48 Top AI Apps to Know

This article highlights some of the best AI apps available today, covering AI tools for productivity, creative work, finance, education and more.

The highly competitive, multi-billion dollar mobile app market has become a hotbed for artificial intelligence adoption, leading to a proliferation of AI apps. These days, consumers crave personalized experiences, intuitive design and instant gratification. Incorporating AI into their apps makes it easier for companies to satiate them. Whether a user wants to edit a photo, transcribe a phone call or search the web — there’s usually an AI app for that.

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1. ChatGPT

A leader in the chatbot space, ChatGPT is able to converse with users, answer questions and generate new text. ChatGPT is popularly used as a tool to create written content, like articles, emails, scripts, essays and code.  

Top Features:

• Multimodal capabilities: Processes and generates text, images and real-time voice interactions.
• Conversational chatting: Holds conversations with users and answers follow-up questions.
• Web search: Browses the internet to provide up-to-date information and cited research.

Use Cases: Content creation and editing, coding, document analysis and summarization

2. Copilot

Formerly known as Bing Chat, Copilot is Microsoft’s AI chatbot that’s built into the Microsoft Edge browser and comes in mobile app form. Copilot is designed to complete a range of tasks, including answering questions, retrieving cooking recipes, creating images, planning vacations and even crafting exercise programs. While Copilot is free, businesses can access more capabilities when paying for the Microsoft 365 Copilot version.

Top Features:

• Conversational assistance: Provides real-time support, suggestions and contextual guidance.
• Multimodal search: Supports visual search for identifying objects in photos and voice mode for hands-free interactions.
• Microsoft app integration: Built directly into Microsoft 365 apps like Word, Excel and Teams.

Use Cases: Document creation, content analysis, workflow automation

3. Gemini

Google’s Gemini chatbot is compatible with Android, iPhone and iPad devices. Users can bounce ideas off of it, generate summaries, get answers to questions and quickly locate information among Google apps. Gemini comes as a mobile assistant on Android phones, although Android users can still download the Gemini mobile app to collaborate with Gemini in dozens of languages.    

Top Features:

• Multimodal reasoning: Works to understand and reason across text, images, video, audio and code.
• Long context window: Can process and understand massive amounts of data at once, including uploads of up to 1,500 pages or 30,000 lines of code.
• Google ecosystem integration: Connects directly with Google apps like Workspace, Maps and YouTube to pull real-time information into chats.

Use Cases: Productivity, content generation, technical problem solving

4. DeepSeek

DeepSeek is an open-source chatbot developed by a Chinese AI startup of the same name. Its DeepSeek-R1 reasoning model offers comparative performance to competitors from OpenAI and Anthropic at a much lower operating cost, drawing massive interest from consumers and businesses alike and bringing the DeepSeek chatbot to the top of Apple’s app store chart of the most popular free apps following the model’s release.

Top Features:

• Deep reasoning: Provides step-by-step logic to help work through complex questions or difficult decisions.
• Open-source: Freely available for the public to use, modify and build upon.
• Cross-platform: Accessible through a dedicated mobile app and web interface for on-the-go help.

Use Cases: Advanced problem solving, creative writing and planning, low-cost AI assistance

5. Claude 

Claude is a chatbot that can handle complex tasks like writing code for websites, translating text into another language, analyzing images and maintaining in-depth conversations. Developed by Anthropic, Claude also balances high performance with strong security features for requirements like HIPAA compliance and SOC 2 Type II certification. Users can tap into Claude’s capabilities while on the go using the Claude iOS mobile app. 

Top Features:

• Artifacts feature: Allows users to view, edit and iterate on documents, code or visual content side-by-side with chats.
• Large context window: Can process and remember massive amounts of information (i.e. entire books or long technical manuals) in a single conversation.
• Advanced reasoning: Designed for nuanced logic, enabling it to follow complex instructions and admit when it doesn’t have an answer.

