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101 tools across 8 categories. Filter by what matters to you.
The all-rounder that writes, edits and brainstorms anything
OpenAI's conversational assistant is still the most flexible writing companion: drafting, rewriting, outlining, translating and pressure-testing ideas in one chat. GPT-class models handle everyday prose, business writing and light creative work with few rough edges.
Atmospheric AI art from the generator digital artists love most
Midjourney remains the benchmark for sheer image beauty: painterly light, coherent compositions and a house style that flatters almost any prompt. Generation happens in Discord or on the web, and there is no official API — it is a tool for making images, not a platform to build on.
The AI-first code editor most developers are switching to
Cursor is a VS Code fork rebuilt around AI: tab completion that predicts your next edit, chat with the whole repository in context, and an agent that plans and applies multi-file changes. Familiar enough to open without relearning, capable enough to change how you work.
Best-in-class for long-form prose and careful editing
Anthropic's assistant is the writer's favourite: nuanced tone, strong structure over long documents, and an Artifacts workspace where you can draft and refine in place. Excellent at rewriting without flattening your voice.
The benchmark for natural AI speech, dubbing and voice cloning
ElevenLabs sets the standard for AI text-to-speech: expressive reading in 30+ languages, instant and professional voice cloning, sound effects and music generation from one credit balance. Its API is what most products quietly embed when they need a voice that doesn't sound robotic.
The full AI video suite — generate, edit and finish in one place
Runway is more than a generator: Gen-4 text and image-to-video sits beside a browser editor with masking, motion brush, colour tools and effects. It is the closest thing to an AI-native post-production pipeline for short-form creators.
Anthropic's terminal agent for long, multi-step coding work
Claude Code works in your terminal the way a careful engineer does: read the repo, plan the change, edit files, run tests and commands, then report back. It is the strongest of the current crop at long, multi-step work, and it burns through Claude plan limits quickly.
Photoreal open-weights models from the original Stable Diffusion team
FLUX.1 from Black Forest Labs closed much of the gap to Midjourney: sharp detail, dependable hands and strong prompt adherence. The [schnell] variant is open for commercial use, while [dev] carries a non-commercial licence you need to read before shipping anything.
Google's frontier video model, in Gemini, Flow and Vertex
Veo is Google DeepMind's flagship video generator, accessible in Gemini, the Flow filmmaking app and Vertex AI. It is among the best at native audio, physical realism and following complex direction.
Autocomplete, chat and agents inside the editors you already use
Copilot is the most widely deployed AI pair programmer: completion and inline chat in your editor, agent mode that works through a task, and review against your pull requests. It is the lowest-friction upgrade for teams already living in GitHub.
AI search that answers with citations you can actually check
Perplexity searches the live web and writes an answer with every claim linked to its source, so follow-ups stay grounded in what's actually online. Pro unlocks stronger models and longer Deep Research reports, but the free tier already covers most day-to-day questions.
Google's writer, wired straight into Docs and Gmail
Google's assistant is strongest where Google already lives: drafting in Docs, replying in Gmail, summarising Drive files. Large context windows make it comfortable with big source documents.
OpenAI's frontier video model, now its own social app
Sora generates longer, story-coherent clips than most rivals and can remix uploaded footage, with a feed built around it. Access comes through ChatGPT plans rather than a separate subscription.
Complete songs with vocals, lyrics and production from one prompt
Suno turns a sentence into a finished track — lyrics, performance and mix — and its Studio editor lets you rewrite a chorus, split stems and export MIDI. It is the fastest route to a usable song for people who never open a DAW.
Grounded AI notebook that answers only from your own sources
NotebookLM loads your documents, sites, videos and slides into a model that answers strictly from them, with every sentence linked back to the passage it came from. Audio Overviews turn a stack of papers into a podcast-style discussion, which is genuinely good for skimming.
Grammar, clarity and tone checks everywhere you type
Grammarly is the editing layer that follows you across the browser and desktop: grammar fixes, clarity rewrites, tone suggestions and plagiarism checks on anything you write.
