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AITrendyTools: requirements, how to submit, and what you actually get
A 30,000-tool AI directory whose free lane is advertised in its own statistics and cannot be found anywhere on the page.
aitrendytools.com
Eligibility
Who AITrendyTools accepts
You need
A Google account, which is the only sign-in offered
A tool with an AI angle, since every category is an AI bucket
A logo, a category and a pricing model, which their own instructions list
You'll be rejected if
Anything with no AI story, in a directory organised entirely as AI categories
AI toolsDeveloper toolsMarketing tools
What you actually get
A card in a large AI directory that claims 20,000 monthly visitors and a million impressions. The link is the thing to be careful about: the followed backlink is a paid feature, so a free listing is worth the traffic rather than the link.
How to submit to AITrendyTools
1
Sign in with Google
The only route in. It creates the account on the spot and drops you back on the submit page with a dashboard behind the avatar.
2
Read the pricing before you look for the form
Four cards, $29 to $149. The $29 card lists "Includes lifetime SEO backlink" with a red cross against it and the $39 card with a tick, which is where the followed link actually starts.
3
Look for the free lane
Their own statistics panel advertises an average review time of 2-3 days for free submissions against Immediate for paid, so a free lane exists. Every button on the page is a paid tier.
4
Check the dashboard for what landed
The avatar menu carries Dashboard, Submitted Tools and Billing. Submitted Tools shows a Total Tools count, which is the only honest way to tell whether anything arrived.
AITrendyTools requirements
A Google account
Tool name
Website URL
A short description
A logo
A category
A pricing model
Gotchas
The followed backlink is a paid feature and the pricing table says so in the plainest way available: the $29 card carries a red cross against "Includes lifetime SEO backlink" and the $39 card carries a tick. The hero paragraph advertising a lifetime do-follow backlink is describing the paid plans.
The free lane is advertised and not offered. Their statistics panel quotes a 2-3 day review time for free submissions, and there is no free button anywhere on the submit page, signed in or out.
Launch Now on the paid cards did nothing at all when pressed while signed in: no dialog, no navigation, no checkout. Budget for the submission not working rather than for it being quick.
Let your agent submit to AITrendyTools
Connect SubmitMap to your AI over MCP and this page stops being something you read and copy. Your agent asks for the AITrendyTools 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 4 AITrendyTools rules above, so you find out you would be rejected before you open a tab.
Hands your agent all 7 fields this form asks for, none of them optional, already filled from your pack.
Tells you what paying buys here, so you pick it on purpose: four one-time plans, all shown as struck-through-free of subscriptions: $29 Quick Launch with no backlink, $39 Quick Launch with the backlink and a newsletter mention, $99 for a guest post, $149 for a sponsored newsletter feature. A free lane is implied by their own review-time statistic and has no button anywhere on the page.
Types it into AITrendyTools 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 AITrendyTools?".
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AITrendyTools FAQ
How long does AITrendyTools approval take?
AITrendyTools's typical time from submission to going live is 1-2 days.
How much does it cost to submit to AITrendyTools?
AITrendyTools has a free submission option plus paid placement (Four one-time plans, all shown as struck-through-free of subscriptions: $29 Quick Launch with no backlink, $39 Quick Launch with the backlink and a newsletter mention, $99 for a guest post, $149 for a sponsored newsletter feature. A free lane is implied by their own review-time statistic and has no button anywhere on the page.).
Does AITrendyTools give a dofollow backlink?
No, links from AITrendyTools are nofollow. The site has a domain rating of 65.
Does AITrendyTools require a backlink to your site?
No, AITrendyTools does not require a link back from your site.
What gets you rejected from AITrendyTools?
Anything with no AI story, in a directory organised entirely as AI categories.