Public Prompts
Public Prompts is an independent AI tools directory. Search and filter by category or pricing model, open structured listings with priced plans and alternatives, and browse a free Stable Diffusion prompt library. Free to read, no account needed.
What is Public Prompts?
Public Prompts is an independent directory of AI tools, published under its own brand on a domain registered on 24 September 2022 and first archived by the Wayback Machine on 7 October 2022. It generates nothing itself: it indexes, verifies and compares products built by others. The pitch is deliberately modest, "Find what actually helps.", and the declared enemy is directory bloat: "Browse verified AI tools by use case, pricing, and category without the directory noise."
The entry point is a question, "What do you need help with?", followed by six categories, each with a one-line brief: Writing Assistant ("Draft, edit, and improve everyday writing."), Image Generation ("Turn ideas and prompts into original visuals."), Code Assistant ("Write, explain, review, and debug software."), Video Generation ("Create clips, scenes, and video from text or media."), Data Analysis ("Explore data and make findings easier to act on.") and Automation ("Connect repetitive work into reliable workflows."). A full-text search bar sits beside pricing filters, All pricing, Free trial, Freemium, Contact sales and Pricing unclear, with Apply filters and Clear filters controls. Each product has its own page at /tools/{slug} carrying a summary, a Key Features block, priced plans, alternatives and a Visit link to the official site; Claude, Magic Studio, PortfolioMetrics and PromptDrive are among the indexed examples, and vetted entries show a "Verified AI tool" badge.
A second strand survives from the original Public Prompts site: /prompts, a free library of Stable Diffusion prompts covering AI art, character design, stickers, pixel art, isometric scenes and wallpapers, and /models, a set of LoRA, DreamBooth and Stable Diffusion resources with trigger notes. The site ties the two together: "Explore the original Public Prompts library, then use the directory to find tools for the workflow you want to build."
Reading costs nothing and needs no account, though a free Google sign-in unlocks a My submissions area. The money comes from the other side of the counter: tool vendors pay USD 19.99 per submission for editorial review, and some listings carry disclosed affiliate links. Technically it is a Next.js web app, installable as a PWA, with no mobile app and no public API.
What it does
- Search AI tools, workflows and categories by keyword
- Filter results by pricing model, then apply or clear the filters
- Open a tool listing for its summary, key features, priced plans, alternatives and official link
- Browse six curated categories, from writing assistants to automation
- Read and reuse the free Stable Diffusion prompt library
- Pick up LoRA, DreamBooth and Stable Diffusion model resources with their trigger notes
- Submit an AI tool for editorial review (USD 19.99) and follow it from a free account
When to use Public Prompts / When not to
A quick filter to help you decide if Public Prompts is the right fit.
When to use Public Prompts
- Anyone hunting for an AI tool for one specific job, who wants to compare options by category and by pricing model
- Buyers who start from the task rather than the product name: the site opens on "What do you need help with?" and routes you into a category
- Creatives after reusable Stable Diffusion prompts, or LoRA and DreamBooth model resources, at no cost
- Readers tired of bloated listings, who prefer a short curated shortlist to an exhaustive index ("Quality over quantity", "No ranking noise")
- AI tool vendors who want a public, verified listing and accept the USD 19.99 submission fee
When not to use Public Prompts
- Buyers looking for a hands-on trial or a definitive verdict: listings are informational, and the terms send you to the provider's official site before any purchase
- Anyone who needs exhaustive market coverage: the catalogue is deliberately narrow, built on six categories
- People who rely on user ratings and community reviews, since ordering here is editorial only
- Teams that need an API, a data export or a mobile app, none of which exist
- Vendors expecting a guaranteed listing or a paid placement: the fee pays for a review, not for publication or ranking
How to use Public Prompts
A typical end-to-end flow, from setup to results.