Use Cases: Collaborative writing, coding and software development, data analysis

6. Grok

Grok is an AI chatbot developed by xAI, an artificial intelligence company founded by Elon Musk. The app is available via the web and on the social media platform X. Grok can access real-time information to answer user queries and generate images. Notably, Grok aims to be a “truth-seeking” chatbot and sometimes generates responses that are more politically unfiltered than its competitors. Grok also powers Grokipedia, an AI-generated encyclopedia.

Top Features:

• Real-time X integration: Has direct access to live X platform data for current news and trends.
• Enhanced reasoning (Grok Heavy): Offers a “Heavy” reasoning mode, designed to handle complex logical tasks and large-scale data processing.
• Uncensored personality: Designed to answer “spicy” questions that other AI assistants might decline, often using a rebellious and humorous tone.

Use Cases: Content summarization, advanced coding and math, creative brainstorming

7. Snapchat

Snap is the tech company responsible for the popular Snapchat mobile app, which allows users to share videos, images and messages that only remain visible for a limited time. Snapchat’s features include the My AI chatbot, which can converse with users like any other friend on the app.

Top Features:

• My AI chatbot: Interactive assistant for Snapchat users that can answer trivia, give advice and chat directly in the Snapchat feed.
• Augmented reality (AR) lenses: AI-driven camera effects that can transform user appearance or surroundings in real-time.
• Dreams: Generative AI tool that uses selfies to create imaginative, stylized portraits in various fantastical scenarios.

Use Cases: Visual expression, personalized recommendations, planning and brainstorming

8. Doubao

Doubao is an AI chatbot developed by ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok. It is one of the most popular AI apps in China and is comparable to other chatbots. Through its web and mobile apps, users can generate written content and code, summarize large documents, create images and gather research on a wide range of topics. 

Top Features:

• Deep thinking: Uses specialized reasoning modes to handle complex logic and in-depth research tasks.
• Multimodal creation: Generates high-quality images, text and voice interactions within a single interface.
• Smart desktop tools: Features like “Select-to-Ask” and “Screenshot Q&A” provide instant help while users browse.

Use Cases: Content generation, content summarization, educational support

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9. Atlas

Atlas is an internet browser developed by OpenAI that uses ChatGPT to find and summarize information across the web. In addition to providing conversational browsing, Atlas also delivers personalized assistance and agentic features, allowing it to autonomously perform multi-step tasks such as creating a recipe and purchasing all necessary ingredients from a partner retailer.

Top Features:

• Dual-view mode: Can split the screen to view two websites simultaneously on a single tab.
• Privacy guard: Built-in ad and tracker blocker that prevents websites from monitoring user activity.
• Resource optimization: Designed to use minimal RAM and CPU, ensuring high-speed performance even on older devices.

Use Cases: Productivity, research, secure browsing

10. Perplexity

Perplexity is an AI-powered search engine designed to provide well-sourced responses to user queries. The app uses natural language processing to understand user intent and context, with the goal of delivering more accurate answers than traditional search engines. Paid Max subscribers now also have to use Perplexity’s dedicated search browser, Comet. Comet can further automate search tasks, summarize information and execute specific actions with agentic capabilities. 

Top Features:

• Cited search: Provides direct answers with links to live web sources.
• Deep research: Conducts multi-step research to synthesize complex, structured reports.
• Model selection: Allows users to switch between different AI models for search.

Use Cases: Research, news and content analysis, shopping and travel planning

11. Google

Google is one of the most influential search engines, and it has started to introduce AI features into its main product. In addition to its Gemini chatbot, Google offers AI-powered search overviews that summarize information from multiple sources in response to a user’s query. These features are part of the company’s Search Generative Experience, or SGE, which is currently in a limited beta. Google has also introduced a hybrid AI mode that blends conversational answers with traditional search results.

Top Features:

• Knowledge graph: Provides instant, verified facts about people, places and objects.
• Featured snippets: Displays quick answers pulled directly from webpages at the top of search result pages.
• AI overviews: Provides AI-generated summaries to explain complex topics quickly.

