ufind.best ufind.best

Searching our database...

Navigate Select
Search by name or category
Explore Free Tools SEO for your tool Domain Rating Voting streaks
Log in Register
Theme
Building in public

Changelog

The meaningful changes to discovery, weekly voting, and the maker experience, with the newest update first.

See current launches
Competition

Every place in the week is worth points now

Only the first six places scored, so in a week of twenty launches fourteen tools finished on a single point — their own owner point. The board read as if two thirds of the week had not been judged at all.

  • A placing is now worth the number of launches below it: in a week of twenty the first takes 20 and the last still takes 1.
  • First, second and third add 5, 3 and 1 on top, so the week is still taken at the top rather than accumulated in the middle.
  • Member votes are unchanged at 1, 2 or 3 points, and the owner point stays 1. A single place is worth one point, so a vote still decides between neighbours and not the podium.
  • The running week is recalculated on the new ladder. Nobody moves: the order was already decided by the same placings, only the numbers beside them change. Closed weeks keep the points they were awarded.
Fairness

The badge is checked once more before a week closes

A free launch keeps its place by keeping the badge on its site. The nightly check warns first and only removes a listing after a week, which is fair for a directory listing but too slow for a competition that closes on Sunday.

  • Every free launch in the running week is checked again on Sunday evening, before the specialists rank the week and before the Top 3 is picked.
  • A launch whose badge is already confirmed missing leaves that week. A single failed check still decides nothing, exactly as on any other day.
  • A site that has not answered at all for a week is treated as a missing badge. Until now an unreachable site kept its verified badge indefinitely, so a tool whose domain had stopped working could still be listed and judged.
Fairness

Your specialist score is emailed when the week closes

The score email used to go out the moment a review was first stored. A launch week can still be re-judged before it closes, so a score in your inbox could differ from the one on your listing.

  • The email now goes out when voting closes and the week's scores are final, alongside the Top 3 results.
  • Your listing still shows the specialist review as soon as it exists.
  • This week's launches were re-judged after our search provider stopped responding partway through, which left some launches without market research. Everyone was judged again with the same evidence, and owners who had already been emailed get one note with their updated score.
Profiles

Your demo video finally plays on your listing

The submission form has asked for a video URL since the beginning and no page ever showed it. Nineteen owners filled that field in and got nothing for it.

  • A YouTube or Vimeo demo now appears on the tool page, under the screenshots.
  • Nothing is loaded from YouTube or Vimeo until a visitor presses play, so the page stays fast and nobody is reported to a video host for reading a listing.
  • Share links, watch links, shorts and embed links all work. A channel link is not a demo and is left alone.
Premium

A paid link stays a paid link

Premium is sold as a dofollow link with no badge required. Three places in the code worked the link out from the badge rules alone and left the paid case out.

  • A paid listing keeps its dofollow through an admin badge override, and through losing a Top 3 place it never needed.
  • Where the Jury cites a tool's own page as evidence, that citation now points the same way as the main link, instead of contradicting it on the same page.
  • No live listing was affected: all 68 paid listings were checked and every one is dofollow.
Fairness

The Jury now sees the whole page, and the tool behind it

Specialists were shown the first screen of a landing page and asked whether the product runs. For a tool whose landing page is a menu, that question cannot be answered from the picture.

  • Captures are the full page rather than the first screen, capped at a height where the controls can still be read.
  • Where a landing page's own main link opens the tool elsewhere on the same site, that page is captured too and shown alongside.
  • The link is followed by reading it, never by clicking. Clicking a stranger's page could submit a form or start a trial, and a crawler should only ever visit.
  • A product with the tool on its landing page has no second picture, which is an answer rather than a gap.
Fairness

The Execution specialist stopped asking for the wrong receipts

It wanted commits, a changelog and public recordings as proof a product works. A closed commercial product has none of those and never will, so the check was measuring whether a tool was open source rather than whether it runs.

