AI tools directory

AI tools by use case

AI tools grouped by what people actually use them for. Each entry links to the tool's official site, says in one sentence what it does, and lists its pricing type only when the official pricing page confirms it. No rankings. Sponsored spots are clearly labeled and never change the order of the regular listing. Our advice: check the official site before you sign up, since plans and features change.

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AI tools for chat and everyday questions

General assistants you talk to in plain language to answer questions, explain things, and help with everyday tasks.

ChatGPT

ChatGPT is an AI assistant from OpenAI for text and voice chats that can also work with files you upload, create images, and run deep research. It is useful for drafting, studying a topic step by step in its study mode, or asking questions about a file you upload, and the free plan includes unlimited text chats with tighter limits on uploads, image creation, and deep research.

Use cases: Chat assistants, writing, image generation, research · Pricing: Freemium

Claude

Claude is an AI assistant from Anthropic for chat on web, desktop, and mobile that can search the web, write and edit content, generate code, and create files. It can connect to Slack and Google Workspace so it can work with context from your own tools, and even the free plan includes memory across conversations and extended thinking for more complex work.

Use cases: Chat assistants, writing, coding · Pricing: Freemium

Google Gemini

Google Gemini is Google's AI assistant for writing, planning, brainstorming, and everyday questions.

Use cases: Chat assistants, writing · Pricing: Freemium

Microsoft Copilot

Microsoft Copilot is Microsoft's AI assistant for chat, grounded answers, drafting content, and generating images on the web, desktop, and mobile.

Use cases: Chat assistants, writing, image generation · Pricing: Freemium

Duck.ai

Duck.ai is DuckDuckGo's AI chat, where you can talk with third-party models from companies such as Anthropic, OpenAI, and Mistral, with your conversations anonymized by DuckDuckGo. It's useful for quick questions, drafting an email, or summarizing text when privacy matters: recent chats are stored only on your device, DuckDuckGo says it doesn't store your prompts or train on your data, and a paid DuckDuckGo subscription adds more advanced models.

Use cases: Chat assistants, writing · Pricing: Freemium

Related on this site: Grok Bot for personal use

AI tools for writing

Tools that help you draft, edit, rewrite, and check text, from emails to longer documents.

Grammarly

Grammarly checks spelling, grammar, and tone as you write and can rewrite sentences and paragraphs for clarity. It also suggests tone changes to fit the situation, can follow a team's style guide, and includes an AI detector agent that flags text that reads as AI-generated.

Use cases: Writing · Pricing: Freemium

LanguageTool

LanguageTool checks grammar, spelling, punctuation, and style in more than 30 languages and can rephrase sentences, with add-ons for browsers, email, and office apps. It detects the language as you type, which helps if you write in more than one language, and the free version fixes spelling, simple punctuation, and some style mistakes, while Premium shows all errors.

Use cases: Writing · Pricing: Freemium

Wordtune

Wordtune suggests rewrites of your sentences, switches between casual and formal tone, checks grammar and spelling, and summarizes text.

Use cases: Writing · Pricing: Freemium

Sudowrite

Sudowrite is an AI writing app for fiction that helps you brainstorm, outline, draft, expand, and rewrite scenes in your own style.

Use cases: Writing · Pricing: Paid (free trial)

Jasper

Jasper is an AI platform for marketing teams that writes articles, ads, emails, and social posts in your brand voice, using your style guide and product knowledge.

Use cases: Writing · Pricing: Paid (7-day free trial)

Rytr

Rytr writes emails, posts, ads, and other copy from a rough idea in your own voice or one of 22 tones, in more than 30 languages. It also has a relationship side called Engage that reads the email, Slack, calendar, and meeting notes you connect, reminds you who needs a follow-up, and drafts the reply for you to approve before anything is sent.

Use cases: Writing, productivity and automation · Pricing: Freemium

Also listed: ChatGPT (in Chat assistants), Claude (in Chat assistants), Google Gemini (in Chat assistants), Microsoft Copilot (in Chat assistants), Notion AI (in Productivity and automation)

Related on this site: Anti-slop pass prompts

AI tools for image generation

Tools that make or edit images from a text description or a reference picture.

Krea

Krea generates and edits images, videos, and 3D objects from text prompts, with tools for upscaling and for training a model on your own images. Its upscalers can sharpen a blurry photo or a simple 3D render up to 22K resolution, and you can upload a few images of a face, product, or style to train it to generate that subject on demand.

