanced licenses are available, with the free license meeting the needs of many users and the advanced license providing additional features at a reasonable cost.Starting Price: $99 per month -
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PhotoVCarve
Vectric
PhotoVCarve instantly converts photographs and images into high-quality toolpaths that can be run on virtually all CNC routing and engraving machines. PhotoVCarve is also perfect for machining 3D lithophanes directly from photographs, which make perfect gifts, keepsakes, and mementos that will last for generations. PhotoVCarve creates lines of grooves that vary in width and depth to represent the detail in a photograph or image. The quality of the finished result is very dependent upon a high level of contrast between the material surface and the machined grooves. PhotoVCarve machines dark areas in a photograph with wide grooves and the lighter areas with narrower ones. It automatically calculates the toolpaths based on the cutter selected. Lithophanes are 3D photographs that, when viewed in normal lighting, look a little dull and lifeless, but when back-lit, transform into stunning 3D pictures with depth and detail.Starting Price: $6.21 per month -
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EasyCarve
Vectric
Quickly and easily carve 3D models on your CNC machine with EasyCarve. Powered by Design & Make, EasyCarve has access to over 7,000 CNC‑ready 3D relief models from its built‑in library. Follow the simple steps set out in the software to choose your 3D model, choose your material and tooling, generate and preview your toolpaths, and you’re all set to export your toolpath to carve on your CNC machine. Once you’ve loaded your model, choose your material and tooling to generate your toolpaths. Preview your toolpaths to make sure you’re happy with how it will carve. Simply save and export your toolpaths. Now you’re ready to head over to your CNC machine to start carving. Model styles include cut-out, dish, and recessed, enabling you to add 3D content to new and existing projects.Starting Price: $15 per month -
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CarveCo Maker
CarveCo
The Carveco software range is available in three variants, each crafted to provide you with the freedom and flexibility to design and manufacture a range of 2D and 3D products quickly and easily. Carveco Maker is quick to learn and easy to use, with powerful design and manufacturing features that power up your CNC, making it great for small businesses or home hobbyists taking their first step into creating personalised products. Carveco Maker Plus builds on the Maker feature set by adding powerful 3D design, manufacturing, and productivity tools geared toward increasing the output, range, and efficiency of your manufacturing business. It introduces fades to relief artwork, complex weaves, direct sculpting with smooth and erase tools, spin and turn tools for circular relief, a fade relief tool for height control, and a cookie cutter to edit relief artwork.Starting Price: Free -
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NVIDIA Isaac Sim
NVIDIA
NVIDIA Isaac Sim is an open source reference robotics simulation application built on NVIDIA Omniverse, enabling developers to design, simulate, test, and train AI-driven robots in physically realistic virtual environments. It is built atop Universal Scene Description (OpenUSD), offering full extensibility so developers can create custom simulators or seamlessly integrate Isaac Sim's capabilities into existing validation pipelines. The platform supports three essential workflows; large-scale synthetic data generation for training foundation models with photorealistic rendering and automatic ground truth labeling; software-in-the-loop testing, which connects actual robot software with simulated hardware to validate control and perception systems; and robot learning through NVIDIA’s Isaac Lab, which accelerates training of behaviors in simulation before real-world deployment. Isaac Sim delivers GPU-accelerated physics (via NVIDIA PhysX) and RTX-enabled sensor simulation.Starting Price: Free -
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NVIDIA Isaac Lab
NVIDIA
NVIDIA Isaac Lab is a GPU‑accelerated, open source robot learning framework built on top of Isaac Sim, designed to unify and simplify robotics research workflows such as reinforcement learning, imitation learning, and motion planning. It leverages realistic sensor and physics simulation to support accurate training of embodied agents, providing ready‑to‑use environments, spanning manipulators, quadrupeds, and humanoids—with support for 30+ benchmark tasks and integration with popular RL libraries like RL Games, Stable Baselines, RSL RL, and SKRL. Isaac Lab features a modular, configuration‑driven design that enables developers to easily create, modify, and scale learning environments; it also supports collecting demonstrations via peripherals (gamepads, keyboards) and allows custom actuator models to facilitate sim‑to‑real transfer. The framework is built for both local and cloud deployment, accommodating flexible scaling of compute resources.Starting Price: Free -
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VariCAD Viewer
VariCAD
VariCAD Viewer is a viewer, converter and printing software working with 2D DWG, DXF, 3D STEP, STL, SAT and 3D/2D VariCAD file formats. VariCAD viewer allows you to convert DWG to DXF and vice-versa, convert STEP to 3D IGES, SAT, SAB, PDF 3D, PRC 3D, DAE or STL formats, print 2D DWG, DXF or VariCAD formats and use batch print or batch conversions. VariCAD viewer offers settings of 3D display methods (like light source or perspective). 3D display can be also exported into high-resolution bitmap file. Furthermore, it is possible to measure and calculate solids, change their color, or make them invisible in VariCAD Viewer. You can try a 30-day free trial of VariCAD Viewer & Converter.Starting Price: €20/user/year -
