Best AI tools in 2026

Read AI

Meeting summaries, transcripts and insights across your calls. It joins your meetings and hands back the notes and actions.

Wispr Flow

Fast, accurate voice dictation that types for you anywhere. Speak naturally and it turns your voice into clean text in any app.

Plaud

A pocket AI recorder that captures conversations and hands back clean, structured summaries and action items.

Gamma

Generate polished decks, docs and sites from a prompt. Start from an idea and get a designed draft you can edit in minutes.

Opus Clip

Turn one long video into a stream of short, captioned clips ready for social, picked and cut for you automatically.

Descript

Edit video and audio by editing text. Delete a word from the transcript and it cuts the recording. Great for repurposing.

Suno

Generate original music and songs from a text prompt. Describe a mood, a style and some lyrics, and it writes and performs the track.

Higgsfield

AI video and cinematic motion generation. Turn stills and prompts into moving, camera-directed shots with a filmic feel.

Claude Code

Anthropic's agentic coding tool. It reads your whole project and builds, edits and runs code from a plain-language brief.

Perplexity

An answer engine that searches the web and replies with sourced, cited answers. Research without ten open tabs.

NotebookLM

Google's research assistant grounded in your own sources. Upload documents and ask questions, get answers with citations.

Notion

An all-in-one workspace with AI writing, search and databases. Notes, docs and projects in one place.

Fireflies

An AI notetaker that records, transcribes and summarises your meetings, then makes them searchable.

Otter

Live transcription and meeting notes with AI summaries and automatic action items.

Fathom

A free AI notetaker that records, transcribes and summarises your calls while you stay present in them.

Granola

An AI notepad that takes your rough meeting notes and turns them into clean, shareable summaries.

Superhuman

The fastest email experience, with AI triage, summaries and one-line replies that clear your inbox.

Motion

An AI calendar and task manager that plans your day and reshuffles it automatically as things change.

Midjourney

Generate striking, artistic images from text prompts. The go-to for high-craft visual work.

Canva

Design anything with AI-assisted templates, images and copy. Presentations, socials and brand assets in minutes.

HeyGen

Create studio-quality videos with AI avatars and voiceovers from a script, in dozens of languages.

Synthesia

Generate professional presenter videos with AI avatars and voiceovers, no camera or crew needed.

Eleven Labs

Lifelike AI voices and text-to-speech in any language, plus voice cloning and dubbing.

Super Cut

Turn long recordings into short, shareable highlight clips automatically.

Loom

Record and share quick screen and camera messages, with AI summaries and chapters.

Google Labs

Google's experimental AI tools, from image and video generation to research previews.

Zapier

Connect thousands of apps and automate the busywork, now with AI steps and agents built in.

Make

A visual automation builder. Design multi-step workflows across your apps without writing code.

Lindy

Build AI agents that handle your email, meetings and workflows on autopilot.

Manus

An autonomous AI agent that plans and carries out multi-step tasks end to end.

Composio

Connect AI agents to 250+ apps and tools with managed authentication and actions.

Vapi

Build voice AI agents that make and take phone calls for support, booking and sales.

Apify

The largest marketplace of trusted tools for AI. Get real-time web data, track competitors, generate leads, monitor social media, and integrate your apps and agents.

Hermes

Nous Research's open agent for autonomous, multi-step work across your tools.

OpenClaw

An open agent system for putting AI to real work across a business, built by Justin's team.

Lovable

Build full web apps by describing them in plain language and editing as you go.

GitHub

Host and version your code, and build faster with Copilot, GitHub's AI pair programmer.

Vercel

Deploy and host web apps with zero configuration, plus AI tooling for building them.

Supabase

An open-source backend with database, auth and storage, ready in minutes.

Resend

The email API for developers, built for reliably sending product and marketing email.

Intercom

AI-first customer service with Fin, an agent that resolves customer conversations for you.

Kick

AI bookkeeping that categorises transactions and keeps your books current automatically.

Quill

AI meeting notes and summaries that capture what was decided and what happens next.