Affiliate Disclosure

The Short Version

Whimsical AI Review participates in affiliate programs. When you click certain outbound links on our site and subsequently sign up for or purchase a product, we may receive a commission at no extra cost to you. This is how we fund the site. Our reviews and recommendations are not influenced by these relationships.

How to Identify Affiliate Links

All affiliate links on this site begin with /go/ — for example, /go/whimsical or /go/miro. These URLs redirect through our domain to the affiliate partner with our tracking ID attached. Direct links (URLs that go straight to a product website without our /go/ prefix) are not affiliate links.

Every page that contains affiliate links displays a disclosure banner near the top of the content, in compliance with FTC guidelines (16 CFR Part 255).

Affiliate Programs We Participate In

As of the date above, we participate in or may participate in affiliate programs for the following products:

• Whimsical (whimsical.com)
• Miro (miro.com)
• Lucidchart (lucidchart.com)
• Figma and FigJam (figma.com)
• MindMeister (mindmeister.com)
• EdrawMind (edrawmind.com)
• Canva (canva.com)
• Mural (mural.co)

This list may change over time as programs are added or discontinued. Some links on the site may use placeholder tracking IDs while program enrollment is in progress; commissions may not be earned in those cases.

Editorial Independence

Our reviews, rankings, and recommendations are based on hands-on testing, public documentation, and our independent evaluation. Affiliate relationships do not determine:

• Which products we review
• Which products we recommend in comparisons
• How we rank products in listicles or roundups
• The opinions, criticisms, or limitations we publish

We frequently recommend free or lower-cost alternatives even when those recommendations would reduce our affiliate revenue, because the goal of the site is to help readers make better decisions, not to maximise commissions. We also publish negative findings about products we have affiliate relationships with when our testing reveals real limitations.

What Affiliate Commissions Pay For

Affiliate revenue funds the time required to write hands-on reviews, the hosting and infrastructure costs for the site, and (where applicable) the cost of paid software subscriptions used during testing. We do not have outside investors, sponsors, or ad networks driving editorial decisions.

Your Cost

Clicking an affiliate link does not cost you anything. The price you pay is the same whether you click through our affiliate link or visit the vendor directly. The vendor pays us a referral fee out of their existing customer acquisition budget.

FTC Compliance

This site complies with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission's "Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising" (16 CFR Part 255). Specifically:

• Material connections (affiliate relationships) are disclosed clearly and conspicuously on every page that contains affiliate links
• Disclosures appear near the top of content, not buried in footers
• Reviews reflect the honest opinions, findings, beliefs, and experiences of the reviewers
• Negative product limitations are disclosed alongside positive points

Questions or Concerns

If you have questions about our affiliate practices, believe a piece of our content is misleading, or want to report a broken link, contact us. We take editorial integrity seriously and welcome feedback.