AI Tool Directory

AI Tool Directory for Beginners — 221 Free and Paid AI Tools Explained Simply

This is a friendly guide to 221 artificial intelligence tools, sorted into 9 easy groups — tools that write, make pictures, make videos, make music, help with work, and more. For each one we explain in plain words what it does, whether you can try it for free, and what it costs.

How to Choose the Right AI Tool for Your Workflow

Start by thinking of one job you want help with. Then compare a few tools in that group by asking four questions: How much does it cost? How easy is it to learn? How good are the results? And will it keep my information private? Try the free version first, and never share private details until you have read how the tool uses them.

Writing & Chat (42 tools)

  • Aleph Alpha Kolibri

    Aleph Alpha's Kolibri is an AI tool that works with text in German and English. You can use it to get responses in either language. Its underlying files are freely available for others to use and adapt.

    Price: Free model weights • Self-hosting costs apply

  • Atria Dawn Preview

    Atria Dawn Preview is an AI tool from Shanghai AI Lab, built on Zhipu's technology. It can work with text and carry out tasks. Its underlying files are available for others to use and adapt.

    Price: Free (open weights)

  • Celeris-1

    Celeris is an AI tool from Celeris that generates text. You can use it when you want a written response.

    Price: API access

  • ChatGPT

    ChatGPT can turn answers into charts, buttons, forms, and small apps you can interact with. You can use it to explore an answer rather than just read it. Free and paying users get different AI options.

    Price: Free: GPT-6 Luna • Paid: GPT-6 Sol

  • Claude

    Claude is testing features that turn your requests into displays of changing information and animated explanation videos. You can use it to help present or explain information. Its document, slide, and design tools are available on all plans, including free accounts.

    Price: Free • Paid plans available

  • Claude Mythos 5.1

    Anthropic's Claude Mythos is an AI tool for working with text, with fewer safety limits than a related tool. It is not available to the general public because of computer security concerns. Anthropic says its preview may end once added safety protections are in place.

    Price: Restricted access only

  • Cohere Command A

    Cohere Command A is an AI tool for businesses that can use information it looks up and carry out tasks. You can use it for work in several languages.

    Price: Free trial • Enterprise pricing

  • Cohere North Small Translate

    Cohere's North Small Translate is an AI translation tool covering more than 50 languages. You can use it to change text from one language to another.

    Price: Free (open weights)

  • Copy.ai

    Copy.ai writes text for marketing and sales. You can use it to help write words that promote what you sell.

    Price: From $49 a month

  • DeepSeek

    DeepSeek is an AI tool that works with different kinds of information. You can use it to work with a large amount of material at once.

    Price: Free • API available

  • Gemini

    Google's Gemini includes AI helpers that plan and complete tasks across workplace tools. You can use them to carry out work that involves several apps. These helpers can pass work to other AI helpers and have their own work email addresses.

    Price: Free to try

  • Gemini 4 Argon

    Google's Gemini Argon helps with complex tasks, such as writing computer code. You can use it through the Gemini app and other Google tools. It is available worldwide with paid access.

    Price: Paid

  • GigaChat 3.5 Reasoning

    GigaChat is Sber's AI for working through problems and creating text in English and Russian. You could use it to work with long pieces of text in either language.

    Price: Free (open weights) • API available

  • GLM-5.3

    Z.ai offers low-cost AI tools that work through problems and help write computer programs. You could use them for programming help or tasks that need careful thinking.

    Price: Free tier • API available

  • GPT-6.1 Sol

    OpenAI's Sol helps with writing computer programs, understanding documents, and business tasks with several steps. You could use it to make sense of a document or work through a complicated job.

    Price: Paid

  • Grammarly

    Grammarly suggests ways to fix grammar and make your writing clearer. You could use it to check a message and adjust how it sounds before sending it.

    Price: Free • Premium $12 a month

  • Grok

    Grok is xAI's assistant for help with writing computer programs and work involving information. You could use it for programming help or support with that kind of work.

    Price: Free to try

  • IBM Granite 4.2

    Granite is a family of AI tools from International Business Machines that work through problems. You could use it for tasks that need step-by-step thinking.

    Price: Free (open weights)

  • Iris Search Agent

    Iris Search Agent from AllSpark Research can carry out its own web research. You could use it to look into a topic and gather information online.

    Price: Free (open weights)

  • Jasper

    Jasper helps business teams create written material with AI. You could use it with coworkers to write marketing content.

    Price: From $49 a month

  • K2 Horizon

    K2 Horizon is a set of six AI tools from IFM for creating text. You could use them to generate text or study the openly shared materials and methods used to build them.

    Price: Free • Fully open weights

  • Kimi

    Kimi is Moonshot's AI tool for creating text. You could use it to generate writing, and the files behind the AI are available to download for free.

    Price: Free • Open weights available

  • Ling-3.0-Flash

    Ling from Ant Group is an AI tool for creating text. You could use it to generate writing, and it is designed to work efficiently.

    Price: Free • API available

  • Llama 4

    Llama is Meta's family of AI tools for building assistants and other applications. It could be used to make an assistant that works in several languages.

    Price: Free (open weights)

  • Meta AI

    Meta AI is a free assistant from Meta. You could use it to get help creating text.

