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Image, video, audio, presentation and 3D generation tools for visual and creative work.

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Image Generation & EditingAdobe Firefly

Commercially-safe generative suite in Creative Cloud

FreemiumAdvanced
Image Generation & EditingAragon

AI professional headshot generator

PaidIntermediate
Image Generation & EditingAUTOMATIC1111 WebUI

The original Stable Diffusion web interface

Free / OpenIntermediate
Image Generation & EditingCanva Magic Studio

AI design, image and text tools for everyone

FreemiumIntermediate
Image Generation & EditingCivitai

The hub for community Stable Diffusion/FLUX models

FreemiumBeginner
Image Generation & EditingCleanup.pictures

Remove objects/people from photos

FreemiumBeginner
Image Generation & EditingClipDrop

AI image editing toolbox (relight, cleanup, upscale)

FreemiumIntermediate
Image Generation & EditingComfyUI

Node-based open-source interface for diffusion models

Free / OpenIntermediate
Image Generation & EditingCraiyon

Free simple image generator (ex DALL-E mini)

FreemiumBeginner
Image Generation & EditingDALL-E 3

OpenAI image generation inside ChatGPT and Bing

FreemiumBeginner
Image Generation & EditingDraw Things

Free on-device diffusion app for Apple devices

Free / OpenIntermediate
Image Generation & EditingDream by WOMBO

Mobile-first artistic image generation

FreemiumBeginner
Image Generation & EditingDreamStudio

Stability AI's original web generation app

PaidBeginner
Image Generation & EditingFlair

AI product photography with brand control

FreemiumIntermediate
Image Generation & EditingFLUX

State-of-the-art open image models (FLUX.1, Kontext)

Free / OpenBeginner
Image Generation & EditingFooocus

Simple Midjourney-like local SD interface

Free / OpenBeginner
Image Generation & EditingFotor AI

AI photo editor and generator

FreemiumBeginner
Image Generation & EditingFreepik AI

Full AI suite (Mystic model, editor, video) on stock platform

FreemiumIntermediate
Image Generation & EditingGetty Generative AI

Commercially-safe generation trained on Getty library

PaidAdvanced
Image Generation & EditingGrok Imagine

xAI image and short-video generation (Aurora)

