Creative AI tools, explained plainly

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• 3D AI Studio · toolA browser studio that turns a text prompt or a picture into a 3D model, using its own engines plus models from other makers.

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• ACE-Step · modelA free, downloadable model that writes whole songs, with or without vocals, from a text description and lyrics.
• Adobe Express · toolAn easy design app for social posts, flyers, logos and short videos, with templates and built-in AI to make images from a description, remove backgrounds and edit photos.
• Adobe Firefly · toolAdobe's AI studio for making and editing pictures from text, plus short videos, voiceovers, music and sound effects.
• Adobe Lightroom · toolAdobe's photo organiser and editor for photographers.
• Adobe Photoshop · toolAdobe's long-standing photo editor, now with AI built in.
• Adobe Podcast (Enhance Speech) · toolA browser tool that makes speech recorded on a phone or laptop sound like it was done in a quiet studio by removing background noise and echo.
• Adobe Premiere · toolAdobe's professional video editor.
• Adobe Substance 3D · toolAdobe's set of desktop apps for professional 3D texturing, materials, modelling and scene rendering.
• AI Studios by DeepBrain AI · toolDeepBrain AI's AI Studios turns a script into a video with a digital presenter, can dub videos into other languages, and offers presenters people can talk to live.
• AIVA · toolWrites instrumental music for you from a chosen style, which you can then edit note by note.
• Akool · toolA large web toolkit for AI video: talking presenters, talking photos, face swap (including live), video translation and voice cloning, plus picture and video makers that run many other companies' models.
• Amazon Polly · toolAmazon's cloud service that reads text aloud in dozens of voices and languages.
• Anam · toolBuilds realistic AI faces that hold live video conversations, for example as a support agent or tutor on a website.
• Animoto · toolA long-running browser video maker: drop your photos and clips into ready-made templates, add licensed music and text, and export.
• Aragon AI · toolUpload a few selfies and get a set of professional-looking headshots of yourself in about half an hour, in chosen outfits and backgrounds.
• Arcads · toolMakes video adverts in the style of social-media testimonials, using a library of AI actors who read your script.
• Argil · toolMakes short social-media videos with a digital copy of you, or a stock presenter, speaking your script.
• Artbreeder · toolA playful browser tool for making pictures by mixing images and text, blending 'genes' of portraits, making collages and extending images.
• AssemblyAI · toolA speech-to-text service for developers: send it recordings or live audio and get back text, with options such as who-said-what, translation and summaries.
• Async (formerly Podcastle) · toolAn online studio for podcasts and videos: record remote guests, get transcripts, clean up and edit audio, and turn text into speech with AI voices.
• Atlas · toolBrowser studio for game teams that chains AI models into reusable steps: picture to 3D model, then clean-up, UVs, textures and rigging for Unity or Unreal.
• AudioGen (medium) · modelA downloadable model from Meta that makes short sound effects, like a dog barking or footsteps, from a text description.
• AudioShake · toolSplits audio into separate parts: vocals and instruments in a song, or dialogue, music and effects in a film soundtrack.
• Auphonic · toolUpload a podcast or recording and it automatically evens out volume, reduces noise and hum, cuts silences and filler words, and can write a transcript.
• Autodesk Flow Studio · toolAn online tool that reads ordinary filmed footage and rebuilds it as a 3D scene: it tracks the camera, captures actors' body, face and hand movement without suits, and lets you drop animated CG characters into the shot.
• Azure AI Speech · toolMicrosoft's cloud speech service for developers and businesses.

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• BandLab SongStarter · toolA song-idea generator inside the BandLab music studio.
• Bark · modelA free, downloadable model that turns text into speech in 13 languages, and can add laughs, sighs, background noise or a little music.
• Beatoven.ai · toolMakes royalty-free background music and sound effects from a short written description, in your browser.
• BiRefNet · modelA free, open model that cuts the main subject out of a photo with fine detail such as hair, so you can remove or replace the background.
• Blockade Labs Skybox AI · toolMakes a 360-degree surrounding scene (a skybox) from a short description, for use as a backdrop in games, VR or 3D scenes.
• Boomy · toolA website that uses AI to make music for you.
• Bria · toolA business service for making and editing images (and some video clean-up) through an API, plugins and web tools, using Bria's own models trained on licensed stock images.
• Bria Fibo 2.0 · modelBria's 2026 picture model that makes and edits images (by instruction, mask or up to 4 references), trained only on licensed images.