    Price: Free

  • Meta Muse Wonder

    Meta's Muse Wonder tools are designed for complicated tasks, including writing computer programs. You could use them for programming help or to build AI helpers that carry out tasks.

    Price: Paid

  • MiMo-V2.6-Pro

    MiMo is an openly available AI tool from Xiaomi for creating text. You could use it to generate writing, with reports describing much lower prices than competing tools.

    Price: Free to try

  • Mistral Large 4

    Mistral Large is an AI tool with a focus on computer security. You could use it for work related to keeping computers and digital information safe.

    Price: Paid

  • Mistral Le Chat

    Le Chat lets you talk with Mistral's AI tools in a chat. You could use it to exchange messages with the AI, with added safety protections.

    Price: Free • Pro $14 a month

  • Moonbeam

    Moonbeam is an AI writing helper made for longer pieces of text. You could use it when working on a long article or other extended writing.

    Price: Free • Pro $15 a month

  • Perplexity

    Perplexity uses AI to search the web and show where its information comes from. You could use it to look up current information and check the sources.

    Price: Free • Pro $20 a month

  • PhysBrain 1.5

    PhysBrain from DeepCybo is AI designed for robots and tasks in the physical world. You could use it when working on robots that carry out physical tasks.

    Price: Free (open weights)

  • QuillBot

    QuillBot helps you reword text and check grammar. You could use it to say something another way or fix mistakes in your writing.

    Price: Free • Premium $9.95 a month

  • Qwen3.8-Max

    Alibaba's Qwen tools work through problems in several languages. You could use them for tasks that need careful thinking in different languages, with a faster option also available.

    Price: Free • API available

  • Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash

    Alibaba's Qwen Omni can work with sound and video together. You could use it to edit video diaries, translate clips, or get a short summary of a movie.

    Price: Paid

  • Reflection Beam

    Beam is Reflection's AI tool for businesses and governments. You could use it to create text for work, and Reflection says it uses less computing power than leading competing tools.

    Price: Free

  • Rytr

    Rytr is a budget-friendly AI writing tool with more than 40 ready-made starting points. You could use one to help you get started on a piece of writing.

    Price: Free • Unlimited $9 a month • Premium $29 a month

  • Shieldstral

    Shieldstral is a tool from Mistral that checks different kinds of content for safety. You can use it to flag content that breaks your chosen rules.

    Price: Free (Apache 2.0)

  • Tencent Hy4 Preview

    Tencent's Hy4 Preview is an AI tool made for writing computer code and helping with office work. You can use it for those tasks when you have a large amount of information to work with.

    Price: Free (open weights)

  • TypeSafe Jev

    TypeSafe Jev comes from Diogo Almeida, who previously worked at OpenAI. Instead of chatting, it gives answers in a set format to clearly defined questions. You could use it to sort requests, handle approvals, or pass work to another AI tool.

    Price: Early access waitlist • API usage-based

  • Unisound U2-Flash

    Unisound's U2-Flash is an AI tool built for writing computer code and carrying out tasks. You can use it for help with coding, with replies starting in under three seconds.

    Price: API access

  • Writer.com

    Writer.com helps businesses write with AI. You can use it to keep your company's writing in a consistent style.

    Price: Free trial • Starter from $18 a month

Making Pictures (15 tools)

  • Adobe Firefly

    Adobe Firefly creates AI images designed to be safe for business use. Its AI assistant can also operate Adobe Creative Cloud apps to help with creative work.

    Price: Free credits • Premium $4.99 a month

  • BlueWillow

    BlueWillow is a free tool that uses AI to make art. You can create pictures through Discord.

    Price: Free • Premium $9.99 a month

  • CF Spark

    This tool uses AI to make art in different styles. You can use it to create pictures and try different looks.

    Price: Free • Premium $9 a month

  • Flux Pro 1.1

    Flux from Black Forest Labs lets you keep editing a picture while leaving untouched parts unchanged. You can arrange a scene with boxes and use up to ten pictures as guides.

    Price: Paid

  • GPT-4o Image Gen

    This AI tool creates pictures and can include clear words within them. You can use it to make images that combine pictures and writing.

    Price: Via ChatGPT Free/Plus $20 a month

  • Grok Imagine

    Grok Imagine is an image-making tool from xAI, built into the Grok chat tool. You can use it to create pictures while chatting with Grok.

    Price: Via X Premium+

  • Ideogram 2.0

    Ideogram creates detailed pictures and lets you change selected parts without changing the rest. You can use it to make a new image or adjust just one area of a picture.

    Price: Free to try

  • Krea AI

    Krea AI makes pictures and shows the results right away. You can use it to see how an image looks as you create it.

    Price: Free • Basic $10 a month • Pro $30 a month

  • Leonardo.Ai

    Leonardo.Ai makes images that are ready to use in creative projects. You can use it to create pictures for your own creative work.

    Price: Free • Apprentice $12 a month • Artisan $30 a month

  • Magnific

    Magnific uses AI to make pictures larger and clearer. You can use it when you want a bigger image with more detail.

    Price: From $39 a month

  • Midjourney V8

    Midjourney creates AI art and has an early editing tool that follows written instructions. You can use several pictures as guides and describe the changes you want.

    Price: Basic $10 a month • Standard $30 a month • Pro $60 a month

  • Nano Banana 2.1

    Google's Nano Banana uses AI to create pictures. You can use it to make images at a lower cost than its earlier Pro model.

