44 Top AI Apps to Know

These AI apps put the power of artificial intelligence right in your hands.

Written by Ellen Glover
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UPDATED BY
Abel Rodriguez | Jun 18, 2026
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Ellen Glover | Jun 18, 2026
Summary: AI apps are transforming mobile experiences, from chatbots like ChatGPT and Gemini to image generators like Midjourney and Adobe Firefly. Popular across industries, these apps support tasks like translation, transcription, budgeting and mental health.

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.

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

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Chatbots

1. ChatGPT

ChatGPT is a leading conversational chatbot that enables users to generate text and images, analyze documents, write code and automate tasks. Since its inception, the app has evolved from a text-only chatbot into an advanced multimodal engine capable of real-time voice, vision and deep logical reasoning. Equipped with advanced agentic capabilities, it can now autonomously navigate external tools, execute multi-step workflows and complete complex end-to-end tasks on behalf of the user.

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.
  • Autonomous agents: Navigates external tools to execute and complete complex workflows independently.
  • 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

Copilot is Microsoft’s AI assistant integrated across Microsoft 365 apps, Edge browser and mobile platforms. Originally launched as Bing Chat, Copilot has evolved into an agent platform that handles email drafting, meeting summaries, data analysis, document creation and workflow automation.

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

Gemini is a chatbot developed by Google that helps users brainstorm ideas, generate summaries, answer questions and find information across Google apps. The app features multimodal reasoning to process text, images, video, and audio ;and features a large context window for handling extensive documents.

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. It is powered by AI models that offer comparative performance to competitors like OpenAI and Anthropic at a much lower operating cost, drawing massive interest from consumers and businesses alike.

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, coding and mathematics, creative writing, cost-effective 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 built by xAI, Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence startup. Available via web, iOS, Android and integrated with X, Grok delivers real-time answers by accessing live internet data and trending discussions on the platform. The app generates images and videos and supports advanced reasoning through Grok Heavy. Its real-time X integration distinguishes it from competitors, enabling access to current information. 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 a chatbot developed by ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok, and is one of the most popular AI apps in China. The platform offers comprehensive multimodal capabilities including text generation, image and video creation and voice processing.

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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AI Browsers and Search Tools 

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 by combining large language models with live web search. 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 also have access to Perplexity’s dedicated search browser, Comet and Personal Computer, an AI agent that can work indecently across local files and native applications to complete tasks.

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 a provider of AI-powered search tools. The company has integrated Gemini, its advanced AI model, directly into Search, enabling AI Overviews that synthesize information from multiple sources and AI Mode for quick answers and conversational queries.

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 that has various AI-powered features. Through Copilot Search, users receive quick, summarized answers with cited sources for research and discovery. 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 platform combines web indexing with AI capabilities for agentic research, private indexing, and multi-model access, serving use cases in coding, math, industry research and internal data search.

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 execute multi-step workflows across apps and websites — from deep research and report generation to data entry and form filling.

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

 

AI Assistants

15. Alexa

Amazon’s Alexa+ is an AI-powered personal assistant that understands natural language and executes complex tasks across tens of thousands of services and devices. Launched in 2014 as a voice-controlled smart speaker, Alexa has evolved into a conversational AI platform that orchestrates smart home control, entertainment, shopping, reservations and personalized recommendations. Alexa+ is available across Echo devices, mobile apps and web browsers.

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. Lindy

Lindy is an AI assistant that automates administrative work through a no-code platform. Designed for professionals and teams seeking to reclaim time from repetitive tasks, Lindy requires only a user prompt to build custom AI agents to tackle tasks like meeting scheduling, calendar coordination and follow-ups across hundreds of integrations. The platform emphasizes privacy-first design with enterprise-grade security, including GDPR, HIPAA and SOC 2 compliance.

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

17. Siri

Launched in 2011, Siri is widely considered to be the OG of virtual assistants. Now powered by Apple Intelligence, Siri offers richer language understanding, contextual awareness and deeper device integration across Apple devices. Users can communicate via voice or text, and Siri can now handle hundreds of cross-app actions, provide device support and access personal context to deliver tailored assistance. With ChatGPT integration, Siri can tap into broader knowledge for complex queries.

