# OnlineIngenuity > A plain-language directory of 61 well-known AI tools and what each one is used for. Each tool page gives a plain-language description, who it is for, key uses and features, the use cases it fits, what it is good for, and (only when known with confidence) a general pricing model: free, freemium, paid or open source. ## Sections - [Home](https://onlineingenuity.com/): search and filter all tools by use case - [About](https://onlineingenuity.com/about) - [OI AI Gladiators](https://onlineingenuity.com/oi-ai-gladiators): coming soon, not live yet; AI fighters trade battle verses about computer setups (gear only, never people) in rap battles, from Tiny board to Enterprise; free thumbs up or down decide the fan-voted champion; no points, nothing to win, no betting; nothing runs on the visitor's computer - [Sponsor](https://onlineingenuity.com/sponsor): sponsorships coming soon - [Full tool details](https://onlineingenuity.com/llms-full.txt): every tool page in one plain-text file ## Use cases - [Chat assistants](https://onlineingenuity.com/use-cases/chat-assistants): General-purpose AI assistants you talk to in plain language. - [Coding](https://onlineingenuity.com/use-cases/coding): Tools that help write, edit, review and run code. - [Image](https://onlineingenuity.com/use-cases/image): Generate and edit images from text prompts. - [Video](https://onlineingenuity.com/use-cases/video): Generate, edit or avatar-drive video with AI. - [Audio & voice](https://onlineingenuity.com/use-cases/audio-voice): Speech, voice, music and transcription tools. - [Writing](https://onlineingenuity.com/use-cases/writing): Drafting, editing and polishing text. - [Research](https://onlineingenuity.com/use-cases/research): Search, cite and understand sources. - [Automation & agents](https://onlineingenuity.com/use-cases/automation-agents): Connect apps and let AI carry out multi-step tasks. - [Local & self-hosted AI](https://onlineingenuity.com/use-cases/local-ai): Run AI models on your own computer or server instead of the cloud. - [Productivity](https://onlineingenuity.com/use-cases/productivity): Notes, meetings and everyday work. - [Design](https://onlineingenuity.com/use-cases/design): Visual design, UI and presentation tools. - [Data](https://onlineingenuity.com/use-cases/data): Analyze data and build or run AI models. ## Tools - [ChatGPT](https://onlineingenuity.com/tools/chatgpt): ChatGPT is OpenAI's general-purpose assistant that you talk to in plain language. People use it to answer questions, draft and edit text, analyze files and brainstorm ideas. Pricing: freemium. - [Claude](https://onlineingenuity.com/tools/claude): Claude is Anthropic's AI assistant. It is used for writing, summarizing and analyzing long documents, and for help with code. Pricing: freemium. - [Gemini](https://onlineingenuity.com/tools/gemini): Gemini is Google's AI assistant. It answers questions, helps write and plan, and can work with Google apps such as Gmail, Docs and Drive. Pricing: freemium. - [Microsoft Copilot](https://onlineingenuity.com/tools/microsoft-copilot): Microsoft Copilot is Microsoft's AI assistant, available on the web, in Windows and Edge, and in Microsoft 365 apps. It answers questions and helps with writing and everyday tasks. Pricing: freemium. - [Grok](https://onlineingenuity.com/tools/grok): Grok is xAI's AI assistant. It can draw on real-time posts from X and the web to answer questions about current events, and also helps with writing and coding. Pricing: freemium. - [Meta AI](https://onlineingenuity.com/tools/meta-ai): Meta AI is Meta's assistant, available on the web and built into WhatsApp, Instagram, Messenger and Facebook. It answers questions and can create images in the chat. - [Le Chat (Mistral)](https://onlineingenuity.com/tools/mistral-le-chat): Le Chat is the chat assistant from Mistral AI, a French AI company, built on Mistral's own models. It handles questions, writing and web search. - [Perplexity](https://onlineingenuity.com/tools/perplexity): Perplexity is an AI answer engine. You ask a question and it searches the web, writes an answer and shows the sources it used, so you can check them. Pricing: freemium. - [NotebookLM](https://onlineingenuity.com/tools/notebooklm): NotebookLM is Google's research notebook. You upload your own sources, such as PDFs, docs or web links, and it answers questions and writes summaries grounded in them, with citations back to the source. - [Elicit](https://onlineingenuity.com/tools/elicit): Elicit is an AI research assistant for academic literature. It finds relevant papers, summarizes them and pulls key details into tables. - [Consensus](https://onlineingenuity.com/tools/consensus): Consensus is an AI search engine for scientific research. It answers questions using findings from peer-reviewed papers and links each claim to the study. - [GitHub Copilot](https://onlineingenuity.com/tools/github-copilot): GitHub Copilot is an AI coding assistant from GitHub. It suggests code as you type, answers coding questions in chat and can take on coding tasks as an agent. Pricing: freemium. - [Cursor](https://onlineingenuity.com/tools/cursor): Cursor is an AI-first code editor based on VS Code. It can understand your whole codebase, edit many files at once and run coding agents that carry out tasks. Pricing: freemium. - [Claude Code](https://onlineingenuity.com/tools/claude-code): Claude Code is Anthropic's