BEST AI TOOLS FOR DESIGN

ADOBE FIREFLY

Commercially-safe generative suite in Creative Cloud

ARAGON

AI professional headshot generator

AUTOMATIC1111 WEBUI

The original Stable Diffusion web interface

CANVA MAGIC STUDIO

AI design, image and text tools for everyone

CIVITAI

The hub for community Stable Diffusion/FLUX models

CLEANUP.PICTURES

Remove objects/people from photos

CLIPDROP

AI image editing toolbox (relight, cleanup, upscale)

COMFYUI

Node-based open-source interface for diffusion models

CRAIYON

Free simple image generator (ex DALL-E mini)

DALL-E 3

OpenAI image generation inside ChatGPT and Bing

DRAW THINGS

Free on-device diffusion app for Apple devices

DREAM BY WOMBO

Mobile-first artistic image generation

DREAMSTUDIO

Stability AI's original web generation app

FLAIR

AI product photography with brand control

FLUX

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

FOOOCUS

Simple Midjourney-like local SD interface

FOTOR AI

AI photo editor and generator

FREEPIK AI

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

GETTY GENERATIVE AI

Commercially-safe generation trained on Getty library

GROK IMAGINE

xAI image and short-video generation (Aurora)

HEADSHOTPRO

Professional AI headshots for teams

IDEOGRAM

Image generation with best-in-class text rendering

IMAGEN

Google's photorealistic image model in Gemini/Vertex

INTERIOR AI

AI interior redesign from room photos

INVOKEAI

Professional open-source creative engine

KITTL

Design platform with strong AI graphics tools

KREA

Real-time generation, enhancement and creative canvas

LENSA AI

Magic Avatars app behind the 2022 avatar craze

LEONARDO AI

Image generation platform for creatives and game art

LEXICA

Stable Diffusion search engine and generator

LIMEWIRE AI STUDIO

AI image/audio studio under revived LimeWire brand

LOOKA

AI logo and brand kit generator

LUMINAR NEO

AI-powered photo editor

MAGE

Unfiltered multi-model generation site

MAGNIFIC

AI upscaler and 'relight' famous for detail hallucination

MICROSOFT DESIGNER

Free AI design and Image Creator app

MIDJOURNEY

Best-known artistic text-to-image generator

NANO BANANA

Viral Gemini image editing/generation model

NIGHTCAFE

Community image-generation platform

OPENART

Multi-model image generation and editing hub

PEBBLELY

Instant AI product photos

PHOTO AI

AI photoshoots from your selfies

PHOTOROOM

AI product photos and background removal

PICSART AI

Creative app suite with AI generation/editing

PIXELCUT

Mobile AI product photography and design

PIXLR AI

Browser photo editor with generative tools

PLAYGROUND

Popular free image generator, later design pivot

RECRAFT

AI design tool for vector art, brand styles, mockups

REMINI

Photo enhancement and viral AI portraits

REMOVE.BG

One-click background removal

REVE

High-fidelity image model from ex-Adobe team

SEAART

Feature-rich community generation platform

SHUTTERSTOCK AI

Licensed-data image generation on stock platform

STABLE DIFFUSION

Open-weight image model powering a huge ecosystem

STARRYAI

Mobile AI art generator

TENSOR.ART

Community platform for models and image generation

TOPAZ LABS

Industry-standard AI photo and video enhancement

UPSCAYL

Free open-source image upscaler

VECTORIZER.AI

Raster-to-vector conversion with AI

VIZCOM

Sketch-to-render for industrial designers

AI STUDIOS

Realistic AI avatar video platform

ARGIL

AI clones for short-form creator video

CAPCUT AI

Free editor with heavy AI features

CAPTIONS

AI-powered talking-video creation and editing app

COLOSSYAN

AI video for workplace training

D-ID

Talking-photo avatars and interactive agents

DESCRIPT

Edit video/audio by editing the transcript

DOMOAI

Video-to-anime and style-transfer generation

ELAI.IO

Avatar video generation from text

FILMORA AI

Consumer video editor with AI toolkit

FLIKI

Text-to-video with lifelike voiceovers

HAILUO

MiniMax's popular video generator

HAIPER

Video generation startup from DeepMind alumni

HEDRA

Expressive talking-character video generation

HEYGEN

AI avatar videos and video translation at scale

HIGGSFIELD

Cinematic camera-control video generation

HOUR ONE

Virtual-human video generation

HUNYUANVIDEO

Tencent's open-source video foundation model

INVIDEO AI

Full videos from a single text prompt

JIMENG (DREAMINA)

