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The people reading this directory are picking the tools they will build on, and they have not paid for anything yet. Getting listed is free and always will be. If you want placement on top of that, there are ten slots. Choose whichever works for you.

Free listing

Apply for a place in the directory. Reviewed by hand, and the free-plan details get verified against your own pricing page before anything goes live.

$0

  • Permanent listing once accepted
  • Long-form write-up of your free plan and its real limits
  • Full pricing table and feature breakdown
  • Pros and cons written honestly, including the cons
  • Included in every relevant category and comparison page
Submit your tool
10 slots only

Featured

Everything in the free listing, plus placement across the site. Capped at 10 slots so the placement stays worth having.

$99/month

  • Logo in the homepage sponsor strip
  • Labelled sponsor slot on your category pages
  • Reviewed and listed within 48 hours
  • Your rate locked for the length of your term
  • Cancel any time; annual billing takes two months off
Enquire about a slot

We reserve the right to reject any tool that does not have a genuine free plan. If we reject a paid slot, you are refunded in full. A free trial is not a free plan.

What paying does not buy

The only reason this directory is worth being listed in is that readers believe the free plans here are real. So the wall is absolute, and we would rather lose the deal than bend it:

  • A free-tier verdict. Those come from your own pricing page, and paying vendors get the same reading as everyone else.
  • A position in any ranked or filtered list. Featured slots sit outside the ranking, always labelled.
  • Removal of a listed limitation. If the free plan caps you at three seats, that stays on the page.
  • A 'best of' entry or a comparison outcome. Ranked lists are not for sale at any price.
  • A favourable verdict in commissioned content. You buy the work, not the conclusion, and the cons section stays in.
  • A followed link. Everything paid carries rel="sponsored", which is what keeps this site rankable at all.

The directory today

199
tools listed
24
categories
198
with a verified free plan
52
open source

This is a young site and we are not going to pretend otherwise. Ask for the current traffic report and we will send the Search Console and analytics exports rather than a rounded-up number.

Commissioned content

We research and write it, you get it on the site with a clear “paid content” label and rel="sponsored" on your links. You get review and factual correction before it publishes. You do not get to change the conclusion, because a piece nobody believes is worth nothing to either of us.

Deep-dive review

A full review of your free plan: what it does, where it stops, who it suits.

$399from

Discuss a deep-dive review

Comparison piece

You against a named competitor, researched and written to be genuinely useful.

$599from

Discuss a comparison piece

Category guide

A buyer's guide to your category, with your tool covered in depth alongside the field.

$899from

Discuss a category guide

Commissioned pieces are disclosed on the page and excluded from ranked lists. That is not us being precious: undisclosed paid content is against Google's guidelines and would put every other page on this site at risk.

Check availability

Tell us which you want and we will confirm what is free, send the traffic report and get you live. The featured cap is deliberate: a page full of ads is worth less to you than a page with one.