agentic coding tool. It runs in your terminal and IDE, reads your codebase, edits files and runs commands to complete coding tasks you describe. Pricing: paid. - [Replit](https://onlineingenuity.com/tools/replit): Replit is a browser-based platform for writing, running and hosting code. Its AI agent can build an app from a description, then deploy it without any local setup. Pricing: freemium. - [v0](https://onlineingenuity.com/tools/v0): v0 is Vercel's AI app builder. You describe a web app or interface and it generates working code, typically React and Next.js, that you can refine and deploy to Vercel. Pricing: freemium. - [Bolt.new](https://onlineingenuity.com/tools/bolt): Bolt.new, from StackBlitz, builds full-stack web apps from a prompt and runs them right in the browser. You can edit the code, preview it live and deploy. - [Lovable](https://onlineingenuity.com/tools/lovable): Lovable is an AI app builder that turns a plain-language description into a working web app. You refine it by chatting, and can sync the code to GitHub. - [Windsurf (now Devin Desktop)](https://onlineingenuity.com/tools/windsurf): Windsurf is an AI code editor with an agentic assistant. After Cognition acquired it, it was rebranded as Devin Desktop in June 2026, and windsurf.com now redirects to devin.ai. Pricing: freemium. - [Midjourney](https://onlineingenuity.com/tools/midjourney): Midjourney is an AI image generator known for its artistic, polished style. You type a description and it creates images you can vary, upscale and refine. Pricing: paid. - [DALL·E / ChatGPT images](https://onlineingenuity.com/tools/dall-e): OpenAI's image generation lets you create and edit images by describing them in ChatGPT. DALL·E 3 has been replaced: ChatGPT now uses OpenAI's GPT Image models, and DALL·E 3 was removed from the API in May 2026. - [Stable Diffusion](https://onlineingenuity.com/tools/stable-diffusion): Stable Diffusion is a family of image-generation models from Stability AI whose weights are openly available. You can run them on your own hardware and customize them. - [Adobe Firefly](https://onlineingenuity.com/tools/adobe-firefly): Adobe Firefly is Adobe's generative AI for images, video and effects. It is available on the web and built into Creative Cloud apps such as Photoshop. Pricing: freemium. - [Ideogram](https://onlineingenuity.com/tools/ideogram): Ideogram is an AI image generator that is designed for readable text inside images. People use it for logos, posters and social graphics. Pricing: freemium. - [Leonardo.Ai](https://onlineingenuity.com/tools/leonardo-ai): Leonardo.Ai is an AI platform for generating images and creative assets, with many models and styles to choose from. It is used for game art and concept work. Pricing: freemium. - [Runway](https://onlineingenuity.com/tools/runway): Runway is an AI video platform for creators and filmmakers. It generates video from text or images and offers AI editing tools. Pricing: freemium. - [Sora](https://onlineingenuity.com/tools/sora): Sora was OpenAI's text-to-video model and app for generating short video clips. OpenAI discontinued the Sora web and app experiences on April 26, 2026, and scheduled the Sora API to end on September 24, 2026. - [Pika](https://onlineingenuity.com/tools/pika): Pika is an AI creative platform for making short videos, plus images and sound. It now offers both its own models and other companies' models in one place. Pricing: paid. - [Synthesia](https://onlineingenuity.com/tools/synthesia): Synthesia turns a written script into a video presented by a realistic AI avatar, in many languages, without cameras or actors. - [HeyGen](https://onlineingenuity.com/tools/heygen): HeyGen creates videos with AI avatars and can translate existing videos into other languages with matching lip movement. - [Descript](https://onlineingenuity.com/tools/descript): Descript lets you edit audio and video by editing a text transcript, as if it were a document. It adds AI tools for cleaning up audio and removing filler words. Pricing: freemium. - [Riverside](https://onlineingenuity.com/tools/riverside): A browser-based platform to record, edit and publish podcasts and videos, with AI editing tools. Pricing: Free trial; paid plans. - [ElevenLabs](https://onlineingenuity.com/tools/elevenlabs): ElevenLabs makes AI voice tools: realistic text-to-speech, voice cloning and dubbing. Creators and developers use it for voiceovers, audiobooks and voice apps. Pricing: freemium. - [Suno](https://onlineingenuity.com/tools/suno): Suno generates complete songs, including vocals and instruments, from a text description or your own lyrics. Pricing: freemium. - [Whisper](https://onlineingenuity.com/tools/whisper): Whisper is OpenAI's open-source speech-recognition model. It transcribes speech in many languages and can translate it into English, and you can run it on your own computer. Pricing: open source. - [Otter.ai](https://onlineingenuity.com/tools/otter): Otter.ai records and transcribes meetings in real time and produces summaries and action items. It can join Zoom, Google Meet and Microsoft Teams calls automatically. Pricing: freemium. - [Grammarly](https://onlineingenuity.com/tools/grammarly): Grammarly checks your writing for grammar, spelling, clarity and tone, and uses AI to help rewrite or draft text. It works in the browser and across many apps. Pricing: freemium. - [Jasper](https://onlineingenuity.com/tools/jasper): Jasper