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We Like Tools: requirements, how to submit, and what you actually get
Three steps, and the middle one is a badge: nothing about your product is asked for until their crawler has found their link on your site.
weliketools.com
Eligibility
Who We Like Tools accepts
You need
An account, by Google
Their badge on your homepage or footer, linking to your reserved listing URL with a followed link
An icon and a screenshot
A summary of 150 characters or fewer and an overview of up to 1,500
You'll be rejected if
A site that cannot carry their badge with a followed link, because the listing form never opens without it
Anything outside recommended productivity, marketing, design and developer software, which is how they describe the directory
AI toolsSaaS productsDeveloper toolsProductivity appsBrowser extensionsDirectories
What you actually get
A page at /tool/<slug> in a general software directory of about fifty categories, with your icon, a screenshot, a 150-character summary and a 1,500-character overview. The listing URL is reserved and shown to you at the badge step, before the listing exists, because the badge has to point at it.
How to submit to We Like Tools
1
Sign in
/submit is a sign-in card. Log in with Google is the only visible provider; the account is created by that click.
2
Give the homepage
Step 1 takes one URL and warns that it must be the product homepage, because that is where their crawler will look.
3
Take the badge
Step 2 reserves your listing URL and prints light and dark snippets that must link to it with a followed link. Copy buttons for each.
4
Verify
Paste the page carrying the badge into Website URL to Check and press Verify Badge. Their words: verify it to unlock the submit form.
5
Write the listing
Step 3 opens only after that: tool name capped at 40 characters, a 150-character summary, a 1,500-character overview, an icon, a screenshot, one pricing radio and a long list of category checkboxes.
We Like Tools requirements
An account
Product homepage URL
Their badge, live and followed, pointing at the reserved listing URL
Tool name, 40 characters
Short description, 150 characters
About the tool, 1,500 characters
An icon file and a screenshot file
A pricing model and at least one category
Gotchas
The listing form is locked until the badge passes verification, so the entire product side of the submission is unreachable on a first visit. Deploy the badge before you sit down to do this.
The badge has to link to your own reserved listing URL, not to their homepage, and that URL is only revealed at step 2. You cannot prepare it in advance.
The name field stops at 40 characters and the summary at 150, both without a counter.
Let your agent submit to We Like Tools
Connect SubmitMap to your AI over MCP and this page stops being something you read and copy. Your agent asks for the We Like Tools 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 6 We Like Tools rules above, so you find out you would be rejected before you open a tab.
Hands your agent all 8 fields this form asks for, none of them optional, already filled from your pack.
Warns you that We Like Tools looks for its badge on your site, so it has to be live before you submit rather than after.
Types it into We Like Tools 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 We Like Tools?".
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We Like Tools FAQ
How long does We Like Tools approval take?
We Like Tools's typical time from submission to going live is up to 2 weeks.
How much does it cost to submit to We Like Tools?
Submitting to We Like Tools is free.
Does We Like Tools give a dofollow backlink?
Yes, a listing on We Like Tools carries a dofollow link. The site has a domain rating of 50.
Does We Like Tools require a backlink to your site?
Yes, We Like Tools expects a link back from your site as part of listing.
What gets you rejected from We Like Tools?
A site that cannot carry their badge with a followed link, because the listing form never opens without it; Anything outside recommended productivity, marketing, design and developer software, which is how they describe the directory.