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The AI tools directory that deletes the dead wrappers

Every AI tool here is verified live — ranked by people who use them, not by who paid for placement.

Personalized to what you're building — no account needed.

1000s

of abandoned AI wrappers still listed elsewhere

auto-hidden

what happens to dead listings here

real votes

what ranks tools — not ad spend

The short answer

OnlyFoundrs is an AI tools directory with a difference competitors can't copy: every listing is verified live, so the dead ChatGPT wrappers that flood other directories get hidden automatically. AI apps rank by community upvotes and real engagement, and semantic search matches you to tools by what you're trying to do — not which keyword the founder SEO'd.

AI directories are drowning in dead wrappers

The 2023–2025 AI gold rush produced tens of thousands of wrapper apps — and most died with their founders' API bills. The big AI directories list them all anyway: page after page of tools that 404, demand logins to dead services, or wrap last year's model badly. Finding a working AI tool in that noise is its own job.

Liveness-verified, community-ranked AI discovery

OnlyFoundrs liveness-checks every listing — dead tools disappear automatically. What's left ranks by upvotes and engagement from people actually using the tools. And instead of browsing an alphabetical wall, you describe what you want the AI to do — semantic matching finds the tools that do it.

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Every tool verified live

Automated checks plus one-click dead reports — the wrapper graveyard gets filtered before you see it.

02

Describe the job, get the tool

Semantic search understands 'edit my podcast audio automatically' — not just 'audio tool'.

03

Ranked by users, not wallets

Upvotes and clicks decide placement — a $0 indie tool outranks funded ads when it's better.

04

New AI apps daily

Founders launch here first — you see tools months before they hit the big recycled directories.

Live distribution

IGViewer matched to Web App

Agent Ridge shared to AI Tools members

New listing — Agent Ridge

Agent Ridge pushed to AI Tools feed

Stop browsing fifty tabs.

Open the marketplace and it learns what you're looking for from your first click — every visit gets sharper.

FAQ

What is the best AI tools directory?

Depends what you're optimizing for — if it's finding tools that still work, one that verifies liveness matters more than raw listing count. OnlyFoundrs auto-hides dead tools; most directories never remove anything.

How do I submit my AI tool to this directory?

Paste your URL on the submit page — it takes about a minute, goes live instantly, and includes a free dofollow link. No review queue.

Are the AI tools here actually working?

Every listing passes automated liveness checks, and the community reports dead links — three reports hides a listing automatically. It's the anti-graveyard directory.

How is this different from There's An AI For That or Futurepedia?

Scale vs. signal — those directories list everything (including thousands of dead tools) and rank heavily on paid placement. This one is smaller on purpose: verified live, community-ranked, semantically matched.

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