Directory database · last checked Nov 7, 2026
Best startup directories (2026): 490 places to submit your startup, checked one by one
A startup directory is a site that lists new products so people can find them. This list has 490 startup, SaaS and AI directories where you can submit yours. 385 are free to submit to, and 272 gave a dofollow link when we inspected a live listing. We opened each one’s own submit and pricing pages, so you know the price, the link and the review process before you spend an afternoon on forms.
To use it, filter by price, link type, review process or category, then open a row for its submit page and our notes. Not sure which ones fit? The startup directory finder scores your description against every directory here. Or we submit by hand: 30+ directories from $49, one-time.
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- 272
- of 421 with a checked link
- Free to submit
- 385
- free, or with a free plan
Method
How we check every directory
Every row below comes from a visit to that directory’s own site. Where we couldn’t verify something, the row says so.
- Step 1
We open their own pages
Homepage, submit page, pricing and guidelines, on the date shown on each row. Prices and rules come only from there, and each directory’s page lists the pages we opened.
- Step 2
We read a live listing’s link
We find a product that’s already listed and read the rel attribute on its outbound link. No rel means dofollow; nofollow, ugc or sponsored pass little or no ranking value. No listing to inspect means “Unverified”.
- Step 3
We add DR and popularity
DR is Domain Rating by Ahrefs, pulled from Ahrefs’ free API: a 0–100 score of the site’s backlinks. Tranco, a research top-sites ranking, adds popularity: lower is more visited. Neither is a Google metric.
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NachoNacho
nachonacho.com
A B2B SaaS and AI discount marketplace where businesses discover tools through a recommendation engine and buy them at pre-negotiated discounts, paying through NachoNacho. SMB owners and startup…
APIs.guru
apis.guru
APIs.guru is an open, community-run catalog of machine-readable web API definitions, mostly in OpenAPI format, that other tools and developers pull from through its own API. Getting added means your…
Digismoothie Best Shopify Apps
digismoothie.com
A review hub run by a Shopify agency: every app gets its own page with pricing, pros and cons, a conclusion and a button to its App Store listing, grouped into 'best of' lists by job such as…
Educational App Store
educationalappstore.com
A review and certification site for learning apps, aimed at parents, teachers, students and adult learners. Educators test each submitted iOS, Android or web app against the site's own framework…
NxGn Tools
nxgntools.com
A weekly tool launch site where products appear on the site for a launch week and compete for top spots on leaderboards. It is aimed at makers of software and AI tools. Paid launches skip the queue…
Future Tools
futuretools.io
Matt Wolfe's AI news and tools hub, backed by a big newsletter and YouTube audience. Submitting is free, but each tool is hand-reviewed and only the ones Matt picks are added to the database.
This Week in Rust
this-week-in-rust.org
The Rust community's weekly newsletter with project updates, articles, crate spotlights and calls for participation. Its readers are Rust developers. Anyone can propose content by opening a pull…
HostSearch
hostsearch.com
A web hosting search engine and review directory running since the late 1990s, with host profiles, plan data, user reviews, forums and hosting news. People comparing shared, VPS, cloud and dedicated…
PitchWall (formerly BetaPage)
pitchwall.co
The old betapage.co domain now redirects here; it publishes new products, lately mostly AI tools, on a homepage feed and newsletter. Early adopters and startup followers use it to discover new…
AI Toolz Dir
aitoolzdir.com
A compact AI tools directory organised by generation type (text, image, audio, video), chatbots, agents and copilots, with a market map view. Listings are permanent and every submission is manually…
Les Pépites Tech
lespepitestech.com
Les Pépites Tech is a French Tech startup directory with a community voting system and weekly top-10 rankings shared in its newsletter. Founders add a startup page for free and wait in a queue, or…
iOS Dev Weekly
iosdevweekly.com
A hand-written Friday newsletter covering Swift and Apple platform development, with commentary on each pick. It goes to iOS and macOS developers. Links, libraries and tools that make it in appear…
Spotsaas
spotsaas.com
A curated B2B software marketplace with tens of thousands of products across hundreds of categories, verified buyer reviews and comparison pages. Business buyers use it to research and shortlist…
Startup Stash
startupstash.com
A curated directory of tools and resources for startups, organised into categories, alternatives pages and top lists. Founders and early teams browse it when assembling their stack. Accepted tools…
Software Connect
softwareconnect.com
