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AI tools directory

Tools we have used or tested, with real pricing, honest cons and the alternatives. Updated as the market moves.

Canva

Drag-and-drop design suite with AI generation built in

Canva is where most non-designers make social posts, decks and print. Magic Studio adds text-to-image, background removal, Magic Write and AI video…

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CapCut

Free video editor from ByteDance with AI captions and effects

CapCut is the editor behind a huge share of TikTok and Reels content. It is free to use with auto captions, background removal, text-to-speech and…

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ChatGPT

OpenAI's flagship assistant for chat, images, code and research

The default AI assistant for most people. It handles writing, coding, image generation, file analysis and web-grounded answers in one chat. The Free…

Chat & assistants Free plan Most used

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Claude

Anthropic's assistant, strong at long documents and careful writing

Claude is the assistant many writers and developers reach for when tone and nuance matter. It works well with long documents, keeps a steady voice…

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Cursor

The AI-first code editor most startups switched to

Cursor is a VS Code fork rebuilt around AI: predictive Tab edits, codebase-aware chat and background agents that take a task and return a diff. It is…

Code Free plan · $20/mo Most used

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ElevenLabs

The most natural AI voices, plus cloning and dubbing

ElevenLabs sets the bar for text-to-speech: expressive voices in 30+ languages, instant and professional voice cloning, dubbing, sound effects and…

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Gemini

Google's assistant, tied into Workspace, Search and Veo video

Gemini lives inside Gmail, Docs, Drive and Android, which is its real advantage: it can read your own files and mail. The Google AI Pro plan adds the…

Chat & assistants Free plan Most used

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GitHub Copilot

The most widely used AI pair programmer, inside your editor

Copilot lives in VS Code, JetBrains, Neovim and GitHub itself, offering completions, chat and an agent mode that opens pull requests. The free tier…

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Grammarly

Grammar and clarity checker that works in every app

Grammarly checks spelling, grammar, tone and clarity wherever you type, from Gmail to Google Docs to Slack. The free tier catches the basics; Pro…

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Microsoft Copilot

Microsoft's assistant inside Windows, Edge and Office

Copilot is the AI built into Windows, Edge, Word, Excel and Teams. The free consumer version is a capable chatbot; the paid versions matter when you…

Chat & assistants Free plan Most used

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Midjourney

The image generator most people rate highest for style

Midjourney is still the benchmark for aesthetic quality. It now runs on the web as well as Discord, with editing, style references and a video model…

Image Paid · $10/mo Most used

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Perplexity

AI answer engine that cites its sources

Perplexity is a search engine that answers in prose and shows where each claim came from. It is the quickest way to get a sourced overview of a…

Chat & assistants Free plan Most used

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10Web

AI-generated WordPress sites on managed Google Cloud hosting

10Web generates a WordPress site from a description or recreates an existing one, then hosts it on managed Google Cloud with a page-speed booster…

Websites & no-code Paid · $10/mo

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AdCreative.ai

Generates and scores ad creatives for Meta, Google and more

AdCreative.ai produces banner and video ad variations from your product, logo and copy, then scores them for predicted performance. It is useful for…

Marketing Free trial · $20/mo

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Adobe Firefly

Adobe's commercially safe generator inside Photoshop and Express

Firefly is trained on licensed and public-domain content, which is why agencies use it when legal sign-off matters. It powers Generative Fill in…

Image Free plan

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Adobe Podcast

One-click audio clean-up that makes cheap mics sound studio-grade

Adobe Podcast's Enhance Speech removes noise and room echo and makes a laptop recording sound like a booth. The free tier handles an hour a day…

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Ahrefs

Backlink and keyword data that SEOs trust most

Ahrefs is the tool SEOs pick for backlink data and its Site Explorer, Keywords Explorer and content tools are excellent. The $29 Starter plan finally…

