140+ Best AI Tools - Complete AI Tools Review (2024)

No matter what task you’re facing, whether it’s technical, creative, or just plain repetitive admin, you’re bound to come up against a roadblock along the way. From writing a story and expressing your brand through art, to navigating complex research for your studies, getting from start to finish can cost considerable time and money.

Without the best AI tools in your arsenal, you risk wasting valuable resources and not achieving the results you expected. It’s disappointing to say the least, and potentially damaging to your reputation.

I alternate between several AI tools for organizing work life and expressing my creativity, like automating my work schedule, enhancing short stories, and creating AI YouTube thumbnails. All these tasks would either take me far longer, or would feel impossible, without the help of AI. 

Paid and free artificial intelligence tools have revolutionized virtually every area of life and business. That’s why we’ve tested countless AI tools, narrowing down our favorites into this guide.

Here are 140+ best AI tools, broken down into popular categories.

140+ Best AI Tools and Software Currently Available in 2024 

Best AI Tools for Video Generators

Best AI Tools for Image and Art Generators

Best AI Tools for Writing and Text Generating

Best AI Tools for Music Generating

Best AI Tools for Designing

Best AI Tools for Face Generating

Best AI Tools for Avatar Generating

Best AI Tools for Painting and Drawing

Best AI Tools for Character Generating

Best AI Tools for Audio Generating

Best AI Tools for Automating Business Processes

Best AI Tools for Researching

Best AI Tools for Everyday Management

Best AI Tools for Podcasting

Best AI Tools for Productivity

Best AI Tools for Animation

Best AI Tools for Video Generators

Videos transcend language barriers and break down complicated theories and processes into simple chunks.

But the video creation process? Not so enjoyable. You’ll scour never-ending libraries of stock footage,  spend hours recording your own footage, and have to learn complicated software.

Before you know it, you've tried and failed to get the results you want. Customers are confused by your bad videos and you produce fewer videos than you'd planned. Meanwhile, your competitors are churning out engaging, interesting videos on the daily while you miss out on marketing opportunities.

AI has revolutionized the video creation process. Editing that used to take hours is complete in a few clicks, skipping the frustrating learning curve of tricky technical software. Here are some of the best AI websites for video production.

1. Pictory

Pictory is a browser-based video editor for long- and short-form content. Take text from a blog post and prompt Pictory to create a video—it’ll choose footage, images, music and captions, with voiceover, too. Highlight interesting sections of your Zoom meetings or webinars and turn them into shareable short-form snippets. It supports a few languages with more to come in the future. 

• Free trial included

• Subscriptions start at $19 a month

2. DeepBrain

Create videos with AI avatar presenters, just by sharing your text in DeepBrain’s uncluttered, easy to use browser editor. There are a wide variety of lifelike avatars and voices to choose from, with controls to adjust the speed and tone of the speech. Just drag and drop into slides to create your finished videos.

• Free plan to create one test video

• Plans start at $24 a month, billed annually

3. Kaiber

Beautiful videos are a few clicks away in Kaiber creative video lab based in your browser. Choose your animation style and prompt videos with text, or even upload your own audio to have your video respond to the rhythm with audioreactivity. Completely change your video style with AI effects. Adjust the aspect ratio, duration, and create prompts using clickable settings. Interface is smooth and steps are broken down to make it easy to generate videos.

• Plans start at $5 a month for 300 credits

• Free 7 day trial with 100 credits

4. Nova A.I.

A suite of AI video editing tools to automate video resizing, merging multiple videos, generating subtitle files. Translate videos into 75 languages and create realistic AI voiceovers. With your Nova A.I. plan, you get access to royalty-free stock digital assets to create unique videos. Integrate with YouTube and Tiktok for instant posting or export in MP4 format. Nova AI’s interface is clean and easy to navigate, even for beginners.

• Subscriptions start at $8 a month, billed annually

5. Runway

Make professional videos from text or image prompts in Runway, then use AI powered editing features to remove background and clean up the audio. Try more advanced features such as blurring faces, motion tracking, and color grading with text prompts. Runway tells you in advance how many credits each action will use with a preview before you commit.

• Subscriptions start at $12 a month, billed annually

6. Rizzle

Rizzle is a super simple text to video generator with an aesthetically pleasing interface that beginners will love. Provide a text or audio prompt to create your videos, then adjust the aspect ratio and duration. It’ll take a few minutes to process, but you can navigate away and receive an email when it’s processed. Download in 1080p or 4k in higher plans. Access millions of stock assets with your paid plan.

• Free to try

• Pro subscription starts at $25 a month, billed annually

7. D-ID Creative Reality

Creative avatar-based video tool, great for training and explainer videos. Either choose a presenter and enter your text script in D-ID, or use the AI presenter creation tool to generate a custom presenter and script. Choose an AI-powered voice over and create a professional-looking video in multiple languages. Connect with Powerpoint or Canva, share with a link, or export the video in MP4 format.

• Free trial for personal use

• Commercial use subscription starts at $34 a month, billed annually

8. Tensorpix (previously AImages)

Enhance your videos with AI on Tensorpix. Upload your video file and choose your AI filters from the simple menu, such as noise reduction on grainy video, boost the framerate to a smooth 60fps, and even upscale SD format videos to 4k. Receive an email once your video is ready and download it to your device. As I’d never used something like this before, I appreciated the guide showing a visual of what a video would look like before and after applying a filter.

• Starter subscription starts at around $12 per month for 25 credits

9. Fliki

Fliki makes video creation as easy as copying and pasting your script. It takes your text and transforms them into ‘scenes’ where you can add individual ultra-realistic AI voice overs for each scene and choose the language, accent, and gender. Add videos, images and GIFs from the extensive stock library or generate your own using the inbuilt AI tool.

• Standard subscription starts at $21 per month, paid yearly, and includes up to 180 minutes of video content with full HD 1080p videos

9. Lumen5

Designed for corporate style videos. In Lumen5, upload your brand kit fonts, colors and logos to create animated videos using the extensive stock and template library. Input your script or blog post and Lumen5 generates a video based on that written content. Unique script spin off feature that analyzes your current video and generates new ideas for future content. One of our team said it feels like PowerPoint for video creation. Everyone can use PowerPoint, right?

• Plans from $19 per month, billed annually

Best AI Tools for Image and Art Generators

What’s any kind of content without a captivating image or informative drawing? Art evokes specific emotions and enhances visual appeal, whether that’s for a book, a website, or a blog post. 

Thanks to the surge in AI art tools, platforms can automate a lot of the artistic process. As a creative person, I love how AI art tools help me come up with new concepts. I’ve often tinkered with AI art to make truly unique-looking YouTube thumbnails that I wouldn;t be able to achieve on my own. 

From making simple enhancements to inspiring new ideas, here are our favorite AI art tools.

10. Midjourney

Midjourney’s a powerful Discord bot that creates high-quality images from text prompts in any style you can think of. Each text prompt generates four images you can upscale inside the bot or use as a starting point for further generations. Even upload a starting image to influence the results. Midjourney was my first proper foray into AI art and I enjoyed the public server to help me get inspiration for my own prompts.

• Free account provides 25 credits

• Subscription starts at $8 per month billed annually and includes a private bot, faster and simultaneous generations

11. Nightcafe

Nightcafe’s art creator combines OpenAI DALL-E models such as OpenAI DALL-E and VQGAN+CLIP to generate all kinds of images for personal and business use. Use it right in your browser—type a text prompt and use the advanced mode to add styles and parameters in a few clicks. In a few moments you’ll see your finished images on your dashboard. Download the images directly to your device or use as a basis for more generations! Nightcafe helpfully shows you how many credits each generation costs upfront.

