113 tools
Tool reviews.
What each tool does, what it costs, and every article where we put it to work.
AI assistants & chatbots
Character.AI
Roleplay chatbot for character-driven conversations, popular with writers and interactive-fiction creators.
1 article
ChatGPT
Free tierOpenAI's all-round assistant for drafting, research and cited Deep Research reports, plus Codex for coding.
17 articles
Claude
Free tierAnthropic's assistant for long documents and nuanced writing; Claude Code builds apps, Claude Design does UI/UX.
14 articles
DeepSeek
Free AI chatbot and writing assistant; no confirmed opt-out from training, so avoid it for confidential work.
1 article
Gemini
Free tierGoogle's AI assistant, backed by Google Search for fresh, factual research summaries and multimodal tasks.
6 articles
Grok
xAI's deliberately less-filtered chatbot that pulls real-time posts from X for live takes and hot-topic research.
2 articles
Manus
AI writing assistant for business communication: LinkedIn posts, emails, long-form articles and marketing copy.
1 article
Uncensored.chat
Simple web chat promising zero retention and fewer filters; good for quick, casual uncensored conversations.
1 article
Venice.ai
Privacy-focused, uncensored AI for text, images and code across multiple models; chats stay in your browser.
1 article
AI browsers
Automation & agents
Chatbase
Free tierBuilds a custom AI chatbot from a PDF or website link, no coding needed, focused on customer experience and support.
1 article
Gumloop
PaidNo-code platform for building AI workflows and agents, good at browser tasks like scraping and form filling.
1 article
Make
Free tierVisual drag-and-drop automation (formerly Integromat), more flexible than Zapier, with pay-as-you-go pricing.
4 articles
n8n
Free tierOpen-source, self-hostable workflow automation for building AI agents and RAG pipelines with full control.
8 articles
Tidio
Free tierWebsite live-chat platform; its Lyro AI add-on answers customer questions 24/7.
2 articles
Zapier
Free tierBeginner-friendly automation that connects thousands of apps through no-code "Zaps".
6 articles
Design & presentations
Canva
Free tierDesign platform whose Magic Studio AI makes branded graphics, presentations and resizing easy for non-designers.
4 articles
Gamma
Free tierTurns plain text or a topic into a complete, designed slide deck; strong free plan.
3 articles
Genspark
PaidAI agent that writes content, plans slides and adds insights for bigger, customised presentations.
1 article
Uizard
Free tierTurns sketches and wireframes into interactive app mockups, suggesting layouts and colour palettes.
1 article
Image generation
Adobe Firefly
Free tierAdobe's image generator, made to blend AI images into designs in Photoshop and Illustrator.
2 articles
Brandmark
PaidAI logo and branding generator, useful for brand inspiration and references.
1 article
Clipdrop
Free tierWeb platform for generating images with Stable Diffusion.
1 article
DALL·E 3
DiscontinuedOpenAI's image model inside ChatGPT Plus, handy for quick blog thumbnails and concept visuals.
2 articles
DeepAI
Free tierFree, no-setup image generator for quick drafts and concept exploration.
1 article
DreamStudio
PaidStability AI's web app for generating images with Stable Diffusion.
1 article
Ideogram
Free tierImage generator known for accurate text inside images: posters, quotes, ads and social graphics.
2 articles
Leonardo.Ai
Free tierImage generator great for gaming-style art and cinematic concepts, with free daily credits.
1 article
Looka
PaidAI logo and brand-identity maker, useful for branding inspiration.
1 article
Microsoft Designer
Free tierMicrosoft's AI image generator for branding and design work.
1 article
Midjourney
PaidImage generator with the highest visual quality for editorial, magazine-style imagery; runs through Discord.
3 articles
Nano Banana
Free tierFast, free browser image generator for quick experiments in anime, 3D or realistic styles.
1 article
Playground
Free tierImage generator that excels at stylised, aesthetic visuals, with free daily credits.
1 article
Recraft
Free tierDesign-focused image generator for icons, branding and mockups that exports SVG vectors.
1 article
Stable Diffusion
FreeOpen-source image model from Stability AI that runs on consumer GPUs and powers many creative tools.
2 articles
Whisk
Free tierGenerator for flat illustrations and clean vector-style art, now with video too; not built for photorealism.
1 article
Local & open-source models
Hugging Face
Free tierHub for open-source AI models, including community fine-tunes of Mistral and Mixtral.
