Submit to AI Tools FYI

How to Submit to aitools.fyi (DR 44)

AI Tools FYI (aitools.fyi) is a large, real AI tools directory: registered in late 2022 and listing tools since early 2023, about 14,500 English tool pages in its own sitemap, DR 44 per the independent tracker FrogDR, with multilingual listing pages and a named maker ("By Rishit Patel") in the footer. Submitting to it, though, no longer happens on aitools.fyi at all. As of July 2026 the site's Submit button exits, via boostmytool.com, to a Tally form titled "Boost My Tool Submission", with a required $47 payment and this deliverable: "We'll submit your tool to up to 3 high-quality directories."

This guide adds what neither site tells you: the three directories are never named, a listing on aitools.fyi itself is promised nowhere in the flow, the $47 is non-refundable under terms that guarantee neither acceptance nor a timeline, the two sites' terms contradict each other on refunds, and the $47 replaced a $30 fast-track that archived copies show live as late as March 2026.

Submitator math

$47 there buys "up to 3" directories nobody names. Two dollars more buys Submitator's $49 plan: 60 directories you pick in the dashboard, each with its DR on screen, twenty times the doors, dofollow as the stated focus, badges handled. The $29 plan is $18 less than their $47 and still covers 30.

AI Tools FYI at a glance

FeatureAI Tools FYI
Domain Rating44 (FrogDR)
Size~14,500 tool pages (own sitemap)
Submitting$47 via boostmytool.com's Tally form
What it buys'up to 3' directories, unnamed
Own listing includedPromised nowhere in the flow
RefundFees 'non-refundable' per the form's terms
Turnaround'estimates only', none stated
Sponsorships$447/week, $197/mo ('No spots available')

As of July 2026, aitools.fyi/submit returns an HTTP redirect to boostmytool.com/submit-my-tool, which redirects to a Tally form ('Boost My Tool Submission') with a required $47 USD payment; the site-wide Submit buttons link to boostmytool.com directly. The form's deliverable, verbatim: 'We'll submit your tool to up to 3 high-quality directories.' None are named in the form; boostmytool.com's homepage names SiteLike and FutureTools ('We list your tool on SiteLike, FutureTools, and more. One submission, many placements.'). The form's terms link goes to boostmytool.com/terms: 'Unless otherwise specified, fees are non-refundable.', 'We do not guarantee: That your tool will be accepted by any directory', 'Delivery timelines are estimates only'. aitools.fyi's own separate terms state 'We do offer refunds for cancelled or not approved services.' Archived copies of aitools.fyi/submit show a $30 'One Time Payment' fast-track as late as March 2026. Sponsor prices per aitools.fyi/advertise, both marked 'No spots available currently'. DR 44 per FrogDR; size per its own sitemaps. Per both sites when last checked (July 2026).

How to submit to AI Tools FYI, step by step

  1. 1

    Click Submit, leave the site

    Every Submit button on aitools.fyi points at boostmytool.com, which forwards to a Tally form titled 'Boost My Tool Submission'. You never see an aitools.fyi submission page; archived copies show the old self-hosted one (with its $30 fast-track) was bypassed by mid-March 2026 and has since become a hard redirect.

  2. 2

    Fill the six fields

    Email, Tool Link, Tool Name, Tool Description, a Pricing dropdown (Free / Freemium / Paid) and an optional Additional Information box. A separate consent checkbox offers 'up to 2 additional free directories as a bonus? (Subject to approval - check our terms.)' and notes 'We'll use your contact details to streamline the process.'

  3. 3

    Pay the $47 in the form

    The payment block is part of the Tally form ('Submission Fee:', $47 USD, card details inline). The terms it links to are boostmytool.com's: fees 'non-refundable', acceptance by any directory not guaranteed, 'no guarantees of backlinks, traffic, rankings, or business outcomes'.

  4. 4

    Wait, without a date

    No turnaround is stated anywhere. The terms' words: 'Delivery timelines are estimates only and may vary depending on third-party directory review processes and approval times.' The form is configured with no post-payment redirect, so the confirmation is the receipt.

The Boost My Tool Submission Tally form that AI Tools FYI's Submit button leads to: email, tool link, name, description, pricing dropdown, a bonus free-directories consent checkbox and a $47 submission fee with inline card fields
The whole flow: six fields, one consent checkbox and a $47 card form.

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 rose from $30 to $47 in spring 2026, and what it buys got vaguer.

"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 $47 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 $47 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 44 is real and tracked. The directory is genuine. The way into it is the problem.

$47 for up to three doors, $49 for sixty

Their $47 is two dollars less than Submitator's $49 plan, so let's be exact about what each buys. $47 at Boost My Tool: "up to 3" directories nobody names, acceptance not guaranteed, non-refundable, no timeline. If all three land, that's $15.67 per directory. $49 at Submitator: 60 directories you pick in the dashboard from a catalog with each directory's DR on screen (up to DR 93), about 82 cents per directory, twenty times the doors for two dollars more. 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, Fazier at DR 81 and Turbo0 at DR 79), the whole batch goes out in 24 to 48 hours with a live link per completed listing, rejections are credited back +1 and the refund is a 30-day money-back 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.