• Free to use, claim 5 free credits daily and earn more with other actions

• $4.79 a month, billed quarterly for 100 credits

12. Leonardo AI

One of the most powerful tools for AI art generation, Leonardo AI includes high definition photorealistic models, background removal, and upscaling. More advanced features allow you to tweak the image rendering to specific models to create pixel art, isometric fantasy art, and spirit creatures among many others. Leonardo is my go-to tool for art generation as I love how much control I have over the end result.

• Generous free plan with 150 credits every day

• Paid plan starts at $10 a month billed annually for 8,500 credits a month and advanced models

13. Canva AI

If you’re already using Canva, did you know it has a built-in text to image tool? If none of the existing elements take your fancy, type in a text prompt and select a style and aspect ratio to generate four images. Drag them into your Canva project as you would with any other element.

• 50 credits with a free Canva account

• Upgrade to Canva Pro for 500 credits

14. Getimg

There’s a huge variety of AI models on Getimg to help you create unique images. Like many of the tools in our list, generate images from text prompts and upload an optional starting image and adjust the sliders to change your resolution and image settings. What sets this tool apart is its comprehensive AI editor and the wide variety of options to create cohesive branding for your blog and social media, product shots, and stock-style images without attribution. 

• Free plan gives you 100 images a month

• Basic subscription starts at $12 a month for 3000 images

15. DALL-E 2

DALL-E 2 by Open AI is probably one of the most recognised tools for art generation. It’s super simple to use in the browser. Just type a text prompt or use the ‘surprise me’ feature to generate something random. In a few moments you’ll receive four images and from there, you can edit or download to your device. It has a unique editing feature called ‘generation frames’ to extend the image with AI, too.

• Receive a few credits on the free plan with your OpenAI account

• Buy a minimum of 115 credits for $15

16. HomeDesignsAI

This clever tool helps you visualize what rooms would look like remodeled or decorated in specific styles. Based in the browser, just upload an empty room photo to HomeDesignsAI and instruct the AI to design it based on the room function and style. The results are surprisingly realistic!

• Individual subscription starts at $27 a month for 100 designs

17. Prodia

Prodia Playground is a really clean interface for generating basic images. You can type in a prompt and generate pictures in a few moments. For varying results, choose from the long list of models including Absolute Reality, Dreamlike Diffusion, or Open Journey. There are advanced options like negative prompts too, for more control over the output. It only generates one image at a time, but generation is fast and you don’t need an account. 

• Free

18. Remove BG

For simple background removal, Remove BG has you covered. Upload your image and the tool removes its background with AI in a few moments. Download the image in its original dimensions or add a fun background color with the edit tool. In this example, you can see how I created a usable AI-generated clip art image by removing the white background.

• Free plan offers 45 credits

• $25 a month billed annually for 300 credits

19. Adobe Firefly

Adobe Firefly comes from one of the world leading creative suites. It’s based in the browser, though you’ll need an Adobe account. This mini suite of AI art tools can generate art from text prompts, generate fancy decorative font effects, and even change elements of an existing image—swap out a denim jacket for leather, for example.

20. Profile Pic Maker

Make a standout impression on your resume or social profiles with a polished profile picture. Upload your photo to Profile Pic Maker and AI removes the background, adding your portrait to dozens of creative and professional backgrounds. Adjust your image by scaling and tilting it using the sliders. When you’re done, download the square or circle versions. I use this on all of my professional online accounts.

• Free, no account needed

21. LogoDesign.net

Transform your vision and brand message into a memorable visual identity with LogoDesign.net. Simply input your business name and select your industry to access hundreds of logo designs tailored to your needs. The platform allows you to explore a variety of styles, ensuring you find just the right match for your brand. You can easily customize fonts, color palettes, and layouts. 

• Enjoy free logo generation and design exploration

• Find a comprehensive brand kit with complete ownership and access to essential branding materials

Best AI Tools for Writing and Text Generating

Everyone writes, whether it’s a blog post, book, social media caption or a quick text. 

That doesn’t mean it’s easy. Even after years of writing, I still struggle to put words on a page at times, whether it’s because I can’t find the right words to use or I’m having trouble coming up with a structure for a piece I’m working on. Then after hours of writing, it’s difficult to switch my brain from ‘writing mode’ to ‘editing mode’ (or editing as I write, which wastes a lot of time). 

You can spend hours thinking of what you want to say, then developing your voice and expressing yourself clearly. What if you want to take a blog post and turn it into a video script or LinkedIn post? You have to start from scratch every time.

AI helps give you your time back. Whether it’s tools to check your grammar, spelling, and tone, or templates that write all of your content for you from scratch, AI writing tools can save you time and budget so you can focus on the creative part of writing. Here are the best AI websites we’ve tried for all kinds of writing.

22. ChatGPT

If you haven’t used ChatGPT before, it’s the most popular large language model (LLM) chatbot. It understands natural questions and can generate all kinds of written content including tables of data and even code. GPT-3.5 is free for everyone, but paid subscriptions give you access to GPT 4 with a higher level of language understanding and priority access.

• Free access to Chat GPT-3.5

• Plus plan is $20 a month and includes GPT-4, plugins and priority access

29. Notion AI

If you already use Notion to organize your life, Notion AI can take it one step further. Use the AI writing tool in any new or existing page. Translate your text into another language, change the tone, or rewrite it completely. Ask AI to brainstorm ideas, write a blog post or a creative story. You can even ask it to check grammar or summarize the important points.

• 20 AI responses for free with any Notion account

• Upgrade to Notion AI for $10 per month for unlimited access

23. Wordtune

Use Wordtune to tighten up your writing and find better ways of saying what you mean. It’s a Chrome extension that works anywhere you write online (I use it in Google Docs the most). Highlight what you wrote and Wordtune expands or condenses it, changes up the wording, and rewrites it in a different tone entirely. If you’re struggling with writer’s block, Wordtune can inspire clearer writing.

• Free version offers 10 rewrites a day

• Paid subscription starts at $9.99 a month, billed annually for 30 rewrites

24. Writesonic

No matter what kind of writing you want to do, Writesonic has a template for it. Generate product descriptions, a personal bio, YouTube descriptions and much more. Input your topic and description for high-quality, AI-generated content. For SEO writing, Writesonic can search for relevant keywords and show you the search volume while adding the keywords to your content. Although there are many templates, the interface is easy to navigate.

• Subscription starts at $16 per month, billed annually

25. Txtmuse

This tool looks simple on the surface but it’s actually really intelligent. With help from you, it generates a draft for any kind of writing. Using natural language, describe what you’re creating and Txtmuse will turn it into a structured draft. From there, select the text and ask it to rewrite, simplify, expand, and many more instructions—or type your own question.

• Limited free version

• Pro subscription starts at $21 a month, billed annually for unlimited use

26. TLDR This

Summarize any piece of text using AI. Share the URL or paste the text into the window and TLDR This can provide a brief or detailed summary in a few moments. Ask it to highlight important sentences or provide a human-like summary. The tool even shows you how much reading time it cut out! To summarize any webpage on the fly, install the Chrome extension.

• Free basic summaries

• $4 a month, billed annually for human-like summaries

27. Shortly

Shortly is a web browser tool aimed at helping you write better and faster. Input what you’ve already written—whether that’s a blog post or story—and Shortly continue where you left off. You can control how much you want AI to write for you and use AI commands to alter the generated text. The interface feels like a simple, uncluttered text editor with added features.