OpenAI's image generator, built right into ChatGPT
DALL·E 3 generates from plain conversational prompts and lives inside ChatGPT, so you refine images by talking to it rather than fighting prompt syntax. It is less stylistically distinctive than Midjourney, but excellent at literal, instruction-following images.
Fast, physical video generation with a generous free tier
Luma's Dream Machine generates smooth, physically believable motion from text or a still, and adds keyframes, loops and an editor for assembling shots. Generation is fast and the free allowance is real.
Edit video by editing the transcript
Descript treats your recording as a document: cut a word out of the transcript and it disappears from the video, then layer on studio sound, eye contact correction and filler-word removal. It is built for podcasts, interviews and talking-head YouTube.
Open-source workflow automation you can host yourself
n8n is a node-based automation platform you run on your own server, with first-class AI agent nodes built on LangChain primitives. It is far more flexible than no-code rivals and much cheaper at volume, if you are willing to operate it yourself.
The AI writing partner built for fiction authors
Sudowrite is designed around the novelist's process: draft continuation, scene expansion, description enrichment and story bible memory across chapters. It understands narrative voice better than general chatbots.
The open-source image model you can run and shape yourself
Stable Diffusion is the open-weights family behind most self-hosted image generation: run it on your own GPU, fine-tune a LoRA on your own data, and pick from thousands of community models and interfaces. Quality depends heavily on the checkpoint and sampler you choose.
The best AI image generator at putting text in images
Ideogram's standout skill is rendering legible text — logos, posters, packaging mockups, memes — where other models produce gibberish. Beyond typography it is a solid general generator with a clean canvas and useful style presets.
Cinematic video model with a real free tier
Kling from Kuaishou produces some of the most cinematic AI footage available: strong physics, long single shots and a reliable image-to-video mode. The web app also bundles lip sync, motion brush and virtual try-on.
Presenter-style avatar videos for tutorials and outreach
HeyGen turns a script into a video with a lifelike avatar speaking in 100+ languages, including your own cloned likeness from a short recording. It is the go-to for training videos, product explainers and personalised outreach at scale.
Prompt-to-presentation decks that look designed, not templated
Gamma turns a prompt or a document into a deck you can edit in place, then publish as a website or export to PowerPoint. The default layouts look finished rather than stock, and the share-as-a-link path is genuinely useful for updates and one-pagers.
Automate work across 7,000+ apps with AI steps and agents
Zapier folds AI into its automation platform: AI actions inside Zaps, a natural-language builder, and agents that run multi-step workflows across thousands of apps. It is the pragmatic way to wire AI into tools that have no AI of their own.
Accessible AI image studio with model choice built in
Leonardo wraps a menu of generation models, fine-tuned community models and editing tools in one polished interface: text-to-image, image guidance, inpainting and a canvas for compositing. It is one of the friendliest ways to get serious control without running local models.
Pro-grade image and video upscaling as a desktop app
Topaz makes the reference tools for restoring and enlarging images — Gigapixel for stills, Video AI for footage — with face-aware models that hold up at extreme magnification. It runs locally as a desktop app and licences are bought, not rented.
Detail-heavy AI music you can extend, remix and rework
Udio produces full-length tracks with unusually detailed production, then hands over the controls: extend a section, remix it, inpaint over a bar, or upload your own audio to build on. Since the Universal Music partnership it is aimed squarely at creators who release music.
Prompt to a polished React interface you can actually ship
v0 generates full-stack Next.js apps and components from a prompt, previews them live, and lets you refine by chat or by editing the result directly. The code is clean enough to drop into a Vercel project, and its API gives you the same agent headlessly.
Literature-review assistant that screens papers into structured tables
Elicit reads academic papers and pulls methods, sample sizes and findings into a sortable table, which makes screening hundreds of titles for a review dramatically faster. It works on peer-reviewed corpora, so it is the wrong tool for general web questions.
AI notetaker with conversation analytics rolled up across your team
Fireflies records, transcribes and analyses meetings on every major conferencing platform, then aggregates insights across the team: topics covered, talk time and coaching scores. The free plan is surprisingly capable for individuals, but the analytics are what teams pay for.
