Best AI tools

Google assistant with strong image and video comprehension and connection to Gmail, Drive, and other Google services.

Microsoft Copilot

Microsoft

Microsoft's free assistant with Bing search; also available in Windows, Edge, and Office apps.

DeepSeek

Free

Free chat with models strong in math and programming; their models are also open-weight.

Grok

xAI

xAI assistant with access to real-time content from the social network X.

Le Chat

Mistral AI

A fast European assistant with web search, document analysis, and a focus on privacy.

Meta AI

Search and research

Perplexity

Perplexity AI

Answer engine with citations; for quick research and fact-checking.

NotebookLM

Google

Upload your own sources (PDF, website, video) and ask questions based strictly on them; even create summary podcasts.

Consensus

Searching scientific papers and summarizing research findings to answer scientific questions.

Elicit

A research assistant for finding, summarizing, and extracting data from academic papers.

Image generation and editing

Midjourney

The most recognized artistic image generation tool with distinct quality and aesthetics.

Ideogram

A strong image generator in writing text (English) inside the image; suitable for logos, posters, and graphic design.

Leonardo.Ai

Leonardo

Image generation platform with diverse models and styles; popular for game design and advertising content.

Adobe Firefly

Adobe

Adobe's image generator, which is also integrated into Photoshop and other Adobe software.

Stable Diffusion

Stability AI

An open image generation model that runs on a personal computer; provides full control with tools like ComfyUI.

Flux

Black Forest Labs

Family of high-quality image generation models; some versions are open-weights and locally runnable.

Video generation

Sora

OpenAI

OpenAI's video generation model; creates short, photorealistic clips from text and images.

Veo

Google

Google's video generation model that creates video with sound, available in Gemini and Flow.

Runway

AI video toolkit for filmmakers: production, editing, and special effects.

Kling

Kuaishou

Popular Chinese video maker with natural movements and the ability to generate videos from images.

Luma Dream Machine

Luma AI

Generating videos and images from text with a simple user interface.

Pika

Simple and fun tool for creating short videos and creative effects.

Audio, speech, and music

ElevenLabs

Very natural text-to-speech conversion, voice cloning, and automatic dubbing into various languages.

Suno

Generating complete songs, including vocals and lyrics, purely from a text description.

Udio

High-quality music generation from text, with control over song style and structure.

Whisper

OpenAI

An open speech-to-text model with Persian support; for meeting deployment and subtitling.

Programming and app building

GitHub Copilot

GitHub / Microsoft

A programming assistant inside VS Code and other editors; code completion, chat, and agentic mode.

Cursor

Anysphere

Smart code editor based on VS Code with multi-file editing capabilities and a programming agent.

Claude Code

Anthropic

Anthropic's coding agent that reads and modifies the entire project in the terminal, editor, desktop, and web.

OpenAI Codex

OpenAI

OpenAI's coding agent that works in the terminal, editor, and cloud, integrated with ChatGPT.

Replit

Online programming environment with an AI agent that builds and deploys a complete app from a text description.

Lovable

Building complete web apps just through conversation; ideal for rapid prototyping without coding knowledge.

v0

Vercel

Building user interfaces and web pages with React code from a text description or image.

Productivity, writing, and presentation

Gamma

Creating beautiful presentations, documents, and web pages from a topic or text in minutes.

Notion AI

Notion

AI inside Notion for writing, summarizing, and querying team documents.

Otter.ai

Automatic note-taking for online meetings, transcription, and summarization (mostly for English).

Grammarly

Smart English text editor; correcting grammar, tone, and clarity of writing.

Canva Magic Studio

Canva

AI tools inside Canva for design, background removal, image generation, and resizing designs.

Local models and development

Ollama

The easiest way to run open language models (Llama, Qwen, DeepSeek, etc.) on a personal computer.

LM Studio

Free

A desktop app with a GUI to download and chat with local models, without needing the command line.

Open WebUI

A ChatGPT-like web interface for local models and APIs; suitable for setting up an internal organizational assistant.

Jan

An open-source and offline assistant for running models on a personal computer with a focus on privacy.

Hugging Face