    Price: Paid

  • Qwen-Image-2.1

    Alibaba's Qwen image tool creates and edits pictures on home computers with powerful graphics cards. You can make pictures with see-through areas and use up to ten images as guides. Its downloadable AI is for research use; business use needs separate permission.

    Price: Free for research • Separate license required for commercial use

  • Recraft V3

    Recraft uses AI to make designs with close control over their look. You can use it to keep your designs in a chosen style or match a brand's appearance.

    Price: Free • Pro $20 a month

  • Stable Diffusion 4

    Stable Diffusion uses AI to create pictures. You can use it to make images, and its underlying instructions are available for people to view and change.

    Price: Free (open-source)

Building Apps & Websites (54 tools)

  • (Co)agents

    Unanimous AI's (Co)agents are AI helpers that join group chats and offer useful reasoning without waiting to be asked. Your team can use them to help think through a discussion as it happens.

    Price: Contact sales

  • Abacus.AI Smaug

    Abacus.AI Smaug is a group of AI systems designed for business tasks, with their inner settings available for others to use. You can use them to build AI helpers that use software tools and follow set steps for work.

    Price: Open weights • Enterprise platform available

  • Agent Toolkit for AWS

    Amazon Web Services provides this set of tools for AI helpers that write code. If you build software, it can help reduce mistakes and AI usage costs while giving your business more control.

    Price: Free (AWS usage applies)

  • Amazon Q Developer

    Amazon Q Developer is an AI helper from Amazon Web Services that helps with writing code. You can use it for coding help informed by knowledge of Amazon's services.

    Price: Free • Pro $19 a month

  • Anthropic Cyber Mission Scanner

    Anthropic Cyber Mission Scanner is a free AI tool that automatically checks software whose code is shared publicly for security weaknesses. If you work on that kind of software, you can use it to look for problems that need fixing.

    Price: Free for open-source projects

  • Augment Code

    Augment Code is an AI coding helper that understands all the code in a team's project. Your team can use it for coding help that takes the whole project into account.

    Price: Free • Pro $30 a month • Team $50 a month

  • Bitdefender AI Guardian

    Bitdefender AI Guardian is a security tool for AI helpers that carry out tasks. If you use those helpers on a Mac, you can try its free early test release.

    Price: Free macOS beta

  • Bolt.new

    Bolt.new lets you build websites and web apps directly in your web browser. You can work on both the parts people see and the parts that run behind the scenes.

    Price: Free • Premium $20 a month

  • Burp AT

    PortSwigger's AI tool works inside Burp Suite to help professionals test software for security weaknesses. If you do this work, you can use it to carry out tests within enforced limits.

    Price: Public beta • Burp Suite Pro

  • C3 Code

    C3 AI's C3 Code turns everyday written instructions into apps built for business use. You can describe the app you need to help create software ready for real work.

    Price: Enterprise pricing

  • Claude Code

    Claude Code is Anthropic's AI tool for writing code. If you know how to code, its Mods update lets you change how it looks and behaves, including its buttons, commands, and rules for using other tools.

    Price: Paid

  • Claude Managed Agents

    Anthropic's Claude Managed Agents lets one lead AI helper divide work among up to one thousand AI helpers at once. If you build software, you can use them to share tasks such as finding mistakes in code.

    Price: Paid

  • Claude Scheduled Agents

    Anthropic's Claude Scheduled Agents provides tools for scheduling software releases, storing sensitive information securely, and running several AI helpers at once. If you manage software, you can use these tools to organize when work happens.

    Price: Via Claude Pro/Team

  • Cloudflare Clef

    Cloudflare's Clef includes an AI system that works with sound, video, pictures, and text to help make decisions. You can use it for decision-making tasks rather than just written conversations.

    Price: Free

  • Codeium

    Codeium uses AI to suggest how to finish code as you write. You can use it for free, with no limit on usage.

    Price: Free • Teams $12 a month • Enterprise custom

  • Codex Cloud

    OpenAI's Codex Cloud gives you an online workspace for writing software that you can reuse across devices. You can also use voice commands in its text-based control window, review code, and check for security problems with fixes prepared for you.

    Price: Paid

  • Continue.dev

    Continue.dev is an AI coding helper for Visual Studio Code and JetBrains coding tools. You can use it for help while writing software, and its own code is publicly available to view and change.

    Price: Free (open-source)

  • Cursor

    Cursor is a workspace for writing software with AI helpers. You can have several helpers work at once and choose from different AI systems.

    Price: Free • Pro $20 a month • Business $40 a month

  • Cursor Origin

    Cursor Origin stores and organizes code created by groups of AI helpers. You can use it to keep track of that code and its changes over time.

    Price: Via Cursor plans

  • Devin

    Devin is an AI tool that builds software on its own. You could use it to handle work involved in creating a computer program.

    Price: Enterprise pricing

  • DiffusionGemma

    DiffusionGemma is Google's AI tool for creating text on your own computer. You could use it to generate text without relying on a computer elsewhere.

    Price: Free (open-source)

  • EmbeddingGemma 2

    Google's EmbeddingGemma turns text, pictures, video, sound, and computer code into numbers that help with searching. People building search apps can use it to find things on a device without an internet connection or sending data elsewhere.

