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Future Tools

Launched tools only, no GPTs

Matt Wolfe's curated AI tools directory with a newsletter. Rejects waitlist-only products, custom GPTs, newsletters, aggregators and chat bots on Discord or Telegram; tool descriptions are written by AI from your home page.

Future Tools is an AI directory at futuretools.io. It lists AI products, with a rule: launched tools only, no GPTs. Listing is free, with paid spots on offer. The link you get is nofollow: The Visit link on a live tool page goes through a /go/ redirect that robots.txt blocks, so it passes no link value (checked on the ClariLayer page). Review: reviewed by hand by Matt Wolfe's team; no reply either way, and over 75% are not approved. If not listed within a week, you may resubmit once. Terms read on futuretools.io on 2 October 2026.

Rate card

Price: Free submission; featured listings (two a week), site banners and newsletter sponsorships, priced on request by email
Link you get: The Visit link on a live tool page goes through a /go/ redirect that robots.txt blocks, so it passes no link value (checked on the ClariLayer page)
Review: Reviewed by hand by Matt Wolfe's team; no reply either way, and over 75% are not approved. If not listed within a week, you may resubmit once
Run by: Matt Wolfe
Their rule: Launched tools only, no GPTs
Lists: Every kind of AI product
Where they say so: futuretools.io/faq ↗
Reach: MediumMedium reach: #188,273 by traffic in the Tranco top million; #443,716 of about 120 million domains by links in Common Crawl's web graph.
Checked: 2 October 2026, on its own pages

Quick answers

Does Future Tools accept AI tools?: Only some. It lists AI products, with a rule: launched tools only, no GPTs.
How much does a listing on Future Tools cost?: Listing is free, with paid spots on offer.
What link does Future Tools give?: The link you get is nofollow: The Visit link on a live tool page goes through a /go/ redirect that robots.txt blocks, so it passes no link value (checked on the ClariLayer page).

Who is listed on Future Tools

Our nightly read of futuretools.io found 650 apps we recognise from other places, among them design.com, google.dev, studio.design, favicon.im, favicon.io, favicon.love, research.google, chatgpt.site. As of 8 Oct 2026. Your tracker checks whether yours is there.

How to submit to Future Tools

1. Prepare the kit. A one-line pitch, a description, a square logo and screenshots, and check that your product fits their rule: launched tools only, no gpts. The listing guide lists what forms ask for; the tracker builds the kit from your website.
2. Open the form. Their submit page opens from the button above once you are signed in; signing in costs nothing.
3. Wait for the review. Reviewed by hand by Matt Wolfe's team; no reply either way, and over 75% are not approved. If not listed within a week, you may resubmit once. Pay only for a spot you asked for; the listing itself is what the price above says. Log the submission in your tracker; it marks the listing when it appears.

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Add your app once; we read futuretools.io every week and mark the listing when it appears, every night on Pro. Last read 8 Oct 2026.

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Run Future Tools? A badge for your site

Tells founders you take AI tools before they read your rules, and links to your terms here. Paste it in your site's footer, so it is on your home page, where our nightly check looks:

<a href="https://listaify.com/places/future-tools"><img src="https://listaify.com/badge/future-tools.png" alt="Launched tools only, no GPTs, verified on Listaify" width="250" height="56"></a>

With the badge in your footer, this page becomes a Partner page: your logo, screenshots and an offer for founders, plus your numbers and the apps your peers list and you do not. Manage this page.

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