Claude
4.7Built by former OpenAI safety researchers around a written constitution
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Canva
4.7The design tool most competitors in this category get compared to
Notion AI
4.5AI woven into the workspace most PKM competitors get compared against
Zapier
4.5Still the widest app library after more than a decade
Surfer SEO
4.5Combines content scoring with an always-on alert for AI-visibility drops
Perplexity AI
4.6The AI answer engine most competitors measure themselves against
Cursor
4.7The AI-native editor most competitors now get compared against
Dola
4.1AI calendar assistant that adds, edits, and syncs events from chat messages, voice notes, and photos inside WhatsApp, Telegram, and iMessage.
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Writing214 toolsAI writing tools help you draft, rewrite, and polish text in seconds, from blog posts and…Show all Writing tools Image Generation310 toolsAI image generators turn a text description into original artwork, photos, logos, and illustrations in seconds,…Show all Image Generation tools Video283 toolsAI video tools create clips from text, turn scripts into talking-avatar presenters, and automate editing like…Show all Video tools Audio197 toolsAI audio tools generate lifelike voiceovers, clone voices, compose royalty-free music, and clean up or transcribe…Show all Audio tools Design241 toolsAI design tools help marketers, founders, and product teams create graphics, websites, logos, and interface mockups…Show all Design tools
Chatbots144 toolsAI chatbots hold natural conversations to answer questions, automate customer support, and act as everyday assistants…Show all Chatbots tools Research103 toolsThese tools help researchers, graduate students, and academics discover relevant papers, map citation networks, question documents,…Show all Research tools Customer Support191 toolsAI customer support tools answer questions, resolve tickets, and take actions across chat, email, and voice,…Show all Customer Support tools
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Web-based AI image generation platform with advanced editing tools.
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Video2text
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Stable Diffusion
3.8Open-weight text-to-image model for AI art you can run yourself
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Tila
3.8An infinite canvas where each tile is a different model, and tiles feed each other.
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TextBuilder.ai
3.4Pick your model – Gemini, Claude, GPT, LLaMA, or DeepSeek – and generate a full SEO article with research, charts, and Flux or Imagen visuals, complete with live web citations.
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AlbumentationsX
3.6Cited in 2,270+ research papers and used in 40,000+ GitHub repos – the open-source image augmentation library behind winning solutions in 77 AI competitions, NumFOCUS-affiliated.
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Landingi
3.5"Your next landing page is just a prompt away" – Lunar, Landingi's AI feature, builds a campaign-ready landing page from a text description.
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Close
3.8Chloe, a full AI sales agent built into the CRM, calls leads, qualifies them through real conversation, and books meetings – not a separate bolted-on tool.
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SONOTELLER.AI
3.2Paste a YouTube link, get a full song profile in about a minute – genre, BPM, key, mood, explicit-content flagging, and the exact "Golden Minute" that's the chorus highlight.
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BackgroundCut
3.3Instant, 100% automatic background removal handling hair and fur edges – bulk processing, Figma/WooCommerce/Chrome plugins, and an API, trusted by Shopify, Pinterest, and Lyft.
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SuperAnnotate
4.3Data infrastructure for AI teams – annotation tooling in any modality, a vetted expert annotator network, and evaluation workflows, rated #1 on G2 by AI teams.
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Uploads a baby photo, keeps the face recognizable, and animates it into a trending dance clip for social sharing.
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Auri
3.5AI keyboard and system-wide dictation for Apple devices – improve text in any app, on iPhone, iPad, Watch and Mac.
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Glam AI
3.7Photo and video editor built around trending effect templates for short-form output.
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Watermelon
3.7Customer service AI agent that answers order, return and delivery questions across chat, email, WhatsApp and Instagram from one inbox.
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Medical Chat
3.0Ask a clinical question in plain language, get differential diagnoses and dosing guidance with citations in under 3 seconds – trusted by clinicians at Mayo Clinic, Cleveland Clinic, and Johns Hopkins.
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Level Up
3.9Finds the grade where a child's maths foundation cracked, in a report a parent can read.
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S5 Stratos
3.9Assortment planning, financial planning and allocation for retail and CPG merchandising.
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Picovoice
3.6Voice, language, and vision AI that runs entirely on-device, no cloud required – 15 production-ready products trusted by NASA, Adobe, Meta, Netflix, and Ferrari.