Everyday AI at the speed of a keyboard launcher
Raycast puts AI behind a hotkey: quick prompts, file and clipboard Q&A, chat, and a large extension store for controlling your tools without touching the mouse. The launcher itself is free, but using the AI properly means paying for Pro.
The full marketing suite: SEO, ads, competitors and AI visibility
Semrush covers keyword research, rank tracking, backlink analysis, PPC research and social publishing in one dashboard, with AI features layered in for briefs, audits and visibility in answer engines. It remains the deepest single-source dataset for competitive search marketing.
Deep stylistic reports for serious long-form editors
ProWritingAid analyses manuscripts with 20+ reports: pacing, repetition, sentence variety, show-vs-tell. Deeper than Grammarly for book-length work, with a lifetime licence option.
Commercially safe generation inside the Creative Cloud
Firefly is Adobe's generator, trained on Adobe Stock and licensed content so outputs are pitched as safe for commercial work. Its real strength is integration: generative fill in Photoshop, vector recolour in Illustrator, and text-to-vector in the browser.
Generation tuned for designers, including real SVG vectors
Recraft is unusual in generating editable vector graphics as well as raster images, plus brand style palettes and icon sets that hold together across a design. Designers use it for illustration systems rather than one-off pretty pictures.
Corporate avatar videos with enterprise-grade polish
Synthesia is the enterprise counterpart to HeyGen: hundreds of avatars, 140+ languages and an editor structured around slides, so L&D teams can update a video by editing its script. It dominates internal training and compliance content.
Split any track into clean, usable stems
LALAL.AI separates a finished mix into vocals, drums, bass, guitars and piano with its Phoenix model, and it still holds up better than most rivals on noisy or overlapping sources. It is the tool people reach for when they need a karaoke version, a sample or remix stems.
Agentic IDE built around one continuous multi-file flow
Windsurf, formerly Codeium, is a VS Code-based editor whose Cascade agent keeps context across files, runs terminal steps and keeps working until the task is done. It now sits inside Cognition alongside Devin and shares its plan sheet.
Browser IDE where an agent builds, runs and hosts the app
Replit pairs a cloud IDE with Replit Agent: describe the app and it scaffolds the code, runs it, adds a database and deploys, all without local setup. It is the shortest path from idea to a live URL for people who would rather not configure a toolchain.
Open-source coding agent for your editor and terminal
Cline is an Apache-2.0 agent that reads your codebase, edits files, runs commands and drives a browser, asking for approval at each step. The extension is free; you bring your own model key or pay for its hosted provider as you go.
Ask a research question, get an evidence-backed yes or no
Consensus turns a question into a synthesis of what peer-reviewed studies conclude, with a consensus meter and quotes from each paper. It is built for answerable claims ('does X work?'), not open-ended exploration.
Meeting recorder that transcribes, summarises and tracks action items
Otter joins your Zoom, Meet or Teams calls, transcribes them live and produces a searchable summary with action items and highlights. It has been doing meeting transcription longer than most rivals, and it still handles messy real-world audio well.
Generate, cluster and expand ideas on the infinite whiteboard
Miro's AI layer sits on the classic infinite canvas: turn a sticky-note storm into a structured diagram, generate concept clusters from a prompt, or summarise a whole board in a click. The board itself remains a first-class collaboration tool, which is why teams keep paying for it.
SEO content optimization scored against the live SERP
Surfer turns a target keyword into a data-backed brief and scores your draft against the pages that already rank, covering structure, entities and internal links. It has also moved into AI-search visibility, tracking how your brand appears in ChatGPT and other answer engines.
Brand-controlled copywriting for marketing teams
Jasper is built for teams that publish at volume: brand voices, campaign templates, approval workflows and a marketing-trained model layer. Less a chatbot, more a content operating system.
Real-time generation and upscaling on an infinite canvas
Krea's canvas is the draw: sketch or place a reference and watch the image regenerate as you type, then enhance, upscale or relight it in place. It also trains custom styles on your own images.