Use Cases: Information retrieval, local discovery, source research 

12. Bing

Bing is a search engine created by Microsoft with various AI-powered features. Through Copilot Search, users can interact with chatbots and receive content summaries to research various topics. Additionally, Bing supports multimodal search, allowing users to upload photos and ask questions about their content, and includes tools for image generation through its search product. Bing is used in Microsoft’s Copilot-powered browser which can autonomously search the web, clean your inbox, or act as a shopping assistant.  

Top Features:

• Copilot search: Combines generative AI with search for conversational, cited answers.
• Visual search: Uses image recognition to identify objects or find similar products.
• Microsoft rewards: Earns points for every search to redeem for gift cards.

Use Cases: Multimedia creation, shopping and travel planning, productivity

13. You.com

You.com was one of the first search engines to incorporate artificial intelligence. The app can summarize articles, translate text, site sources and compile updated information. The company developed that C-A-L large language model, which improved conversational and search features. With the new model, the platform provides multiple search result formats, including text, charts, photos and videos. 

Top Features:

• Agentic research: Uses specialized AI agents to browse, synthesize and cite real-time web data.
• Private indexing: Enables users to search and analyze their own custom data sources and documents.
• Multi-model access: Allows users to switch between various AI models for specific tasks.

Use Cases: Coding and math, industry research, internal data search 

14. Fellou

Fellou is an internet browser with agentic capabilities. Using the integrated chatbot users can input a task or prompt and Fellou will run up to four tabs simultaneously to analyze, summarize and generate content. According to the company, the browser can also be used for agentic tasks like mass file retrieval and batch file conversion and automated email outreach. 

Top Features:

• Deep action agent: Plans and executes multi-step tasks across various websites and apps.
• Agentic memory: Securely learns user history to provide proactive, personalized assistance.
• Workflow automation: Handles complex end-to-end processes, including logins and form filling.

Use Cases: Cross-platform workflows, deep research reports, scheduled data monitoring

 

15. Alexa

Launched in 2014, Amazon’s Alexa uses sophisticated natural language processing capabilities to not only understand spoken language, but also generate it through fluent conversations with users. Alexa’s app can also be paired with accompanying smart devices to control things like smart thermostats, wearables, televisions and even cars straight from the user’s phone.  

Top Features:

• Conversational AI: Enables natural, fluid dialogue without needing to repeat the wake word.
• Smart routines: Learns user habits to suggest and automate daily home tasks.
• Device coordination: Controls complex smart home setups through simple, vague voice commands.

Use Cases: Home management, daily planning, home entertainment

16. Google Assistant

As a leader in the AI space, Google Assistant is considered to be one of the most advanced virtual assistants of its kind on the market. Using natural language processing, it supports both voice and text commands, and can handle everything from internet searches to voice-activated control of other devices. The app is compatible with an entire suite of smart devices, including refrigerators, lights and cars — providing a truly connected Internet-of-Things experience for users.

Top Features:

• Gemini integration: Leverages Google Gemini to plan trips and summarize emails efficiently.
• Unified home control: Manages thousands of smart devices from a single, centralized interface.
• Proactive routines: Automates multi-step actions based on time, location, or voice commands.

Use Cases: Home management, hands-free communication, personal planning and organization

17. Lindy

Lindy helps businesses create, manage and share AI agents, essentially serving as their “first AI employee.” It allows users to build, scale and oversee an entire AI workforce with a single platform, requiring only a user prompt and zero code. Lindy’s custom AI agents can automate tasks across various business functions, including sales (e.g., converting leads), support (e.g., resolving tickets autonomously), marketing and operations.

Top Features:

• No-code builder: Create custom AI agents using simple natural language prompts.
• Inbox autopilot: Automatically drafts emails and manages calendars without manual input.
• Multiple app integrations: Connects with hundreds of tools like Slack and Salesforce.

