Tools

Adobe Acrobat AI Assistant

What for: an AI assistant right inside the PDF — ask questions about a document or contract, get summaries and compare versions with citations.

Adobe Firefly

What for: commercially safe image generation — the model is trained on licensed content, and paid plans come with IP indemnification.

Aider

What for: AI pair programming in the terminal — deeply git-aware, with surgical, predictable edits on request and any model.

Anthropic API (Claude)

What for: direct access to the Claude models (Opus/Sonnet/Haiku) — top tier for code, long context, agents and tool use.

Apollo.io

What for: an all-in-one sales platform — a 210M+ contact database plus outreach, a dialer and AI helpers in a single window.

Beautiful.ai

What for: presentations that hold their design — smart templates lay out on-brand slides for you, with no designer required.

bolt.diy

What for: open-source prompt-to-web-app right in the browser — build and run a full-stack project on any model you like.

Canva

What for: design anything — posts, banners, decks — with the Magic Studio AI toolkit, fast and without any design skills.

Cartesia (Sonic)

What for: the fastest streaming voice for voice agents and telephony — time-to-first-audio measured in tens of milliseconds.

Cerebras Inference

What for: record-fast inference of open models on a wafer-scale chip — hundreds to thousands of tokens/s for real-time and reasoning.

Chatterbox

What for: open TTS from Resemble AI with zero-shot voice cloning from a short sample — runs locally, offline, with nothing to pay.

Claude Code: from novice to orchestrator

Anthropic's coding agent in your terminal and VS Code: setup on the Pro plan in 5 minutes, plus a ladder from first prompt to orchestrating agents.

3 Free Tools for Claude Code

Vibe-Kanban, Get Shit Done and Claude Code Templates — three free open-source upgrades for Claude Code: agent kanban, spec workflow, config catalog.

Claude Cowork: AI assistant with memory

Claude Cowork — Anthropic's agentic work mode with memory, access to your folders and connectors (Notion, Slack, email), and scheduled tasks.

Claude Design: UI from one prompt

Claude Design by Anthropic (claude.ai/design) turns a prompt into UI, prototypes and slides, then hands the bundle to Claude Code. In Pro/Max plans.

Clay

What for: a GTM engine that enriches leads from 150+ data sources and puts AI agents to work researching and personalizing outreach at scale.

Cline

What for: an autonomous AI engineer inside VS Code — it reads the repo, edits files and runs commands with any model you plug in.

CoCounsel

What for: a Thomson Reuters legal AI assistant with Westlaw and Practical Law access — legal research, case prep and document analysis.

ComfyUI

What for: a node-based editor for generating images and video locally — maximum control over the whole pipeline, and free.

Consensus

What for: a science answer engine that gives a verdict by weight of evidence from peer-reviewed papers, with citations you can check.

Continue

What for: an open-source AI assistant for VS Code and JetBrains — autocomplete and code chat with any model, local ones included.

Coqui XTTS-v2

What for: an open TTS engine with voice cloning and 17+ languages; the weights live on even though the company behind it shut down.

Creatify

What for: UGC-style video ads straight from a product link — AI avatars and scripts for Meta and TikTok, with no filming.

Cursor

What for: an AI code editor built on VS Code — multi-file edits, an agent mode and chat that understands your whole codebase.

D-ID

What for: turn a still photo into a talking head and build an interactive avatar that answers in real time, right inside your product.

DaVinci Resolve

What for: professional editing, audio and color grading — a powerful free edition that the film industry genuinely uses.

DeepInfra

What for: one of the cheapest OpenAI-compatible inference clouds for open models — pay per token, with no minimum spend.

Descript

What for: edit video and podcasts by editing the transcript — cut filler words and reorder takes as fast as you can type.

Dify

What for: an open-source platform for LLM apps and agents — RAG, workflows, multi-agents and MCP on a visual canvas, with self-hosting.

DraftWise

What for: faster contract drafting and negotiation built on your firm's past deals — search for precedent clause language.

ElevenLabs

What for: natural-sounding voiceover and voice cloning for videos, dubbing and voice agents, across dozens of languages.

Elicit

What for: an AI research assistant for literature reviews — it searches, screens and pulls data out of papers into structured tables.

Fathom

What for: a free AI notetaker for your calls — recording, summaries in about 30 seconds, shareable clips and CRM syncing.

Fireflies.ai

What for: a bot-based AI notetaker with a shared searchable meeting archive and deep CRM sync, built for sales and ops teams.

Fireworks AI

What for: fast, cheap production inference of open models, plus fine-tuning and dedicated deploys — built for high-load apps.

Fish Audio (OpenAudio)

What for: expressive voiceover at dubbing-actor level — open weights (OpenAudio S1) for local runs plus a handy cloud API.

