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AI tools directory

193 AI tools in 21 categories, each with a full description, concrete business use cases, who it is best for and a link to the official site. Pricing models change often: always check the official site before you commit.

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193 tools

ChatGPT

AI assistants
Freemium

OpenAI's general-purpose AI assistant.

  • Draft client emails, proposals and posts in your tone
  • Analyse a spreadsheet and explain the main trends
Details and use cases

Claude

AI assistants
Freemium

Anthropic's AI assistant, known for careful long-form writing, strong reasoning and handling long documents.

  • Review a long contract or report and list the key points
  • Write and edit structured documents such as guides and policies
Details and use cases

Gemini

AI assistants
Freemium

Google's AI assistant, integrated with Google Search and Workspace.

  • Summarise a long Gmail thread and draft a reply
  • Research a market with sources from the web
Details and use cases

Microsoft Copilot

AI assistants
Freemium

Microsoft's AI assistant, available free on the web and built into Windows, Edge and Microsoft 365.

  • Summarise a Teams meeting with decisions and owners
  • Turn a Word document into a PowerPoint draft
Details and use cases

Mistral Le Chat

AI assistants
Freemium

The assistant from Mistral AI, a European AI company.

  • Draft and translate business documents in several European languages
  • Analyse PDFs and extract key figures
Details and use cases

Meta AI

AI assistants
Freemium

Meta's assistant, available in WhatsApp, Instagram, Messenger and on the web.

  • Brainstorm post ideas inside Instagram
  • Generate a quick image for a social media story
Details and use cases

Grok

AI assistants
Freemium

The AI assistant from xAI, integrated with X (formerly Twitter).

  • Track what people are saying about a topic on X
  • Draft short posts and replies
Details and use cases

DeepSeek

AI assistants
Free

An AI assistant and family of open-weight models from the Chinese company DeepSeek, known for strong reasoning and coding at low cost.

  • Solve step-by-step maths or logic problems
  • Help write and debug code
Details and use cases

Qwen

AI assistants
Free

Alibaba's family of AI models and its chat assistant.

  • Multilingual drafting and translation
  • Build prototypes with open-weight models
Details and use cases

Poe

AI assistants
Freemium

A platform by Quora that gives access to many AI models in one place, including models from several providers, plus community-built bots.

  • Compare answers from different AI models on the same question
  • Use several models with a single subscription
Details and use cases

HuggingChat

AI assistants
Freemium

A free chat interface by Hugging Face that runs open-source models.

  • Test open-source models for a project
  • Get answers without a paid subscription
Details and use cases

Kimi

AI assistants
Freemium

An AI assistant from Moonshot AI, known for handling very long documents and agent-style research tasks.

  • Read and summarise long reports or books
  • Research a topic across many web pages
Details and use cases

Perplexity

AI search & research
Freemium

An AI answer engine that searches the web and replies with cited sources.

  • Research a competitor with sources you can check
  • Prepare a market brief before a client meeting
Details and use cases

NotebookLM

AI search & research
Freemium

Google's research notebook that answers questions only from the sources you upload: PDFs, Docs, websites, videos.

  • Turn a set of reports into a briefing with citations
  • Create an audio overview of training material
Details and use cases

You.com

AI search & research
Freemium

An AI search and assistant platform that combines web search with chat, research modes and agents for professional use.

  • Search the web with AI summaries
  • Run longer research tasks
Details and use cases

Liner

AI search & research
Freemium

An AI research assistant focused on reliable, cited answers, popular with students and researchers, with tools to highlight and organise sources.

  • Find credible sources for an article
  • Highlight and save key passages from web pages
Details and use cases

Elicit

AI search & research
Freemium

An AI research assistant for academic papers.

  • Find studies that answer a research question
  • Extract methods and results into a table
Details and use cases

Consensus

AI search & research
Freemium

An AI search engine for scientific research that answers questions from peer-reviewed papers and shows how much evidence supports a claim.

  • Check what research says about a health or business claim
  • Find studies to support a white paper
Details and use cases

Scite

AI search & research
Paid

A research tool that shows how scientific papers cite each other, including whether citations support or contradict a claim.

  • Check whether a study has been confirmed or disputed
  • Find reliable references
Details and use cases

ChatPDF

AI search & research
Freemium

A simple tool to upload a PDF and ask questions about it in chat, with answers linked to pages.

  • Ask questions about a long manual
  • Summarise a report quickly
Details and use cases

Humata

AI search & research
Freemium

An AI tool for asking questions across many documents, with answers that point to the source passages.

  • Search across company documents
  • Summarise technical files
Details and use cases

Genspark

AI search & research
Freemium

An AI agent platform that researches topics and builds outputs such as summary pages, slides and sheets from many sources.

  • Create a research page on a market
  • Generate slides from web research
Details and use cases

Semantic Scholar

AI search & research
Free

A free academic search engine from the Allen Institute for AI, with AI summaries of papers and citation tracking.