    Price: Open model • Self-hosted

  • FLUX 3 Action

    Black Forest Labs' tool uses camera images to predict what a robot should do next. People building robots could use it to help control their movements.

    Price: Free

  • Gemini Spark

    Gemini Spark is Google's AI helper that can work on its own, day or night. You could use it to sort your Gmail messages, make bookings, and handle everyday tasks online.

    Price: Free (rolling out globally)

  • Gemma 4

    Gemma is Google's AI tool that works with different kinds of information. You could use it to help carry out tasks, rather than only answer questions.

    Price: Free (open-source)

  • Gitar

    Gitar uses AI to check proposed changes to computer code. If you're working on software, it can fix problems found during reviews and automatic checks.

    Price: Contact sales

  • GitHub Copilot

    GitHub Copilot helps you write computer code using a choice of AI tools. You could use it for help with programming tasks, though its business plan now includes a smaller AI usage allowance.

    Price: Individual $10 a month • Business $19 a month

  • GitLab

    GitLab includes AI helpers that work toward goals while you build software. You could use them for programming work and use its spending controls to manage AI costs.

    Price: Free to try

  • Google Playground

    Google Playground turns written descriptions into games you can play in a web browser. You could use it to make a game without writing computer code.

    Price: Free

  • GPT-Live-1

    OpenAI's voice AI can listen and reply at the same time during a conversation. People building apps could use it to make voice helpers that talk more naturally.

    Price: Usage-based API pricing

  • Grok Bot

    Grok Bot provides AI helpers from xAI that use their own computers and work day and night. You could use them to carry out tasks across your apps.

    Price: Early beta • Contact sales

  • Grok Build

    Grok Build from xAI can read and change computer files and fix software problems on its own. You could use it for programming help, and it saves notes about your project's rules and decisions for later work.

    Price: Via xAI subscription / API

  • Hint

    Hint is Martha Stewart's AI helper for homeowners. You could use it to keep track of home upkeep tasks and reminders.

    Price: Free • Premium subscription

  • JetBrains AI

    JetBrains AI is a helper built into JetBrains' tools for writing software. If you use those tools, you can get AI help where you already do your programming.

    Price: Part of IDE subscription

  • Lovable

    Lovable uses AI to build apps that run on the web in minutes. You could use it to create both the parts people see and the parts that work behind the scenes.

    Price: Free • Pro $20 a month

  • Microsoft-Decision-1

    Microsoft's AI tool quickly sorts information and directs tasks to the right place. You could use it to organize incoming information and decide where work should go next.

    Price: Paid

  • Muse Code

    Muse Code is an early test release from Meta that uses several AI helpers for software work. You could use it for help developing a computer program.

    Price: Free to try

  • Muse Gadgets

    Meta's Muse Gadgets helps hobbyists build devices that connect to its Muse AI helper. If you enjoy electronics projects, you could use it to connect your own equipment using small computer boards.

    Price: Free open-source code • Hardware required

  • Musubi PolicyLM-1.7B

    Musubi's AI tool helps decide whether content should be allowed as it arrives. You could use it to help check new posts or other shared material.

    Price: Free

  • Nace AI Drex 1.5

    Drex from Nace AI gives scores to options you provide instead of writing text. You could use it to compare choices when making a decision.

    Price: Open-source model

  • Nemotron 3 Ultra

    NVIDIA's Nemotron helps AI work through tasks that take a long time. People building AI helpers could use it for work that needs many steps of thinking.

    Price: Free (open weights)

  • NVIDIA Molt

    NVIDIA Molt is a tool for training very large AI systems to carry out tasks by learning from feedback. People building AI could use it to train their own systems.

    Price: Free (open-source)

  • NVIDIA Run:ai

    NVIDIA Run:ai helps teams organize and share the computer power used for AI work. You could use it to manage how your team shares that equipment, and its code is now available for others to use and change.

    Price: Open-source software

  • OpenAI Decisions API

    OpenAI's Decisions tool sorts text and pictures into groups or gives them ratings. You could use it to organize information or estimate how likely a yes-or-no answer is.

    Price: $0.10 per million input tokens

  • OpenRouter

    OpenRouter connects software to more than 200 AI models through one connection. You can use it to choose which AI handles a task without connecting to each one separately.

    Price: Pay per use • Free tier available

  • PayBox

    PayBox is a payment tool from MoonPay that lets Claude and ChatGPT make payments on their own. You can use it for AI-handled payments without MoonPay taking control of your money.

    Price: Free to connect

  • Reka Rho-1

    Reka's AI can work with words, pictures, videos, and instructions for moving robots. You can use it to read or create these different things together, rather than relying on separate tools.

    Price: Paid

  • Replit Agent

    Replit Agent uses AI to build complete apps and put them online. You can use it to turn an app idea into something people can use.

    Price: Free • Core $25 a month

  • Runway Solaris

    Runway Solaris creates apps and websites as you use them. You can use it to have an app or website take shape while you work with it.

    Price: Research preview

  • SonarQube Hunter Agent

    Sonar's Hunter Agent uses AI to check the instructions that make software work. It helps find security problems that usual checks miss, such as letting someone see information they should not see.

    Price: Via SonarQube Cloud

  • Tabnine

    Tabnine suggests how to finish the computer instructions you are writing. You can use it for help making software, with privacy as a priority.

