The platform has a drag-and-drop builder where you can chain together scraping, AI prompts, integrations, and outputs. For example, I have a flow that scrapes competitor blog posts, summarizes them with AI, and sends me a Slack digest every morning. I have another one that takes a list of keywords, runs them through an LLM to generate content briefs, and pushes the output into Google Docs. Visit for more information AI tools for Beginners



They also have Gummie, which is their in-product AI copilot that can help you build flows from scratch just by describing what you want. And they have a growing library of pre-built templates if you want to get ideas for where to start.

Whether you are a marketer, in sales, ops, or just someone who wants to automate repetitive work with AI agents, Gumloop is the tool I would recommend first.

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There is a good chance you already know what Claude is, but specifically I want to talk about the desktop app. I have been using Claude almost every day for everything from helping refine my ideas to helping me proofread blog posts to integrating it with MCP servers to pull in analytics or keyword data for SEO campaigns. There is just a broad range of use cases you can do with Claude.

My favorite way to use it is to create Claude skills and for every campaign I work on, save it as a project and add those skills as instructions within those projects. It basically turns Claude into a custom assistant for whatever you are working on.

But there is also Claude Cowork if you want to give Claude access to your desktop and it can make edits in your files locally on your computer. And there is also Claude Code. I personally have been using Claude Code a lot to create internal tools. Like, I recently created my own speech-to-text tool that I am actually using right now to write this article.

There is just a wide range of things you can do with Claude and I would say that it is the best AI app if you are looking for an all-around easy tool to use for your personal life or your professional life across multiple different use cases. I am personally on the Max plan and I use it enough every day that it pays for itself many times over.

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You can view more about their pricing here.

Cursor is the popular IDE that leverages AI to help you create software without having to manually type code. Cursor is built on top of VS Code so it is a full development environment, but its AI agent features allow you to leverage any AI coding model within the platform. You can think of Cursor as the final boss of vibe coding, where it gives you complete flexibility to use any model that you wish.

It's LLM agnostic, so you can use the latest Claude Opus models. You can use Google Gemini Pro models. You can use ChatGPT Codex models. Literally anything.

I also use Cursor with Claude Code. So for example, when I mentioned the speech-to-text tool I created, I actually built it in Cursor using Claude Code. And then I will also use the actual Cursor agent for other small coding tasks. I really love the Composer model created by Cursor. It is super fast and actually a lot faster than Claude Code at different frontend UI tasks.

So that is how I use it. I will use Claude Code within Cursor for more backend stuff, and then Cursor's agent for smaller frontend work. But Cursor is also amazing for pushing easily to GitHub and just having a full integrated environment.

I also use Cursor to save all of my marketing skills so I can create my own agents in a custom environment. However, note that these agents and workflows are all local on my computer. So if you want something that is cloud-based and a bit easier to use for agentic workflows specifically, I would recommend using Gumloop.

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Higgsfield is an all-in-one platform for creating videos with AI. You can think of it as the Cursor for AI videos or the Gumloop for AI videos, as the platform lets you connect multiple video models along with a bunch of video editing, image generation, and audio tools.

Higgsfield also has its own models like Higgsfield Audio for voice cloning and multilingual synthesis. You can also connect ElevenLabs into the platform. So you get a full integrated environment for anything related to video generation.

Higgsfield essentially brings all of those different models and tools into one place. Instead of jumping between five different AI video tools, you just do everything from one dashboard.

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All plans include access to all features, early access to advanced AI features, and discounts on extra credits.

Weavy (now apart of Figma) is a platform for creating image generation workflows. You can think of it as Higgsfield, but specifically for images and short animations.

I have actually been using Weavy a lot recently for creating blog post images that are on brand. For example, if you actually scroll up and look at the thumbnail image for this blog post, it was created with the help of Weavy.

Essentially, I upload example designs from our designer into a workflow and set up prompt templates for the types of thumbnails I want. From there, I can quickly generate different thumbnails by tweaking the prompt slightly each time to customize it for that specific blog post.

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ElevenLabs is the popular AI voice generation app. You can give it a transcript and it will generate a human-like voiceover. It can be used for a wide range of use cases like voiceovers for AI-generated videos, creating agents that can read content on your site to visitors, and a lot more.

They also now have ElevenLabs Agents, which is a feature to deploy and monitor conversational agents. So you can build this directly into your products and create ultra-realistic speech across 70 plus languages.

ElevenLabs continues to be the best platform for voiceovers and conversational agents. So if you are ever in a situation where you need AI to speak something out, ElevenLabs is definitely the app to use.

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Agent plans are a separate add-on and billed per usage. You can learn more about it here.

Paradigm AI is like a spreadsheet meets AI agents platform. I have been using it quite a bit recently, and it has become one of my favorite tools for anytime I use a spreadsheet but also want to be able to leverage AI to do things within the spreadsheet. It feels like a Clay alternative, it is very similar to that tool, except it is more horizontal and can serve a broad range of use cases.

One thing that is interesting about Paradigm is that their product is based around this concept that every cell is an AI agent.

