Discover what’s possible with AI
AI can do much more than answer questions. From creating presentations and analysing data to improving accessibility, producing videos and organising your day, there’s a growing range of applications worth exploring.
Browse this collection of AI tools to discover new possibilities for your work, learning and everyday life.
| Category | Application | What it does | Why someone might use it | Access |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| General purpose AI | ChatGPT | A general purpose AI assistant that can help with writing, research, brainstorming, analysing files and data, creating images and working through complex problems. | Upload a report and ask it to summarise the key issues, draft an action plan or help you think through a difficult decision. | Web, iOS, Android. Free option plus paid plans. (OpenAI Help Center) |
| General purpose AI | Claude | An AI assistant particularly useful for working with documents, writing, analysis, research and complex reasoning. | Give it a lengthy strategy document and ask it to identify inconsistencies, risks or themes across the material. | Web, iOS, Android, desktop. Free option plus paid plans. (Anthropic) |
| General purpose AI | Gemini | Google’s general purpose AI assistant for writing, planning, research, learning, file analysis and working with Google services. | Ask it to explore an idea, analyse information or help you create something using content already in your Google ecosystem. | Web, iOS and Android. Free access with optional Google AI subscriptions. (Google Help) |
| AI search & research | Perplexity | An AI powered search and research tool that searches the web and provides answers with links to sources. | Research an unfamiliar topic quickly while still being able to follow the sources and check where the information came from. | Web and mobile. Free option plus paid plans. (Perplexity AI) |
| Research & knowledge | NotebookLM | Google’s AI tool for exploring information you provide, such as PDFs, websites, notes and videos. It can answer questions, summarise material and create Audio Overviews. | Load project documents into a notebook and ask questions across all of them instead of repeatedly searching through files. | Web, iOS and Android. Free access with additional features available through some Google plans. (App Store) |
| Academic research | Elicit | An AI research assistant designed to find, compare and extract information from academic research papers. | Investigate what published research says about a leadership, health, organisational or behavioural topic without manually searching dozens of papers. | Web. Free option plus paid plans. (Lilly) |
| Writing & communication | Grammarly | Helps improve spelling, grammar, clarity and tone, and can use generative AI to draft or rewrite content. | Polish an important email or report and check whether the tone comes across as confident, clear and appropriate. | Web, browser and supported apps. Free option plus paid plans. (Grammarly) |
| Translation & writing | DeepL | AI powered translation and writing assistance for text and documents, including tools for improving tone and wording. | Translate a document or correspondence while retaining more natural language than a literal word for word translation. | Web, Windows, Mac, iOS and Android. Free option plus paid plans. (DeepL) |
| Meetings | Otter.ai | Records and transcribes meetings and creates summaries, action items and searchable meeting notes. | Concentrate on the conversation instead of trying to capture every decision and action in your notes. | Web, desktop, iOS and Android. Free option plus paid plans. (Otter.ai) |
| Meetings | Read AI | Creates meeting transcripts, summaries, action items and insights, and can connect information across meetings, email and other work sources. | Catch up on a meeting you attended, or quickly find what was agreed several meetings ago. | Web, Windows, Mac, iOS and Android. Free option plus paid plans. (Read.ai) |
| Knowledge & productivity | Notion AI | Adds AI to the Notion workspace so it can search your information, draft content, summarise notes and help organise knowledge. | Ask a question about information scattered across your notes, projects and documents instead of hunting for it manually. | Web, desktop, iOS and Android. Limited AI trial use; ongoing AI features generally require eligible paid plans. (Notion) |
| Time management | Motion | Uses AI to organise calendars, tasks and projects and automatically schedule work around available time. | Give it your tasks and deadlines and let it continually reorganise your day when meetings or priorities change. | Web, desktop, iOS and Android. Free trial; paid plans. (Motion) |
| Calendar & focus | Reclaim | An intelligent calendar tool that automatically protects time for focused work, habits, breaks and meetings. | Tell it you need three hours of focus time each week and have it find suitable gaps around changing meetings. | Web based calendar service. Free option plus paid plans. (Reclaim) |
| Automation | Zapier | Connects different applications and lets you build automated workflows, including AI powered steps and agents, without needing to code. | Automatically take information from an online form, summarise it with AI and send the result to another system. | Web. Free option plus paid plans. (Zapier) |
