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51 AI tools you should be using for life, programming, content creation and everything else

Article UPDATED 12th March 2024 with the most recent AI tools

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AI is taking the world by storm 🔥🔥🔥 It has infinite potential and will change our lives for the better. This technology is going to rapidly improve and there are so many tools which you can use today that will boost your productivity, help you get your work done, give you advice on so many different topics and so much more! These are tools we should ALL be using NOW!

You can use them in all aspects of life. They can generate content for social media, help you with life issues and if used correctly they can even help you to get a job! For example, it's possible to use ChatGPT to do mock interviews and get real-time feedback! We are just scratching the surface here so much more is possible because of AI.

What can you do with AI?

Here are some examples of what you can do with AI tools.

  1. Ask it for advice and resources
  2. Put together an essay for you on any topic
  3. Create a meal and workout plan for yourself
  4. Write scripts, poems, music etc...
  5. Solve programming problems
  6. Text-to-speech translations
  7. Batch create profile pictures
  8. Automate message responses
  9. Do copywriting for you
  10. Grow your business with data-driven ideas
  11. Give you a book summary
  12. Provide you with tailored real-time answers which can be a Google replacement
  13. Design you a custom picture based on your text input
  14. Make a custom video with your custom faces replacing the ones in the video

51 amazing AI tools

I have done some research and put together a list of 51 amazing AI tools which are capable of improving your life in so many areas. I categorised them into different sections so it's easy to find the tool you are looking for.

  • Chatbots
  • AI Video and Text-to-Speech
  • Copywriting and Content Creation
  • Programming
  • Photo Editing
  • AI Art
  • Generators

Chatbots

1. OpenAI ChatGPT

OpenAI created ChatGPT, a chatbot that debuted on November 30, 2022. It allows users to fine-tune and guide a conversation towards a desired duration, format, style, level of detail, and language based on a vast language model.

2. Microsoft Copilot

Microsoft Copilot is a chatbot developed by Microsoft that was released on February 7, 2023. It can cite sources, make poems, and compose music using a big language model. It is Microsoft's principal successor to Cortana, which has been deprecated.

3. Google Gemini

Google DeepMind produced Gemini, a series of multimodal big language models that succeeded LaMDA and PaLM 2. Gemini Ultra, Gemini Pro, and Gemini Nano were launched on December 6, 2023, as competitors to OpenAI's GPT-4.

4. Character.ai

Character.ai is a chatbot service that uses a neural language model to create human-like text answers and engage in contextual conversations. The beta model, created by previous Google LaMDA developers Noam Shazeer and Daniel De Freitas, was made accessible to the public in September 2022.

5. Replika

The caring AI companion. Always there to discuss and listen. constantly on your side.

6. Wysa

Wysa's clinically certified AI provides rapid support as the initial step in care, with human coaching available for those who require it. Make your teams and families feel more supported. Mental health meets people right where they are, completely anonymously. No stigma. There are no limitations.

AI Video and Text-to-Speech

7. Elai.io

Create L&D video content with AI-driven speaking Avatars from text, PDFs, PPTs, and Docs, or make your own digital twin with a cloned voice for a more personalized touch.

Revolutionize e-learning with an intuitive and user-friendly video editor!

8. Synthesia

Create studio-quality videos with AI avatars and voiceovers in over 130 languages. It's as simple as creating a PowerPoint deck.

9. Narakeet

Realistic Text to Speech for Simple Voiceovers. Stop wasting time on voice recording, cutting out errors, and picture-to-sound synchronisation. Simply enter your script or upload it, choose from one of our 500+ voices, and you'll have a professional-sounding audio or video in a matter of minutes.

10. Speechify

The best reader for text-to-speech. Utilize our industry-leading text-to-speech reader to speed through documents, articles, PDFs, emails, and anything else you read.

Copywriting and Content Creation

11. Copy.ai

Find fantastic copy that sells. The AI-powered copywriter Copy.ai creates excellent copy for your company.

12. Jasper

The AI content generator Jasper enables you and your team to overcome creative roadblocks and produce outstanding, original content 10X quicker.

13. Grammarly

American cloud-based typing aid Grammarly. It examines problems in English writings' spelling, grammar, punctuation, clarity, engagement, and delivery, finds instances of plagiarism, and offers corrections for the mistakes found. Users may also alter their language's style, tone, and context according to their preferences.

14. Hemingway

Your writing becomes strong and concise with the Hemingway App. If you encounter a sentence that is highlighted in yellow, shorten or split it. The software emphasises long, difficult sentences and typical mistakes. If you notice a red highlight, this means that your language is too complex and thick for readers to follow, and you should attempt rewriting it to get rid of the red.

15. Fireflies.ai

Your team can transcribe, summarise, search, and analyse voice chats with the aid of Fireflies.ai.

16. Headlime

It takes time and effort to write copy. With the help of Headlime's artificial intelligence, your ideas may be translated into words, saving you a tonne of time so you can concentrate on what matters: your company.