  • Execution now asks for the proof a product of that kind can actually produce, and says outright that a missing repository is not a fault while a page showing nothing running is.
  • What the rendered page visibly does — a working control, a filled result, a live counter — now counts as confirmation that the product runs, ahead of paperwork the specialist could not find.
  • A tool launching this week has almost no history and is no longer marked down for it. An abandoned one still is.
  • This cost a paid tool four places last week while its own screenshot showed the working generator.
Fairness

The Jury now places the week in order instead of scoring it

Asked to score a product out of 100, a specialist settles into a comfortable band and stops telling launches apart. Six rewrites chased that with better wording. The question was the problem, not the words.

  • Each of the six specialists now sees every launch of the week at once and puts them in order on its own dimension, naming what places each product above the one below it.
  • A ranking has one product per place, so a specialist can no longer give half a cohort the same number — the failure that had returned three times in three different judges.
  • The observable checks each specialist works through are unchanged. Only the part that turned them into a 0-100 band is gone.
  • A score is now a rendering of a placing. Product pages lead with the placing, and a score still compares launches inside one week and never across weeks.
  • A seventh reader checks the finished verdicts for specialists asserting things that cannot both be true — one reporting nothing runs while another describes using it. It scores nothing and cannot move a placing.
  • Specialists are still meant to disagree about worth. That is why there are six of them, and forcing agreement would buy one judge at the price of six.
  • Judging a week costs six calls per draw instead of six per launch per draw, so a rejudged week is no longer a decision about money.
  • Past weeks keep the scores they were given. We do not rejudge closed weeks.
Clarity

An invitation opens the listing form, not a login form

We write to makers offering to list their tool, and the link put them in front of "Log in" — the one page on the site a stranger can do nothing with.

  • An invited maker now opens the listing form itself, with no account: the name, link, tagline, category and logo we found are already in it, and every field can be changed.
  • The account is the last step. What they filled in is kept across signing up, and the listing is written the moment it has an owner — nothing is retyped.
  • Mistakes in the form are shown straight away, before any account exists.
  • This applies to invitations already sent, because it changes where the link leads rather than the link itself.
  • Only invitations open this door: the signature must be valid and the tool must be one we actually found. Everyone else still meets the normal login form, and nothing can be listed without an account.
  • Separately, visits to pages behind the login were losing the campaign that brought them, so nothing arriving by email at the listing form, the dashboard or the reports was being counted. It is counted now.
Fairness

We judged a week by hand and rewrote what the judges were getting wrong

Rather than trust the rubric, we ranked all ten of this week's launches ourselves and compared. The order broadly matched, and every place it did not came from the same two judges asking the wrong question.

  • The market-demand judge was counting competitors, funding rounds, directory listings and review counts as proof of demand. Those show that a market is busy, not that anyone needs the job done, and they are now refused by name.
  • The same judge was marking products down for being free. How often people need something and whether they would pay for it are different questions, and only the first one is demand.
  • It now answers five checks — what the job is, how often one person needs it, whether people already do it some other way, whether the evidence comes from the market the product actually serves, and whether the need survives the trend it rides on.
  • The uniqueness judge carries the largest single share of the score and was the last one still giving an overall impression. It gave five of ten launches the same number. It now answers five checks about what the product does that its alternatives do not, with the naming of that one thing required.
  • The trust judge now sets the biggest claim on a page against what the product can actually be seen to do, and treats other people's artwork, characters or watermarks left in a product's own material as a trust failure unless a licence is stated.
  • Past weeks keep the scores they were given. We do not rejudge closed weeks.
Clarity

Premium now says what it gives you, not what it skips

The paid tier was headlined "Skip the line", which describes our queue rather than anything a buyer receives. It now leads with the thing that actually differs: the dofollow link is unconditional.

  • The Premium card is headlined by the permanent dofollow link, with a one-line summary above the feature list: the link does not depend on placing in the Top 3, no badge is needed on your site, and the listing stays up for good.
  • Buttons across the site now say what happens — "Get Premium" and "Publish now" — instead of naming the queue they avoid.
  • The free tier is unchanged and still says plainly that its dofollow link is earned by finishing in the week's Top 3. That rule is the reason the paid link is worth naming, and we are not loosening it.
  • Nothing here promises rankings, traffic or any movement in Domain Rating. What a listing receives is described; what it will achieve is not.
Discovery

An MCP server, so agents can read the directory properly

Agents already read this directory by scraping the pages. There is now a Model Context Protocol server at ufind.best/mcp giving them the same public data directly — read-only, no key, no account.

