Directory review
futuretools review
Hand-curated AI tools collection by Matt Wolfe.
At a glance
DirPilot Score from 2 of 5 factors. The rest aren't checked yet, so it may move.
- Domain rating
- 69
- Visits / month
- Not checked Check pending
- Price
- Free
- Link type
- unchecked Check pending
- Approval
- Not checked Check pending
- Listings indexed
- Not checked Check pending
Our verdict
futuretools sits in the middle tier for authority (DR 69). We haven't confirmed whether its listing links are dofollow yet. Listing is free.
Best for Publicly launched AI software tools with a polished website and a clearly different concept. The site states that it does not list aggregators, newsletters, blogs or chat bots.
About futuretools
Future Tools is Matt Wolfe's curated database of AI tools. It also runs an AI news feed, a blog and a twice-weekly newsletter. It says it began in late 2022 as his personal spreadsheet, that a human reviews every submitted tool, and that 'Over 75% of the tools that are submitted to this site do not get approved.'
What a listing gets you
- A tool page with an AI-generated summary of your homepage, checked by a human before it goes live
- Your Open Graph image, or a screenshot of your homepage, as the listing image
- Pricing label, category, upvote count and an 'In the database since' month
- A Visit button that goes through a futuretools.io/go/ redirect to your site
- A 'Suggest Changes' button for requesting later edits
Pricing, timing and links
- Pricing
- Submitting a tool is free, and the FAQ says affiliate links and newsletter sponsors 'help keep this site free for both people looking for tools and those who want to submit tools.' Featured listings (at most two a week, pinned to the top of the tools directory), site banners and newsletter sponsorships are sold separately, with pricing sent on request by email and not published.
- Approval time
- "Submitting a tool does not guarantee that you will be included on the website and you will likely not hear back from us either way." "If you submitted a tool and it was not listed within a week of submission, you can resubmit it and we will review it again."
- Links
- The Visit button on a tool page goes through a futuretools.io/go/ redirect (which robots.txt blocks) and adds a ref=futuretools.io tag, so the page never links straight to your site. That makes it neither a plain dofollow nor a nofollow link.
Before you submit
- Form fields: tool name, tool URL, short description, category, pricing type (Free, Freemium, Paid, Open Source), email, CAPTCHA
- Must be publicly available; 'waitlist only' products are not accepted
- No custom GPTs from the GPT Store, and no adult content unless filters are on by default
- Must be a software tool: no newsletters, tool aggregators, blogs, or Discord, Telegram or WhatsApp bots
- Concepts already listed many times, low-effort websites and sites that look like scams or have many poor reviews are usually rejected
- Wait at least a week before resubmitting; resubmitting sooner 'will almost guarantee we will not add it'
- Submissions openYES
How to get approved
- Make your homepage describe the product clearly, because the listing summary is generated by AI from your homepage content.
- Set a good Open Graph image, since it becomes your listing image (otherwise a homepage screenshot is used).
- Submit only once the product is publicly available, and if it is not listed after a week, resubmit once rather than repeatedly.
- Lead with what makes your tool different, because concepts already listed many times are a common reason for rejection.
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Questions
Is futuretools free?
Yes, submitting to futuretools is free.
How long does futuretools take to approve a listing?
"Submitting a tool does not guarantee that you will be included on the website and you will likely not hear back from us either way." "If you submitted a tool and it was not listed within a week of submission, you can resubmit it and we will review it again."
How do I submit to futuretools?
Submissions go through https://futuretools.io/submit-a-tool. Have this ready: Form fields: tool name, tool URL, short description, category, pricing type (Free, Freemium, Paid, Open Source), email, CAPTCHA; Must be publicly available; 'waitlist only' products are not accepted; No custom GPTs from the GPT Store, and no adult content unless filters are on by default. Or let DirPilot submit for you, along with every other directory that fits your product.