Claude
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NotebookLM
4.5Google's source-grounded notebook, distinctive for generating audio discussions
Canva
4.7The design tool most competitors in this category get compared to
Runway
4.4The category's pioneer for filmmakers, with traditional AI-VFX tools beyond generation
Zapier
4.5Still the widest app library after more than a decade
Cradle
3.8AI 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.
Surfer SEO
4.5Combines content scoring with an always-on alert for AI-visibility drops
Cursor
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Writing176 toolsAI writing tools help you draft, rewrite, and polish text in seconds, from blog posts and…Show all Writing tools Image Generation264 toolsAI image generators turn a text description into original artwork, photos, logos, and illustrations in seconds,…Show all Image Generation tools Video260 toolsAI video tools create clips from text, turn scripts into talking-avatar presenters, and automate editing like…Show all Video tools Audio158 toolsAI audio tools generate lifelike voiceovers, clone voices, compose royalty-free music, and clean up or transcribe…Show all Audio tools Design220 toolsAI design tools help marketers, founders, and product teams create graphics, websites, logos, and interface mockups…Show all Design tools
Chatbots130 toolsAI chatbots hold natural conversations to answer questions, automate customer support, and act as everyday assistants…Show all Chatbots tools Research86 toolsThese tools help researchers, graduate students, and academics discover relevant papers, map citation networks, question documents,…Show all Research tools Customer Support168 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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Productivity341 toolsAI productivity tools summarize meetings, draft emails, organize notes, and automate repetitive busywork so you can…Show all Productivity tools Marketing199 toolsAI marketing tools generate ad copy and creative, optimize SEO, personalize campaigns, and analyze performance to…Show all Marketing tools SEO109 toolsAI SEO tools help marketers, bloggers, and agencies research keywords, optimize content against live search results,…Show all SEO tools Social Media104 toolsThese platforms help marketers, agencies, and creators plan posts across networks, draft captions with AI, track…Show all Social Media tools Education174 toolsThese tools help teachers plan lessons, differentiate materials, and grade faster, while students get tutoring, language…Show all Education tools
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Kardow
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Thunkable
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DreamPic.AI
3.2Trains on your uploaded photos to generate avatars and profile pictures of you, in a range of styles.
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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 working as one system – answers calls in under 2 seconds, texts new leads within 30 seconds, and reactivates cold leads automatically. Reports a 98% response rate and 3.2x more appointments.
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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, with agents built for specific regulated tasks.
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Monterey AI
3.6BenGPT, a 24/7 AI assistant supporting 85+ languages, plus smart tags that catch feedback trends teams would have previously missed across calls, chat, 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
3.8DeepLiveness deepfake detection responds in under a second, iBeta Level 2-certified at a measured 0.06% false-acceptance rate across 56+ spoofing attack types.
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Pathway
2.8Drag, drop, and train – build a personalized digital assistant for your business with zero programming, no code required.
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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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PDF Parser
3.6GPT-4-class vision models read PDFs and images with no templates required – adapting to structured forms or messy free-text layouts alike, JSON or CSV back in under 30 seconds.
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TweetEmote
3.0A $5/month tweet assistant that rewrites posts with more emotional register, aimed at people growing an account on X.
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Meya
3.3Build support bots in YAML or Python, wire them into WhatsApp, Zendesk, and Dialogflow – 74,000+ deployments, over 1 billion events processed, 42 million users assisted.
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Smartlead
3.5SmartAgents research your leads, write personalized emails, and update your CRM automatically – unlimited mailboxes, used by 100,000+ businesses.
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VisualGPT
2.8Mostly a storefront for other companies' models, with a few real tools attached.
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Lxi
3.4A collaborative canvas for working with AI – not a chat window, but a shared, iterative workspace for research, planning and writing. Early beta.
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VidMage
3.2Face swap across photos, video, GIFs and batches, with voice cloning alongside.
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MyAIDomain
3.5Describe your business and AI generates domain name ideas, then checks availability across 50+ TLDs instantly – completely free, no search history logged.
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Article Insights
3.5Competitor keyword-cluster analysis feeds directly into a ChatGPT-powered writer – choose GPT-3.5 or GPT-4, or bring your own OpenAI API key.
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Sawyer
3.4Currently solving 71% of bugs autonomously and claimed 32% more effective than OpenAI agents – an AI teammate embedded directly in Unity with full project context.
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MYTH AI
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Everneed AI
3.532 templates spanning blog posts to landing pages, plus image generation and speech-to-text, in one content suite.
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AI Two
3.2A free suite of small AI studios – home design, fashion, photography, voice and QR tools – under one login.
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Banana Prompts
3.6A community prompt library documenting working Nano Banana techniques with full generation details – plus a free headshot generator of its own.
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Kairos
3.7Instant identity verification powered by AI – face liveness detection, biometric matching, and age estimation across 4,000+ ID document types.
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daisee
3.8AI speech analytics for contact centres – transcribes every call and scores quality automatically, at a claimed 90%+ accuracy against a human control group.
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Ango Hub
3.7Human-in-the-loop data platform from iMerit for AI development – annotation, model failure spotting and quality workflows.
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DeckRobot
3.5Proprietary AI redesigns your PowerPoint slides, enforces brand guidelines instantly, and generates charts and content on demand – trusted by Fortune 500 and Big Four firms.
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Huski.ai
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PassiveCraft
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Breakroom
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VideoProc
3.9Desktop AI media suite for remastering, upscaling and converting video, images and audio, with hardware acceleration and a separate editor in VideoProc Vlogger.
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Grantboost
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