How a tool gets in the catalogue, and what orders it
A directory is only worth reading if you know where its claims came from. This is the whole rule set: how a tool gets catalogued, what determines the order it appears in, what money can buy, and what gets a listing flagged or pulled.
A directory lists it
Every tool here was already published by at least one of five public directories. We do not accept a listing straight from a form into the catalogue — a submission goes into the review queue, not onto the page.
The records are merged
The same tool appears in up to four of the five, each with its own description and category. Records are keyed on the tool's own domain and merged, so one product is one page and every directory that carried it is named on it.
The claims stay attributed
Descriptions, feature lists and prices are reproduced as the source published them. A field none of them carried stays empty and the page says so, rather than being filled in with a guess.
The site is probed
We fetch each tool's own address and record what answered. A site that refuses automated traffic is marked as such, not as dead — the difference matters and the page shows which it was.
It is re-checked
Liveness is re-probed on a schedule. A tool whose site has not answered for weeks is flagged on its card before anything is removed, so a delisting is never silent.
Corroboration, by default
How many of the five directories independently listed a tool. It is the only ordering signal the sources actually contain, it is shown on every card as “3× listed”, and it is not a score — a tool in one directory is not worse than a tool in four, it is less corroborated.
A–Z, and Z–A
Alphabetical, both directions. Neither consults anything else, which is the point of offering them.
There is no rating
None of the sources publish one, and we have not tested these tools ourselves. Inventing a five-point scale would be the single most misleading thing this site could do, so there is not one anywhere in the catalogue.
There is no voting
There was a plan for a weekly race decided by traders. It is not built, and until it is there is nothing on this site claiming to be a vote. Two of the directories we merge already run upvotes if you want that signal.
A rank
A boosted listing is labelled wherever it appears and is excluded from any ordering the catalogue applies. Placement buys attention, never position.
A better description
What a listing says is what its sources published, corrected against the product's own site. Paying does not buy a longer write-up or a friendlier one.
The Verified mark
That comes from a person opening the tool and checking it works. It is not on the price list.
A rival's place
Nobody can pay to have another listing demoted, buried or removed.
A liveness check
Whether your site answered when we last probed it is a fact about your site. Paying does not change what the check found.
Silence about it
Every paid placement carries a label wherever it appears. If you would rather it were not obvious, this is not the right board.
A dead link, an expired deal code, a tool that has started asking for keys, or a listing that misdescribes what it does — all of it is worth telling us about. Reports are read by a person, and a custody report jumps the queue.
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