Every directory worth submitting to — and the ones that aren't

126 directories reviewed. 33 we rate as worth your time, 26 we tell you to skip. We are not paid per submission, so the verdict is the honest one.

• Google Cloud Marketplace — DR 99 — Google Cloud's catalog of solutions from Google and its partners, where customers can discover, trial and purchase without leaving the console.
• AWS Marketplace — DR 96 — One of the largest cloud marketplaces in the world, where buyers can subscribe to your product without leaving AWS — and spend committed AWS budget doing it.
• Microsoft Marketplace — DR 96 — Microsoft's commercial marketplace, built for self-service evaluation and low-touch purchasing inside a customer's existing Microsoft account.
• Trustpilot — DR 94 — The largest general review platform on the web, covering products and services across every industry, with review stars that surface as rich snippets in Google.
• HubSpot App Marketplace — DR 93 — HubSpot's ecosystem marketplace for third-party apps, templates and service providers that extend the CRM.
• Gartner Peer Insights — DR 92 — Gartner's enterprise-facing review platform, built on verified practitioner reviews and ranked in categories that enterprise buyers already follow.
• SourceForge — DR 92 — One of the oldest software directories on the web, originally an open-source repository and now listing proprietary software with top-lists and comparison pages.
• Atlassian Marketplace — DR 92 — Atlassian's app marketplace, where partners sell apps, themes and templates that extend Jira, Confluence and the rest of the suite.
• Salesforce AppExchange — DR 92 — The marketplace Salesforce customers use to extend Salesforce, with thousands of solutions that install in a few clicks.
• Capterra — DR 91 — A top-tier B2B software directory with 2M+ verified reviews, now owned by G2 after its February 2026 acquisition from Gartner.
• Crunchbase — DR 91 — The default company database — 4M+ organisations with funding, leadership, news and timeline data.
• G2 — DR 91 — The largest B2B software review platform, with 6M+ verified reviews after acquiring Capterra, GetApp and Software Advice from Gartner in Q1 2026.
• Product Hunt — DR 91 — The default place to launch a new product — an event-driven platform rather than a directory of profiles.
• SHRM Vendor Directory — DR 90 — The official vendor directory of SHRM, the world's largest HR professional association with 300,000+ members.
• FinancesOnline — DR 87 — A once-significant software review platform with a SmartScore methodology that is, per our source, no longer supported by its owners.
• Slashdot — DR 87 — A sister site to SourceForge whose software directory is managed entirely from the SourceForge vendor profile.
• Software Advice — DR 87 — A G2-owned advisory-led software directory whose reviews and profiles syndicate with Capterra and GetApp.
• CB Insights — DR 86 — A business intelligence platform tracking private companies for investors and analysts.
• GoodFirms — DR 86 — A B2B research and review platform covering both software products and service providers, with leaderboard-style category rankings.
• GetApp — DR 85 — A G2-owned software directory localised for 30+ countries, with unusually strong EMEA and Latin America presence.
• TrustRadius — DR 84 — A software review platform known for long-form, vetted reviews and detailed comparisons, with buyer-intent data as its commercial product.
• AppSumo — DR 83 — The largest software deals marketplace, built around lifetime deals and a revenue share rather than a listing fee.
• F6S — DR 83 — A startup community connecting founders with grants, accelerators and investors, with product listings sitting inside the same profile.
• The Green Web Foundation — DR 82 — A verified directory of green hosting providers — you must evidence renewable energy use to be listed, and listing comes with a badge you can display.
• Dang! — DR 81 — An AI tools directory running since 2022 with 2,500+ listings, organised by image, design, writing, video and business use cases.
• Indie Hackers — DR 81 — A community, news site and launch surface for profitable online businesses — mostly solo-founded and bootstrapped.
• HostAdvice — DR 80 — The largest hosting-specific directory in this catalog, combining editorial comparisons with user ratings and reviews.
• SaaSHub — DR 80 — A SaaS directory with genuine community features — discussions, upvotes, Q&A threads and a verified badge programme.
• AlternativeTo — DR 79 — One of the largest crowd-sourced "alternatives to" databases on the web, ranked by user votes.
• TechnologyAdvice — DR 79 — A major B2B software review platform with expert analysis across 163 categories and a 250K-reader daily newsletter — currently slow to process new listings.
