A Curated List of AI Tools

A guide to help you discover the perfect AI tool, whether you're just starting out or looking to build something complex. The tools are grouped by their main purpose and then by complexity.

Last updated: November 1, 2025

Conversational AI & Writing Assistants

For brainstorming, writing, summarizing, and asking questions

Beginner Friendly

Easy to use, great for getting started

Google Gemini

An excellent all-around choice for creative writing, summarizing content (including YouTube videos), brainstorming ideas, and getting clear answers to complex questions. Very user-friendly.

ChatGPT (OpenAI)

The tool that brought conversational AI to the mainstream. Fantastic for generating human-like text, drafting emails, writing stories, and general-purpose Q&A. The free version is incredibly powerful.

Microsoft Copilot

A copilot is a conversational, AI-powered assistant that helps boost productivity and streamline workflows by offering contextual assistance, automating routine tasks, and analyzing data.

Meta AI

Integrated across Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, Meta AI can answer questions and generate images directly within your chats. It has real-time access to information through Google Search.

Perplexity AI

An "answer engine" that acts like a super-powered search tool. It scans the web and provides a direct, summarized answer with clickable sources, making it ideal for research and fact-checking.

Notion AI

A writing and organization assistant built directly into the popular Notion app. It can summarize your meeting notes, improve your writing, and help you brainstorm, all within your documents.

Intermediate

More features, may offer better performance on specific tasks

Claude (Anthropic)

Known for its large "context window," which means it can process and remember very large amounts of text (like entire books or research papers). It excels at summarizing long documents and maintaining a coherent, natural conversation style.

QuillBot

An AI-powered writing partner that specializes in paraphrasing. It can rephrase your sentences in different ways, helping to improve clarity, tone, and style. It's a favorite among students and academics.

Copy.ai

A powerful AI copywriter that's great for generating creative marketing copy, product descriptions, social media content, and more. It offers a wide range of templates to get you started.

Grok (xAI)

The conversational AI from xAI, integrated into X (formerly Twitter). It's known for having a sense of humor and real-time access to the platform's public data, making it unique for timely topics.

Advanced / Professional

Premium tools geared towards businesses and marketers

Jasper.ai

A premium, feature-rich AI content platform designed for marketing teams and businesses. It excels at creating high-quality, brand-consistent content at scale, from blog posts to ad campaigns.

Image & Art Generation

For creating visuals from text descriptions

Beginner Friendly

Quick results, integrated into apps you may already use

Adobe Firefly

Adobe's suite of creative AI models, deeply integrated into apps like Photoshop and Illustrator. It's trained on licensed content, making it a safe choice for commercial use. Excellent for generating and editing images with text commands.

Canva's Magic Media

Built directly into the popular Canva design platform. Effortlessly generate custom images and graphics for your social media posts, presentations, or projects.

Craiyon

Craiyon is an AI art generator that transforms your text descriptions into unique images in seconds. Previously known as DALL·E mini, Craiyon lets you create anything from abstract art to photorealistic images – simply type what you want to see and let our AI bring it to life.

Intermediate

More control, higher quality, credit-based systems

Midjourney

Widely considered the leader in producing high-quality, artistic, and often stunningly beautiful images. It operates primarily through the Discord app, which can take some getting used to, but the results are top-tier.

Leonardo.Ai

A feature-rich platform that offers a wide range of pre-trained artistic models. It has a generous free daily credit allowance and is great for creating game assets, concept art, and more.

Nano Banana (in Google Gemini)

This is Gemini's advanced image generation feature. It lets you upload a photo and transform it into countless new creations, blend scenes from multiple images, or generate visuals from a text prompt with a high degree of accuracy.

Document & Media Analysis

For extracting information from files and media

Beginner Friendly

ChatPDF

A simple yet powerful tool that lets you upload a PDF and ask questions about its content. It's fantastic for quickly summarizing research papers, reports, and textbooks.

Audio & Video Tools

For creating and editing multimedia content

Beginner Friendly

ElevenLabs

A leading platform for generating realistic text-to-speech and AI voices. The free tier allows you to generate a good amount of audio and even clone your own voice from a short sample.

Veed.io

An online video editor with a suite of AI tools, including automatic subtitle generation, background noise removal, and stock footage suggestions.

Intermediate

RunwayML

A powerful, web-based suite of AI magic tools for video. It can generate videos from text prompts (Gen-2), automatically remove backgrounds from videos, expand video canvases, and much more.

Pika Labs

A direct competitor to RunwayML, focused on high-quality text-to-video and image-to-video generation. It offers fine-grained control over camera motion and character consistency.

Coding & Development

For writing, debugging, and understanding code

Beginner Friendly

Blackbox AI

A good tool for getting code snippets and explanations. You can ask it coding questions in natural language, and it will often provide a working solution that you can copy and paste.

Replit AI

The AI assistant built into the popular Replit in-browser IDE. It helps with code completion, debugging, and explaining code blocks, making it great for learning and quick projects.

Intermediate / Advanced

Firebase Studio

A cloud-based development environment that includes everything developers need to prototype, build and run production-quality AI apps quickly.

GitHub Copilot

The industry-leading AI pair programmer that integrates directly into your code editor (like VS Code). It suggests lines or entire functions as you type, helps write tests, and can explain complex code. It's free for verified students and teachers.

Amazon CodeWhisperer

Amazon's powerful AI coding companion. It provides real-time code suggestions, from snippets to full functions, and can scan your code to find and suggest fixes for security vulnerabilities.

Sourcegraph Cody

An AI coding assistant that has a deep understanding of your entire codebase. It can answer questions about your code, help with large-scale refactors, and generate new code based on your existing libraries.

Tabnine

A popular AI code completion tool that supports a wide range of languages and IDEs. It learns from your personal coding patterns to provide highly relevant and personalized suggestions.

Cursor

An 'AI-first' code editor built from the ground up for AI-powered development. It allows you to chat with your codebase, generate code with a prompt, and debug with AI assistance in a deeply integrated environment.

v0 (by Vercel)

A generative UI tool that creates React components for the web. You describe an interface (e.g., "a pricing page with three tiers"), and it generates the code using modern standards, which you can then copy into your project.