Listing criteria

What gets listed

• Live, working product with a real landing page — no coming-soon pages or dead links.
• Clear value: a one-sentence tagline that says what it does, without keyword stuffing.
• Honest pricing label: free, freemium or paid — exactly as the product actually charges.
• No spam: link farms, thin affiliate wrappers and duplicate resubmissions are rejected.

How review works

Submissions go through a review queue against these criteria before publishing; the pricing label is set at listing time and the official pricing page is linked where our automated check verified it. Approved tools get a dofollow link plus an embeddable “Featured on” badge. After publishing, an automated job re-checks every official site on a rotating schedule and flags offline or mismatched sites for manual review — see the stats page for current coverage.

How rankings are ordered

“Facts on record: n of 5” counts how many of five verifiable facts our automated check found on a tool’s official site: the site answered our latest facts check (live ✓), the platforms it lists, a pricing page, documentation, and a public source repository. Fields we could not verify are simply not counted — nothing is inferred or filled in. It is a coverage count, not a rating: a tool with 2 of 5 is not worse than one with 5 of 5, we just hold fewer verified facts about it. The rankings page can be re-sorted by this count; the default Position order is unchanged.

Positions on the rankings page and in default listing views are neutral and deterministic: every approved listing gets a stable position that does not reward recency, company size, or payment. Listings whose official site failed our latest availability check, or no longer appeared to match the listing, drop to the bottom until the flag is cleared by a later check or by manual review. There is no paid placement, no affiliate influence, and no way to buy a higher position. The new tools page and feed remain strictly newest-first.

The “indie” label

Some listings carry an #indie tag. It is applied manually by our reviewers — never by an algorithm — when public information on the tool's official site shows it is built and run by an individual maker or a small independent team, rather than a large corporation, a venture-scale company or a standards body.

• Manual and auditable: every label is assigned by a human with the reasoning kept on record; borderline cases are left unlabeled rather than guessed.
• What it changes: indie-labeled tools are given priority in the “Featured tools” slots on the homepage. It does not change search results, category listings, or the rankings order.
• Not a quality score: unlabeled tools are not worse — the label only highlights independent makers, which is what this directory exists to surface.

When listings are removed

Listings are re-checked over time. Tools that shut down, break, or turn into link farms are removed; the last verification date is shown on every card.

Think a listing violates these criteria? Open that tool's page and use its Suggest an edit link — every report lands in our human review queue (see contact & feedback).