The free-feeling editor where AI features just keep appearing
CapCut is the default editor for short-form creators: keyframe editing, auto captions, background removal, AI effects and a huge asset library across desktop, mobile and web. It is very capable for free, with upsells and licensing caveats behind the scenes.
Consistent English voices for brand and product narration
WellSaid runs a curated roster of human-grade English voices that stay recognisably the same across an entire course or product library. It trades ElevenLabs' language breadth for predictability, which is what publishing teams usually want.
Describe the product, get a full-stack app with a database
Lovable turns a written brief into a working web app — frontend, database, auth and hosting — then refines it chat by chat. It is aimed at founders and teams who care more about a working MVP than about writing the code themselves.
Free AI-assisted academic search across 200M+ papers
The Allen Institute's free research index layers one-line TLDR summaries, citation intent and related-paper suggestions over a clean paper search. It is not a chat assistant — it is the best no-cost layer for finding and triaging literature.
AI calendar that plans your day and rebuilds it when plans break
Motion takes your tasks, projects and meetings and auto-schedules them into calendar blocks, then reshuffles the plan when something overruns or gets cancelled. It is the most opinionated auto-planner available, and the annual price is not small.
Free meeting recorder with timestamp highlights and CRM notes
tl;dv records and transcribes Zoom, Meet and Teams calls for free, then lets you tag moments, cluster them into reels and push notes into your CRM. The free tier is the most generous in this category; paid plans add multi-meeting AI summaries.
Every top AI model in one place — ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini on any website
Merlin AI is the simplest way to actually use AI every day. Instead of juggling five subscriptions and copy-pasting between tabs, you get one assistant that lives in your browser and in a web app: chat with the best models from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google side by side, summarise any YouTube video, article or PDF in one click, and draft emails and replies without leaving the page you're on.
Dead-simple scheduling with an unlimited free AI assistant
Buffer handles planning, scheduling and basic analytics for up to three channels on its free plan, with an AI Assistant that rewrites, repurposes and generates captions at no cost and with no credit meter. Paid tiers add unlimited posts, deeper analytics and approvals.
Email, SMS and CRM at a price that scales with sends, not contacts
Brevo (formerly Sendinblue) bundles email and SMS campaigns, automations, chat and a lightweight CRM, with an AI content generator, send-time optimisation and MCP hooks so ChatGPT and Claude can drive your campaigns. Billing follows email volume, so large lists stay cheap.
Writing, summarising and Q&A inside your workspace
Notion AI writes and edits where your notes already live: drafts from meeting notes, summaries of long pages, and answers drawn from your whole workspace.
Paraphrasing and summarising done properly
QuillBot's paraphraser remains one of the most reliable in the category — multiple rewrite modes, a solid grammar checker and a summariser for long documents.
Upscaling that hallucinates believable new detail
Magnific is an upscaler and reimaginer: feed it a low-resolution image and it invents hair, foliage, fabric and texture as it scales — spectacular on concept art, risky when you need pixel fidelity. It is a paid-only specialist.
Finds the viral moments in long videos and cuts them for you
Opus Clip scans a long video, scores every moment for clip potential and returns short vertical cuts with captions, reframing and b-roll. It is a repurposing tool for podcasts and interviews rather than a generator.
Rescue badly recorded speech and cut clean interviews in the browser
Enhance Speech strips room noise, echo and mic harshness from a recording after the fact, so a laptop microphone ends up close to a studio take. Adobe Podcast also handles browser-based remote recording with transcription-based editing on top.
See whether citations support, mention or contradict a paper
Scite reads citation contexts from millions of articles and labels each one as supporting, mentioning or contrasting — a far more useful signal than a raw citation count. It is the fastest way to see if a finding has held up, though serious use lands behind the paywall.
Neural web search built for scripted research pipelines
Exa is a search engine trained on embeddings rather than keywords: describe the kind of page you want and it returns matching results with their contents, which is why it is popular for programmatic research and agent workflows. The web app is free to try; the API is where teams spend money.