• Plan costs $65 a month, billed annually

28. Wordfixerbot

Turn your stuffy, stiff text into something far more palatable with this free paraphraser tool. Just paste in your text, choose the output tone, and paraphrase it in a few moments. Your resulting text shows up in the window next to it to compare. You don’t even have to sign in to use it!

• Generous free plan with 3 tones and 8,000 characters per day

• Paid plan costs $4 per month, billed annually for unlimited use

29. Sudowrite

This beautifully designed tool is made exclusively for creative writers. Input what you’re written so far and Sudowrite can continue writing for you. Highlight specific words or phrases and ask it to describe, rewrite, or brainstorm new directions. Ask Sudowrite to generate lists like love interests or locations to add to your story. All of this is packed into an aesthetic workspace with customizable fonts and colorways.

• Subscriptions starts at $10 a month, billed annually for 30,000 words

30. Copy.ai

Copy.ai looks and feels a bit like ChatGPT but with emphasis on copywriting. To generate all kinds of copy, choose a template from the library or ask the chat function to generate the copy you need. Upload your brand voice to keep all copy consistent, wherever you’re using it.

• Limited free trial

• Pro start at $36 a month, billed annually for multiple languages and unlimited words

Best AI Tools for Productivity

When you’re productive, you achieve more in less time. Using the wrong tools for the task at hand, or switching between multiple platforms, can harm how productive you are and might reinforce unclear processes. Plus, if you’re still doing simple tasks manually, you might be spending more time than you need to.

Feeling unproductive with your time is stressful and could lead to burnout, especially if you’re trying to work within a team.

There are many productivity tools that harness the power of AI to take out unnecessary processes and simplify the way you work. With machine learning, tools can even personalize your workflow to help you achieve your goals. Here are the productivity AI tools we’d recommend.

31. Notta

For high-quality, accurate transcription, Notta offers up to 98.86% accuracy in 58 languages. Upload audio or video files, live record your voice, or add to virtual meetings. You can type notes, images, and comments, all from your browser. The AI summary feature generates a condensed version of the full transcript, chapters of the transcript highlights, and even action points to provide the next steps. Export your transcript in a variety of formats.

• Starts at $9 per month, billed annually.

32. TabHub

When you’re working, tabs quickly get out of control. Organize your open tabs automatically with TabHub. It groups like tabs together and closes duplicates, tracking the time you spend viewing each one. This tool works in Chrome, Edge, and Firefox.

• Free plan available

• Paid plan costs $6.99 a month

33. Mem

Mem is your own personal assistant. Upload old notes, bookmarks, your email inbox and calendar events, or type in thoughts on the fly. Using the conversational chatbot you can ask Mem simple questions and it retrieves the answers in natural language. For Windows, Mac, Android, and iOS.

• Basic free account

• Paid pro account costs $8 per month

34. Clockk

Do away with manual time tracking—Clockk tracks your activities with AI using the Chrome extension and desktop app. It groups specific URLs into projects and clients so you get an accurate breakdown of how you spend your time and even displays it in a calendar. As a freelancer, I found this saved a lot of time compared with traditional tracking!

• Plan costs $15 a month

35. Futurenda

Arrange your tasks and calendar events into a smart Futurenda agenda that adapts with your day. Sync it with your Google calendar and add tasks, reminders, and breaks. Your agenda only moves onto the next task when you’ve actually completed it, showing you an accurate use of time. Syncs across Web, Android, and iOS.

• Premium plan costs $9.99 per year

36. TeamSmartAI

Now you can have your own team of chatbots in one place, with TeamSmartAI. Choose the bots you need from specializations like SVG design, coaching, and writing. Click the bot you want to use and converse in a chat window through a Chrome extension.

• Starts at $30 a month to unlock all bots

37. AnySummary

AnySummary has a beautiful interface that I found so easy to use. Upload almost any kind of file and the AI can process, interpret, and summarize the data. Ask it a question and prompt it to create bullet points, TLDR summaries, tweets, and much more in multiple languages.

• Free for 3 files a day

• $7 a month for 50 files a day

Best AI Tools for Music Generating

Create the perfect atmosphere by adding music to your video, ad, or podcast. With the right beat, you’ll enhance your storytelling and even get stuck in your listeners’ minds with your catchy jingle. I create guided meditations and having the right music can make or break my listener’s relaxing experience.

The trouble is that stock music licenses are pricey and hiring a producer even more so. If you attempt your own tracks, it’s an incredibly technical learning experience.

Using music that’s low quality or unsuitable for your messaging decreases listener engagement and confuses customers, not to mention wasting precious budget and project time.

AI’s ability to help you make and edit music is getting more advanced. With the right tools you can generate brand new tracks to fit your project or edit audio with automated effects—no learning curve required.

Here’s a list of our favorite music tools to simplify your music production workflow.

38. Boomy

Create custom generated music tracks in just a few clicks, even for beginners, with Boomy. Choose a pre-generated style or something completely different. Compose your piece with preferred instruments like drums and synths, and sound effects like birdsong or water. From there, adjust your track with the visual options and even upload audio to lay vocals over your music.

• Up to 25 songs with a free plan

• Paid plans start at $5.99 a month

39. Splash Pro

Splash Pro is like Chat GPT for songwriting. In the simple interface, enter a text prompt and BPM. In a few moments you’ll get samples to choose from and select. There’s an experimental feature where you can upload your own audio and turn it into vocals or write your own lyrics and add AI voices.

• Free plan offers unlimited 15-second songs

• Paid plans start at $10 a month

40. Voicemod Text to Song

A fun browser-based tool from the team who created real-time voice effects for content creators. Choose from eight songs and seven singers and write in your lyrics. In a few moments, Voicemod creates your customized song to share anywhere or download as an MP3 or MP4 file.

• Free, Voicemod account required

41. Waveformer

Waveformer makes music from text prompts in your browser, no account required. In a similar way to an image generator, type in a descriptive prompt. Choose your duration in seconds and Waveformer creates your track in around a minute for 30 seconds of audio. Click to download the audio or video, or share via a link. It’s trained on 20,000 hours of licensed music.

• Free

42. MusicGen by Meta

MusicGen is a tool by Meta that creates music from a text prompt and optional audio file, from which it can extract the melody. The wait time can be quite long and you’ll receive a 12-second sample, but it has some interesting results spanning across all genres.

• Free

43. AIVA

Compose high-quality music tracks with AIVA by choosing from a wide range of genres, emotions, and durations. To influence the music, upload your own audio. The simple editor allows you to edit individual parts of your song with a piano roll, changing up the melody, bass, drums, and other elements.

• Free account for personal use

• Commercial licensing and full monetization from $36 a month

44. Tracksy

Tracksy makes music creation easy thanks to its minimal interface and lightning quick processing. Choose a genre and duration to get your track made in a few moments. From there, download it to your device. You’ll have to credit Tracksy whenever you use the music in your projects, but it’s a super simple and quick method for creating unique music.

• Free

45. Muzaic

Make high-quality tracks that you’d never guess were created by AI with Muzaic. Pick your duration and select the genres that apply. You can listen to example tracks and then adjust the sliders for attributes like intensity, tempo, and rhythm. Compose, and your track is ready to download in a few moments.

• 15 personal use tracks a month on the free account

• Commercial use plans start at $17.39 a month

46. Beatoven.ai

Create music driven by emotions with Beatoven. Create your track by selecting the emotions you want listeners to feel, then edit the structure, instruments, and tempo in the editor. Add a video or podcast to test how your music fits, then download when you’re done. This felt so simple when creating my YouTube Shorts! Although the idea is fairly unique, the interface is pleasant to use.

