How to Submit to AI Tools Up, and Which Categories to Type

The categories box, and why it is the whole job

Most directory forms hand you a dropdown. This one gives you a text field and a placeholder asking you to mention the categories that fit your tool, with no list anywhere near it. So the question of what to type is entirely yours to solve, and getting it wrong is quiet rather than loud: nothing bounces back, your entry simply does not join a category page.

Forty category pages carry tools on the site, and they are listed above. Two things make the difference. Use the displayed name rather than the URL slug, since the two are not always the same word. And pick two or three rather than one, because a tool that belongs on both a writing page and a marketing page gets seen twice for the same effort.

A handful of other sections exist that are not tool categories at all, covering the blog, tutorials and roundups. Those are editorial, so there is no point typing them.

The image, and the bit nobody writes down

The form asks for an image, marks it required, and tells you exactly one thing about it: the size limit is 10 MB. That is not the constraint that matters. Listing cards crop to 16:9, so an image at any other ratio loses its edges, and something at 1200 by 675 arrives intact.

The other detail is worth thirty seconds. On published listings the alt text of the image matches the filename that was uploaded. So a file called after your product becomes a sensible alt attribute, and one called screenshot followed by a date becomes that instead. It costs nothing to rename the file before you drag it in.

Tiers, and which number applies to you

Three columns sit on the pricing page. The free one states listing within 30 days. Above it are a $19 fast track and a $249 promoted placement, both handled through third-party services rather than a checkout on the site itself. If you are taking the free route, 30 days is the figure on your card; the 24-hour promise that also appears on that page belongs to the paid columns.

The form's own introduction says they try to review submissions as soon as possible and publish them on the site. That reads as intent rather than a commitment, and there is no reference number on the confirmation screen to follow up with, so the practical approach is to note the date and look again later. Advertising enquiries go to the address given on the form.

What the listing gives you

A followed link, and this one was counted rather than sampled. Across all 367 posts on the site and the 590 anchors inside their bodies, exactly one carried a nofollow attribute. Sponsored and ugc do not appear anywhere. All 303 Visit buttons are followed links. For a domain at this size that is a better record than plenty of larger directories can show.

Two things to note alongside it. Most of those outbound links carry a ref or utm parameter appended, which is normal for a directory and changes nothing about the link itself. And the entries stay: fifteen listings we traced back to 2024 are all still live at the same addresses, with the same attributes on their links.

Worth doing?

Yes. It is free, the link on published listings is followed, the entries have held their addresses for two years, and the form is honest about what the free column means. The only real cost is that it wants more from you than most: an image at the right ratio, a description worth reading, and categories you have to look up.

Do the preparation once and the form takes a few minutes. Skip the preparation and you get a cropped image with a filename for alt text and an entry that belongs to no category, which is a waste of an otherwise decent listing.