A software advisory and review site focused on ERP, manufacturing, inventory, CMMS, field service and supply chain systems, where buyers get matched with vendors after a call with an advisor…
DevHunt
devhunt.org
A launchpad for developer tools, APIs, SDKs, libraries and open-source projects, built as a developer-focused alternative to Product Hunt. Voting and commenting require GitHub login, so the audience…
AI Tools (aitools.inc)
aitools.inc
An AI tools directory organised by task and category, run alongside an AI automation community and a daily AI newsletter. Free listings wait in a long queue, while a one-time fee gets you placed…
Android Weekly
androidweekly.net
A free weekly newsletter covering Android and Kotlin development articles, libraries, tools and news. It is read by Android developers. Anyone can suggest a link through the form on the site, and…
ComparaSoftware
comparasoftware.com
A Spanish-language software comparison and advisory site for Mexico and other Latin American countries, with category rankings, user reviews and free buyer consultations. Companies in the region use…
Domain Rank App
domainrank.app
A curated AI product directory bundled with free domain-rating and SEO tools, a backlink database of directories, and a paid submission service. Makers list AI tools there for a followed link and a…
EarlyHunt
earlyhunt.com
A weekly launch platform with an AI slant where projects go live on Monday morning UTC and compete for a week on the homepage. Visitors are early adopters and other makers following new AI projects…
Munich Startup
munich-startup.de
Munich Startup is the central platform for Munich's startup ecosystem, with news, events, funding information and a directory of 1,500+ local startups. Startups register to create a profile with…
DR is Domain Rating by Ahrefs: a 0–100 score of a site’s backlinks, higher is stronger. It isn’t a Google metric. Tranco rank is a research top-sites ranking: lower means more popular. How we check each directory
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Each category page explains what that kind of directory is good for and what to prepare before you submit.
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- Developer tool directories31 directories
- Software review sites30 directories
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- Mobile app directories21 directories
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- Browser extension directories10 directories
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- Marketing tool directories5 directories
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Where to submit, by niche
All niche listsShortlists for one kind of product, audience or country, each with advice on what matters when you submit there.
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By kind of software
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How we check each directory
What “checked” means
We opened the directory’s own pages (homepage, submit page, pricing, FAQ or guidelines) on the date shown and recorded what they said. Each directory page lists the exact pages we opened. Summaries and tips are written in our own words. If we couldn’t confirm something, the page says so instead of guessing.
How link types are verified
Where we could, we opened a live listing and inspected the outbound link to the listed product: no rel attribute means followed (dofollow), rel="nofollow", "ugc" or "sponsored" means it passes little or no ranking value. When we couldn’t find a listing to inspect, the link type is marked “Unverified”. Directories can change this at any time, so check your own listing once it’s live.
What DR is
DR is Domain Rating by Ahrefs: Ahrefs’ 0–100, logarithmic score of how strong a site’s backlink profile is compared with every other site Ahrefs crawls. We fetch it from Ahrefs’ free API for each directory’s own domain and refresh it regularly; the directory page shows when. It measures links, not visitors or relevance, and it isn’t a Google ranking factor. Directories hosted on a shared platform (a GitHub list, a subreddit, a Medium or Notion page) show no DR, because the platform’s number says nothing about that one list.
What the Tranco rank is
Tranco is a top-sites ranking made for research. It combines several public top-sites lists over 30 days, which makes it harder to manipulate than any single list. Lower is more popular: #1,000 is far more visited than #500,000. It’s a rough popularity signal, not a backlink metric. “Unranked” means we have no rank for that site.
Pricing
Prices come only from the directory’s own site on the day we checked. We don’t take prices from other lists. Prices change, so confirm on the submit page before you pay.
Why some pages are thinner
Some directories publish very little about how they work. A directory page is only offered to search engines when it has a real summary (120+ characters) and at least 2 verified facts such as link type, pricing details, tips or a Tranco rank. The rest stay visible here but aren’t indexed.
We don’t sell placement
Directories don’t pay to be listed or ranked here. The default order is by Tranco rank, then name; you can also sort by highest DR.