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AINavTool: requirements, how to submit, and what you actually get

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ainavtool.com
AINavTool homepage
Eligibility

Who AINavTool accepts

You need
A live public URL
An account on the site
You'll be rejected if
Nothing published about who is refused.
AI toolsSaaS productsDeveloper tools
What you actually get
A place in a large, actively curated Chinese AI navigation site whose sidebar runs to forty-odd categories, from agent ecosystems and MCP-adjacent listings to AI going overseas and Chrome extensions. Outbound links are dofollow across the board: none of the several hundred product links on the front page carries a nofollow. The submission page is titled friendly-link application, so treat a reciprocal link as a live possibility rather than a settled question.

How to submit to AINavTool

  1. Open /contribute
    The page renders its notes and its comment section but the submission area is replaced by a line saying login is required.
  2. Register or sign in
    Username, phone or email plus a password, with a distorted-text image captcha on the same card.
  3. Or use a social account
    GitHub, QQ, WeChat, Weibo and Baidu are offered. There is no Google option.
  4. Fill the submission form
    Only visible once signed in, so its fields cannot be documented from outside.

AINavTool requirements

A live public URL
An account on the site
A GitHub, QQ, WeChat, Weibo or Baidu account, or an email and password

Gotchas

Nothing about the submission can be seen without an account. The page loads, shows its guidance and its comments, and puts a login-required notice where the form should be.
Registration is gated by a distorted-text image captcha, so the account cannot be created by anything but a person sitting at the keyboard.
The five social sign-ins are GitHub, QQ, WeChat, Weibo and Baidu, four of which assume a Chinese platform account. There is no Google option.
The page is titled friendly-link application rather than tool submission, which in this corner of the web usually means a reciprocal link is expected.

Let your agent submit to AINavTool

Connect SubmitMap to your AI over MCP and this page stops being something you read and copy. Your agent asks for the AINavTool playbook and gets the brief for this exact form, with the values already taken from your submission pack instead of placeholders you fill in by hand.

What it does for this platform
Checks your product against the 3 AINavTool rules above, so you find out you would be rejected before you open a tab.
Hands your agent all 3 fields this form asks for, none of them optional, already filled from your pack.
Types it into AINavTool in your own browser, and stops for you when the form wants a sign-in.
Records what it sent, so the dashboard can answer "did I ever submit to AINavTool?".
Connect your agentHow this worksTools and endpointsWorks with Claude Code, Claude, Codex, Cursor, VS Code and Hermes.

AINavTool FAQ

How long does AINavTool approval take?
AINavTool does not publish how long approval takes.
How much does it cost to submit to AINavTool?
Submitting to AINavTool is free.
Does AINavTool give a dofollow backlink?
Yes, a listing on AINavTool carries a dofollow link. The site has a domain rating of 25.
Does AINavTool require a backlink to your site?
No, AINavTool does not require a link back from your site.
What gets you rejected from AINavTool?
Nothing published about who is refused.