# AppFinder (remote · appfinder.tech)

Find, compare and get cited software picks. Organic only. Makers can prepare a free listing.

- Trust score: 75/100 (medium)
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-11-04

## Components

- remote · `appfinder.tech`: 75/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/tech-appfinder-appfinder/api-mcp.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/tech-appfinder-appfinder/api-mcp)

## Channel facts

- Endpoint: `https://appfinder.tech/api/mcp`
- Transports: `streamable-http`
- Auth: `none`
- Version: `1.0.0`

## Trust breakdown

How this component scores in each security and reliability category. Every signal is checked automatically against the live server, and we only credit what we can confirm. Scores are 0–100 per category. Scoring method: https://verifymcp.io/docs/scoring (what has changed: https://verifymcp.io/docs/scoring/changelog)

Scored 2026-11-04.

- **Endpoint Security**: 80/100
  - The endpoint's TLS certificate is valid, in date, and uses a strong key.
  - No authorisation is required to call this server. Every tool declares its destructiveHint and none is destructive, so open access doesn't expose one.
  - HTTPS is enforced; there's no plaintext access path.
  - The HSTS (Strict-Transport-Security) header is present.
  - DNSSEC check failed: this domain isn't protected by DNSSEC.
- **Transport & Reachability**: 100/100
  - Verified streamable-http transport via a live MCP handshake.
- **Schema Quality & AI Usability**: 75/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (good).
  - Tool/resource definitions use about 977 tokens (~108/item across 9 items; 9 tools + 0 resources), lean.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 10/100
  - Stability observed for 3 of 30 days with no destabilising changes; credit accrues until the full window elapses.
- **Tool Coverage**: 100/100
  - 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).
  - 100% of tool parameters carry a description.
- **Tool Safety**: 100/100
  - No prompt-injection markers were found in the server instructions, tool names or descriptions we captured.
  - We read all 9 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.
  - An AI judge read all 10 captured unit(s) of tool text and found none that tries to manipulate the model reading it.
- **Capabilities**: 100/100
  - Implements a supported MCP spec version (2025-11-25); the latest is 2026-07-28.

## Install

### How do I install the AppFinder MCP server?

AppFinder is a hosted endpoint at https://appfinder.tech/api/mcp, so there is nothing to install locally. Ready-made configuration for Claude, Cursor, VS Code, Codex and 5 more is on this page, copied from each client's own documentation.

### Claude

```bash
claude mcp add --transport http tech-appfinder-appfinder 'https://appfinder.tech/api/mcp'
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "tech-appfinder-appfinder": {
      "url": "https://appfinder.tech/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "tech-appfinder-appfinder": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://appfinder.tech/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex

```toml
[mcp_servers.tech-appfinder-appfinder]
url = "https://appfinder.tech/api/mcp"
```

### opencode

```json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "tech-appfinder-appfinder": {
      "type": "remote",
      "url": "https://appfinder.tech/api/mcp",
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
```

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add tech-appfinder-appfinder --url 'https://appfinder.tech/api/mcp' --transport streamable-http
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  tech-appfinder-appfinder:
    url: "https://appfinder.tech/api/mcp"
```

### Netclaw

```json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "tech-appfinder-appfinder": {
      "Transport": "http",
      "Url": "https://appfinder.tech/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Vellum

```bash
assistant mcp add tech-appfinder-appfinder -t streamable-http -u 'https://appfinder.tech/api/mcp'
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "tech-appfinder-appfinder": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://appfinder.tech/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

The mcpServers block is a cross-client convention. Remote transports vary, so check your client's docs.

## Changelog

Every change recorded for this component, newest first. Days that predate change tracking, or that we cannot explain, say so: "we were watching and nothing happened" and "we were not watching" are different claims.

### 2026-11-04 (score 75, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 7 to 10. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 2 days of observed history at the previous scan, 3 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-11-02 (score 74, 0)

- [functional improvement] Stability: unverified → 0.03

### 2026-11-01 (score 74)

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (9)

### `recommend_apps` (~96 tokens)

Recommend software

Ranks the apps in the AppFinder directory against a plain-language request and explains each pick with cited facts (what fits, what's missing, which apps a must-have rules out), plus one follow-up question that would narrow the list.

Input parameters:

- `request` (string, required): What the buyer needs, e.g. “project management for a 12-person dev team, sprints, GitHub, SSO required, under $15 per user”.