  • Find influential papers on a topic
  • Read short summaries of studies
Details and use cases

Kagi

AI search & research
Paid

A paid, ad-free search engine with AI summaries and assistant features, focused on privacy and result quality.

  • Search without ads or tracking
  • Get quick summaries of web pages
Details and use cases

SciSpace

AI search & research
Freemium

An AI platform to search, read and understand research papers, with explanations of complex passages and literature review tools.

  • Understand a difficult paper in plain language
  • Build a literature review table
Details and use cases

Notion

Productivity
Freemium

An all-in-one workspace for notes, documents, wikis, projects and databases, with built-in AI to write, summarise and answer questions from your workspace.

  • Build a client wiki and project tracker
  • Summarise meeting notes automatically
Details and use cases

Google Sheets

Productivity
Freemium

Google's online spreadsheet, free with a Google account, with real-time collaboration and AI assistance in Workspace plans.

  • Track prospects and invoices
  • Build a simple dashboard with charts
Details and use cases

Coda

Productivity
Freemium

A document tool that combines text, tables and automations, so documents can work like small apps.

  • Build a team operating manual with live tables
  • Create a simple CRM inside a document
Details and use cases

ClickUp

Productivity
Freemium

A project management platform with tasks, docs, goals, time tracking and AI features for summaries and writing.

  • Manage client projects with tasks and deadlines
  • Summarise project progress automatically
Details and use cases

Mem

Productivity
Freemium

An AI note-taking app that organises notes automatically and lets you ask questions about everything you have saved.

  • Capture ideas and find them later by asking
  • Prepare for a meeting from past notes
Details and use cases

Motion

Productivity
Paid

An AI calendar and project manager that schedules your tasks automatically around meetings and deadlines.

  • Plan your week automatically
  • Reschedule tasks when meetings change
Details and use cases

Reclaim

Productivity
Freemium

An AI scheduling assistant for Google and Outlook calendars that protects time for tasks, habits and focus.

  • Block focus time automatically
  • Schedule recurring habits like weekly reviews
Details and use cases

Taskade

Productivity
Freemium

A collaborative workspace for tasks, mind maps and notes with AI agents that can generate plans and automate work.

  • Generate a project plan from a goal
  • Brainstorm with a mind map
Details and use cases

Tana

Productivity
Freemium

A structured note-taking tool where notes can become tasks, projects and databases, with AI to capture and organise information.

  • Turn meeting notes into tasks
  • Build a personal CRM
Details and use cases

Julius AI

Productivity
Freemium

An AI data analyst: upload spreadsheets or data files and ask questions in plain language to get charts, analysis and summaries.

  • Analyse sales data without formulas
  • Create charts for a client report
Details and use cases

Superhuman

Productivity
Paid

A premium email client focused on speed, with AI to write replies, summarise threads and triage the inbox.

  • Reach inbox zero faster
  • Draft replies in your voice
Details and use cases

Todoist

Productivity
Freemium

A simple, popular to-do list app with projects, labels, recurring tasks and AI assistance to break down tasks.

  • Manage personal and client tasks
  • Set recurring admin reminders
Details and use cases

Trello

Productivity
Freemium

A visual board tool by Atlassian, using cards and lists to manage tasks and workflows.

  • Track content from idea to published
  • Manage a sales pipeline visually
Details and use cases

Asana

Productivity
Freemium

A work management platform for teams, with projects, timelines, workflows and AI features.

  • Coordinate a marketing campaign
  • Plan a product launch timeline
Details and use cases

Slack

Productivity
Freemium

A team messaging platform with channels, integrations and AI features to summarise conversations and search company knowledge.

  • Organise team communication by project
  • Summarise long channels
Details and use cases

Miro

Productivity
Freemium

An online whiteboard for brainstorming, workshops, diagrams and planning, with AI to generate ideas and organise sticky notes.

  • Run a remote workshop
  • Map a customer journey
Details and use cases

Make

Automation & agents
Freemium

A visual automation platform (formerly Integromat) that connects apps through scenarios, with AI modules and agents.

  • Send new form leads to your CRM and email tool
  • Draft social posts from new blog articles with AI
Details and use cases

Zapier

Automation & agents
Freemium

A widely used no-code automation tool connecting thousands of apps, with AI steps, chatbots and agents.

  • Notify your team when a new lead arrives
  • Save email attachments to cloud storage
Details and use cases

n8n

Automation & agents
Open source

A workflow automation tool with a visual editor, code when needed, AI agent nodes and the option to self-host under a fair-code licence.

  • Build AI agents that answer from internal documents
  • Automate data sync between tools
Details and use cases

Gumloop

Automation & agents
Freemium

A no-code platform to build AI workflows and agents with drag-and-drop nodes, including web scraping and document processing.

  • Scrape and summarise competitor pages
  • Process documents with AI
Details and use cases

Relevance AI

Automation & agents
Freemium

A platform to build AI agents and teams of agents for business tasks such as sales research and support.

