AI tools directory

64 AI tools we teach and compare. Each has a short guide, what it includes and our rating.

64 tools

Our own rating for learners: we score ease for beginners, quality of results, value of the free plan, and safety for families, then average them.

AI chat assistants

ChatGPT

All-round assistant: chat, images, voice, search.

★★★★★★★★★★4.5Guide
AI chat assistants

Claude

Careful writer and thinker; builds small apps and pages in chat (Artifacts).

★★★★★★★★★★4.5Guide
AI chat assistants

Gemini

Google's assistant: chat, images, Storybook, Deep Research, Gems.

★★★★★★★★★★4.5Guide
AI chat assistants

Microsoft Copilot

Assistant built into Windows, Edge and Office.

★★★★★★★★★★4.0Guide
AI chat assistants

Meta AI

Assistant inside WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger.

★★★★★★★★★★3.5Guide
AI chat assistants

Le Chat (Mistral)

European assistant, fast answers.

★★★★★★★★★★4.0Guide
Learn how AI works

Teachable Machine

Train your own tiny AI with the webcam in 5 minutes. No account.

★★★★★★★★★★4.5Guide
Learn how AI works

Quick, Draw!

Doodle and watch an AI guess. Shows how AI learns from examples.

★★★★★★★★★★4.5Guide
Learn how AI works

MIT Day of AI

Free lessons from MIT about how AI works.

★★★★★★★★★★4.5Guide
Whiteboards

Miro

Online whiteboard with AI that clusters sticky notes.

★★★★★★★★★★3.5Guide
Whiteboards

Canva Whiteboards

Simple whiteboard with stickies and AI summaries.

★★★★★★★★★★4.0Guide
Whiteboards

FigJam

Playful whiteboard with stamps and AI.

★★★★★★★★★★4.0Guide
Research with sources

Perplexity

Answers with sources you can click and check.

★★★★★★★★★★4.0Guide
Research with sources

NotebookLM

Upload sources, ask questions, get a podcast-style summary.

★★★★★★★★★★4.5Guide
Research with sources

Deep Research (Gemini / ChatGPT)

AI reads many websites and writes a report.

★★★★★★★★★★3.5Guide
Data & trends

Google Trends

See what people search for. Not AI, but great for market checks.

★★★★★★★★★★4.5Guide
Slides & documents

Gamma

Turns a short prompt into slides or a one-page doc.

★★★★★★★★★★4.0Guide
Notes & planning

Notion AI

Plans, checklists and boards with an AI writer.

★★★★★★★★★★3.5Guide
Graphic design

Canva (Magic Studio)

Design anything: slides, posters, social posts, videos, sites.

★★★★★★★★★★4.5Guide
Image generation

ChatGPT Images

Make and edit pictures by chatting. Good with text in images.

★★★★★★★★★★4.0Guide
Image generation

Gemini Images

Make and edit pictures; keeps a character the same across images.

★★★★★★★★★★4.0Guide
Image generation

Adobe Firefly

Images trained on licensed pictures; safe for business use.

★★★★★★★★★★4.0Guide
Image generation

Canva Magic Media

Make images right inside a Canva design.

★★★★★★★★★★4.0Guide
Image generation

Ideogram

Strong at logos and words inside pictures.

★★★★★★★★★★3.5Guide
Graphic design

Microsoft Designer

Quick posters, stickers and invitations.

★★★★★★★★★★4.0Guide
Image generationPaid

Midjourney

Very artistic images. Paid only. Show, don't use.

★★★★★★★★★★3.0Guide
Music generation

Suno

Full songs with singing from a short description or your lyrics.

★★★★★★★★★★4.0Guide
Music generation

Udio

Song maker with fine control over style and sections.

★★★★★★★★★★3.5Guide
Music studio

BandLab SongStarter

Free music studio; AI gives you a starting beat to build on.

★★★★★★★★★★4.0Guide
Sound effects

Stable Audio

Sound effects and instrumental tracks.

★★★★★★★★★★3.0Guide
Music studio

Chrome Music Lab

Play with rhythm and melody in the browser. Not AI: a great warm-up.