So I can create a list of keywords I want to go after in a column, and then I can have a prompt for another column that says what the search intent is, and I can enrich that data in one click. A bunch of AI agents will fire, searching every keyword and then reporting back in a new column what the search intent should be.

You can think of this for pretty much any use case and how it can apply to you. It basically can help you enrich a lot of data within spreadsheets.

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Paradigm AI is still a new platform, so there aren't many user ratings on third-party review sites.

Clearscope is a classic AI tool that existed before most of the AI apps on this list did. I first discovered Clearscope back in 2019, and what the platform does is it uses AI to tell you what keywords you should include on a page for it to maximize its ranking potential.

You give Clearscope a keyword and it generates an SEO report on your competitors that target that same keyword. Then it tells you what content you should include on your webpage to maximize its reach.

I say it's the "AI tool before AI really became a thing" because Clearscope has been using IBM Watson and Google NLP to run it's AI for a long time.

Their tool can search a target keyword and then identify the frequency of related terms between all the top ranking pages. This can also be referred to as something like TF-IDF. And then it uses AI to figure out what the semantically related keywords are that you should include in your page.

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If you want to build prototypes of web apps or beautifully designed websites, then v0 is definitely a tool you need to check out. It is the best vibe coding tool I have found for prototyping apps and websites, especially if you care a lot about design.

The tool is created by the team at Vercel, the popular hosting platform. So you can actually host your websites and products on Vercel by using v0. The tool also integrates with Supabase, so you can create a full database for your apps in v0.

Although the way that I personally like to use it is to prototype with it and then export the code and import it into Cursor where I will continue to flesh out the prototype into a more production-ready tool. Nevertheless, v0 is a great AI app for prototyping and vibe coding. And I think it is the best option if you have not used any vibe coding tool yet.

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Staying on the theme of vibe coding, Lovable is an AI website builder that helps you create apps and websites in natural language. You describe what you want, it builds a working prototype in real time, and you can iterate on it with simple feedback and deploy it with one click.

It also connects to databases like Supabase and syncs with GitHub, so you can take your project further if needed (similar to the v0 to Cursor use case).

The difference between Lovable and v0 is that Lovable is more focused on building full working apps rather than just frontend prototypes. If v0 is where I go for design-first prototyping, Lovable is where I go when I want a working product fast without touching code. They also have a solid template library if you do not want to start from scratch.

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Originality AI is the main tool I use for analyzing content for AI detection. Out of every AI content detector I have used, it has consistently been the most accurate and highest quality. It also includes a plagiarism checker, readability checker, and fact-checking aid all in the same platform.

However, it is important to note that these tools should be used as guides and not ultimate truths. I have had times where 100% human-written content has been flagged as generated by AI in this tool and others.

So take these with a grain of salt, but like I mentioned, this platform is the most accurate one I have seen.

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Descript is an AI editing platform designed for long-form videos and podcasts. It is great if you are working on video projects that require a script to be read on the video. With Descript you can edit and generate scripts with their AI. You can even create custom videos for B-roll sections.

The platform has evolved into a full text-based editing platform with AI tools that can handle things like green screen, eye contact correction, studio sound, and filler word removal. It is a full video, podcast, and clips editing platform with AI sprinkled on top.

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Perplexity is an AI search engine that has quickly become my favorite way to research any topic. The cool thing about Perplexity is that it can do a social search and pull in insights from forums and UGC content.

You can also use Perplexity like you would ChatGPT or Claude, except it has a lot better web searching capabilities compared to those platforms. So it is best used when you have prompts that need web searches or deep research. Whether you are searching for statistics, content ideas, trends, or literally anything and want a conversational search experience, Perplexity is definitely an app to check out.

They also now have a Computer feature that is an AI agent that can complete tasks for you. It is very similar to how Claude Cowork or ChatGPT Agent works.

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Gamma is an AI presentation builder that makes it easy to create great looking pitch decks. You can also use Gamma for things like social media posts, creating websites, and creating documents for proposals, PDFs, or literally anything. It is a full platform for creating presentations and documents with a bunch of generative AI tools. You can think of it like the Canva for documents and slides.

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What is the best free AI?

If you are looking for the best free AI, it really depends on what you need it for. But if I had to pick one, I would say Claude. The free plan gives you access to web search, memory, file creation, MCP connectors, and even Slack and Google Workspace integrations. For a free AI chatbot, that is hard to beat.

But if you want free AI tools beyond just chat, Google Labs is the clear winner. Everything on the platform is free, and you get access to tools for image generation, email productivity, prototyping, and even a full AI-powered IDE with Antigravity. It is an entire ecosystem of free AI apps in one place.

And if you want to automate workflows with AI for free, Gumloop has a generous free plan that lets you build flows with 2,000 credits, unlimited nodes, and connect to any LLM model. That is enough to build a few automations and see how it fits into your workflow before committing to a paid plan.

At the end of the day, the best AI tools are the ones you actually keep using after the first week. I have tested over 70 of them and most I never opened again. These 15 are the ones that save me real time, they help me ship things faster, and a lot of them work automatically in the background while I focus on other things.

And honestly, we are still early. If the last three years taught me anything, it's that the next wave of AI apps is probably going to look different than what we currently have.

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