Flowise

What for: a visual builder for LLM agents and chains (LangChain-style) — assemble a pipeline with the mouse and self-host it.

FLUX.2

What for: Black Forest Labs' strongest open image model — run it locally or via API, with open weights and full pipeline control.

Framer: site from a prompt + style mix

AI website builder: prompt to publish, no code. Build a theme by mixing display and text fonts with color palettes, then shuffle variations.

Freepik / Magnific

What for: one creative hub — generation, the Magnific upscaler and 40+ image and video models under a single subscription.

Gamma

What for: decks, landing pages and documents from a single prompt in minutes — the PowerPoint killer with AI-driven layout.

Genspark

What for: an AI super-agent workspace — it researches, builds pages, decks and spreadsheets, and runs multi-step tasks, even phone calls.

GitHub Copilot

What for: the most widely used AI coding assistant — completion, chat and an agent inside your IDE and on GitHub, with model choice.

Google AI Studio

What for: try out and build on Gemini right in the browser for free — a generous free tier plus a fast prototyping mode.

Google Stitch + Claude Code design stack

Google Stitch, the UI UX Pro Max skill and 21st.dev Magic MCP — a full design stack for Claude Code: UI system, styles and ready-made components.

Goose

What for: a local open-source agent from Block — it runs engineering tasks on your machine and extends through MCP servers.

GPT Image

What for: image generation and editing from OpenAI with precise prompt following and legible text, available over the API.

Grammarly

What for: a writing assistant that follows you everywhere — grammar, tone, clarity and rewriting right inside any app you type in.

Granola

What for: bot-free meeting notes — it transcribes locally from your audio and turns your own bullet points into structured takeaways.

Groq

What for: ultra-fast inference of open models on LPU hardware — minimal response latency for real-time voice agents and streaming chats.

MiniMax Hailuo

What for: cinematic text- and image-to-video with strong motion physics at a very low price — the top price/quality pick.

Harvey

What for: professional AI for lawyers — legal research, due diligence, drafting and document review with agentic workflows.

HeyGen

What for: talking AI-avatar videos and text-driven dubbing into dozens of languages — no camera, no lighting, no studio required.

Hugging Face

What for: the main hub of open AI — millions of models and datasets, demo Spaces and inference endpoints, all in one place.

Hume AI (Octave / EVI)

What for: emotionally expressive TTS and a voice interface that understands meaning and tone — for lifelike voice agents.

Ideogram

What for: the best generator of LEGIBLE text inside an image — logos, lettering, typography, posters and packaging design.

Jasper

What for: an AI marketing platform — on-brand copywriting, campaigns and content at scale, built for teams rather than solo chats.

Kdenlive

What for: a mature free open-source video editor for Linux/Windows/macOS — no subscriptions, no watermarks, no export limits.

Kilo Code

What for: an open-source coding agent for VS Code that merges the best of Cline and Roo — planning, autonomous edits, modes and MCP.

Kled — pays you for AI training data

Kled pays you for your photos and videos, which are packaged into datasets to train AI models. Free app, cash out from $25 to PayPal/Venmo/Solana.

Kling AI

What for: top-tier video generation from text or a photo — consistent scenes, clips up to 15s, native audio and lip-sync.

Kokoro TTS

What for: a tiny 82M-parameter open TTS model that runs locally on modest hardware yet sounds like far heavier cloud systems.

Krea AI

What for: one creative hub with dozens of image and video models, realtime generation and upscaling — a studio built for designers.

LEGALFLY

What for: privacy-first AI for legal teams with built-in data anonymization — contract review, drafting and due diligence.

Leonardo AI

What for: image and asset generation for gamedev and design — many styles, custom LoRA training and composition control.

LiteLLM

What for: one OpenAI-compatible proxy in front of 100+ LLM providers — self-hosted, with keys, limits and cost tracking.

LM Studio

What for: run models locally in a friendly desktop app, plus a local OpenAI-compatible server — no cloud and no command line needed.

Lovable

What for: turn text into a full-stack web app — frontend, database, auth — with no code; the fastest-growing vibe-coding platform.

Luma Dream Machine

What for: fast text- and image-to-video on the Ray models — keyframe control, character consistency and true HDR output.

Manus

What for: an autonomous general-purpose AI agent that plans and runs multi-step tasks — research, building, automation — on its own.

Midjourney

What for: the benchmark for artistic, stylish image generation — posters, concept art and genuinely beautiful brand visuals.

MotionSites — website animation prompts

Prompts for animated sites: a hero in Claude Code, design.md from Refero Styles, a video hero from Higgsfield — a live landing in one evening.