  • Create an agent that researches leads
  • Automate first-line support answers
Details and use cases

Lindy

Automation & agents
Paid

A no-code platform to create AI assistants that handle email, scheduling, meeting notes and other recurring tasks.

  • Triage and draft replies to emails
  • Take meeting notes and send follow-ups
Details and use cases

Dify

Automation & agents
Open source

An open-source platform to build AI apps, chatbots and agents, with retrieval from your documents and self-hosting options.

  • Build a chatbot from your knowledge base
  • Create internal AI tools
Details and use cases

Flowise

Automation & agents
Open source

An open-source visual builder for AI agents and chatbots based on LLM frameworks, which you can self-host.

  • Prototype a document Q&A bot
  • Build agent workflows visually
Details and use cases

Langflow

Automation & agents
Open source

An open-source visual tool to build and deploy AI agents and retrieval workflows.

  • Design a retrieval chatbot
  • Experiment with multi-agent flows
Details and use cases

Bardeen

Automation & agents
Freemium

A browser-based automation tool with AI to automate web tasks such as scraping, data entry and sales research.

  • Copy lead data from websites to a sheet
  • Automate repetitive browser tasks
Details and use cases

Pipedream

Automation & agents
Freemium

A developer-friendly automation platform that connects APIs with code steps and prebuilt actions.

  • Build custom integrations quickly
  • Run scheduled scripts
Details and use cases

Workato

Automation & agents
Paid

An enterprise automation and integration platform for connecting business systems at scale, with AI agents.

  • Automate HR onboarding across systems
  • Sync finance and CRM data
Details and use cases

Albato

Automation & agents
Freemium

A no-code integration platform connecting hundreds of apps, an affordable alternative for simple automations.

  • Sync leads between ads and CRM
  • Send order data to accounting
Details and use cases

Brevo

Marketing & sales
Freemium

An all-in-one marketing platform (formerly Sendinblue) for email, SMS, WhatsApp campaigns, automation and a light CRM, with a free plan.

  • Send monthly newsletters
  • Automate welcome sequences
Details and use cases

Apollo.io

Marketing & sales
Freemium

A sales intelligence platform with a large B2B contact database, outreach sequences and AI assistance.

  • Find decision-makers in target companies
  • Run email sequences
Details and use cases

Clay

Marketing & sales
Freemium

A data enrichment and prospecting tool that combines many data sources and AI to research and personalise outreach at scale.

  • Enrich leads with company data
  • Write personalised first lines with AI
Details and use cases

Instantly

Marketing & sales
Paid

A cold email platform for sending campaigns from multiple inboxes, with deliverability tools and lead database.

  • Run cold email campaigns
  • Warm up sending inboxes
Details and use cases

lemlist

Marketing & sales
Paid

A multichannel outreach tool for email, LinkedIn and calls, with personalisation and lead database.

  • Personalised outreach sequences
  • Combine email and LinkedIn steps
Details and use cases

PhantomBuster

Marketing & sales
Freemium

A tool to automate data extraction and actions on websites and social networks.

  • Extract public lead data
  • Automate repetitive social actions
Details and use cases

Mailchimp

Marketing & sales
Freemium

A popular email marketing platform with templates, automations, audience management and AI content tools.

  • Design and send newsletters
  • Automate abandoned cart emails
Details and use cases

ActiveCampaign

Marketing & sales
Paid

A marketing automation and CRM platform known for advanced email automation and segmentation.

  • Build behaviour-based email journeys
  • Score leads automatically
Details and use cases

Klaviyo

Marketing & sales
Freemium

A marketing platform for e-commerce focused on email and SMS, with strong integrations with Shopify and other stores.

  • Abandoned cart and browse flows
  • Segment customers by purchase behaviour
Details and use cases

Lusha

Marketing & sales
Freemium

A B2B contact data platform to find emails and phone numbers of decision-makers, with a browser extension.

  • Find contact details of prospects
  • Enrich CRM records
Details and use cases

ManyChat

Marketing & sales
Freemium

A chat marketing tool to automate conversations on Instagram, Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp and SMS.

  • Auto-reply to Instagram comments with a link
  • Qualify leads in Messenger
Details and use cases

Canva

Design
Freemium

An online design platform with templates for social posts, presentations, documents and videos, plus AI tools (Magic Studio) to generate images, text and resize designs.

  • Create a month of branded social posts
  • Design a flyer or menu from a template
Details and use cases

Figma

Design
Freemium

A collaborative design tool for interfaces, websites and prototypes, with AI features to generate and edit designs and a large community of templates.

  • Design website and app mockups
  • Prototype a user journey for testing
Details and use cases

Uizard

Design
Freemium

An AI tool that turns text prompts, sketches or screenshots into editable app and web mockups.

  • Turn a hand sketch into a mockup
  • Generate a first app design from a description
Details and use cases

Looka

Design
Paid

An AI logo maker and brand kit generator that produces logos, colour palettes and brand assets.