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• CAMB.AI · toolTranslates and dubs videos and live streams into other languages, and turns text into natural-sounding speech, using its own MARS speech models.
• Canva AI (Magic Studio) · toolThe AI tools built into the Canva design app: make pictures from a description, edit photos by pointing and clicking, remove backgrounds and resize designs.
• CapCut · toolA video editor with templates and basic editing tools, plus paid AI credits for making short clips from a description using ByteDance's Seedance video models.
• Captions · toolA phone and web video editor for talking-to-camera clips.
• Cartesia · toolA fast text-to-speech and speech-to-text service aimed at developers building voice apps and phone agents.
• Cascadeur · toolDesktop app for animating 3D characters by hand, with AI help that fills in a full pose from a few points you move and physics that makes jumps and falls look real.
• ChatGPT Images · toolMake and edit pictures by chatting with ChatGPT: describe what you want or upload a photo and ask for changes.
• Chatterbox · modelA free, downloadable family of text-to-speech models from Resemble AI that read text aloud in 23 languages and can copy a voice from a short clip.
• Civitai · place to run itA large community site for sharing and downloading Stable Diffusion and Flux models and add-ons, with an on-site generator for pictures and video paid for with its 'Buzz' currency.
• Claid · toolOnline tools for shop product photos: put a product into a styled scene, show clothes on AI fashion models, remove backgrounds, upscale and fix lighting, or turn a still into a short video.
• Cleanup.pictures · toolA simple browser tool for erasing unwanted things from a photo: paint over a person, object, text or blemish and it fills the gap.
• Cleanvoice AI · toolCleans up podcast and voice recordings in your browser: removes background noise, filler words like 'um', mouth sounds and long silences, and can transcribe and summarise.
• Clipchamp · toolMicrosoft's simple video editor for the browser and Windows.
• Clipdrop · toolA set of quick photo tools in the browser: remove or replace a background, erase objects, widen a picture, relight it, upscale it, or make an image from a description.
• CogVideoX · modelA downloadable video model from the Z.ai (Zhipu) CogVideoX team that makes 5-10 second clips from a description or a photo.
• Colossyan · toolTurns a script into a video with a digital presenter, aimed at workplace training.
• ComfyUI · toolA free, open-source app where you build image, video, audio and 3D workflows by linking boxes together, running open models on your own computer.
• Creatify · toolMakes short video and image adverts, often from a product link, using stock AI presenters reading a script.
• CSM (Cube) · toolTurns a picture or a short description into a 3D model in your browser, and can split an object into separate parts, tidy up the mesh and repaint textures.

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• D-ID · toolMakes a photo or video of a face talk, reading your script or audio.
• DaVinci Resolve · toolProfessional desktop software for editing, colour, effects and sound.
• Decart Lucy · modelDecart's real-time video model: point it at a webcam or live stream and change the style, background or objects from a text prompt as you watch.
• Deepgram · toolA pay-as-you-go service for developers that turns speech into text (live or from files) and text into speech, priced per minute or per character.
• DeepMotion Animate 3D · toolUpload an ordinary video of someone moving and get the movement back as 3D character animation (motion capture without a suit), ready to use in games or 3D apps.
• DeeVid AI · toolA browser and phone app that makes short videos and pictures from a description or a photo, using a choice of other makers' video models.
• Demucs · modelA free, open model that splits a song into separate drums, bass, vocals and other parts (a six-part version adds guitar and piano).
• Descript · toolEdit audio and video by editing a written transcript, like a document.
• Dia · modelA free, downloadable speech model that turns a written two-person script into spoken dialogue, including laughs and coughs.
• DiffusionBee · toolA free Mac app that runs Stable Diffusion image models on your own computer, offline.
• Distil-Whisper · modelA smaller, faster version of OpenAI's Whisper that turns English speech into text, about six times quicker than the full model.
• DomoAI · toolA browser app that turns photos, descriptions or existing clips into short animated videos, including anime-style restyling and talking avatars.
• Draw Things · toolA free app for iPhone, iPad and Mac that makes pictures on your own device, offline, using downloadable open models.
• Dreamina · toolA CapCut web app that makes pictures and short videos from a description or a photo, edits and upscales images, and creates talking avatars.
• Dubverse · toolA web tool that translates and re-voices your videos into other languages with AI voices, and also makes subtitles and text-to-speech.
• Dzine · toolA browser app for making and editing pictures and short videos with AI, with a canvas for layered edits, consistent characters, lip sync and talking avatars.

