Tools we'd recommend

Honest picks for people setting up or running a small business online, or just tightening their personal security stack. If you build the kind of thing our tools are meant to help with, these are the pieces we'd reach for.

Disclosure. This page contains one affiliate link, clearly marked with an affiliate badge. When you click it and later sign up for Google Workspace, FunWithText may receive a commission. It doesn't change what you pay, and it doesn't change which tools we'd recommend. The other picks below have no affiliate relationship — we just think they're good. Full details in our privacy policy.

Business email & calendar affiliate

Google Workspace

The pragmatic default in 2026 for a small team that wants a business email address on its own domain (you@yourdomain.com), a shared calendar, and cloud file storage that just works with every device your team uses. If you're setting up email for a new business or agency and don't want to run your own mail server, this is what most people end up on.

Why we'd recommend it: Fastest path to "we have a real business email now." Deliverability is excellent because it's Gmail on the receiving end for everyone else too. SPF/DKIM/DMARC records are documented and reasonably easy to set up. Admin console handles user provisioning, group aliases, and two-factor enforcement without hunting through obscure settings.

Where it isn't the right pick: If email privacy is a top-line requirement (regulated industries, privacy-first branding), look at Proton or Fastmail below instead — Workspace is a Google product with Google's data-handling posture.

Free 14-day trial, then priced per user per month across Business Starter / Standard / Plus tiers.

Try Google Workspace free for 14 days → Opens on Google.com via a CJ affiliate link.

Privacy-first email + storage not affiliate

Proton (Mail, Drive, VPN)

The alternative to the Workspace pitch above. If your business is in a regulated field (legal, medical, journalism), or if you're building something where "your customer's email is not readable by Big Tech" is a positioning point, Proton is the mature end-to-end-encrypted stack. Swiss jurisdiction, open-source clients, custom-domain support on paid tiers.

Why we'd recommend it: Actually end-to-end encrypted, not just TLS-in-transit. Custom domain support on the Business tier. Same team ships a well-regarded VPN and Drive product if you want the full suite from one vendor. Extremely legible privacy policy.

Trade-offs: Search of encrypted mail is client-side (fast on modern hardware, slower on old ones). Fewer third-party integrations than Workspace or Microsoft 365. Deliverability is fine but the sending IP reputation isn't quite as bulletproof as Gmail's.

Visit Proton → Regular link — no affiliate relationship.

DNS, CDN, edge protection not affiliate

Cloudflare

If you're running any site or web app on the public internet — including a marketing page, a Shopify store, or a small SaaS — Cloudflare's free tier gives you DDoS protection, a reasonable CDN, and analytics that don't require adding a tracking pixel. Their DNS resolver (1.1.1.1) is the one we test against in our own DNS Leak Test.

Why we'd recommend it: The free tier is genuinely useful, not a bait-and-switch. Rate limiting, bot mitigation, and a WAF are all reachable without a huge bill. If you outgrow it, the paid tiers scale linearly. Pages / Workers make it a plausible host for a static site or edge functions.

Visit Cloudflare → Regular link — no affiliate relationship.

Password manager not affiliate

1Password (or Bitwarden if you'd rather open-source)

Related to our Password Generator — a generator only helps if you have somewhere trustworthy to store what it generates. Both of these support passkeys (see our Passkey Tester), share credentials across devices, and offer team plans for small businesses.

Why we'd recommend one of them: 1Password has the more polished apps and a strong team-sharing story. Bitwarden is open-source, has a generous free tier, and can be self-hosted if that matters to you. Either beats "reusing the same password" by an infinite margin.

Visit 1Password → Visit Bitwarden →

Regular links — no affiliate relationship with either.

How this page works

We deliberately kept the affiliate content on one page and to one recommendation. Sprinkling affiliate links across every tool page would undermine the "no tracking, nothing uploaded" promise our tools make. Concentrating them here means:

Every tool page stays clean — no third-party tracking, no marketing pop-ins.
You know exactly what you're looking at when you land on this page.
The affiliate link uses rel="sponsored" per Google's guidance, so it doesn't distort our organic search ranking.

If you'd rather skip the affiliate link entirely, Google Workspace is at workspace.google.com. We'd genuinely rather you use whichever tool is best for your setup than click a link out of obligation.

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