FeatureBoost My Tool ($47)Submitator
Cost$47, 'up to 3' directories$49 for 60 directories
DirectoriesUnnamed in the formNamed, DR on screen
Own-site listingPromised nowhereNot applicable (we submit out)
Turnaround'estimates only'24–48h, whole batch
RefundFees 'non-refundable'30-day money-back

Submitator does not submit to AI Tools FYI; the comparison is what the same money buys through the form its Submit button leads to. Cells quote the Boost My Tool Tally form and boostmytool.com/terms as fetched in July 2026 ('We'll submit your tool to up to 3 high-quality directories.'; 'Unless otherwise specified, fees are non-refundable.'; 'Delivery timelines are estimates only'). A listing on aitools.fyi itself is promised nowhere in that flow. Submitator's $49 plan covers 60 directories you pick (plans from $29 for 30, up to $79 for 100), badges handled, live link per completed listing, rejections credited +1, 30-day money-back refund.

Sixty doors, and a refund that exists.

Pick your 60 in the dashboard with DR on screen, badges handled, batch submitted in 24 to 48 hours, live links as listings complete. $49 one-time, plans from $29.

Start — from $29
The short version

Up to three unnamed doors: $47. Sixty named doors: $49.

A real DR-44 directory whose Submit button exits to a months-old third-party form: non-refundable, acceptance not guaranteed, no timeline and no promise of a listing on the directory that sent you there.

FAQ

How much does it cost to submit to AI Tools FYI?

As of July 2026, the site's Submit button exits to boostmytool.com, which forwards to a Tally form titled 'Boost My Tool Submission' with a required $47 payment. That's the only submission path we could find; no free path is visible anywhere today. It wasn't always so: archived copies of aitools.fyi/submit show a $30 'One Time Payment' fast-track ('Skip the line and Get your tool listed ASAP!') live as late as March 2026, before the redirect took over. Sponsorships are separate: $447 for one week or $197 per month on the advertise page, both marked 'No spots available currently'.

What does Boost My Tool's $47 actually buy?

The form's own words: 'We'll submit your tool to up to 3 high-quality directories.' None of the three are named in the form. Boostmytool.com's homepage names exactly two ('We list your tool on SiteLike, FutureTools, and more. One submission, many placements.'): FutureTools runs its own free public submission form ('Submit it below and Matt will review it'), and SiteLike is titled 'Similar Sites & Alternative Website Finder', a similar-sites lookup engine rather than a curated submission directory. A listing on aitools.fyi itself is promised nowhere in the flow. There's also a consent checkbox for 'up to 2 additional free directories as a bonus? (Subject to approval - check our terms.)', which authorizes use of your contact details.

Are AI Tools FYI listings dofollow?

The site never claims dofollow or nofollow anywhere, so there's no promise to hold it to. What we found on the 10 live listings we checked in July 2026: outbound links to the tool's site carry no rel attribute in the raw HTML (followed by default), nearly all tagged with ?ref=aitools.fyi tracking, and on some listings the main outbound link is an affiliate link rather than the tool's own URL. The rel attribute is theirs to change at any time.

Who runs Boost My Tool (boostmytool.com)?

The form belongs to boostmytool.com, a domain registered March 5, 2026 with privacy-shielded whois, no company or person named anywhere on it and no mention of aitools.fyi in any of its pages. aitools.fyi itself credits a named maker (its footer reads 'By Rishit Patel'). Whether the two share an owner isn't verifiable; what's verifiable is that aitools.fyi routes its entire submit funnel there, and that the switch happened within days of boostmytool.com being registered.

Is aitools.fyi legit?

The directory is real: registered in late 2022 and listing tools since early 2023, about 14,500 English tool pages in its own sitemap, DR 44 per the independent tracker FrogDR, listing pages in several languages and a newsletter it says has 21,600+ subscribers (its number). The flags sit in the submit flow: the Submit button exits to a months-old third-party domain; the $47 is non-refundable under terms that guarantee neither acceptance ('We do not guarantee: That your tool will be accepted by any directory') nor any timeline ('Delivery timelines are estimates only'); aitools.fyi's own terms say the opposite about refunds ('We do offer refunds for cancelled or not approved services.'), but the form links to boostmytool's terms, not those; the footer's Contact page returns a 404; and its terms disclose it may list adult-oriented and 18+ tools.

Does Submitator submit to AI Tools FYI?

No, Submitator doesn't submit to AI Tools FYI. The comparison is doors per dollar: $47 there buys 'up to 3' directories nobody names, non-refundable, with acceptance explicitly not guaranteed. Their price is two dollars less than Submitator's $49 plan, and for those two dollars the $49 plan covers 60 directories you pick in the dashboard with each directory's DR on screen (the catalog runs up to DR 93), twenty times the doors, with dofollow links as the stated focus, badges installed and kept live where directories require them, the whole batch out in 24 to 48 hours with a live link per completed listing, rejections credited +1 and a 30-day money-back refund. The $29 plan is $18 less than their $47 and still covers 30 directories.

Sixty named doors. Two dollars more.

60 directories you pick with DR on screen, dofollow focus, badges handled, live links as listings complete. $49 one-time, 30-day money-back.