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• EchoMimic · modelA free, downloadable model from Ant Group that makes a photo of a person talk or sing in time with an audio clip.
• Elai.io · toolMakes training and explainer videos with a virtual presenter reading your script.
• Eleven Music · toolElevenLabs' song maker: describe a song and get music with or without singing, in several languages, then regenerate single sections like the chorus.
• Eleven v3 · modelElevenLabs' expressive text-to-speech model.
• Eleven v4 · modelElevenLabs' newest and most expressive text-to-speech model.
• ElevenLabs · toolType text and get natural-sounding speech in many languages, or make a copy of your own voice.

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• F5-TTS · modelA free research text-to-speech model that copies the voice in a short reference clip and reads new text in it.
• Facetune · toolA phone and browser app for touching up selfies and short videos: smooth skin, change makeup, hair or outfits, remove backgrounds and make AI headshots.
• fal · place to run itA pay-as-you-go service for running many AI models through code or a web playground: image, video, speech, 3D, and talking-avatar and lip-sync models from various makers.
• FantasyTalking · modelA free research model that makes a portrait photo talk: give it a picture and a voice recording and it produces a video of the person speaking with matching lips and head movement.
• Filmora · toolA video editing app for computers and phones from Wondershare, with built-in AI extras: make clips from a description or photo, lengthen clips, auto captions, text to speech, music and sound effects.
• Fish Audio · toolA text-to-speech site with a large library of community voices.
• Fish Audio Drama 3 · modelFish Audio's large open text-to-speech model (October 2026) for audiobooks and drama: up to 16 characters in one script, 83 languages, voice cloning from a short clip and delivery set in plain words.
• Flair · toolA browser tool for online shops that stages product photos in AI-made scenes, puts clothing and jewellery on AI-generated models, and makes short product videos and ads.
• FlexClip · toolA browser video editor with templates and many AI helpers: turn a prompt, article or slides into a video, add AI voiceovers, subtitles and music, remove backgrounds and make AI images.
• Fliki · toolTurns a script, idea, blog post or slides into a narrated video with stock visuals, AI voices and optional avatars.
• FLORA · toolA shared online canvas where you connect text, picture and video AI models in a visual flow, then reuse and tweak the chain for a whole campaign or storyboard.
• FLUX 3 · modelBlack Forest Labs' 2026 model family.
• FLUX.1 [dev] · modelA downloadable model that turns a written description into a picture.
• FLUX.1 [schnell] · modelA fast, free-to-download model that turns a description into a picture in a few steps.
• FLUX.1 Kontext · modelA model that changes an existing picture from a written instruction, such as swapping the background or restyling it, while keeping the same character.
• FLUX.2 · modelA family of picture models from Black Forest Labs that make and edit images from text, and can combine several reference images.
• FLUX1.1 [pro] · modelA picture-making model from Black Forest Labs that turns a written description into an image.
• Fooocus · toolA free, open-source program you install on your own computer to make pictures from a description with few settings to learn.
• Fotor · toolAn all-in-one photo editor and design app with AI tools: make pictures or short videos from a description, edit photos, remove backgrounds and get AI headshots.

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• Gemini 2.5 Flash Image (Nano Banana) · modelGoogle's first 'Nano Banana' image model.
• Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS · modelGoogle's expressive text-to-speech model (September 2026).
• Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash · modelGoogle's newest video model (November 2026).
• Genmo · toolA video lab that makes short clips from a written description.
• getimg.ai · toolA browser workspace for making and editing pictures with many different AI models, plus video, music, speech and sound effects.
• Gling · toolAn editing helper for people who film themselves talking, such as YouTubers.
• Google Cloud Text-to-Speech · toolGoogle's developer service that turns written text into spoken audio in many voices and languages, paid per character.
• Google Flow · toolGoogle's browser studio for making short video clips and pictures from a description, a photo or reference images, then editing and stitching them into scenes.
• Google Flow Music · toolGoogle's music app where you chat with an assistant to make full songs with vocals, remix tracks, split songs into parts and make music videos.
• Google Flow Music (formerly MusicFX) · toolGoogle's MusicFX page now leads to Google Flow Music, where you chat with an assistant to make full songs with vocals, remix tracks and split songs into parts.
• Google Flow Music (formerly Riffusion) · toolRiffusion's web address now leads to Google Flow Music, where you chat with an assistant to make full songs with vocals, remix tracks and split songs into parts.
• Google Gemini (image creation) · toolImage making inside Google's Gemini chat app: describe a picture or upload photos and ask for changes in plain words.
• GPT Image 1 · modelOpenAI's earlier model for making and editing pictures from text and reference images.
• GPT Image 2.6 · modelOpenAI's newest model for making and editing pictures from text and reference images, released in November 2026 in two versions: Sunburst for detailed work and Flare for quick drafts.
• Granite Speech 5.0 · modelIBM's free, open speech-recognition model (October 2026).
• Grok Imagine · modelxAI's picture and video models, used in the Grok app and through xAI's API.