  • Create a first logo for a new business
  • Generate a brand kit with colours and fonts
Details and use cases

CapCut

AI video
Freemium

A video editor from ByteDance for mobile and desktop, with templates, auto-captions and AI effects, popular for short-form social video.

  • Edit TikTok and Reels videos quickly
  • Add automatic captions
Details and use cases

Descript

AI video
Freemium

A video and podcast editor where you edit media by editing the transcript, with AI tools for filler-word removal, voice and clips.

  • Edit a podcast by deleting text
  • Remove filler words automatically
Details and use cases

Runway

AI video
Freemium

A creative AI video platform for generating and editing video from text, images and footage, used by creators and studios.

  • Generate short b-roll clips
  • Remove backgrounds from video
Details and use cases

Kling AI

AI video
Freemium

A text-to-video and image-to-video model from Kuaishou, known for realistic motion in short generated clips.

  • Animate a product photo
  • Generate short cinematic scenes
Details and use cases

Pika

AI video
Paid

An AI video generator for short, stylised clips from text or images, with creative effects.

  • Create playful social video effects
  • Animate illustrations
Details and use cases

Luma Dream Machine

AI video
Freemium

Luma AI's video generation tool for creating clips from text and images with camera motion control.

  • Generate scenic b-roll
  • Animate still images
Details and use cases

Hailuo AI

AI video
Freemium

MiniMax's AI video generator for text-to-video and image-to-video clips.

  • Create short promotional clips
  • Animate characters or products
Details and use cases

Synthesia

AI video
Freemium

An AI video platform to create presenter videos with digital avatars and voices in many languages, widely used for training and internal communication.

  • Produce training videos without filming
  • Translate a video into several languages
Details and use cases

HeyGen

AI video
Freemium

An AI video platform for avatar videos, video translation with lip-sync and personalised video messages.

  • Create spokesperson videos
  • Translate marketing videos with lip-sync
Details and use cases

D-ID

AI video
Paid

A platform that animates photos into talking avatars and creates interactive AI agents with faces.

  • Create a talking presenter from a photo
  • Build an interactive video assistant
Details and use cases

OpusClip

AI video
Freemium

An AI tool that turns long videos into short viral-style clips with captions and framing.

  • Cut a webinar into 10 shorts
  • Add animated captions automatically
Details and use cases

InVideo

AI video
Freemium

An AI video creation platform that turns prompts and scripts into edited videos with stock footage, voiceover and music.

  • Create a YouTube explainer from a script
  • Produce ad variations quickly
Details and use cases

VEED

AI video
Freemium

An online video editor with subtitles, translation, avatars and AI editing tools, easy to use in the browser.

  • Add and translate subtitles
  • Edit social videos in the browser
Details and use cases

Google Veo

AI video
Freemium

Google DeepMind's video generation model, available through Google's AI products and cloud, producing high-quality clips with sound in recent versions.

  • Generate high-quality concept videos
  • Create b-roll for presentations
Details and use cases

Pictory

AI video
Paid

An AI tool that turns scripts, articles and long videos into short branded videos with stock footage and captions.

  • Turn articles into videos
  • Create highlight reels from webinars
Details and use cases

Fliki

AI video
Freemium

A text-to-video and text-to-speech tool with many AI voices, useful for faceless videos and narrated content.

  • Create narrated explainer videos
  • Turn blog posts into videos
Details and use cases

Elai.io

AI video
Paid

An AI video platform for creating presenter-led videos from text, slides or URLs, focused on training content.

  • Turn slides into a narrated video
  • Create multilingual training
Details and use cases

Adobe Firefly

AI images
Freemium

Adobe's family of generative AI models for images, vectors and video, integrated into Photoshop, Illustrator and Express, designed for commercial use.

  • Generate commercially safe visuals
  • Extend or edit photos with Generative Fill
Details and use cases

Midjourney

AI images
Paid

A leading AI image generator known for artistic, high-quality images, used via web and Discord.

  • Create mood boards and concept art
  • Generate striking campaign visuals
Details and use cases

Leonardo AI

AI images
Freemium

An AI image and video platform with many models and fine-tuned styles, popular for game assets, marketing and product visuals.

  • Generate product and marketing images
  • Create consistent characters or assets
Details and use cases

Ideogram

AI images
Freemium

An AI image generator known for rendering readable text inside images, useful for posters, logos and social graphics.

  • Design posters with readable text
  • Create social graphics with headlines
Details and use cases

Black Forest Labs (FLUX)

AI images
Paid

The company behind the FLUX image models, available through its own API and many partner apps, known for photorealism and prompt accuracy.

  • Generate photorealistic visuals
  • Edit images with precise prompts
Details and use cases

Stability AI

AI images
Open source

The company behind Stable Diffusion models, offering open and commercial image, video and audio models.

