AI Tools Directory
Original, plain-English write-ups of well-known AI tools — what each one actually does and who it's for. Links go to each tool's official site.
ChatGPT
A general-purpose AI chat assistant from OpenAI. You type a request in plain English and it responds with text — explanations, drafts, summaries, or code — based on the conversation so far.
Claude
An AI chat assistant from Anthropic, built for long-form writing, careful reasoning, and working with large documents or codebases in a single conversation.
Midjourney
An AI image generator that turns a written description into original artwork. Popular for stylized, artistic, and highly detailed image output.
GitHub Copilot
An AI coding assistant that suggests code completions and can generate whole functions directly inside your code editor, based on the surrounding code and comments.
Notion AI
An AI writing and summarization feature built into the Notion workspace app, used for drafting, editing, and condensing notes and documents you already keep in Notion.
Perplexity
An AI-powered answer engine that searches the web and responds with a summarized answer alongside cited sources, rather than a plain list of links.
ElevenLabs
A text-to-speech and voice AI platform that converts written text into realistic spoken audio in a range of voices and languages.
Runway
An AI video generation and editing platform that can create short video clips from text or images, and offers AI-assisted video editing tools.
Gemini
Google's AI chat assistant, built into Google's own apps (Search, Docs, Gmail) as well as available as a standalone chatbot, with a strong focus on multimodal input like images and documents.
DALL-E
OpenAI's AI image generator, built into ChatGPT, that turns a written description into an original image. Known for closely following detailed, specific prompts.
Grammarly
A writing assistant that checks grammar, clarity, and tone as you type, with AI features for rewriting and adjusting tone, built as a browser extension and app rather than a chat interface.
DeepL
An AI translation tool known for producing more natural-sounding translations than older machine translation tools, supporting dozens of languages for both text and full documents.