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Cradle

3.8

AI models that retrain on every round of your wet-lab data to guide the next protein design cycle – claimed 2-12x faster development, and your data never trains models for anyone else.

Contact for Pricing Healthcare AI

ChatExcel

3.6

Chinese AI spreadsheet assistant from Beijing Yuankong Intelligent Technology that turns natural-language requests into Excel formulas, PPT slides and Word documents.

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Create content

Generate writing, images, video, audio and design.

Chat & research

Get answers, talk to AI, and dig into sources.

Build & automate

Ship code, automate work, and analyze data.

Work & grow

Boost productivity, marketing and reach.

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Filter by category, pricing model, platform or feature to narrow the full catalogue, or open the full A–Z index to see every tool on one page. Curious what all this costs? We ran the numbers: the median paid AI tool starts at $19 a month, and the price comparator shows what fits your budget.

  • BrandBird

    3.7

    Turns a plain screenshot into a polished social-media graphic – device mockups, 3D effects, annotations – available as a web app, Chrome extension, Figma plugin and Mac app.

    Freemium Design
  • Project Supplies

    3.0

    Describe your DIY project in 80 characters or less – OpenAI-powered planning generates the full list of ideas, tools, and materials you'll need, completely free.

  • Seedance3.tools

    3.6

    A third-party Seedance wrapper with its own interface and a genuine free daily quota – cinematic text/image-to-video up to 1080p.

    Freemium Video
  • MathGPT

    3.8

    Math-first homework helper that also runs PhysicsGPT, ChemGPT and AccountingGPT off the same input box.

    Freemium Education
  • EasySub

    3.2

    150+ languages, 90%+ recognition accuracy, all in the browser – AI subtitle generation, transcription, and translation with a free 30-minute tier and $0.20/minute after that.

    Freemium Video
  • ScreenApp

    3.7

    "AI That Actually Listens" – up to 99% transcription accuracy turns hours of recordings into searchable insights and structured meeting notes, serving 8.1M+ users.

    Freemium Productivity
  • Luw.ai

    3.5

    Eight distinct AI design tools in one platform – redesign a room, transform a facade, turn a sketch into a photorealistic render, generate exportable 3D models, or ask ArchiGPT for design advice.

    Freemium Design
  • Fathom

    3.9

    Meeting notetaker with bot-free capture – it records from a desktop app rather than joining your call as a visible participant.

    Freemium Productivity
  • Prequel

    3.1

    800+ effects, AI-powered portrait transformation, and full video templates in one mobile editor – retouching, filters, and trendy aesthetics for social content.

    Freemium Video
  • Unbound

    3.2

    One workspace generating the whole marketing set – emails, ad copy, hero images, social covers – for small brands without a team.

    Freemium Marketing
  • TubeTLDR

    2.8

    Paste a YouTube URL, pick your summary type and language, get a GPT-powered rundown back – no video-length limit, free account to start.

    Freemium Productivity
  • BlogTweet

    3.3

    Paste a blog URL and ChatGPT turns it into a ready-to-post X/Twitter thread – pick the length, tone, and whether to include emoji and hashtags.

  • Easywish

    2.8

    Pick a recipient, occasion, and tone – AI writes the perfect birthday or anniversary wish in under 10 seconds, completely free.

    Free Writing
  • Venturefy

    3.3

    2.4M+ companies, 12M+ mapped relationships – AI discovers business connections from press releases and SEC filings, scoring each one 0-100 for confidence.

  • Pixian.AI

    3.8

    Background removal that works in the browser with no signup, plus an API, published quality comparisons and an interface in a dozen languages.

    Freemium Image Generation
  • WisdomPlan

    3.6

    A personalized AI-skills learning path built in 3 minutes, plus an AI tutor and a Discord community for job-hunting support.

    Freemium Education
  • Botanalytics

    3.6

    Conversational analytics that have processed 100 billion-plus messages across 40,000+ bots – clustering unstructured conversations and generating training data across 20+ languages.

  • Marq

    3.6

    Marq AI applies real-time brand guardrails so every team member can create on-brand content – automated creative workflows on top of 10,000+ locked templates.

    Freemium Design
  • DimeADozen.ai

    3.8

    Startup idea validation with citations rather than opinions – a 150+ page report with a named comp set, retention and unit-economics maths.

    Freemium Research
  • AdNabu

    3.6

    GPT rewrites your Shopify product titles and descriptions for every marketplace, auto-generating content in 30+ languages – syncing to 10M+ product updates a day.

    Freemium Marketing
  • Fable Fiesta

    3.4

    A full suite of D&D 5e and creative writing generators – races, classes, monsters, encounters, worlds, NPCs and plots.

    Freemium Writing
  • Exemplary AI

    3.6

    Turn one long video into clips, summaries, blogs, chapters and subtitles – one click, 98%+ transcription accuracy, 120+ languages. The editor lets you cut a clip by selecting text in the transcript.

    Freemium Video
  • Metabase

    3.8

    Metabase AI answers natural-language questions on every tier – including the free, self-hosted open-source edition – with inspectable, verifiable queries.

  • Bricksee

    3.0

    Photograph a pile of loose LEGO bricks, and AI identifies which sets they belong to – catalogue your whole collection, track builds, and share wishlists, all data kept on-device.

  • Viral Video Maker

    3.6

    "From idea to viral video in minutes" – a Veo-powered short-form generator with its own trending library and saved-video workspace.

    Freemium Video
  • TalentLMS

    3.9

    Cloud LMS with an AI course creator and skills-based training, aimed at teams that need courses live without an instructional design department.

    Freemium Education
  • BulkGPT

    3.4

    Chain web scraping, search enrichment and AI generation into one no-code workflow – process up to 5,000 rows in a single batch, from lead enrichment to article generation.

    Freemium Automation

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