• Free unlimited tracks but no option to download

• Pro starts at $3 a month for 15 mins, on a sliding scale

47. Mubert

Effortless track creation with a text prompt. Add the track duration and optional genres, moods, and activities in Mubert. In a few moments, your track is ready to play—note the BPM and key in case you want to use this in future tracks. Generate your license document and download in a high-quality audio file format.

• Free plan offers tracks for personal use

• Commercial use starting at $11.69 a month, billed annually

48. Soundraw

Soundraw looks like a Spotify playlist made from dozens of AI generated music tracks. Tell it your preferred genre, mood, theme, duration and instruments. It provides a list of matching AI generated songs. Adjust the ‘energy’ of each track in a click to switch up the feel of the music. In pro mode, go deeper and edit individual elements such as instruments.

• Free forever plan to generate unlimited songs with no option to download

• Creator plan starts at $16.99 a month, billed annually

Best AI Tools AI Face Generating

Whether you see a face in a social media profile, a support chatbot, or in a video meeting, faces make us feel emotionally connected. They add a certain level of authenticity to websites and testimonials, so it’s vital we use them correctly. A friend of mine even used a face generator to test out a ‘faceless’ business where they didn’t want to reveal their real face.

Sourcing unique faces is a challenge. Stock images often lack diversity and look posed and artificial. Hiring models for a photoshoot is costly and hard to coordinate.

Using the wrong faces sends a confusing message to customers and might even harm your credibility if the faces don’t look like real people.

So how do you get around this? AI can generate unique, realistic faces based on exactly what you need. From candid selfies or editorial shots, here are our fave AI tools we’ve tested for the best face generation.

49. This Person Does Not Exist

This website is as simple as it gets. Every time you refresh the webpage, a completely unique AI-generated face appears in high resolution. They’re so realistic you’d never know these aren’t real people. Right click to download to your device and use however you’d like.

• Free to use in your browser

50. Fotor Face Generator

To create realistic faces with a little more input, try Fotor’s face tool. Type in a descriptive text prompt as Fotor generates two images in a photorealistic style. Change up the aspect ratio and style inside the simple editor and download your images in JPG format.

• Pro plan starts at $2.66 per month

51. BoredHumans Fake People

Using a bank of over 70,000 real human faces, BoredHumans can randomly generate photorealistic faces of people that don’t really exist. Generate as many as you’d like without an account, and right click the image to download and use. 

• Free to use

52. Generated photos

Have more control over what kinds of faces you can generate with AI. In Generated.photos, choose elements such as sex, head position, emotion, hair color and more to influence the generated faces. You’ll get dozens of faces to choose from which you can enlarge and download, or use to generate even more faces.

• Subscription costs $16.58 a month, billed annually for unlimited generations

53. Media.io

Forget pricey photoshoots—create stylish face photos starting with any selfie with Media.io. Choose from lots of style options including ID photos, outdoors, and casual looks, then let AI transform your face into 50 to 100 professional shots. Download them to use wherever you like!

• Prices start at $4.99 for 50 images

Best AI Tools for Designing

Design helps customers interact with your products, platforms, and apps. Branding makes you memorable. So cutting corners can have detrimental effects to your reputation!

Designing is subjective, so it takes a long time to collaborate and approve design elements. It can cost a fair chunk of your budget when hiring a pro, too.

If your design doesn’t hit the mark, you don’t stand out among your competitors. Bad UI makes your products difficult to use and could lower your perceived value.

That’s why AI tools are so valuable in the design field—from collaborating on designs to generate fresh ideas, AI tools take out the stress, time, and cost out of developing your next visuals. 

Here are our favorite AI design tools.

54. Huemint

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Huemint’s the ultimate tool for any designer wanting to experiment with color. Its straightforward interface infinitely generates palettes and then applies these to mockups of products so you can see how they’d look in real life. Choose one, two, or three colors and lock the ones you want to keep as you explore the range of hues that work well together. Click to copy their hex codes and even share individual designs with your team.

• Free to use, no account needed

55. Looka

Create a unique brand with Looka’s AI. Generate hundreds of logos just by inputting your business name, industry, and selecting design styles that appeal to you. Control the font, color palette and alignment with the comprehensive editor tool. Plus, you can preview your brand kit of over 300 branded materials that update as you change your logo.

• Free to generate brand designs

• Purchase a basic logo for $20

• Brand kit is $96 a year for complete ownership

56. Uizard

Design UI for websites and apps by instructing Uizard’s AI in plain English. There are a variety of templates to choose from for elements like blogs, feature cards, and subscribe buttons. Handy AI tools can scan in hand drawn wireframes and AI turns it into a complete design, or make mockup screenshots editable.

• Free plan to create two projects

• Subscription starts at $12 a month, billed annually for up to 100 projects

57. Khroma

A free browser tool for creating unlimited color palettes. Choose at least 50 colors you like from Khroma’s list to train AI on what suits your brand. From there you’ll receive a never-ending scroll of palettes. Click to view the colors in posters, gradients, or images and view the color codes at a glance. 

• Free

58. Patterned AI

A handy pattern generator for designers who need repeating patterns for products. It works like a normal art generator by typing a text prompt, number of designs, and any negative prompts, too. Preview the designs and generate new ones based on the results, or download to use whenever you’d like.

• Free to download image files

• Download SVG files with the Standard plan at $30 a month

59. Fontjoy

Fontjoy’s AI pairs Google fonts together for infinite inspiration. Type your own headers and body text to try them out. Lock in your favorites and keep generating to see new combinations just by clicking. To download the font, select the font name in the sidebar. After testing this tool, I ended up changing the fonts on my website to a pairing Fontjoy suggested.

• Free

60. Stockimg.ai

Uses AI to generate unique illustrations, logos, book covers and more. Stockimg has a simple, minimal UI that lets you type in a text prompt and model to generate your design. Drag it into your workspace to edit further with effects,elements, and text. Export as PNG, JPG, PDF, or SVG.

• Free to try

• Starter subscription is $190 a year

61. Mokker

Create professional product backgrounds with the help of an AI editor. Upload photos of your product to Mokker and use the templates for different themes like work, bedroom, or outdoors. Add in props to change up the layout and adjust the light source, camera angle and location. Download your custom image when it’s ready, or edit it further using simple tools.

• Premium plan start at around $150 a year for unlimited downloads

62. Design Beast

A suite of AI powered design apps in one place. DesignBeast is laid out similar to Canva and boasts thousands of templates and millions of images, icons, and fonts. Use editing tools to remove backgrounds, create a logo, add motion to images and much more.

• $69 for a one-off lifetime license

63. Beautiful.ai

Transform presentation with the help of Beautiful.ai. Use templates as a starting point and type in text prompts to create your slides with ease. Smart slides adapt your designs as you add information. Feel free to edit the layout, color, fonts, and elements any time and even generate unique graphics. Ready to show your presentation? Download it to play automatically.

• Pricing starts at $12 a month, billed annually for unlimited slides

64. Illustroke

Scalable vector graphic designs in a few clicks with a text prompt. Select the styles and colors you like and in a few moments, the Illustroke bot creates a handful of designs to choose from. They’re SVG designs, meaning you can scale them to any size—perfect for printing! Use them for personal and commercial projects with no attribution.