17. ProWritingAid

With the click of a mouse, ProWritingAid offers hundreds of grammar and style changes. Receive tailored writing assistance from professionals.

18. Kickresume’s AI Resume & Cover Letter Writer

This tool is great for anyone who hates writing career documents. It’s part of the popular resume builder Kickresume and is powered by OpenAI’s GPT-3 model which I’ve already mentioned. It’s super easy to use and allows you to create a full resume with AI in just three minutes by filling out a short questionnaire. It also allows you to create a work experience section or a full cover letter by simply entering your job title. All you have left to do is choose a design template and edit the text to make it more you.

19. Wordtune

Wordtune is the ultimate AI writing tool that rewrites and rephrases your writing! Get AI-powered suggestions to instantly improve everything you write.

20. QuillBot

It only takes a single click for QuillBot to scan your work and point out any grammatical, punctuation, spelling, word use, and other mistakes so that you may quickly make corrections.

21. WriteMe.ai

For a fraction of the cost, WriteMe is your number one AI-powered content writing assistant that generates high-quality content with just a few clicks.

22. AutoCrit

With the help of the online manuscript editing tool AutoCrit, authors of both fiction and nonfiction may swiftly and efficiently self-edit their work at any time.

23. Peppercontent

An easy-to-use, AI-powered copywriting tool with a free trial available, Peppercontent is ideal for producing high-quality material.

24. Copysmith

The AI content production solution for businesses and online stores is called Copysmith. Produce, release, and widely disseminate material that is product-focused.

25. Writesonic

Create material for your blogs, advertising, emails, and website 10X faster while ensuring it is original and SEO-optimized.

26. Rytr

Rytr is an AI writing helper that enables you to produce excellent material quickly and inexpensively.

27. Smart Copy

Smart Copy allows you to quickly and easily create personalised, high-quality, engaging professional copy for your company, website, or blog. Smart Copy is available as a web app, a handy desktop software, and a Chrome extension, so you can use it with your favourite AI tools.

28. Articleforge

With the stroke of a button, Article Forge creates 100 percent original, SEO-optimized, long form articles using cutting-edge artificial intelligence and deep learning.

29. Markcopy.ai

With MarkCopy AI, you can effortlessly manage the development, scheduling, publication, and scaling of your content.

30. Canva Magic Write

Looking for some motivational sayings to get your creative juices flowing? Your very own AI text generator, Magic Write, is available in Canva Docs to assist you in producing a first draught quickly. Starting with a prompt will automatically generate copy, blog summaries, lists, bio captions, content ideas, brainstorms, and more.

31. Smartwriter.ai

Use AI to create tens of thousands of personalised emails that respond to you 8 times faster. Never again waste time doing research or creating "personalised" emails. Automate every step of your outreach procedure. 6x less expensively and 40x quicker than people.

32. Tome

The age of generative narrative is here. With Tome's AI-powered narrative style, you can reveal your finest work.

33. Lavender

Lavender is a whole toolkit that will enable you to receive more responses in less time. Email AI helps you create better emails, customise them more quickly, and teach your staff.

Programming

34. GitHub Copilot

Your AI programming partner. GitHub Copilot makes real-time code and function suggestions directly from your editor by using the OpenAI Codex.

35. Autocode

Webhook, bot, and API endpoints that are instantly available. Instantly create and host Node.js endpoints. Connect to your preferred APIs, including those from Airtable, Discord, Notion, Slack, and more.

36. Replit AI

Use Replit's AI online code generator to increase your output and inventiveness. Integrated with the most widely used online IDE globally.

37. DeepOpinion

AI without code for automation experts. Finally, a platform with everything needed to create enterprise-level AI automations for text and document operations without writing any code.

38. Deepcode

A developer-friendly interface and secure code. Snyk Code has a ground-breaking strategy created with developers in mind. Traditional Static Application Security Testing (SAST) technologies are constrained by protracted scan times and subpar accuracy, yielding an excessive number of false positives, and eroding developer confidence. Snyk Code streamlines and operationalizes development activities. The DeepCode engine powers Snyk Code. Snyk Code has a fantastic free plan for private repositories and is free for OSS.

39. OpenAI Codex

OpenAI Codex, which converts spoken language into code, has been upgraded and is now available through an API in a private beta phase. It was developed and released in GitHub Copilot in collaboration with GitHub, and it is powered by the Codex approach. With more than a dozen programming languages under its belt, Codex is now capable of understanding straightforward user requests in natural language and carrying them out on the user's behalf. This makes it feasible to create a natural language interface for already-existing apps.

Photo Editing

40. Lensa

With the help of the all-inclusive photo-editing tool Lensa, your images will look better than before. One tap of Magic Correction can enhance facial retouching. With a tonne of fantastic tools, fix the face flaws. With a simple touch, the background may be changed or blurred. Separately fine-tune the foreground and backdrop. To enhance your photo editing game, use unusual effects and original filters. Your photographs will have an additional edge if you use borders.

