About SpacerrApps

What we're trying to do

Most independent software dies unread. Not because it is bad. Because nobody writes about it. The places that would are either chasing whatever launched at a big company this week, or they are directories: a name, a logo, a one-line pitch, and a link, repeated a thousand times until none of it means anything.

The ones that do give you a proper listing usually want paying before anything happens at all, and often several hundred for it. That price is not the cost of the work. It is the cost of being one of the few places that does this, and it quietly decides that software from people without a marketing budget does not get seen. Most of the world builds without one.

So the goal is simple and it is a volume goal: list as many apps as we can, from anywhere, in one standard shape, and charge nothing to be here. Every app gets the same page, the same treatment, and the same real write-up: what it is for, who it is not for, and what it deliberately refuses to do. An article, not an entry.

How an app ends up here

You submit it yourself. There is no pitching, no media list, and no relationship to maintain. The form asks what your app is, who it is for, and what makes it different, and that description is what everything gets written from.

• You fill in the form once.
• A person reviews it. Spam and adult content are turned down.
• Once approved, your app gets its own page in the directory.
• We draft the write-up, and an editor reads it before it publishes.

What it costs

Nothing, to be here. Free is the point of the place rather than a trial that runs out: a free submission gets 2 links, your app's own page in the directory and one write-up about it, and both stay up for good. We would rather host ten thousand apps for free than a hundred for a fee.

Every approved app is written about once, on the same terms, whatever its owner pays. Listing is free, and so is the write-up and the links in it. The one paid thing is a placement: $39 a month pins your listing to the top of the directory and lifts the limit on how many apps you may list at once. No link on this site is for sale, on any tier. Cancelling stops the placement and takes nothing else down: the listing, the write-up and the links all stay exactly where they are.

The rules we hold ourselves to

This only works if the writing is worth reading, which means being straight about the parts that are uncomfortable.

• Sponsor placements are the panels on the home page and the entries on the sponsors page, and they pass no ranking credit. A listing page and a write-up come with every approved app on every tier, so their links are ordinary followed editorial links. What stands behind them is not a subscription. It is that a person read the submission first.
• Coverage is not for sale, which is why that write-up reads the same on every tier. Sponsoring gets you a placement and nothing besides. Not the article, not a word of what it says about you, and not a higher position on any page.
• Nothing publishes automatically. Drafts are written by a model and read by a person, and the person is the one who presses publish.
• Posts stay up after you stop paying. Removing them would make the archive a rental.
• You can correct a fact at any time. You cannot rewrite an opinion.

What this does for you

Two permanent, followed links from pages that are about your app: your listing and your write-up. Followed is the part that matters. Most directories mark theirs nofollow, or bury them behind a redirect, which passes nothing. Ours pass ranking credit the way any editorial link does, and they keep passing it for as long as the pages are up, which is for good.

The pages are built to be found. Each one is server-rendered with its own metadata, structured data and entry in the sitemap, so search engines and AI answer engines can read them without running JavaScript. Search for your app's name a few weeks after publishing and you should find your page here.

Then there are the readers. They arrive from the directory, the news index and search already knowing what your app does, because they just read a page explaining it.

What we will not do is put a number on it. Anyone who promises you a ranking or a traffic figure is guessing, and SpacerrApps is one input among the dozens that decide where you rank. What we can promise is the input itself: real pages, real links, and they stay up.