• Credits start at $6 for 50 tokens

65. Designs.ai

This easy to use workspace helps you create logos, videos, and all kinds of designs with the help of AI. Choose your design category along with your business details and color palette. Designs.ai generates a handful of designs for you to choose from. Resize to any aspect ratio in a click.

• Subscriptions start at $19 a month, billed annually

66. Modyfi

Collaborating on designs can be frustrating. Modyfi takes out the headache by providing a platform where your team can draw and write on your design, add comments and notes, and give feedback in real time. Make edits and use AI generated design elements like inpainting and image to image conversion.

• Prices start at $5 one-off payment for 500 image credits

Best AI Tools for Avatar Generating

Avatars offer an interactive way for your customers to try products and services, and for you to experience virtual events without actually attending.

The main challenges with creating avatars are technical hurdles and lack of diversity. Learning to create 2D or 3D avatars is a long and technical process, with professionals costing a lot of money to hire. The wrong avatars might send harmful messages, like an avatar with an idealistic body type for a weight loss app.

How will you use your avatar if you don’t know how to deploy it on your website? What about if it lacks realism or offers no inclusivity? Your customers may feel discouraged and confused about your message. Your development budget may be gone before you’ve even brought an avatar to the public.

Advanced AI tools could help cut out these issues by creating avatars made specifically for the platforms you use. With a wide range of animation options and styles, here are our favorite AI tools for avatars.

67. Meshcapade’s Digidoppel

Upload a 3D image file or use body measurements to begin creating your animated avatar with Digidoppel. Choose from a few animation and position option and wait around 20 minutes for your avatar to generate. You can export it as OBJ or FBX files that are compatible with Unreal and Optitex.

• 10 credits cost around $11, or contact them for a subscription

68. Microsoft Mesh avatars

An immersive experience in Microsoft Teams or in your standalone product. Mesh generates and customizes an animated avatar to look just like you with face tracking capabilities and emotes. For Teams integration, start with the Avatars app inside Teams and get creative!

• Free to use inside Teams

69. Ready Player me 

Create masculine and feminine avatars from a photo or from scratch—we found ReadyPlayerMe’s photo replication really accurate. Customize it with outfits, hair colors and skin tones, all inside your browser. Claim your avatar with a unique username and use it in virtual worlds like VR Chat, Immersed, Animazed and Mozilla Hubs.

• Free to design and claim your avatar.

70. Avaturn

Hyper-realistic, lifelike avatars generated completely with AI. Creating my avatar was ridiculously simple —I just scanned the on-screen QR code with my phone to take selfies that linked directly to Avaturn. AI customizes your avatar which you can then change in detail with the simple editor. The animation is smooth and very quick to process. Choose various poses and download a photo of your avatar, or join the Discord server to grab your animation file.

71. HyperHuman Chatavatar

If you’re not quite sure what you want your avatar to look like, HyperHuman helps figure out its appearance by chatting with you to learn its personality traits, interests, and characteristics. Use natural language to answer the questions and AI will flesh out your character, then generate a visual representation, complete with textures and features.

• License and download the face file with purchasable credits

• Credits cost $1 for 6

72. KrikeyAI

Designed to work with Krikey’s animation software, this avatar maker creates basic designs with a few customizable options in your browser. Choose from basic presets like hairstyles, skin tones, and outfit, then save on your Krikey account. To bring it to life, add it to Krikey animation videos.

• Free plan to use avatar maker and limited animations

• Paid plans start from $14.99 a month for more credits

73. Memoji

If you use iOS, you already have this fun avatar maker built into your operating system. Create a custom emoji avatar that can display a wide range of animations and facial expressions. Use Memoji in messaging apps and FaceTime, where it can track your face movement when you speak using your camera. 

• Free with iOS and iPadOS

74. Picsart Avatar AI

Now you can create avatars of couples and pets!  Download Picsart’s free AI apps to your Android or iOS device and select 10-30 photos as reference. AI creates 50 to 100 designs for you to download and keep.

• Around $6 as a one-off payment for 50 designs

Best AI Tools for Painting and Drawing

Sometimes, there’s no better way to express your ideas than drawing or painting them. But it’s not so easy if you lack art skills or don’t understand the complicated art software you bought.

Drawing takes a lot of practice and even a simple doodle might be difficult to interpret. If you’re trying to create a logo, wireframe, or piece of art yourself, it might come across as unprofessional and hard to decipher, turning away your customers.

Tools that use AI can aid the drawing process with prompt-based drawing and inspiration for new ideas. You don’t even need to practice for hours to gain artistic skill or learn tricky art programs with generative AI art. Here’s a list of AI tools we tested to make drawing feel enjoyable again.

75. Quick, draw!

Powered by Google, this fun drawing tool prompts you to draw an object using your mouse. Google’s AI will constantly try to guess out loud what you’re drawing—and it's surprisingly accurate (it only struggled to guess one out of around 50 doodles I created). Have fun!

• Completely free to use

76. Stable Doodle

Turn your simple doodle into a fully fledged piece of art thanks to Stable Doodle’s AI. Draw in the box provided and provide a simple text prompt so the AI understands the context. In a flash, you’ll receive three designs in various styles. Choose your favorite to download in HD or edit it further with simple editing tools like upscaling and background removal.

• Download and edit for free, with watermark

• Remove the watermark with a monthly subscription of around $7 a month

77. Scribble Diffusion

This tool’s like a basic version of Stable Doodle where you doodle your design and provide a text prompt. Scribble Diffusion is pretty basic and generates one image at a time—I found it helps to be as descriptive as possible when prompting. 

• Download all images for free.

78. AutoDraw

So what if your doodle is a little wonky? AutoDraw instantly recognizes what you’re trying to draw and suggests icons to replace it. Choose three aspect ratios for your canvas and change the color of your pen in a click. Select the icon to change the color once it’s drawn and use the handles to resize. Add shapes and text to complete the drawing then download as a PNG.

• Free

79. Color Anything

Whether you’re designing a coloring book or just want to wind down with your marker pens, Color Anything creates basic black line drawings of anything. Use a text prompt to make a coloring page that’s free to print or download. If you don’t like the result, generate it again. It’s unlimited!

• Free

80. Sketch MetaDemoLab

Bring your children’s drawings to life with the power of Sketch. Upload a photo of their doodle and the website recognizes the figure automatically. Drag the ‘joints’ to line up with the head, arms, and legs, then sit back as it turns into an animation. The steps are so simple for anyone to follow and you can choose from a variety of fun animations. Although there’s no option to download the animation, you can share it via a URL.

• Free

81. Magic sketchpad

Another fun, experimental drawing tool. Choose an object from Magic Sketchpad’s drop down menu and begin to draw it using your mouse. For best results, start with basic shapes—then let AI take over. Its machine learning will attempt to finish your design. Although the results are basic line drawings, it’s impressive to see how well it performs!

• Free

82. Leonardo AI Canvas

An additional feature of this powerful AI art app is its ability to generate changes in your images just by drawing or erasing elements of it yourself in Canvas. Using the inpainting feature, draw into the image where you want to add or remove elements. Input a prompt and choose the AI model, then Leonardo will provide a few options to choose from.

• Download without watermarks

• Use free Leonardo credits to perform inpainting actions

Best AI Tools for Character Generating

From a company mascot to the protagonist in your next book, character creation is essential for branding and marketing. Your unique character can embody certain traits and build trust with your target audience. Likable characters can even become friends.

It’s tricky to create a believable character, though. For non-artists, making a concept into a visual interpretation with various expressions and poses is difficult. As a result, your character won’t engage your audience and earn their trust. It might feel unprofessional and diminish your branding efforts entirely.

