How to Submit Your Tool to Apps and Websites, and the Two Gates on Your Own Site
Apps and Websites is an AI and SaaS tools directory run by a UK agency, and it is free to be in. Ahrefs rates the domain 13. The submission is one form where every field is mandatory, and the site publishes both how long it takes and what it checks: approved listings go up in 3 to 5 days, and only sites with a privacy policy and identifiable company contact information get listed at all.
This directory is on our list. Two things about it change what you should do before you type anything: a listing is a card on a category page rather than a page of its own, and the form is not a directory form at all. It sits on a second domain, landing.mycloudmedia.co.uk, reached from the SUBMIT link in the directory navigation.
Their own acceptance rule is one sentence and it is about your site, not your submission: "We only list AI and SaaS tools websites that have a valid Privacy Policy and have identifiable company contact information." A landing page with a waitlist and no company details behind it fails that, and no amount of care with the form fixes it afterwards. The other trap is inside the form: Tool Description is capped at 100 characters while its own placeholder asks for a few short sentences.
Apps and Websites submission at a glance
| Feature | Apps and Websites |
|---|---|
| What it is | An AI and SaaS tools directory |
| Where | landing.mycloudmedia.co.uk |
| Account | None, no login on either site |
| The form | 10 fields, all of them mandatory |
| Description | 10 to 100 characters |
| Categories | 25, in an AI half and a SaaS half |
| Gate | Privacy policy plus company contact |
| Turnaround | "3-5 days", their words |
| Your listing | A card on a category page |
| Links | No rel attribute, 866 of 866 |
| Domain | DR 13 on Ahrefs |
Per appsandwebsites.com, its robots.txt and sitemap index, the /directory/ landing page, all 24 pages beneath it and the submission form hosted at landing.mycloudmedia.co.uk, read on 18 August 2026. Domain Rating is Ahrefs' figure via submitator.com/domain-rating-checker; no second provider was queried. Nothing was submitted and no payment was made. The site is WordPress with Elementor; robots.txt is a Yoast block whose Disallow line is empty, so nothing is blocked, and the sitemap index holds 64 URLs across four children: 19 posts, 27 pages, 17 categories and one author. There is no per-tool URL, which is why this page describes a listing as a card. The directory is 24 pages: /directory/, two hub pages and 21 category pages, of which 15 are AI and 6 are SaaS. The card census covers all 24 and counts 866 tool cards pointing at 835 distinct hosts; the card button is an anchor of class eael-infobox-button straight to the submitted address and carries no rel attribute on 866 of 866, with nofollow, sponsored and ugc absent from the directory entirely. Fourteen destinations carry a referral or campaign parameter, several branded to the directory itself, among them ?via=apps-and-websites, ?ref=appsandwebsites, ?deal=apps-and-websites and ?utm_source=mycloudmedia. All 24 pages carry a Yoast robots meta reading index, follow, and all 24 are their own canonical. Every one of the 24 carries a last modified date of 27 May 2025 or earlier, the newest being the AI productivity page, and the sitemap lastmod values and the wp/v2/pages modified values agree to the second; the oldest is 2 March 2023. Card counts by page are lopsided: the AI side holds 859 across 15 pages with ai-productivity-tools alone holding 213, and the SaaS side holds 7 across 6 pages. Form field names are GUIDs on a Force24 marketing form titled 'AI and SaaS Tool Submission'; the attributes quoted here are read from the served markup, where all ten visible fields carry required, those being six text inputs, one textarea and three selects, Tool Description carries minlength 10 and maxlength 100, Phone carries maxlength 50 with a digits-only pattern and Email carries maxlength 100 with a pattern. The three option lists are transcribed from that markup. Five of the ten SaaS categories in the dropdown have no page: guessed slugs for them return 404 and they are absent from the sitemap. The SaaS hub links six pages rather than five because workflow automation and project management hold a page each while the dropdown offers them as a single option. Turnaround, acceptance and human-review wording is quoted from the submission page, and the referral-fee disclaimer from the directory page. Submitator submits here as part of its catalog: $29 for 30 directories, $49 for 60 and $79 for 100, one-time, chosen by you in the dashboard with DR shown, badges installed and kept live, a live link per completed listing, rejections credited back as +1 directory and a 30-day refund policy on the conditions in our terms.
Apps and Websites categories: fifteen AI, ten SaaS
One dropdown, two halves. Every AI category has a page waiting for you. Five of the ten SaaS ones do not, so check yours is among the five that do before you pick it.
