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AI-powered assistants and generative tools for writing, images, and research. Of the 16 tools tracked here, 16 of 16 run in the browser; 9 have native iOS and Android apps; 7 also ship Windows and/or macOS desktop apps — platform support sourced from each vendor's own site.

16 tools in this category

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ChatGPT

ChatGPT is OpenAI's AI assistant app, offering chat, voice, vision, and agentic "Work"/"Codex" capabilities for asking questions, researching, and creating documents.

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Claude

Claude is Anthropic's AI assistant, positioned as "the AI for Problem Solvers" — a collaborative thinking partner for writing, coding, research, and analysis that can work with documents, images, and voice.

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Copy.ai

Copy.ai describes itself as "The First AI-Native GTM Platform," a unified system meant to replace disconnected AI copilots across sales, marketing, and operations.

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DeepL

DeepL is an AI-powered translation platform, trained with the help of language experts, offering text, document, and voice translation along with AI-assisted business writing.

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Descript

Descript is an AI-powered text-based audio and video editor that automatically transcribes recordings, removes filler words, and clones voices with Overdub.

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ElevenLabs

ElevenLabs is an AI audio platform providing an AI voice generator and voice-agents platform for creating lifelike speech.

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Gemini

Gemini is Google DeepMind's family of AI models, positioned as "frontier intelligence" for building and using intelligent agents that reason across text, images, video, and audio.

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GitHub Copilot

GitHub Copilot is an AI-powered coding assistant that provides contextualized assistance throughout the software development lifecycle, from inline code suggestions and IDE chat to code review and autonomous coding-agent capabilities.

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Grammarly

Grammarly is an AI writing assistant, described as "an AI partner that helps turn your thoughts into writing," offering grammar correction, tone adjustment, and AI-generated content across browsers, desktop, mobile, and productivity apps.

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Jasper

Jasper is an AI platform purpose-built for marketing teams that orchestrates specialized AI agents to execute end-to-end marketing workflows, combining content generation with brand governance and enterprise-scale automation.

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Midjourney

Midjourney is described on its own documentation as "your portal to transforming text into amazing images and videos" — an AI image/video generation tool.

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Murf AI

Murf AI is an AI voice generator and text-to-speech studio with over 120+ natural voices across 20+ languages for voiceovers, presentations, and corporate training.

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Otter.ai

Otter.ai is an AI "Conversational Knowledge Engine" that automatically transcribes meetings, interviews, and conversations into searchable summaries with action items, decisions, and speaker identification.

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Perplexity

Perplexity describes itself as an AI answer engine that researches the open web in real time and returns concise, cited answers.

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Runway

Runway builds AI models and creative tools for generating and editing video, image, and audio content, offering a cloud-based creative suite (Runway Creative) alongside a developer API (Runway Dev).

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Synthesia

Synthesia is an all-in-one AI video creation platform for businesses, letting users produce professional videos with AI avatars and voices without cameras, actors, or production studios.

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