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Submit your AI tool

We review AI tools by hand, publish what we find, and take no money for any of it. If you have built something worth using, this is how it gets in front of readers who are trying to decide.

What you are agreeing to

It costs nothing, and never will

No listing fee, no monthly fee to stay visible, no paid fast-track, no bid-per-click placement. Not "free for now" — a permanent, published position. Every competitor sells placement, and that is exactly why nobody trusts directories.

A person reviews it

We cap the catalogue deliberately — 38 tools today, ~150 eventually — because accuracy has a maintenance cost per tool that scale destroys. Roughly 40% of listings across this category are dead links. Ours are not.

You cannot buy the rating

The rating is our stated opinion, published beside every other tool in the category and judged on the same basis. Submitting does not buy a listing, a score, or a position, and asking will not change it.

You can correct us

Facts are yours; judgements are ours. Every price carries the date we checked it, and when something changes, tell us and we verify and update it. That loop is worth more to both of us than any amount of marketing copy.

What happens after you press send

  1. You send it

    Six short steps, about ten minutes. The form saves as you go, so you can leave and come back. There is no account to create.

  2. A reviewer opens it

    Not a screenshot of it — the product. We sign up, use it for a real task, and read the documentation. This is the part that takes the time, and it is the part nobody else does.

  3. We verify the facts

    Every price is checked against your own pricing page and stamped with the date we checked it. Free-tier limits, caps and trial terms are read rather than repeated.

  4. We decide, and tell you why

    Approved or not, you get an email with a reason you can act on. If we list it, we write a review with the watch-outs alongside the strengths.

The one thing worth reading twice

Founders who name their own product's weakness are the ones whose submissions move fastest. It is not modesty — it is that we are going to find it anyway, and finding it ourselves after you told us the tool has none is the fastest route to a rejection. Tell us the rate limit, the missing integration, the workflow it cannot do yet. It reads as confidence, because it is.

Before you start

We publish in 9 categories: audio, chatbots & assistants, coding, design, image generation, productivity, research, video, writing. If your tool does not sit in one of those, we are probably the wrong home for it — say so in the last box and we will tell you honestly rather than leave you waiting.

What moves a submission along

  • A working URL that loads for a signed-out visitor
  • A public pricing page with real numbers on it
  • A specific claim we can test, not an adjective
  • Documentation, a changelog, or anything showing it is maintained
  • A square logo that survives being 32 pixels wide

What gets one turned down

  • A waitlist page, a landing page, or a demo we cannot reach
  • Pricing that only appears after a sales call
  • A thin wrapper around someone else's API with nothing added
  • Descriptions written for an algorithm rather than a reader
  • Anything already covered by a tool we list, with no reason to prefer it

The full version is in the submission guidelines — worth five minutes before you fill this in. If you want to know how the judgements get made, readhow we review AI tools.

Submit your tool

About ten minutes. Your answers save on this device as you type, so you can leave and come back. Fields marked are required.

Step 1 of 6The toolWhat it is and where to find it. We check every link by hand, so make sure the URL works without a login.

Exactly as you write it yourself, including capitalisation.

The product page, not an app store listing or a Product Hunt post. It must load for a signed-out visitor.

Pick the one a reader would look under. We only publish in these nine — if none fits, say so in "anything else" and we will tell you honestly whether we are the right home for it.

Optional, but it tells a reviewer what the tool actually is in one glance.

When it first became publicly available. Leave blank if it has not launched yet.

We publish this. Data residency decides procurement for a lot of readers, and no other directory tells them.

Step 2 of 6Describe itWrite this for a reader who has never heard of you. Marketing language is the most common reason a submission is sent back.
0/180

One sentence, 60–180 characters, saying what it does and who for. No superlatives, no "revolutionary".

0/2500

Two to four paragraphs. What problem it solves, how it actually works, what it is genuinely good at, and where it falls down. The last one matters: we publish watch-outs on every tool, and a founder who names their own is far more credible than one who does not.

0/1200

Not a pitch — a reason. What can a reader do with this that they cannot do with the tools we already cover? Name the competitor you would be compared against.

Step 3 of 6Pricing and accessThe part readers care about most, and the part directories most often get wrong. Give us the real limits.
0/1200

One plan per line, with what each one actually limits. Every price we publish is verified against your own pricing page and stamped with the date we checked it, so vague answers only slow this down.

Where we verify the numbers above. If prices only appear after signup, tell us in the plans field.

What is available

Tick only what is true today. We check.

Only if you ticked open source. The SPDX identifier if you know it.

Platforms

Where it actually runs.

Models it runs on

Which models sit underneath. Readers increasingly ask, and a tool that quietly swapped to a cheaper model is exactly the kind of change we track.

Step 4 of 6Brand assetsA logo and a couple of screenshots. Optional, but a submission without a usable logo waits longer.

A direct link to the image file — the one that ends in .png or .svg, not the page it sits on. Square, at least 128px, transparent background. The mark on its own, not the logo with the wordmark beside it, which becomes unreadable at 32px.

One URL per line, up to 4. Direct links to the image files, at least 640px wide. Show the product doing the thing — a signed-in view with real content beats a landing page hero every time.

YouTube, Vimeo or Loom. Two minutes is plenty.

Docs, changelog or a getting-started guide. Real documentation is one of the strongest signals a tool is maintained.

Step 5 of 6About youSo we can reach you with questions. We only ever email you about this submission.

The legal entity behind the tool, or your own name if you are an individual.

Optional. Useful if you would rather we address a reply to a person.

Use an address at the tool’s own domain where you can. It is the quickest way for us to confirm you are connected to the product, and submissions from free mail providers take longer to verify.

Optional. A profile or a contact page, in case email bounces.

0/1000

Embargoed launch date, a correction to something we have already published, an accessibility feature you are proud of, a category you think we are missing. Optional.

Step 6 of 6Check and sendOne last look before it reaches a reviewer.

We verify pricing against your own page before publishing. A submission that misstates its limits is rejected rather than corrected.

Nothing here is for sale, and nothing here can be bought back. Read how that works on our editorial standards page.

We use what you send here to review the tool and to reply to you about it, and for nothing else. See our privacy policy.

Questions founders ask

How much does it cost to submit?
Nothing, and there is no paid option to buy. PromptHive does not sell listings, placement, ratings or featured slots, and it never will — that refusal is the reason a listing here is worth having. The site is funded by display advertising, disclosed on every page.
How long does a review take?
A first look usually happens within five working days. The full review takes one to three weeks after that, because it involves signing up, using the tool for a real task, reading the documentation and verifying every price against your own pricing page. We email you at each stage.
Does submitting guarantee a listing?
No. We cap the catalogue deliberately, so plenty of good tools do not fit. If the answer is no you get a specific reason rather than silence, and you are welcome to submit again if the reason changes.
Will you publish negative things about my product?
Yes, if they are true. Every review carries a watch-outs section, including the tools we rate highest — a page with no watch-outs is a page nobody believes, which would make the positive parts worthless to you. What we will not publish is something inaccurate; tell us and we will check it and correct it.
My tool is already listed. What should I do?
Submit anyway and say what is out of date in the "anything else" box. We recognise the domain and route it to the editorial team as a correction rather than a new listing, which is usually faster than a fresh review.
What happens to the data I send you?
We use it to review the tool and to reply to you about it. We do not sell it, share it with advertisers, or add you to a mailing list. Uploaded images are stored privately and are only visible to reviewers.

More in the full submission FAQ, or read the announcement:why we built this.