{
  "updated": "2026-10-18",
  "categories": [
    {
      "id": "no-code-apps",
      "name": "Build an app without code",
      "tools": [
        {
          "name": "Lovable",
          "url": "https://lovable.dev",
          "pricing": "Free tier; paid plans",
          "bestFor": "Full-stack web apps from a prompt",
          "verdict": "Fastest path from idea to a shareable app.",
          "pricingModel": "freemium",
          "openSource": false,
          "slug": "lovable",
          "freeTier": "yes"
        },
        {
          "name": "Bolt.new",
          "url": "https://bolt.new",
          "pricing": "Free tier; paid plans",
          "bestFor": "In-browser prototyping and deploys",
          "verdict": "Great for quick prototypes you can tweak live.",
          "pricingModel": "freemium",
          "openSource": false,
          "slug": "bolt-new",
          "freeTier": "yes"
        },
        {
          "name": "Replit",
          "url": "https://replit.com",
          "pricing": "Free tier; paid plans",
          "bestFor": "Apps with hosting and databases built in",
          "verdict": "Best when you want build + host in one place.",
          "pricingModel": "freemium",
          "openSource": false,
          "slug": "replit",
          "freeTier": "yes"
        },
        {
          "name": "v0 by Vercel",
          "url": "https://v0.app",
          "pricing": "See v0.app",
          "pricingModel": "freemium",
          "bestFor": "Full-stack web apps and UI with one-click Vercel deploy",
          "verdict": "Best for polished Next.js UIs that go straight to production.",
          "openSource": false,
          "slug": "v0-by-vercel",
          "freeTier": "yes"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "code-faster",
      "name": "Write code faster",
      "tools": [
        {
          "name": "Cursor",
          "url": "https://cursor.com",
          "pricing": "Free tier; Pro subscription",
          "bestFor": "AI-first code editor",
          "verdict": "The default pick for vibe coders who live in an editor.",
          "pricingModel": "freemium",
          "openSource": false,
          "slug": "cursor",
          "freeTier": "yes"
        },
        {
          "name": "Claude Code",
          "url": "https://www.anthropic.com/claude-code",
          "pricing": "Included with Claude paid plans / API",
          "bestFor": "Terminal-based agentic coding",
          "verdict": "Strong for multi-file changes driven from the terminal.",
          "pricingModel": "paid",
          "openSource": false,
          "slug": "claude-code",
          "freeTier": "no"
        },
        {
          "name": "OpenAI Codex",
          "url": "https://openai.com/codex/",
          "pricing": "Included in ChatGPT plans",
          "pricingModel": "paid",
          "bestFor": "Coding agent across ChatGPT, editor, terminal and cloud",
          "verdict": "Great if you already pay for ChatGPT; strong PR reviews.",
          "openSource": false,
          "license": "Codex CLI: Apache-2.0",
          "github": "https://github.com/openai/codex",
          "githubStars": 129708,
          "slug": "openai-codex",
          "freeTier": "yes"
        },
        {
          "name": "GitHub Copilot",
          "url": "https://github.com/features/copilot",
          "pricing": "Free tier; paid plans",
          "bestFor": "Autocomplete and chat in VS Code/JetBrains",
          "verdict": "Safest choice if your team is already on GitHub.",
          "pricingModel": "freemium",
          "openSource": false,
          "slug": "github-copilot",
          "freeTier": "yes"
        },
        {
          "name": "Kiro (AWS)",
          "url": "https://kiro.dev",
          "pricing": "See kiro.dev (paid account for web/mobile)",
          "pricingModel": "paid",
          "bestFor": "Spec-driven agentic IDE, CLI and web",
          "verdict": "Best for structured, spec-first engineering; no AWS account needed.",
          "openSource": false,
          "slug": "kiro",
          "freeTier": "yes"
        },
        {
          "name": "Devin Desktop (formerly Windsurf)",
          "url": "https://devin.ai/blog/windsurf-is-now-devin-desktop",
          "pricing": "Existing Windsurf plans carried over",
          "pricingModel": "paid",
          "bestFor": "Full IDE with a built-in multi-agent command center",
          "verdict": "Windsurf's successor; good if you also use Devin cloud agents.",
          "openSource": false,
          "slug": "devin-desktop",
          "freeTier": "unknown"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "pitch-deck",
      "name": "Make a pitch deck",
      "tools": [
        {
          "name": "Gamma",
          "url": "https://gamma.app",
          "pricing": "Free tier; paid plans",
          "bestFor": "Decks from a prompt or doc",
          "verdict": "Best looking first draft in minutes.",
          "pricingModel": "freemium",
          "openSource": false,
          "slug": "gamma",
          "freeTier": "yes"
        },
        {
          "name": "Beautiful.ai",
          "url": "https://www.beautiful.ai",
          "pricing": "Paid plans; free trial",
