List your software on Toools

toools.designSpecialist directoriesGeneral (accepts AI tools)B · Strong option

At a glance

Cost to list: Free curated suggestion
Free listing: Yes (design tools only; curated, days to several weeks)
Cheapest paid: –
Featured price: $200
Fast-track price: –
Link type: Dofollow · likely
Which plan gets the link: all listings (likely)
Badge required: Not required
Time to get listed: a few days to several weeks
Launch format: Permanent listing · new tools added weekly
Voting: –
Login needed: No
CAPTCHA: No
Submit form: native form

Our take

Toools is a niche directory of design tools and resources for designers, and it accepts AI tools aimed at design work. Suggesting a tool is free and curated, with review taking days to weeks, and no badge is required; paid homepage features and newsletter spots are sold separately. Links are likely to pass SEO value, and the site draws about 5k search visits a month, led by the US and India.

A growing directory of 2,200+ design resources and tools, weekly updated for the community. Discover highly useful design tools you never thought existed.
From toools.design

Reach and visibility

What this directory reaches today, and how often AI assistants quote it. Numbers come from Ahrefs, pulled 8 Oct 2026.

Monthly visitors

1k–10k/mo

Ahrefs organic traffic

Authority

DR 40–59

Ahrefs Domain Rating

AI citations

100–999

quoted in AI answers

Referring domains

1,996

sites linking in

AI search visibility

How often this directory is cited as a source in each AI assistant. A listing here has a better chance of being recommended when someone asks an AI for tools like yours.

ChatGPT0

Perplexity100–999

Google AI Overviews1–99

Google AI Mode1–99

Gemini1–99

Copilot1–99

Where the visitors are

🇺🇸 United States24%

🇮🇳 India22%

🇩🇪 Germany7%

More signals

Ranking keywords: 560
Traffic value: $2,463
Domain age: 4.8 yrs
Registered: Jan 30, 2022
Sitemap pages: 79
Sitemap updated: Oct 6, 2026
Homepage outbound: 71
Newsletter: kit.com

Source: Ahrefs, Oct 8, 2026. How we measure this.

Our score

B · Strong option

Audience18/25

Authority8/15

AI visibility10/15

Link value10/15

Relevance6/15

Cost and access15/15

How the score works

What it costs to list

Listing here is free. There is no paid tier to worry about, though a badge or link back may be requested (see the note below).

Free listing

Yes

design tools only; curated, days to several weeks

Paid plans from

–

Featured spot

$200

Fast-track review

–

Plans and prices

Free curated suggestion / homepage feature $200 per 4 weeks / newsletter spotlight $100 / category feature by quote

Free curated suggestion (days to weeks); separate ads: homepage feature $200/4 weeks, newsletter spotlight $100; toools.design/suggest-a-tool: free form; toools.design/sponsor: 'HomePage Feature $200'

See their pricing page

Pricing checked 8 Oct 2026 · high confidence

How to submit

1Confirm your product is a design tool; Toools lists design tools only.
2Open toools.design/suggest-a-tool and enter your description, category, pricing, email and website.
3Wait for curation, which takes a few days to several weeks; new tools are added weekly.
4For more visibility, book a homepage feature at $200 per 4 weeks or a newsletter spotlight at $100.

The details