How listings work

Where the words come from

Each listing is written from the tool's own website, not from press releases, reviews elsewhere or other directories.

• When a maker submits a link, the tool's homepage is read. If the site has an llms.txt file with real content, that is read as well; if not, up to two other useful pages, such as pricing or features.
• Claude, Anthropic's AI model, drafts the listing from those pages: the tagline, summary, what the tool does, who it's for, highlights, pricing, tags and category.
• The same reading fills in quick facts the site states: platforms, free plan, free trial, starting price, public API, MCP server, open source and self-hosting.
• The maker checks the draft and can change any part of it before the tool goes live, and at any time after.
• AI agents can list a tool for its maker through the API. What they send is held to exactly the same rules.

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The rules every listing follows

Listings describe a tool in plain words. They are not ads, reviews or rankings, and they carry no star ratings or scores.

• No sales language. Phrases such as "seamless", "game-changing" or "unlock" are refused, whoever writes them.
• No exclamation marks, emoji, all-caps phrases or links inside the text.
• Set lengths: a tagline of 20 to 90 characters, a summary of 120 to 320, at most six highlights and six tags.
• AI-written text that breaks a rule is written again with the problems pointed out. If it still breaks one, a person reviews the listing.
• A fact the site doesn't state is left blank. Blank means unknown, never "no".
• A link to API docs or an MCP server is kept only when it appears on the tool's own site.

What's checked before a tool goes live

Every submission is checked for what it actually is before it can be published.

• Working software is listed: web apps, APIs, desktop and mobile apps, browser extensions, libraries and developer tools.
• Turned down automatically: parked or for-sale domains, adult content, gambling, scams, malware, illegal goods and pages that aren't a product at all.
• Unclear cases are looked at by a person as soon as they go live: very little text, an unfinished site, an agency or service rather than a product, a site that isn't in English, or text that failed the rules above.
• One listing per tool: a domain that's already listed can't be added a second time.
• A free listing goes live after one quick step on the tool's site. Pro and Boost listings go live once paid.
• A listing found to break the rules later is taken down, and a paid one is refunded in full.

Terms of use

What's kept up to date

A listing is checked again after it goes live, so its page stays accurate.

• Every week the tool's website is loaded. After three failed weeks in a row the listing is hidden, and it comes back on its own the first time the site loads again.
• Domain Rating is read from Ahrefs once a month and shown on the tool's page, credited to Ahrefs.
• GitHub stars of open-source tools are refreshed every week.
• Quick facts are read from the tool's site when a listing has none yet, and the maker can correct any of them.
• Comparison and list pages are written again when a tool on them changes or leaves.

How lists are ordered

Lists are newest first. The one exception is a paid plan's placement, and paid tools are always marked Pro or Boost.

• Category, tag and alternatives lists: tools in their first 30 days on Boost come first, then Pro. After that, Pro and Boost tools stay above free ones. Within each group, the newest tool comes first.
• Homepage: new Pro tools spend 7 days in the Featured row and Boost tools 14 days, pinned first. The New row is newest first for every tool.
• Alternatives to a tool are tools in the same category that share at least one tag describing the job, not just how the tool is delivered or priced, such as "web app" or "self-hosted".
• Comparisons are made only for close pairs: the same category, a shared job, and one among the other's three closest alternatives.
• A tag, filter or monthly page exists only when it has at least three tools, and search engines see it only once it has its own written introduction.
• Sponsored slots sit under a "Sponsors" heading, and their links are marked as sponsored for search engines.

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What a paid plan changes, and what it doesn't

A paid plan buys placement and time. It doesn't buy words.

• It changes: going live without the step on the tool's site, time on the homepage, and the top of its category, tags and alternatives for 30 days.
• It doesn't change the rules: a paid listing's text is checked the same way, and a paid tool that breaks the rules is taken down.
• Comparison verdicts and page introductions are written without knowing which plan a tool is on.
• Quick facts, Domain Rating, GitHub stars and site status are the same data for every tool.

Pricing

Corrections and removal

Anything wrong on a listing can be fixed, by its maker or on request.

• Makers edit their listing from their dashboard, and the change shows right away.
• Anyone can report a mistake or an outdated fact by writing to hello@another.directory with the page's address.
• Makers can delete their listing from their dashboard at any time. A tool listed by someone else can be removed at its owner's request, by email.