          "bestFor": "Auto-formatted, on-brand slides",
          "verdict": "Good for teams that need consistent design.",
          "pricingModel": "paid",
          "openSource": false,
          "slug": "beautiful-ai",
          "freeTier": "no"
        },
        {
          "name": "Pitch",
          "url": "https://pitch.com",
          "pricing": "Free tier; paid plans",
          "bestFor": "Collaborative startup decks",
          "verdict": "Great for teams editing a deck together.",
          "pricingModel": "freemium",
          "openSource": false,
          "slug": "pitch",
          "freeTier": "yes"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "gaming-shorts",
      "name": "Edit gaming clips into Shorts",
      "tools": [
        {
          "name": "Opus Clip",
          "url": "https://www.opus.pro",
          "pricing": "Free tier; paid plans",
          "bestFor": "Auto-finding highlights in long videos",
          "verdict": "Turns long streams into ready-to-post clips.",
          "pricingModel": "freemium",
          "openSource": false,
          "affiliateUrl": "https://tolt.link/aitoolsatlas",
          "slug": "opus-clip",
          "freeTier": "yes"
        },
        {
          "name": "Medal",
          "url": "https://medal.tv",
          "pricing": "Free; optional premium",
          "bestFor": "Capturing and sharing game clips",
          "verdict": "The easiest way to clip moments as you play.",
          "pricingModel": "freemium",
          "openSource": false,
          "slug": "medal",
          "freeTier": "yes"
        },
        {
          "name": "CapCut",
          "url": "https://www.capcut.com",
          "pricing": "Free tier; Pro subscription",
          "bestFor": "Captions and vertical edits",
          "verdict": "Best free editor for polishing Shorts and TikToks.",
          "pricingModel": "freemium",
          "openSource": false,
          "slug": "capcut",
          "freeTier": "yes"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "images",
      "name": "Generate images",
      "tools": [
        {
          "name": "Midjourney",
          "url": "https://www.midjourney.com",
          "pricing": "Paid subscription",
          "bestFor": "Artistic, stylized images",
          "verdict": "Still the aesthetic leader for concept art.",
          "pricingModel": "paid",
          "openSource": false,
          "slug": "midjourney",
          "freeTier": "no"
        },
        {
          "name": "ChatGPT Images",
          "url": "https://chatgpt.com",
          "pricing": "Free tier; paid plans",
          "bestFor": "Images with accurate text and edits",
          "verdict": "Best for conversational edits and text in images.",
          "pricingModel": "freemium",
          "openSource": false,
          "slug": "chatgpt-images",
          "freeTier": "yes"
        },
        {
          "name": "Ideogram",
          "url": "https://ideogram.ai",
          "pricing": "Free tier; paid plans",
          "bestFor": "Logos, posters, typography",
          "verdict": "Go-to when the image needs readable text.",
          "pricingModel": "freemium",
          "openSource": false,
          "slug": "ideogram",
          "freeTier": "yes"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "research",
      "name": "Research",
      "tools": [
        {
          "name": "Perplexity",
          "url": "https://www.perplexity.ai",
          "pricing": "Free tier; Pro subscription",
          "bestFor": "Cited answers from the web",
          "verdict": "Fast, sourced answers for everyday research.",
          "pricingModel": "freemium",
          "openSource": false,
          "slug": "perplexity",
          "freeTier": "yes"
        },
        {
          "name": "Gemini Notebook (formerly NotebookLM)",
          "url": "https://notebook.google",
          "pricing": "Free; higher limits with Google AI plans",
          "bestFor": "Researching your own documents",
          "verdict": "Best for digesting PDFs and notes you already have.",
          "pricingModel": "freemium",
          "openSource": false,
          "slug": "gemini-notebook",
          "freeTier": "yes"
        },
        {
          "name": "Elicit",
          "url": "https://elicit.com",
          "pricing": "Free tier; paid plans",
          "bestFor": "Academic paper research",
          "verdict": "Best pick for literature reviews.",
          "pricingModel": "freemium",
          "openSource": false,
          "slug": "elicit",
          "freeTier": "yes"
        },
        {
          "name": "Grok",
          "url": "https://grok.com",
          "pricing": "Free tier; SuperGrok plans",
          "pricingModel": "freemium",
          "bestFor": "Real-time answers with X and web context",
          "verdict": "Best for what's happening right now.",
          "openSource": false,
          "slug": "grok",
          "freeTier": "yes"
        },
        {
          "name": "Gemini app",
          "url": "https://gemini.google.com",
          "pricing": "Free tier; Google AI Pro/Ultra",
          "pricingModel": "freemium",
          "bestFor": "Everyday research inside Google's ecosystem",
