Softpedia

Listing on Softpedia is free if you wait your turn.

No submission fee is shown; the standard listing appears free. Submit via a PAD-file URL or the manual form. No backlink or badge condition is shown. Submissions are reviewed selectively, may take up to 30 days, and are not guaranteed publication. The page says it does not accept applications with any LLM-written code and advises submitting only actively developed software that solves a specific problem and is expected to receive updates and bug fixes.

Softpedia links to your site with a nofollow link, which asks Google not to count it.

Its Ahrefs Domain Rating is 86.

Softpedia picks only a few of the products submitted.

You get a listing page, with little promotion.

The submission page says the product may require up to 30 days to be processed and that publication is not guaranteed. The help page says later versions submitted through PAD can be published in a “very short time” using automated monitoring.

Similarweb ranks softpedia.com #15,788 in the world by traffic.

What Softpedia says about its audience: The homepage displayed “3,301,673,183 served downloads,” “836 new items today,” and “1,886,341 items total.” The inspected calibre listing displayed “120,385 downloads so far.” The help page describes a library of over 600,000 programs and says Softpedia adds more than 100 items daily.

You submit to Softpedia through a form on their site.