Trending AI Tools

OpenAI’s general-purpose AI assistant for writing, research, analysis, coding and more. It ranked first in June 2026 traffic data for AI tools.

Best for: Drafting, brainstorming and everyday questions

Google’s AI assistant and model family, integrated with Google’s apps and search. Traffic grew roughly 40% between February and June 2026.

Best for: Google Workspace users and multimodal tasks

Anthropic’s AI assistant, widely used for analysing long documents, writing and coding. Its traffic more than tripled between February and June 2026, the fastest growth among the most-visited AI tools.

Best for: Long documents, careful writing and coding

An AI answer engine that cites the web sources behind each answer, which makes it easy to check claims before you publish them.

Best for: Quick fact-finding with cited sources

Microsoft’s AI assistant, built into Windows, the Edge browser and Microsoft 365 apps.

Best for: Windows, Edge and Microsoft 365 workflows

A Chinese AI lab’s chatbot and open-weight models, popular with developers and researchers.

Best for: Reasoning tasks and open-weight models

The AI chatbot built into X (formerly Twitter), from xAI.

Best for: Conversations tied to what is happening on X

Google’s research assistant that answers questions from the documents and sources you upload, keeping its answers grounded in your material.

Best for: Summarising and questioning your own sources

An online design platform with built-in AI tools for images, layouts and presentations — handy for article headers and social posts.

Best for: Blog graphics, social images and thumbnails

A video editor with AI features for captions, effects and quick edits of short clips.

Best for: Short-form video editing

An AI voice and speech platform for turning text into natural-sounding audio.

Best for: Voice-overs and text-to-speech

An AI music generator that creates songs from a text description.

Best for: Generating music and jingles

A writing assistant that checks grammar, clarity and tone as you write.

Best for: Proofreading and tone checks

An AI translation and writing tool that supports more than 100 languages.

Best for: Translating articles between languages

An AI app builder that turns a written description into a working web app. Traffic grew about 25% between February and June 2026.

Best for: Prototyping web apps from a prompt

Google’s browser-based environment for experimenting with Gemini models and building prototypes.

Best for: Trying Gemini models and building prototypes