    Price: Free • Pro $12 a month • Enterprise custom

  • Trae

    Trae is a tool from ByteDance for making software with AI help. You can use it to have AI carry out programming tasks and work with different AI models.

    Price: Free

  • v0 by Vercel

    This tool from Vercel uses AI to create the parts of an app or website that people see and use. You can describe what you want in words and have it make those parts.

    Price: Free credits • Premium $20 a month

  • Windsurf

    Windsurf is a place to write software with AI help built in. You can use it to have AI work through programming tasks with you.

    Price: Free • Pro $15 a month

Making Videos (16 tools)

  • Colossyan

    Colossyan uses AI to make workplace learning videos. You can use it to create training videos for people at work.

    Price: Free trial • Starter $28 a month

  • Descript

    Descript lets you edit a video by changing the written words from it. You can use it to make video edits and add AI voices.

    Price: Free • Creator $12 a month • Pro $24 a month

  • Hailuo 2.3

    Hailuo is a video-making tool from Minimax. You can use it to create high-quality videos with smooth movement.

    Price: Free credits • Premium available

  • HeyGen

    HeyGen makes videos with computer-made people who speak in more than 175 languages. You can use it to create videos where their mouth movements match the words.

    Price: Free credits • Creator $29 a month

  • HiDream-O1-Video

    HiDream's video tool turns words, pictures, or videos into short video clips. You can use it to make clips lasting five to twenty seconds, with sound that matches the video.

    Price: Free credits • API available

  • Invideo AI

    Invideo AI turns a written script into a video in minutes. You can use it to make a video from words you have prepared.

    Price: Free • Plus $20 a month • Max $60 a month

  • Kling 3.0

    Kling is a video-making tool from Kuaishou. You can use it to create videos with lifelike movement and mouth movements that match speech.

    Price: Free credits • Standard from $10 a month

  • Luma Ray 3

    Luma Ray makes videos as part of Dream Machine. You can use it to create videos with improved movement and picture quality.

    Price: Free • Standard $29.99 a month • Pro $99.99 a month

  • Odyssey-3

    Odyssey creates places you can interact with on screen as you type descriptions. You can try its early public release for free to explore the places you describe.

    Price: Free research preview

  • Pika 2.0

    Pika uses Pikaformance to create lifelike facial expressions and mouth movements that match speech. You can use it to make expressive talking videos.

    Price: Free • Standard $8 a month • Pro $28 a month

  • Runway FLUX 3

    Runway's video tool creates clips up to twenty seconds long with sound included. You can use it to make short videos with audio.

    Price: Free credits • Standard $15 a month

  • Seedance 1.5 Pro

    Seedance makes high-quality videos of dance and movement. You can use it to create dance clips or other videos focused on motion.

    Price: Free credits • Pro available

  • Synthesia

    Synthesia makes professional videos with more than 160 computer-made presenters to choose from. You can use it to create a video featuring one of these presenters.

    Price: Starter $22 a month • Creator $67 a month

  • Veo 4

    Google's Veo makes very detailed videos with sound included. You can use it to create videos that keep characters looking more consistent from one shot to the next.

    Price: Free in Gemini • Advanced $20 a month

  • WAN 2.6

    This AI tool makes high-quality videos, and its code is publicly available. You can use it to create videos of your own.

    Price: Free (open-source)

  • YouTube Studio AI

    YouTube Studio's AI tools review scripts and early video edits to help with storytelling. You can also edit YouTube Shorts by chatting with its Gemini-powered tool. Other tools help you come up with ideas and track how well your video preview pictures perform.

    Price: Free

Voice, Sound & Music (20 tools)

  • Adobe Podcast

    Adobe Podcast uses AI to improve and edit sound recordings. You can use it to make your recordings sound clearer.

    Price: Free with Adobe account

  • Aiva

    Aiva uses AI to write music. You can use it to create music to go with a film or other project.

    Price: Free • Standard $11 a month • Pro $33 a month

  • AudioCraft (Meta)

    AudioCraft is a set of tools from Meta for creating sound with AI. Its code is available to use and change, so people can build their own sound-making tools.

    Price: Free (open-source)

  • Beatoven

    Beatoven uses AI to make music for videos and podcasts. You can use the music without paying a fee each time it plays.

    Price: Free • Premium $20 a month

  • ElevenLabs

    ElevenLabs makes AI voices and includes a tool called ElevenMusic Composer for working on songs. You can use the music tool to remake one part of a song while leaving the rest unchanged.

    Price: Free • Starter $5 a month • Creator $22 a month

  • Gemini 3.5 Transcribe

    This Google tool turns speech into written words as someone talks, even with background noise. You can use it to get neatly arranged text with speech fillers, such as “um,” removed.

    Price: Free in Gemini app • API available

  • Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS

    Google's Gemini voice tools read written words aloud in more than 100 languages. You can guide how each line sounds and make conversations with two speakers. The Flash tool also lets you describe the voice you want in words.

    Price: Paid

  • Google Lyria 3.5

    Google's Lyria makes music with AI and is built into Gemini. You can use it to create songs, including through a free option.

    Price: Free in Gemini • Advanced $20 a month

  • Kits AI

    Kits AI changes the sound of a voice and provides tools for teaching AI to copy a voice. You can use it to make vocals sound like a different voice.