Use Cases: Sales and outreach, customer support, meeting coordination

18. Siri

Launched in 2011, Siri is widely considered to be the OG of virtual assistants. By this point, all Apple devices are equipped with it, including iPhones, iPads, watches and even televisions. The app uses voice queries and a natural language user interface to do everything from sending text messages to identifying a song that’s playing. It can also adapt to a user’s language, searches and preferences over time.

Top Features:

• Personalization: Siri understands user data across apps to find specific, personal details.
• Onscreen awareness: Siri can track what is on a user’s device screen to take actions within apps.
• ChatGPT utilization: Siri can use ChatGPT to answer broad knowledge questions or complex requests.

Use Cases: Device support and guidance, cross-app tasks, contextual search

 

19. Claude Code

Claude Code is an AI-powered command-line interface tool developed by Anthropic that allows users to generate code, debug, refactor and more using plain language prompts, otherwise known as “vibe coding.” Claude Code lives inside the user’s own terminal, allowing it to learn their codebase and interact with other files and tools like Git and Jira. And it can act as a sort of AI agent, understanding context, planning steps and executing code on its own.

Top Features:

• Task automation: Automates coding tasks like debugging and refactoring, and can generate new lines of code using natural language prompts.
• Agentic capabilities: Uses AI agents to plan and execute tasks automatically, without constant human input.
• Terminal integration: Runs within terminal apps (i.e. Mac or Windows), allowing it to read, write and act on local files, as well as connect to third-party tools like Jira or Google Drive.

Use Cases: Code generation, code debugging, codebase navigation

20. GitHub Copilot

GitHub Copilot is an AI coding assistant that helps developers write code faster and with fewer errors. It is integrated into popular code editors and provides autocomplete suggestions and entire code functions. GitHub Copilot is trained on public code repositories and can assist in a variety of programming languages.

Top Features:

• Code completion: Suggests entire lines or blocks of code in real-time as you type.
• Natural language to code: Converts plain-text comments into functional programming logic and snippets.
• Copilot chat: Provides a conversational interface to debug, explain or refactor code within the editor.

Use Cases: Boilerplate code generation, rapid prototyping, code learning and documentation

21. Codex

Codex is an OpenAI language model designed for programming tasks. It can interpret user prompts and convert them into working code and applications using a range of languages. Besides code generation, Codex can also debug, refactor and explain code.

Top Features:

• Multi-language support: Proficiently generates code in dozens of popular programming languages.
• Context awareness: Analyzes surrounding code to provide logically consistent suggestions.
• Instruction mapping: Directly translates English commands into executable code functions.

Use Cases: Automated coding, code translation, bug detection

22. Cursor

Cursor is an AI coding assistant that helps write and manage code more efficiently inside a code editor. The platform helps developers write code faster by suggesting completions, performing code transformation and handling repetitive tasks across projects.

Top Features:

• Cursor tab: Predicts and completes multi-line code changes with quick precision.
• Cursor agent: Independently plans and executes complex, multi-file coding tasks from prompts.
• Codebase indexing: Analyzes a user’s entire project to understand logic and file relationships.

Use Cases: Rapid feature development, code refactoring, code navigation

 

23. FitnessAI

Available exclusively as an iOS app, FitnessAI uses artificial intelligence to generate personalized workouts according to a given user’s experience and goals. With nearly 6 million preset workouts, the AI optimizes sets, reps and weight for each exercise every time a user works out. Users can also track their progress over time on the app. 

Top Features:

• Personalization: Adjusts weights, reps and rest periods in real-time based on performance.
• Smart rest timer: Uses heart rate and effort data to determine optimal recovery between sets.
• Insight feed: Visualizes strength gains and provides data-driven recommendations for improvement.

Use Cases: Personal fitness and training, hybrid workouts, fitness benchmarking

24. Woebot Health

Woebot Health combines decades of psychology research with advanced AI to assess, chat and respond to users’ symptoms of mental health conditions like anxiety and depression, according to the company. Woebot is also very intentional about reminding users that it is a chatbot, not a real person, which establishes trust among users, according to Jade Daniels, the company’s director of content. 

