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AI directory · checked 10 October 2026

How to submit to Future Tools

Curated AI tools database by Matt Wolfe, with AI news and a newsletter

Submitting to Future Tools is free. The listing we checked sent its link through the site's own redirect.

Free routeLink observed: Via redirect — routed through the place's own redirect first, not straight to the productTop 200k
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At a glance

Free route
Free route

Free form (name, tool URL, short description, category, pricing, email, captcha). Tools are hand-picked by Matt's team; the FAQ says over 75% of submissions are not approved and the submitter will likely not be told either way.

Paid listing from

No paid listing — the free route is the way in.

Review time
  • Free route: Resubmit only after a week without a listing
Link on a live listing
Link observed: Via redirect — routed through the place's own redirect first, not straight to the product

Routed through the place's own redirect first, not straight to the product. Future Tools does not say what kind of link it gives.

What we read: https://futuretools.io/tools/releasepad-83f36f41: the visit link points to https://futuretools.io/go/releasepad-83f36f41 (rel="noopener noreferrer", no nofollow), which answers 302 to the product with ?ref=futuretools.io; /go/ is disallowed in robots.txt

Requirements
  • Product must be publicly available (waitlist-only products are not accepted)
  • Custom GPTs are not accepted.
  • Sites with adult content and no default filters are not accepted.
  • Must be a software tool, not a newsletter, aggregator, blog or Discord/Telegram/WhatsApp bot link.
  • Tool pages are generated from the submitted homepage and reviewed by a human before going live.
Audience, as they state it

250,000+ newsletter subscribers, 60k+ monthly site visitors, 4,382+ AI tools indexed (self-reported on the advertise page) Their figures, not ours.

Popularity

#184,896 in the Tranco top-1M list of 9 October 2026 — Top 200k.

Tools in their sitemap

4,200 tool pages, counted by us from the public sitemap on 16 August 2026.

Plans and prices

PlanPriceStated waitIncludes
Featured Listing (price by email)By quote—tool pinned to the top of the AI tools directory and category pages for a full week; labeled as featured; maximum two featured slots per week
Site banners (price by email)By quote—native banners on the AI News feed and the homepage
Newsletter sponsorship (price by email)By quote—sponsored slot in the twice-weekly newsletter (250,000+ subscribers claimed); site plus newsletter bundles get priority

How to submit to Future Tools, step by step

  1. 1Get the kit ready. Name, a one-line tagline, a short description, a square logo, two or three screenshots and your pricing in numbers — the same kit works on every directory.
  2. 2Open Future Tools's submit page. It is at futuretools.io/submit-a-tool.
  3. 3Take the free route, if it fits. Free form (name, tool URL, short description, category, pricing, email, captcha). Tools are hand-picked by Matt's team; the FAQ says over 75% of submissions are not approved and the submitter will likely not be told either way.
  4. 4Check the rules first. Product must be publicly available (waitlist-only products are not accepted) Custom GPTs are not accepted. Sites with adult content and no default filters are not accepted.
  5. 5Once it is live, check the link. Open your listing, right-click the link to your site and choose Inspect: the rel attribute says whether it is a plain link, nofollow, ugc or sponsored.

What a listing there gets you

An editor-curated list: entry is free but not guaranteed, and sponsored placements are arranged by email with no published prices. Visit links pass through the site's own /go/ redirect.

  • 26 of the 46 AI directories whose live listings we read gave a plain link; Future Tools's was marked via its own redirect.
  • By traffic rank it is number 5 of the 22 AI directories here that appear in the Tranco top-1M list.

Future Tools: the questions founders ask

How much does it cost to submit to Future Tools?

Submitting to Future Tools is free.

Is Future Tools free?

Yes, with conditions. Free form (name, tool URL, short description, category, pricing, email, captcha). Tools are hand-picked by Matt's team; the FAQ says over 75% of submissions are not approved and the submitter will likely not be told either way.

How long does a submission on Future Tools take?

Free route: Resubmit only after a week without a listing.

Does Future Tools give a dofollow backlink?

Future Tools does not say. The listing we checked sent its link through the site's own redirect.

What does Future Tools require?

Product must be publicly available (waitlist-only products are not accepted). Custom GPTs are not accepted. Sites with adult content and no default filters are not accepted. Must be a software tool, not a newsletter, aggregator, blog or Discord/Telegram/WhatsApp bot link. Tool pages are generated from the submitted homepage and reviewed by a human before going live.

Sources

Read on 10 October 2026. Read on Future Tools's own pages; where a fact came from an archived copy or a third-party report, that source is listed too.

Next to the others

Future Tools is one of 46 AI directories we checked on the same day, with the same questions.

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