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9,486+ tools across 401 categories, every one of them seen by an editor before it ships. We exist because software buying turned into a casino and we wanted to give it back to the people doing the work.
Toolradar in numbers
Counts are pulled live from the production database when this page is rendered. Community reviews: 12 approved.
Why Toolradar exists
The B2B software directory market is broken. The big incumbents charge vendors for ranking, hide the methodology, and let the top of every category become a function of marketing budget rather than fit. The aggregators that try to fix this with AI mostly publish slop that reads like a five-paragraph essay glued to a feature matrix.
Toolradar started in late 2025 as a side project. The brief: build a tool index that does the obvious thing better. One named editor. Public methodology. Pricing checked weekly. Scores that exist to sort lists, not to seduce buyers. If a tool sponsors our parent company's newsletter, we say so on the page where we recommend it.
The platform is built on the back of Dupple, the publisher behind Techpresso and four other newsletters reaching 550K+ tech professionals. That audience is what makes the editorial work fundable, and what means we can afford to leave hundreds of tools out of the top picks because they did not earn the slot.
Part of Dupple
Dupple
Helping professionals stay ahead, one industry at a time.
Toolradar is part of the Dupple family, a media company serving 550K+ professionals through 5 industry newsletters: Techpresso (AI & Tech), Devshot (developers), Cyberpresso (security), Marketershot (marketing), and Finpresso (finance).
The mission, in three lines
- 1.Tell you what is actually good. Not what paid the most for placement. The internal score is a sort key, not a billboard, see how we rate.
- 2.Be transparent about money. Sponsorships exist, they sit in the Dupple newsletters, they do not move editorial coverage. The full breakdown lives at how we make money.
- 3.Keep the editor named. One human signs every guide and answers every email. Not an editorial team you cannot find, not an AI persona.
Meet the editor
Louis Corneloup
Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Toolradar · Founder & CEO, Dupple
Louis founded Dupple in 2022 and Toolradar in 2025. Dupple now publishes 5 industry newsletters reaching 550K+ tech professionals across AI, marketing, dev, security, and finance. He is the editor responsible for every guide, comparison, and editorial review on Toolradar. Sourcing standards and corrections policy live at /editorial-policy.
Areas of expertise: B2B SaaS evaluation, newsletter publishing, software-buying frameworks, growth marketing, developer tools. Reviewed and scored 9,486+ tools across 401 categories using the public methodology at /how-we-rate.
A note from the editor
"I started Toolradar because I was tired of being on the wrong end of the SaaS funnel. As someone running a publisher, I am the buyer for a dozen workflow tools, an analytics stack, a CRM, billing infra, the lot. Every category I shopped for, the top three results on Google were either obvious sponsored placements or paid-ranking directories I could not trust. I wanted a directory that did the boring work: read the docs, check the price, ask the editor whether the tool is actually good, and write that down."
"The bet is that being slow and named beats being fast and anonymous. A directory with one person's name on it that gets corrections wrong publicly is more trustworthy than a directory with no name on it that gets corrections wrong silently. That is the bar we hold ourselves to."
Louis Corneloup, May 2026
What we hold ourselves to
Transparency over polish
Methodology is public. Funding is public. Conflicts are public. Corrections are dated and visible at the bottom of the page they fix.
One editor, on the record
Every guide carries a real person's name. If you disagree with a verdict, you have one inbox to email.
Fewer tools, deeper takes
We index broadly but recommend narrowly. The editor's top picks in any guide are three to seven tools, not the whole category sorted by ad spend.
Dates that mean something
The "Updated" date on a page reflects an actual meaningful change, not a cron job touching the timestamp.
How Toolradar makes money
Tools and SaaS companies sponsor Techpresso and other Dupple newsletters. This is the primary revenue line. Sponsorships do not move Toolradar scores or rankings.
Some category pages and tool listings include clearly labeled sponsored slots. They sit outside the editorial ranking and do not change what appears in the editor's top picks.
Vendors can pay for a verified profile or a dofollow link on their tool page. These are clearly labeled and do not influence editorial coverage. Details at /advertise.
Score changes, top-pick slots in guides, comparison verdicts, removal of negative editor takes, fake-positive reviews. We say no to all of these in writing, multiple times per month.
Full disclosure framework at /how-we-make-money.
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