AI Apps
This is a curated list of AI-forward applications that I’m currently watching, evaluating, or using.
Last updated June 17, 2025
AI Creative
Image Visuals Creation & Workflow
- Clipdrop by Jasper
- FLORA (text, image, and video in one infinite canvas)
- Freepik (ai tools suite)
- Gamma (presentations & web pages)
- Ideogram (good for text)
- Invoke
- Kive (on-brand visuals)
- Meshy (3D model generator, gaming)
- Midjourney
- Napkin (turns your text into diagrams & visuals)
- Narraite
- OpenAI DALL-E
- Pimento (on brand AI)
- Recraft (great for Vector)
- Splatter.app (3D Gaussian splats)
- Visual Electric
- Vizcom (3D / CAD)
- Weavy (node based platform)
Video & Motion
- CapCut (by ByteDance, makers of TikTok)
- Captions (web, desktop, mobile)
- Descript (fully powered video tool)
- Haiper
- Higgsfield (Ads, short video)
- Immersity (2D|3D Content Conversion)
- InVideo AI
- Jitter (motion desig, video)
- Kling AI
- LTX Studio (script to storyboard)
- OpenAI Sora
- Pika (Swaps and Scenes)
- Runway
- VidAU (viral video ads)
- VIGGLE (character animation)
Music & Audio Generation
- Stable Audio AI
- Sonauto
- Sound of Colleagues (ambient noise)
- Udio
Product Management
- Airtable AI
- Aurora (productivity workspace)
- ChatPRD
- Granola (meetings)
- Motion (productivity)
Calendar & Scheduling
AI Text & Productivity
LLM Text Generation, Search & Research
- Anthropic Claude
- Bench (task workspace)
- Consensus (research papers)
- Google Gemini
- Grammarly
- HuggingChat
- Huxe (info to audio)
- KOMO
- Make
- Manus (autonomous AI agent for tasks)
- Meta AI
- OpenAI ChatGPT
- Perplexity (excellent search + deep research)
- Pi (personal companion)
AI Product Design & Development
UX/UI & App Generation
- Galileo AI (acquired by Google, see Stitch below)
- Imagica AI app generation
- Locofy (AI Front-end Dev)
- Pablo.Design (turns your logo into a branded website)
- Paper
- Pop Site (mobile personal landing page)
- Readdy
- Stitch (Google + Galileo acquisition)
- Subframe
- Tilda (no code websites)
- Uizard (at Miro Labs)
- UXFolio
- UXPilot
AI Code / IDE
Not exhaustive, some interesting options:
- Augment Code (understands your codebase)
- Aura (Voice to Chat for Vibe Coders, macOS)
- Bolt.new
- Claude
- Cline (Enterprise / gaining over Cursor?)
- Codex (OpenAI)
- Cursor (fav IDE of devs like Builder.io)
- Devin (a collaborative AI teammate)
- GitHub Copilot
- GitLab Duo
- Lovable
- Replit
- Trae
- Vercel v0
- Windsurf Editor (by Codeium)
- Zed (not well liked)
*IDEs may face competition from Agentic coders natively delivered by LLM providers
Related Design & UI Tools
Directories & Roundups
More comprehensive lists of tools
- detach instance (for designers who build with AI)
- FutureTools – everything AI
- Hugging Face
- The Neuron (top AI tools for business)
- SeeSaw – web design inspiration
- Service Design Tools
- TLDR (informative newsletter)