FreemiumBeginner
Image Generation & EditingHeadshotPro

Professional AI headshots for teams

PaidIntermediate
Image Generation & EditingIdeogram

Image generation with best-in-class text rendering

FreemiumIntermediate
Image Generation & EditingImagen

Google's photorealistic image model in Gemini/Vertex

FreemiumBeginner
Image Generation & EditingInterior AI

AI interior redesign from room photos

PaidIntermediate
Image Generation & EditingInvokeAI

Professional open-source creative engine

Free / OpenBeginner
Image Generation & EditingKittl

Design platform with strong AI graphics tools

FreemiumIntermediate
Image Generation & EditingKrea

Real-time generation, enhancement and creative canvas

FreemiumBeginner
Image Generation & EditingLensa AI

Magic Avatars app behind the 2022 avatar craze

PaidBeginner
Image Generation & EditingLeonardo AI

Image generation platform for creatives and game art

FreemiumBeginner
Image Generation & EditingLexica

Stable Diffusion search engine and generator

FreemiumBeginner
Image Generation & EditingLimeWire AI Studio

AI image/audio studio under revived LimeWire brand

FreemiumBeginner
Image Generation & EditingLooka

AI logo and brand kit generator

PaidIntermediate
Image Generation & EditingLuminar Neo

AI-powered photo editor

PaidIntermediate
Image Generation & EditingMage

Unfiltered multi-model generation site

FreemiumBeginner
Image Generation & EditingMagnific

AI upscaler and 'relight' famous for detail hallucination

PaidIntermediate
Image Generation & EditingMicrosoft Designer

Free AI design and Image Creator app

Free / OpenBeginner
Image Generation & EditingMidjourney

Best-known artistic text-to-image generator

PaidBeginner
Image Generation & EditingNano Banana

Viral Gemini image editing/generation model

FreemiumBeginner
Image Generation & EditingNightCafe

Community image-generation platform

FreemiumBeginner
Image Generation & EditingOpenArt

Multi-model image generation and editing hub

FreemiumBeginner
Image Generation & EditingPebblely

Instant AI product photos

FreemiumIntermediate
Image Generation & EditingPhoto AI

AI photoshoots from your selfies

PaidBeginner
Image Generation & EditingPhotoroom

AI product photos and background removal

FreemiumIntermediate
Image Generation & EditingPicsart AI

Creative app suite with AI generation/editing

FreemiumBeginner
Image Generation & EditingPixelcut

Mobile AI product photography and design

FreemiumIntermediate
Image Generation & EditingPixlr AI

Browser photo editor with generative tools

FreemiumBeginner
Image Generation & EditingPlayground

Popular free image generator, later design pivot

FreemiumBeginner
Image Generation & EditingRecraft

AI design tool for vector art, brand styles, mockups

FreemiumIntermediate
Image Generation & EditingRemini

Photo enhancement and viral AI portraits

FreemiumBeginner
Image Generation & Editingremove.bg

One-click background removal

FreemiumBeginner
Image Generation & EditingReve

High-fidelity image model from ex-Adobe team

FreemiumBeginner
Image Generation & EditingSeaArt

Feature-rich community generation platform

FreemiumBeginner
Image Generation & EditingShutterstock AI

Licensed-data image generation on stock platform

PaidAdvanced
Image Generation & EditingStable Diffusion

Open-weight image model powering a huge ecosystem

Free / OpenBeginner
Image Generation & Editingstarryai

Mobile AI art generator

FreemiumBeginner
Image Generation & EditingTensor.Art

Community platform for models and image generation

FreemiumBeginner
Image Generation & EditingTopaz Labs

Industry-standard AI photo and video enhancement

PaidIntermediate
Image Generation & EditingUpscayl

Free open-source image upscaler

Free / OpenBeginner
Image Generation & EditingVectorizer.AI

Raster-to-vector conversion with AI

PaidIntermediate
Image Generation & EditingVizcom

Sketch-to-render for industrial designers

FreemiumIntermediate
Video Generation & AvatarsAI Studios

Realistic AI avatar video platform

PaidIntermediate
Video Generation & AvatarsArgil

AI clones for short-form creator video

PaidBeginner
Video Generation & AvatarsCapCut AI

Free editor with heavy AI features

FreemiumBeginner
Video Generation & AvatarsCaptions

AI-powered talking-video creation and editing app

FreemiumBeginner
Video Generation & AvatarsColossyan

AI video for workplace training

PaidIntermediate
Video Generation & AvatarsD-ID

Talking-photo avatars and interactive agents

FreemiumIntermediate
Video Generation & AvatarsDescript

Edit video/audio by editing the transcript

FreemiumBeginner
Video Generation & AvatarsDomoAI

Video-to-anime and style-transfer generation

PaidBeginner
Video Generation & AvatarsElai.io

Avatar video generation from text

PaidIntermediate
Video Generation & AvatarsFilmora AI

Consumer video editor with AI toolkit

PaidBeginner
Video Generation & AvatarsFliki

Text-to-video with lifelike voiceovers

FreemiumIntermediate
Video Generation & AvatarsHailuo

MiniMax's popular video generator

FreemiumBeginner
Video Generation & AvatarsHaiper

Video generation startup from DeepMind alumni

FreemiumBeginner
Video Generation & AvatarsHedra

Expressive talking-character video generation

FreemiumBeginner
Video Generation & AvatarsHeyGen

AI avatar videos and video translation at scale

FreemiumIntermediate
Video Generation & AvatarsHiggsfield

Cinematic camera-control video generation

FreemiumBeginner
Video Generation & AvatarsHour One

Virtual-human video generation

PaidAdvanced
Video Generation & AvatarsHunyuanVideo

Tencent's open-source video foundation model

Free / OpenIntermediate
Video Generation & Avatarsinvideo AI

Full videos from a single text prompt

FreemiumIntermediate
Video Generation & AvatarsJimeng (Dreamina)

