What is an AI tools directory?

A catalogue of AI-powered products organised so people can find one by task — writing, agents, image generation, automation. The useful ones also give the tool a page that can rank and be cited; the rest are lists that exist to sell placement on themselves.

Is it free to submit an AI tool?

Yes. Free submission is the standard path here, not a stripped-down tier — it includes the board slot, the product page, the dofollow link and the analytics. Premium removes the badge requirement and adds placement; it does not buy the link.

Do you accept AI wrappers and small side projects?

Yes. There is no editorial judgement about ambition or originality at submission time. The filter is applied afterwards, by people: a listing that cannot find 5 upvotes in 7 days is hidden from browse, whoever built it.

Will my AI tool show up in ChatGPT or Perplexity answers?

Nobody can promise that. What we can do is remove the technical reasons a model would skip your page: a Markdown mirror at the same URL plus .md, a full catalogue at /llms-full.txt, structured data on every listing, and crawler access granted explicitly rather than left to a default.

Do you charge for a featured spot?

There are paid placements, they are labelled sponsored, and they are rendered separately from the organic board. Sponsored blog content carries rel="sponsored" and never a followed link, because selling followed links is exactly the thing that would make every earned link here worthless.

How is this different from a SaaS directory?

Only in scope. This view covers AI, automation and writing products; the SaaS directory covers business software more broadly. A tool can legitimately appear in both.

AI tools directory

AI tools directory — launched, voted on, and link-checked

The AI directory landscape got crowded fast, and most of it monetised the same way: pay to be listed, pay to be featured, pay again for the link. This one does not have that tier. AI tools here launched on a public weekly board, and their followed links come from a reciprocal badge and 5 upvotes in 7 days — not from a checkout.

Browse by what the tool does, not by which listing was sponsored this month.

Free submission — no paid fast lane, no sponsored ranking
Dofollow link tied to a badge you install, not a price you pay
Explicit crawler access for GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot
Every listing mirrored as Markdown at the same URL plus .md

Top AI tools

Ranked by upvotes from real accounts, all-time.

1
Remove Background Online
Remove or erase the background from images in seconds.
AIDesignDR 15
2
Founder CRM
Free Chrome extension to find your first 100 customers
AIMarketingProductivityDR 10
3
AnswerLine
See what AI tells your customers through one API.
AIDeveloper ToolsSEODR 6
4
LazySEO
AI SEO on autopilot — 30 articles per month, fully automated.
AIMarketingSEODR 20
5
Ptero
Free AI chat platform with multiple powerful models.
AIDR 35
6
LinkPilot
closed
AI writes LinkedIn posts and comments in your voice.
AIMarketingSocial MediaDR 23
7
Replyburst
closed
Promote your product on X, on autopilot.
AIMarketingSocial MediaDR 0
8
ShipNLaunch
closed
Discover what people are shipping.
AIDeveloper ToolsMarketingDR 5
9
AI Side-Hustle Starter Kit (Stackwell)
Practical digital download for people with an idea who keep stalling on what to
AIDR 8
10
Maestro Theme Scheduler
Schedule theme publishing and content changes on your Shopify store.
E-CommerceAutomationDR 46

Newest AI tools

The most recent AI listings to go live.

Pixolm
100h left
Chat with an AI Agent to create images in logo, icon, portrait, and more.
AIDesignDR 14
ShortTranscript
100h left
Editable TikTok and Instagram transcripts with timestamps
AIProductivitySocial MediaDR 0
MemeSwap
100h left
Non-custodial memecoin research, quotes, and unsigned swaps. Wallet still signs.
AIFinanceE-CommerceDR 25
TrueProxies
closed
Fast, reliable residential and datacenter proxy network
DataAutomationDR 8
CloudPloy
closed
Deploy anywhere from your AI tool.
AIDeveloper ToolsDR 17
Webhooker
closed
EU-hosted inbound webhook gateway for reliable event handling.
Developer ToolsAutomationDR 7

Browse AI tools by category

AI, automation and writing tools, each with its own ranked board.

Why list on LetsLaunch

What a listing here gives you, and what it deliberately does not.

Built to be quoted by AI search
Every product page has a plain-Markdown twin, the catalogue is published at /llms.txt and /llms-full.txt, and the crawlers that feed AI answers are allowed by name in robots.txt.
No sponsored slots in the ranking
Ads exist and they are labelled and visually separate. They sit beside the board; they are never mixed into it, and they cannot move a product up it.
A link that survives us
Clear the survival window and the dofollow link is permanent. It does not lapse, it is not rented by the year, and there is no renewal email.
Wrappers are allowed to compete
We do not editorialise about whether your tool is 'real AI'. Launch it, and let upvotes from people who tried it decide whether it stays listed.

The rule: a published listing has 7 days from launch to collect 5 qualifying upvotes. Clear it and the listing and its followed link are permanent. Miss it and the listing is hidden from browse and its outbound link drops to nofollow — nothing is deleted, and you get one free relaunch. While LetsLaunch is still building up launch volume this rule is paused, so no listing is currently removed for missing the threshold.

How to choose an AI tools directory in 2026

The economics of AI directories are worth understanding before you submit anywhere. A directory that charges for listings has every incentive to accept all of them, which is how a site ends up with thousands of outbound links and an outbound profile that no longer carries weight. The link you paid for is diluted by every link sold after yours.

We checked this rather than assumed it: across the startup and AI directory landscape we fetched real listing pages and read the outbound link's rel attribute directly. A meaningful share of sites advertising "dofollow backlinks" do not give one, and another large share could not be verified at all. Those results are published in full, including the failures.

LetsLaunch runs the opposite trade. Listing is free, the followed link is conditional on a reciprocal badge you place on your own site, and staying listed is conditional on 5 upvotes in 7 days. That keeps the outbound profile small and defensible, which is the only thing that makes any of the links in it worth having.

If you are submitting an AI tool anywhere this month, ask three questions: is the outbound link followed today (check the HTML yourself, do not read the sales page), can the listing be found by anything other than a direct link, and is there any bar at all for staying listed. Most AI directories fail at least two.

The full mechanic is written up on how it works, and every price is on pricing.

Frequently asked questions

What is an AI tools directory?: A catalogue of AI-powered products organised so people can find one by task — writing, agents, image generation, automation. The useful ones also give the tool a page that can rank and be cited; the rest are lists that exist to sell placement on themselves.
Is it free to submit an AI tool?: Yes. Free submission is the standard path here, not a stripped-down tier — it includes the board slot, the product page, the dofollow link and the analytics. Premium removes the badge requirement and adds placement; it does not buy the link.
Do you accept AI wrappers and small side projects?: Yes. There is no editorial judgement about ambition or originality at submission time. The filter is applied afterwards, by people: a listing that cannot find 5 upvotes in 7 days is hidden from browse, whoever built it.
Will my AI tool show up in ChatGPT or Perplexity answers?: Nobody can promise that. What we can do is remove the technical reasons a model would skip your page: a Markdown mirror at the same URL plus .md, a full catalogue at /llms-full.txt, structured data on every listing, and crawler access granted explicitly rather than left to a default.
Do you charge for a featured spot?: There are paid placements, they are labelled sponsored, and they are rendered separately from the organic board. Sponsored blog content carries rel="sponsored" and never a followed link, because selling followed links is exactly the thing that would make every earned link here worthless.
How is this different from a SaaS directory?: Only in scope. This view covers AI, automation and writing products; the SaaS directory covers business software more broadly. A tool can legitimately appear in both.

Add your AI tool to the directory

Paste your URL, let the form prefill itself, pick a category and launch. Free, and live as soon as the badge check passes.