Top Features:

• CBT capabilities: Uses cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) principles to help users reframe negative thoughts.
• Mood analysis: Tracks emotional patterns and triggers through daily check-ins.
• Clinical safety: Employs expert-backed protocols to identify and escalate crisis situations.

Use Cases: Daily emotional support, therapy supplement and integration, wellness management

25. Youper

Youper features a mental health-focused AI chatbot, which converses with users about their emotional struggles, and offers personalized advice and techniques for how to cope. The app also offers a mood tracker, personality assessments, a selection of mindfulness exercises and more. Like Woebot, Youper claims its technology is based on decades of psychological and evidence-based therapies.

Top Features:

• Evidence-based chatting: Delivers validated support to users by using CBT, ACT and DBT techniques.
• Symptom tracking: Monitors anxiety and depression levels using clinical-grade scales.
• Personalization: Adapts coping exercises and conversations to a user’s specific mood.

Use Cases: Daily emotional support, therapy supplement and integration, wellness management

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26. Sora 2

Sora 2 is OpenAI’s most advanced video generation model. It can create 15- to 25-second video clips based on text inputs, as well as existing photos and videos uploaded by the user. Building on its predecessor, Sora 1, OpenAI added several new features to Sora 2, including enhanced motion rendering, audio synchronization and scene consistency. And it now powers the company’s new video generation app called Sora.

Top Features:

• Native audio: Automatically creates synced music and sound effects for every generated clip.
• Character lock: Maintains consistent character appearances across different video scenes.
• Scene remixing: Allows instant style swaps and story extensions of existing videos.

Use Cases: Video generation, personalized media, visual storyboarding

27. Veo 3

VEO 3 is a video generator developed by Google’s DeepMind project. Available through Gemini and Flow, it can generate realistic-looking videos from text prompts and provides users with more control over the output. For example, Veo 3 can build scenes based on reference images or detailed camera movements. It can also keep character consistency across multiple scenes. Veo requires a paid Google AI Pro subscription; however, older models are available for free on Gemini.

Top Features:

• Native audio: Generates synced sound effects, ambient noise and dialogue automatically.
• Extended video clips: Produces long-form video sequences with high narrative and visual consistency.
• Physics realism: Simulates accurate real-world physics and complex character movements.

Use Cases: Video generation, film drafting, visual storyboarding

28. Runway

Runway is a video generator used by filmmakers and major movie studios. Besides text inputs, Runway is capable of generating video from reference photos, concept art or prerecorded performances. Additionally, the platform provides editing and collaboration tools, which simplifies workflows when multiple people work on a project.

Top Features:

• AI character mapping: Can map a user’s voice and facial expressions onto any AI character.
• Scene relighting: Can change lighting and time of day while keeping structural consistency.
• Customizable workflows: Enables creators to build complex, automated video pipelines by chaining multiple AI models together.

Use Cases: Video generation, visual effects (VFX) production, visual storyboarding

29. Midjourney

Midjourney is one of the most used text-to-image art generators in the market. The platform operates using a Discord bot but is capable of rendering everything from realistic-looking images to simple doodles and abstract art.

Top Features:

• Style referencing: Syncs the aesthetic of new images with a specific reference style.
• Character referencing: Keeps character features and clothing consistent across multiple scenes.
• Vary and zoom: Modifies specific image areas or expands borders with seamless continuity.

Use Cases: Image generation, art generation, visual branding

30. Dall-E 3

Dall-E 3 is an image generator developed by OpenAI, and is now integrated directly into ChatGPT. Using a diffusion-based model, it interprets and refines images based on text prompts. Dall-E launched in a beta in 2022 and now is one of the most popular generators known for its realistic image generations and various art styles it can mimic. 

Top Features:

• Prompt fidelity: Converts complex text descriptions into precise visuals.
• Text rendering: Generates clear, legible and correctly spelled text within images.
• Native ChatGPT integration: Allows users to brainstorm and refine images through ChatGPT dialogue.

