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Updated October 2026

Trending AI tools

A curated directory of the AI tools people are using right now — chatbots, coding assistants, image and video generators, research and automation. We review it regularly and mark what is trending.

ChatGPT

Chatbots & Assistants
Trending

OpenAI’s general-purpose assistant. It is the most widely used AI chatbot and handles writing, reasoning, data analysis, voice and image work in one place.

Best for
All-round assistant for writing, analysis, coding and images
Pricing
Free + paid plans

Google Gemini

Chatbots & Assistants
Trending

Google’s assistant, built into Search, Android and Workspace. Strong with long documents, images, video and live information.

Best for
Google Workspace users and multimodal work
Pricing
Free + paid plans

Claude

Chatbots & Assistants
Trending

Anthropic’s assistant, popular for natural writing, long-document analysis, coding help and thoughtful reasoning.

Best for
Careful writing, long documents and reasoning
Pricing
Free + paid plans

Perplexity

Research & Learning
Trending

An answer engine that searches the web and replies with linked sources, making it a quick starting point for research.

Best for
Cited answers and fast web research
Pricing
Free + paid plans

Microsoft Copilot

Chatbots & Assistants

Microsoft’s assistant, available on the web, in Windows and across Word, Excel, Outlook and Teams.

Best for
Microsoft 365 and Windows users
Pricing
Free + paid plans

Grok

Chatbots & Assistants

xAI’s assistant, closely tied to the X platform and known for a more casual tone and live-topic answers.

Best for
Real-time social context and quick answers
Pricing
Free + paid plans

Cursor

Coding & App Building
Trending

A VS Code–style editor with AI that understands your whole codebase, edits across files and can run multi-step coding tasks.

Best for
Developers who want an AI-first code editor
Pricing
Free tier + paid plans

Claude Code

Coding & App Building
Trending

Anthropic’s coding agent that reads a repository, runs commands, edits files and works through tasks step by step.

Best for
Agentic coding from the terminal and IDE
Pricing
Included with paid Claude plans / API

GitHub Copilot

Coding & App Building

The original AI pair programmer — completions, chat and agent features inside VS Code, JetBrains and GitHub.

Best for
Inline suggestions inside your existing IDE
Pricing
Free tier + paid plans

Replit

Coding & App Building
Trending

A browser-based development environment with an AI agent that can plan, write, run and deploy an app.

Best for
Building and hosting apps from a prompt
Pricing
Free tier + paid plans

Bolt.new

Coding & App Building
Trending

Prompt-to-app builder that generates full-stack web projects in the browser and lets you iterate and deploy.

Best for
Turning an idea into a working web app fast
Pricing
Free tier + paid plans

Midjourney

Image, Video & Design
Trending

A leading image generator known for a distinctive, polished visual style, now with video generation too.

Best for
High-end artistic image and video generation
Pricing
Paid subscription (check site)

Canva

Image, Video & Design
Trending

Drag-and-drop design platform with built-in AI for images, copy, resizing, presentations and video editing.

Best for
Non-designers making social posts, decks and videos
Pricing
Free + paid plans

Runway

Image, Video & Design
Trending

A creative suite for generating and editing video with AI, used by filmmakers and marketers.

Best for
AI video generation and editing
Pricing
Free credits + paid plans

Kling AI

Image, Video & Design
Trending

A fast-rising AI video generator that turns prompts or still images into short, realistic clips.

Best for
Short AI videos from text or images
Pricing
Free credits + paid plans

Adobe Firefly

Image, Video & Design

Adobe’s generative AI for images, video and vectors, built into Photoshop, Illustrator and Express.

Best for
Commercially safe images inside Adobe apps
Pricing
Free credits + paid plans

HeyGen

Image, Video & Design

Create presenter-style videos with AI avatars and translate them into many languages with lip-sync.

Best for
AI avatar videos and translations
Pricing
Free tier + paid plans

Notion AI

Writing & Productivity

AI inside Notion that summarises pages, drafts content, answers questions across your workspace and fills databases.

Best for
Notes, docs and team knowledge
Pricing
Add-on / paid plans

Grammarly

Writing & Productivity

Writing assistant that checks grammar, tone and clarity and now includes generative AI writing help.

Best for
Clear, correct writing everywhere you type
Pricing
Free + paid plans

Gamma

Writing & Productivity
Trending

Generates presentations, documents and simple websites from a short brief, with editable layouts.

Best for
Decks, docs and web pages from a prompt
Pricing
Free credits + paid plans

NotebookLM

Research & Learning
Trending

Google’s research notebook: upload documents, links and videos, then ask questions grounded in those sources or generate audio overviews.

Best for
Studying and summarising your own sources
Pricing
Free + paid plans

Julius AI

Research & Learning

Upload a spreadsheet or dataset and chat with it to get analysis, charts and forecasts.

Best for
Data analysis and charts without code
Pricing
Free tier + paid plans

n8n

Automation & Agents
Trending

A workflow-automation platform that connects apps and AI models and can be self-hosted.

Best for
Building AI workflows and agents with full control
Pricing
Free self-host + paid cloud

Zapier

Automation & Agents

No-code automation with AI steps and agents that connect thousands of business apps.

Best for
Connecting thousands of apps without code
Pricing
Free tier + paid plans

Manus

Automation & Agents
Trending

A general-purpose AI agent that plans and carries out multi-step tasks such as research, reports and simple websites.

Best for
Autonomous agent for multi-step tasks
Pricing
Free credits + paid plans

ElevenLabs

Voice & Audio
Trending

Leading AI voice platform for natural text-to-speech, voice cloning, dubbing and conversational agents.

Best for
Realistic text-to-speech, dubbing and voice agents
Pricing
Free tier + paid plans

Framer

Image, Video & Design

A visual website builder with AI that generates layouts and publishes fast, polished sites.

Best for
Designing and publishing websites with AI
Pricing
Free tier + paid plans

How we list AI tools

We include tools that are real, working and widely used. Descriptions are written by our editors and prices are described by model only, because plans change often — please check each official site. Paid placements, if any, are clearly labelled.

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