• SoftwareSuggest — DR 78 — A ten-year-old business software directory with 1,500+ categories, 50k+ vendors, its own awards programme and paid promotion packages.
• Tracxn — DR 78 — A private-company data platform for investors and analysts, organising companies into sector lists and clusters.
• Peerlist — DR 77 — A professional network for tech people with a launchpad attached, designed to put new products in front of peers for feedback.
• There's an AI for That — DR 77 — The highest-traffic AI tool launch platform in this catalog, with daily launches, user voting and featured deals.
• BetaList — DR 76 — A pre-launch platform exclusively for products still in beta — launched products are not accepted.
• Alternative — DR 75 — A free, community-driven alternatives directory where users suggest and compare replacements for popular software.
• Crozdesk — DR 75 — An established business software directory with 300+ categories, nearly 50k vendors, user reviews and category awards.
• SaaSWorthy — DR 75 — A large SaaS directory with hundreds of categories, comparisons and awards — which, since March 2026, has stopped responding to vendors.
• SelectSoftware Reviews — DR 75 — A curated, US-focused editorial review publication covering 1,000+ HR and recruiting vendors across 100+ categories.
• Uneed — DR 75 — A mid-sized launch platform with a solid domain rating and the option to pay for a near-immediate launch slot.
• Software Finder — DR 74 — A growing business software directory with particular depth in medical, HR, legal and accounting software, positioning itself as a buyer decision partner.
• CyberDB — DR 73 — A manually curated cybersecurity and AI vendor directory founded by industry veterans and frequently cited in research reports and ecosystem maps.
• SoftwareReviews — DR 73 — Info-Tech Research Group's evaluation platform, using a proprietary Emotional Footprint methodology and 130+ data points per product.
• Web Hosting Top — DR 73 — A 20-year-old hosting directory with editorials and user reviews, positioning itself as the most reliable source of hosting customer reviews.
• Get Latka — DR 72 — A large SaaS database built around company revenue figures disclosed by founders or gathered through interviews.
• StartupBlink — DR 72 — An ecosystem mapping company that places startups and innovation hubs on a global map and publishes ecosystem rankings and research.
• Tekpon — DR 72 — A paid-only, deliberately selective software directory with detailed product profiles and public sentiment gathered from around the web.
• Top Business Software — DR 72 — Another SourceForge sister site whose listings are managed entirely from the SourceForge vendor profile.
• Aura++ — DR 72 — An AI-assisted launch and SEO platform offering one-click product launches and a curated backlink network.
• FoundrList — DR 72 — A founder-community launch platform with small traffic but decent engagement, positioning itself more as a community than a directory.
• Cyber Security Intelligence — DR 71 — A cybersecurity news site and newsletter with a directory of 8,000+ security suppliers aimed at corporate and institutional decision-makers.
• Hostings.Info — DR 71 — A hosting review portal with country-filtered rankings and unusually granular filters — VPS by country, payment method, green hosting.
• TechRaisal — DR 71 — A buyer-focused technology evaluation platform that publishes its evaluation criteria and labels sponsored placements explicitly.
• PeerPush — DR 70 — A new product discovery platform for indie makers and startups that exposes its data through an MCP server and API for AI-driven discovery.
• Tiny Startups — DR 70 — A micro-startup directory and marketplace with a weekly newsletter to 17,500+ founders, also brokering commission-free sales of micro-businesses.
• Future Tools — DR 69 — A curated AI tools directory of 700+ listings with a large newsletter audience behind it.
• GeniusFirms — DR 69 — A simple paid directory built around automated "top software" lists and lead-generation packages.
• PitchWall — DR 69 — A small launch platform for AI products, also selling guest posting and other paid placements.
• Serchen — DR 68 — A business software directory and blog with a wide category set, user reviews and its own Serchen index.
• Nick Launches — DR 68 — A weekly-cadence launch platform for builders and solo founders whose stated main value is a permanent backlink from a high-authority domain.
• SpotSaaS — DR 67 — A software recommendation platform built around reviews, comparisons and buyer guides across roughly 200 categories, with human review of every submission.
• Startup Nation Central Finder — DR 67 — The reference database of the Israeli tech ecosystem, tracking startups, R&D centres, investors and innovation programmes.