SEO Free plan · $29/mo

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Bolt.new

StackBlitz's in-browser full-stack app builder

Bolt runs a full Node environment in your browser tab and builds, edits and previews apps from prompts. It supports many frameworks, connects to…

Code Free plan · $25/mo

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Brevo

Affordable email, SMS and CRM billed by sends, not contacts

Brevo (formerly Sendinblue) charges by emails sent rather than contacts stored, which makes it far cheaper than Mailchimp for large but quiet lists…

Marketing Free plan

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Claude Code

Anthropic's terminal agent that works across your whole repo

Claude Code runs in your terminal or IDE and takes on multi-file tasks: read the codebase, plan, edit, run tests, open a PR. It is included with…

Code Paid · $17/mo

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Clearscope

Premium content optimiser used by large content teams

Clearscope grades content against the SERP with a simple A-to-F score and keeps reports clean enough to hand to writers. It now tracks how your pages…

SEO Paid · $129/mo

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Consensus

Search engine for scientific evidence with a yes/no meter

Ask a question and Consensus finds the papers that answer it, then shows a meter of how many say yes, no or maybe. It is the fastest way to check…

Research Free plan

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Copy.ai

Copy generator that grew into a go-to-market workflow platform

Copy.ai still writes ads, emails and landing pages, but its main product is now workflow automation for sales and marketing teams: enrich leads…

Writing Paid · $29/mo

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Descript

Edit video and audio by editing the transcript

Descript transcribes your recording and lets you cut it by deleting words in the text. It removes filler words, fixes eye contact, generates a clean…

Video Free plan · $16/mo

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Durable

Website in 30 seconds plus CRM and invoicing for solo businesses

Durable builds a complete small-business site from your trade and location in under a minute, then adds a CRM, invoicing and an AI assistant. It is…

Websites & no-code Free plan

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Ecwid

Add a store to any existing website in minutes

Ecwid (by Lightspeed) drops a full store into a site you already have, whether it is WordPress, Wix, Squarespace or plain HTML, and syncs it to…

E-commerce Paid · $5/mo

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Elicit

Research assistant that searches and extracts data from papers

Elicit searches 138 million papers, summarises the findings and extracts data into a table you can compare across studies. Paid plans add…

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Fathom

Free AI notetaker with unlimited recordings and summaries

Fathom's free plan is the most generous in the category: unlimited recordings, transcripts and summaries with no time limit. Premium adds advanced…

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Figma AI

AI features inside Figma, including Make for prompt-to-prototype

Figma's AI layer adds prompt-to-design (Figma Make), auto-renaming layers, visual search and content generation inside the tool most product teams…

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Fireflies.ai

Meeting notetaker with strong CRM and workflow integrations

Fireflies records and transcribes meetings, then pushes notes and action items into Salesforce, HubSpot, Slack and Notion. Its AskFred chat answers…

Productivity Free plan

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FLUX (Black Forest Labs)

Open-weight image models from the original Stable Diffusion team

FLUX is the model family behind many of the best photorealistic generators, built by the researchers who created Stable Diffusion. Developers use it…

Image Free plan

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Framer

Design tool that publishes real websites, with AI generation

Framer lets designers build and publish polished marketing sites without code: Figma-like canvas, animations, CMS and hosting, plus AI that generates…

Design Free plan

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Frase

Research, brief and draft SEO content in one editor

Frase pulls the top results for a query into a research panel, builds an outline from them and helps you draft and optimise in the same place. It is…

SEO Free trial · $39/mo

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Gelato

Print on demand produced locally in 30+ countries

Gelato routes each order to a printer near the customer, which means faster delivery and lower shipping for international sellers. The free plan…

E-commerce Free plan

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Grok

xAI's assistant with live X data and a blunt personality

Grok is xAI's chatbot, available on grok.com, in the X app and as a standalone app. Its edge is real-time access to X posts and a less filtered tone…