Use Cases: Image generation, marketing graphics, product prototyping and mockups

31. Adobe Firefly

Adobe Firefly is a suite of generative AI tools and web and mobile applications used by creatives to generate and edit images. Its tools are embedded in its various software products like Photoshop and Premiere Pro and are used for tasks like color grading, removing background and generating captions. Its standalone web version is a free to use text-to-image generator. 

Top Features:

• Firefly Boards: Infinite, collaborative canvas for teams to brainstorm, remix and test AI-generated ideas in real time.
• Multi-model integration: Access and mix outputs from Adobe, Google and OpenAI models in one app.
• Commercially-safe generation: Trained primarily on Adobe Stock and public domain content to ensure all outputs are safe for commercial use.

Use Cases: Image generation, brand prototyping, product design

32. Facetune

For people wanting to make quick edits on their photos and videos, Facetune is a popular resource. It is commonly used to make skin touch-ups, whiten teeth, add makeup and alter face shape. The app also has its own avatar generator, allowing users to level up their selfies with AI-generated costumes, hairstyles, backgrounds and more. 

Top Features:

• Makeup and impression filters: Applies realistic, professional makeup and aesthetic makeovers instantly.
• Creative filters and neural transformations: Simulates aging, gender-swaps and hairstyles for creative exploration.
• AI retouching: Automatically removes blemishes and adjusts backgrounds while keeping textures natural.

Use Cases: Image editing, photo retouching, creativity

33. Lensa

Created by Prisma Labs, Lensa uses neural network, computer vision and deep learning techniques to bring mobile photography and video creation “to the next level,” according to the company. The app allows users to make anything from minor edits like background blurring to entirely unique renderings. 

Top Features:

• Magic correction: Can retouch facial features and skin imperfections with a single tap.
• Magic avatars: Generates a diverse collection of stylized digital portraits based on a user’s uploaded photos.
• Smart background replacement: Can automatically blur or replace backgrounds with AI-generated environments.

Use Cases: Image editing, photo retouching, creativity

34. StarryAI

StarryAI is an AI art generator that can transform a simple text prompt into an image. To accomplish this, the app relies on two AI models. The first uses a specific class of machine learning models called GANs, or generative adversarial networks, to render the artwork creations. The second uses Stable Diffusion to create artwork and images. StarryAI is one of many text-to-image generators on the market right now, and allows users to make everything from AI avatars to NFTs.

Top Features:

• Multiple model options: Provides various models (Altair, Orion) for distinct abstract or realistic artistic styles.
• Custom workspace: Offers advanced controls over aspect ratios, initial images and prompt weighting.
• Full user ownership: Grants users 100 percent commercial rights to all generated artwork for any project.

Use Cases: Image generation, art generation, visual brainstorming

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35. Khan Academy

Khan Academy, a popular education platform, launched Khanmigo, an AI-powered learning tool. Built for students and educators, Khanmigo offers a range of features. Students can use it as a virtual tutor, helping them grasp new concepts and review material before tests and quizzes. Teachers can leverage the tool to generate lesson plans and create multiple choice assessments. 

Top Features:

• Khanmigo AI: An AI tool that guides students through problems conversationally without giving direct answers.
• Personalized learning: Can adapt content to ensure students understand concepts before advancing.
• Student and teacher insights: Provides real-time data to help educators identify specific student gaps.

Use Cases: Education, self-studying, test preparation 

36. ELSA Speak

ELSA Speak uses AI to help users perfect their English speaking skills. With speech data and voice recognition technology, the app is able to listen to a user’s accent and applies a color-coded system of red, yellow and green to identify how close the user pronounced certain words, as well as provide tips for how the user can improve. The app also includes language proficiency assessments, personalized curriculum, progress tracking and tailored lessons. 

Top Features:

• Speech recognition: Analyzes a user’s voice against native speakers with 95 percent accuracy to find errors.
• Personalized learning: Designs daily lesson plans based on users’ specific pronunciation strengths and weaknesses.
• Detailed pronunciation feedback: Provides color-coded guidance on where to place your tongue and how to move your mouth for pronunciation.

