A directory worth being listed in
ToolVerified is a launch directory for tools, apps and products of every kind. Makers submit a URL, we draft the listing from what is actually on the page, and the maker edits it into something accurate before anyone else sees it.
How a listing gets published
There is one route in, and it is free. You submit, we read it, and a person decides whether it belongs here.
Every listing is reviewed before it publishes. Nothing goes live automatically. We look at the site, check the description is about that product and no other, and publish it or tell you why not. You get an email either way.
The badge is optional. Add it to your site if you want to show where you launched and send some traffic back. It is not a requirement, it does not speed anything up, and taking it down later does not affect your listing.
Outbound links are nofollow. That is the honest default for a directory: a link here is a link, not an SEO product. We do not sell follow links and there is no tier that buys one.
Why the descriptions matter
Every listing carries an original description of between 350 and 2000 characters, written about that product and no other. Directories that recycle the same boilerplate across thousands of pages get dropped from search results, and the makers listed on them get nothing. We would rather write fewer listings properly.
Our draft is a starting point. Nothing is published until the maker has read it and made it true.
About the links
A published listing links out to the product it describes, as an ordinary link, the same as any editorial site linking to something it has written about. We do not sell those links, we do not require anything in return for them, and the link is identical whichever route you took to publish. If we would not stand behind a listing, we do not publish it.
What we do not do
There is no paid queue-skipping, no sponsored slot, no upsell at checkout: there is no checkout. Featured placement is an editorial decision made by the team, not something you can buy. Every page you can see, a crawler can see: it is all rendered on the server, in the first response.
Where we are
32 tools are published so far. If yours belongs here, it takes a couple of minutes to add.