SEO-ready articles with a research-first workflow
Writesonic pairs a chat assistant with Article Writer: keyword-in, structured draft-out, with SERP research baked in. Popular with content teams that publish SEO articles on a schedule.
Copywriting with predictive performance scores
Anyword scores every generated variant against historical conversion data before you publish. Built for performance marketers who want copy ranked by predicted results, not vibes.
Tone and clarity upgrades backed by best-in-class translation
From the team behind the best neural translator: DeepL Write rephrases sentences for tone, clarity and correctness in 30+ languages — with translation built in.
Dictation that writes wherever you already type
Wispr Flow turns speech into clean text inside any app: filler words disappear, punctuation is inferred, and your vocabulary sticks as you use it. A free plan covers light dictation, while Pro removes the caps and adds a meeting notetaker.
In-browser agent that builds and deploys full apps on tokens
Bolt runs a coding agent inside a web container: it scaffolds, edits, runs and deploys full-stack apps from a prompt or an uploaded design, with nothing to install. Everything is metered in tokens, so a long debugging session can consume a month of allowance.
Free 'Spotify for papers' that keeps building your collection
Seed ResearchRabbit with papers you already trust and it keeps suggesting new ones, plus author and co-authorship views that show who is working in a space. It is free for individuals and exports straight into Zotero.
GTM-focused copy generation with workflow automation
Copy.ai started as ad-copy generator and grew into a go-to-market workflow platform: cold emails, landing pages and multi-step content runs powered by your own playbooks.
Academic writing with citation-aware autocomplete
Jenni is an AI ghostwriter for students and researchers: inline autocomplete while you write, plus real citations pulled from academic databases and formatted in your chosen style.
AI images and video inside the editor everyone already has
Magic Media generates images, graphics and short clips directly in Canva, then drops them straight onto your design with the text, brand kit and layers already around them. The output is serviceable rather than spectacular — the convenience is the point.
Playful text-to-video with effects you can actually control
Pika turns prompts and images into short clips and is built around fun: melt, crush and inflate effects, plus lip sync and scene editing. Short on cinematic realism, high on shareable moments.
Turn scripts and articles into voiceover-led videos
Fliki converts an article, prompt or post into a narrated video: pick from a large voice library in 75+ languages, add stock or AI visuals, and export. It is a text-to-video tool for faceless channels and social posts.
Directed voiceovers for courses, ads and explainers
Murf is a voiceover studio rather than a raw TTS box: 200+ voices laid out on a timeline with emphasis, pacing and pause controls, plus a PowerPoint add-on for narrated decks. It is built for course creators and marketers who need clean narration on a schedule.
Question and explain any paper inside a PDF-focused workspace
SciSpace pairs a large paper search with a PDF reader where you can ask questions about any passage and get equations, tables and jargon explained in plain language. Formerly Typeset, it leans on the student and study workflow rather than open-web research.
Meeting scores for talk time, sentiment and engagement
Read.ai records meetings and scores them — talk time, interruptions, sentiment, engagement — then turns that into a shareable recap and a drafted follow-up email. It is the choice for people who want feedback on how a meeting went, not merely a transcript.
Conversion-focused ad creatives generated from your brand assets
AdCreative.ai generates static, video and social ad variations from your brand kit and product images, then scores each creative for predicted performance. It is built for teams that need many ad variants quickly rather than one hero design.
LinkedIn content creation and scheduling for personal brands
Taplio helps you build a LinkedIn presence: AI drafts in your voice, a library of high-performing posts for inspiration, a content calendar, scheduling and light analytics. It also includes engagement tools for commenting on other people's posts.
The default email platform, now with AI-built campaigns
Mailchimp covers email campaigns, landing pages and customer journeys with 300+ integrations, and its Intuit Assist AI drafts campaigns, suggests segments and improves send times. It is the most recognisable starting point for small-business email.
Distraction-free writing with AI in the margin
Lex is a minimal Google Docs alternative where AI sits beside the prose: suggest the next paragraph, tighten a passage, or continue where you left off — without chat clutter.
