AI Tools Directory

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Clear, honest overviews of useful AI tools: what they do, their main features, advantages and limitations. Search or filter by category.

ChatGPT

AI Assistants

A widely used general-purpose AI assistant by OpenAI for writing, explaining, brainstorming, analysing files and more.

  • Natural conversation for questions and drafts
  • File and image understanding
  • Web search in supported plans

Free plan available · confirm on official site

Claude

AI Assistants

An AI assistant by Anthropic known for careful writing, analysing long documents, coding help and thoughtful reasoning.

  • Handles long documents and files
  • Strong writing and editing
  • Coding and data analysis help

Free plan available · confirm on official site

Google Gemini

AI Assistants

Google’s AI assistant, connected with Google services, for questions, writing, planning and multimodal tasks.

  • Works with Google account and services
  • Understands text and images
  • Available on Android and web

Free plan available · confirm on official site

Perplexity

Research

An AI-powered answer engine that searches the web and replies with cited sources you can check.

  • Answers with clickable sources
  • Follow-up questions in context
  • Focus modes for different kinds of search

Free plan available · confirm on official site

Canva

Image & Design

An easy online design platform with AI features for creating social posts, presentations, posters and simple videos.

  • Thousands of templates
  • AI image and text features
  • Background removal and resizing (plan-dependent)

Free plan available · confirm on official site

Zapier

Automation

A no-code automation platform that connects thousands of apps so tasks run automatically, including AI steps.

  • Connects thousands of apps
  • Triggers, actions and filters
  • AI steps inside workflows

Free plan available · confirm on official site

Microsoft Copilot

AI Assistants

Microsoft’s AI assistant for web questions and, in business plans, AI help inside Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook.

  • AI chat with web results
  • Integrations with Microsoft 365 in business plans
  • Image creation features

Free plan available · confirm on official site

NotebookLM

Research

Google’s AI research notebook that answers questions and creates summaries based on the documents you upload.

  • Answers grounded in your own sources
  • Summaries, study guides and FAQs
  • Audio overview of documents

Free plan available · confirm on official site

Grammarly

Writing

An AI writing assistant that checks grammar, clarity and tone, and helps rewrite text across apps and browsers.

  • Grammar and spelling corrections
  • Tone and clarity suggestions
  • AI rewriting and drafting

Free plan available · confirm on official site

Midjourney

Image & Design

An AI image generator known for artistic, high-quality images created from text descriptions.

  • Text-to-image generation
  • Style and variation controls
  • Image upscaling

Paid only · confirm on official site

ElevenLabs

Video & Audio

An AI voice platform for realistic text-to-speech, voice-overs and dubbing in many languages.

  • Natural-sounding text-to-speech
  • Many voices and languages
  • Dubbing and translation features

Free plan available · confirm on official site

Make

Automation

A visual automation platform for building multi-step workflows between apps with a drag-and-drop canvas.

  • Visual workflow builder
  • Complex branching and data handling
  • Many app integrations

Free plan available · confirm on official site

n8n

Automation

A flexible workflow automation tool that can be self-hosted, with strong support for AI agents and custom logic.

  • Self-hosting option
  • Visual workflows with code when needed
  • AI agent and LLM nodes

Open source · confirm on official site

GitHub Copilot

Development

An AI coding assistant that suggests code, explains it and helps fix bugs inside popular code editors.

  • Code completion in the editor
  • Chat to explain and fix code
  • Works with many languages

Free plan available · confirm on official site

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