Use Cases: English education and self-studying, career advancement, test preparation

 

37. Ally Financial

Ally Financial’s mobile banking app has a text and voice-enabled AI chatbot to answer questions, handle any money transfers and payments, as well as provide transaction summaries. Ally also uses AI to streamline its loan approval process, extracting data from loan documents and comparing them with multiple databases to confirm applicants’ identity, employment, income and other pertinent information. 

Top Features:

• Smart savings buckets: Organizes user savings into digital envelopes to track specific goals within a single account.
• Surprise savings: Automatically scans a user’s checking account for “extra” money and moves it to their savings.
• Commission-free investing: Offers zero-commission trades on stocks and ETFs via its mobile experience.

Use Cases: Personal finance, budgeting and wealth management, savings building

38. Cleo

Cleo is a chatbot that is specifically designed to provide budgeting assistance by linking directly to a user’s bank account. Using AI and natural language generation, the app provides general financial advice as well as unique messages according to whether a user wants to be “roasted” or “hyped” for their financial behavior. Cleo also helps users set specific budgets and goals, track their spending and more.

Top Features:

• Roast and Hype mode: Switch between “Roast Mode” for blunt, humorous critiques of spending and “Hype Mode” for positive reinforcement.
• Auto-savings and roundups: Automatically identifies small amounts of money to save or rounds up purchases to the nearest dollar.
• Spending insights and trends: Analyzes user transaction history to provide instant answers about budget and upcoming bills.

Use Cases: Personal finance, budgeting and wealth management, savings building

 

39. Google Recorder

Unlike many other AI transcription services, Google’s Recorder is free — so long as the user has a Pixel smartphone. All they have to do is open the app and press the large red button to record their call, which is automatically transcribed at the same time. Once the transcription is complete, users can search through it, edit it, move around sections and share it either in full or as snippets with others. 

Top Features:

• Real-time transcription: Converts speech to text instantly, even without an internet connection.
• Speaker labels: Automatically identifies and separates different voices to organize dialogue clearly.
• AI summarization: Generates concise bullet points of user recordings to highlight key takeaways.

Use Cases: Audio transcription, lecture capture, interviewing

40. Otter.ai

Available both online and as a mobile app, Otter.ai offers a wide range of services, including the ability to record Zoom and Google video conferences, as well as phone calls. It uses artificial intelligence to automatically transcribe those recordings, breaking them down by speaker. The transcription also includes an automatically generated outline with corresponding time stamps, which highlights the key conversation points in the recording and allows users to jump to them quickly. 

Top Features:

• Otter AI chat: Answers user questions and drafts emails based on meeting content.
• Smart summaries: Generates instant overviews with clear action items and milestones.
• Live collaboration: Allows real-time highlighting and commenting within the transcript.

Use Cases: Meeting recording, audio transcription, conversation summarization

41. Trint

Trint’s AI transcription services have been used by major news organizations. Its AI-enabled mobile app allows users to easily record, transcribe and publish content instantly, as well as leave notes and make edits to the transcription itself. According to Trint, it can also automatically transcribe in over 40 different languages, and translate completed transcriptions into more than 50 languages.

Top Features:

• Trint Editor: Links text to audio so users can edit recorded content just like a Microsoft Word document.
• Multi-language translation: Supports instant transcription and translation into over 50 languages.
• Real-time captioning: Generates and exports accurate captions for video content in various formats.

Use Cases: Audio and video transcription, content editing, video research

42. Read AI

Read AI automatically generates meeting transcriptions and produces summaries complete with topics, action items and key questions. It also has the ability to track audience reactions throughout a meeting, so users can locate moments of peak audience engagement within a transcript.

Top Features:

• Search copilot: Finds answers to user questions instantly across their meetings, emails and chat history.
• Auto-summaries: Delivers immediate meeting recaps and action items from video calls.
• Speaker coach: Provides real-time metrics on speaking pace and filler word usage.