Brief-to-article workflow for SEO content teams
Frase turns a keyword into a SERP-derived outline, then helps you brief writers and score coverage against competitors. Research and structure first, generation second.
Browser video editor with subtitles and translation built in
Veed is a browser-based editor focused on the unglamorous work: accurate auto-subtitles, translation, filler-word removal, clean audio and quick social exports — no install, with shareable links for review.
Film-grade voice conversion, from one performance to another
Respeecher's technology has appeared in studio productions — it built the young Luke Skywalker voice for The Mandalorian — and it sells speech-to-speech conversion that maps one performance onto another voice. It runs as a credit marketplace aimed at film, dubbing and narration professionals.
Social media management with an AI assistant inside the composer
Hootsuite bundles scheduling, a unified inbox, listening and reporting across networks, with its Wisdom AI assistant (the former OwlyWriter AI) drafting posts, images and replies in place. It is a mature, feature-dense platform aimed at teams and agencies.
Instant rewrites that keep your meaning intact
Wordtune takes any sentence and offers ten alternative phrasings — casual, formal, shortened, expanded — while staying faithful to your intent. A light companion rather than a drafting tool.
Unfiltered story generation with persistent memory
NovelAI is an AI storyteller tuned for fiction and roleplay: modules for style, an editor that tracks world info, and models trained to keep narrative momentum over long sessions.
Full videos from a prompt, script and stock included
InVideo AI writes a script, picks stock footage, adds a voiceover and assembles a finished video from a single prompt — then lets you edit by typing commands like 'make the intro shorter'. Aimed at faceless YouTube and marketing explainers.
Git-native pair programming in your terminal, free forever
Aider edits your repository from the terminal and commits every change with a sensible message, using a repo map to keep context small and token bills low. The software is free and open source — you only pay your model provider.
A visual graph of the papers related to any seed paper
Feed it one paper and it draws a similarity graph of related work, highlighting the influential classics and the recent edge papers you would miss by following citation chains. Free for a handful of graphs a month, with a cheap subscription for heavier use.
AI social posts, carousels and product videos with auto-publishing
Predis turns a product link or a short prompt into branded posts, carousels and short videos, then schedules them across your channels; it also scores posts and analyses competitors. Credit-based pricing makes it popular with small e-commerce brands.
Community-driven generation with daily free credits
NightCafe is a social studio that runs many models — Stable Diffusion, FLUX, Ideogram and others — under one roof, with daily challenges and a huge community gallery. Its daily credit drops make it one of the few generators you can use seriously for free.
Free-friendly image editor that blends generation and design
Playground pairs a capable generator with a Canva-like editor: generate, crop, layer and finish social graphics in one place. Its free allowance has historically been generous, though plan limits have shifted more than once.
AI-written and designed social posts you can schedule in one flow
Ocoya combines AI copywriting, template-based graphics and short video with a scheduler and basic analytics, aimed at small brands and agencies running a few client accounts. The workflow is simple: generate, pick a template, queue it.
Talking-head videos from a photo and a script
D-ID animates a still photo or avatar to speak any script, with a straightforward API that product teams embed for personalised video messages. Quality has improved, but it is still clearly a synthetic presenter.
Personalised AI writing that learns your style
HyperWrite's Personalizer builds tools around how you actually write — email replies in your tone, custom agents for recurring documents, and a generous free tier to try it all.
AI photo editing for quick touch-ups and social images
Fotor combines a browser photo editor with AI one-click tools: background removal, object erase, expansion and text-to-image. It is aimed at fast social and e-commerce images rather than art.
Cheapest decent AI writer for short-form content
Rytr is a lightweight, genuinely affordable writing tool aimed at short-form needs: product descriptions, social posts, emails and ad variants. Fast, simple, and light on your wallet.
From nothing to a releasable track in a few minutes
Boomy is the shortest path to an actual song: pick a style, generate, tweak, then push it to streaming services from inside the app. Productions are simpler and more generic than Suno or Udio — this is a volume tool, not a studio.
