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Productivity
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1277 AI tools listed
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How to choose an AI productivity tool
Instead of asking what a tool can do, ask where it sits. A tool that replaces something you already use has to beat the incumbent by enough to justify migrating everyone and everything. A tool that sits alongside only has to be worth opening.
Most disappointment here comes from tools sold as the second while quietly assuming the first. Notes, tasks, and documents are sticky; an AI layer on top of them is not a small switch.
For anything that captures meetings or conversations, capture method is the whole decision. A bot that joins the call is visible to everyone present and subject to their consent; local capture is not, which is more convenient and shifts the legal question onto you. Recording consent rules differ across the region, and one-party consent is not a safe assumption.
Finally, check what leaves. These tools work because they read your calendar, your inbox, and your documents. For that same reason, a self-hosted or local-first option is worth the friction for anything sensitive.
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Agnes AI
Singapore model lab with a free multimodal API, paid Token Plans and open weights
Freemium
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Bee Personal AI
Amazon's $49.99 wearable that summarises your day, currently sold out
Paid
836 views
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OMI
Omi
Open-source AI memory pendant, with MIT-licensed app, firmware and backend
Freemium
693 views
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Lovart AI
An AI design agent that turns one brief into editable brand and campaign assets
Freemium
641 views
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AnythingLLM
Self-hosted RAG chat over your files, MIT-licensed
Open Source
459 views
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WPS AI 金山办公
Kingsoft WPS Office's built-in AI, now joined by the Lingxi agent
Subscription
453 views
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Heptabase
Card-and-whiteboard knowledge base with an AI agent and tutor
Subscription
450 views
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Feishu AI 飞书 AI
ByteDance's AI layer for Feishu, now sold separately and branded Doubao
Freemium
445 views
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Vellum
Open-source personal AI assistant with memory, from the former LLMOps platform
Freemium
440 views
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DingTalk AI Assistant 钉钉AI助理
DingTalk's built-in AI: agents, meeting notes, search and AI tables
Freemium
426 views
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Tana Outliner
Supertag outliner that turns notes into a queryable knowledge graph
Freemium
407 views
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Inkitt
Free fiction platform that uses reading data to pick stories for Galatea
Freemium
406 views
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Grammarly
Grammar, tone and rewriting help wherever you type, now part of Superhuman
Freemium
404 views
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Sana
Enterprise AI agents and learning, now part of Workday
Enterprise
392 views
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Ambience Healthcare
Ambient notes, chart summaries and point-of-care coding for US health systems
Enterprise
391 views
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Granola
The AI notepad for people in back-to-back meetings
Freemium
382 views
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Youdao Hi Echo 网易有道 Hi Echo
Youdao's AI English-speaking tutor with virtual tutors and IELTS practice
Subscription
380 views
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Mem
Your AI chief of staff
Freemium
378 views
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WoLai 我来
Notion-style Chinese workspace, owned by DingTalk since 2023
Freemium
376 views
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Smart Connections
Local-first related-note discovery for Obsidian
Freemium
360 views
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Also listed in Productivity
45 more tools we track but have not written up in depth. Each entry links to the vendor's own site; we have not tested these tools.
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AdGen AI Turns one product URL into 100+ paid-social ad variations
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Akiflow One inbox for tasks from every app, time-blocked onto your calendar
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Alai YC-backed AI design tool for on-brand decks, social posts and infographics
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Anytype Local-first, end-to-end encrypted workspace for notes and chat
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Anyword Marketing copy generator that ranks variants by predicted performance
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Avoma AI meeting assistant with scheduling, call scoring and deal-risk add-ons
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Capacities A note-taking app that stores ideas as linked, typed objects
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ChatPRD AI platform for writing, reviewing and prototyping PRDs
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DeepL Write DeepL's grammar and rephrasing assistant in nine languages
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DeepScribe Oncology-first ambient scribe with built-in coding and pre-visit prep
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FlowUs 息流 A Chinese Notion-style workspace with AI writing, space Q&A and BYOK models
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Freed AI medical scribe built for solo and small-practice clinicians
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Hemingway Editor AI-powered clarity-focused writing editor
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Lilys AI Turn hours of YouTube videos, PDFs, and podcasts into structured, cited notes in minutes.
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Longshot AI Discontinued June 2025 — was an AI fact-checked writing tool.
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Magical Text expander and autofill — the company now sells healthcare AI agents
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MindShow 麦当秀 Shanghai AI slide maker that turns titles and documents into decks
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Missive Collaborative team inbox with AI assistant, real-time co-drafting, and calendar-aware reply suggestions.
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Notta Japan-rooted meeting transcription and AI notes in 58 languages
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ProWritingAid Deep style reports and AI story critique for novelists, with lifetime licences
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QANDA (콴다) by Mathpresso AI study app born from photo-based maths solving, big in Southeast Asia
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Quadratic The spreadsheet where Python, SQL and JS run natively in every cell.
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QuillBot AI paraphrasing and grammar checker
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Raycast AI AI chat and commands baked into the Raycast launcher
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Reclaim.ai AI calendar that defends time for tasks, habits and focus
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Saga Fast, auto-linking notes, docs and tasks with a built-in AI assistant
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Scalenut India-built AI SEO platform: briefs, keywords, writing, GEO
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Shortly AI Defunct 2022; site now an unrelated multi-LLM waitlist product
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Simplified AI agent platform for marketing — writing, design, video and social scheduling, run by its Riley agent.
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Slack AI AI summaries and search, now bundled into paid Slack tiers
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Sunsama A guided daily planner that puts tasks and calendar in one view
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Superhuman Docs AI (formerly Coda AI) Coda, renamed Superhuman Docs, with AI included on paid plans during beta
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Tactiq Live meeting transcripts and AI notes without a bot in the call
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Taskade Projects, AI agents, automations and prompt-built apps in one workspace
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Texts One keyboard-driven inbox for every chat network
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Tongyi Tingwu 通义听悟 Alibaba's free meeting transcriber, with a cheap per-hour API
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TORTUS AI NHS ambient scribe certified as a UKCA Class IIa medical device
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Trello Automation & AI (formerly Butler) Trello's built-in no-code automation, with AI from the Standard plan up
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Typeface Brand-grounded marketing agents for large enterprises, sold by demo
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Widn.AI Context-aware AI translation on Tower LLM — an Unbabel product
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Writesonic AI search visibility tracking and fixes, from a former AI writing tool
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Wrtn (뤼튼) Korea's free AI app, from the company behind Crack and Kyarapu
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Xiezuocat 秘塔写作猫 Metaso's Chinese-English AI proofreader and writer, with Word add-ins
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Youdao Translate 有道翻译 NetEase Youdao's AI translator for documents, speech and developers
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Yuque AI 语雀AI Ant Group's book-style knowledge base, with an AI assistant and Tbox agent
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