Chat & assistants Free plan

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HeyGen

Avatar and video-translation tool popular with creators

HeyGen is Synthesia's main rival, with a creator-friendly price and a standout video translation feature that redubs your video in another language…

Video Free plan · $29/mo

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Hostinger

Cheap hosting with an AI website builder and free domain

Hostinger bundles web hosting, a drag-and-drop builder with AI site generation, and managed WordPress at some of the lowest prices around. The…

Websites & no-code Free trial · $2.99/mo

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HubSpot (Breeze AI)

CRM and marketing platform with Breeze AI agents built in

HubSpot's free CRM is the reason many small businesses start here; Breeze adds AI agents for content, prospecting and customer service across…

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Ideogram

Image generator that renders readable text and logos well

Ideogram's strength is text inside images: posters, logos, packaging mock-ups and social graphics where the words have to be spelled correctly. The…

Image Free plan

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InVideo AI

Prompt-to-video with stock footage, voiceover and AI models

InVideo AI writes a script, picks stock or generated footage, adds voiceover and subtitles, then lets you edit by typing instructions. Higher tiers…

Video Free plan · $17/mo

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Jasper

Marketing-focused AI writer with brand voice and campaign tools

Jasper started as a copywriting assistant and has become a marketing content platform: brand voice, style guides, campaign workflows and image…

Writing Free trial · $59/mo

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Klaviyo

E-commerce email and SMS with AI segments and flows

Klaviyo is the default email and SMS platform for Shopify and other e-commerce stores. Its AI writes subject lines and flows, predicts churn and…

Marketing Free plan

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Kling AI

Kuaishou's video model, strong on motion and realism

Kling from Kuaishou is one of the most capable video generators for realistic motion, long clips and lip-synced speech. It is credit-based with a…

Video Free plan · $10/mo

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Krea

Real-time canvas that runs many image and video models

Krea's trick is real-time generation: sketch or move shapes and the image updates as you go. It also aggregates third-party models (FLUX, Kling, Veo…

Image Free plan

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Leonardo.ai

Image platform with fine control, models and daily free tokens

Leonardo (now owned by Canva) gives you more knobs than most generators: custom models, element presets, character reference and an upscaler. Its…

Image Free plan

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Looka

AI logo maker with a full brand kit for small businesses

Looka generates logo options from a few style preferences, then sells you the files one-off or a Brand Kit subscription with 300+ templates for…

Design Free plan · $20 one-time

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Lovable

Prompt-to-app builder that produces real React and Supabase code

Lovable turns a description into a working web app with a React front end and Supabase back end, and syncs the code to GitHub so developers can take…

Code Free plan · $25/mo

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Luma Dream Machine

Luma's Ray video models with a clean creative app

Dream Machine wraps Luma's Ray video models and Photon image model in a simple board-based app, on web and iOS. Keyframes, extend, loop and camera…

Video Free plan · $25/mo

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Mailchimp

The best-known email platform, now with Intuit Assist AI

Mailchimp remains the email tool most people have heard of: templates, newsletters, automations and a free plan for small lists. Intuit Assist drafts…

Marketing Free plan

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Make

Visual automation builder with cheaper operations than Zapier

Make (formerly Integromat) lets you draw automations as scenarios on a canvas, with branching, iterators and error handling that Zapier hides. It has…

Automation Free plan

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Manychat

Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger DM automation for creators

Manychat is the tool behind the comment-to-DM funnels you see on Instagram: reply a keyword, get a link. It automates DMs across Instagram, Facebook…

Marketing Free plan

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Mistral Le Chat

Europe's assistant from Mistral, fast and affordable

Le Chat is Mistral's consumer assistant, built on the French lab's open-weight models. It is quick, EU-hosted and cheaper than the US flagships, with…

Chat & assistants Free plan

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Motion

AI calendar that schedules your tasks around your meetings

Motion takes your task list, deadlines and calendar and builds your day automatically, reshuffling when meetings move. It now includes project…

