How to Submit to aitools.fyi (DR 42)

Where the Submit button actually goes

Click Submit on aitools.fyi and you leave aitools.fyi. The /submit URL answers with a redirect to boostmytool.com/submit-my-tool, which forwards again to the Tally form; the nav and footer buttons skip the middle hop and link boostmytool.com directly. The timeline, from archived copies: in February 2026 the site still hosted its own submit page, selling a $30 "One Time Payment" fast-track ("Skip the line and Get your tool listed ASAP!"). boostmytool.com was registered March 5, 2026. By mid-March the Submit buttons already pointed there, and the old page has since become a hard redirect. Net effect: the price went from $30 to $47 in spring 2026 and back down to $37 by August, and what it buys got vaguer at every step.

"Up to 3 high-quality directories", unnamed

The form's one-line deliverable is "We'll submit your tool to up to 3 high-quality directories." Which three? The form doesn't say. boostmytool.com's homepage names exactly two: "We list your tool on SiteLike, FutureTools, and more. One submission, many placements." Look those up and the pitch thins out. FutureTools accepts submissions through its own free public form ("Know an AI tool that should be in our database? Submit it below and Matt will review it."), with editorial acceptance the $37 doesn't change. SiteLike is titled "Similar Sites & Alternative Website Finder", a similar-sites lookup engine rather than a curated submission directory. And the biggest absence: nothing in the form, on boostmytool.com or in its terms promises a listing on aitools.fyi itself. The directory's own Submit button no longer sells its own directory. Small tells agree: the consent field above the fee is still labeled with Tally's default "Untitled checkboxes field" in the raw HTML, and the form is configured with no redirect after payment.

The terms your $37 lives under

The form's terms link goes to boostmytool.com/terms, and they are candid: "Unless otherwise specified, fees are non-refundable. We do not guarantee refunds for unsatisfactory results from third-party submissions, and we make no guarantees of backlinks, traffic, rankings, or business outcomes." Acceptance is explicitly out of scope ("We do not guarantee: That your tool will be accepted by any directory"), and so is timing ("Delivery timelines are estimates only"). No company or person is named; the governing-law clause is circular ("governed by the laws of the jurisdiction in which boostmytool.com operates"), and the whois is privacy-shielded on a domain four months old. Meanwhile aitools.fyi's own terms, on the site whose button sent you here, say the opposite about refunds: "We do offer refunds for cancelled or not approved services." Your card is charged under the first set, not the second. Credit where due: the boostmytool terms are unusually honest about what they don't promise. What they don't promise is most of what you'd be paying for.

The directory itself, reviewed

None of this makes aitools.fyi fake. It's a real directory with a real history: listings since early 2023, roughly 14,500 English tool pages in its sitemap, translations, a newsletter it says has 21,600+ subscribers and traffic it puts at "500,000+ visits" (both its own numbers; we found no independent confirmation). On the 10 live listings we checked, outbound links to the tool's site carry no rel attribute in the raw HTML (followed by default, and the rel attribute is theirs to change), though nearly every one is wrapped in ?ref=aitools.fyi tracking, and on some listings the main outbound link is an affiliate link rather than the tool's own URL. Worth knowing before you associate a brand with it: the footer's Contact page returns a 404, and its terms disclose in their own words that it "may list adult-oriented, 18+, deepnude, nudity, AI companions, or similar tools on our website". DR 42 is real and tracked. The directory is genuine. The way into it is the problem.

$37 for up to three doors, $29 for thirty

Their $37 is eight dollars more than Submitator's $29 plan, so let's be exact about what each buys. $37 at Boost My Tool: "up to 3" directories nobody names, acceptance not guaranteed, non-refundable, no timeline. If all three land, that's $12.33 per directory. $29 at Submitator: 30 directories you pick in the dashboard from a catalog with each directory's DR on screen (up to DR 93), about 97 cents per directory, ten times the doors for eight dollars less, and $49 doubles it to 60. Dofollow links are the stated focus (DR 40 to 90 directories), badges are installed and kept live where directories require them (that's what unlocks Startup Fame at DR 83, Twelve Tools at DR 81 and Turbo0 at DR 79), most directories go out within 24 to 48 hours (every directory within 21 days at most) with a live link per completed listing, rejections are credited back +1 and you get a 30-day refund window with a policy behind it, not a "non-refundable" clause. Prefer to spend less instead of more? The $29 plan is $18 under their price and still covers 30 directories.