  • Run image models on your own hardware
  • Build image features into products
Details and use cases

Krea

AI images
Freemium

An AI creative suite with real-time image generation, upscaling and video tools.

  • Sketch and see images update in real time
  • Upscale and enhance images
Details and use cases

Recraft

AI images
Freemium

An AI design tool for generating vector illustrations, icons and brand-consistent images.

  • Generate SVG icons and illustrations
  • Create brand-consistent image sets
Details and use cases

Freepik AI

AI images
Freemium

Freepik's AI suite for generating and editing images and videos, alongside its large stock library.

  • Generate stock-style images
  • Edit and upscale photos
Details and use cases

Microsoft Designer

AI images
Freemium

Microsoft's AI design app for creating images, social posts and invitations from prompts.

  • Create quick social graphics
  • Generate images for presentations
Details and use cases

Photoroom

AI images
Freemium

An AI photo editor for product images: background removal, AI backgrounds, shadows and batch editing.

  • Create clean product photos for an online shop
  • Generate lifestyle backgrounds
Details and use cases

remove.bg

AI images
Freemium

A tool that removes image backgrounds automatically in seconds, with an API for bulk processing.

  • Cut out product photos
  • Prepare profile pictures
Details and use cases

Clipdrop

AI images
Freemium

A set of AI image tools for background removal, relighting, upscaling, cleanup and more.

  • Remove unwanted objects
  • Relight product photos
Details and use cases

Magnific AI

AI images
Paid

An AI upscaler and enhancer that adds detail when enlarging images.

  • Upscale images for print
  • Enhance AI-generated images
Details and use cases

Bing Image Creator

AI images
Free

Microsoft's free AI image generator available through Bing and Copilot.

  • Generate free images for posts
  • Create quick illustrations
Details and use cases

ElevenLabs

Voice & music
Freemium

A leading AI voice platform for realistic text-to-speech, voice cloning with consent, dubbing, sound effects and conversational voice agents.

  • Create voiceovers for videos
  • Dub content into other languages
Details and use cases

Murf

Voice & music
Freemium

An AI voice generator for professional voiceovers, with a studio to sync voice with video and slides.

  • Narrate training videos
  • Create ad voiceovers
Details and use cases

Speechify

Voice & music
Freemium

A text-to-speech app that reads documents, web pages and books aloud with natural voices.

  • Listen to reports while commuting
  • Make content accessible
Details and use cases

Suno

Voice & music
Freemium

An AI music generator that creates full songs with vocals from a text description or lyrics.

  • Create a jingle for a brand
  • Generate background music
Details and use cases

Udio

Voice & music
Freemium

An AI music generation platform for creating songs and instrumentals from prompts.

  • Create original background tracks
  • Explore musical styles
Details and use cases

AIVA

Voice & music
Freemium

An AI composer for soundtrack-style instrumental music, with licences for commercial use on paid plans.

  • Compose music for videos or games
  • Create royalty-free soundtracks
Details and use cases

Adobe Podcast

Voice & music
Freemium

Adobe's tools for recording and enhancing speech, including a popular AI audio enhancer that makes recordings sound studio-quality.

  • Clean up noisy recordings
  • Record remote interviews
Details and use cases

WellSaid Labs

Voice & music
Paid

An enterprise text-to-speech platform with licensed, consistent voices for training and product audio.

  • Voice e-learning content
  • Create consistent brand audio
Details and use cases

Resemble AI

Voice & music
Paid

An AI voice platform for voice cloning, speech-to-speech and deepfake detection, aimed at businesses.

  • Create a consented brand voice
  • Localise audio
Details and use cases

LALAL.AI

Voice & music
Freemium

An AI tool that separates vocals, instruments and noise from audio tracks.

  • Extract vocals from a track
  • Remove background noise
Details and use cases

Cursor

AI coding & app building
Freemium

An AI code editor based on VS Code with chat, multi-file editing and agents that understand your whole codebase.

  • Build features faster with AI
  • Refactor code across files
Details and use cases

GitHub Copilot

AI coding & app building
Freemium

GitHub's AI pair programmer inside popular editors, with code completion, chat and agent modes for pull requests.

  • Autocomplete code as you type
  • Explain and fix bugs
Details and use cases

Replit

AI coding & app building
Freemium

A browser-based development platform with an AI agent that can build and deploy apps from a description.

  • Build a prototype app from a prompt
  • Host small tools and bots
Details and use cases

Windsurf

AI coding & app building
Freemium

An AI-native code editor with an agent that plans and edits code across your project.

  • Implement features with an agent
  • Navigate large codebases
Details and use cases

Lovable

AI coding & app building
Freemium

An AI app builder that turns descriptions into full web apps with design, database and deployment, for non-developers and makers.

  • Build an MVP for a startup idea
  • Create an internal tool
Details and use cases

Bolt.new

AI coding & app building
Freemium

StackBlitz's AI tool for building and running full-stack web apps in the browser from prompts.