• HostSearch — DR 66 — One of the oldest dedicated hosting directories, running since 1997, built around user reviews and firsthand experience.
• Technology Evaluation Centers — DR 66 — An enterprise software analysis firm whose TEC Advisor decision engine covers 40+ categories of business software — with no public way to submit a product.
• Startupxplore — DR 65 — A European startup ecosystem database with roughly 40K members, connecting startups, investors and service providers, plus an equity crowdfunding syndicate platform.
• BlogWings — DR 64 — A WordPress themes and plugins marketplace with a bolted-on AI tools section that has little to do with the rest of the site.
• Startup Stash — DR 64 — A paid directory of tools and resources aimed at startup founders.
• LibHunt — DR 62 — An open-source discovery platform tracking 512K+ projects by language, surfacing trending repos from GitHub, Reddit and Hacker News.
• Dev Hunt — DR 62 — An open-source developer tools launchpad that takes submissions through GitHub pull requests and uses GitHub auth for voting, with weekly competitions and a newsletter.
• MicroLaunch — DR 61 — A Product Hunt-style launch platform for makers and startups, with community voting and daily leaderboards.
• SaaS Genius — DR 58 — A small business-software directory with roughly ten categories that sells paid editorial reviews and no longer accepts free listings.
• OpenAlternative — DR 57 — A community directory of open-source alternatives ranked by computed GitHub health rather than editorial opinion, with ~750 projects and a 12K-subscriber newsletter.
• AppCritica — DR 56 — A review platform founded by IT professionals that positions itself around transparent, data-driven assessments of AI tools and businesses.
• ManyTools — DR 53 — A list of software tools for digital professionals — developers, designers, SEOs, marketers, analysts and creators.
• Launching Next — DR 52 — A lightweight startup launch listing site — nominally free, but with a four-month queue unless you pay.
• VentureRadar — DR 51 — A company-tracking database aimed at investors, market analysts and occasionally corporate buyers, with listings that are not built for product comparison.
• AIAPPS — DR 48 — A curated AI tools directory started in January 2025 that reviews each submission before listing it.
• TechBaseDirectory — DR 46 — A pay-once, publish-immediately directory whose main proposition is a backlink rather than buyer discovery.
• OpenSourceAlternative.to — DR 42 — A hand-reviewed directory of 500+ open-source replacements for named proprietary products, with no vendor accounts and no reviews.
• CybersecTools — DR 25 — A cybersecurity tools directory launched in 2024 with ~9,000 listed products, an MCP server that lets AI assistants query its database directly.
• Open Source Alternatives — DR 23 — A directory of roughly 650 self-hosted tools that replace paid software, published with an llms.txt feed so AI assistants can cite it.
• SoftwareBunch — DR 18 — A young curated platform with expert reviews and "alternative to" comparisons across CRM, AI, marketing and project management.
• Dealify — A younger, smaller deals platform aimed at growth hackers and marketers — AppSumo shaped, at a fraction of the scale.
• Clutch — The dominant directory for service providers — agencies and consultancies, not software products.
• edshelf — A very small EdTech directory serving parents and educators, kept in this catalog only because dedicated EdTech directories are rare.
• PeerSpot — Formerly IT Central Station — an enterprise review platform with unusually deep, long-form peer reviews in security and infrastructure categories.
• StackShare — A developer-facing directory organised around the tech stacks companies actually run, where tools are discovered through the stacks that adopted them.
• SoftwareWorld — A general software directory built around "top 10" category lists and vendor badges.
• Slant — A crowdsourced comparison site where options are ranked by community-written pros and cons rather than by reviews or scores.
• Google Business Profile — The single most important local listing there is — it powers the map pack, the knowledge panel and Google Maps.
• Bing Places — Microsoft's local listing service, rebuilt in October 2025 and now living at bing.com/forbusiness — the Bing and Copilot equivalent of a Google Business Profile.
• Apple Business — Apple's business listing platform — formerly Business Connect, folded into "Apple Business" in April 2026 — controlling how you appear in Apple Maps, Siri and Spotlight.
• Yelp — The largest consumer review site for local businesses, and a heavily cited source in local search results and AI answers.