41. DeepSwap

An online AI face swap tool called Deepswap.ai can produce faceswap GIFs, movies, and photographs. Here, more than 150 million people create amusing face swaps, including face memes, gender swaps, and role reversals from movies. Now, fool your buddies!

42. Newprofilepic

Your incredible profile image creator is NewProfilePic. weekly new arrivals. entirely based on AI. The environment you live in is always changing, and so should your online persona.

43. Facemagic AI

With the help of the FaceMagic software, users can create AI face swap films in a matter of seconds with just one selfie.

AI Art

44. Midjourney

Similar to OpenAI's DALL-E and Stable Diffusion, Midjourney is an independent research lab that develops a proprietary artificial intelligence tool with the same name that generates visuals from textual descriptions.

45. Stable Diffusion AI

With any text input, Stable Diffusion's latent text-to-image diffusion model can produce photorealistic graphics. It cultivates autonomous freedom to develop amazing imagery and enables billions of individuals to produce beautiful works of art in a matter of seconds. Stable diffusion is a free online tool for producing beautiful artwork.

46. DALL-E

Deep learning models dubbed DALL-E and DALL-E 2 were created by OpenAI to produce digital pictures from "prompts," or natural language descriptions. DALL-E, which makes use of a GPT-3 variant that has been altered to produce pictures, was unveiled by OpenAI in a blog post in January 2021.

47. Runway

Everything you require to create content quickly. Real-time collaboration, precise editing, and other amazing AI features. Your cutting-edge content production toolkit.

48. Photosonic

The free AI that uses pixels to paint your fantasies.

Generators

49. Formulas HQ

At Formulas HQ, they have harnessed the power of artificial intelligence to help you grasp spreadsheets. Say goodbye to the days of dealing with complicated calculations, VBA code, and scripts. They are here to help you work smarter, not harder.

50. Namelix

Business naming tool. Create a catchy, memorable company name with artificial intelligence.

51. Akkio

AI Is the Engine of Modern Business. Develop your company by making decisions based on facts. You don't need to know how to code or data science to go from data to AI in 10 minutes.

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Maria 🍦 Marshmallow

Great list! Especially loved those writing tools like CopyKat and Quillbot 👌🏻

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Andrew Baisden

Thanks! Yes those writing tools are incredibly helpful and have improved a lot of my articles already. The combination of our own writing skills and AI can make a big difference to the quality of the content we create.

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Maria 🍦 Marshmallow

Completely agree!

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Elizabeth

Great recommendations! I would definitely also add Reclaim.ai to the list. It's a smart calendar assistant for Google Calendar that automatically time blocks your week around your tasks, habits, and meetings - and automatically reschedules your priorities when plans change. Worth checking out!

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Andrew Baisden

I checked it out it seems really good. I need to make a much bigger list so many AI tools are available now and I learn about new ones every day.

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Bret Bernhoft

This list is timely for me, and I agree that Grammarly is hands-down one of the most useful AI-powered tools available today. Thank you for putting this together.

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Andrew Baisden

True I use Grammarly every day it has improved my writing.

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Coding Pianist

Have you Tried languagetool.org/de

It works with Chrome and Firefox.

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krisnayudha277

Thanks! Yes those writing tools are incredibly helpful and have improved a lot of my articles already. The combination of our own writing skills and AI can make a big difference to the quality of the content we create.

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Bernard Bado

This is such a killer list!

WhisprAI could easily secure spot number 52

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Andrew Baisden

I'm going to need to do a part 2 😄

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Bernard Bado

Please

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Pieces 🌟 • Edited

Great list! Love using Grammarly and Github Copilot, and will have to check out some of the rest! Check out Pieces for Developers as another AI productivity and workflow tool for developers! Available in your IDE, browser, or an offline standalone desktop app. Thanks for sharing these resources!

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Andrew Baisden

Thanks and cool I added it to my ever growing list of AI tools :)

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Kumar Kalyan

Helpful article. A big thanks to the author @andrewbaisden combining the resources at one place

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Andrew Baisden

Thanks for the shoutout this is a good resource for the community.

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Jennifer Bland

This is a great list

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Andrew Baisden

Thanks I know right 🙂

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Ganesh Patil

Awesome Andrew ✨

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Andrew Baisden

Thanks, Ganesh!

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Holger Imbery

Thank you Andrew! Great overview!

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Andrew Baisden

Thanks, hopefully the resource serves you well for a long time to come.

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Felix Fleku

Thanks a lot

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Andrew Baisden

Thank you it was worth the time and effort to put this list together.

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naynaingoo2003

Saved!

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Walkr's-Hub

I am amazed at how much I just learned from this article, thanks Andrew 👏

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Andrew Baisden

Thanks thats great to hear! I have more resource articles coming out this year so keep watch.

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Daniel Nogueira

Amazing! I've been using Midjourney.

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Andrew Baisden

Yeah I want to play around with it more too.

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Pedro Pimienta M.

I didn't know, that de IA are so many tools, thanks.

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Andrew Baisden

Theres so much more than this, however this is a good start 😉

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