- Open the site in a browser: nothing to install, and no account needed to read
- Start from the search bar ("Search tools, workflows, categories") or from the Browse by category grid
- Narrow the results with the pricing filters, then confirm with Apply filters
- Use Clear filters or Reset search to start over; an empty result shows "No tools found" and suggests another search, pricing filter or category
- Open a listing to read its summary, key features, priced plans and alternatives
- Follow the Visit link to the vendor's official site to check claims and prices before buying
- Take the detour through the prompts and models sections for free Stable Diffusion prompts and LoRA or DreamBooth resources
- Optionally create an account with Google sign-in and confirm by email to reach My submissions
- As a vendor, fill in the submission form and pay the USD 19.99 fee through Paddle
- Wait for the editorial review: the listing is published, or the fee is refunded in full
Pros & Cons
Pros
- A published editorial policy that spells out listing criteria, verification method, the basis for ordering, and the correction and removal process
- Payment and ranking kept explicitly apart: the fee "does not buy ranking, featured placement, traffic, a positive opinion, or an endorsement"
- Listings with substance: priced plans and named alternatives, not just an outbound link
- Free to use, with no account required to browse
- Four legal pages published and dated: privacy, terms, refund and editorial policy
- Affiliate links disclosed in plain sight, and a rejected submission refunded in full
- A free prompt and model library alongside the directory, on a fast, accessible, PWA-installable site
Cons
- No legal entity, no postal address and no legal-notices page: it is impossible to tell who publishes the site, or under which law
- A single generic Gmail address as the only contact, with no dedicated legal or privacy channel
- No mention of the GDPR, no DPA, no sub-processor list and no declared hosting country
- The directory renders entirely client-side: on 18 August 2026 a JavaScript-free fetch returned "Loading AI tools…", while the prompts and models indexes answered "No public resources found"
- Tool pages indexed by search engines (/tools/claude, /tools/magic-studio) returned "Tool Not Found" when opened directly, and the sitemap declares only six URLs, none of them a tool page
- A narrow catalogue, six categories wide, with a USD 19.99 fee per submission that may keep free or early-stage tools out
- No user ratings, no reviews, no side-by-side comparison, and no API, export or mobile app
Pricing & Plans
Browsing Public Prompts is free of charge and requires no account: the directory, the Stable Diffusion prompt library and the model resources are open to every visitor, and creating an account costs nothing. The only paid item is aimed at a different audience. A vendor submitting a tool pays a one-off listing fee of USD 19.99 plus applicable tax, collected by Paddle as merchant of record before editorial review. A rejected submission is refunded in full to the original payment method; once published, a listing is non-refundable except where the law requires otherwise. There is no subscription, no credit pack and no pricing tier, and no free trial is advertised.
- free and permanent
- no account required
- covering the full directory
- the prompt library and the model resources
- free
- through Google sign-in
- adding submission tracking (My submissions)
- USD 19.99 plus applicable tax
- a one-off payment per submission processed by Paddle
- refunded in full if the listing is rejected
- featured status is an editorial choice and is not sold
Data, GDPR & hosting
A consolidated view of how Public Prompts handles your data.
GDPR overview
The GDPR is never mentioned. A search across the text and the HTML of the ten pages reviewed on 18 August 2026 returned no occurrence of it, nor of any equivalent regime. There is no Article 27 EU representative, no named data protection officer and no data processing agreement on offer. The privacy policy, effective 10 July 2026, does say what is collected and why, and announces a right to request correction or deletion of personal information; but it states no legal basis for processing, sets no retention period in days or months, describes no procedure or deadline for handling a request, and publishes no sub-processor list beyond four provider categories and the name Paddle. No hosting country or region is declared. The only channel is a Gmail address. In short: a plain-language policy, with no visible GDPR framework behind it.
Who owns the data?
Under the privacy policy in force since 10 July 2026, the data comes from you: email address, tool details, site URL and images supplied when you create an account, submit a listing, send assets or get in touch, plus basic technical and usage data captured on each visit. Nothing in the published documents transfers ownership of submitted content to Public Prompts; the terms instead require the submitter to hold the rights to the text, logos, screenshots and links provided. Correction or deletion of personal information can be requested, subject to records the publisher says it must keep for legitimate business or legal reasons. Payment and tax details sit with Paddle, not with Public Prompts.
Reuse rights
The stated purposes are narrow: operating the directory, authenticating accounts, reviewing and publishing submissions, preventing duplicate or abusive listings, improving the site, and communicating about a submission when needed. Data is shared with service providers in four categories, described as authentication, data storage, analytics and payments; only Paddle is named, as payment processor and merchant of record, and Google Analytics 4 runs on every page (measurement ID G-4ZB1CM6JK1). No resale or advertising sharing is mentioned. The documents are equally silent on AI model training: they neither claim it nor rule it out. On the reader's side, the site presents itself as an independent directory and states that product names and logos belong to their owners; no licence to reuse its content is granted, and the terms set out no such permission.