  • Endpoint: https://ufind.best/mcp. Add it as a custom connector in any MCP-compatible client.
  • Six tools: search listed tools, get one tool's profile, list categories, see recent launches, see the weekly Top 3, and read the Domain Rating of a domain we already measure.
  • Every tool states inside its own description that paid placement never moves a result, and that a "premium" flag is a disclosure that the listing is paid rather than a mark of quality.
  • AI Jury scores are returned with the launch week and rubric they were given under, because a score compares tools inside one week and not across weeks.
  • It exposes only what is already public on the site. A draft, an unpublished listing or a free listing without its badge is not returned.
  • It measures nothing on request: a Domain Rating lookup for a domain we do not track says so instead of guessing.
  • A new /mcp.md describes the endpoint for assistants, and /llms.txt now points at it.
Discovery

Plain-text pages so AI assistants describe us correctly

Assistants asked about ufind.best had to read pages built for people and guessed at the rest. Four plain-text pages now state the facts — what a listing is, what each tier costs, and how the weekly ranking is decided — generated from the running site so they cannot go stale.

  • New at /llms.txt, /index.md, /submit.md, /how-voting-works.md and /categories.md, following the llms.txt convention.
  • Every price, category and tool count is read from the live site when the page is built, so a figure cannot drift from what the site actually charges or lists.
  • The pages state that paying changes where a listing appears and what its page contains, and changes nothing about member votes, the weekly Top 3 or the AI Jury.
  • They promise nothing. No rankings, traffic, clicks or sales are mentioned as an outcome of listing, for free or paid listings alike.
  • They also state what does not exist — we have no public API, MCP server or CLI — because an assistant that invents one sends people to a dead end.
  • These pages are not indexed by search engines. They restate what the real pages already say, and are there for assistants reading the site directly.
Fairness

Every AI Jury score now says when it was given

We keep making the judges' questions harder, which means a score from an earlier week was set against a different measure. Scores now carry their date, and each listing shows where it stood inside its own launch week.

  • Product pages, the owner dashboard and the review email now show the date a score was given and the measure it was given under.
  • A listing with a specialist review shows its standing among the launches of its own week, because standing stays comparable when the measure changes and a bare number does not.
  • The page explaining how voting works now states plainly that scores compare products within one launch week.
  • Two specialists were asked better questions. The user-experience judge now answers five checks about what a first-time visitor can actually do, and the practical-value judge five about what the visitor walks away with, instead of rating an overall impression.
  • Past weeks keep the scores they were given. We do not rejudge closed weeks, so their numbers stand as they were published.
Discovery

Every listing now gets a free SEO report

Thirty-odd technical checks and Google's own Lighthouse scores now run for every listed tool, free, alongside the daily Domain Rating. A paid plan adds the link profile, rankings by market, AI answer mentions and competitors.

  • Free on every listing: title, description, headings, canonical, robots.txt, sitemap, structured data, mixed content, compression, DOM size, image alt text, your 404 page and about twenty more — each one saying what is wrong and what to do about it.
  • Also free: Google Lighthouse performance, SEO, accessibility and best-practices scores, plus the Core Web Vitals Chrome measured on your real visitors over the past 28 days.
  • A paid plan adds who links to you with each domain's own rating, links gained and lost month by month, the searches you rank for, where you sit in each market, whether AI answers mention you, the competitors ranking for your searches, the anchor text the web uses for you, and which of your pages earn the links.
  • The whole report is public, unlocked, on our own domain, so nothing about it has to be taken on trust. An owner without a plan sees every section, blurred, rather than an empty upsell box.
  • A page per measured domain now answers "what is the Domain Rating of…" for every tool we track, with its history, technical checks and Google scores.
  • Premium includes one full report, generated when you ask for it. It is a snapshot of that day and does not refresh on its own; the Growth subscription keeps it current every month for your listings plus three domains of your choosing, competitors included.
  • Domain Rating is an Ahrefs metric and the link data comes from DataForSEO. We do not promise a rating change, search rankings, or traffic, and none of this affects the weekly competition, community voting, specialist reviews or badges.
Discovery

Every listed tool now shows its Domain Rating

We measure the Domain Rating of each listed tool daily, keep the history, and explain on a public page what the number does and does not mean.