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Tosi
Tosi
The Tosi Platform is a purpose-built Cyber-Physical Systems platform designed specifically to secure, connect, and control Operational Technology (OT) networks and critical infrastructure. Unlike traditional IT tools adapted for OT, Tosi was engineered from the ground up for industrial environments: it supports native industrial protocols, tolerates extreme temperatures, and requires no complicated configuration. Deployment is rapid, sites can be up and running in under five minutes with a “plug-and-go” setup, allowing organizations to connect distributed infrastructure quickly and securely without specialized IT expertise. It implements a zero-trust security model with enterprise-grade protections: end-to-end 256-bit AES encryption, hardware-based authentication (with RSA keys), no open inbound ports, and ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certification. With Tosi, you get unified, centralized management through a single interface (TosiControl), enabling visual network topology views.Starting Price: Free -
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Edison Analysis
Edison Scientific
Edison Analysis is a next-generation scientific data-analysis agent built by Edison Scientific. It is the analytical engine underpinning their AI Scientist platform, Kosmos, and it’s available both on Edison’s platform and via API. Edison Analysis performs complex scientific data analysis by iteratively building and updating Jupyter notebooks in a dedicated environment; given a dataset plus a prompt, the agent explores, analyzes, and interprets the data to provide comprehensive insights, reports, and visualizations, very much like a human scientist. It supports execution of Python, R, and Bash code, and includes a full suite of common scientific-analysis packages in a Docker environment. Because all work is done within a notebook, the reasoning is fully transparent and auditable; users can inspect exactly how data was manipulated, which parameters were chosen, how conclusions were drawn, and can download the notebook and associated assets at any time.Starting Price: $50 per month -
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BRIGADE
TECHNIA AB
BRIGADE is an advanced FEM software for bridge analysis and design. The BRIGADE suite delivers a complete workflow for modelling, analysis and result presentation of bridges and other civil structures. With parametric 3D modelling, automatic meshing and built‑in handling of moving traffic loads according to Eurocode and other international standards, BRIGADE provides engineers with a powerful tool for bridge design, load calculation, damage assessment and dynamic analysis. -
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FlowFuse
FlowFuse
FlowFuse is an industrial application software built on Node-RED that lets teams connect machines and protocols, collect and model data, and operate applications at scale while adding AI-powered assistance to accelerate development and deployment. It extends the intuitive low-code, visual programming environment of Node-RED with enterprise-grade features such as secure communication with devices, robust operational management, centralized remote deployment, team collaboration, and comprehensive security controls. FlowFuse includes interactive, responsive dashboards, AI-assisted flow creation and enhancement, and tools for transforming raw data into structured models using natural language prompts. It also adds support for DevOps-style pipelines to manage staged environments and version control, remote fleet management through a device agent, and advanced observability to monitor performance across instances.Starting Price: $20 per month -
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TagoIO
TagoIO
TagoIO is a full-stack cloud software that lets users turn IoT sensor data into smart solutions without dealing with cloud complexity. It supports connecting and managing devices from more than 500 communication types, including LoRaWAN, NB-IoT, Wi-Fi, satellite, BLE, MQTT, and HTTP, with preconfigured connectors to decode device data into a standard format. It provides scalable device management, secure data storage, real-time visualization, custom analytics, automation, alerts, and multi-tenant access control so users can build dashboards, workflows, and logic in one environment. TagoIO simplifies building and deploying IoT applications with templates, drag-and-drop interfaces, and APIs while handling backend infrastructure, enabling rapid development and deployment. It offers advanced analytics to transform raw data into actionable insights and supports edge computing, mobile access, white-labeling, and integration with external systems.Starting Price: Free -
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Breathe
Breathe
Breathe Battery Technologies provides a physics-based battery software toolchain that enables engineers and OEMs to design, simulate, validate, and control advanced battery systems with greater speed, accuracy, and performance than traditional empirical workflows. Its suite spans from cell design and simulation software, allowing rapid evaluation of ageing, thermal behavior, SoC/SoH estimators and system-level trade-offs, to embedded adaptive charging firmware that dynamically manages internal electrochemical states to deliver faster charging and longer life without hardware changes. Breathe’s software integrates physics-based modelling and real-time control into the battery development lifecycle so teams can reduce risk, iterate quickly, and make data-driven decisions while lowering cost and increasing flexibility. Breathe’s products are trusted by global brands and partners, including Volvo and OPPO, for applications that improve charging performance, extend cycle life, etc.Starting Price: Free -