  • Generate a working web app prototype
  • Iterate on UI quickly
Details and use cases

v0

AI coding & app building
Freemium

Vercel's AI tool for generating web interfaces and apps with modern frameworks, ready to deploy.

  • Generate landing pages and UI components
  • Prototype dashboards
Details and use cases

Tabnine

AI coding & app building
Paid

An AI coding assistant focused on privacy and enterprise control, with options for private deployment.

  • Code completion with privacy controls
  • Use AI coding in regulated environments
Details and use cases

Kiro

AI coding & app building
Freemium

An AI development environment from AWS that works from specifications, planning features before writing code.

  • Turn requirements into specs and code
  • Structure larger features
Details and use cases

Vercel

Web hosting & backend
Freemium

A cloud platform for deploying websites and web apps, especially Next.js, with previews, edge functions and AI SDK.

  • Deploy a website from Git
  • Preview every change before going live
Details and use cases

Netlify

Web hosting & backend
Freemium

A platform for deploying and hosting websites and web apps with continuous deployment, forms and functions.

  • Host a static site for free
  • Deploy from GitHub automatically
Details and use cases

Render

Web hosting & backend
Freemium

A cloud platform to host web services, databases, background jobs and static sites with simple pricing.

  • Host an API or backend
  • Run scheduled jobs
Details and use cases

Cloudflare Pages

Web hosting & backend
Freemium

Cloudflare's platform for deploying fast static and full-stack sites on its global network.

  • Host a fast static website
  • Deploy from Git with previews
Details and use cases

Supabase

Web hosting & backend
Freemium

An open-source backend platform with a Postgres database, authentication, storage and vector search for AI apps.

  • Add user accounts to an app
  • Store data for a prototype
Details and use cases

Firebase

Web hosting & backend
Freemium

Google's app development platform with database, authentication, hosting and AI features for mobile and web apps.

  • Build a mobile app backend
  • Add login and push notifications
Details and use cases

Xano

Web hosting & backend
Freemium

A no-code backend platform to build APIs, databases and business logic without managing servers.

  • Build an API for a no-code front end
  • Store and process app data
Details and use cases

Calendly

Booking & forms
Freemium

A scheduling tool that lets people book meetings with you based on your availability, with reminders and integrations.

  • Let prospects book discovery calls
  • Avoid back-and-forth scheduling emails
Details and use cases

Cal.com

Booking & forms
Freemium

An open-source scheduling platform, alternative to Calendly, with self-hosting options.

  • Booking pages with your branding
  • Team scheduling and routing
Details and use cases

SimplyBook.me

Booking & forms
Freemium

An online booking system for service businesses such as salons, clinics and coaches, with payments and client management.

  • Online appointment booking
  • Take deposits at booking
Details and use cases

Tally

Booking & forms
Freemium

A simple form builder with a generous free plan, working like a document editor.

  • Create lead capture forms
  • Collect client briefs
Details and use cases

Typeform

Booking & forms
Freemium

A form and survey tool with a conversational, one-question-at-a-time design, plus AI features.

  • Engaging customer surveys
  • Lead qualification forms
Details and use cases

Jotform

Booking & forms
Freemium

A form builder with many templates, payment integrations, approvals and AI agents.

  • Online order forms with payment
  • Registration forms
Details and use cases

HubSpot

CRM
Freemium

A CRM platform with free CRM tools and paid hubs for marketing, sales, service and content, with built-in AI.

  • Track contacts and deals
  • Automate follow-up emails
Details and use cases

Zoho CRM

CRM
Freemium

A CRM within the Zoho suite, affordable and customisable, with AI assistant Zia.

  • Manage leads and deals
  • Automate sales workflows
Details and use cases

Pipedrive

CRM
Paid

A sales CRM built around a visual pipeline, simple for small sales teams, with AI assistance.

  • Visualise deals by stage
  • Get reminders for next actions
Details and use cases

Salesforce

CRM
Paid

The largest enterprise CRM platform, with sales, service and marketing clouds and AI agents (Agentforce).

  • Enterprise sales management
  • Customer service at scale
Details and use cases

WordPress

Websites & e-commerce
Open source

The most widely used website platform, open source, with thousands of themes and plugins.

  • Build a business website with a blog
  • Add an online shop with WooCommerce
Details and use cases

Wix

Websites & e-commerce
Freemium

A website builder with drag-and-drop design, templates, booking and e-commerce features, plus AI site creation.

  • Create a small business site quickly
  • Take bookings online
Details and use cases

Squarespace

Websites & e-commerce
Paid

A website builder known for elegant templates, suitable for portfolios, restaurants and small shops.

  • Build a portfolio site
  • Create a restaurant site with menu
Details and use cases

Shopify

Websites & e-commerce
Paid

A leading e-commerce platform for online stores, with payments, apps, point of sale and AI tools.

  • Launch an online shop
  • Sell across social channels
Details and use cases

WooCommerce

Websites & e-commerce
Free

A free e-commerce plugin for WordPress, highly customisable with extensions.