ByteDance's image/video creation suite (Seedance)

FreemiumBeginner
Video Generation & AvatarsKaiber

Music-video-style AI animation

PaidBeginner
Video Generation & AvatarsKapwing

Collaborative online editor with AI features

FreemiumIntermediate
Video Generation & AvatarsKlap

YouTube-to-TikTok clip generation

PaidBeginner
Video Generation & AvatarsKling

Leading Chinese video model with strong realism

FreemiumBeginner
Video Generation & AvatarsLTX Studio

AI filmmaking studio with open LTX-Video model

FreemiumIntermediate
Video Generation & AvatarsLuma Dream Machine

High-quality video generation (Ray2 model)

FreemiumBeginner
Video Generation & AvatarsLumen5

Blog-to-video for social media

FreemiumIntermediate
Video Generation & AvatarsMarey

Fully-licensed 'clean' video model for pros

PaidIntermediate
Video Generation & AvatarsMeta Movie Gen

Meta's research video/audio generation models

FreemiumAdvanced
Video Generation & AvatarsMochi

Open-source video generation model

Free / OpenIntermediate
Video Generation & AvatarsOpus Clip

Long video to viral shorts, automatically

FreemiumBeginner
Video Generation & AvatarsPictory

Turn scripts and blogs into videos

PaidIntermediate
Video Generation & AvatarsPika

Playful text/image-to-video with viral effects

FreemiumBeginner
Video Generation & AvatarsPixVerse

Consumer video generation with viral templates

FreemiumBeginner
Video Generation & AvatarsPollo AI

Aggregator giving access to all major video models

FreemiumBeginner
Video Generation & AvatarsRunway

Pioneer AI video platform (Gen-4, Act-Two)

FreemiumBeginner
Video Generation & AvatarsSora

OpenAI text-to-video and social video app

FreemiumBeginner
Video Generation & AvatarsSubmagic

AI captions and effects for short-form video

PaidBeginner
Video Generation & AvatarsSync

State-of-the-art lipsync API for any video

PaidIntermediate
Video Generation & AvatarsSynthesia

Enterprise AI avatar video platform

PaidAdvanced
Video Generation & AvatarsTavus

Conversational video AI and digital-twin API

PaidIntermediate
Video Generation & AvatarsVEED

Online video editor with AI tools

FreemiumBeginner
Video Generation & AvatarsVeo / Flow

Google's flagship video model with native audio

PaidBeginner
Video Generation & AvatarsVidu

Fast multi-subject-consistent video model

FreemiumBeginner
Video Generation & AvatarsViggle

Character animation/swap from a single image

FreemiumBeginner
Video Generation & AvatarsVizard

Repurpose long videos into social clips

FreemiumBeginner
Video Generation & AvatarsWan

Alibaba's open-weight video model family

Free / OpenBeginner
Audio, Music & VoiceAdobe Enhance Speech

One-click podcast-quality audio cleanup

FreemiumBeginner
Audio, Music & VoiceAIVA

AI composer for soundtracks

FreemiumIntermediate
Audio, Music & VoiceAssemblyAI

Speech-to-text and audio intelligence API

PaidIntermediate
Audio, Music & VoiceBeatoven.ai

Mood-based background music generation

FreemiumBeginner
Audio, Music & VoiceBoomy

Instant song creation and distribution

FreemiumBeginner
Audio, Music & VoiceCamb.ai

Speech translation/dubbing in 140+ languages

PaidIntermediate
Audio, Music & VoiceCartesia

Ultra-low-latency realistic TTS (Sonic)

PaidIntermediate
Audio, Music & VoiceDeepgram

Fast, accurate speech-to-text and voice APIs

PaidIntermediate
Audio, Music & VoiceElevenLabs

Leading voice AI: TTS, cloning, dubbing, agents, music

FreemiumIntermediate
Audio, Music & VoiceFakeYou

Community character-voice TTS

FreemiumBeginner
Audio, Music & VoiceGladia

Real-time transcription API for meetings/calls

PaidIntermediate
Audio, Music & VoiceHume

Emotionally expressive empathic voice AI (EVI)