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GraphicSprings
3.2AI logo design and branding with a deep icon and style library covering gaming, sports, anime, monogram and 3D marks.
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Fronty
3.1Upload a design image, get clean HTML and CSS back – edit visually, connect a database, publish on your own domain, 3 months free with no credit card.
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AISEO Art
3.0Stable Diffusion-powered art generation with inpainting, avatar creation, and reverse-image similarity search – unlimited generations on the Pro plan for $15/month.
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RepBot.ai
3.5AI reputation management: review generation, AI response drafting, sentiment analysis, monitoring and a display widget.
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Ayanza
3.8Team workspace combining objectives, projects, tasks, notes, wiki, newsfeed and chat, free for up to 5 users and $6 per user a month with AI.
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Txt Muse
3.4An AI text editor that drafts your first version from a title and description, then offers a dozen different ways to rewrite any section you highlight.
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BeatViz.ai
3.9Upload a track, get a beat-synced music video – an AI Director Agent plans it with you in chat first, across Veo, Luma, Kling and Sora.
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Kardow
3.6Builds and runs a niche job board, including the hard part – automatically backfilling listings so the board is not empty on day one.
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Thunkable
3.8Build native iOS and Android apps by chatting, then publish to the App Store and Google Play.
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DreamPic.AI
3.2Turns your uploaded photos into AI avatars and profile pictures in several styles, for a flat fee.
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Whisper API
3.3Speech-to-text on Whisper Large V3 with speaker detection across 100+ languages – OpenAI-compatible API, 30 free hours, then $0.17/hour.
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EveryLead.ai
3.5Three AI agents that answer calls, text new leads and reactivate cold leads for service businesses
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MidPrompts
3.3Free prompt management – organise, version and reuse prompts as a library instead of losing them in chat scrollback.
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Adstra
3.1AI video ads, hyperrealistic images, chat agents, and a CRM – one suite replacing a stack of separate marketing and sales tools, from $1 for a 7-day trial.
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Taiga
3.5A coding mentor that lives in Slack, built by a software engineering school.
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Unearth AI
3.4Australian sovereign enterprise AI platform that unifies organisational data for governance and decision-making, built for regulated environments.
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SESAMm
3.9Turns large-scale web data into source-backed ESG, reputational and KYC risk insights across millions of public and private companies, in real time.
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Sumly
3.2Podcast summaries tailored to what you are trying to learn, rather than generic episode recaps.
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Learn Prompting
3.4Research-backed prompt engineering courses trusted by 3M+ learners – covers ChatGPT, LLMs, RAG, and AI agents, plus HackAPrompt, a dedicated AI security training tool.
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EmailTree
3.6Email processing and workflow automation for BPOs and banks, using agents built for specific regulated tasks.
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Monterey AI
3.6AI feedback analysis that tags, routes and prioritizes customer input from calls, chat, email and tickets.
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CaptionCreator
3.5AI transcribes and translates video into subtitles across 76 languages in under 3 minutes – handles noisy audio, multilingual content, and diverse accents.
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Quickchat AI
3.7Builds AI agents for support, sales, ecommerce and internal helpdesk, with the human handover treated as a first-class feature.
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Kaze AI
2.8A broad photo toolkit that also removes watermarks, logos and signatures.
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Facia AI
3.8Face biometrics with deepfake detection, 1:1 and 1:N matching and age verification, built for KYC, banking and age-gated services.
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Pathway
2.8Build a custom digital assistant from your own business data, with drag and drop and no code.
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CleverCSV
3.1Generates content in bulk straight from a spreadsheet column.
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Explainpaper
3.7Upload a research paper, highlight the part that lost you, and get that specific passage explained.
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Oxolo
3.5Voice assistant for construction sites – dictate on site and it produces transcripts, extracts tasks and fills the documentation.
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Presentations.AI
3.7Turns ideas, documents and data into on-brand editable PowerPoint decks, with an interface in a dozen languages.
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StockGPT
3.6AI financial research assistant that answers questions from actual S&P 500 and Nasdaq earnings transcripts – grounded in sourced data, not open-ended generation, so it doesn't fabricate numbers.
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AIPenly
3.4Generate SEO-optimized blog content and matching AI images in one pass – plus face swap, inpainting, outpainting, and upscaling for editing the results afterward.
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