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

 

AI Coding Assistants

18. Claude Code

Claude is a chatbot developed by Anthropic that excels at complex reasoning, coding, translating text into another language, analyzing images and maintaining in-depth conversations. The latest models powering the platform deliver advanced capabilities including adaptive reasoning for improved problem-solving and superior performance on coding benchmarks.

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

19. GitHub Copilot

GitHub Copilot is an AI coding assistant that helps developers write code faster and with fewer errors. Trained on public code repositories, GitHub Copilot supports multiple programming languages and offers model selection for different use cases and is available through IDE integrations and Github.com.

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

20. Codex

Available as a desktop application, CLI and integrated into ChatGPT, Codex is an agentic coding tool that can interpret developer prompts and autonomously executes complex work — from building features and refactoring code to running migrations and managing routine tasks.

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

21. Cursor

Cursor is an AI coding agent that helps developers build software by automating development tasks. The platform features autonomous agents that plan, code, test and deploy features independently, alongside Tab for intelligent code completions and semantic codebase indexing for deep code understanding.

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

 

Health and Wellness AI Apps

22. FitnessAI

FitnessAI uses artificial intelligence to generate personalized workouts based on user experience and goals. The app leverages over 100 million training sessions to optimize sets, reps and weights in real time. This allows the AI adapt workouts to any equipment and adjusts intensity based on performance data, enabling progressive overload without burnout.

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

23. Youper

Youper is an AI-powered mental health app that uses cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to provide accessible, personalized emotional support for anxiety and depression. The app features a chatbot trained on evidence-based therapeutic interventions that conducts personalized conversations to help users identify thought patterns, track moods, and practice coping techniques. Beyond its conversational abilities, Youper offers mood tracking, personality assessments and guided mindfulness exercises

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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Image Generators

24. Veo 3

VEO 3.1 is Google DeepMind’s advanced video generation model that creates cinematic videos from text prompts and images with native audio generation. Available through Gemini, Google Flow and Google Vids, it generates high resolution video clips with exceptional realism and prompt adherence. 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.
  • Scene consistency: Maintains uniform character appearances, lighting and environmental details across multiple shots and camera angles.
  • Physics realism: Simulates accurate real-world physics and complex character movements.

Use Cases: Video generation, film drafting, visual storyboarding

25. Runway

Runway is an AI video generation platform used by filmmakers and studios to create cinematic content from text prompts, images and existing video. Its latest model, Gen-4.5, delivers state-of-the-art visual fidelity and motion quality with precise creative control. Beyond text-to-video and image-to-video generation, Runway enables advanced editing capabilities including collaboration tools, scene relighting and character consistency across scenes.

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

26. Midjourney

Midjourney is one of the most used text-to-image art generators in the market. Operating through a Discord bot interface, the platform 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

27. Adobe Firefly

Adobe Firefly is an all-in-one generative AI studio capable of producing images, video and audio. Its tools are embedded in apps like Photoshop, Premiere Pro and Illustrator, enabling tasks such as generative fill, background removal and color grading. Adobe Firefly also offers free web version for text-to-image generation.

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

28. Facetune

Facetune is a photo and video editor that enables users to retouch images and videos with artificial intelligence. The app offers one-tap AI retouching tools for skin smoothing, teeth whitening, eye brightening and facial feature reshaping, alongside creative filters. Its 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

29. Lensa

Created by Prisma Labs, Lensa is an AI-powered mobile photo and video editor that uses neural network, computer vision and deep learning to enhance images The app allows users to make anything from minor edits like one-tap retouching to background replacement and AI avatar generation.

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, creative image transformation.

30. 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 offers over 1,000 artistic styles, full user ownership of generated images, NFT creation and free daily creation with no watermarks.

Top Features:

  • Image editing: Provides text-to-image generation, image enhancement, upscaling and background removal tools.
  • 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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AI Education Apps

31. Khan Academy

Khan Academy, a popular education platform, launched Khanmigo, an AI-powered learning assistant that serves both students and educators. For students, Khanmigo functions as a virtual tutor, offering personalized learning support and test preparation. Meanwhile, teachers access AI-generated lesson plans, progress reports and assessment tools that reduce administrative workload.