There are plenty of tools that create both the visual elements and the traits of your character using AI. We’ve tested many and these are our favorites for effective character generation.

83.Replika

Meet your new bestie. Replika’s a free app for Android and iOS that feels like a cross between a game and an instant messenger app. Create your Replika character’s appearance, give them a name, and start chatting! They’ll remember details about you and message you throughout the day. Decorate their home with gems and coins you earn by conversing with your character.

• Free to use basic features

• Upgrade to pro for around $79 a year to unlock selfies and voice messages

84. DeepAI 3D Character Generator

DeepAI is a web-based tool that creates 3D looking characters from a descriptive text prompt. Choose from various styles (although some are locked unless you have a pro account). Although it’s pretty basic, the tool is easy to use and generates characters quickly, one at a time.

• Pro starts at $4.99 per month

85. Toolsaday Character Generator

For in-depth character backstories as well as a visual character design, Toolsaday can help. Use the chatGPT-style chatbot to fill in details about your character and it’ll respond with a detailed list of its personality traits, age, abilities and much more. Use snippets of this to generate your character in ImageGen.

• 10 credits for free to start

• Upgrade to get 200 credits for $7.95 a month

86. Wonder Studio

Add amazing, movie-quality character rendering and CGI in your existing footage with no special tools or equipment. Upload your video to Wonder Studio and AI instantly recognizes your actors’ movements. Drag and drop characters into the frame and AI replaces them in a few seconds. Adjust pose, lighting and more in the helpful editor. There’s no jargon or steep learning curve and we think the results are fantastic.

• Subscription costs $16.99 a month, billed annually

87. Hypesaga

Generate a character with its own personality using just a text prompt in Hypesaga! You can write a description of your character or leave it up to AI to randomly create something brand new. It’ll even provide an AI profile picture. Then, start chatting—it works like a chatbot, so you can have a conversation and your character will reply based on its set characteristics.

88. MakePose

Posable characters feel more lifelike, so use MakePose’s stick figure to position your character, then write a text prompt describing what they look like. It’ll generate its own version of your character in the pose you chose. 

• Free

89. Artflow.ai

Artflow.ai takes your basic character concept and transforms it into a creative visual in its own video-based story. Feed in your own written story or ask AI to generate one for you. According to the genre, AI prompts you for details and then provides a character bio. In a few clicks, it generates visuals for your story and makes them into a video in around five minutes.

• Premium plan costs $8 a month

90. Character.ai

Create all kinds of AI generated characters that you can chat with. Provide Character.ai with a description of their personality and characteristics and AI creates their profile picture and a bio. Once you begin chatting (it supports several languages), train the character by offering feedback on their responses to your questions and comments.

• Subscription costs $9.99 a month

91. SoulMachines Digital People

Stunning, realistic 3D characters you can customize. Give them a voice, appearance, personality and behaviors then start chatting in SoulMachines. Conversations are powered by GPT. You can embed the character with code or integrate it into the UI on your website or app.

• Pro subscription costs $39 a month

92. Bookraid AI Book Character Generator

Text-based character generator to help you flesh out your character concept. Start with a genre and gender and provide a description in natural language. In a few moments AI provides a detailed bio highlighting their backstory, traits, appearance, flaws, and much more. Copy the text to use in your book writing or even as prompts for creating art.

• Free

93. ZMO Character Creator

Create detailed visuals for your character with a text prompt on ZMO. Choose the character category and a style from the list. Add a negative prompt, aspect ratio, and number of images. You’ll need to make a free account, but once you have, you’ll get your character designs that you can download or share via a URL.

• Pro subscription start at $5.90 a month, billed annually to receive 300 credits

Best AI Tools for Audio Generating

Hearing a voice is more relatable and emotional than written content. People who find it difficult to read or are visually impaired can digest spoken words much easier.

For high quality voiceover, it’s either expensive to hire the right talent, or too difficult to get right unless you spend a lot of money and time creating a quiet recording environment. Then there’s the audio editing which often takes far longer than the recording—for a 30 min voiceover, it often takes me around an hour to edit!

Bad audio is distracting and off-putting. Whether that’s down to the wrong voice—a serious newsreader voice wouldn’t sound right for a children’s audiobook—or poor quality audio with breaths and background noise. Low quality voiceover could lead to lower retention rate on your content and the message might be difficult to understand.

AI comes to the rescue again, this time by transforming the audio production process. We’ve tested dozens of audio production tools and these AI generators and editors are our favorites.

94. Resemble.ai

There’s a lot of customization options in Resemble’s web-based voiceover app. The voice marketplace features a wide variety of voices based on use cases like audiobooks, ads, and games. Choose an AI voice or clone your own from samples of your audio and type your script. You can add a different voice for each section and even select a localized accent. Adjust individual words and phrases to mimic real speech, and the AI will read out what you type. Upload audio and the speech to speech setting changes the voice to one of the voices in the library.

• Plans start at $0.0006 per second with unlimited downloads

95. Naturalreaders

Naturalreaders is a powerful text to speech app that features multiple languages and a wide variety of voice tones. Type in your text, provide a URL, or even ask AI to read a document. Choose your preferred voice and listen to it read your text back to you. If you want to mimic real speech even more, add emphasis, stutters, and gaps. Download MP3, WAV and caption files.

• Paid plan costs $49 a month

96. Revoicer

Emotion-driven AI voice bank that turns text into speech. There are a variety of standard and Pro voices to choose from on Revoicer, each with their own tone and capabilities, like reading out emojis as sound effects. The interface is a joy to use—plus it supports several languages.

• Paid subscription starts at $37 a month

97. Eleven Labs

A text to speech voice synthesis AI tool that sounds like believable human speech. Upload your own clips to Eleven Labs to clone your voice or choose one from the vast library. For now, it’s English only, but there are many accents like Indian, British, and Australian. Type your text in the minimal interface and adjust the sliders to alter the sound of the output. Generated voice is fast and you can download it as an MP3.

• Free plan available for personal use

• Monthly plan starts at $5 a month

98. LALAL.AI

This simple yet powerful editor can split audio tracks to isolate vocals from music or background sounds. Upload your audio track to LALAL.ai and in a few moments it shows you how each part sounds individually—we were shocked at how professional the result sounded.

• Prices start at $15 as a one-off fee

99. Voicera

Bring web pages and blog posts to life by turning written content into narration with Voicera. Choose a voice from the library and paste the URL of the page you want to voice over. In a few minutes you’ll get to preview what it sounds like and copy the code to add to your website. It supports over 200 languages!

• A one-off payment of $9 provides 100,000 credits (1 credit per character)

100. FineShare FineVoice

Fineshare’s free Windows program adds effects to your voice in real time. Share your voice anywhere you use your microphone, like Twitch, YouTube, or Google Meet. Even add sound effects and music from the library. Fancy recording instead? Record straight to the app and drag and drop effects into the multi-track editor.

• Limited free plan

• Upgrade to pro from around $3 a month

101. Audyo

We know this looks like a text editor, but look closer—you can edit your voice simply by changing the text in Audyo. Select a voice from the library and listen to what you’ve written. Any changes you make to the text update in real time as new audio. Write phonetics to correct pronunciation and even use the magic wand feature to translate into different languages with AI.

• Free plan offers 30 minutes of audio

• Paid plan starts at $5 a month and remove watermarks

102. Wellsaid

AI voices that have a lifelike sound that you can even use with chatbots, thanks to Wellsaid’s API. Choose your voice from the library of AI avatars and type in your text to hear it read back to you. Edit the pronunciation and even add in breaths to make it sound truly human.