Productivity Free trial · $19/seat/mo

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Murf AI

Studio-style voiceover tool for e-learning and explainers

Murf pairs a large voice library with a timeline editor where you sync narration to video and music, tweak pitch and emphasis, and collaborate with a…

Audio & voice Free plan · $19/mo

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n8n

Open-source workflow automation you can self-host for free

n8n is the automation tool developers prefer: source-available, self-hostable on a $5 VPS, with code nodes, LangChain-style AI agents and 400+…

Automation Free plan

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NeuronWriter

Budget content optimiser with NLP term recommendations

NeuronWriter does what Surfer does at a fraction of the price: SERP analysis, NLP-based term suggestions, a content score and an AI writer. The…

SEO Paid · $19/mo

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NotebookLM

Google's notebook that only answers from sources you upload

Upload PDFs, docs, slides, links and videos and NotebookLM answers only from them, with citations back to the exact passage. Audio Overviews turn…

Research Free plan

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Notion AI

AI writing, search and meeting notes inside your Notion workspace

Notion AI drafts, summarises and answers questions across your pages, records meeting notes and now runs agents that update databases for you. As of…

Productivity Free plan

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OpusClip

Cuts long videos into captioned shorts automatically

Paste a YouTube link or upload a recording and OpusClip finds the best moments, reframes them vertically, adds animated captions and scores each clip…

Video Free plan

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Otter.ai

Meeting transcription and summaries with a generous free tier

Otter joins your Zoom, Meet and Teams calls, transcribes live, and produces summaries and action items. The free plan is enough for occasional…

Productivity Free plan

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Pictory

Turn blog posts and long videos into short captioned clips

Pictory is built for repurposing: paste a URL or script and it assembles a video from stock footage with captions and voiceover, or upload a long…

Video Free trial · $25/mo

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Pika

Playful AI video with viral effects and low entry price

Pika leans into fun: Pikaffects that squish, melt or explode objects, lip sync, and quick social clips. It is the cheapest way into AI video at $8 a…

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Printify

Print-on-demand marketplace with the widest product catalogue

Printify connects your Shopify, Etsy or Amazon store to a network of print providers, so you pick the cheapest or closest printer per product. It is…

E-commerce Free plan

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QuillBot

Paraphraser, grammar checker and summariser in one

QuillBot is best known for its paraphrasing modes, which rewrite a passage for fluency, formality or length. It also bundles a grammar checker…

Writing Free plan

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Rank Math

WordPress SEO plugin with schema, redirects and Content AI

Rank Math is the WordPress SEO plugin many sites picked over Yoast: on-page analysis, schema markup, redirects, sitemaps and rank tracking, with a…

SEO Free plan

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Reclaim.ai

Smart calendar that defends focus time and habits

Reclaim sits on Google or Outlook Calendar and auto-books focus time, habits, tasks and breaks, moving them when meetings land. It is lighter than…

Productivity Free plan

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Recraft

Image generator that outputs true vectors and brand styles

Recraft is the generator designers use because it produces real SVG vectors, consistent brand styles and icon sets rather than only raster images…

Design Free plan

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Relay.app

Automation with AI steps and human approvals built in

Relay.app is a newer automation tool designed around AI: every workflow can include AI steps, and human-in-the-loop approvals are a first-class…

Automation Free plan · $19/mo

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Replit

Browser IDE with an agent that builds and deploys apps

Replit gives you a full development environment in the browser plus Replit Agent, which builds an app from a description, adds a database and deploys…

Code Free plan · $20/mo

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Runway

Professional AI video generation used by film and ad studios

Runway builds the Gen models that studios and agencies actually use in production, with image-to-video, character references, motion brush and an…

Video Free plan · $12/mo

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Rytr

Cheap, simple AI writer with 40+ templates

Rytr is the budget option: pick a use case, a tone and a language, get a draft. It will not replace a strategist, but for product descriptions…