          "verdict": "Strong if you live in Google Workspace; Ultra/Pro get Gemini 4 Argon.",
          "openSource": false,
          "slug": "gemini-app",
          "freeTier": "yes"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "agents-automation",
      "name": "Automate workflows with agents",
      "tools": [
        {
          "name": "n8n",
          "url": "https://n8n.io",
          "pricing": "Free self-hosted; paid cloud",
          "bestFor": "Flexible agent workflows",
          "verdict": "Most power per dollar, especially self-hosted.",
          "pricingModel": "freemium",
          "openSource": false,
          "license": "Sustainable Use License (fair-code, not OSI open source)",
          "github": "https://github.com/n8n-io/n8n",
          "githubStars": 207877,
          "slug": "n8n",
          "freeTier": "yes"
        },
        {
          "name": "Zapier",
          "url": "https://zapier.com",
          "pricing": "Free tier; paid plans",
          "bestFor": "Connecting thousands of apps",
          "verdict": "Easiest for non-coders with huge app coverage.",
          "pricingModel": "freemium",
          "openSource": false,
          "slug": "zapier",
          "freeTier": "yes"
        },
        {
          "name": "Make",
          "url": "https://www.make.com",
          "pricing": "Free tier; paid plans",
          "bestFor": "Visual multi-step scenarios",
          "verdict": "Great visual builder for complex flows.",
          "pricingModel": "freemium",
          "openSource": false,
          "slug": "make",
          "freeTier": "yes"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "ai-agents",
      "name": "AI agents & personal assistants",
      "tools": [
        {
          "name": "Grok Bot",
          "url": "https://x.ai/bot",
          "pricing": "Beta: included with SuperGrok/SuperGrok Plus/Heavy and paid Cursor plans",
          "pricingModel": "paid",
          "bestFor": "Always-on AI teammates with their own cloud computer",
          "verdict": "Delegate real multi-step work across your apps; comes back for approvals.",
          "openSource": false,
          "slug": "grok-bot",
          "freeTier": "no"
        },
        {
          "name": "ChatGPT Work",
          "url": "https://openai.com/chatgpt-work/",
          "pricing": "Eligible paid ChatGPT plans",
          "pricingModel": "paid",
          "bestFor": "Long, multi-step tasks that end in finished deliverables",
          "verdict": "OpenAI's agent for work; replaced the retired ChatGPT agent mode.",
          "openSource": false,
          "slug": "chatgpt-work",
          "freeTier": "yes"
        },
        {
          "name": "Claude Cowork",
          "url": "https://claude.com/product/cowork/",
          "pricing": "Claude paid plans",
          "pricingModel": "paid",
          "bestFor": "Research, analysis and documents across your files and tools",
          "verdict": "Strong for knowledge work with cloud sessions and scheduled tasks.",
          "openSource": false,
          "slug": "claude-cowork",
          "freeTier": "no"
        },
        {
          "name": "Manus",
          "url": "https://manus.im",
          "pricing": "Free tier; paid plans (credits)",
          "pricingModel": "freemium",
          "bestFor": "Research reports and web apps from a single goal",
          "verdict": "Good hands-off agent for non-technical users.",
          "openSource": false,
          "slug": "manus",
          "freeTier": "yes"
        },
        {
          "name": "Devin",
          "url": "https://devin.ai",
          "pricing": "Paid plans (Pro, Max, Teams)",
          "pricingModel": "paid",
          "bestFor": "Autonomous software engineering: tickets to PRs",
          "verdict": "The pick for delegating scoped coding tasks end to end.",
          "openSource": false,
          "slug": "devin",
          "freeTier": "no"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "meeting-notes",
      "name": "Meeting notes",
      "tools": [
        {
          "name": "Granola",
          "url": "https://www.granola.ai",
          "pricing": "Free tier; paid plans",
          "bestFor": "Bot-free notes on your own device",
          "verdict": "Clean notes without a bot joining your call.",
          "pricingModel": "freemium",
          "openSource": false,
          "slug": "granola",
          "freeTier": "yes"
        },
        {
          "name": "Otter.ai",
          "url": "https://otter.ai",
          "pricing": "Free tier; paid plans",
          "bestFor": "Live transcription",
          "verdict": "Reliable live transcripts and summaries.",
          "pricingModel": "freemium",
          "openSource": false,
          "slug": "otter-ai",
          "freeTier": "yes"
        },
        {
          "name": "Fireflies.ai",
          "url": "https://fireflies.ai",
          "pricing": "Free tier; paid plans",
          "bestFor": "Searchable team meeting archive",
          "verdict": "Best for teams that want every call searchable.",
          "pricingModel": "freemium",
          "openSource": false,
          "slug": "fireflies-ai",
          "freeTier": "yes"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "video",