1 article
LM Studio
Free tierDesktop app with a friendly GUI for running local AI models; easier than the command line.
1 article
Mistral
Free tierOpen-source models (Mistral 7B, Mixtral) that run locally and punch well above their size.
1 article
Muse Spark by Meta
Free tierMeta's new model that replaced its open-source Llama models; future versions will be open-source.
1 article
Ollama
Free tierRuns open-source LLMs like Llama 3 on your own machine with a few terminal commands.
1 article
Marketing & email
6sense
PaidEnterprise B2B marketing AI with custom pricing for larger teams.
1 article
ActiveCampaign
PaidEmail marketing automation with predictive sending and behaviour-based branching at mid-market prices.
2 articles
AdCreative.ai
PaidGenerates on-brand ad visuals and copy at volume and scores creatives before you test them.
1 article
Albert.ai
PaidAutonomous cross-channel media buyer that shifts ad spend in real time; built for big ad budgets.
1 article
Brevo
Free tierAffordable email marketing platform with useful AI features from about $9/month.
1 article
HubSpot
Free tierAll-in-one CRM and marketing hub with AI email personalisation, lead scoring and ad retargeting.
1 article
Klaviyo
Free tierE-commerce email and SMS platform whose predictive AI flags likely churners and high-value buyers.
1 article
Mailchimp
Free tierEmail marketing platform with a free tier up to 500 contacts; AI personalisation is limited on free.
1 article
Pomelli
FreeGoogle Labs experiment that learns your brand from your website and generates on-brand social posts and ads.
1 article
Productivity
Feedly
Free tierRSS reader whose AI filtering surfaces relevant news and mutes the noise.
1 article
Fireflies.ai
Free tierMeeting recorder with free unlimited transcription and paid AI summaries and search.
1 article
Inoreader
Free tierRSS reader with AI filtering to keep up with AI news without burnout.
1 article
Notion AI
Free tierAI inside Notion that summarises meetings, cleans up notes and turns them into structured plans.
2 articles
RAG & AI infrastructure
Cohere
Pay as you goAI provider offering an embeddings alternative to OpenAI for RAG pipelines.
1 article
OpenAI Embeddings API
Pay as you goOpenAI API that turns document chunks into vectors for RAG search.
1 article
Pinecone
Free tierManaged vector database for storing embeddings in RAG pipelines, including n8n builds.
1 article
Qdrant
Free tierVector database option for RAG pipelines built in n8n.
1 article
Supabase
Free tierPostgres backend whose pgvector extension doubles as a vector store for RAG; common under vibe-coded apps.
2 articles
Research & search
Elicit
Free tierAcademic research assistant that searches 100M+ papers and pulls key findings into comparison tables.
1 article
NotebookLM
Free tierGoogle's research notebook that answers questions grounded only in the documents you upload.
1 article
Parallel
Free tierDeveloper API for high-accuracy web search and deep research, returning cited answers with confidence scores.
1 article
Perplexity
Free tierAI search engine that answers with summarised, clickable citations, plus a Deep Research mode on paid plans.
6 articles
SEO
AI Engine
Free tierWordPress plugin that adds AI drafting, image generation and a chatbot to your dashboard with an API key.
1 article
AIOSEO
Free tierWordPress SEO plugin whose AI writes titles and meta descriptions and suggests internal links.
1 article
Frase
Free tierSEO research tool that turns SERP and intent analysis into content briefs; a cheaper Surfer alternative.
1 article
Jetpack AI Assistant
Free tierJetpack's AI writing assistant for WordPress, generating post content right inside the Gutenberg editor.
1 article
Semrush
PaidEnterprise SEO and marketing suite with AI content tools, priced for larger teams.
2 articles
Surfer SEO
PaidScores your content live against top-ranking pages as you write, to help it rank.
2 articles
Vibe coding & app builders
Base44
Free tierTurns business ideas into working apps with a built-in backend; strong free tier for full-stack tests.
2 articles
Blackbox AI
Pay as you goAI coding assistant that helps developers solve programming problems and complete coding tasks.
1 article
Bolt
Free tierBrowser-based builder that spins up React frontends in under a minute; great for prototypes and demos.
5 articles
Claude Code
PaidAnthropic's coding agent: describe what you want in plain language and it writes and iterates on the code.
2 articles
Cursor
Free tierAI code editor (a VS Code fork) with Claude, GPT and Gemini built in; the most production-ready vibe-coding tool.