Use cases: Image generation, video · Pricing: Freemium

Recraft

Recraft generates and edits images from text prompts, including vector art, icons, illustrations, and mockups in custom styles.

Use cases: Image generation · Pricing: Freemium

Canva

Canva's AI image generator turns a text prompt into an image in the style and aspect ratio you pick, which you can then refine.

Use cases: Image generation · Pricing: Freemium

Photoroom

Photoroom is an AI photo editor for product pictures that removes backgrounds, generates studio-style product shots, and batch edits images for online stores.

Use cases: Image generation

Clipdrop

Clipdrop is a set of browser-based AI photo tools for removing backgrounds, erasing objects, people, or text, upscaling, relighting, uncropping, and generating images from text. It's handy for quick product shots and social images: the free tier includes daily allowances for tools like background removal (20 every 24 hours), and the Pro plan raises limits to 1,000 a day per tool, with high-resolution output and queue skipping for text to image and uncrop.

Use cases: Image generation · Pricing: Freemium

Also listed: ChatGPT (in Chat assistants), Microsoft Copilot (in Chat assistants), Runway (in Video), Napkin AI (in Productivity and automation), Luma (in Video)

AI tools for video

Tools that generate, edit, or caption video clips.

Runway

Runway is a cloud-based creative platform for generating and editing video, images, and audio in one workspace. Besides the browser-based creative suite, Runway Dev gives developers API access to Runway's own models and models from other labs, so they can build video and image generation into their own products.

Use cases: Video, image generation · Pricing: Freemium (free plan: one-time credits)

Descript

Descript transcribes your audio and video so you can edit the recording by editing the text, with built-in AI features for cleaning up sound and making short clips. Its AI editor, Underlord, can turn a raw recording into a tighter cut when you tell it what you want, and Studio Sound removes background noise and enhances voices in one click, which makes it handy for podcasts and talking-head videos.

Use cases: Video, voice and audio, transcription · Pricing: Freemium

Synthesia

Synthesia is a video platform for businesses that creates videos with AI avatars from a script and can dub and translate videos.

Use cases: Video · Pricing: Freemium

HeyGen

HeyGen makes AI videos presented by an avatar, including a personal avatar trained on how you talk and move.

Use cases: Video · Pricing: Freemium

Kapwing

Kapwing is a video editor that can turn a text prompt into a first draft with voiceover, visuals, subtitles, and music, and also offers auto subtitles, translation, and dubbing.

Use cases: Video · Pricing: Freemium

Luma

Luma is a creative workspace where an AI agent generates and edits images, video, audio, and text on a shared canvas, using Luma's own Ray models alongside third-party models. You can animate still images into video, extend or reframe clips, and add voiceovers, music, captions, and lip sync, which helps with work such as short social video ads, storyboards, or turning a podcast clip into a video.

Use cases: Video, image generation · Pricing: Paid (free trial)

Also listed: Krea (in Image generation)

AI tools for voice and audio

Tools that turn text into speech, clean up recordings, or create audio.

ElevenLabs

ElevenLabs turns text into lifelike speech and also offers voice cloning, dubbing, speech to text, sound effects, and music generation. Speech works in more than 90 languages, and you can clone your own voice, design one from a prompt, or pick from more than 17,500 library voices, which suits narrating audiobooks, podcasts, ads, and videos.

Use cases: Voice and audio, transcription · Pricing: Freemium

Suno

Suno makes songs from a text prompt or your own lyrics, with tools to edit, remix, and split tracks into stems.

Use cases: Voice and audio · Pricing: Freemium

Speechify

Speechify reads PDFs, documents, and web pages aloud in natural-sounding voices and also offers voice typing, AI summaries, and AI podcasts.

Use cases: Voice and audio · Pricing: Freemium

Krisp

Krisp removes background noise, echo, and cross-talk from calls in any meeting app and also records, transcribes, and summarizes meetings with action items.

Use cases: Voice and audio, meetings and notes, transcription · Pricing: Paid (7-day free trial)

Udio

Udio makes full songs from a text description and lets you extend, remix, and edit them.

Use cases: Voice and audio · Pricing: Freemium

Also listed: Descript (in Video)

AI tools for transcription

Tools that turn speech from meetings, calls, lectures, and recordings into searchable text.