  • Add a shop to a WordPress site
  • Sell digital or physical products
Details and use cases

BigCommerce

Websites & e-commerce
Paid

An e-commerce platform for growing and B2B online stores, with strong built-in features.

  • Run a larger catalogue
  • B2B ordering features
Details and use cases

Webflow

Websites & e-commerce
Freemium

A visual web design platform that produces clean code, with a CMS and hosting, popular with designers and agencies.

  • Build custom marketing sites
  • Manage blog content with a CMS
Details and use cases

Framer

Websites & e-commerce
Freemium

A website builder for designers with AI site generation, animations and CMS.

  • Launch a startup landing page
  • Create animated portfolios
Details and use cases

Durable

Websites & e-commerce
Freemium

An AI website builder for small businesses that generates a site, branding and basic tools in minutes.

  • Get a basic site online the same day
  • Generate copy and images
Details and use cases

Bubble

Websites & e-commerce
Freemium

A no-code platform to build full web applications with databases, workflows and user accounts.

  • Build a marketplace MVP
  • Create a client portal
Details and use cases

Glide

Websites & e-commerce
Freemium

A no-code tool to build apps from spreadsheets and data, for internal tools and simple mobile apps.

  • Turn a Google Sheet into an app
  • Build a field team app
Details and use cases

Softr

Websites & e-commerce
Freemium

A no-code builder for client portals and internal tools on top of Airtable, Google Sheets and other databases.

  • Create a client portal
  • Build a member directory
Details and use cases

Airtable

Databases
Freemium

A spreadsheet-database hybrid with views, automations, interfaces and AI fields.

  • Manage a content calendar
  • Track projects and assets
Details and use cases

MongoDB Atlas

Databases
Freemium

MongoDB's managed cloud database with vector search for AI applications.

  • Store app data at scale
  • Build AI search with vectors
Details and use cases

Baserow

Databases
Freemium

An open-source no-code database, alternative to Airtable, with self-hosting options.

  • Self-host a team database
  • Replace spreadsheets with structured data
Details and use cases

Otter.ai

Meetings & transcription
Freemium

An AI meeting assistant that records, transcribes and summarises meetings, with action items.

  • Transcribe interviews
  • Get meeting summaries automatically
Details and use cases

Fireflies.ai

Meetings & transcription
Freemium

An AI notetaker that joins meetings, transcribes them and creates summaries, with integrations into CRMs.

  • Log sales calls in your CRM
  • Summarise team meetings
Details and use cases

Fathom

Meetings & transcription
Freemium

A free AI meeting recorder and notetaker for Zoom, Google Meet and Teams.

  • Free meeting summaries
  • Share call highlights
Details and use cases

Read AI

Meetings & transcription
Freemium

An AI meeting assistant with summaries, meeting analytics and search across meetings, email and messages.

  • Meeting recaps and metrics
  • Search across communications
Details and use cases

Rev

Meetings & transcription
Freemium

A transcription service offering AI and human transcription, captions and subtitles.

  • Accurate human transcripts
  • Captions for videos
Details and use cases

Sonix

Meetings & transcription
Freemium

An automated transcription and translation service supporting many languages.

  • Transcribe multilingual audio
  • Translate transcripts
Details and use cases

Grain

Meetings & transcription
Freemium

A meeting recorder for sales and customer teams that captures highlights and syncs them to CRMs.

  • Share customer call clips
  • Update CRM after calls
Details and use cases

Grammarly

AI writing
Freemium

A writing assistant for grammar, clarity and tone, with generative AI, available across browsers and apps.

  • Proofread emails and documents
  • Adjust tone for clients
Details and use cases

Jasper

AI writing
Paid

An AI content platform for marketing teams, with brand voice, campaigns and workflows.

  • Produce on-brand marketing copy
  • Run content campaigns
Details and use cases

Copy.ai

AI writing
Paid

An AI platform for marketing and sales workflows, from copy to prospect research.

  • Generate sales emails
  • Automate content workflows
Details and use cases

Writesonic

AI writing
Paid

An AI writing and SEO platform for articles, marketing copy and AI search visibility.

  • Draft SEO articles
  • Create product descriptions
Details and use cases

Rytr

AI writing
Freemium

An affordable AI writing assistant for short-form content in many languages and tones.

  • Write social posts and ads
  • Draft short emails
Details and use cases

QuillBot

AI writing
Freemium

A paraphrasing, grammar and summarising tool popular with students and writers.

  • Rephrase sentences
  • Summarise articles
Details and use cases

Wordtune

AI writing
Freemium

An AI writing companion that rewrites sentences, adjusts length and tone, and summarises.

  • Rewrite awkward sentences
  • Shorten or expand text
Details and use cases

Sudowrite

AI writing
Paid

An AI writing tool for fiction authors, helping with drafting, description and story development.

