Claude
4.7Built by former OpenAI safety researchers around a written constitution
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Zapier
4.5Still the widest app library after more than a decade
Canva
4.7The design tool most competitors in this category get compared to
Adobe Express
4.3Canva's simplicity, backed by Adobe's stock library and Firefly
Course Hero
4.0A study-document marketplace since 2006, now with AI tutoring added
Perplexity AI
4.6The AI answer engine most competitors measure themselves against
Keyword Insights
4.5Automatically clusters thousands of keywords into topic groups
Midjourney
4.7Independent, Discord-born, and still the artistic benchmark
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Writing74 toolsAI writing tools help you draft, rewrite, and polish text in seconds, from blog posts and…Show all Writing tools Image Generation90 toolsAI image generators turn a text description into original artwork, photos, logos, and illustrations in seconds,…Show all Image Generation tools Video104 toolsAI video tools create clips from text, turn scripts into talking-avatar presenters, and automate editing like…Show all Video tools Audio80 toolsAI audio tools generate lifelike voiceovers, clone voices, compose royalty-free music, and clean up or transcribe…Show all Audio tools Design93 toolsAI design tools help marketers, founders, and product teams create graphics, websites, logos, and interface mockups…Show all Design tools
Chatbots71 toolsAI chatbots hold natural conversations to answer questions, automate customer support, and act as everyday assistants…Show all Chatbots tools Research48 toolsThese tools help researchers, graduate students, and academics discover relevant papers, map citation networks, question documents,…Show all Research tools Customer Support80 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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Productivity133 toolsAI productivity tools summarize meetings, draft emails, organize notes, and automate repetitive busywork so you can…Show all Productivity tools Marketing75 toolsAI marketing tools generate ad copy and creative, optimize SEO, personalize campaigns, and analyze performance to…Show all Marketing tools SEO64 toolsAI SEO tools help marketers, bloggers, and agencies research keywords, optimize content against live search results,…Show all SEO tools Social Media69 toolsThese platforms help marketers, agencies, and creators plan posts across networks, draft captions with AI, track…Show all Social Media tools Education72 toolsThese tools help teachers plan lessons, differentiate materials, and grade faster, while students get tutoring, language…Show all Education tools
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PromptDrive.ai
3.7A shared workspace for organising and collaborating on prompts across ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini.
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Writingmate
3.9One subscription covering GPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, Sora and Veo with files and web search.
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PDFFly
3.5Free PDF summarisation and chat with no sign-up required.
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Ollama
4.6The simplest way to run open models locally, with optional cloud scaling.
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Skybridge
4.1An open-source TypeScript framework for building MCP apps that run in any MCP client.
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MailMaestro
4.1AI email assistant that drafts, summarizes, and manages messages directly inside Outlook and Gmail.
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forms.app
4.2Cloud form and survey builder with AI-generated questions, logic, and quizzes.
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Jigso
3.9AI work assistant that pulls data from a company's business apps to answer questions and surface what actually needs attention.
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Campfire
4.3Raised $100M in its first two years, winning startups away from NetSuite
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Hebbia
4.3Used by 30% of all asset managers for due diligence and research
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Ramp
4.6Crossed $1 billion in revenue and a $44 billion valuation, with a card built for AI agents
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Pinecone
4.3The original fully managed vector database, purpose-built for retrieval at AI scale
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E2B
4.2Sandboxed cloud environments now used by 88% of the Fortune 100
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LangChain
4.4The open-source framework behind 90 million monthly downloads and 35% of the Fortune 500
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Harvey
4.4Backed by OpenAI's own startup fund, reaching an $11 billion valuation in 3 years
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Legora
4.3Crossed $100M ARR in its third year, one of the fastest enterprise-software ramps on record
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Spellbook
4.2Drafts and redlines contracts directly inside Microsoft Word
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Ironclad
4.2A full contract lifecycle platform, with AI as one tier rather than the whole product
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Luminance
4.2Trained its own proprietary LLM on more than 150 million legal documents
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CoCounsel
4.3Reached 1 million users in 3 years, backed by Thomson Reuters after a $650M acquisition
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