      "name": "Generate video",
      "tools": [
        {
          "name": "Google Veo 3.1",
          "url": "https://deepmind.google/models/veo/",
          "pricing": "Via Gemini/Google AI plans and APIs",
          "pricingModel": "paid",
          "bestFor": "Text/image-to-video with native audio and dialogue",
          "verdict": "Top quality with sound built in.",
          "openSource": false,
          "slug": "google-veo-3-1",
          "freeTier": "unknown"
        },
        {
          "name": "Runway (Gen-4.5)",
          "url": "https://runwayml.com",
          "pricing": "See runwayml.com",
          "pricingModel": "freemium",
          "bestFor": "Creative video generation and editing tools",
          "verdict": "Most complete creator toolkit, plus many third-party models.",
          "openSource": false,
          "slug": "runway",
          "freeTier": "yes"
        },
        {
          "name": "Kling AI (Kling 4.0)",
          "url": "https://kling.ai",
          "pricing": "Credit-based memberships; extra credits $1 = 66 (see kling.ai)",
          "pricingModel": "paid",
          "bestFor": "Up to 30s clips at up to 4K with stereo audio, keyframes and Omni Reference",
          "verdict": "Longest single-pass clips and the most reference control; agent access via MCP/CLI.",
          "openSource": false,
          "slug": "kling-ai",
          "freeTier": "unknown"
        },
        {
          "name": "Pika",
          "url": "https://pika.art",
          "pricing": "See pika.art",
          "pricingModel": "freemium",
          "bestFor": "Fast, fun short-form video clips",
          "verdict": "Quick social-ready clips; good for memes and Shorts.",
          "openSource": false,
          "slug": "pika",
          "freeTier": "yes"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "voice-music",
      "name": "Voice & music",
      "tools": [
        {
          "name": "ElevenLabs (Eleven v4)",
          "url": "https://elevenlabs.io",
          "pricing": "Free account; paid plans",
          "pricingModel": "freemium",
          "bestFor": "Expressive voiceovers, dubbing and voice agents in 90+ languages",
          "verdict": "The default for realistic AI voices.",
          "openSource": false,
          "affiliateUrl": "https://try.elevenlabs.io/6srp0lr6req5",
          "slug": "elevenlabs",
          "freeTier": "yes"
        },
        {
          "name": "Suno",
          "url": "https://suno.com",
          "pricing": "Free tier; paid plans",
          "pricingModel": "freemium",
          "bestFor": "Full songs, plus Speech (voice + music) beta",
          "verdict": "Easiest way to make a complete song from a prompt.",
          "openSource": false,
          "slug": "suno",
          "freeTier": "yes"
        },
        {
          "name": "Grok Voice API",
          "url": "https://x.ai/news/grok-voice-3",
          "pricing": "$0.08 per minute",
          "pricingModel": "paid",
          "bestFor": "Real-time speech-to-speech voice agents",
          "verdict": "Cheap, fast voice for builders of phone and support agents.",
          "openSource": false,
          "slug": "grok-voice-api",
          "freeTier": "no"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "agent-frameworks",
      "name": "Build agents (frameworks)",
      "tools": [
        {
          "name": "LangChain / LangGraph",
          "url": "https://www.langchain.com",
          "pricing": "Free (MIT); optional paid LangSmith",
          "pricingModel": "open-source",
          "bestFor": "Production agents with state, memory and tool use",
          "verdict": "The most widely used agent stack.",
          "openSource": true,
          "license": "MIT",
          "github": "https://github.com/langchain-ai/langchain",
          "githubStars": 148019,
          "slug": "langchain-langgraph",
          "freeTier": "yes"
        },
        {
          "name": "CrewAI",
          "url": "https://www.crewai.com",
          "pricing": "Free (MIT); paid platform",
          "pricingModel": "open-source",
          "bestFor": "Multi-agent 'crews' with roles",
          "verdict": "Fastest way to prototype teams of agents.",
          "openSource": true,
          "license": "MIT",
          "github": "https://github.com/crewAIInc/crewAI",
          "githubStars": 59826,
          "slug": "crewai",
          "freeTier": "yes"
        },
        {
          "name": "OpenAI Agents SDK",
          "url": "https://github.com/openai/openai-agents-python",
          "pricing": "Free (MIT); you pay for model usage",
          "pricingModel": "open-source",
          "bestFor": "Lightweight multi-agent workflows in Python",
          "verdict": "Minimal and clean, great with OpenAI models.",
          "openSource": true,
          "license": "MIT",
          "github": "https://github.com/openai/openai-agents-python",
          "githubStars": 30112,
          "slug": "openai-agents-sdk",
          "freeTier": "yes"
        },
        {
          "name": "Microsoft Agent Framework",
          "url": "https://github.com/microsoft/agent-framework",
          "pricing": "Free (MIT)",