### `search_apps` (~78 tokens)

Search apps

Full-text search of the directory by name, keyword or job (most relevant first).

Input parameters:

- `category` (string): Optional category name or slug from list_categories.
- `limit` (integer): How many results (default 10).
- `query` (string, required): Words to search for, e.g. “kanban” or “invoicing”.

### `get_app` (~51 tokens)

Get an app

One app's listing: description, categories, pricing, platforms, features, integrations, rating and its facts with sources.

Input parameters:

- `app` (string, required): App name or AppFinder slug, e.g. “Linear”.

### `compare_apps` (~53 tokens)

Compare two apps

Side by side: pricing, and the features, integrations and platforms both apps have or only one has.

Input parameters:

- `first` (string, required): First app name or slug.
- `second` (string, required): Second app name or slug.

### `find_alternatives` (~54 tokens)

Find alternatives

Apps that do what an app does (same category, most shared features first), and what buyers who wanted to replace it chose.

Input parameters:

- `app` (string, required): The app to replace, e.g. “Jira”.

### `list_categories` (~19 tokens)

List categories

The directory's categories with how many apps each lists.

### `category_demand` (~71 tokens)

What buyers ask for

The public demand report of a category: the share of buyers who asked the advisor for each feature, integration, security need and budget in the last 90 days (anonymous totals), and how many listed apps answer each.

Input parameters:

- `category` (string, required): Category name or slug, e.g. “Project Management”.

### `check_listing` (~50 tokens)

Is an app listed?

Whether a website already has a published AppFinder listing, and its page. Call this before prepare_listing.

Input parameters:

- `website` (string, required): The app's website or domain, e.g. “acme.com”.

### `prepare_listing` (~325 tokens)

Prepare a listing for a maker

For a maker who wants to list their own app: fills in AppFinder's submission form from what they told you plus the app's website, and returns a private link. The person opens it, signs in, reviews every field and submits; nothing is published until AppFinder's team approves it. Listing is free. Pass only what the maker said; leave out what you don't know (the website fills the gaps).

Input parameters:

- `category` (string): Category name or slug from list_categories.
- `description` (string): Who it's for and what they can do with it (at least 20 characters).
- `features` (array): Key features, e.g. [“Kanban boards”, “Time tracking”].
- `integrations` (array): Tools it integrates with, e.g. [“Slack”, “GitHub”].
- `logo_url` (string): A square logo image over https.
- `name` (string): The app's name.
- `platforms` (array): Where it runs.
- `pricing_model` (string): free, freemium (free plan + paid plans), paid, open_source or contact_sales.
- `pricing_summary` (string): One line, like “Free plan; paid plans from $8 per user per month.”
- `starting_price_usd` (number): Lowest paid plan per month, in US dollars.
- `tagline` (string): One line that says what it does, without claims like “#1” or “best”.
- `website` (string, required): The app's website, e.g. “acme.com”.

## Diagnostics

Captured diagnostic sections: TLS, DNSSEC, Authorisation, Transports. The full working is on the page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/tech-appfinder-appfinder/api-mcp#diagnostics

## Score history

- 2026-11-04: 75
- 2026-11-03: 74
- 2026-11-02: 74
- 2026-11-01: 74

## Common questions

### What is the AppFinder MCP server?

AppFinder is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as tech.appfinder/appfinder. Find, compare and get cited software picks. Organic only. Makers can prepare a free listing. This page covers its hosted endpoint (https://appfinder.tech/api/mcp).

### Is the AppFinder MCP server safe to use?

AppFinder scores 75 out of 100 on VerifyMCP. That is a record of what we were able to check automatically, not an endorsement. The category breakdown on this page shows every signal behind the number, including the ones we could not confirm.

### What tools does the AppFinder MCP server expose?

AppFinder exposes 9 tools: recommend_apps, search_apps, get_app, compare_apps, find_alternatives, and 4 more. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 797 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Does the AppFinder MCP server require authentication?

No. We connected to AppFinder without credentials and it answered, so anything it exposes is reachable by anyone who knows the address.

### Is the AppFinder MCP server still maintained?

AppFinder is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 4 November 2026. Those dates come from our own scans of the registry and the channel itself, not from anything the publisher announced.

## Links

- Remote endpoint: https://appfinder.tech/api/mcp
- Website: https://appfinder.tech/mcp
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/tech-appfinder-appfinder/api-mcp.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/tech-appfinder-appfinder/api-mcp.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/tech-appfinder-appfinder/api-mcp