    Price: Free • Converter $9.99 a month

  • MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming

    This Microsoft AI tool turns speech into written words as someone talks. It is meant for tools such as AI helpers you can speak to.

    Price: Paid

  • Murf AI

    Murf AI creates spoken recordings in more than 20 languages. You can use it to add a narrator's voice to your project.

    Price: Free • Basic $19 a month • Pro $26 a month

  • Muse Voice Transcribe

    Meta's Muse Voice Transcribe turns speech into written words as someone talks, without saving the audio. You can try it live on a web page.

    Price: Free research preview

  • NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Diarization

    This free NVIDIA tool tells different speakers apart during a conversation. You can use it to keep track of who is talking, with up to eight speakers.

    Price: Free model

  • Podcastle

    Podcastle brings AI tools for making and editing podcasts into one place. You can use it to create a podcast and make changes to it.

    Price: Free • Storyteller $11.99 a month

  • Qwen-Audio-3.1

    Alibaba's Qwen audio tools turn speech into writing, read text aloud, and support live conversations. You can use them to get written speech with filler words removed. They can also mark who spoke and when, and notice emotions and background sounds.

    Price: Paid

  • Soundverse

    Soundverse is an AI workspace for making music. You can use it to create music and put the finishing touches on how it sounds.

    Price: Free • Pro $15 a month

  • Stability Audio

    Stability Audio creates sound using AI from Stability AI. You can use it to make audio, and its code is available to use and change.

    Price: Free (open-source)

  • Suno Studio 2.1

    Suno Studio makes songs and gives you tools to edit music. You can also use its Speech tool to create spoken audio with background music.

    Price: Free to try

  • Udio Sessions

    Udio Sessions uses AI to create music. You can use it to make longer pieces and edit the music you are working on.

    Price: Free • Standard $10 a month • Pro $30 a month

  • Voice.ai

    Voice.ai uses AI to change how your voice sounds as you speak. You can use it to speak with a custom voice.

    Price: Free • Pro $12 a month

Getting Work Done (22 tools)

  • Akiflow

    Akiflow keeps your tasks together and uses AI to schedule them. You can use it to plan when to get things done.

    Price: From $19 a month

  • Claudeforce

    Claudeforce brings together Salesforce and Anthropic to help businesses work with customer information using Claude AI. You can use it to handle customer-related tasks while following your company's rules.

    Price: Enterprise pricing

  • Fireflies.ai

    Fireflies.ai uses AI to take meeting notes and help you understand the discussion. You can use it to review what people talked about.

    Price: Free • Pro $10 a month • Business $19 a month

  • Gemini Enterprise for Financial Services

    Google Cloud's tool helps people working in finance build AI helpers. These helpers can use market information and repeat tasks. You can also trace where the information came from.

    Price: Enterprise pricing

  • Gemini Live

    Gemini Live is an AI helper you mainly talk to out loud. You can use it to get a daily update and manage your email without using your hands.

    Price: Free • Advanced $20 a month

  • Google AI Edge Foresight

    Google's AI Edge Foresight writes down meeting conversations, makes notes, and answers questions. You can use it without an internet connection because the AI runs on your device.

    Price: Free

  • Google Photos Virtual Closet

    Google Photos Virtual Closet uses AI to build a collection of your clothes from your photos. You can use it to see your wardrobe on an Android phone or an iPhone.

    Price: Free to try

  • Google Workspace AI

    Google Workspace AI brings Gemini AI into Google's tools for documents, spreadsheets, email, and meetings. You can use AI in the same tools where you write and work.

    Price: Business $20 a month • Enterprise $30 a month

  • Granola

    Granola is an AI notepad that automatically improves your meeting notes. You can use it to keep a better record of a discussion.

    Price: Free • Pro $10 a month • Business $18 a month

  • Magical AI

    Magical AI turns short bits of text into longer text and handles repeated work steps. You can use it to cut down on typing and routine tasks.

    Price: Free • Pro $12 a month

  • Manus

    Manus lets you edit videos and run games that several people can play together. It also offers personal AI helpers with their own phone numbers. You can run these helpers from your phone, even when you are elsewhere.

    Price: Free to try

  • Mem.ai

    Mem.ai helps you take notes and uses AI to organize them automatically. You can use it to keep your notes in order without sorting them yourself.

    Price: Free • Pro $14.99 a month

  • Microsoft Copilot

    Microsoft Copilot has Home, Code, and Autopilot sections. Microsoft says Autopilot keeps running online to watch activity in Microsoft Teams and complete tasks for you. Charges for Autopilot and Code depend on how much you use them.

    Price: Free • Autopilot and Code billed by usage

  • Motion

    Motion uses AI to help manage your calendar and projects. You can use it to plan your time and keep track of project work.

    Price: Individual $19 a month • Team $24 a month

  • NotebookLM

    Google's AI research helper includes spoken summaries. You can use it to help with research and listen to an overview.

    Price: Free • Plus $20 a month

  • Notion AI

    Notion AI gives you a place to work with AI help for writing and answering questions. You can use it to work on text or ask for information.

    Price: $10 a month add-on to any plan

  • Otter.ai

    Otter.ai turns speech into written words as people talk and uses AI to summarize meetings. You can use it to read along or review the main points afterward.

