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A curated list of AI directories, product discovery sites, launch platforms, and submission resources.
If you have built an AI product, the hard part is not finding directories. It is finding out, without creating five accounts, which ones accept open submissions, which ones are curated, and which ones want paying. This table answers those two questions for every entry.
Where the terms could not be confirmed on the directory's own site, the cell says Unknown
rather than a guess. That is a deliberate choice: a wrong Free costs somebody an afternoon
and possibly a submission fee, and there are enough entries here that guessing would have
been easy and quietly useless.
Maintained by TiorAI, which runs one of the directories listed below.
Last reviewed: 2026-08-26
- General AI tool directories
- Launch platforms
- Startup and product directories
- Developer and open-source discovery
- Communities and newsletters
- How directories are selected
- Suggest a directory
- Contributing
- Disclaimer
- License
- About TiorAI
Directories whose main catalogue is AI products across every category.
| Directory | Focus | Submission | Pricing |
|---|---|---|---|
| AIToolMall | General AI tools | Unknown | Unknown |
| AI Tools Directory | General AI tools | Open | Free/Paid |
| aitools.fyi | General AI tools | Open | Free/Paid |
| AlternativeTo | Software alternatives | Open | Free |
| Easy With AI | General AI tools | Open | Free/Paid |
| Futurepedia | General AI tools | Open | Free/Paid |
| Insidr AI | General AI tools | Unknown | Unknown |
| TAAFT | AI tools by task | Open | Free/Paid |
| TiorAI | AI tools, comparisons, alternatives | Curated | Free |
| Toolify | General AI tools | Open | Free/Paid |
| Topai.tools | General AI tools | Open | Free/Paid |
Where a product is announced on a specific day and competes for attention.
| Directory | Focus | Submission | Pricing |
|---|---|---|---|
| BetaList | Pre-launch startups | Curated | Free/Paid |
| Hacker News | Show HN launches | Open | Free |
| Launching Next | New startups | Open | Free/Paid |
| Peerlist | Maker launches | Open | Free |
| Product Hunt | Daily product launches | Open | Free |
| Uneed | Daily product launches | Open | Free/Paid |
Broader catalogues where an AI product is one kind of listing among many.
| Directory | Focus | Submission | Pricing |
|---|---|---|---|
| Capterra | Business software reviews | Curated | Free/Paid |
| Crunchbase | Company and funding data | Open | Free/Paid |
| G2 | Business software reviews | Curated | Free/Paid |
| Indie Hackers | Bootstrapped products | Open | Free |
| SaaSHub | Software alternatives | Open | Free/Paid |
| Slashdot | Business software | Open | Free/Paid |
| SourceForge | Software listings and reviews | Open | Free/Paid |
| Startup Stash | Startup resources | Open | Free/Paid |
| Wellfound | Startup jobs and profiles | Open | Free/Paid |
Where developers find projects, and where an open-source release gets seen.
| Directory | Focus | Submission | Pricing |
|---|---|---|---|
| Awesome lists | Curated topic lists | Curated | Free |
| Dev Hunt | Developer tool launches | Open | Free |
| GitHub Marketplace | Actions and developer apps | Curated | Free |
| Hugging Face Spaces | Model demos and apps | Open | Free/Paid |
| Libraries.io | Open-source packages | Open | Free |
| OpenAlternative | Open-source alternatives | Open | Free/Paid |
Places that cover new products for an audience rather than cataloguing them.
| Directory | Focus | Submission | Pricing |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ben's Bites | Daily AI newsletter | Curated | Unknown |
| Hacker Noon | Technology writing | Curated | Free |
| Lobsters | Computing links | Invite | Free |
| r/SideProject | Side project sharing | Open | Free |
| The Rundown AI | Daily AI newsletter | Unknown | Unknown |
| TLDR | Daily technology newsletter | Unknown | Paid |
A directory is listed when it meets all three of these:
- It lists products other people made, and accepts submissions or nominations.
- It is currently maintained, with listings added within the past few months.
- Its submission terms can be established from its own site, without an account.
What is excluded, and why the list is shorter than it could have been: link farms that exist to sell backlinks, directories whose catalogue is scraped wholesale from larger ones, sites with no submission route, and paid placement presented as editorial selection. A great many AI directories fail at least one of those.
Focus is what the directory is actually about, in a few words.
Submission is one of:
Open— anyone can submit and the listing appears, subject to basic checks.Curated— submissions are reviewed and can be declined on editorial grounds.Invite— listings are chosen by the operator; there is no public submission route.Unknown— could not be confirmed on the directory's own site.
Pricing is one of:
Free— a free submission route exists and is the normal path.Paid— submission requires payment.Free/Paid— a free route exists alongside a paid one that skips the queue or adds placement.Unknown— could not be confirmed on the directory's own site.
Unknown is used wherever the terms were not stated plainly, and it is used often. Guessing
would have filled the table and made it worthless. If you can confirm one of these, the
broken-link form takes corrections and it is the most valuable contribution this repository
can receive.
TiorAI maintains this repository and also runs one of the directories in it. It appears once, in its alphabetical position, with the same columns filled in by the same rules. It is not ranked first, not marked as recommended, and not given a longer description.
Entries are ordered alphabetically inside each category. Position carries no meaning, and there is no paid placement, sponsorship, or affiliate link anywhere in this repository.
Corrections to a Submission or Pricing cell are the most useful contribution here,
particularly turning an Unknown into a confirmed value with a link to where it says so.
If you operate a directory you are suggesting, say so in the form. It will not count against the submission, and it often means you can confirm the columns better than anyone else.
Read CONTRIBUTING.md for the row format and the controlled values. The
one rule with no exceptions: do not guess a Submission or Pricing value. Unknown is
always the correct answer when you have not seen it stated.
Every directory listed is operated by a third party. Submission terms, review times, and pricing change often and without notice, and several of these sites have changed from free to paid in the past year. Confirm the current terms on the directory's own site before you submit anything or pay for anything.
Listing here is editorial selection, not endorsement, and it is not a recommendation to submit to any particular directory. Some listings are worth far more than others, and this table deliberately does not rank them.
CC BY 4.0. You may copy, adapt, and redistribute this list, including commercially, as long as you credit TiorAI and indicate what you changed.
The licence covers the curation, the categories, and the column values. It does not cover the TiorAI name and logo, and it does not cover the listed directories or their trademarks.
TiorAI is an AI tools directory. It is listed in the first table above like every other directory in this repository, and it is the maintainer of this list.
That is a conflict of interest, and stating it plainly is the only sensible way to handle it. The columns for TiorAI's own row were filled in by the same rules as every other row, and it sits in alphabetical position rather than at the top.