• Yellow Pages — The online descendant of the printed directory — still one of the higher-traffic general business listings in the US.
• Foursquare — A places database whose real reach is not its own site — Foursquare location data feeds a long tail of other apps and services.
• Better Business Bureau — A long-established US trust and complaint-resolution body whose business profiles rank strongly and whose accreditation is a paid annual programme.
• Manta — A US small-business directory organised by industry and location, of the classic citation-site type.
• Hotfrog — A free international business listing site of the general citation type, operating across many countries.
• Brownbook — A free global business directory that markets itself explicitly on SEO value rather than on an audience.
• Cylex — A local business listing network with country-specific sites, of which the US edition is very small.
• Thumbtack — A services marketplace where customers describe a job and matched professionals pay to respond — a lead channel, not a citation.
• Angi — The home services marketplace formerly known as Angie's List, matching homeowners with contractors and trades on a paid-lead model.
• Google Merchant Center — The account and product feed that puts your catalog on the free Google Shopping tab and, on top of it, into paid Shopping ads.
• Meta Commerce Manager — The account and product catalog behind a shop on Facebook and Instagram, from a browsable shop tab up to native in-app checkout where available.
• TikTok Shop — In-app shopping built into TikTok — product tags on videos and LIVE streams that check out without leaving the app.
• Pinterest Shopping — Product Pins and the Verified Merchant Program turn a product catalog into shoppable Pins with pricing, availability and a checkmark badge.
• Etsy — The largest marketplace for handmade, vintage and craft-supply products, with a shopper base that specifically wants those over mass-market retail.
• Amazon Seller Central — The largest general ecommerce marketplace, where the platform itself supplies most of the shopper traffic rather than you bringing your own.
• Walmart Marketplace — Amazon's biggest general-marketplace competitor, with application-reviewed onboarding rather than instant self-serve signup.
• eBay — The original general marketplace — still large (an estimated ~223M monthly visits, SimilarWeb, 2026-08-31), with both auction and fixed-price ("Buy It Now") listings.
• Faire — A wholesale marketplace connecting independent product brands to independent retail stores, not to end consumers directly.
• ThomasNet — A sourcing directory of 500,000+ vetted industrial and manufacturing suppliers, used by professional buyers rather than consumers.
• Houzz — A home-renovation and design platform combining a professional directory (contractors, designers) with a shoppable marketplace for home-goods brands.
• Nextdoor Business — The neighborhood social network's business layer — a free page that is often auto-created from neighbor mentions before you ever claim it, plus paid local ads on top.
• Microsoft Merchant Center — Bing's equivalent of Google Merchant Center — a product feed that powers free listings on Bing Shopping plus paid Microsoft Shopping campaigns.
• Poshmark — A social-shopping marketplace for new and secondhand fashion, built around "Posh Parties" and a following/sharing mechanic rather than search alone.
• Feedspot — An RSS reader and "Top N Blogs/Podcasts/Newsletters in [topic]" ranked-list publisher, where inclusion is editorially curated rather than automatic.
• Substack Recommendations — A peer-to-peer discovery network where existing Substack publishers recommend other Substack publications to their own subscribers — not a directory you submit to.
• Podcast Index — An open, independent podcast index (not owned by Apple, Spotify or Google) built to feed alternative podcast apps and, increasingly, AI/LLM podcast search.
• Apple Podcasts Connect — The portal for getting a show's RSS feed into Apple Podcasts — still one of the largest podcast listening apps and the default many other podcast apps crawl from.
• Spotify for Podcasters — Spotify's own creator portal for getting an RSS-fed podcast onto Spotify, plus analytics and monetisation tools once it is live.
• Podchaser — A podcast database built largely by aggregating public RSS/podcast-app data, with a free claim flow for creators to take ownership of the resulting listing.
• Muck Rack — A media database and PR tool used by communications teams to find and pitch journalists — not a directory a publication or outlet submits itself to.
• PRWeb — A Cision-owned, paid press-release distribution service — a per-release wire blast, not a lasting directory listing.
• NewsNow — A long-running UK news aggregator that has closed direct publisher applications — sources are now added by NewsNow's own team, not through open submission.
• Listen Notes — A podcast search engine, positioned as an independent alternative to platform-owned podcast directories, with an open RSS-feed submission form.