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Submit Your Design Tool
Designers judge a design tool by its own website before they ever open it. A cluttered page or a blurry screenshot loses them in seconds, and fairly.
Your listing needs to show the work. We build the gallery from your screenshots, so send the ones that make a designer want to try it.
Design Tools on Tool Index Right Now
Live from the catalog, so you know what yours sits next to.
How They Price
Share of listed design tools by pricing model, among those that state one.
Recently Listed Design Tools
Real listings, newest first. Open one to see what a finished listing looks like.
What We Check Before a Listing Goes Live
Every submission is reviewed before it goes live. For design tools, these are the things that decide it.
- 1 The tool runs, whether in the browser, as a desktop app or as a plugin, and there's a way to try it.
- 2 Screenshots show the real interface, not a mockup of what it might become.
- 3 File formats and integrations are listed. Figma, Adobe, SVG, export sizes, whatever applies.
- 4 Licensing for anything the tool generates or ships, such as fonts, icons or images, is clear.
Write a Listing People Act On
We write the listing from your site, so these land best when your site says them too.
- Lead with what a designer makes faster or better, in their words.
- Name the tools it works with or replaces. Most design searches start from Figma or Adobe.
- Show the result in high resolution. Designers zoom in.
- If it is a plugin, say which host app and version it needs.
What It Costs
Free Listing
$0
Goes live in 7 to 14 days. Needs a small nofollow link back to Tool Index on your site, which we check before publishing.
Instant Submission
$29.99
Reviewed within 24 hours and featured for 7 days. No link back needed.
Launch Bundle
$39.99
The instant listing plus a 2,000+ word editorial review with screenshots. Featured for 7 days.
Premium Submission
$149.99
Featured for 30 days with a homepage spotlight and social promotion.
Payment buys speed and placement. It never buys a better review or a higher score.
Where Else to Launch
No single directory makes a launch. These are the places makers of design tools get real users from.
- Figma Community
- If you ship a Figma plugin or file, this is where designers find it.
- Product Hunt
- Design tools with a strong visual tend to do well there.
- Dribbble and Behance
- Show work made with your tool, and credit the tool in the description.
- Designer newsletters
- A short, honest pitch to the curators of design newsletters often beats a big launch.
Common Questions
- Do you list design plugins?
- Yes. Figma, Adobe and browser plugins are listed like any other design tool, with the host app named.
- Is a design tool listing free?
- Yes. A free listing needs a small nofollow link back to Tool Index on your site and goes live in 7 to 14 days.
- Can I add more screenshots later?
- Yes. Once you have claimed the listing, through the emailed link or from the listing page, you can update the gallery whenever your product changes.
- What about AI image generators?
- Those have their own category under AI tools, and the AI tool guide covers what we look for there.
Ready to List Your Design Tool?
It takes a few minutes. Paste your URL, say what it does, and pick free or fast.
Submit your design tool