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Reviews and notes on AI tools — coding assistants, generators, automation, and more.
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Aider
★★★★☆Aider
Open-source terminal coding assistant built for repo-aware edits and Git-centered workflows.
Claude Code
★★★★★Anthropic
Agentic CLI coding assistant that lives in your terminal and understands your entire codebase
Claude
★★★★★Anthropic
General-purpose assistant known for strong reasoning, structured writing, and long-context analysis.
Continue
★★★★☆Continue
Open-source coding assistant platform for IDE-native AI workflows with configurable model backends.
Anthropic Console
★★★★☆Anthropic
Web console for testing Claude models, iterating prompts, and validating API behavior.
ElevenLabs
★★★★★ElevenLabs
Comprehensive voice AI platform for speech generation, voice cloning, and audio workflow automation.
ChatGPT
★★★★★OpenAI
General-purpose AI workspace for research, writing, coding, and multimodal problem solving.
Cursor
★★★★☆Anysphere
VS Code–based IDE with chat, inline edits, and agentic workflows.
GitHub Copilot
★★★★☆GitHub
IDE and GitHub-native coding assistant focused on in-flow coding and repository collaboration.
Gemini
★★★★☆Google’s multimodal assistant for research, drafting, analysis, and AI-assisted workflows.
Grok Imagine
★★★★☆xAI
xAI image and video generation capability integrated with Grok and API workflows.
Google Flow
★★★★☆Google's filmmaking-oriented interface for creating and iterating AI-generated video scenes.
Google Whisk
★★★★☆Google Labs image remix tool for quickly exploring visual variations from references and prompts.
LM Studio
★★★★☆LM Studio
Desktop environment for running and testing local language models with privacy-first workflows.
LangChain
★★★★☆LangChain
Application framework for building agentic and retrieval-based AI workflows in production systems.
Midjourney
★★★★★Midjourney
High-aesthetic image generation platform widely used for concepting and visual direction work.
Ollama
★★★★☆Ollama
Run open-weight language models locally with a single command
OpenAI Codex
★★★★★OpenAI
Agentic coding workspace that spans macOS app, IDE extension, CLI, and cloud execution.
Hugging Face
★★★★★Hugging Face
The central hub for open-source AI — models, datasets, demos, and community
NVIDIA Cosmos
★★★★☆NVIDIA
World foundation model platform for synthetic data and physical-AI simulation workflows.
OpenAI Playground
★★★★☆OpenAI
Web workspace for rapid prompt iteration, model comparison, and API-oriented experimentation.
OpenAI Sora
★★★★☆OpenAI
OpenAI video generation tool for producing and iterating cinematic clips from text or image prompts.
Runway
★★★★★Runway
Creative video platform combining generation, editing, and production-oriented AI workflows.
OpenAI Realtime API
★★★★★OpenAI
Low-latency API for building speech-native assistants and realtime multimodal interactions.
Perplexity
★★★★☆Perplexity
Research-oriented AI assistant optimized for source-backed answers and rapid topic exploration.
Suno
★★★★☆Suno
AI music creation platform for rapidly generating songs, arrangements, and creative audio drafts.
Pika
★★★★☆Pika
Consumer-friendly AI video tool for quickly producing stylized short-form clips.
Udio
★★★★☆Udio
Music generation platform for iterative songwriting and fast audio concept development.
Windsurf
★★★★☆Codeium
Agentic coding IDE experience designed for fast implementation and iterative refactoring.