AI tools, compared on the terms that matter
60 tools · last updated
Claude
Long-context reasoning with careful, well-structured writing. Strong on drafting, research and design work.
v0.dev
Turns a prompt into production-ready React UI, built on shadcn/ui so it drops into real codebases.
Galileo AI
Generates UI mockups from text, editable in Figma in one click.
Figma AI
AI built into layers, prototypes and handoff — included in Figma at no extra cost.
Framer AI
Describe the brief, get a landing page: from blank to a published URL in minutes.
Runway
Text to video, motion brush and magic edit — the whole loop in the browser.
Midjourney
The benchmark for image quality — strongest when you are building a visual world or mood board.
Magic Patterns
Sketch to React component, aimed at shortening the prototyping loop.
Lovable
Generates a complete full-stack web app from a prompt.
Tldraw
An infinite canvas where a drawing becomes a working interface.
Ideogram
The image generator that actually renders legible text inside the picture.
Krea
Real-time generation and upscaling, with the result updating as you type.
Recraft
Vector-native generation for brand-consistent icons and illustrations.
Magnific
Upscaling that adds plausible detail rather than just more pixels.
Leonardo
Game and concept art pipelines, with trainable custom models.
Pika
Short-form video generation with controllable camera moves and effects.
Cursor
An AI-native code editor that reads the whole project before it suggests, edits or refactors.
GitHub Copilot
The AI pair programmer from GitHub and Microsoft, with plugins for VS Code, JetBrains, Vim and more.
ChatGPT
The default general-purpose assistant: writing, coding help, research and analysis in one place.
Gemini
Google's multimodal assistant, wired natively into Gmail, Docs and Drive.
Notion AI
AI inside your Notion documents — summaries, translation, drafts and action items in your own context.
Microsoft Copilot
AI across Microsoft 365: drafting, summarising and analysis inside Word, Excel and Teams.
Perplexity
An answer engine that cites its sources — built for research you have to defend.
Claude Code
Claude as a terminal coding agent: multi-file edits, test runs and git operations, executed on its own.
Windsurf
AI-native IDE whose Cascade agent mode carries multi-step implementation work end to end.
Cline
Open-source coding agent that runs as a VS Code extension on your own API key.
Devin
Cognition's autonomous software engineer: hand over a task, get back a pull request.
Bolt.new
Full-stack development in the browser — prompt to running web app in one step.
Codeium
Free-for-individuals AI completion with support for 70+ IDEs, so it is easy to roll out.
Tabnine
The veteran of private code completion: air-gapped deployments and models trained on your own code.