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 

32. ELSA Speak

ELSA Speak is an AI-powered English communication app that helps users develop fluency and confidence through real-world speaking practice. Using advanced speech recognition, the app delivers personalized feedback on pronunciation, fluency and intonation in real-time. Beyond accent analysis, ELSA provides interactive role-play scenarios with AI avatars for workplace, interview and social conversations.

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: Education, professional communication, career advancement and test preparation.

 

AI Finance Apps

33. 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. On the operations side, 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

34. Cleo

Cleo is an AI-powered financial assistant helping users understand and manage their money through natural language interaction. The app links directly to users’ bank accounts to track spending, set budgets and reach financial goals. And with its AI features provides personalized financial advice, spending insights and savings challenges. Additional capabilities include credit building, cash advances, and Autopilot for autonomous money management.

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

 

Audio Transcribers

35. Google Recorder

Google Recorder is a free AI transcription app exclusively available on Pixel smartphones that automatically transcribes audio in real time with speaker labels and AI-powered summarization. Users can record meetings, lectures and interviews while the app processes audio on-device using Gemini Nano, prioritizing privacy and offline functionality.

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

36. Otter.ai

Otter.ai is an AI-powered assistant that automatically records, transcribes and summarizes conversations across video conferencing platforms. Using advanced artificial intelligence, it converts spoken words into searchable text with speaker identification and generates summaries highlighting key decisions and action items. 

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

37. Trint

Trint’s AI transcription services are trusted by major news organizations and media teams worldwide. The platform transcribes audio and video in more than 40 languages with live capture and verification capabilities, and can translateq completed transcriptions into more than 70 languages. Trint also offers AI-assisted content workflows including real-time captioning, summarization and key moment identification.

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

38. Read AI

Read AI automatically generates transcriptions, summaries with topics and action items, and delivers real-time meeting notes across video conferencing platforms. The app also offers Ada, a digital twin assistant that handles tasks and workflows across CRM platforms.

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.
  • Ada digital twin: enables users to create custom workflows and automations.

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

 

39. Google Maps

Google Maps uses machine learning and real-time data from smartphones and user reports to predict traffic, determine ETAs and optimize travel routes. The app now integrates Gemini AI to power Ask Maps, a conversational feature that answers complex location-based questions with personalized recommendations.

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

40. Waze

Waze is an AI-powered navigation app. Although it was acquired by Google in 2013, it remains independent from Google Maps. Waze works by leveraging crowdsourced, real-time traffic data from millions of active users combined with machine learning algorithms to calculate the fastest available routes. The app’s dynamic routing adapts to live traffic conditions, offering features including crowdsourced incident alerts, automatic rerouting and planned drive optimization.

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

 

AI Writing Assistants

41. 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

42. Quarkle

Quarkle is an AI writing partner for authors that combines a dynamic document editor with real-time editorial feedback. Unlike generic AI tools, Quarkle deploys a specialized team of more than a dozen AI editors that read manuscripts collaboratively and consolidate their insights into a single, considered editorial note. The platform maintains a persistent knowledge base for each project, automatically tracking character details, world-building elements, plot threads and continuity rules to prevent inconsistencies.

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.
  • Inline editor: Allows writers to accept or reject generated suggestions without leaving permanently altering manuscript.

Use Cases: Editing, writing assistance, story drafting

43. Jasper

Jasper is a generative AI platform that supports marketing and content creation. 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 through Jasper IQ — a governance layer embedding brand voice, style guides and knowledge bases. The app also offers integrations with more than 1,000 marketing tools and systems, plus a no-code agent builder for custom workflows.

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

44. Writer

Writer is an AI tool primarily used by marketers and creatives. 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

Frequently Asked Questions

OpenAI’s ChatGPT is the most popular AI app worldwide, boasting hundreds of millions of weekly active users. Other top AI apps include Google’s Gemini, Anthropic’s Claude and Perplexity.

Yes, many AI apps are free or come with free versions, including ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude. However, accessing an AI app for free may require users to create an account or use a compatible device.

Andreas Rekdal, Abel Rodriguez, Matthew Urwin and Rose Velazquez contributed reporting to this story.

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