PaidIntermediate
Audio, Music & VoiceKits AI

AI voice models and tools for musicians

FreemiumIntermediate
Audio, Music & VoiceKrisp

AI noise cancellation and call intelligence

FreemiumIntermediate
Audio, Music & VoiceLALAL.AI

AI stem splitting (vocals/instruments)

PaidIntermediate
Audio, Music & VoiceLANDR

AI mastering and music tools

PaidIntermediate
Audio, Music & VoiceLoudly

AI music platform for content creators

FreemiumBeginner
Audio, Music & VoiceLOVO Genny

AI voiceover and video workspace

FreemiumBeginner
Audio, Music & VoiceMoises

Practice app with stem separation and pitch tools

FreemiumIntermediate
Audio, Music & VoiceMubert

Generative royalty-free music streams and API

FreemiumBeginner
Audio, Music & VoiceMurf

Studio-quality AI voiceovers

FreemiumIntermediate
Audio, Music & VoiceMusicFX

Google's experimental music generation (Lyria)

Free / OpenBeginner
Audio, Music & VoiceMusicfy

AI vocal covers and voice swaps

FreemiumBeginner
Audio, Music & VoicePlayAI (Play.ht)

Voice cloning and TTS platform

FreemiumBeginner
Audio, Music & VoiceResemble AI

Voice cloning plus deepfake-detection tools

PaidAdvanced
Audio, Music & VoiceRespeecher

Hollywood-grade voice conversion

PaidIntermediate
Audio, Music & VoiceRiffusion

From spectrogram hack to personalized music app

FreemiumBeginner
Audio, Music & VoiceRime

Conversational TTS voices for phone agents

PaidIntermediate
Audio, Music & VoiceSoundraw

Royalty-free AI music for creators

PaidBeginner
Audio, Music & VoiceSpeechify

Text-to-speech reading app with celebrity voices

FreemiumBeginner
Audio, Music & VoiceStable Audio

Text-to-music/SFX from Stability

FreemiumBeginner
Audio, Music & VoiceSuno

Full-song generation from a text prompt

FreemiumBeginner
Audio, Music & VoiceUberduck

Early viral voice-generation platform

FreemiumBeginner
Audio, Music & VoiceUdio

High-fidelity AI music generation

FreemiumBeginner
Audio, Music & VoiceVoicemod

Real-time AI voice changer for gaming

FreemiumIntermediate
Audio, Music & VoiceWellSaid

Enterprise AI voice for training content

PaidAdvanced
Audio, Music & VoiceWhisper

Open-source speech recognition that changed the field

Free / OpenIntermediate
3D, Gaming & SimulationConvai

Conversational 3D characters for games/XR

FreemiumIntermediate
3D, Gaming & SimulationCSM

3D world/asset generation from images

FreemiumIntermediate
3D, Gaming & SimulationGenie

DeepMind's interactive world model

FreemiumAdvanced
3D, Gaming & SimulationInworld

AI NPCs and character engine for games

PaidIntermediate
3D, Gaming & SimulationKaedim

Image-to-3D for game studios

PaidIntermediate
3D, Gaming & SimulationLayer AI

Game art pipeline with style-locked generation

PaidIntermediate
3D, Gaming & SimulationLudo.ai

AI game-concept research and ideation

FreemiumIntermediate
3D, Gaming & SimulationLuma Genie

Text-to-3D generation

Free / OpenIntermediate
3D, Gaming & SimulationMarble

Generate explorable 3D worlds from prompts

FreemiumIntermediate
3D, Gaming & SimulationMeshy

Leading text/image-to-3D model generator

FreemiumIntermediate
3D, Gaming & SimulationNVIDIA ACE

Digital-human and NPC AI microservices

PaidIntermediate
3D, Gaming & SimulationOasis

Real-time playable AI world model demo

Free / OpenIntermediate
3D, Gaming & SimulationRodin

High-detail 3D character/asset generation

FreemiumIntermediate
3D, Gaming & SimulationRosebud AI

Prompt-to-playable-game platform

FreemiumBeginner
3D, Gaming & SimulationScenario

Custom-trained game asset generation

PaidIntermediate
