Curated AI Tools
A hand-picked AI tools directory with real links, concise notes, and weekly updates.
★ Lead pick
OpenAI's flagship chat assistant — general-purpose conversations, file analysis, image generation and voice.
Anthropic's assistant, tuned for long-form writing, careful reasoning and code work with Projects and Artifacts.
Answer-engine that searches the live web and cites every source in line.
OpenAI's flagship chat assistant — general-purpose conversations, file analysis, image generation and voice.
Anthropic's assistant, tuned for long-form writing, careful reasoning and code work with Projects and Artifacts.
Google's multimodal assistant with deep search, Workspace integration and a 2M-token context window.
xAI's assistant with real-time access to X, strong on live news and unfiltered-ish replies.
Answer-engine that searches the live web and cites every source in line.
Open-weights reasoning model with strong math, code and a free web chat.
Moonshot's Chinese-first assistant known for long-document reading and research workflows.
ByteDance's consumer assistant — chat, voice, image and lightweight agents in one app.
Alibaba's Qwen family assistant with strong Chinese, document and code abilities.
Mistral's fast European assistant — Mixtral and Large models with a crisp UI.
VS Code fork wrapped around an AI pair programmer — tab completion, chat and agent edits over your repo.
Codeium's agent-first editor with Cascade for multi-file, multi-step changes.
GitHub's in-editor AI — completions, chat and agent mode across VS Code, JetBrains and the GitHub web.
Anthropic's terminal-native coding agent that reads your repo, runs commands and ships PRs.
Vercel's UI generator — describe a screen, get a shadcn/ui + Tailwind React component you can deploy.
StackBlitz's prompt-to-app playground — generates full-stack Node projects that run in-browser.
Chat-driven web app builder with a Supabase-friendly backend and instant preview.
In-browser IDE with an agent that scaffolds, runs and deploys projects end-to-end.
Open-source CLI that pair-programs with your repo over git commits — bring your own model.
High-performance Rust editor with built-in AI chat, inline assist and multi-buffer edits.
The taste-maker of text-to-image — still the go-to for art direction and atmosphere.
OpenAI's image model, easiest to reach inside ChatGPT — strong at literal prompts and text in images.
Black Forest Labs' open-weights image model — currently the community pick for photoreal quality.
Text-to-image with the cleanest in-image typography on the market — great for posters and logos.
Brand-safe image tool — vector output, style consistency and a controllable raster model.
Fine-tuned Stable Diffusion variants with a game-art lean and lots of control handles.
Realtime generation, enhancer, and a polished playground for mixing image + video models.
ByteDance's Chinese-first image + video creator, tightly integrated with CapCut / Jianying.
Gen-4 video plus a grown-up editor — director-style camera controls and a full timeline.
OpenAI's text-to-video with storyboard, remix and a social feed of community clips.
Playful video generator known for "Pikaffects" — insert, swap and transform objects in a shot.
Kuaishou's video model — strong physics, long-shot coherence and widely available.
Ray-family video models — clean motion, keyframe control and fast iteration.
Avatar video platform — turn a script into a presenter clip, with translation and voice cloning.
MiniMax's video generator — smooth motion and very generous free tier for experimentation.
The benchmark for text-to-speech and voice cloning — dubbing, conversational voices and a rich voice library.
Prompt-to-song with vocals — write a few lines of lyrics, get a finished track in under a minute.
Music generator favoured for genre fidelity, extensions and cleaner stems.
AI baked into Notion pages, databases and Q&A over your whole workspace.
The classic English writing coach — grammar, tone and generative rewrites everywhere you type.
Marketing-first writing platform with brand voice and campaign workflows.
GTM workflow builder — writing + research + CRM enrichment glued into repeatable chains.
Figma's prompt-to-prototype — describe an interface, edit the generated design inside Figma.
Design-and-publish website builder with AI page generation and CMS.
AI layered onto Canva — Magic Write, Magic Edit, Magic Design for quick marketing assets.
Prompt to high-fidelity UI mockup — exports to Figma for finishing.
Meeting notetaker that listens via your Mac audio — your typed shorthand, turned into clean notes.
Meeting bot that joins Zoom/Meet/Teams, transcribes and pushes summaries into your CRM.
Long-standing English transcription service with live captions and meeting chat.
Prompt to polished slide deck, doc or webpage — good defaults, web-native output.
Turns your written prose into editable diagrams and visuals automatically.
AI built into the Mac launcher — quick chats, text actions and model switching at ⌘+Space.
Neural search API built for LLMs — describe what you want, get semantically ranked web results.
Search engine tuned for developers — answers with code samples and cited documentation.
Multi-mode search — chat, research agents and a customisable answer surface.
General-purpose autonomous agent that browses, writes code and produces deliverables end-to-end.
Cognition's software-engineer agent — takes tickets, ships PRs, self-tests in a sandbox.
OpenAI's browser-using agent that clicks, types and fills forms on real websites on your behalf.
Open-source workflow automation with first-class nodes for every major AI model and vector store.
Open-source LLMOps platform — build, ship and monitor agent apps with a visual flow editor.