Mureka

What for: AI music with strong non-English vocals, MIDI export and an API — built for non-English content and real production work.

Nano Banana Pro

What for: top-tier image generation and editing from Google (Gemini 3 Pro Image) — exceptionally strong prompt adherence.

NotebookLM + Claude Code (notebooklm-py)

Google's AI researcher over your sources: answers with citations, audio overviews. Via notebooklm-py it plugs into Claude Code as a research agent.

Notion AI

What for: AI right inside your workspace — search your own docs, write and edit content, and run agents without leaving Notion.

Ollama

What for: run an open model locally with a single command — private, free, offline, with no token bills and no data leaving your machine.

OpenAI Platform (GPT)

What for: direct access to GPT and OpenAI's multimodal APIs — text, vision, images, voice, embeddings — straight from the source.

OpenAI TTS

What for: cheap, fast voiceover through the OpenAI API (gpt-4o-mini-tts), with delivery steered by a plain-text instruction.

OpenCut

What for: a free open-source video editor right in the browser — a private CapCut alternative with no subscription and no watermarks.

OpenHands

What for: an open-source developer agent (ex-OpenDevin) that writes code, fixes bugs, runs tests in a sandbox and opens pull requests.

OpenRouter

What for: one key and one bill → hundreds of models (Claude, GPT, Gemini, open ones). No zoo of separate accounts and billings.

OpusClip

What for: turn one long video into vertical clips with captions, auto-reframing and a virality score — in minutes, not hours.

Perplexity

What for: an answer engine — a concise answer with links to its sources; research and fact-checking faster than googling.

Photoroom

What for: product photos for marketplaces — background removal, shadows, scenes and batch editing built for e-commerce sellers.

Pika

What for: fun, fast short AI videos with signature effects (Pikaffects, Pikadditions) — made for social feeds and memes.

Pixel Agents for Claude Code

Pixel Agents is a free open-source VS Code extension: Claude Code agents become pixel characters, so you can see every status at a glance.

Publer

What for: schedule and auto-post to every social network from one place — calendar, auto-watermarks, evergreen recycling.

Recraft

What for: design imagery in a consistent brand style plus generation of real, editable vectors (SVG) — for web and print.

Replicate

What for: run thousands of open models — image, video, audio, LLM — through a one-line API, with no GPU infrastructure of your own.

Replit Agent

What for: an entire app from a text description in the cloud — code, database and deployment with no local setup at all.

Roo Code

What for: an autonomous coding agent inside VS Code with customizable modes and roles — a Cline fork built for fine-tuning.

RuFlow (Ruflo): 60+ Claude agent swarm

RuFlow (officially Ruflo, ex-Claude Flow) is an open-source swarm of 60+ agents on top of Claude Code with shared memory and smart model routing.

Runway

What for: cinematic AI video generation and editing — consistent characters and scenes built from a single frame plus text.

Shotcut

What for: a simple free open-source video editor with very broad format support — ideal for quick cuts and basic editing.

Sora (OpenAI)

What for: realistic video with sound generated from text or an image, plus a cameo of yourself — OpenAI's flagship AI video tool.

Speechify

What for: turn any text, PDF or article into speech and listen on the go — plus TTS voices for content and dubbing in Studio.

Spellbook

What for: contract review and drafting right inside Microsoft Word — redlines, fallback language and your own playbooks.

Suno

What for: a full song (vocals + music + lyrics) from a single prompt in a minute — jingles, tracks and demos with no studio.

Synthesia

What for: enterprise video with AI avatars in 160+ languages — turn text into training, how-tos, onboarding and slide decks.

Together AI

What for: fast serverless inference and fine-tuning of 200+ open models behind a single OpenAI-compatible API, no hardware needed.

Udio

What for: studio-grade AI music from a prompt with section-level editing (inpainting) — for producers who want real control.

v0 (Vercel)

What for: from a prompt to a working web app or UI in React + Tailwind with one-click deploy — Vercel's take on vibe coding.

VEED

What for: an online idea-to-video editor — timeline editing, avatars, auto-captions and translation right in the browser.

Google Veo

What for: cinematic video generation with native audio — dialogue, effects, ambience — Google's flagship model for AI video.

Vercel AI Gateway

What for: one endpoint to many providers — bring-your-own-key with no markup, budgets, fallbacks and load balancing on Vercel.

vidIQ

What for: YouTube growth — topic and keyword research, ideas, titles, thumbnails and competitor analytics from billions of searches.

Windsurf

What for: an AI-native code editor with the Cascade agent — it runs multi-step actions across your code, and there's a free tier.

Zed

What for: a blazing-fast Rust code editor with an AI agent and live collaboration — the open-source answer to heavy IDEs.

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