# The best AI tools of 2025

The artificial-intelligence tools that reviewers tested and recommended most in 2025, by what they're best at: chat assistants, research, coding, images, video, audio and productivity.

- 24 votes · 20 items
- Feb 6, 2026 · historybuff77
- https://even.best/en/l/126/the-best-ai-tools-of-2025

## Top 20

1. **ChatGPT** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — OpenAI's all-round assistant and the most used AI chatbot; free tier plus Plus at $20 a month. <https://chatgpt.com/>
2. **Claude** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Anthropic's assistant, praised for long documents, careful writing and coding. <https://claude.ai/>
3. **Cursor** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — A code editor built around AI that edits across your whole project. <https://cursor.com/>
4. **Midjourney** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — The image generator known for the most artistic results, used through its website and Discord. <https://www.midjourney.com/>
5. **Gemini** (1 · ▲2 ▼1) — Google's assistant, tied into Gmail, Docs and Search. <https://gemini.google.com/>
6. **Perplexity** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — An AI answer engine that searches the web and cites its sources. <https://www.perplexity.ai/>
7. **NotebookLM** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Google's free research notebook that answers only from the documents you upload, with podcast-style Audio Overviews. <https://notebooklm.google.com/>
8. **GitHub Copilot** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — AI pair programmer inside VS Code and other editors, from $10 a month. <https://github.com/features/copilot>
9. **DeepSeek** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — The Chinese open-weight model whose free chatbot shot to the top of app stores in January 2025. <https://www.deepseek.com/>
10. **ElevenLabs** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Realistic AI voices and dubbing in dozens of languages. <https://elevenlabs.io/>
11. **Canva (Magic Studio)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Canva's AI design tools for images, presentations and text. <https://www.canva.com/>
12. **Gamma** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Generates presentations, documents and simple websites from a prompt. <https://gamma.app/>
13. **Grok** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — xAI's assistant, built into X (Twitter). <https://grok.com/>
14. **Microsoft Copilot** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — Microsoft's assistant built into Windows, Edge and the Microsoft 365 apps. <https://copilot.microsoft.com/>
15. **Runway** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — AI video generation and editing tools used by filmmakers. <https://runwayml.com/>
16. **Suno** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Makes complete songs, with vocals, from a text description. <https://suno.com/>
17. **Grammarly** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — AI writing assistant that checks and rewrites text wherever you type. <https://www.grammarly.com/>
18. **Otter.ai** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Records and transcribes meetings and writes summaries automatically. <https://otter.ai/>
19. **Notion AI** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — AI built into Notion for writing, summarising and searching your workspace. <https://www.notion.com/product/ai>
20. **Adobe Firefly** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Adobe's image generator, trained on licensed content and built into Photoshop. <https://firefly.adobe.com/>

How is this ranking ordered? By people's votes: each ▲ adds a point and each ▼ takes one away. Anyone can vote and add what is missing.