How We Pick the Best Tools
The word "best" gets thrown around a lot in AI tool lists. We try to be specific about what it means here. These are not sponsored lists or affiliate-driven rankings - they are curated selections based on a combination of real user ratings, engagement data from our directory, and editorial judgement.
When we put together a best-of list for a category, we start by looking at all the tools in that category in our directory. We then filter by approval status, average rating, and the number of users who have engaged with each listing. Our editors review the shortlist and make final calls based on factors like quality of documentation, pricing transparency, and genuine usefulness for the stated use case.
Sponsored tools may appear at the top of some lists and are clearly labelled. Sponsorship does not affect which tools appear in the organic rankings below the sponsored slots.
Ranked by verified user ratings from our directory.
All tools reviewed by a human editor before listing.
Lists refreshed as new tools gain traction.
Free and paid tools included in every category.
Top AI Tools for AI (6834 tools)
All Best ToolsGrammarly
freemiumGrammarly is the world's most widely used AI writing assistant, providing grammar correction, style improvement, tone ad...
Best for: Everyone who writes professionally, wanting AI grammar assistance, tone guidance, and generative writing help across every platform they use
Microsoft Copilot
freemiumMicrosoft Copilot is Microsoft's AI assistant embedded throughout Windows, Office 365, Edge, and Bing. Powered by GPT-4...
Best for: Microsoft 365 users wanting AI assistance embedded throughout Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Teams without switching tools
Suno
freemiumSuno is an AI music generation platform that creates complete, production-quality songs - including vocals, instrumentat...
Best for: Non-musicians and content creators wanting to generate complete, vocals-included songs from text descriptions for videos, games, and creative projects
Gemini (Google DeepMind)
freemiumGemini is Google DeepMind's flagship multimodal AI model family, replacing PaLM 2. Available in Ultra, Pro, Flash, and N...
Best for: Google Workspace users, developers on Google Cloud, and teams needing very long context analysis of documents, codebases, or video
Obsidian
freemiumObsidian is a local-first knowledge management and note-taking app built on Markdown files, with AI features via communi...
Best for: Researchers, writers, and knowledge workers who want local-first note management with AI features and full control over their data