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AI tools, and what they're actually for

A plain-language directory of 50 well-known AI tools. Search, or filter by what you want to get done.

50 tools

ChatGPT

OpenAI's conversational AI assistant for questions, writing, analysis and more.
Chat assistantsWritingResearchfreemium

Claude

Anthropic's AI assistant for writing, analysis and coding.
Chat assistantsWritingCodingfreemium

Gemini

Google's AI assistant, connected to Google's apps and search.
Chat assistantsResearchfreemium

Microsoft Copilot

Microsoft's AI assistant across Windows, Edge and Microsoft 365.
Chat assistantsProductivityfreemium

Grok

xAI's AI assistant with access to real-time information from X.
Chat assistantsResearchfreemium

Meta AI

Meta's AI assistant available on the web and inside Meta's apps.
Chat assistantssee site for pricing

Le Chat (Mistral)

Mistral AI's chat assistant built on its own models.
Chat assistantssee site for pricing

Perplexity

An AI answer engine that searches the web and cites its sources.
ResearchChat assistantsfreemium

NotebookLM

Google's research notebook that answers questions grounded in the sources you upload.
ResearchProductivitysee site for pricing

Elicit

An AI research assistant for finding and summarizing academic papers.
Researchsee site for pricing

Consensus

An AI search engine that answers questions from scientific research.
Researchsee site for pricing

GitHub Copilot

An AI pair programmer inside your editor and on GitHub.
Codingfreemium

Cursor

An AI-first code editor with chat and coding agents built in.
CodingAutomation & agentsfreemium

Claude Code

Anthropic's agentic coding tool that works in your terminal.
CodingAutomation & agentspaid

Replit

A browser-based coding platform with an AI agent that builds and hosts apps.
Codingfreemium

v0

Vercel's AI tool that generates web apps and UI from prompts.
CodingDesignfreemium

Bolt.new

StackBlitz's AI tool that builds full-stack web apps in the browser.
Codingsee site for pricing

Lovable

An AI app builder that turns descriptions into working web apps.
Codingsee site for pricing

Windsurf (now Devin Desktop)

An AI-powered code editor with an agentic assistant, now called Devin Desktop.
Codingfreemium

Midjourney

An AI image generator known for an artistic style.
ImageDesignpaid

DALL·E / ChatGPT images

OpenAI's image generation inside ChatGPT (DALL·E 3 is retired; it now uses GPT Image models).
Imagesee site for pricing

Stable Diffusion

Stability AI's open image-generation models you can run yourself.
Imagesee site for pricing

Adobe Firefly

Adobe's generative AI for images and effects, integrated with Creative Cloud.
ImageDesignfreemium

Ideogram

An AI image generator that is strong at rendering text in images.
ImageDesignfreemium

Leonardo.Ai

An AI image and asset generation platform.
Imagefreemium

Runway

AI video generation and editing tools for creators.
Videofreemium

Sora

OpenAI's text-to-video model, now discontinued.
Videosee site for pricing

Pika

An AI video generator for short creative clips.
Videopaid

Synthesia

Creates videos with AI avatars presenting your script.
Videosee site for pricing

HeyGen

AI avatar video creation and video translation.
Videosee site for pricing

Descript

Edit audio and video by editing the transcript, with AI features.
VideoAudio & voicefreemium

ElevenLabs

AI text-to-speech and voice cloning.
Audio & voicefreemium

Suno

Generates full songs, with vocals, from text prompts.
Audio & voicefreemium

Whisper

OpenAI's open-source speech-recognition model.
Audio & voiceDataopen source

Otter.ai

AI meeting notes and transcription.
Audio & voiceProductivityfreemium

Grammarly

An AI writing assistant for grammar, clarity and tone.
Writingfreemium

Jasper

An AI content platform for marketing teams.
Writingpaid

QuillBot

An AI paraphrasing and writing tool.
Writingfreemium

DeepL

AI translation and writing improvement.
Writingfreemium

Zapier

Connects apps and automates workflows, with AI steps and agents.
Automation & agentsProductivityfreemium

Make

A visual platform for building automations across apps.
Automation & agentsfreemium

n8n

A workflow automation tool you can self-host, with AI agent nodes.
Automation & agentsfreemium

Notion AI

AI built into Notion for writing, search and summaries.
ProductivityWritingpaid

Fireflies.ai

An AI notetaker that records, transcribes and summarizes meetings.
ProductivityAudio & voicefreemium

Canva

An online design tool with built-in AI features.
DesignImagefreemium

Figma

A collaborative interface design tool with AI features.
Designfreemium

Gamma

Creates presentations, documents and web pages with AI.
DesignProductivityfreemium

Hugging Face

A hub for open AI models, datasets and demos.
DataCodingfreemium

Julius AI

An AI data analyst that charts and analyzes your spreadsheets.
Datasee site for pricing

Ollama

Runs open large language models locally on your own computer.
DataCodingopen source

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