One Free Form, a Followed Link and a 70,000-Reader Newsletter Behind It.
Written by Submitator. Daily Zaps is one of the directories we file customers to, so we have a reason to like it. The link claim below comes from a sample of their live listings rather than their marketing, and the method is in the footnote.
Daily Zaps Picks is the tools directory at hub.dailyzaps.com, holding 797 listings across some seventy-five tags. Submitting is free, there is no paid tier to turn down and no badge to install. The form is a single screen and the listing you get links back to you with the link followed.
We sampled 80 of those listings at random and fetched every one. All 80 carry exactly one outbound link, pointing at the tool's own home, and all 80 pass equity. No nofollow anywhere, nothing noindexed. For a form that costs nothing and asks for no badge, that is the whole deal delivered.
Daily Zaps is DR 8. That is a small number and we are not going to dress it up. This is a volume link: one of the entries that makes a link profile look like a real product's instead of a thin one, not a link that moves a ranking by itself. What makes it worth the five minutes is that it is free, it is followed, and there is a newsletter with a claimed 70,000 readers attached to it.
Daily Zaps at a glance
| What you get | Daily Zaps Picks |
|---|---|
| Price | $0, with no paid tier offered |
| The link | Dofollow on 80 of 80 sampled |
| Domain Rating | 8 (Ahrefs) |
| Badge on your site | Not required |
| Directory size | 797 listings, ~75 tags |
| Behind it | A newsletter claiming 70,000+ readers |
| Filed for you by Submitator | Free listing, plus 29 more directories from $29 |
Per hub.dailyzaps.com, its submit page and its sitemap, and per dailyzaps.com and its sitemap, all read on 3 September 2026. Domain Rating is Ahrefs' figure via submitator.com/domain-rating-checker, which returned 8 for both dailyzaps.com and hub.dailyzaps.com; no second provider was queried. The link finding is a sample, not a census: the hub sitemap lists 797 tool URLs alongside 75 tag pages, we drew a seeded random sample of 80, fetched every one successfully, parsed the HTML rather than pattern-matching it, and classified each outbound anchor by hostname. All 80 carried exactly one anchor pointing at the listed tool's own home and none of those anchors carried a rel attribute, so all pass equity; one points at a GitHub repository because that is where the tool lives. None of the 80 carried a robots noindex. We did not check the other 717, and markup can change at any time. The form fields, their required flags and the pre-ticked newsletter checkbox are read from the live submit form, which offers 34 categories against roughly 75 browsable tags on the site; the invitation above it, "Is there a tool missing from this site that we should know about? Share it below!", is their wording. Nothing behind the form was observed: no submission was made, so acceptance rates, turnaround and editorial practice are outside what we can report. The 70,000+ readership and the named employers are claims dailyzaps.com makes on its own homepage, repeated here as claims; its sitemap holds 408 archived issues and the nine most recent carry dates from 12 May to 2 September 2026. Submitator files customers to Daily Zaps. Our plans are $29 for 30 directories, $49 for 60 and $79 for 100, one-time, chosen by you in the dashboard with each Domain Rating shown, rejections credited back as +1 directory and a 30-day refund policy on the conditions in our terms.
How to submit to Daily Zaps, step by step
- 1
Decide about the newsletter box before you start typing
The form needs your name and email, and the “Subscribe to Daily Zaps Newsletter” checkbox is ticked when the page loads. Untick it if you do not want the digest. Read a couple of issues first, though, because the newsletter is where this directory's audience actually comes from.
- 2
Give the tool name and URL exactly as you want them published
There is no preview step and no account to log back into, so what you type is what an editor works from. Use the canonical version of your domain rather than a campaign link, since that URL becomes the followed link on your listing.
- 3
Pick a category, then use Other when none of them fit
The dropdown offers 34 options and the site browses by roughly 75 tags, so the list you are choosing from is narrower than the one readers see. If your closest match is a stretch, choose Other and type the tag you actually want in the field underneath it.
- 4
Set the pricing model honestly
Free, Freemium, Paid or Other. It is a filter people browse by, so an overstated Free earns you clicks from the wrong visitors and nothing else. If you have a free tier and paid plans, Freemium is the answer.
- 5
Write the description as the whole pitch
This is the only place you get to make a case, and it is required. Look at how existing entries read: a sentence naming what the tool does, then a sentence on what makes it different. Two or three tight sentences beat a paragraph of adjectives, and they survive editing better.
- 6
Use the comments box for anything an editor would want
It is the one optional field with real slack in it. A launch date, a discount for readers, a note that you are the maker, or a working screenshot URL all belong here rather than crammed into the description.
