The 19 tool directories still worth a submission in 2026

Directory lists age badly. A tool directory can keep serving its homepage for a year after its submission queue has stopped moving, and nothing on the page tells you. So this table carries a column most lists don't: when we last got a response from that URL.

These are the software and tool directories — the ones that give you an evergreen "alternatives to X" page rather than a one-day traffic spike. That distinction matters more than it used to: those alternatives pages are exactly what AI assistants read back when someone asks them for a recommendation.

Read the cost column carefully

Several of these have no free path at all any more — ToolFinder starts at $39 for a one-off listing, TAAFT asks $347 — while others gate their pricing behind the submit flow, which is its own kind of answer. We record the price as the site states it, and we say when it is hidden rather than guessing at it.

The free ones are not worth less. AlternativeTo, LibHunt, AIxploria and OpenAlternative cost nothing and sit on exactly the comparison queries that convert. The free-only list is here, and every paid placement is priced here.

Before you submit anywhere

Have one asset pack ready: a 10-word tagline, a 60-word description, a 300-word description, a square logo, and three screenshots. Every form below asks for a subset of those. Preparing them once turns a week of submissions into an afternoon.

And check our list of directories that are gone before you trust any other list — six of the names still circulating in 2026 roundups redirect somewhere else or serve nothing at all.

Every row on this page is generated from the Almanac database, last liveness run August 10, 2026. Rows we could not re-check that day say so — we would rather show you a stale flag than a false ✓.