Writing Free plan

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scite

See whether papers support or contrast a citation

scite's Smart Citations show how a paper has been cited: supporting, contrasting or just mentioning. Its Assistant writes answers with real…

Research Free trial · $20/mo

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Semrush

The all-in-one SEO and marketing suite most agencies run on

Semrush covers keyword research, backlink analysis, site audits, rank tracking, content and now AI-search visibility, all in one account. It is…

SEO Free trial · $117.33/mo

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Shopify

The leading store platform, with Magic and Sidekick AI

Shopify is where most serious online stores run. Shopify Magic writes product descriptions and emails, Sidekick answers questions about your store…

E-commerce Free trial · $29/mo

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Speechify

Listen to any text, plus AI voiceovers and dubbing

Speechify started as a reading tool for dyslexia and is now the most-used consumer text-to-speech app: it reads web pages, PDFs and books aloud in…

Audio & voice Free plan

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Stable Diffusion (Stability AI)

The open-source image model you can run and fine-tune yourself

Stable Diffusion is the model that made local image generation possible. Stability AI releases the weights under a community licence that is free for…

Image Free plan

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Sudowrite

AI writing partner built specifically for fiction authors

Sudowrite is aimed at novelists rather than marketers. Its Story Bible keeps characters, setting and plot consistent, Write continues your prose in…

Writing Free trial · $10/mo

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Suno

Full songs with vocals from a text prompt

Suno generates complete songs, vocals and all, from a short description or your own lyrics. The free plan gives daily credits without commercial…

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Surfer SEO

Content editor that scores drafts against the top-ranking pages

Surfer analyses what ranks for a keyword and gives you a live content score as you write: terms to include, headings, length. Its AI writer produces…

SEO Paid · $49/mo

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Synthesia

Avatar videos for training and comms, from a script

Synthesia turns a script into a presenter-led video with a stock or custom avatar in 140+ languages. It is the enterprise choice for training…

Video Free plan · $18/mo

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Udio

Suno's closest rival for AI-generated music

Udio makes songs from prompts with a slightly different sound to Suno, plus extension, inpainting and stem downloads on paid plans. After settling…

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Uizard

Turn sketches, screenshots and prompts into app mockups

Uizard (now under Miro) generates multi-screen app and web mockups from a text prompt, a hand-drawn sketch or a screenshot, then lets you edit them…

Design Free plan

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v0

Vercel's generator for React and Next.js interfaces

v0 generates production-quality React components and full pages using shadcn/ui and Tailwind, then deploys straight to Vercel. It is the best choice…

Code Free plan

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Webflow

Designer-grade no-code builder with a real CMS and AI assistant

Webflow gives you full control over layout and interactions without writing code, exports clean HTML and CSS, and its CMS powers proper content…

Websites & no-code Free plan · $15/mo

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Windsurf

AI IDE with the Cascade agent, now part of Cognition

Windsurf (renamed Devin Desktop in mid-2026 after Cognition acquired it) is a VS Code-based editor whose Cascade agent keeps deep context on your…

Code Free plan · $20/mo

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Wix

Mainstream site builder with an AI generator and huge app market

Wix's AI builder asks a few questions and produces a complete site with text and images, which you then edit in the classic drag-and-drop editor or…

Websites & no-code Free plan · $17/mo

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WordPress.com

Managed WordPress from Automattic with an AI writing assistant

WordPress.com runs WordPress for you with hosting, updates and security handled, and adds an AI assistant for writing posts and building pages. The…

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Writesonic

AI writing platform now aimed at SEO and AI-search visibility

Writesonic has moved from generic copy generation toward SEO and generative-engine optimisation: long-form articles with live SERP data…

Writing Free trial · $79/mo

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Zapier

The biggest integration library, easiest to start with

Zapier connects 8,000+ apps and now ships agents, tables, interfaces and chatbots on top of its classic trigger-action Zaps. It is the simplest to…

Automation Free plan

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