7 articles
Devin
Free tierAutonomous "AI software engineer" that writes, tests and debugs code to clear dev backlogs.
1 article
Google Antigravity
Free tierGoogle's agentic IDE that plans, builds, tests and fixes code on its own; free while in preview.
4 articles
Lovable
Free tierBeginner-friendly app builder that turns prompts into full-stack apps; the easiest first tool for non-coders.
4 articles
Replit
Free tierBrowser IDE whose Agent plans, builds and hosts apps from one prompt; the most accessible for beginners.
3 articles
Tempo
Free tierGenerates React components and design-system-aware UI from plain-language prompts; frontend only.
1 article
v0
PaidVibe-coding tool from Vercel that takes almost anyone from idea to working web app.
1 article
Windsurf
Free tierAI code editor whose context sharing suits teams working on a shared codebase.
1 article
Video generation
Colossyan
PaidAvatar video platform for training teams, with template-based bulk creation and translation.
1 article
D-ID
Free tierAnimates a still photo into a talking-head presenter from a script or audio file.
1 article
Hailuo AI
PaidAI video generator that produces short clips faster than Kling.
1 article
HeyGen
Free tierAvatar video platform that turns a script into a presenter video with 175+ languages and auto lip-sync.
2 articles
InVideo AI
Free tierScript-to-video tool for marketing videos and ads, with a huge stock library and templates.
1 article
Kling
Free tierKuaishou's text- and image-to-video generator with realistic motion, lip sync and clips up to 2 minutes.
1 article
Luma Dream Machine
Free tierText- and image-to-video generator with cinematic motion and realistic physics at accessible prices.
1 article
Pika
Free tierEasy text- and image-to-video tool for stylised short clips and social content; results can be hit-or-miss.
2 articles
Runway
Free tierPro AI video suite for cinematic clips, with Gen-2 text-to-video, background removal and motion tracking.
4 articles
ShortsNinja
PaidAutomates short-form vertical video for TikTok, Reels and Shorts, from scripts to captions and scheduling.
1 article
Sora
DiscontinuedOpenAI's video generator for lifelike, movie-like clips, suited to realism and complex storytelling.
2 articles
Voice & audio
Amazon Polly
Free tierAWS neural text-to-speech service used in e-learning, accessibility tools and support bots.
1 article
Descript
Free tierAudio/video editor with transcription and Overdub voice cloning, popular with podcasters.
1 article
ElevenLabs
PaidUltra-realistic voice generator with fine control over style, intonation and emotion.
2 articles
Google Cloud Text-to-Speech
Free tierGoogle's developer text-to-speech API with many voices and extensive language support.
1 article
Murf AI
PaidEasy-to-use text-to-speech studio with a wide range of voices for different content.
1 article
Play.ht
Free tierText-to-speech tool with an easy interface and a wide range of voices.
1 article
Resemble AI
Free tierTool for discovering AI generated audio.
1 article
Soundful
Free tierGenerates royalty-free background music for videos, podcasts and courses from a genre and mood.
1 article
Writing & copywriting
Copy.ai
Free tierMarketing copy generator for ads, product descriptions, headlines and email subject lines.
2 articles
Grammarly
Free tierAI writing assistant that polishes tone, readability and grammar after you've drafted.
1 article
Jasper
PaidMarketing-team writer with brand memory, producing long-form, on-brand copy for pages, emails and products.
1 article
QuillBot
Free tierParaphrasing and proofreading tool for cleaning up drafts, with Standard, Fluency, Formal and Creative modes.
1 article
Rytr
Free tierBudget AI writer with 40+ templates for short-form copy like social captions, CTAs and product blurbs.
2 articles
Writesonic
Free tierAI writer that combines article drafting with built-in SEO and GEO optimisation; includes the Chatsonic chatbot.
2 articles
Social media & outreach
Buffer
Free tierSocial scheduler whose AI assistant writes captions from a blog URL and posts across platforms.
4 articles
Crystal
Free tierUses AI personality insights to tailor your messages to how each person communicates.
1 article
Expandi
PaidAI LinkedIn outreach tool for personalised campaigns that stays within LinkedIn's sending limits.
1 article
Jobscan
Free tierChecks resumes for applicant-tracking-system (ATS) compatibility before you send them.
1 article
Lusha
Free tierLead intelligence tool that finds verified contact details from LinkedIn profiles.
1 article
Waalaxy
Free tierLinkedIn automation that runs personalised connection requests, follow-ups and message sequences.
1 article