Productivity tools

TurboScribe does one job very well: fast, accurate transcription with no meters or minute packs to watch.

NaturalReader is one of the easiest ways to listen to your own documents, and the yearly Lite plan is good value for students and heavy…

Local Code is the easiest way we’ve seen to get a capable, private AI agent running on a Mac without touching a terminal.

AI Apply is a strong pick if your job search is a numbers game and tailoring every resume by hand is slowing you down.

Artificial Analysis is the most useful free place to compare AI models on intelligence, speed and real cost per task.

GPT-6.1 Terra is the new default for cost-sensitive work on OpenAI: near-flagship computer use and vision at $1 in and $5 out.

Strawberry is one of the most practical AI browsers so far, because its companions work in the same tabs you do instead of through a chat…

Simular’s Sai is one of the most capable computer-use agents you can try for free, and the research behind it is unusually open.

Gauth is a solid homework helper when you use it to check your own work and learn the steps.

Artlist is a strong pick for video editors who want AI clips, voice and music under one commercial license and one bill.

Venice AI is one of the easiest ways to use many AI models without storing your chats in a big tech account, and the free plan is enough to…

Kimi K3.1 Pro gives you a 1M-token frontier model at $2 in and $10 out per 1M tokens, a third less than Kimi K3, with limited free use in…

Claude Duet turns Claude into an agent that comes to you first, with strong approvals and business connectors.

FastH3 makes MiniMax H3 video with sound fast enough to use on a single RTX 5090.

Muse Glimmer is Meta’s first truly permissive open model: a 30B agent model you can run on one 24 GB GPU and ship commercially.

Bria Fibo 2.0 combines editing and generation in one open-weight model trained only on licensed data, at $0.032 per image on the API.

Odyssey-3 is an impressive, free way to try a real-time AI world model in your browser, backed by serious physics and robotics research.

HelixWorld adds what other world models miss: sound that moves with the camera. The free demo makes it easy to try, and the Apache-2.0 code…

Muse Spark Open gives developers Meta’s Muse Spark as downloadable weights, with a 1M-token context and strong coding and agent skills.

Topview AI bundles the top video models behind an agent that plans your shots, and its free, open-source 3D Builder finally gives you real…

Replicate is the fastest route from “I want to use this model” to a working API call. The catalogue is huge, model pages show prices up…

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash is one of the cheapest strong models you can call today. Off-peak it costs $0.15 / $0.60 per 1M tokens, cache hits are…

OpenUI is worth a look if you build AI agents or copilots and want answers that look like an app, not a wall of text. The framework is…

Ultramarine 1 Flash is a cheap, focused model worth testing if you build agents that produce spreadsheets, decks and memos. At $0.15 /…