• 7-day free trial, no credit card required

• Paid plans start at $44 a month, billed annually

103. NarrationBox

This text to speech AI tool is made for multilingual content, with over 75 languages to choose from. Type your text into NarrationBox’s basic editor and choose a different voice for each block, if you like. Adjust the speed and emotion, then download in MP3 or WAV format when you’re done.

• From $12 a month billed annually

104. Altered

Altered features a powerful suite of AI voice tools. Choose TTS and browse hundreds of professional grade voice overs with varying characteristics to fit any project. There are multiple languages and regional accents available, too. The advanced waveform editor can translate and clean up audio, adjust the speech and pitch, and morph your own voice.

• Paid plan starts at around $50 a month

Best AI Tools for Automating Business Processes

Every aspect of running a successful business has some kind of process behind it to reach goals, maintain a profit, and keep customers happy.

The issue is that efficient processes take a consistent level of effort to develop and maintain. Also, humans make mistakes which might cost your business time and money to put right. If your business has several teams working together, communication breakdowns happen, resulting in lower productivity and unhappy employees. Without consistency, your products and services might vary in quality which could upset your customers.

AI tools can automate those repetitive tasks and streamline your processes so that you focus more on growing your business and less on fixing problems. We’ve compiled this list of AI tools for all aspects of business management.

105. Scribe

Finally, an easy way to develop how-to guides! Scribe’s AI records your activities in your browser or desktop, then turns those actions into written steps, complete with images. Edit, add and remove steps while collaborating with your team. Magic merge turns screenshots into mini videos to combine similar actions. Share as a link and export as PDF, HTML Markdown, and share in Confluence.

• Free unlimited plan with basic features

• Paid plan start at $23 per month, billed annually

106. Reply

Made for businesses and agencies, Reply is an AI powered sales tool to create customized sales sequences. Using machine learning, it generates outreach schedules and best channels for your prospects, as well as automating communication with customers.

• Limited free plan

• Starter plan costs $60 per user, per month

107. Plus Docs

Automate presentation slide creation with the Plus Docs add on for Google Slides. Simply write a description of what your presentation is for and AI creates and writes your slides for you. You can edit it just as you would with any Google Slides project.

• Unlock premium options for $10 a month

108. Sreda

Empower your teams with personalized learning using Sreda AI. Create a knowledge base using existing materials and include a full list of all employees and departments. AI analyzes the job descriptions and responsibilities of your staff to create individual training plans. We found the interface clean and easy to navigate.

• Prices begin at $5 per employee, per month, billed annually

109. Candydate

A super smart recruitment tool that uses AI to collect video applications, then analyze their speech and skills. Create your job post and Candydate submits it to the top job platforms. As a team, you can view the applications and shortlist or reject them. AI helps you list the best candidates in order and tracks the number of applications while contacting unsuccessful applicants.

• Free solo plan

• Pro subscription costs $99 a month

110. Namelix

Find your new brand and design with Namelix. Write a few keywords that describe your business and choose preferences like name style and level of creativity. AI produces a page full of new names and potential logo designs you can browse. Browse available domains and edit if you wish.

• Download a simple logo for $25

111. Timely

Manually tracking time gets frustrating, so get AI to track your activity instead. Install Timely on your PC and get to work. Timely handles the tracking in the background, automatically uploading your activities and the time spent onto your dashboard. Integrates with other platforms like Google Calendar, Trello, and Zoom.

• Start plan costs $9 a month, billed annually

112. HeyLibby!

HeyLibby’s the assistant you always wanted, powered by AI. It helps create leads for your business by acting as a chatbot to gather information from your prospects using conversational language. Customize it to your business by setting questions Libby must ask and personalize it to your brand. Share on socials or embed with javascript.

• Free to use

• Refer to your friends to unlock premium features

113. Lyro AI by Tidio

Lyro is a conversational chatbot that learns from your FAQs and answers customers who visit your website. Choose your industry and build your FAQs from scratch, or by using your existing page. You can test the chatbot in a playground environment and once it’s deployed on your site, monitor chat statistics. I previously managed a customer support team, so I can see how much this would streamline basic customer support.

• Free for up to 50 conversations

114. Ocoya

Manage all your social media accounts at once with Ocoya AI. Generate designs with templates and use the copywriter tool to create captivating captions. It even finds the best hashtags for the most reach. Share simultaneously to sites like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter/X, LinkedIn and more.

• Free trial

• Paid subscriptions start with the Bronze tier at $15 per month, billed annually

115. GitHub Copilot

Save time writing out boilerplate code with Github’s AI tool that writes code when you prompt it with natural language. In a few seconds, receive suggestions you can accept or reject. It even integrates into your favorite tools such as JetBrains IDEs and Visual Studio.

• Paid plans start at $10 a month

Best AI Tools for Researching

Thorough research is essential for studying, running a business, and creating content because it allows you to get backed data and insights into subjects while identifying opportunities.

Performing any kind of research takes a long time to do correctly. You have to scour several publications, read through studies manually to understand if they’re relevant and worth citing. As a writer, I often have to back up statistics with real studies and sifting through endless papers is overwhelming, especially if you include papers that are out of date.

Researching takes up mental energy and lots of valuable time. Without solid data, you might even throw away opportunities to grow and learn about new trends.

Fortunately, there are AI search engines and tools that can find what you need fast and summarize the data without your input. We’ve gathered some of the best AI tools for you to try.

116. Semantic Scholar

Researching scientific papers can be a hassle. SemanticScholar works like Google Scholar but with smarter features. Input author names, keywords, or study titles to have AI search a database of 200m+ scientific papers. It provides a summary, images, and statistics with a shareable URL. 

• Completely free to use

117. NeuralText

Get the lowdown on your competitors with NeuralText. AI shows how your competition’s content ranks in SERP and how it’s structured. Using this data, automate content briefs and create a swipe file for use on future projects.

• Paid plan starts at $19 a month

118. Genei

Using your background reading such as PDF studies and published papers, Genei can summarize the data into chapters and images for easy scan reading. Highlight any passage of text to summarize further, or write customer prompts to interact with your data.

• Free 14-day trial

• Basic plan costs around $10 a month, or around $6 a month for students

119. Consensus

Beautifully designed research tool to help you find answers to your questions via studies and papers. Write your query in plain English and Consensus AI analyzes and summarizes papers to find the general consensus (hence the name). Save studies to your account where you can view citations and links to the full text. This felt like a joy to navigate because of the way the data is laid out.

• Limited free account

• Pro plan starts at $7.99 a month, billed annually

120. Elicit

A clever research tool with a minimal UI. Search for a question and Elicit searches 175 million papers. The results page provides a neat summary of each paper with links to the full study and PDF. Click on any paper and a chatbot can answer questions about the content. 

• Free

121. Wizdom.ai

Analyze trends, topics, subjects, publishers, institutions, and researchers in real time with millions of data points. Use Wizdom to compare countries, funding, collaboration and much more. It’s easy to find your way around using the dashboard with rich imagery and statistics. 

• Free to use

122. Scite

This research assistant looks just like ChatGPT. Type any question in natural language and Scite searches studies, then provides an answer in conversational language. You’ll also receive links to those studies to refer back to.

• Unlimited access costs $20 per month

123. ResearchRabbit

If you love to link your data together, ResearchRabbit helps you find relationships between subjects, authors, collaborators and more. Add reference papers to your collection to visualize your data. Save and share your findings in a few clicks.

