MegaLaunch vs Toolify: where to list an AI tool

MegaLaunch vs Toolify at a glance

The rows put the same question to both sides. Toolify’s cells quote its submit page and a live listing, MegaLaunch’s come from its code, and every number leads to the page the value was read on, with the day of the check.

Prices in US dollars, as displayed on each site on the day of the check. MegaLaunch values are read from its code when the page is built.

What each site is for

Toolify is a catalogue of AI products, organised so that a visitor can narrow a search down to a precise job. Its size on the day of the check: 31,183 AIs in 459 categories, per its homepage⁴. Its submit page also draws a clear line on what gets in: AI tools and GPTs; a tool that does not use AI is not approved². A product whose AI is a small feature inside something larger may not pass that filter, and Toolify says so plainly.

MegaLaunch is a launch platform. Its format, from the pricing page: A permanent listing, with a daily, weekly and monthly leaderboard¹. AI products launch there next to SaaS, apps and developer tools, and the launch itself is a public event: people vote, comment and come back to the leaderboard. A listing on Toolify is built to be found months later by someone with a task; a launch on MegaLaunch is built to be seen this week by people who like trying new things.

Toolify publishes its own audience figures: 5.1M+ monthly visits and 700K+ subscribers, as claimed on its submit page². MegaLaunch has not measured them, no licensed traffic source was used here, and neither side gets a traffic row. The visits your own listing receives are the only number that should decide whether you renew a budget line or not.

Pricing: one Toolify fee, two MegaLaunch options

Toolify keeps its offer simple. The only listing product is Submit AI, $99 one-time². Is there a free route? None shown on its submit page². The fee is paid once and the listing stays², so it is closer to buying a permanent shelf space than to running an ad.

MegaLaunch has two doors. The free one costs no money: the listing goes live 48 hours after submission, with a link back to MegaLaunch on your site¹. The paid one is Premium, $4.99 one-time (excl. VAT): live once payment is confirmed¹. It adds launch day visibility (a highlighted homepage card, the weekly newsletter, a post on X) without touching the vote count, because the ranking rule is fixed: One vote per person; paid options never change votes or rankings⁵. The details of both plans are on the pricing page.

The cheapest paid listing costs less on MegaLaunch ($4.99 excl. VAT) than on Toolify², and the free MegaLaunch listing costs a link back rather than money. A fair reading has to add what the Toolify fee includes that MegaLaunch does not sell at all, starting with translated listing text, covered below.

A simple way to judge any one-time listing fee: divide it by what one paying customer is worth to you over their lifetime. If one customer covers it, a listing that brings a single sale has paid for itself; if you need dozens, measure the first one before buying more of the same kind.

Review and time to go live

Toolify reads every tool before publishing it², and states this timing: Listed within 48 hours of payment, no queue². Its FAQ names the usual reasons for a refusal: a tool that does not use AI, or explicit adult content².

The two sites both use a 48-hour figure, but it does not mean the same thing. On Toolify the clock starts once you have paid. On MegaLaunch it applies to the free plan and starts at submission, with no payment: Free: 48 hours after submission. Premium: live as soon as payment is confirmed¹. Free listings on MegaLaunch are still moderated, Matt can decline or postpone one that breaks the moderation rules, and paying never skips that review.

Use the waiting time well on either site. Check your tagline and description with the headline and tagline analyzer before you submit, because a listing is easier to get right the first time than to correct after it has been indexed.

Links: what “at least 6 dofollow links” means

Toolify writes a link promise into its offer: At least 6 dofollow links to your site, as stated². On the listing checked for this page, the visit buttons matched it: Followed: the links to the tool carry rel="dofollow", no nofollow³. The submit page does not say where all six links sit, and links written inside the description of that listing carried nofollow, so count on the visit buttons rather than on every URL in your text.

A note on the word itself: "dofollow" is not an attribute search engines define. A link is followed when it carries none of the qualifiers that ask search engines to discount it (nofollow, sponsored or ugc), so a rel value of "dofollow" behaves like a plain followed link. That is the reading applied to both sides of the table.

MegaLaunch states one followed link per listing: Free listing: a followed link to your site (no nofollow or sponsored attribute)¹. The free plan asks for a link back to MegaLaunch on your site in return, and Premium does not¹. Toolify asks for nothing on your site: Not required; a Toolify certification embed is offered².

Domain Rating is not compared, because it could not be read on Ahrefs for both sites on the same day. Whatever the rating, a directory link is a modest signal; Do directory submissions help SEO? explains why, and the referral traffic worksheet shows how to judge a listing on the visits and signups it sends.

Listings in more than one language

This is the clearest difference in what the fees buy. Toolify offers this with every listing: Listing text translated into other languages by Toolify AI². You choose between letting Toolify write the text or writing the English version yourself and letting it translate.

Its site menu offered ten languages on the day of the check², among them Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Spanish, Portuguese, German and French. MegaLaunch pages are published in English only. If a meaningful share of your buyers search in one of those languages, a translated listing gives you pages that an English-only launch cannot. If your product itself is English-only, the translated pages may bring visitors who leave at your homepage, so check where your signups come from before treating translations as a deciding factor.

Refunds

Toolify’s promise covers the case that matters most: Full, automatic refund if the tool is not published². Its FAQ is equally clear that it cannot guarantee sales or traffic once the tool is listed².

MegaLaunch’s refund policy works on the same principle: a paid service that has not started can be cancelled and refunded in full, and a product rejected by moderation before the paid service is delivered is refunded. A delivered listing is not refunded because it brought fewer visits, votes or sales than expected, on either site.

What Toolify does better

• Translated listings: the text is written or translated into other languages by Toolify², which MegaLaunch does not offer.
• A link promise in writing: at least six dofollow links, as stated on its submit page², and the listing checked matched it on its visit buttons.
• A catalogue cut into fine categories (459 on the day of the check⁴), which suits buyers who search for a precise job.
• Nothing to add to your site: no badge or link back is required², where a free MegaLaunch listing needs a link back.

What MegaLaunch does better

• A free listing with no payment at all, live 48 hours after submission once the link back is checked; Toolify shows no free route on its submit page.
• A lower price for the paid option: $4.99 one-time (excl. VAT) for Premium.
• Any product can launch, so a product whose AI is one feature among others is not turned away for that reason.
• A public launch day with votes and comments, ranked by a rule anyone can check: one vote per person, and paid options never change votes or rankings.

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