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Best AI tools worth trying for your startup

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Week 35, 2026

This week's tools

16 launches

Lorvis

Turn prompts into production-ready websites

Developer ToolsNo CodeContact

Tuikor AI

Chat face to face with AI digital humans 24/7

AISocial MediaCommunicationFreemium

Seedance 2.5

Create up to 30-second AI videos with multiple references

AIContent CreationVideoSubscription

InvoiceSonic

Free invoicing software and app for small business

E-CommerceFinanceProductivityFree

Veevid AI

Create cinematic videos with audio from text or images

AIContent CreationVideoFreemium

Seedance 2.5

AI video generator for native 30s 4K clips

AIContent CreationVideoContact

Penroll

AI hiring copilot for growing teams

HR & RecruitingAIProductivityFreemium

HorizonX

Premium visual context for AI-coded interfaces

Design ToolsDeveloper ToolsProductivitySubscription

MusicAura AI

AI music generator for every mood

AIContent CreationMusicFreemium

Free Music Creator

Create songs and background music from text

AIContent CreationMusicFreemium

VideoUpscaler

Test a private 2x video upscale before installing anything

AIContent CreationVideoFree

madbid.lol

The paid leaderboard where AI builders buy their rank

Launch PlatformsMarketingAIPaid

Luna Lisa

Try the Luna Lisa image model in your browser

ImageAIContent CreationFreemium

AI Photo Editor

Edit a photo with a prompt in your browser

ImageAIContent CreationFreemium

Top tools

The most upvoted of the 725 listed here.

Copy.ai

Go-to-market AI workflows for sales and marketing

AIMarketingSalesFreemium

Spellbook

AI contract drafting and review inside Word

LegalAIProductivityContact

Midjourney

Text-to-image generation with a distinctive house style

AIImageContent CreationSubscription

Clearscope

Content optimisation grounded in SERP analysis

SEOMarketingWritingSubscription

Sentry

Error tracking and performance monitoring for apps

MonitoringDeveloper ToolsDevOpsFreemium

Ocoya

Write, design and schedule social content in one app

Social MediaMarketingAISubscription

Snyk

Find and fix vulnerabilities in code and dependencies

SecurityDeveloper ToolsDevOpsFreemium

Hugging Face

The hub for open models, datasets and demos

AIDeveloper ToolsOpen SourceFreemium

Our take

Read our take before you click through

711 of 725 listings carry a written overview: what the product is, what it looks strong at, and what to check for yourself before you commit.

Copy.ai

Strength

Strong automation capabilities for marketing teams producing SEO, thought leadership, and social content

Worth checking

Pricing specifics and exact tier limits are not detailed on the website beyond the mention of a free tier, paid plans, and workflow credits

Spellbook

Strength

Integrates directly into Microsoft Word to eliminate the need for switching windows during drafting and review

Worth checking

Specific tier pricing is not published on the page and requires contacting sales for a custom quote

Midjourney

Strength

Delivers consistent quality and a strong aesthetic suited for illustrative and cinematic work

Worth checking

Requires a paid recurring subscription to unlock commercial usage rights

Written by our automated systems from each product's own description and website, and corrected by makers where they have. It is a summary, not a scored review. We publish no rating, score or percentage we did not measure ourselves.

Writing

From the blog

Writing on AI tooling, plus launch stories from the people who built the tools listed here.

All 42 articles
6 min read

83 of 519 AI tools keep their price on the home page and nowhere else

We already knew roughly two thirds of the tools we list publish a price. This time we recorded where it was. 432 put it at /pricing, 83 keep it on the home page only, and 108 of the 519 were invisible to a plain fetch until a browser ran their scripts.

Pricingfoundersresearch
1 min read

Google DeepMind introduces Gemini 3.7 Flash

Google DeepMind has launched Gemini 3.7 Flash, an update designed for coding and agents. Released three weeks after Gemini 3.6 Flash, the model offers lower pricing and performance improvements in software engineering and web development.

ai modelscodinggemini

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