This list features some of the best AI tools in 2026 for boosting productivity, automating tasks, creating content, growing a side hustle, and saving serious time every week. I use most of these on a weekly basis and they can save hours! Diagnosing f...
I use it more than google. It helps me with daily tasks such football bets, presents for the wife, fixing the car, writing important emails and so on.
ChatGPT
Comes free with microsoft so you may have it and not know it but is extremely useful. It's a slightly more professional Chat GPT and helps with analysing spreadsheets, producing Powerpoints, doing my marking for me and even told me how to swap the ha...
Microsoft Copilot
Intergrated into Google and is very useful across Google Docs, Gmail, Sheets, Drive and so on
Google Gemini
Deep reasoning and large-document understanding capabilities for analysts and professionals. Very good at summarising long documents.
Claude
Intelligent workspace for notes, planning, documentation, and creative workflows, usefull in a professional setting. Not so much for the casual user.
Notion AI
AI that researches for you and gives citations. Very usefull for University papers or authors.
Perplexity
Usefull for making your writing look more proffesional but annoying when it's set to US English and uses Z's instead of S's. I find I often have to reset this in the settings.
Grammarly
Very good for transcribing meetings I use it for my job alot. It can summarise long meetings and even has search functions to save scrolling back through lots of text.
Otter.ai
Connects and automates apps from natural language commands.
Transform your operations with Zapier and AI
Excellent for scheduling work life and home! Very good for prioritising tasks and organisation.
Motion: The AI Powered SuperApp for Work
Great for project mangement and producing work plans.
ClickUp Brain | One AI to Replace them All
AI video generation for creators on youtube or TikTok and also marketers. Very easy to use
Runway | Building AI to Simulate the World
AI Voiceovers. Mostly used for Tik Tok and Youtube posts. Very user freindly and easy to customise.
ElevenLabs
Midjourney creates visuals from prompts. The more structured infor you give it, the better the finished article will be. Veru good for creators and influencers.
Midjourney
Marketing and content generation assistant for blogs, ads and SEO content. Not used it myself but a close friend has and reports that it saves them hours when working on their travel blog.
Jasper
AI code review for developers and professionals in the IT game.