ByteDance's image/video creation suite (Seedance)

KAIBER

Music-video-style AI animation

KAPWING

Collaborative online editor with AI features

KLAP

YouTube-to-TikTok clip generation

KLING

Leading Chinese video model with strong realism

LTX STUDIO

AI filmmaking studio with open LTX-Video model

LUMA DREAM MACHINE

High-quality video generation (Ray2 model)

LUMEN5

Blog-to-video for social media

MAREY

Fully-licensed 'clean' video model for pros

META MOVIE GEN

Meta's research video/audio generation models

MOCHI

Open-source video generation model

OPUS CLIP

Long video to viral shorts, automatically

PICTORY

Turn scripts and blogs into videos

PIKA

Playful text/image-to-video with viral effects

PIXVERSE

Consumer video generation with viral templates

POLLO AI

Aggregator giving access to all major video models

RUNWAY

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

SORA

OpenAI text-to-video and social video app

SUBMAGIC

AI captions and effects for short-form video

SYNC

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

SYNTHESIA

Enterprise AI avatar video platform

TAVUS

Conversational video AI and digital-twin API

VEED

Online video editor with AI tools

VEO / FLOW

Google's flagship video model with native audio

VIDU

Fast multi-subject-consistent video model

VIGGLE

Character animation/swap from a single image

VIZARD

Repurpose long videos into social clips

WAN

Alibaba's open-weight video model family

ADOBE ENHANCE SPEECH

One-click podcast-quality audio cleanup

AIVA

AI composer for soundtracks

ASSEMBLYAI

Speech-to-text and audio intelligence API

BEATOVEN.AI

Mood-based background music generation

BOOMY

Instant song creation and distribution

CAMB.AI

Speech translation/dubbing in 140+ languages

CARTESIA

Ultra-low-latency realistic TTS (Sonic)

DEEPGRAM

Fast, accurate speech-to-text and voice APIs

ELEVENLABS

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

FAKEYOU

Community character-voice TTS

GLADIA

Real-time transcription API for meetings/calls

HUME

Emotionally expressive empathic voice AI (EVI)

KITS AI

AI voice models and tools for musicians

KRISP

AI noise cancellation and call intelligence

LALAL.AI

AI stem splitting (vocals/instruments)

LANDR

AI mastering and music tools

LOUDLY

AI music platform for content creators

LOVO GENNY

AI voiceover and video workspace

MOISES

Practice app with stem separation and pitch tools

MUBERT

Generative royalty-free music streams and API

MURF

Studio-quality AI voiceovers

MUSICFX

Google's experimental music generation (Lyria)

MUSICFY

AI vocal covers and voice swaps

PLAYAI (PLAY.HT)