    Price: Free • Pro $16.99 a month • Business $30 a month

  • Pinterest Beauty Guides

    Pinterest Beauty Guides uses AI to turn hair and nail ideas on Pinterest into descriptions you can take to a salon. You can check estimated costs, appointment times, and what care the style will need.

    Price: Free

  • Reclaim AI

    Reclaim AI automatically puts tasks and regular habits on your calendar. You can use it to plan time for things you need or want to do.

    Price: Free • Starter $10 a month • Business $15 a month

  • Sheets Canvas

    Sheets Canvas uses Gemini AI to turn information in a spreadsheet into small tools and visual summaries you can click and explore. You can describe what you want in everyday words to create a new way to work with your information.

    Price: Included with Google Workspace

  • Superhuman

    Superhuman is an email tool built for speed, with AI features. You can use it to handle your email.

    Price: Starter $30 a month • Business $40 a month

  • Tactiq

    Tactiq uses AI to turn spoken words in Google Meet and Zoom meetings into text. You can use it to read what was said in a meeting.

    Price: Free • Pro $12 a month

Finding Information (16 tools)

  • Airbnb AI Search

    Airbnb AI Search adds AI to searching on Airbnb. You can use it to search while planning a trip.

    Price: Free

  • BootLoops

    BootLoops helps AI do precise scientific calculations, and its underlying code is available for people to view and change. You can use it for scientific number work, but human experts still need to check the results.

    Price: Open-source tool • Model usage may cost extra

  • ChatGPT Search

    ChatGPT Search lets you search the web from inside ChatGPT. You can use it to look up current information.

    Price: Via Plus $20 a month or Pro $200 a month

  • Consensus

    Consensus uses AI to search more than 200 million scientific papers. You can use it to find research and see which papers the information comes from.

    Price: Free • Premium $8.99 a month • Enterprise custom

  • Elicit

    Elicit is an AI helper for reviewing and studying research. You can use it when you need to look through papers on a topic.

    Price: Free • Plus $12 a month • Pro $42 a month

  • ExplainPaper

    ExplainPaper explains difficult parts of research papers with AI. You can add a paper and get help understanding sections that feel confusing.

    Price: Free • Pro $12 a month

  • Google SynthID Detector

    Google's SynthID Detector checks pictures, videos, and sound recordings for special marks left by certain AI tools. You can use it to check for those marks, but it cannot identify everything made by AI.

    Price: Free

  • Iris.ai

    Iris.ai uses AI to help you find scientific research. You can use it to look for papers about a topic you want to study.

    Price: Free • Premium $12 a month

  • Lexis+ AI

    Lexis+ AI helps people who work in law research legal topics. If that is your work, you can use it to help find legal information.

    Price: Enterprise pricing

  • Lunar Foundation Model

    The Lunar Foundation Model comes from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and International Business Machines. It helps researchers study information gathered by spacecraft orbiting the Moon. Researchers can use it to help predict where ice may be near the Moon's poles.

    Price: Open-source model

  • Maple AI

    Maple AI is a research helper for students and people at work. You can use it for help with research for your studies or job.

    Price: Free • Pro $10 a month

  • Perplexity Pro

    Perplexity Pro helps you search for information with AI. You can use it to look things up with access to several different AI systems.

    Price: Free • Pro $20 a month • Enterprise $40 a month

  • Scholarcy

    Scholarcy uses AI to turn research articles into shorter summaries and pull out facts and figures. You can use it to review the main points of an article.

    Price: Free • Premium $7.99 a month

  • SciSpace

    SciSpace uses AI to explain and examine research papers. You can use it for help understanding what a paper says.

    Price: Free • Premium $20 a month

  • Semantic Scholar

    Semantic Scholar is an AI search tool from the Allen Institute for AI. You can use it to find research papers about a subject you are studying.

    Price: Free

  • You.com

    You.com uses AI to search for information and tailor the results to you. You can use it to look things up and see where the information came from.

    Price: Free • Pro $15 a month

Design & 3D Objects (13 tools)

  • Blender AI

    Blender is free software for making three-dimensional designs. You can use it with added AI tools to help with your design work.

    Price: Free (open-source)

  • Canva Magic Studio

    Canva Magic Studio brings together more than twenty AI design tools in Canva. You can use them to help create designs.

    Price: Free • Pro $14.99 a month • Teams $30 a month

  • DreamFace (HeyGen)

    HeyGen's DreamFace uses AI to make faces move and create digital characters. You can use it to design a character or add movement to a face.

    Price: Free credits • Creator $29 a month

  • Figma AI

    Figma AI can handle some design tasks automatically. You can also use it to make early versions of a design to try out.

    Price: Part of Professional $15 a month • Organization $45 a month

  • Framer AI

    Framer AI creates websites that adjust to different screen sizes. You can use it to make a website and translate it into other languages.

    Price: Free • Mini $5 a month • Basic $15 a month

  • Galileo AI

    Galileo AI turns written descriptions into designs for app or website screens. You can describe what you want, then edit the design it creates.

    Price: Free • Pro $19 a month

  • Krea 3D

    Krea uses AI to create three-dimensional objects as you work. You can use it to make objects for your design projects.

    Price: Free • Pro from $10 a month

  • Luma 3D

    Luma captures and creates realistic-looking three-dimensional models. You can use it to make digital objects that look like real ones.

