The best AI tools, by what you need to do
Every ranking is ordered by the score derived from the agentic sweep: we read what the internet says about each tool, verify the real price and explain who it is worth it for.
Code
AI for developers: unified model APIs, inference infrastructure, chatbots over your own documents and API…
Writing & reading
AI for writing and reading better: fiction-writing assistants, book recommenders and reading trackers. We…
Images
AI image generators: digital art, illustration, coloring pages and graphic assets from a prompt. We compare…
Video
AI for creating and repurposing video: short clips from long-form content and automatically generated video…
Audio
AI for voice and music: near-human synthetic narration and full songs from text. We compare quality…
Assistants
The general-purpose assistants you ask anything, the search engines that answer citing their source, and the…
Office
The tools that take work off your plate day to day: decks built from four loose ideas, meeting notes that…
Learning
AI for genuine learning: tutors that guide without doing the homework, step-by-step maths, language…