Art & Pictures, Avatars, Copywriting, Chat & Customer Support, Design, Developer, Music, Productivity, Prompts, Research, SEO, Social Media, Text to Speech, Transcriber, Video
Analytics & Affiliates, Calendar & Meetings, Content Marketing, CRM, Email Marketing, Finance HR & Legal, Lead Generation, Survey & Quiz, Website Builder & Hosting, Workflow & Project Management
How to submit to Apps and Websites, step by step
- 1
Put a privacy policy and a contact page on your own site
This is the step people skip and it is the one they publish as a rule: "We only list AI and SaaS tools websites that have a valid Privacy Policy and have identifiable company contact information." Both are half an hour of work and both are checked by a person before your listing goes anywhere. If your product is a single landing page with an email capture on it, this is what to fix first.
- 2
Write the description to 100 characters, not to the placeholder
The box asks you to describe your product in a few short sentences and then stops accepting text at 100 characters, with a floor of 10. So write one line, in the shape the directory already uses: what it does, for whom. The cards around you read like "Optimize Your LinkedIn Presence with SmartEReply", which is about the length the field actually allows.
- 3
Decide the type and the category together
Tool Type is AI or SaaS and the category list is one dropdown holding both halves. Choosing an AI category is safe, since all fifteen have a page. On the SaaS side only five of the ten categories have a page today, so if yours is Analytics & Affiliates, Calendar & Meetings, Content Marketing, Finance HR & Legal or Lead Generation, there is currently no page for it to appear on.
- 4
Have a phone number in digits
The Phone field is mandatory and its validation accepts digits only, so a number typed with a plus, brackets, dashes or spaces will be refused. Strip it to digits before you paste. The form asks for a full contact record, a first and last name, a company and a phone, because it is a marketing form on the agency's own domain rather than a directory widget.
- 5
Pick the cost tier honestly
Tool Cost / Status offers Free, Freemium, Paid, Waitlist and Open Source, and whichever you choose is printed in bold on your card. Waitlist being an option matters: a product that is not shipped yet has a place here, though the acceptance rule about a privacy policy and company details still applies to whatever page you point at.
- 6
Send it and wait the stated few days
The button reads Send > and the page tells you what happens next: "Just complete the form and we will review your submission - we normally publish approved listings to the directory in 3-5 days." A person does the reading, in their words "All submissions are checked and validated by humans", and they keep the right to decline, saying they "reserve the right not to list all submissions and remove listings that do not meet our code of conduct".
Your listing is a card, not a page
This is the structural thing to get straight, because it changes what a listing actually is. The whole site is 64 URLs in its sitemap and none of them is a tool page, so there is no address of your own here to point at, share or track. What exists instead is 24 directory pages, and your entry is one card among the others on whichever category page you were filed under.
The card carries an image, your tool name as a heading, your description, a tag line and your cost tier in bold, then a button out to your site. You never supply the image and the form has no field for one: the images in the directory are hosted on their own site and named after the tool, so somebody makes them at their end. All 24 pages are their own canonical and all 24 carry Yoast's index, follow.
What the link is, exactly
There is no rel attribute in the directory to describe. The card button is an anchor straight to the address you submitted, and across the 866 cards on those 24 pages not one carries a rel of any kind. No nofollow, no sponsored, no ugc, no redirect through their own domain either.
Fourteen of the 866 destinations carry a referral or campaign parameter, several of them branded to the directory itself, such as ?via=apps-and-websites and ?ref=appsandwebsites. The directory page carries the matching disclosure rather than leaving you to find it: "With some links to 3rd party websites we may earn referral fees if/when you purchase services from the websites listed in the directory." What that absent rel is worth is for Google to decide. The count is the part we can stand behind.
The shape of the directory
Lopsided, and in a way that is useful to know before you pick a category. The AI side holds 859 of the 866 cards across fifteen pages, and one page, AI productivity tools, holds 213 of them on its own. The SaaS side holds seven cards across six pages, five of which have a single card on them.
So the two halves offer different things. An AI tool joins a busy page and has to earn its place in a long list. A SaaS tool joins a page that is nearly empty, if its category is one of the five that has a page at all. The directory page describes itself as holding "100+ OF THE BEST FREE, FREEMIUM AND PAID TOOLS", which undersells what is actually there.
The timestamps are worth a look before you spend the twenty minutes. Every one of the 24 directory pages carries a last modified date of 27 May 2025 or earlier, and the sitemap and the WordPress API agree on it to the second. Cards sit inside those pages, so on that reading the directory has not taken one on in about fifteen months. The 3 to 5 days is what they publish, and this is what the timestamps show.
Who runs it
A named person, on the record and at length. The directory page carries a personal introduction: "My name is Tim Bennett. I am the creator of the Apps and Websites – AI & SaaS Tools directory. I am also the Founder and Managing Director of digital agency, My Cloud Media." The footer puts the company behind it, "Website and Blog © 2026 Apps and Websites - My Cloud Media Ltd. All Rights Reserved."