Data retention & training
Hosting summary
Public Prompts declares no hosting location. The privacy policy in force since 10 July 2026 lists a data storage provider among the four categories of service providers used, but never names it, and no country or region appears anywhere on the site. Payment and tax data is handled by Paddle, acting as merchant of record, so those records sit with Paddle rather than with Public Prompts. What can be observed technically is not a commitment by the publisher: the domain resolves to 216.198.79.1, an address announced in the United States (Walnut, AS16509 Amazon.com Inc.) and belonging to an anycast CDN range. That indicates where an edge node answers, not where personal data is stored, processed or backed up. There is no data processing agreement, no sub-processor list and no international transfer clause on which to base an assessment. Anyone with a hosting jurisdiction requirement will have to ask by email, since nothing published on the site answers the question.
Where Public Prompts works
Country-level availability.
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Things to keep in mind
Risks and trade-offs to weigh before adopting Public Prompts.
- No legal entity and no postal address are published: should a dispute arise, there is no identified counterparty and no known jurisdiction
- The only contact is a generic Gmail address, with no dedicated legal or data protection channel
- Not a word about the GDPR, no DPA, no sub-processor named beyond Paddle, no declared hosting country; retention is described by purpose, never by a deadline
- The terms warn that listings are informational and amount to neither an endorsement nor a guarantee: check the provider's official website before buying or relying on a product claim
- Some listings carry paid affiliate links; they are disclosed, but they can still tilt attention, and a curated shortlist can quietly become the boundary of what you even consider
- Vendors pay before the review, with no guarantee of publication; only a rejection triggers a refund
- On 18 August 2026 the tool pages opened directly and the prompts and models indexes came back empty, since content depends entirely on client-side rendering; a banner also promotes a third-party app, CardYard, whose App Store link is not Public Prompts'
Setup & Integrations
Technical difficulty
There is nothing to set up. Public Prompts is a public website: open it and read, with no installation, no configuration and no account. An account is optional, takes one click through Google sign-in plus an email confirmation, and only adds submission tracking. The site can be installed as a PWA from the browser for an app-like shortcut. On the vendor side, submitting a tool means filling in a form and paying through Paddle, with no technical skill required. The one real prerequisite is a browser with JavaScript enabled, since the directory renders entirely client-side.
Deployment
Integrations
Supported languages
Behind Public Prompts
Resources
All the official URLs gathered for verification and reference.
Frequently asked questions
What is Public Prompts?
Is it free to browse, and do I need an account?
How much does it cost to list a tool?
What happens if my submission is rejected?
Does paying buy a better position in the directory?
Which categories does the directory cover?
Does the site say anything about the GDPR?
Is there a mobile app or a public API?
Are there affiliate links in the listings?
How do I contact the publisher or ask for a listing to be corrected?
Should you pick Public Prompts?
Public Prompts is a niche directory that is unusually candid about how it works. The editorial policy is published in full, the line between paying and ranking is drawn out loud (the fee buys a review, not a placement), and affiliate links are disclosed where they appear. Listings are denser than the genre average: a summary, key features, priced plans and named alternatives, enough to draw up a shortlist without opening twenty tabs. For a visitor it costs nothing, asks for no account and adds no friction, and the free Stable Diffusion prompt and model library is a real bonus for creative work.
The main reservation is the publisher itself. No legal entity, no postal address, no legal-notices page and a single generic Gmail address: there is no way to tell who runs the site, or under which law. The data protection framework matches that opacity, with a readable privacy policy dated 10 July 2026 but no mention of the GDPR, no processing agreement, no sub-processor named beyond Paddle, no hosting country and no retention period expressed in time.
The second reservation is practical. The catalogue is narrow by design, six categories wide, and everything depends on client-side rendering: on 18 August 2026 the tool pages opened directly and the prompts and models indexes both came back empty, while the sitemap declared only six URLs. Search engines have indexed richer listings than the served HTML shows today.
Treat it as one source among several, not as the reference. For framing a search, comparing pricing models and picking up free prompts, it earns its place. For due diligence before a purchase, the site says it best itself: check the provider's official website first.
- Choosing a selection results in a full page refresh.
- Opens in a new window.