LabList Update, September 2026

The trial no longer needs a card

Signing up used to mean entering a card before you'd built anything. That's gone. Every new account, Monthly or Annual, now starts with a 14-day free trial and no card needed to begin. You get full access to every feature from day one.

Day 15 is when you decide. If you want to keep going, you become a member: $4.99 a month or $44.99 a year. If you don't, nothing happens to your wallet. You are never charged unless you add a payment method yourself.

A few details worth knowing:

• Add a card during the trial and your first charge lands on day 15. Not before.
• Reach day 15 with no card on file and your account freezes instead of charging you. Your public portfolio goes offline, but everything you built stays put while you decide. We email you when this happens.
• A frozen account that has never paid is held for about 60 days from the freeze before it enters the deletion process, so there's a real window to come back. Add a payment method in that window and your membership starts that day.
• Cancel a card-free trial early and it ends right away. The portfolio goes offline, the remaining days are forfeited, and you are never charged.
• If you signed up before this change, nothing about your account or billing changes.

Dashboard updates

• GitHub labs in the activity log are now grouped into per-repo folders, so a busy month of commits reads as a few tidy stacks instead of one long scroll. On mobile the folder opens as a drill-in.
• Refreshing the dashboard keeps you where you were. Same panel, same wizard, same half-finished entry.
• When an integration sync brings in new entries, they show up quietly the next time you come back to the tab.

Cert guide

The guide keeps growing between the quarterly sweeps. Retired certs now carry a badge and a link to whatever replaced them, so you don't study for something that no longer exists. Two new domains landed, OT/ICS security and email security, along with a big batch of AI and ML credentials and the newer AI governance certs. Every entry also went through an accuracy pass on fees, exam formats, and retirement dates. As always, check the "Last verified" date and confirm with the vendor before you pay for an exam.

What's next

That's everything for now. Start a trial, add a few entries, and see how your work reads when it's laid out properly.

More is on the way: new profile designs, more integrations, and the next round of roadmap and cert guide updates. The best ideas so far have come from people using the app and telling us what's missing, so keep doing that.