          "pricingModel": "open-source",
          "bestFor": "Enterprise agents in .NET and Python",
          "verdict": "AutoGen's successor for Microsoft-stack teams.",
          "openSource": true,
          "license": "MIT",
          "github": "https://github.com/microsoft/agent-framework",
          "githubStars": 14188,
          "slug": "microsoft-agent-framework",
          "freeTier": "yes"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "open-source",
      "name": "Open source (self-host & local)",
      "rankedBy": "GitHub stars",
      "tools": [
        {
          "name": "Ollama",
          "url": "https://ollama.com",
          "github": "https://github.com/ollama/ollama",
          "license": "MIT",
          "githubStars": 183696,
          "openSource": true,
          "pricing": "Free (self-hosted; you pay for your own compute/API)",
          "pricingModel": "open-source",
          "bestFor": "Run open models locally with one command",
          "verdict": "The easiest way to run LLMs on your own machine.",
          "slug": "ollama",
          "freeTier": "yes"
        },
        {
          "name": "Stable Diffusion WebUI (AUTOMATIC1111)",
          "url": "https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui",
          "github": "https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui",
          "license": "AGPL-3.0",
          "githubStars": 165073,
          "openSource": true,
          "pricing": "Free (self-hosted; you pay for your own compute/API)",
          "pricingModel": "open-source",
          "bestFor": "Local image generation with a browser UI",
          "verdict": "Classic local image-gen UI with a huge extension ecosystem.",
          "slug": "stable-diffusion-webui",
          "freeTier": "yes"
        },
        {
          "name": "Open WebUI",
          "url": "https://openwebui.com",
          "github": "https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui",
          "license": "Open WebUI License (BSD-3-based with branding clause; source-available)",
          "githubStars": 156039,
          "openSource": false,
          "pricing": "Free (self-hosted; you pay for your own compute/API)",
          "pricingModel": "source-available",
          "bestFor": "Self-hosted ChatGPT-style UI for local and API models",
          "verdict": "Polished self-hosted chat UI; check its branding terms.",
          "slug": "open-webui",
          "freeTier": "yes"
        },
        {
          "name": "ComfyUI",
          "url": "https://www.comfy.org/",
          "github": "https://github.com/Comfy-Org/ComfyUI",
          "license": "GPL-3.0",
          "githubStars": 138162,
          "openSource": true,
          "pricing": "Free (self-hosted; you pay for your own compute/API)",
          "pricingModel": "open-source",
          "bestFor": "Node-based image and video generation workflows",
          "verdict": "Most powerful node-based pipeline for image and video models.",
          "slug": "comfyui",
          "freeTier": "yes"
        },
        {
          "name": "llama.cpp",
          "url": "https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp",
          "github": "https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp",
          "license": "MIT",
          "githubStars": 131572,
          "openSource": true,
          "pricing": "Free (self-hosted; you pay for your own compute/API)",
          "pricingModel": "open-source",
          "bestFor": "Fast local LLM inference on CPUs and GPUs",
          "verdict": "The engine under many local AI apps.",
          "slug": "llama-cpp",
          "freeTier": "yes"
        },
        {
          "name": "Whisper",
          "url": "https://github.com/openai/whisper",
          "github": "https://github.com/openai/whisper",
          "license": "MIT",
          "githubStars": 110799,
          "openSource": true,
          "pricing": "Free (self-hosted; you pay for your own compute/API)",
          "pricingModel": "open-source",
          "bestFor": "Speech-to-text transcription",
          "verdict": "Reliable open speech recognition for transcripts and captions.",
          "slug": "whisper",
          "freeTier": "yes"
        },
        {
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          "pricing": "Free weights (Kimi K3 License); Kimi API",
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          "openSource": true,
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          "pricingModel": "open-source",
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          "openSource": true,
          "pricing": "Free (self-hosted)",
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          "bestFor": "Self-hosted Firecracker microVM sandboxes for running agent code",
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          "openSource": true,
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          "openSource": true,
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          "pricingModel": "open-source",
          "bestFor": "Self-hosted frontier-scale coding and agent model (501B / 23B active, 1M context)",
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