ChatGPT
OpenAI
The most widely used general-purpose assistant. Handles drafting, summarising, rewriting and light analysis across most professional tasks.
Last reviewed 24 Jul 2026
AI Tools Directory
Not every AI tool — the ones we have actually used and have something honest to say about. Each profile says what the tool does well, where it falls down, what it costs, and whether you can sign up for it from an African country. Every entry carries the date it was last checked.
10 tools listed.
Claude
Anthropic
Assistant with a long context window, well suited to working through lengthy documents and sustained analytical tasks.
Last reviewed 2 Jul 2026
Gemini
Google's assistant, tied into Search and Workspace. Convenient where an organisation already runs on Google tooling.
Last reviewed 3 Jul 2026
Perplexity
Perplexity AI
Search-first assistant that answers with inline citations, aimed at research rather than conversation.
Last reviewed 25 Jul 2026
GitHub Copilot
GitHub / Microsoft
In-editor code completion and chat, the most widely adopted AI coding assistant.
Last reviewed 12 Jul 2026
Cursor
Anysphere
An editor built around AI assistance rather than an assistant bolted onto one, with whole-codebase context.
Last reviewed 28 Jun 2026
Midjourney
Midjourney
Image generation with strong aesthetic output, historically operated through Discord.
Last reviewed 17 Jul 2026
ElevenLabs
ElevenLabs
Voice synthesis and cloning, used for narration, dubbing and accessibility work.
Last reviewed 16 Jul 2026
Whisper
OpenAI
Open-source speech-to-text that runs locally, widely used for transcription across many languages.
Last reviewed 11 Jul 2026
Hugging Face
Hugging Face
The main open model hub: hosting for models and datasets, plus libraries and inference endpoints.
Last reviewed 17 Jul 2026