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TOOOLS.design
toools.design ↗Curated directory of 2,200+ design resources with an AI tools section; it says it has about 40k unique visitors a month. Only design-related tools that are genuinely useful are considered.
TOOOLS.design is a software directory and review site at toools.design. It lists AI products, with a rule: design tools only. Listing is free; a paid spot starts at $100. The link you get is dofollow: tool cards on a live category page link straight to the product (with ?via=toools) and carry no rel attribute. Review: curated by hand; a suggestion that is a match can take from a few days to several weeks to be published. Terms read on toools.design on 2 October 2026.
Rate card
- Price
- Free suggestion; newsletter spotlight $100 (2 weeks $175, 4 weeks $325), homepage feature $200 for 4 weeks, category spots on request
- Link you get
- Dofollow: tool cards on a live category page link straight to the product (with ?via=toools) and carry no rel attribute
- Review
- Curated by hand; a suggestion that is a match can take from a few days to several weeks to be published
- Their rule
- Design tools only
- Lists
- AI design tools only
- Where they say so
- toools.design/suggest-a-tool ↗
- Reach
- SmallSmall reach: outside the Tranco top million by traffic; #2,049,587 of about 120 million domains by links in Common Crawl's web graph.
- Checked
- , on its own pages
Quick answers
- Does TOOOLS.design list AI products?
- Only some. It lists AI products, with a rule: design tools only.
- How much does a listing on TOOOLS.design cost?
- Listing is free; a paid spot starts at $100.
- What link does TOOOLS.design give?
- The link you get is dofollow: tool cards on a live category page link straight to the product (with ?via=toools) and carry no rel attribute.
Who is listed on TOOOLS.design
Our nightly read of toools.design found 341 apps we recognise from other places, among them design.com, studio.design, claude.com, gemini.google, opensource.builders, opensource.org, nocode.cn, motion.dev. As of 8 Oct 2026. Your tracker checks whether yours is there.
How to submit to TOOOLS.design
- 1. Prepare the kit. A one-line pitch, a description, a square logo and screenshots, and check that your product fits their rule: design tools only. 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. Curated by hand; a suggestion that is a match can take from a few days to several weeks to be published. 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.
Listing tracker
Know when TOOOLS.design lists you.
Add your app once; we read toools.design every week and mark the listing when it appears, every night on Pro. Last read 8 Oct 2026.
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