The AI tools directory, by what they actually do

No hype. 40 tools grouped by use case so you can find the right one in seconds.

Writing

ChatGPT

General-purpose AI chat & writing

Freemium✓ Editor-reviewed
Claude

Long-form, careful AI assistant

Freemium✓ Editor-reviewed
Jasper

Marketing copy at scale

Paid✓ Editor-reviewed
Copy.ai

Sales & marketing workflows

Freemium✓ Editor-reviewed
Grammarly

Grammar & tone checker

Freemium✓ Editor-reviewed
Notion AI

AI inside your docs

Freemium✓ Editor-reviewed
Sudowrite

Fiction writing partner

Paid✓ Editor-reviewed

Image

Midjourney

High-quality AI art

Paid✓ Editor-reviewed
DALL-E 3

Prompt-faithful images

Pay-per-use✓ Editor-reviewed
Stable Diffusion

Open-source image model

Free/Open✓ Editor-reviewed
Leonardo.AI

Game & asset generation

Freemium✓ Editor-reviewed
Ideogram

Text-in-image, done right

Freemium✓ Editor-reviewed
Krea

Real-time canvas & upscaler

Freemium✓ Editor-reviewed
Pixlr

Browser photo editor + AI

Freemium✓ Editor-reviewed
Remove.bg

One-click background removal

Freemium✓ Editor-reviewed

Video

Runway

Gen-2 text & image to video

Freemium✓ Editor-reviewed
Pika

Playful text-to-video

Freemium✓ Editor-reviewed
Luma

Dream Machine video

Freemium✓ Editor-reviewed
HeyGen

AI avatar spokesvideo

Freemium✓ Editor-reviewed
Pictory

Script to video

Paid✓ Editor-reviewed
Descript

Edit video by editing text

Freemium✓ Editor-reviewed

Audio

ElevenLabs

Realistic voice cloning

Freemium✓ Editor-reviewed
Suno

AI song generation

Freemium✓ Editor-reviewed
Otter.ai

Live meeting transcription

Freemium✓ Editor-reviewed

SEO & Marketing

Surfer SEO

Content optimization

Paid✓ Editor-reviewed
Semrush

All-in-one marketing

Paid✓ Editor-reviewed
Ahrefs

Backlink & keyword data

Paid✓ Editor-reviewed
Perplexity

Answer engine

Freemium✓ Editor-reviewed
Phind

Developer search

Free✓ Editor-reviewed

Automation

Zapier

No-code app connections

Freemium✓ Editor-reviewed
Make

Visual automation builder

Freemium✓ Editor-reviewed
Browse AI

No-code web scraping

Freemium✓ Editor-reviewed
Durable

AI small-business builder

Freemium✓ Editor-reviewed

Productivity

Gamma

AI decks & docs

Freemium✓ Editor-reviewed
Tome

Narrative presentations

Freemium✓ Editor-reviewed
Mem

Self-organizing notes

Freemium✓ Editor-reviewed

Coding

GitHub Copilot

In-editor code completion

Paid✓ Editor-reviewed
Cursor

AI-first code editor

Freemium✓ Editor-reviewed
Hugging Face

Open model hub

Free✓ Editor-reviewed
Poe

One app, many bots

Freemium✓ Editor-reviewed