Voice cloning and TTS platform

RESEMBLE AI

Voice cloning plus deepfake-detection tools

RESPEECHER

Hollywood-grade voice conversion

RIFFUSION

From spectrogram hack to personalized music app

RIME

Conversational TTS voices for phone agents

SOUNDRAW

Royalty-free AI music for creators

SPEECHIFY

Text-to-speech reading app with celebrity voices

STABLE AUDIO

Text-to-music/SFX from Stability

SUNO

Full-song generation from a text prompt

UBERDUCK

Early viral voice-generation platform

UDIO

High-fidelity AI music generation

VOICEMOD

Real-time AI voice changer for gaming

WELLSAID

Enterprise AI voice for training content

WHISPER

Open-source speech recognition that changed the field

CONVAI

Conversational 3D characters for games/XR

CSM

3D world/asset generation from images

GENIE

DeepMind's interactive world model

INWORLD

AI NPCs and character engine for games

KAEDIM

Image-to-3D for game studios

LAYER AI

Game art pipeline with style-locked generation

LUDO.AI

AI game-concept research and ideation

LUMA GENIE

Text-to-3D generation

MARBLE

Generate explorable 3D worlds from prompts

MESHY

Leading text/image-to-3D model generator

NVIDIA ACE

Digital-human and NPC AI microservices

OASIS

Real-time playable AI world model demo

RODIN

High-detail 3D character/asset generation

ROSEBUD AI

Prompt-to-playable-game platform

SCENARIO

Custom-trained game asset generation

SKYBOX AI

360-degree world generation

SLOYD

Parametric 3D asset generation

SPLINE AI

AI 3D design in the browser

TRIPO

Fast 3D asset generation

10WEB

AI WordPress website builder

BEAUTIFUL.AI

AI-assisted smart presentation design

DECKTOPUS

AI deck generator for quick presentations

DORA

AI-generated 3D/animated websites

DURABLE

Build a business website in seconds with AI

FIGMA MAKE

Prompt-to-prototype and design in Figma

FRAMER AI

AI website generation and CMS

GAMMA

AI-generated decks, docs and websites

GOOGLE STITCH

Generate UI designs and frontend code

MIRO AI

AI on the collaborative whiteboard

MIXO

AI landing-page/startup site builder

NAPKIN AI

Turn text into editable business visuals

PITCH

Collaborative presentations with AI features

PLUS AI

AI presentations inside Google Slides/PowerPoint

PRESENTATIONS.AI

ChatGPT-style presentation generation

RELUME

AI sitemaps and Webflow/Figma component libraries

SLIDESAI

Text-to-slides add-on for Google Slides

SQUARESPACE BLUEPRINT AI

Guided AI website design

UIZARD

AI UI/UX design and wireframing

VISILY

AI wireframe and UI design from prompts/screenshots

WIX AI

AI website builder and tools on Wix

I BUILT AN AI MUSIC GENERATOR WITH SOME HARNESSES

AI music generator that creates original songs from simple prompts.

EDIFY

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

CANVASFORMUSIC

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

A DAILY CARTOON CONTEST BETWEEN AI MODELS, JUDGED BLIND

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

BUILD YOUR OWN THEME PARK

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

TA

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

GOOGLE FLOW

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

CLIPDROP-DESKTOP---CLIPDROP-AI-TOOLS-2026

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

HOW I DESIGN WITH AI

A designer's firsthand guide to integrating AI tools into a practical design workflow.

SLIDEX

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

DOODLE AI: OPEN-SOURCE PHOTO-TO-DOODLE AVATAR GENERATOR

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

COGRAM STUDIO

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

OPEN SOURCE THINKING-ORB ANIMATIONS FOR AI AGENTS

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

AI-OLD-VIDEO-RESTORATION-TOOL

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

I BUILT STARDEW VALLEY BUT YOU PAY FOR EVERYTHING

Stardew Valley parody where every in-game action costs real money, satirizing microtransactions.

STILLMADE

Programmable AI pipeline that turns chat prompts into generated videos.

VOCAB.DESIGN

Visual dictionary explaining UI and design terms with clear illustrations.

AIDEMO.VIDEO

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

FILMMAKERS TOUT AI'S USE IN HOLLYWOOD

News article on filmmakers championing AI's growing role in Hollywood at a Venice film festival.

CAPCUT-PRO-CRACK-NEW

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

ALTERNATEREALITIES.LOL

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

ROBIN

Restyle any website instantly with a single AI prompt.

INSPYRY

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

PORTRAITDESK

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

ENDFRAME

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

FREE AI IMAGE TOOLS, NO SIGNUP

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

SUNO ROLLS OUT V6 SONG MAKING MODEL, WILL PAY ROYALTIES

Suno's v6 model generates full songs from text prompts, now with artist royalty payouts.

LISTPRO

Turns product screenshots into polished launch and marketing assets.