  • Product pages show the current Domain Rating, and a chart appears once there are at least two measurements; a single reading is a baseline, not a trend.
  • Owners get a tracking page with the movement since their first measurement, and Premium adds the link profile behind it: referring domains, backlinks, and spam score.
  • An email goes out when a rating moves by at least two points or crosses a ten, at most once a week per domain, and drops are reported exactly like rises.
  • The new Domain Rating page explains that only dofollow links count toward the metric, how often we measure, and that it never affects the weekly competition, community voting, specialist reviews, badges, or any ordering on the site.
  • The homepage band of measured tools is selected by a rule printed next to the cards, together with the number of tracked domains it was drawn from.
  • Domain Rating is an Ahrefs metric. Listing here adds one referring domain to a backlink profile; we do not promise a rating change, rankings, or traffic.
Launches

Launch slots now include a badge warning

A scheduled free launch keeps its reserved week for 24 hours when its required badge first goes missing.

  • The maker receives an immediate email with a direct path to restore and verify the badge while the launch slot remains reserved.
  • A second check runs after 24 hours: a restored badge keeps the original week, while a confirmed missing badge releases the slot.
  • Blocked or unreachable websites remain inconclusive and never lose a launch slot from that check alone.
Winners

Top 3 launches now unlock winner rewards

Finalized weekly winners receive a rank-specific badge library and a direct congratulations email when the launch week closes.

  • First, second, and third place unlock compact light and dark Product of the Week badges that match the existing ufind badge style.
  • Winners can copy HTML or React and Next.js embed code, or download the SVG; the award can replace the launch badge or sit beside it, and either remains valid for verification.
  • A dashboard reward and one-time congratulations email link directly to the unlocked badge library after the final result is recorded.
Voting

Jury decisions became stricter and easier to follow

A stronger pinned model, better-balanced market criteria, task-level evidence checks, and a clearer visual score explanation make specialist ratings more dependable and transparent.

  • Six specialist reviews use a pinned GPT-5.4 model, strict structured responses, and a valid citation on every retained evidence note.
  • Market demand now carries 25% and Uniqueness remains the largest criterion at 30%. Practical value replaces overlapping launch-readiness checks, so the other 45% measures whether the product is useful, working, usable, and credible.
  • Concrete-task checks reject broad topic matches that do not prove the product's actual job, while language-aware matching and stronger URL identity avoid losing genuine alternatives or merging different store products.
  • Noisy, repeated, concentrated, or low-value sources are removed without padding the snapshot; demand, market crowding, approach diversity, and global or local scope are shown separately and add no hidden points.
  • Published evidence stays frozen through routine design and deployment work. A methodology update can rejudge the stored snapshot, while fresh market research requires an explicit evidence exception.
  • The public report and methodology now show specialist functions, evidence links, score weights, tie rules, and the compact path from six ratings to Jury points and the final weekly total; the essential FAQ is grouped into scoring, evidence, and voting sections.
  • Makers see a completed review in their dashboard and receive one result email; later rejudges do not repeat that message.
  • Premium profile drafts use the same higher-quality model family with structured output and stricter safeguards against unsupported product claims.
Navigation

A shorter, more useful footer

The footer is easier to scan and now helps visitors move between discovery, launch information, and the most useful categories.

  • Long mixed link lists were replaced with four balanced groups: Discover, Launch, Popular categories, and Company.
  • Popular category links now lead directly to active ufind.best category pages.
  • The layout uses five compact areas on desktop and two link columns on mobile.
  • Partner badges and maker credit remain available without making the navigation column unnecessarily tall.
Homepage

A cleaner, more useful launch homepage

The homepage now gets to the point faster and uses one calmer visual language across discovery, launch standings, and supporting data.

