ClickTug is run by Alston Antony. It is an independent project rather than a venture-backed directory, which is why it lists tens of tools well rather than thousands badly. Listings are checked and signed off by ClickTug editorial, which is that same one person rather than a team.

How does ClickTug make money?

Two ways, both disclosed. Submitting a tool for review carries a processing charge, which covers the verification work rather than the outcome. And a listing can carry a partner link, and any that does is marked on that listing. Neither buys a verdict, and neither changes a word of what a listing says.

Why is the directory so small?

Because every listing is checked against the vendor's own pricing, privacy, acceptable use and minor safety pages, and that takes real time per tool. A directory of three thousand listings is a directory nobody has read. We would rather have thirty a reader can trust.

About ClickTug

ClickTug is a directory of AI companion, roleplay and dating apps, built on what a buyer can check before paying: the price, the privacy terms, the content rules, and the date each of those was last read on the vendor’s own page.

The problem with directories in this category

Every directory in this category ranks by opinion and describes that opinion as curation. Some of them test the products, which is genuinely better than not testing them, but the output is still one person’s ordering presented as a fact.

Meanwhile the things a reader actually needs to decide are usually missing: what it costs after the trial credits run out, whether a card is required before you can generate anything, how long the service keeps what you made, whether your prompts train the next model, and when any of that was last true.

What ClickTug does differently

We record what is checkable and refuse to guess the rest. A listing states what the vendor publishes and, just as plainly, what it does not. Where a policy is silent the page says “not documented” rather than inferring an answer. Our methodology sets out how a listing is verified and what produces the order they appear in.

Every fact carries a date and a source. A listing records what a tool costs, what its free tier includes, whether signup needs a card, what happens to your content, and which vendor page each of those was read from. Pricing in this category changes within weeks, so the date is part of the fact rather than a footnote.

The site is small on purpose. We would rather list thirty tools in a way that answers a real question than three thousand in a way that answers none. Growth here means better listings before it means more of them.

We refuse the largest part of this market. ClickTug does not list tools built around sexualising real people. That exclusion covers more search volume than everything we do cover. Our content policy explains the reasoning and, more usefully, explains that the refusal is enforced by our own software rather than by our good intentions.

What ClickTug is not

It is not a content site. We host no explicit images or video, and our build rejects any image loaded from a host other than our own.

It is not a review site in the star-rating sense. There is no ClickTug score, and any score attributed to us is fabricated. We may build one once we have enough first-party data for it to mean something, and if we do, the rubric will be published and versioned before the first number appears.

It is not comprehensive, and does not claim to be.

Who runs it

ClickTug is run by Alston Antony. It is an independent project, not a venture-backed directory, which is the reason it is small.

Every listing carries a “verified by” line reading ClickTugger, which is the editorial role rather than a second person. One person reads the vendor’s pages, records what they say, and signs the policy attestation, and saying so here is the point: a house byline that implied a staff would be a claim about capacity that nothing on this site could support.

How it pays for itself

Two ways are open to it, and both are stated here rather than inferred from a footer.

A processing charge on submissions. Sending a tool in for review costs money, and the submit page says how to ask for the current terms. It pays for the verification pass: reading the vendor’s pricing, privacy and acceptable use pages, searching the public record, and using the product. It buys the work, not the result. Submissions that fail the content policy are declined, and the verdict, the limitations and the order are ours.

Partner links. A listing’s outbound link can carry a partner parameter. Where one does, it is marked on that listing, in the sentence directly under the button rather than in a footer disclosure. Partner status does not affect ordering or a single word of what a listing says, and that is enforced by a test in this repository rather than by intention.

Get in touch

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