Otter.ai

Otter.ai transcribes meetings and recordings live with speaker identification, then writes summaries with action items that you can search later. It can join Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams calls from your calendar or record from your desktop without a bot, and its AI chat answers questions across your meetings and connected apps.

Use cases: Transcription, meetings and notes · Pricing: Freemium

HappyScribe

HappyScribe turns audio and video into text and subtitles in more than 150 languages and has an AI notetaker that joins calls and writes summaries with action items.

Use cases: Transcription, meetings and notes · Pricing: Freemium (free plan: AI transcription is a trial only)

Rev

Rev transcribes recordings with AI or human transcribers and offers captions and subtitles, with tools aimed mainly at legal and investigative work.

Use cases: Transcription · Pricing: Freemium

Sonix

Sonix transcribes and translates audio and video in more than 50 languages, with speaker labels, an in-browser transcript editor, subtitles, and AI summaries.

Use cases: Transcription · Pricing: Paid (30-minute free trial)

Notta

Notta transcribes online meetings, in-person conversations, and uploaded files in 58 languages, then writes summaries and can turn your notes into slides and infographics.

Use cases: Transcription, meetings and notes · Pricing: Freemium

Wispr Flow

Wispr Flow is a voice dictation app that turns your speech into polished written text in any app on Mac, Windows, iPhone, and Android. It supports more than 100 languages and learns your names and jargon, which helps when you want to write messages, documents, or code by speaking, and it also has a Notetaker for meetings and voice memos on Mac and Windows.

Use cases: Transcription, meetings and notes · Pricing: Freemium

Also listed: Fireflies.ai (in Meetings and notes), Fathom (in Meetings and notes), Read AI (in Meetings and notes), Tactiq (in Meetings and notes), Descript (in Video), ElevenLabs (in Voice and audio), Krisp (in Voice and audio), Wispr Flow (in Transcription)

AI tools for meetings and notes

Tools that take meeting notes, summarize calls, and keep track of action items. Some transcription tools also do this.

Fireflies.ai

Fireflies.ai records, transcribes, and summarizes your meetings, with action items after each call and search across past conversations. It joins Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams calls only when invited or set to auto-record, transcribes in more than 100 languages with speaker recognition, and can send notes to tools like Slack, HubSpot, Salesforce, and Notion.

Use cases: Meetings and notes, transcription · Pricing: Freemium

Fathom

Fathom records and transcribes your calls, with a meeting bot or, in a Mac beta, without one, and gives you an AI summary and action items right after the meeting.

Use cases: Meetings and notes, transcription · Pricing: Freemium

Granola

Granola is an AI notepad that uses your computer audio instead of a meeting bot and turns your rough notes into fuller meeting notes with action items.

Use cases: Meetings and notes · Pricing: Freemium

Read AI

Read AI transcribes meetings on Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams, writes recaps with action items, and lets you search across your meetings, email, and messages.

Use cases: Meetings and notes, transcription · Pricing: Freemium (free plan: 5 meetings a month)

Tactiq

Tactiq is a Chrome extension that transcribes Google Meet, Zoom, and Microsoft Teams calls live without a bot joining, and writes AI summaries and action items.

Use cases: Meetings and notes, transcription · Pricing: Freemium

tl;dv

tl;dv records, transcribes, and summarizes your Google Meet, Zoom, and Microsoft Teams calls, with transcripts in more than 30 languages. It can log call notes in your CRM and draft follow-up emails for you to review, and its AI reports pull trends from several meetings, which helps sales and customer teams track objections or feature requests.

Use cases: Meetings and notes · Pricing: Freemium

Also listed: Otter.ai (in Transcription), HappyScribe (in Transcription), Notta (in Transcription), Notion AI (in Productivity and automation), Krisp (in Voice and audio)

Related on this site: Meeting notes cleaner prompts · Meeting prep card prompts

AI tools for coding

Tools that suggest code, explain it, review changes, and take on programming tasks in your editor or terminal, or build apps and websites from a plain-language description.

GitHub Copilot

GitHub Copilot is an AI coding assistant from GitHub that suggests code and answers questions in editors such as VS Code, Visual Studio, and JetBrains IDEs, as well as in the terminal and on GitHub. You can also assign it a task, and its cloud agent plans and does the work in the background, while the free plan includes 2,000 code completions a month.