  • The submission action moved into a compact launch hero, leaving the main navigation focused on global search and account controls.
  • The Domain Rating badge now uses the official Ahrefs mark and links directly to the public authority checker.
  • The trust row links to real active maker profiles and prioritizes deliberate profile images over provider-generated initials.
  • Statistics and category discovery use consistent grouped cards, with stable icon sizing and spacing instead of mismatched tiles.
  • Weekly launches and recent tools share the same compact list rhythm on desktop and mobile.
Launches

One weekly score everywhere

Launch standings, vote controls, product pages, and final winners now read from the same scoring service.

  • Jury placement points and valid member points are combined once, then reused everywhere the total appears.
  • Weekly launch cards now match the recently launched list instead of switching to an oversized layout.
  • Product pages show the same total as the homepage, while detailed Jury reasoning remains available below the main product information.
  • The final Top 3 uses the same ordering people see during the week.
Voting

A stricter, more transparent weekly Jury

The Jury now puts the clearest quality signals first and keeps the full reasoning close by without crowding product pages.

  • Uniqueness now carries the highest weight, while a polished interface or basic AI feature is treated as expected baseline quality.
  • Market demand is checked across independent reviews, communities, stores, complaints, alternatives, and adoption signals for the launch week.
  • Product pages show one overall Jury score first; all six specialist ratings, evidence notes, and public research sources expand below it.
  • The design specialist also reviews the submitted product image and treats generic AI polish as baseline quality.
  • Weekly category leaders are labelled clearly and receive no hidden bonus points.
Community

More informed member voting

Community points remain meaningful while making quick, uninformed clicks less useful.

  • Members visit a product before their vote unlocks.
  • Weekly activity streaks unlock 1, 2, or 3-point votes, with one grace week.
  • Every eligible launch still begins with the same single owner point.
Premium

Premium listings explain their value clearly

Makers can now see what Premium adds before paying, without vague ranking promises.

  • The Premium directory regained a focused introduction and a clear one-time submission action.
  • Permanent dofollow placement, the featured period, queue priority, and badge requirements are explained before checkout.
  • Premium profiles can include a richer summary, full description, highlights, ideal audiences, and FAQs.
  • Search and AI-discovery benefits are described as stronger crawlable context, not guaranteed rankings.
Quality

Safer submissions and fewer duplicates

A product should have one clear home on ufind.best, even when it appears in several discovery sources.

  • Exact product identities are protected at database level so the same submission cannot be created twice.
  • Existing duplicate listings can be merged without losing votes, categories, launch history, or ownership data.
  • Potential name matches remain a human review signal rather than causing unrelated products to disappear automatically.
  • App Pulse discoveries remain separate from claimed ufind.best listings, so a maker can still submit and own the real profile.
App Pulse

App Pulse joined ufind.best

A public view of newly discovered web products, AI tools, mobile apps, APIs, and open-source launches.

  • Daily launch activity, range filters, short-range trends, platform mix, and source overlap are visible in one dashboard.
  • The GitHub-style activity history is responsive, chronological, and explains each day on hover.
  • Duplicate signals are merged so the same launch is not presented as several different products.
  • Observed iOS and Android releases are tracked alongside web launches for a broader market view.
  • Source details remain available for people who want them without dominating the main experience.
Email

Launch weeks gained a complete communication rhythm

Makers and subscribers can follow a launch week without receiving unclear or unwanted updates.

  • Launch owners can receive a midweek standing update and a final deadline reminder at useful points in the week.
  • Subscribers who asked for it can receive a weekly digest of launches and finalized results.
  • Email preferences and one-click unsubscribe links apply consistently across optional launch updates.
  • Transactional and launch emails now share one recognizable ufind.best layout from subject to footer.
Design

One visual identity across ufind.best

The site, browser icons, installable app assets, and verification badges now use the same UF mark.

  • The UF logo replaced the remaining mixed legacy marks across navigation, product pages, and the footer.
  • Favicons, mobile home-screen icons, and web-app assets were redrawn for clearer light and dark presentation.
  • Light and dark verification badges now match the public brand instead of looking like a separate product.
  • Emerald interaction states bring submissions, Premium surfaces, and product controls into one visual system.
Launches

Launch weeks became predictable

Makers can choose a real launch week and see the same schedule everywhere the product appears.