That agency connection explains the two things about this submission that look odd at first. The form lives on the agency's own domain rather than the directory's, and it opens by asking for a first name, a last name, a company and a phone number, which is the shape of a contact record rather than a listing. Decide in advance whose details you want to put in it.
Two pages on your own site, thirty forms elsewhere.
A privacy policy and a contact page are what this one checks before it lists you. Get those two right, then hand over the thirty forms.
Worth doing?
Yes, on its own terms. It is free, a person reads it, the wait is stated rather than guessed at, the card is a plain anchor on an indexable page and the operator is a named agency that publishes its referral arrangement instead of hiding it. DR 13 means the domain is not the reason to be here. The reason is a card a human checked before it went up.
The work that pays here is not in the form, which takes five fields of contact details and one line of copy. It is in the two things they check on your side, and nothing about those is specific to this directory.
Privacy policy, contact page, 100 characters.
No price, no account, and the form is not even on the directory's domain: it lives on the agency's. All ten fields are mandatory, the description stops at 100 characters and Phone takes digits only. Your listing is a card on a category page, and its link carries no rel attribute at all. Approved listings go up in 3 to 5 days. The whole catalog.
FAQ
How long does Apps and Websites take to publish a listing?
Three to five days, and they commit to it in writing. Their submission page reads "Just complete the form and we will review your submission - we normally publish approved listings to the directory in 3-5 days." The same paragraph adds that "All submissions are checked and validated by humans", so it is a person reading rather than a queue draining.
What does Apps and Websites require before it will list you?
Two things on your own site, and they are published rather than left to guesswork: "We only list AI and SaaS tools websites that have a valid Privacy Policy and have identifiable company contact information." A product page with neither is what they say they will not list, however well the form is filled in. Fix both first, because they are cheap to fix and they are the stated grounds for a no.
Is Apps and Websites free to submit to?
Nothing in the flow asks for money. No price appears on the submission page or anywhere in the directory, there is no featured or promoted tier for sale and no field takes a payment. They do not advertise it as free either, so the absence runs both ways. The site may earn from some of the links it publishes, and it discloses that on the page rather than quietly: "With some links to 3rd party websites we may earn referral fees if/when you purchase services from the websites listed in the directory."
What does the Apps and Websites submission form ask for?
Ten fields and every one is mandatory: First Name, Last Name, Email, Company Name, Phone, Tool Type, Tool URL, Tool Description, Main Category and Tool Cost / Status. Two carry limits worth knowing before you start typing. Tool Description is capped at 100 characters despite a placeholder asking you to "describe your product in a few short sentences...", and Phone accepts digits only, so a number written with a plus sign, brackets or spaces will not pass validation.
Do you need an account to submit to Apps and Websites?
No. There is no sign-up and no login. The form is not even on the same domain as the directory: the SUBMIT link in the navigation points at landing.mycloudmedia.co.uk, the agency's own domain, where the submission is a marketing form rather than a directory tool. That is why it opens with a name, a company and a phone number instead of a logo upload.
What categories can you choose on Apps and Websites?
Twenty-five, split into two halves that behave differently. The fifteen AI categories each have a page in the directory. Five of the ten SaaS categories have nowhere to land: Analytics & Affiliates, Calendar & Meetings, Content Marketing, Finance HR & Legal and Lead Generation have no page, and guessed slugs for them return 404. The SaaS hub links six pages rather than five because workflow automation and project management have a page each while the dropdown offers them as one option.
Does an Apps and Websites listing link to your site?
Yes. The card's button is an anchor straight to the address you submitted, and across the 866 cards on the 24 directory pages not one of them carries a rel attribute of any kind, so there is no nofollow, no sponsored and no ugc anywhere in the directory. Fourteen of those 866 destinations carry a referral or campaign parameter, several branded to the directory itself, which is the arrangement its own disclaimer describes.
What does an Apps and Websites listing look like?
A card on a category page rather than a page of its own, which is the main thing to understand about this directory. The card carries an image, your tool name as a heading, the description you wrote, a tag line and your cost tier in bold, then the button out to your site. You do not supply the image: the ones in the directory are hosted on their own site and named after the tool, so that part is made for you.
Does Submitator submit to Apps and Websites?
Yes, this one is on our list. It is a small directory run by a named UK agency, and what you get is a card with a plain anchor to your site on a page that is indexable and canonical to itself. Point your own housekeeping at it first: the privacy policy and contact details are the two things they say they check, and they are the cheapest to get right before you apply. Thirty directories cost $29 on one payment, picked by you from a rated list.
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