The newsletter is the reason this exists
Most free directories are a database and a submit form. This one is attached to something: dailyzaps.com, an AI news digest whose homepage says it is trusted by more than 70,000 readers at OpenAI, Apple, Hugging Face and Adobe. Its archive holds over 400 issues.
That is their claim rather than our measurement, and we would rather label it than launder it. What we can see is the archive, and what the archive shows is a publication that ran hard and now sends a few times a month: nine issues between the middle of May and the start of September. Fewer sends than the branding suggests, and still a list of that size sitting behind a directory that charges nothing.
Where this one sits in a catalog
A link profile is judged as a shape, not as a list of best entries. What a free followed listing does is put you where tools get listed: in a category, next to peers, with the link intact. Thirty of those is a different object than one of those, and that is the argument for filling in the volume tier rather than cherry-picking the famous names.
It is also why we do not price the strong directories higher than the small ones. You pick from one catalog with every Domain Rating printed on the card, so the mix is your call: load up on the heavyweights, take the free ones because they cost nothing, or both.
Daily Zaps is one of the free ones in there. It costs nothing either way, which is the simplest possible reason to have it on the list.
$0 here. $29 for thirty, with every Domain Rating on the card.
One payment, every directory named in your dashboard before anything is filed, so you choose the mix of strong and small yourself.
Daily Zaps review: the short answer
Submit. It is free, the form takes one pass, nothing has to stay on your site afterwards, and the link is followed on every listing we looked at. Judge it as one brick rather than as the wall.
The two things to get right are the category, because the dropdown is narrower than the site's own tag list, and the description, because it is the only argument your entry gets to make. Then untick the newsletter box or do not, and move on to the next one.
Free, followed, and small. Take it anyway.
Daily Zaps Picks lists 797 tools, charges nothing, asks for no badge and links out dofollow on all 80 listings we sampled. It is DR 8, so judge it as one brick, and the newsletter behind it claims 70,000 readers. Seven required fields, one screen, and the subscribe box arrives pre-ticked. The whole catalog.
FAQ
Is Daily Zaps free to submit to?
Yes, and there is no paid tier to decline. The submit page carries one form and no prices, no badge requirement and no upgrade panel. Their own line above it is “Is there a tool missing from this site that we should know about? Share it below!”, so treat it as a suggestion to an editor rather than a checkout.
Does Daily Zaps give a dofollow link?
Yes. We drew 80 listings at random from the 797 in their sitemap and fetched every one. Each carries exactly one outbound link, to the tool's own home, and every one of the 80 passes equity. None were noindexed. One of them points at a GitHub repository rather than a website, because that is where that particular tool lives.
What is Daily Zaps' Domain Rating?
8 on Ahrefs, for both the newsletter domain and the hub subdomain the listings sit on. That is low, and it is the honest frame for this one: a free followed link that adds to a profile rather than one that moves a ranking by itself.
What does the Daily Zaps submission form ask for?
Seven required fields and three optional ones. Required: your name, your email, the tool name, its URL, a category, a pricing model and a description. Optional: a custom category name if you pick Other, a comments box, and a newsletter checkbox that arrives already ticked.
Will submitting to Daily Zaps subscribe you to their newsletter?
By default, yes. The form requires an email address and the “Subscribe to Daily Zaps Newsletter” box is pre-ticked. Untick it if you do not want it. It is worth a moment's thought rather than a reflex, because the newsletter is the reason this directory has an audience at all.
What is the Daily Zaps newsletter?
The parent property at dailyzaps.com, an AI news digest whose own homepage says it is “trusted by 70,000+ curious minds at OpenAI, Apple, Hugging Face, Adobe, and more”. Its archive holds over 400 issues. It currently sends a few times a month rather than daily, on the evidence of the nine most recent issues.
Which Daily Zaps category should you pick?
Their dropdown offers 34, while the site itself browses by roughly 75 tags, so the list you choose from is narrower than the list readers use. Pick the closest match and use the Other field to name the one you actually want. The description field is where you make the case, since there is no editor's note attached to your entry.
Is Daily Zaps worth submitting to?
For a free followed link and a place in a 797-tool directory attached to a large newsletter, yes. It is one of the entries that makes a link profile look like a real product's rather than one that carries it on its own, and it costs nothing either way. We file our customers here as part of that volume.
More submit-to guides.
Daily Zaps is free. Twenty-nine more for $29.
One payment, each directory named with its Domain Rating on the card before you choose it, badges installed and kept live where one is wanted, and a rejection swapped for another directory.