  • Weekly cohorts now open at midnight Pacific on Monday and close at the end of the same Pacific week.
  • The launch picker uses real queued products and logos to make upcoming weeks easier to understand.
  • Dashboard dates, launch emails, homepage ranges, and queue administration now follow the same week boundaries.
  • Free and Premium scheduling remain separate paths so a paid placement does not silently take a competition slot.
Migration

Famed tools moved safely into ufind.best

Existing makers, listings, links, and paid visibility were carried forward instead of asking people to start again.

  • Matching Famed and ufind accounts were merged with explicit ownership safeguards.
  • Existing listings retained their categories, launch history, verification state, and eligible Premium exposure.
  • Legacy Famed badge markup remains recognizable while makers transition to the ufind.best badge.
  • Old public Famed paths redirect to the corresponding ufind.best destination wherever a safe match exists.
Premium

Premium featured visibility expanded to 90 days

A Premium launch now stays in featured discovery for a clearly stated 90-day period.

  • The featured period increased from 30 to 90 days across checkout, launch confirmation, pricing, and the public directory.
  • Premium remains a separate paid discovery placement rather than a way to purchase weekly competition points.
  • Cancelled checkouts return makers to a recoverable launch decision instead of losing the submitted product.
Submissions

Submission progress became recoverable

Makers can return to an unfinished product or interrupted checkout without re-entering the same work.

  • Draft details survive sign-in, registration, validation errors, and a cancelled Premium checkout.
  • The submission flow separates product details from the launch choice so each decision has a clear next step.
  • Eligible abandoned drafts can receive a concise recovery reminder that respects email preferences.
  • Launch-week validation prevents unavailable or outdated choices from becoming confusing bookings.
Profiles

Product profiles gained screenshot galleries

Makers can show the product beyond a single cover image, and visitors can inspect more of the real experience.

  • Listings can include up to three additional screenshots alongside the primary product image.
  • Gallery images can be added, ordered, and removed from the create and edit flows.
  • Public product pages present the gallery without displacing the main product information.
Verification

Badge verification became more fault tolerant

Temporary rendering problems are no longer treated as proof that a maker removed the ufind.best badge.

  • Badge checks use multiple page-reading methods when a normal request cannot reliably inspect the site.
  • Blocked or inconclusive checks remain pending instead of immediately removing a verified launch.
  • Queue removal and warnings require a confirmed missing badge rather than a transient fetch failure.
  • Free launch scheduling is also enforced on the server so an unverified listing cannot bypass the badge requirement.
Discovery

Alternative discovery opened beyond search

Visitors can explore useful substitutes by product category or by the established tool they already know.

  • Public alternative hubs were added for categories and selected established products.
  • Alternative pages use live, eligible ufind.best listings rather than maintaining a disconnected recommendation list.
  • The pages are included in navigation and the sitemap so related tools are easier to discover internally.
  • Exact website duplicates are stopped during submission before two public profiles can compete for the same product.
Winners

Weekly winners received a permanent home

Each completed launch week can be revisited, with the Top 3 recorded separately from paid discovery placements.

  • The public Weekly Winners archive records finalized cohorts and their podium products.
  • Free weekly winners can earn the Top 3 dofollow placement under the current voting rules.
  • Premium placements remain visually and logically separate from the earned weekly podium.
  • Listings with a confirmed removed badge can be paused instead of continuing as stale verified results.
Discovery

A search-friendly public directory

Public products and categories became easier for people and search engines to discover responsibly.

  • A public sitemap, robots rules, canonical metadata, and category URLs were added.
  • Verified and Premium listings can earn dofollow links, while unverified outbound links stay nofollow.
  • Search, pagination, and category browsing make the growing directory practical to explore.
Profiles

Public product and maker profiles

ufind.best opened individual product pages and maker profiles with the information needed to evaluate each tool.

  • Products received public pages with images, categories, social sharing metadata, and direct website links.
  • Makers received public profiles with avatars and their published products.
  • Badge verification connected free listing visibility with a verifiable link back to ufind.best.
Foundation

Submissions, search, and Premium launches

The first complete maker flow brought product submission, discovery, voting, and paid placement into one service.

  • Makers could create and manage a product submission from their account.
  • Directory search and filters made published tools easier to find.
  • Stripe checkout introduced a paid launch path alongside the free option.