How to Submit to AppsListo (DR 13)

What the $25 actually buys

Not a listing. There's no profile page you control, no badge or embed, no dashboard, no card to update later. "AL - Guaranteed Review - $ 25" buys one blog post on appslisto.com, and to its credit the post looks editorial: reviews carry named bylines (Edwin, Earnest, Suresh K, Steve Matthews) and scores. The $75 tier, "AL - Featured Review - $ 75 - 30 Days in homepage", adds 30 days of homepage placement on that same DR-13 blog. What no tier includes: a stated turnaround (the page and the form say nothing), a sponsorship label (none of the paid-looking reviews we sampled discloses payment) or a refund policy (none is published). And no page on the site defines what "Guaranteed" covers.

The $169 comes pre-checked

Open the order form and look before you type: "AL Package Review - $ 169 ( Regular Price $249) - 10 Reviews" is already selected. That's not a guess; the radio ships checked in the form's HTML, so the most expensive option is the one you buy unless you actively switch to the $25 or the $75. Defaults do quiet work. A buyer skimming down to the payment fields starts at $169, not $25, and the "( Regular Price $249)" anchor makes the pre-selected price read like a discount. We'll state exactly what we verified and no more: the pre-selection sits in the form markup served in July 2026, and doing nothing there costs $144 more than the cheapest option.

The same bundle, two prices

The $169 buys the form's "Package Review", pitched as "10 Unique Reviews ( Special Offer )": one review each on apps400.com, apps4review.com, appsmirror.com, appsthunder.com, appslisto.com itself at number five, appstimes.in, appiod.com, game400.com, webapprater.com and appsmamma.com. Credit where due: the form names all ten sites in the open. Now the part it doesn't mention. AppsThunder, number four on that list, sells the same ten-review package from its own submit page at $249, and both order forms run on the same amp2 Wufoo account. One operator account, one bundle, $249 through that door and $169 through this one. The inventory even shifts between listings: AppsThunder's version of the same bundle lists gadget400.com where AppsListo's lists appiod.com. At $16.90 a post the bundle is cheap in absolute terms; it's also ten placements on blogs billed through a single account, which is a different thing from ten independent doors.

Fourteen years, DR 13

The age is real, and worth crediting: the domain was registered in February 2012, the Wayback Machine first captured the site that September, and the sitemap's 810 posts trace a roughly weekly cadence right up to a newest post dated July 22, 2026. Around that cadence, almost nothing moves. The footer still reads "Copyright © 2015 - 2021. - All Rights Reserved." The nav still carries a Windows Phone category. And the June 2026 archive slots a teeth-straightening guide, carrying five followed links to a dental clinic, alongside the app reviews you'd be paying to sit with. Then the number: FrogDR, which tracks the domain, puts it plainly, "the Domain Rating for appslisto.com and it is currently at DR13". Fourteen years of weekly publishing, settled at DR 13. That's the domain your $25 link would live on.

Followed links, never claimed

We pulled the raw HTML of eight posts across the archive. Every link to a reviewed product was followed: a rel of "noopener" alone or no rel attribute at all, clean URLs, no tracking parameters. That's real value at the margin, and more than some paid placements deliver. The other half: AppsListo never claims dofollow anywhere on the site, nothing is promised about links at all, and the rel attribute stays theirs to change silently. None of the paid-looking posts we sampled carries a sponsorship disclosure. And one detail from the same crawl, stated flatly: the only nofollow we found anywhere on the site sits on its own GegoSoft banner ad.

Five pages, none of them legal

Outside the posts, the entire site is five pages: home, guest-writers, submit-your-app, contact and reviews. We tried /privacy-policy/, /privacy/, /terms/, /terms-and-conditions/, /terms-of-service/, /disclaimer/, /about/ and /about-us/. All eight return 404. No page names a legal entity, an address or an email; the contact page is a bare form; the domain sits behind whois privacy. So the transaction runs like this: you pay $25 to $169 through an embedded form, to a party no page names, on terms that don't exist, with a refund policy that doesn't either. For balance, the prices themselves are stated plainly in the form, down to the ten bundle domains by name. The paper trail just ends there.

AppsListo pricing, per door: $25, $75, $16.90

Start honest: AppsListo's $25 sticker sits below our $29, and we won't pretend otherwise. The math only flips per door. $25 there is one post on one DR-13 blog. $29 here is the whole 30-directory plan, $0.97 a door: you pick all 30 in the dashboard from a catalog of 100+ named directories with each directory's DR on screen, up to DR 93, Product Hunt (DR 91), Uneed (DR 74), AlternativeTo (DR 80) and TryLaunch AI among the choices. Dofollow links are the stated focus (DR 40–90 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 and every directory within 21 days at most, with a live link per completed listing, rejections are credited back +1 and you can request a refund within 30 days of purchase. At the top end the gap widens: their pre-checked $169 is ten posts on blogs billed through one account, $16.90 each; our $79 is 100 directories at $0.79 a door. Their bundle costs more than twice our whole top plan. For four dollars more than their single review, thirty doors instead of one.