• Free forever

124. SciSpace

Scientific paper search engine. Type in a question and SciSpace summarizes the answer according to related scientific papers. Adjust the data on your results page to include collaborations, results, and a TLDR summary. Click any study, or even upload your own PDF, and use the Copilot function to answer the chatbot questions about the study—it’ll respond with a summary.

• Free

125. OpenRead

Create a summary of research papers using OpenRead AI. By searching keywords, a search result page will appear that you can filter by relevance or date. Click any study to view a summary, the author and publish date, plus extended AI summaries by chapter.

• Limited free account

• Unlock all features for $20 a month

Best AI Tools for Podcasting

Podcasts are so convenient and fun to listen to, so they’re worth doing right.  Done correctly, you’ll find new customers and share your brand story in an interesting way.

Many podcasters find production difficult though. It’s tricky to coordinate guests, create high quality audio, and publish to a tight schedule. Even when I was running a solo podcast for sleep stories, I found creating audio content time-consuming.

An inconsistent, low quality podcast is a huge waste of opportunity to gain new listeners. You might lose the fans you do have which in turn could harm your brand. All that budget and time spent without the results you want to achieve.

AI is amazing for making podcasting easier. It can increase your audio quality and even prepare all the supporting content like show notes and social posts. For example, Notta transcribes podcast audio from a file or link with up to 98.86% accuracy. It’s helpful for worldwide audiences too, with transcription in 58 languages and translation into 43 languages—ideal for creating show notes and captions.

Here, we’ve narrowed down our other favorite AI tools for podcasting.

126. PodStash

PodStash turns any webpage or article into an AI-powered podcast. Install the Chrome extension, choose your favorite AI voice, and publish to your RSS feed. It’s that simple!

• Basic plan costs $7 a month for up to 5 generations a day

127. Headliner

Turn any published podcast into full length and short form videos with Headliner AI. Search for your podcast and set up automation to create a new video every time you publish an episode. Change the design and aspect ratio in a few clicks. I used this extensively when hosting my own podcast and enjoyed the ‘set and forget’ aspect of creating automated videos.

• Free plan for 5 unwatermarked video a month

• Paid plan starts at $7.99 a month

128. PodPilot

PodPilot creates a podcast based on your website. Choose an AI host and enter your URL to receive suggestions on a podcast name and episodes, which it writes and narrates entirely from scratch.

• $19 to develop your AI podcast episode within three days

129. Castmagic

Generate all the supporting written content for your podcast in a few clicks with Castmagic. Using your podcast transcript, it writes a title, description, keywords, Q&A, quotes, social media posts and much more. Simply copy and paste from the editor.

• Plan costs $39 a month

130. Cleanvoice

Clean filler words, dead air, and mouth sounds from single or multi track podcast audio. Cleanvoice can also balance out your audio levels and remove background noise for a professional finish.

• Free 30 minute trial

• Around $11 a month for 10 hours

Best AI Tools for Animation

Animation is a fun, dynamic way to convey your message and break down complicated topics. That’s why you’ll often find online courses and explainer videos using animation.

Without any kind of automation, producing good quality animations either require a steep learning curve or a large portion of your budget to hire professionals. Animations require storyboarding, animating the frames, and graphic design skills. Add in coordinating the staff involved, it’s very tricky to keep everyone happy and finish on the deadline.

Bad quality animation looks amateur and might not share your message effectively, wasting precious resources. It’s all too easy to lose money and time on expensive animation projects that never come to fruition because of technical stumbling blocks.

Now, AI can do most of the animation work for you, no learning curve required. To inspire ideas and keep your branding consistent, here are our favorite AI animation tools.

131. Vyond

Create professional animation videos from scratch or use Vyond’s wide range of AI-powered templates and tools. Automatically translate video text, enhance speech, and create a character from a photo. With Vyond Go, type a prompt and AI will generate a story, script, and video template that you can edit further in the studio.

• Plan costs $25 a month

132. Leiapix Converter

This free tool turns your existing 2D images into 3D animations using AI. Upload your image to Leiapix Converter and adjust settings for the duration, shape, and focal point of your animation. You can view the changes in real time, then download as GIF or MP4 or share via a URL.

• Free 500 credits

• 1000 extra credits for $10

133. Blender

Blender works with Stability AI to generate texture, effects, and animations. It adds them to your 3D models either with source materials or via a text prompt and saves to the cloud. 

• Ffree for Windows, Mac, and Linux.

134. Doodly

Create whiteboard, chalkboard, and glassboard animations with Doodly. Select your resolution and choose text, animated assets, and a range of hands in a video timeline style editor. AI brings the scenes to life and provides a preview.

• For Windows and Mac

• Paid plan costs $49 a month

135. Raw Shorts

Sync Raw Shorts with your YouTube channel and use AI chat to create an animated video from scratch. It brainstorms video ideas and creates a video script, chooses media assets, generates captions, and narrates with AI. You can make unlimited edits in the drag and drop editor.

• Paid plans start at $30 a month

136. Gooey.ai Animation Generator

Gooey creates animated videos from scratch with a text prompt. You can choose the number of frames and changes in scenes to customize your animation. Choose animation models to influence different styles. When it’s ready, you can download it as a MP4 or share via a link.

• Starts at a $10 one-off payment for 1000 credits

137. VideoScribe

Use VideoScribe in your browser or Windows to create AI-powered whiteboard animations. Add animations from the extensive library, plus text and other elements. You can preview your video and download it as a video or GIF.

• Plans cost around $15 a month, billed annually

138. Animaker

Animaker is a cloud-based animation video creator powered by AI. Choose from templates and add scene backgrounds and animated elements. Your animated characters have a wide range of actions and expressions, lip syncing to your audio. Collab with your team via a shareable link.

• Basic plan starts at 12.50 a month, billed annually

139. Pika Labs

Pika Labs is a Discord server that creates 3-second animations with text prompts. It’s free to join and takes just a few moments to create your video. They’ve provided an in-depth prompt guide to get the best results. I found it interesting to test the motion capabilities using basic prompts.

• Free

140. CapCut

CapCut offers free AI apps for Android and iOS that add AI effects to turn photos into animations. Upload your photos and animate with styles like camera shake and particles. You can generate a script with a text prompt and CapCut turns your ideas into an animated video.

• Limited free plan

• Paid plan costs around $100 a year

141. GenMo

GenMo is a powerful animation creator using AI. Either use an image or text prompt to create a unique animation with added AI effects. You can download it as a video to remix to create new ideas.

• Plan costs $10 a month for unlimited commercial use with no watermarks

142. FlipaClip

Use Flipaclip to automate drawings and turn them into flip book style animations on Android, iOS, and Windows. Draw each frame individually and use AI to bring it to life. You can remove or color in the background and save it as a GIF or video file. I used this to draw and animate Twitch alerts quite easily, with no prior animation experience.

• Free

143. Powtoon

Create all kinds of animated videos with Powtoon’s video creator. This feature-rich editor adds customizable animations with lifelike movement and expressions. Edit the colors, text, fonts, and elements, then download it to your device as an MP4.

• Plans start at $15 a month, billed annually

  

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Bonus Tool and Summary

Hopefully you can now see just how transformative AI tools can be in every area of work and life. Since AI tools rose to prominence, I’ve spent a lot of time playing around with them to enhance both my work and personal life. In my experience, what all AI tools have in common is how they can perform fairly complex tasks without you needing any technical knowledge or skills. There’s no need to learn to code, write, draw, or animate, but I also think they’re there to enhance our capabilities as humans—I certainly work smarter and more creatively since discovering AI. 

What will you create?