Categories
Every corner of the field
12 categories, 155 tools. Each tool sits in the one category that fits its main job.
- Chat assistants13General assistants you talk to: they answer questions, write, reason through problems, read files and images, and increasingly search the web and take actions for you.ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Character.AI
- Search and research10Tools that find, read and cite sources: answer engines that search the web, and research assistants built for papers, notes and long documents.Gemini Notebook, Perplexity, Consensus, Elicit
- Coding17Assistants for people who write software: editors with AI built in, agents that work in your terminal or repository, and tools that review code.Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Aider
- App and site builders9Describe an app or website in plain words and get a working one: no-code and low-code builders that write, host and deploy the code for you.Lovable, Base44, Bolt.new, Bubble
- Agents and automation11Software that carries out multi-step work on its own: workflow automation, general-purpose agents and AI browsers that click and type for you.Zapier, Browser Use, Comet, CrewAI
- Writing10Help with words: grammar and style checking, rewriting, translation, fiction and marketing copy, and detecting AI-written text.Grammarly, DeepL, GPTZero, Hemingway Editor
- Images and design16Image generators, photo editing and upscaling, background removal, and design tools with AI built in.Canva, Midjourney, Adobe Firefly, ComfyUI
- Video15Text-to-video and image-to-video generators, AI avatars and presenters, and editors that cut, caption and clip footage for you.Runway, CapCut, Captions, Descript
- Voice and audio14Speech and sound: text to speech, voice cloning, transcription and dictation, music generation, and cleaning up recordings.ElevenLabs, Suno, Adobe Podcast, Krisp
- Meetings6Note-takers that record or transcribe calls, then write the summary, action items and follow-ups.Granola, Fathom, Fireflies.ai, Otter.ai
- Productivity13AI for everyday work: slides and documents, email, calendars and planning, notes, and data analysis.Gamma, Beautiful.ai, Fyxer AI, Julius AI
- Models and platforms21For builders: model APIs, places to run open models locally or in the cloud, and the frameworks and services AI apps are built on.Hugging Face, Ollama, Cerebras, Claude Platform