Short lists for common jobs.

The leading open-source image AI — run it locally for free with full control and no restrictions.

Chatbots and assistants

Conversational assistants for research, writing and everyday questions.

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Character.AI

AI Character

AI character chat platform — talk to AI personas of celebrities, fictional characters, or create your own.

ChatGPT

OpenAI's flagship AI assistant for writing, coding, research, and analysis, used by hundreds of millions of people.

4.8 Details

Claude

Anthropic's AI assistant known for careful reasoning, long documents, strong coding, and a large context window.

DeepSeek

Powerful open-weight AI from China — competitive with frontier models at a fraction of the cost.

Gemini

Google's multimodal AI assistant — integrated with Search, Gmail, Docs, and the entire Google ecosystem.

Grok

xAI's AI assistant with real-time access to X (Twitter) data and a more direct, less filtered personality.

Image generators

Text-to-image tools, from quick drafts to work you can actually ship.

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Adobe Express

AI Graphic Design

Adobe's free AI design app — create social posts, logos, flyers, and videos with AI-powered templates.

Adobe Firefly

Adobe's commercially safe AI image generator — trained on licensed content and built into Creative Cloud.

AI Illustration Generator

Artbreeder

Blend and evolve AI images using genetic-style sliders — create unique portraits, landscapes, and characters.

Bing Image Creator

Microsoft's free text-to-image generator powered by DALL-E 3, built into Copilot, Bing, and Edge with no subscription.

Canva AI Image Generator

Generate AI images inside Canva from a text prompt and drop them straight into a design — no separate tool needed.

Canva AI

AI Graphic Design

Canva's Magic Studio AI tools — generate designs, images, and video, remove backgrounds, and write copy inside the design app.

Writing tools

Drafting, editing and rewriting — blog posts, emails, marketing copy.

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Anyword

AI Writing Assistants

AI writing platform with predictive performance scoring — it estimates which copy will convert before you publish.

Copy.ai

AI Copywriting

AI marketing copy platform — generate ads, emails, blog posts, and sales content in seconds.

Frase

AI Blog Generator

AI SEO content tool that researches top-ranking pages and helps you write and optimize blog posts that rank.

Grammarly

AI Grammar Checker

AI writing assistant that checks grammar, style, tone, and clarity — works everywhere you write.

4.6 Details

Hemingway Editor

AI Proofreading

Writing clarity tool that flags complex sentences, passive voice, and readability issues as you type.

Hypotenuse AI

AI Blog Generator

AI content platform for e-commerce and marketing teams — bulk product descriptions, blog posts, and SEO content at scale.

Coding assistants

Completion, review and refactoring, mostly inside your editor.

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Aider

AI Code Editor

Open-source terminal AI pair programmer that edits code across files and commits changes to git for you.

Bolt

AI App Builder

AI full-stack web app builder — describe your app in plain English and get a working prototype in the browser.

Codeium

AI code completion and chat from the makers of Windsurf — free individual autocomplete across 40+ IDEs and 70+ languages.

Cursor

AI-first code editor — a VS Code fork with deep, codebase-aware AI for chat, multi-file edits, and autonomous agent tasks.

Devin

AI Software Engineer

Autonomous AI software engineer from Cognition — give it a task and it plans, codes, tests, and opens a PR largely on its own.

GitHub Copilot

AI pair programmer from GitHub — inline code completions, chat, and PR help across VS Code, JetBrains, and more.

Video tools

Generate, edit and clean up video without a production crew.

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CapCut

AI Video Editor

Popular AI-powered video editor with auto-captions, background removal, templates, and one-click editing tools.

Descript

AI Video Editor

AI video and podcast editor — edit footage by editing the transcript, clone your voice, and cut filler words automatically.

Faceless Reels

AI Short Video Generator

Create faceless reels in minutes with AI scripts, voiceovers, captions, and auto-editing — plan, publish, and grow from one workspace.

AI Avatar Video Generator

HeyGen

AI avatar video platform — turn a script into a talking-head video and translate footage into 175+ languages with lip sync.

InVideo AI

AI Video Generator

Text-to-video tool that turns a prompt or script into an edited video with stock footage and AI voiceover.

Kling AI

AI Video Generator

Chinese AI video generator with impressive quality and motion consistency — text and image to video.

Productivity tools

Automate busywork, manage tasks and keep notes in order.

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Asana AI

Asana's AI layer adds smart task prioritization, project summaries, and workflow automation on top of its mature PM platform.

AI Presentation Generator

Beautiful.ai

Presentation software with smart templates that redesign slides automatically as you add content — no manual layout work.

Charlii AI

AI Documents Generator

AI knowledge hub with practical workflow guides, tool comparisons, prompt libraries, and research summaries for founders, operators, and small teams.

ClickUp AI

All-in-one project management platform with built-in AI (ClickUp Brain) for writing, task summaries, subtasks, and automations.

4.3 Details

Clockwise

AI Scheduling

AI calendar assistant — automatically optimizes your schedule to protect focus time and reduce meeting overload.

Evernote AI

AI Note Taker

The long-running note-taking app, now with AI search, summarization, and writing help layered onto your notes.

4.1 Details

Voice and audio

Text to speech, voice cloning, transcription and audio clean-up.

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Adobe Podcast AI

AI Audio Enhancer

Free AI audio tool that removes background noise and enhances voice recordings to near studio quality.

Descript

AI Transcription

Edit audio and video by editing the transcript — an AI podcast and video suite with voice cloning and filler-word removal.

ElevenLabs

AI Voice Generator

The most realistic AI voice generator — clone any voice, generate speech in 29 languages.

LOVO AI

AI Voiceover

AI voiceover generator with a built-in video editor — hundreds of voices across many languages in one tool.

Murf

AI Voice Over

AI voiceover studio — professional-sounding speech for presentations, e-learning, and marketing videos.

Play.ht

AI Text to Speech

AI voice generator with realistic text-to-speech — hundreds of voices across many languages for audio content.

ChatGPT alternatives

Assistants worth a look if ChatGPT is not the right fit for the job.

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Character.AI

AI Character

AI character chat platform — talk to AI personas of celebrities, fictional characters, or create your own.

Claude

Anthropic's AI assistant known for careful reasoning, long documents, strong coding, and a large context window.

DeepSeek

Powerful open-weight AI from China — competitive with frontier models at a fraction of the cost.

Gemini

Google's multimodal AI assistant — integrated with Search, Gmail, Docs, and the entire Google ecosystem.

Grok

xAI's AI assistant with real-time access to X (Twitter) data and a more direct, less filtered personality.

InsertChat

Branded, no-code AI assistants trained on your approved website content, with lead capture, support routing, and white-label delivery.

Freemium picks

Rated 4 or better, with a free tier that is genuinely usable before you pay.

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Asana AI

Asana's AI layer adds smart task prioritization, project summaries, and workflow automation on top of its mature PM platform.

Canva AI

AI Graphic Design

Canva's Magic Studio AI tools — generate designs, images, and video, remove backgrounds, and write copy inside the design app.

ChatGPT

OpenAI's flagship AI assistant for writing, coding, research, and analysis, used by hundreds of millions of people.

4.8 Details

Claude

Anthropic's AI assistant known for careful reasoning, long documents, strong coding, and a large context window.

ClickUp AI

All-in-one project management platform with built-in AI (ClickUp Brain) for writing, task summaries, subtasks, and automations.

4.3 Details

Cursor

AI-first code editor — a VS Code fork with deep, codebase-aware AI for chat, multi-file edits, and autonomous agent tasks.