    Price: Free • Pro $29.99 a month

  • Meshy

    Meshy turns words or pictures into three-dimensional digital models. You can describe an object or provide a picture to create a model of it.

    Price: Free • Pro $16 a month • Max $32 a month

  • Runway Frame Interpolation

    Runway uses AI to fill in the pictures between moments in an animation. You can use it to make movement look smoother.

    Price: Free credits • Standard $15 a month

  • Shopify Canvas

    Shopify Canvas helps you build and change an online store by chatting with Shopify's Sidekick AI helper. You can ask for changes and see them appear as you work.

    Price: Paid

  • Spline AI

    Spline AI creates and changes three-dimensional digital objects from written instructions. You can describe what you want to make or how you want it changed.

    Price: Free • Pro $18 a month • Organization $36 a month

  • Uizard

    Uizard turns sketches and pictures of screens into designs for software screens. You can use it to turn a rough drawing into a design for people to use.

    Price: Free • Pro $12 a month • Business $39 a month

AI Helpers That Do Tasks for You (23 tools)

  • AutoGen

    AutoGen is a Microsoft tool for setting up conversations between several AI helpers. You can use it to build a setup where the helpers talk to one another.

    Price: Free (open-source)

  • Botpress

    Botpress helps businesses build AI tools that chat with people. You can use it to create a chat helper, and its code is available to use and change.

    Price: Free • Team $10 a month • Enterprise custom

  • Chatbase

    Chatbase lets you teach an AI chat helper using your documents and website. You can use it to make a helper that answers questions based on that information.

    Price: Free • Hobby $19 a month • Standard $99 a month

  • Claude Computer Use

    Claude Computer Use lets Claude operate your computer to get tasks done. You can use it to have Claude carry out computer tasks for you.

    Price: Via Claude Pro $20 a month

  • Claude Cowork

    Claude Cowork is Anthropic's online workspace for working on tasks. It shares remembered information with Claude chat, and you can edit that information.

    Price: Via Claude Pro $20 a month and up

  • Claude in Chrome

    Anthropic's Claude in Chrome can click, fill in forms, and work across browser tabs for you. You can use it to handle online tasks, with a safety check for each action.

    Price: Included on all paid Claude plans

  • Cohere North 2

    Cohere's North helps businesses manage AI helpers that use different kinds of AI. You can use these helpers for tasks with several steps, and they can remember earlier work when you return.

    Price: Paid

  • CrewAI

    CrewAI helps you set up AI helpers with different roles. You can use it to organize how they work together on a task.

    Price: Free (open-source)

  • CustomGPT

    This tool lets you make an AI chatbot using your own information. You can use it to create a chatbot that answers questions about that information.

    Price: Standard $89 a month • Premium $449 a month

  • DoorDash AI Ordering Agent

    DoorDash's AI helper takes food orders through text messages. You can use it to order food by sending a message.

    Price: Paid

  • Firefox Smart Window

    Firefox Smart Window is an AI helper you can use while browsing the web. It uses AI from Mistral and is adapted for regional languages. It is being tested, with France and North America getting access first.

    Price: Free in Firefox beta

  • Flowise AI

    Flowise AI lets you build a series of AI steps by dragging and dropping items on a screen. You can use it to arrange how AI works through a task.

    Price: Free (open-source)

  • LangChain

    LangChain provides tools for building apps that use AI to work with language. You can use it to create your own AI-powered app.

    Price: Free (open-source) • LangSmith from $39 a month

  • Make.com

    Make.com uses AI to carry out tasks automatically. You can use it to build AI helpers and set up work for them to do.

    Price: Free • Core $9 a month • Pro $16 a month

  • Muse (Meta)

    Meta's Muse uses its own online computer to browse the web, write computer programs, and install software. You can ask it to do these tasks from an iPad or mobile device.

    Price: Free

  • n8n

    n8n lets you set up tasks to run automatically, with AI handling some of the steps. You can use it to connect steps into a process instead of doing each one yourself.

    Price: Free • Starter $20 a month

  • OpenAI Dots

    OpenAI's Dots are AI helpers that stay running on their own online computers to work toward goals you set. You can reach them through ChatGPT, Slack, or Microsoft Teams. When checking information in the background, they can read it but cannot change it.

    Price: Paid

  • OpenAI Operator

    OpenAI Operator is an AI helper that carries out tasks on the web by itself. You can use it to do online tasks for you.

    Price: Via ChatGPT Pro $200 a month

  • OpenClaw

    OpenClaw is a personal AI helper that handles email, calendar items, and tasks automatically. You can use it through WhatsApp, Slack, or Discord to help manage those everyday jobs.

    Price: Free (self-host) • Cloud $10 a month

  • Stack AI

    Stack AI lets you build AI helpers without writing computer code. You can use it to set up a series of steps for them to carry out.

    Price: Free • Growth $99 a month

  • Tavus Griffin

    Tavus Griffin lets you have live video conversations with AI. During a call, it takes in facial expressions, tone of voice, and gestures.

    Price: Free to try

  • Voiceflow

    Voiceflow lets you create AI helpers that hold conversations. You can use it to make those helpers available to many people.

    Price: Free • Pro $50 a month • Team $625 a month

  • Zapier Central

    Zapier Central provides AI helpers that carry out tasks with many steps automatically. You can use them to handle a process instead of doing every step yourself.

    Price: Free • Professional $29.99 a month