  • Brainstorm plot ideas
  • Expand scenes
Details and use cases

ProWritingAid

AI writing
Freemium

A grammar checker and style editor with in-depth reports for long-form writing.

  • Edit a manuscript
  • Check style consistency
Details and use cases

Anyword

AI writing
Paid

An AI copywriting platform with predictive performance scores for marketing copy.

  • Test ad copy variations
  • Write landing page copy
Details and use cases

DeepL

Translation
Freemium

An AI translator known for natural translations, with document translation and a writing assistant.

  • Translate client documents
  • Translate a website draft
Details and use cases

Google Translate

Translation
Free

Google's free translation service for text, documents, websites, voice and camera.

  • Quick translations
  • Translate signs and menus by camera
Details and use cases

Reverso

Translation
Freemium

A translation and language tool with examples in context, conjugation and grammar checking.

  • See translations in real sentences
  • Check expressions
Details and use cases

Systran

Translation
Freemium

A professional machine translation provider with secure, customisable solutions for businesses.

  • Secure enterprise translation
  • Specialised domain translation
Details and use cases

Surfer SEO

SEO & content
Paid

A content optimisation tool that suggests topics, terms and structure based on top-ranking pages.

  • Optimise a blog post before publishing
  • Plan topic clusters
Details and use cases

Semrush

SEO & content
Freemium

An online visibility platform for keyword research, competitor analysis, site audits, ads and AI search tracking.

  • Find keywords competitors rank for
  • Audit technical SEO issues
Details and use cases

Ahrefs

SEO & content
Freemium

An SEO platform known for backlink data, keyword research, site audits and content tools.

  • Analyse backlinks
  • Find content gaps
Details and use cases

Frase

SEO & content
Paid

An AI tool for researching and writing SEO content briefs and articles.

  • Create content briefs quickly
  • Answer questions people search
Details and use cases

NeuronWriter

SEO & content
Paid

An affordable content optimisation tool with semantic SEO recommendations.

  • Optimise articles on a budget
  • Plan content with competitor data
Details and use cases

Clearscope

SEO & content
Paid

A premium content optimisation tool used by content teams to improve relevance and quality.

  • Grade content quality
  • Refresh decaying articles
Details and use cases

MarketMuse

SEO & content
Paid

An AI content strategy platform for topic modelling and content planning.

  • Plan topical authority
  • Prioritise content to write
Details and use cases

Screaming Frog

SEO & content
Freemium

A desktop website crawler for technical SEO audits.

  • Find broken links and redirects
  • Audit titles and meta descriptions
Details and use cases

Ubersuggest

SEO & content
Freemium

An affordable SEO tool by Neil Patel for keyword ideas, site audits and competitor research.

  • Find keyword ideas
  • Run a basic site audit
Details and use cases

Gamma

AI presentations
Freemium

An AI tool that creates presentations, documents and web pages from a prompt or notes, with modern designs and easy editing.

  • Create a pitch deck in minutes
  • Turn notes into a training deck
Details and use cases

Beautiful.ai

AI presentations
Paid

A presentation tool with smart templates that adjust layout automatically, plus AI generation.

  • Build consistent company decks
  • Create sales presentations
Details and use cases

Pitch

AI presentations
Freemium

A collaborative presentation platform for teams, with templates, analytics and AI.

  • Collaborate on decks in real time
  • Track who viewed a deck
Details and use cases

Prezi

AI presentations
Freemium

A presentation tool known for zooming, non-linear presentations, with AI to generate decks.

  • Create memorable talks
  • Present ideas visually
Details and use cases

Plus AI

AI presentations
Freemium

An AI add-on that creates and edits presentations directly in Google Slides and PowerPoint.

  • Generate slides inside Google Slides
  • Rewrite slide text
Details and use cases

SlidesAI

AI presentations
Freemium

An AI tool that turns text into presentation slides in Google Slides.

  • Turn an article into slides
  • Create lesson presentations
Details and use cases

Tidio

Customer service
Freemium

A customer service platform with live chat and an AI agent (Lyro) that answers common questions, popular with small online shops.

  • Answer shop questions 24/7
  • Recover abandoned carts by chat
Details and use cases

Intercom

Customer service
Paid

A customer service platform with an AI agent (Fin), help centre and inbox for support teams.

  • Resolve common questions with AI
  • Run a help centre
Details and use cases

Zendesk

Customer service
Paid

A customer service platform for ticketing, help centres and AI agents, used by companies of all sizes.

  • Manage support tickets
  • Build a knowledge base
Details and use cases

Crisp

Customer service
Freemium

An affordable customer messaging platform with live chat, shared inbox, knowledge base and AI.

  • Add live chat to a website
  • Centralise messages from channels
Details and use cases

WhatsApp Business

Customer service
Free

WhatsApp's free app and platform for businesses, with a profile, catalogue, quick replies and labels; the API enables automation through providers.

  • Share a product catalogue
  • Send quick replies to common questions
Details and use cases
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