The Best AI Tools

This Directory lists the best AI tools I’ve found and personally tested, for content, images, video, audio, websites and more, by category. It will be constantly updated, and save you having to search around the web looking for the best AI tools.

They all have a free plan, unless otherwise stated. At the bottom of the page you can suggest tools.

RunWayML Gen-3

RunWayML Gen-3

One of the very best currently available for text to video or image to video.
Sora

Sora

OpenAI (creators of ChatGPT) announced Sora, which is one of the best quality, recently finally released.
Kling

Kling

Chinese competitor which has good quality too.
Udio

Udio

The current best song generator
Ideogram 2.0

Ideogram 2.0

My favorite for images – creates exactly what you ask for, great at text too. 1200 free images per month
ChatGPT 4o

ChatGPT 4o

The Granddaddy, and still the best for many things.
Luma Dream Machine

Luma Dream Machine

One of the better ones
MidJourney 6.1

MidJourney 6.1

The original, and still the best – except for prompt adherence – $10 per month (now free trial for 25
Claude 3.5 Sonnet

Claude 3.5 Sonnet

Competitor to ChatGPT that often writes more aesthetically
InVideo

InVideo

Creates whole video from just a text prompt – really good
Veeroll

Veeroll

Really excellent text to video. New competitor to InVideo
10Web

10Web

Best AI website creator & hosting company – even clones any other website – $13 /mo (price doesn’t rise)
Flux.1

Flux.1

New kid on the block with superb quality, even does good hands, and text.
Perplexity

Perplexity

Superb research tool.
Gemini

Gemini

Google’s version of ChatGPT – great for keyword research
Poe

Poe

One tool to rule them all – Poe aggregates all the GPTs, many image generators, and more
Flipner

Flipner

Summarizes your voice or text snippets and creates articles from them, and a lot more
Wonder Studio

Wonder Studio

Automatically animates, lights and composes CG characters into a live-action scene – $16 /mo
Google Imagen 3

Google Imagen 3

Google’s new high-quality image generator, with editing
Katalist

Katalist

Very fast creator of multiple kinds of content.
Leonardo

Leonardo

One of the great ones – free – and recently acquired by Canva
ElevenLabs

ElevenLabs

Best voice and SFX generator – clone your own voice
Vozo

Vozo

Vozo enables users to rewrite, redub, edit voices, and lip-sync existing videos
Hotshot

Hotshot

Another new competitor to Sora for high quality videos. Great for realistic people
Loudme.ai

Loudme.ai

A new competitor to Udio and Suno for songs, and creates excellent SFX
Dreamina ai

Dreamina ai

Capcut’s new image and video generator.
Lindy AI

Lindy AI

A new and very powerful AI agent creator that enables you to get AI to do complex tasks without coding
Adobe Express

Adobe Express

Can create all your marketing materials
Microsoft Designer

Microsoft Designer

Can auto create your social media posts
Canva

Canva

Can create most any media and has good AI tools

See the very newest, but untested, interesting tools below:

Many more on the way…