App Launchpad
This is a curated list of AI-forward apps that I’m currently watching, evaluating, or using.
Last updated March 7, 2025
AI Creative
Image Visuals Creation & Workflow
- Clipdrop by Jasper
- Gamma (presentations & web pages)
- Ideogram (good for text)
- Invoke
- Midjourney
- Napkin (turns your text into diagrams & visuals)
- NARRaiTE
- OpenAI DALL-E
- Recraft (great for Vector)
- Visual Electric
- Vizcom (3D / CAD)
Video & Motion
- CapCut (by ByteDance, makers of TikTok)
- Haiper
- InVideo AI
- LTX Studio (script to storyboard)
- OpenAI Sora
- Pika (Swaps and Scenes)
- Runway
- VIGGLE (character animation)
Music & Audio Generation
- Stable Audio AI
- Sonauto
- Sound of Colleagues (ambient noise)
- Udio
Product Management
AI Product Design & Development
UX/UI & App Generation
AI Code / IDE
Not exhaustive, some interesting options:
- Bolt.new
- Claude
- Cline (gaining?)
- Cursor (fav IDE of devs like Builder.io)
- 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
AI Text & Productivity
LLM & Text Generation
Search & Research
- Consensus (research papers)
- KOMO
- Perplexity (search)
- Pi (personal companion)
Calendar & Scheduling
Directories & Roundups
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