★★★★★★★★★★4.5Guide
Story books

Gemini Storybook

Describe a story, get a 10-page illustrated book read aloud.

★★★★★★★★★★4.5Guide
Story books

Book Creator

Make real e-books with pictures, sound and video.

★★★★★★★★★★4.0Guide
Story booksPaid

Storybird

Write stories with ready-made art. Built for kids.

★★★★★★★★★★3.5Guide
Coding agentsPaid

Claude Code

Anthropic's coding agent: reads your repo, plans, edits files and runs tests from the terminal or desktop app.

★★★★★★★★★★4.5Guide
Coding agentsPaid

Codex

OpenAI's coding agent: works in your terminal, editor or in the cloud and opens pull requests.

★★★★★★★★★★4.5Guide
Coding agents

Gemini CLI

Google's open-source coding agent for the terminal.

★★★★★★★★★★4.0Guide
Coding agents

Cursor

Code editor with an AI agent built in.

★★★★★★★★★★4.0Guide
Coding agents

GitHub

Where code lives: repos, pull requests, reviews and CI. Copilot is built in.

★★★★★★★★★★4.5Guide
App builders

Lovable

Describe a website or app in chat, get it live with a link.

★★★★★★★★★★4.0Guide
App builders

Bolt

Build web apps in the browser, very fast.

★★★★★★★★★★3.5Guide
App builders

Base44

All-in-one app builder with its own database.

★★★★★★★★★★3.0Guide
Coding agents

Replit

Build and host apps with an AI agent.

★★★★★★★★★★3.5Guide
Coding agents

v0

Beautiful pages for people who know a bit of code.

★★★★★★★★★★3.0Guide
Coding agents

Claude Artifacts

Ask for a game or page and play with it right in the chat.

★★★★★★★★★★4.0Guide
Website builders

Canva Sites

Turn a Canva design into a one-page website.

★★★★★★★★★★4.0Guide
Website builders

Google Sites

Simple free sites with a Google account.

★★★★★★★★★★4.0Guide
Video generationPaid

Google Veo (Flow / Gemini)

Short cinematic clips with sound from a text prompt.

★★★★★★★★★★3.0Guide
Video generation

Runway

Video clips with lots of creative control.

★★★★★★★★★★3.0Guide
Video generation

Kling

Good-value video clips from text or an image.

★★★★★★★★★★3.5Guide
Video generation

Luma Dream Machine

Bring a still picture to life.

★★★★★★★★★★3.5Guide
Video generation

Pika

Fun effects and short social videos.

★★★★★★★★★★3.5Guide
Video editing

CapCut

Edit clips together; auto captions and music.

★★★★★★★★★★4.0Guide
Talking avatars

HeyGen

Talking avatars. Show only: we don't use kids' faces.

★★★★★★★★★★3.0Guide
Voice & dubbing

ElevenLabs

Natural voices for narration and sound effects.

★★★★★★★★★★3.5Guide
Custom helpers

Gemini Gems

Make your own helper with instructions it always follows.

★★★★★★★★★★4.0Guide
Custom helpers

Custom GPTs

Build a helper bot with its own instructions and files.

★★★★★★★★★★3.5Guide
Custom helpers

Claude Projects

A workspace where Claude remembers your venture's files.

★★★★★★★★★★4.0Guide
Browser agentsPaid

Agent modes (ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude)

AI that clicks around websites to do a task for you. Show only.

★★★★★★★★★★2.5Guide
Automation

Zapier

"When this happens, do that" between apps, with AI steps.

★★★★★★★★★★3.5Guide
Automation

Make

Visual automation flows, like Lego for apps.

★★★★★★★★★★3.0Guide
Forms & surveys

Google Forms

Free surveys; Gemini can help write questions.

★★★★★★★★★★4.5Guide
Forms & surveys

Tally

Pretty forms, free, no limits on answers.

★★★★★★★★★★4.0Guide
Forms & surveys

Typeform

One-question-at-a-time forms that feel like a chat.

★★★★★★★★★★3.5Guide