Curated AI Tools
A hand-picked directory of the AI tools worth knowing — with official links, categories and honest tradeoffs.
ChatGPT
ProductivityConversational assistant powered by OpenAI's GPT models. Handles reasoning, writing, coding, image analysis and voice.
Claude
ProductivityAnthropic's assistant known for long-context reasoning, careful writing and strong coding. Includes Projects and Artifacts.
Gemini
ProductivityGoogle's multimodal assistant across Search, Workspace and Android. Strong image, video and code understanding.
Perplexity
ResearchAI-powered answer engine that cites sources. Great for research, comparisons and up-to-date questions.
Cursor
CodingAI-native code editor built on VS Code. Chat with your codebase, refactor, and run agentic edits.
Lovable
CodingBuild full-stack web apps by chatting. Ships React + backend + auth + database out of the box.
Bolt.new
CodingBrowser-based AI dev environment. Prompt to full-stack apps that run in a WebContainer.
v0
CodingGenerate React + Tailwind UI from prompts. Deep integration with Next.js and Vercel deploys.
Midjourney
ImageState-of-the-art image generation with a distinctive artistic style. Web and Discord workflows.
Runway
VideoCreative suite for generative video (Gen-3) with editing, motion brush and camera controls.
ElevenLabs
AudioRealistic text-to-speech, voice cloning and multilingual dubbing for creators and enterprises.
NotebookLM
ResearchGrounded notebook that reasons over your sources — with Audio Overviews (podcast-style summaries).
GitHub Copilot
CodingAI pair-programmer inside VS Code, JetBrains, Neovim and more. Includes chat, agents and PR reviews.
Windsurf
CodingAgentic IDE (formerly Codeium) with Cascade — collaborative flows that keep humans in the loop.
ComfyUI
ImageNode-based interface for Stable Diffusion and video models. Extremely flexible for power users.
Hugging Face Spaces
ResearchHost and try thousands of open ML demos and apps. Backed by Gradio, Streamlit and Docker.
Pika
VideoPlayful generative-video app with Pikaframes, lipsync and quick idea-to-clip flows.
Luma Dream Machine
VideoRealistic image-to-video and text-to-video model. Also known for NeRF-quality 3D captures.
FLUX
ImageFrontier image models (FLUX.1) from the original Stable Diffusion team. Available open-weights.
DeepSeek
ProductivityHigh-performing open reasoning models (V3, R1) and chat app. Popular for research and cost-efficient inference.
Qwen
ProductivityAlibaba's Qwen family: chat, coder and vision-language models. Broadly open-weight.
Sarvam AI
EnterpriseIndia-first foundational models optimized for Indic languages, speech and enterprise voice AI.