PAD Enabled Web Sites

This is a free resource for software developers, it lists 833 Portable Application Description (PAD) enabled shareware (also known as "try before you buy") web sites that authors can submit their products to.

There are regular updates (normally on a monthly basis) as and when we discover new PAD enabled shareware web sites - so check back regularly or subscribe to our

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To learn more about the PAD format we recommend that you visit the Association of Shareware Professionals, they have both free and members only information on developing and distributing shareware software.

You may be wondering why you should bother submitting your applications to these shareware web sites by hand when there are several applications available that will do this for you automatically? Well there are a few reasons, not that we have anything against applications that provide this service, but over the last year more and more shareware web sites are actively stopping automated submissions by introducing a verification stage that is not easily by-passed without human intervention. Also, a lot of shareware web sites do not accept the categories assigned by an author in the generated PAD file but require you to choose one of their own - and this can be very difficult to achieve the correct category assignment using an automated tool.

We have split up the web sites into the following lists:

PAD Repositories (4 sites listed) - these sites aggregate PAD files that are then made available to new or existing shareware sites. These are a great way to get your products added to many shareware sites without any additional work.
Quick and Easy PAD Listings #1 (272 sites listed) - these shareware sites do NOT require author accounts or affiliate schemes in order for you to submit your PAD files. They also automatically check your PAD URL on a regular basis so that when you update your PAD file your latest information is retrieved automatically and updates your software listing. Just paste in the URL to your PAD file into the provided software submission form and hit the submit button - it doesn't come any easier than this.
Quick and Easy PAD Listings #2 (391 sites listed) - these shareware sites do NOT require author accounts or affiliate schemes in order for you to submit your PAD files. However, they do require that you re-submit your PAD URLs if you make an update to them. Just paste in the URL to your PAD file into the provided software submission form and hit the submit button - it's pretty easy but you have to remember to re-visit them when you have an update.
Registration PAD Listings (102 sites listed) - these shareware sites require a free author account created first but do NOT require an affiliate scheme in order for you to submit your PAD files. However, they do require that you re-submit your PAD URLs or manually edit software listings if you make an update to them.
Other PAD Listings (49 sites listed) - these shareware sites only accept software with an affiliate scheme that they support.
Paid PAD Listings (19 sites listed) - these shareware sites only accept software for some sort of fee (whether a one off fee, annual membership, per product or per clickthrough).

Note: These lists are provided "as is" and the web sites that are listed are done so in NO particular order.