Use Cases: Audio transcription, conversation summarization, meeting information retrieval

 

43. Google Maps

Google Maps aggregates location data from smartphones, as well as user-reported data on things like construction and car accidents to monitor the ebb and flow of traffic, determine an ETA and provide users with the fastest route to their desired destination. The app also uses advanced machine learning techniques and analysis of historical traffic conditions to predict traffic conditions in the near future.

Top Features:

• Immersive view: Can preview an entire route in 3D with live weather and traffic simulations.
• Eco-routing: Can suggest the most fuel-efficient paths based on a user’s specific engine or vehicle type.
• Gemini insights: Summarizes thousands of reviews to give you instant “insider” tips about a destination.

Use Cases: Navigation, travel, trip planning

44. Waze

Although it was acquired by Google in 2013, the Waze app remains a separate entity from Google Maps, and a top competitor to both its parent company’s GPS and others. In addition to relying on real-time traffic data shared by its millions of active monthly users, Waze uses AI and machine learning to provide its users with the fastest available routes to their destinations. 

Top Features:

• Crowdsourced alerts: Provides instant warnings for police, crashes and road hazards from other drivers.
• Live rerouting: Automatically adjusts a user’s path to bypass sudden traffic jams or road closures.
• Planned drives: Suggests the ideal departure time based on predicted traffic and live conditions.

Use Cases: Navigation, travel, trip planning

 

45. Superhuman

Superhuman uses AI to help people produce written communications that are clear and grammatically correct. For business users, Superhuman’s writing partner can assist with creating on-brand marketing copy, for example, or effectively communicating company-wide technical updates. The technology also has applications for students, offering features to detect plagiarism and support accurate citations. Superhuman, formerly known as Grammarly, rebranded following the acquisition of Superhuman Mail in 2025.

Top Features:

• Superhuman AI: Can draft replies in a user’s tone and summarize long threads instantly.
• Split inbox: Automatically categorizes messages into custom tabs to prioritize VIPs.
• Keyboard shortcuts: Enables mouse-free navigation to archive, snooze or search in seconds.

Use Cases: Productivity, email and communications management, sales and outreach

46. Quarkle

Quarkle is an AI-powered writing app designed to support users throughout the creative process, especially novelists. It combines a dynamic document editor with an integrated chatbot, allowing writers to ask real-time editorial questions as they work. Quarkle not only assists with editing but also helps users create a personalized knowledge base for their projects, ideal for character development, plot organization and world-building.

Top Features:

• Personalized knowledge base: Tracks characters and world-building details to prevent plot holes.
• Editorial feedback: Offers real-time, expert-level comments to improve story pacing and structure.
• Collaborative writing partner: Brainstorms ideas and rewrites text while preserving a user’s unique voice.

Use Cases: Editing, writing assistance, story drafting

47. Jasper

Jasper is a generative AI platform that supports marketing and content creation. Using large language models, it can create blog posts, social media captions and email copy, among other tasks. To appeal to enterprise, Jasper also facilitates consistent branding and messaging by enabling style guides and knowledge bases on its platform. It also offers integrations with various content management software platforms. 

Top Features:

• Brand IQ: Keeps all content strictly aligned with a user’s specific brand voice and style.
• Content pipelines: Automates entire content workflows from initial strategy to final publication.
• Jasper agents: Offers AI agents that execute specialized tasks like SEO and campaign drafting autonomously.

Use Cases: Marketing, content creation, SEO and advertisement assistance

48. Writer

Writer is an AI tool used by creatives and marketers. Built on a proprietary large language model called Palmya LLM, the platform is fine tuned to support digital content generation and other writing tasks like personalized sales outreach and internal document creation. Writer also offers an API for businesses to incorporate its LLM into their existing applications.

Top Features:

• Knowledge graph: Connects AI to company’s private data for factually accurate, business-specific answers.
• Palmyra LLMs: Transparent, high-performance models built specifically for secure enterprise use.
• Maintains branding and legal compliance: Automatically enforces brand voice, legal compliance and inclusive language standards.

Use Cases: Marketing, content generation, sales and outreach

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