3D, Gaming & SimulationSkybox AI

360-degree world generation

FreemiumBeginner
3D, Gaming & SimulationSloyd

Parametric 3D asset generation

FreemiumIntermediate
3D, Gaming & SimulationSpline AI

AI 3D design in the browser

FreemiumIntermediate
3D, Gaming & SimulationTripo

Fast 3D asset generation

FreemiumBeginner
Presentations, Design & Websites10Web

AI WordPress website builder

PaidIntermediate
Presentations, Design & WebsitesBeautiful.ai

AI-assisted smart presentation design

PaidIntermediate
Presentations, Design & WebsitesDecktopus

AI deck generator for quick presentations

PaidBeginner
Presentations, Design & WebsitesDora

AI-generated 3D/animated websites

FreemiumIntermediate
Presentations, Design & WebsitesDurable

Build a business website in seconds with AI

FreemiumIntermediate
Presentations, Design & WebsitesFigma Make

Prompt-to-prototype and design in Figma

PaidIntermediate
Presentations, Design & WebsitesFramer AI

AI website generation and CMS

FreemiumIntermediate
Presentations, Design & WebsitesGamma

AI-generated decks, docs and websites

FreemiumBeginner
Presentations, Design & WebsitesGoogle Stitch

Generate UI designs and frontend code

Free / OpenIntermediate
Presentations, Design & WebsitesMiro AI

AI on the collaborative whiteboard

PaidIntermediate
Presentations, Design & WebsitesMixo

AI landing-page/startup site builder

FreemiumIntermediate
Presentations, Design & WebsitesNapkin AI

Turn text into editable business visuals

FreemiumIntermediate
Presentations, Design & WebsitesPitch

Collaborative presentations with AI features

FreemiumIntermediate
Presentations, Design & WebsitesPlus AI

AI presentations inside Google Slides/PowerPoint

PaidIntermediate
Presentations, Design & WebsitesPresentations.AI

ChatGPT-style presentation generation

FreemiumIntermediate
Presentations, Design & WebsitesRelume

AI sitemaps and Webflow/Figma component libraries

FreemiumIntermediate
Presentations, Design & WebsitesSlidesAI

Text-to-slides add-on for Google Slides

FreemiumIntermediate
Presentations, Design & WebsitesSquarespace Blueprint AI

Guided AI website design

PaidBeginner
Presentations, Design & WebsitesUizard

AI UI/UX design and wireframing

FreemiumIntermediate
Presentations, Design & WebsitesVisily

AI wireframe and UI design from prompts/screenshots

FreemiumIntermediate
Presentations, Design & WebsitesWix AI

AI website builder and tools on Wix

FreemiumIntermediate
Video Generation & AvatarsEdify

Windows NLE video editor with OpenFX, proxy editing, AI subtitles, and VTuber tools.

PaidIntermediate
Video Generation & AvatarsCanvasForMusic

Free tool for creating looping Spotify Canvas videos to promote your music.

Free / OpenBeginner
Image Generation & EditingComic-cron

Daily contest where AI models draw cartoons and visitors vote blind on the best one.

Free / OpenBeginner
Presentations, Design & WebsitesMagic Patterns

Playful AI tool that lets you design and generate your own custom theme park.

Free / OpenBeginner
Image Generation & EditingTa

AI-native macOS screenshot tool with OCR, translation, long capture, pinning, and annotation.

Free / OpenBeginner
Video Generation & AvatarsGoogle Flow

Google's AI filmmaking studio combining Veo video, Imagen images, and scene-building tools.

FreemiumIntermediate
Image Generation & EditingClipDrop-Desktop---ClipDrop-AI-Tools-2026

AI image toolkit for background removal, relighting, upscaling, and text removal.

FreemiumBeginner
Presentations, Design & WebsitesSlideX

Open-source presentation tool for building slide decks with MDX.