is an AI content platform for marketing teams. It helps produce on-brand copy such as blog posts, ads and campaigns. Pricing: paid. - [QuillBot](https://onlineingenuity.com/tools/quillbot): QuillBot is an AI writing tool best known for paraphrasing. It also summarizes text and checks grammar. Pricing: freemium. - [DeepL](https://onlineingenuity.com/tools/deepl): DeepL is an AI translation service. It translates text and whole documents and offers DeepL Write to improve your writing. Pricing: freemium. - [Zapier](https://onlineingenuity.com/tools/zapier): Zapier connects thousands of apps so tasks happen automatically, such as copying new form entries to a spreadsheet. It adds AI steps and agents to those workflows. Pricing: freemium. - [Make](https://onlineingenuity.com/tools/make): Make is a visual automation platform. You build workflows on a canvas by connecting apps and logic, including AI steps, to automate complex processes. Pricing: freemium. - [n8n](https://onlineingenuity.com/tools/n8n): n8n is a workflow automation tool with a visual editor and AI agent nodes. You can use the hosted n8n Cloud or self-host the free Community edition on your own server. Pricing: freemium. - [Notion AI](https://onlineingenuity.com/tools/notion-ai): Notion AI is built into the Notion workspace. It writes and summarizes pages, searches across your workspace and connected apps, takes meeting notes and can run agents that do multi-step tasks. Pricing: paid. - [Fireflies.ai](https://onlineingenuity.com/tools/fireflies): Fireflies.ai is an AI notetaker that joins your meetings to record, transcribe and summarize them, making past conversations searchable. Pricing: freemium. - [Canva](https://onlineingenuity.com/tools/canva): Canva is an online design tool with templates for social posts, presentations, videos and more. Its AI features generate images, write text and help edit designs. Pricing: freemium. - [Figma](https://onlineingenuity.com/tools/figma): Figma is a collaborative, browser-based design tool for interfaces and products. It includes AI features that help generate designs, prototypes and content. Pricing: freemium. - [Gamma](https://onlineingenuity.com/tools/gamma): Gamma creates presentations, documents and simple web pages from a prompt or outline. You can then edit the result like a regular deck. Pricing: freemium. - [Hugging Face](https://onlineingenuity.com/tools/hugging-face): Hugging Face is a hub where people share open AI models, datasets and demo apps called Spaces. Developers use it to find, test and deploy models. Pricing: freemium. - [Julius AI](https://onlineingenuity.com/tools/julius): Julius AI is an AI data analyst. You upload a spreadsheet or dataset, ask questions in plain language and it analyzes the data and makes charts. - [Ollama](https://onlineingenuity.com/tools/ollama): Ollama lets you download and run open large language models on your own computer. Your data stays local, and it offers an API so other apps can use the models. Pricing: open source. - [LM Studio](https://onlineingenuity.com/tools/lm-studio): LM Studio is a desktop app for running open AI models on your own computer. Its agent, Bionic, can create and edit documents and help with coding tasks, using local or open models. - [Jan](https://onlineingenuity.com/tools/jan): Jan is an open-source chat app (Apache-2.0). You can run open models locally on your computer, or connect it to online models from providers such as OpenAI, Anthropic and Google. Pricing: Free and open source (Apache-2.0). - [Open WebUI](https://onlineingenuity.com/tools/open-webui): Open WebUI is a self-hosted AI platform. You run it on your own machine, server or cloud, connect the models you choose, and extend it with code. - [Aider](https://onlineingenuity.com/tools/aider): Aider lets you pair program with AI models from your terminal, on a new project or an existing codebase. It maps your codebase and commits each change to git so you can review or undo it. Pricing: open source. - [Luma AI](https://onlineingenuity.com/tools/luma): Luma AI (lumalabs.ai) makes AI agents and models for creative work. Its agents help research, generate and refine video, images, audio and text. It also makes the Ray video model. Not related to the Luma events app (lu.ma). - [Krea](https://onlineingenuity.com/tools/krea): Krea is a creative AI app for images, video and 3D. It includes its own image model (Krea 3) and other models, plus an image editor, an upscaler and real-time drawing. - [Recraft](https://onlineingenuity.com/tools/recraft): Recraft is an AI image model and design platform. It can make photorealistic images and vector graphics, apply custom styles and create mockups. - [Granola](https://onlineingenuity.com/tools/granola): Granola is an AI notepad for meetings. It listens through your computer's audio rather than joining as a bot, then turns your notes into enhanced notes and action items. - [Napkin AI](https://onlineingenuity.com/tools/napkin-ai): Napkin AI turns text into visuals. You paste or import text and it suggests diagrams, flowcharts, mind maps and charts, and it is adding slide decks. - [Kagi](https://onlineingenuity.com/tools/kagi): Kagi is a search engine funded by its users, with no ads. It re-ranks results and filters spam, and adding a question mark to a search gives an AI Quick Answer with sources. Pricing: Free trial (100 searches); paid plans from $5/month.