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FRILO
ALLPLAN
FRILO is a structural analysis and design suite for civil and structural engineers that delivers a wide range of calculation, verification, and modelling tools to assess the load-bearing capacity, stability, and serviceability of components and full structures in concrete, steel, timber, masonry, foundation, and geotechnical engineering according to Eurocodes and applicable standards. It is modular and includes specialized programs (for beams, columns, plates, foundations, soil mechanics, and more) that support component-oriented calculations with intuitive inputs and verifiable results, helping engineers handle everyday structural tasks efficiently and with clear documentation. FRILO integrates tools like BIM-Connector interfaces for importing analytical models from IFC/SAF formats, a Document Designer for generating standard-compliant reports, and continuous updates to standards, workflows, and material libraries.Starting Price: €244 per month -
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Smart 145
Smart 145
Smart 145 is a cloud-based, all-in-one ERP and aviation Maintenance, Repair, and Overhaul software platform designed to optimize and simplify the complex daily operations of aviation repair stations, MRO businesses, and parts suppliers by centralizing key functions such as work order management, inventory tracking, purchase and sales orders, repair orders, quotations, dashboards, and reporting in a single intuitive interface so users spend less time on manual processes and more time servicing aircraft; it offers a user-friendly, scalable system with customizable fields, columns, and reports tailored to the unique workflows of different operations, secure data encryption and regular backups via AWS infrastructure, and real-time visibility into maintenance tasks and parts availability to improve operational control and efficiency.Starting Price: Free -
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CableCalc BS7671 18-2
CastlineSystems
CableCalc BS7671 is advanced electrical calculation and design software aligned with the latest BS7671:2018+A2:2022 Requirements for Electrical Installations (IET Wiring Regulations 18th Edition Amendment 2) that helps professionals size cables, evaluate circuits, and design distribution board projects with precision. It supports both single- and three-phase calculations for radial, ring, and sub-main circuits, calculating voltage drop, disconnection time, fault current, earth fault information, overload, short-circuit parameters, and correction factors such as temperature and grouping. It offers comprehensive databases of copper cables and protective devices to streamline selection and includes tools to generate detailed calculation documents, schedules, single-line diagrams, and schematic drawings for jobs ranging from simple circuits to multi-distribution board projects.Starting Price: $177.09 per month -
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3Dfindit
CADENAS GmbH
3Dfindit is CADENAS’ central visual engineering platform, offering verified digital twins and CAD, CAE and BIM data from thousands of manufacturer catalogs. Users can find components through advanced search methods such as text, filters, 3D shape, sketches and color, and download them in more than 100 native and neutral formats. The PLUGIN 3Dfindit supports numerous CAD and BIM systems and enables direct integration of models into existing workflows. For manufacturers, eCATALOG 3Dfindit provides digital product catalog solutions, while ENTERPRISE 3Dfindit offers extended search capabilities for companies within their CAD, PLM or ERP environments.Starting Price: 0 -
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solarVis
solarVis
solarVis is an end-to-end platform built for the solar and sustainable energy sector that helps companies manage the entire lifecycle of solar sales and project operations in a single digital environment. It combines tools for lead generation, project design, feasibility analysis, proposal creation, customer relationship management, and installation project tracking, allowing solar businesses to streamline their workflows from initial customer acquisition to final installation. It includes modules such as a 3D rooftop design tool for creating accurate solar layouts, a multi-scenario feasibility analysis system that evaluates technical and financial viability, and customizable proposal generators that produce detailed project offers for customers. It also provides a material database and bill of materials management so teams can calculate costs, configure equipment packages, and track components used in solar installations.Starting Price: €99 per month -
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SpeedUp
SpeedUp AI
SpeedUp lets you skip the tedious manual work of circuit schematic design. Just type in what your product needs to do, attach any relevant component datasheets, and the AI handles the rest — generating a structured block diagram, designing each module's schematic, and running electrical rule checks along the way. You can review and refine the block diagram before the AI proceeds, so you stay in control without doing the heavy lifting. When the design is ready, export a complete KiCad project in one click. Whether you're an experienced hardware engineer looking to speed up prototyping or a maker bringing a new idea to life, SpeedUp cuts the path from concept to schematic from weeks down to minutes.Starting Price: $30/month