Free / OpenIntermediate
Image Generation & EditingDoodle AI

Open-source AI tool that turns photos into doodle-style avatars.

Free / OpenBeginner
3D, Gaming & SimulationCogram

Collaborative CAD and BIM workspace where humans and AI agents design together.

FreemiumAdvanced
AI Agents & AutomationJakub Antalik

Open-source thinking-orb animations that visualize AI agents' processing states in UIs.

Free / OpenIntermediate
Video Generation & AvatarsAI-Old-Video-Restoration-Tool

Offline Windows tool that restores old VHS and archive video with AI denoise, deblur, and upscaling.

PaidBeginner
Video Generation & AvatarsStillMade

Programmable AI pipeline that turns chat prompts into generated videos.

FreemiumIntermediate
Presentations, Design & WebsitesVocab.design

Visual dictionary explaining UI and design terms with clear illustrations.

Free / OpenBeginner
Video Generation & AvatarsAIDemo.Video

Turns any website into a polished product demo video with one click.

FreemiumBeginner
Image Generation & EditingCapCut-Pro-Crack-New

Unlock all premium features of CapCut Pro: remove watermark, 4K export, AI tools, pro transitions…

Free / OpenIntermediate
3D, Gaming & SimulationAlternateRealities.lol

Create interactive point-and-click stories and branching adventures without code.

FreemiumBeginner
Presentations, Design & WebsitesRobin

Restyle any website instantly with a single AI prompt.

Free / OpenBeginner
Image Generation & EditingInspyry

AI-powered platform that generates custom SVG graphics and vector art from prompts.

FreemiumBeginner
Image Generation & EditingPortraitDesk

AI headshot generator creating realistic professional photos without the typical AI look.

PaidBeginner
Video Generation & AvatarsEndFrame

Turns your existing AI plan into product demos, launch videos, and shorts.

FreemiumBeginner
Image Generation & EditingFree AI image

Free AI image generation and editing tools accessible instantly with no signup required.

Free / OpenBeginner
Marketing, SEO & SalesListpro

Turns product screenshots into polished launch and marketing assets.

FreemiumBeginner
Image Generation & EditingStitchwink

AI tool that turns images into cross-stitch patterns for crafting projects.

FreemiumBeginner
Video Generation & AvatarsAI Agent for Animation

AI agent that generates animations from simple prompts, automating character and scene motion.

FreemiumBeginner
Image Generation & EditingSharpniq

AI-powered online tool that unblurs and sharpens blurry photos in seconds.

FreemiumBeginner
Presentations, Design & Websitesawesome-ui-design

Curated UI design guide with inspiration, tools, components, and AI skills organized by task.

Free / OpenBeginner
Presentations, Design & Websiteslogo-design-skill

Logo-design skill for AI agents with principles, SVG craft, and 1,400+ logo references.

Free / OpenIntermediate
3D, Gaming & SimulationMade an open-source Lego AI generator

Open-source AI tool that generates Lego models in LDraw format.

Free / OpenIntermediate
Presentations, Design & WebsitesArtbucket

Open-source brand asset storage and portals serving both humans and AI agents.

Free / OpenIntermediate
Presentations, Design & WebsitesAgy-ppt

Open-source agent skill that generates PowerPoint decks without the generic AI look.

Free / OpenIntermediate
SecuritySmart Blur

Browser tool that auto-blurs PII in images using a local on-device model.

Free / OpenBeginner
Video Generation & Avatarsshort-video-maker

Open-source tool turning YouTube videos into viral shorts with subtitles, translation, and voiceover.

Free / OpenIntermediate
3D, Gaming & SimulationLLM skill to generate editable 3D house designs

Generate editable 3D house designs from text prompts using an LLM-powered skill.

FreemiumBeginner
Presentations, Design & WebsitesTurn spoken thoughts into system design diagrams

Converts spoken ideas into system design diagrams automatically.

Free / OpenIntermediate
Presentations, Design & WebsitesFantastic Canvas

Open-source infinite canvas for AI-assisted creative and generative workflows.

Free / OpenIntermediate