| Project & work management | ClickUp Brain | Adds AI assistance, search, writing, task creation, prioritisation, project summaries and agents to the ClickUp work management platform. | Ask what has changed across a project this week and generate an update without manually reviewing every task. | Web, desktop, iOS and Android. AI trial access and paid AI plans. (ClickUp) |
| Project & work management | monday.com | Adds AI assistants and agents to monday.com for project work, reporting, meetings, task management and automated workflows. | Automatically summarise project information, prepare a meeting briefing or populate fields from incoming information. | Web, iOS and Android. Limited free platform; AI availability varies by plan. (monday.com) |
| Presentations & visual storytelling | Gamma | Uses AI to create presentations, documents, webpages and visual content from a prompt or existing material. | Turn an outline or report into a first draft of a presentation without starting with a blank slide deck. | Web. Free option plus paid plans. (Gamma) |
| Design & content creation | Canva AI | Adds AI assisted writing, design, image and video creation to Canva’s visual design platform. | Create a social post, presentation graphic or event invitation even if you are not an experienced designer. | Web and Canva mobile apps. Some AI tools available on Free; broader AI features on paid plans. (Canva) |
| Images & creative media | Adobe Firefly | Generates and edits images, video, audio and visual effects using Adobe and partner AI models. | Create an image from a description, remove an unwanted object from a photograph or extend the edges of an existing image. | Web, iOS and Android. Limited free daily generations plus paid plans. (Adobe) |
| Image generation | Midjourney | Creates highly detailed images and increasingly video from written prompts and visual references. | Generate concepts, illustrations or distinctive imagery when you cannot find an existing photograph that communicates the idea. | Web and Discord workflows. Subscription required for normal creation. (Midjourney) |
| Image generation | Ideogram | Generates and edits images from text prompts and is particularly useful when images need to contain readable text or graphic design elements. | Create a poster, sign, book concept or promotional image where words need to appear inside the generated design. | Web. Free option plus paid plans. (Ideogram) |
| Image editing | remove.bg | Automatically identifies the subject of an image and removes or replaces the background. | Turn an ordinary phone photograph of a product or person into a clean image for a website or presentation in seconds. | Web plus integrations and apps. Free low resolution use with paid high resolution options. (remove.bg) |
| AI video & avatars | HeyGen | Creates videos using AI presenters, avatars, voices and translations without needing a camera crew or traditional filming. | Turn a written script into a presenter led training or explainer video, or translate an existing video into another language. | Web and mobile options. Free plan plus paid plans. (HeyGen) |
| AI video & training | Synthesia | Creates professional presenter style videos from text, documents or webpages using AI avatars and voices. | Convert a procedure or training document into a narrated video without filming a presenter. | Web. Free option plus paid plans. (Synthesia Knowledge Base) |
| Generative video | Runway | Generates and edits video, images and audio using generative AI models. | Turn a still image or written idea into a short video sequence without shooting the footage yourself. | Primarily web. Free starter credits plus paid plans. (Runway) |
| Audio & video editing | Descript | Lets you edit recorded audio and video by editing its transcript, with AI tools for removing filler words, improving sound, generating clips and correcting speech. | Delete a sentence from a video simply by deleting the corresponding words from the transcript. | Web and desktop focused. Free option plus paid plans. (Descript) |
| Voice & audio | ElevenLabs | Generates natural sounding speech, voices, sound effects, transcription, dubbing and increasingly other audio and media. | Turn written material into realistic narration or create different voice versions of an audio resource. | Web with supported mobile experiences. Free option plus paid plans. (ElevenLabs) |
| Music creation | Suno | Creates complete pieces of music from a written description, including instrumentation, vocals and lyrics. | Experiment with an original piece of music for a personal creative project without knowing how to compose or play an instrument. | Web, iOS and Android. Free option plus paid plans; commercial rights depend on plan. (Suno) |
| Data analysis | Julius AI | Lets people analyse spreadsheets and other datasets using ordinary language and can create calculations, charts, reports and visualisations. | Upload an Excel file and ask, “What are the biggest trends in this data and can you show me a chart?” without writing formulas or code. | Web. Free option plus paid plans. (Julius AI) |
| Learning & languages | Duolingo | Uses generative AI in language learning features such as conversational roleplay and personalised explanations. | Practise ordering a meal or having a conversation in another language with an AI partner rather than simply completing vocabulary exercises. | Web, iOS and Android through Duolingo. AI features depend on course and subscription availability. (Duolingo Blog) |
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