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• Hailuo AI · toolA browser app from MiniMax for making short video clips from a description or a photo, plus pictures and ready-made effect templates.
• Hallo2 · modelA free, downloadable research model that animates a front-facing portrait photo to speak along with an English audio track, including long clips and an optional sharper high-resolution mode.
• Happy Scribe · toolUpload a recording or video and get a written transcript or subtitles, which it can also translate into other languages.
• HeadshotPro · toolUpload a few selfies and get a set of professional-looking work headshots made by AI.
• Hedra · toolMakes any face in a picture talk or sing along to an audio track, using its own Character 3 model or others it hosts.
• HeyGen · toolMakes videos of a digital presenter reading your script, in your browser.
• HiDream-I1 · modelA large downloadable model (17 billion parameters) that makes pictures from a description.
• Higgsfield · toolA web app that runs several makers' video and image models in one place, such as Seedance and Nano Banana.
• HitPaw VikPea · toolA desktop app that uses AI to make old, blurry or low-resolution videos sharper and bigger (up to 8K), smoother or colourised.
• Hour One · toolMakes videos of a virtual presenter reading your text or slides, in several languages.
• Hugging Face · place to run itThe main public library of AI models, where makers publish open models for pictures, video, speech, music and 3D.
• Hume AI · toolA company known for expressive AI voices.
• Hunyuan 3D (Tencent) · toolTencent's web app for making 3D models from a description, up to four photos or a sketch, with tools to tidy the mesh and export OBJ or GLB for games, shops or 3D printing.
• Hunyuan3D 2 · modelTencent's downloadable 3D model maker: one part builds a shape from a picture, another paints textures onto it.
• HunyuanVideo · modelA free, downloadable video model from Tencent with about 13 billion parameters.
• HunyuanVideo-Avatar · modelA free-to-download Tencent model that makes a still portrait talk or sing in time with an audio track, with control over emotion and support for more than one character.
• Hyper3D Rodin · toolMakes a textured 3D model from one or more photos or a text description, in your browser.

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• Ideogram · toolMakes pictures from a written description and is especially good at putting readable words into images, such as posters and logos.
• Idol · modelA free, open model from Sperid Labs that turns one photo of an object into a 3D Gaussian splat you can view from any side, filling in the parts the photo doesn't show.
• Imagen 4 · modelGoogle's text-to-picture model, offered to developers in Fast, Standard and Ultra versions through Google's APIs.
• ImagineArt · toolAn all-in-one creative site for pictures, video and audio.
• InfiniteTalk · modelA free, downloadable model that makes a person in a video or photo speak along to a new audio track, moving lips, head and body to match.
• InstantMesh · modelA free research model from Tencent ARC that turns a single picture of an object into a 3D mesh quickly.
• invideo AI · toolA browser video editor where you describe changes in plain words and an AI agent makes them on a timeline.
• Invoke (InvokeAI) · toolA free, open-source app you install to make and edit pictures with open models like Stable Diffusion and FLUX on your own computer, with a layered canvas and workflow builder.
• iZotope Ozone · toolMastering software that runs inside music apps such as Logic or Ableton.

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• Jogg AI · toolMakes marketing and product videos with a digital presenter reading your script.

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• Kaedim · toolA 3D modelling service for game studios and brands: you send sketches, photos or briefs, and its AI plus in-house artists return game-ready 3D models.
• Kaiber · toolA creative app for making stylised videos and images, including music-synced videos that move to the beat of a track.
• Kandinsky 6.0 Video · modelA free, open video model from Kandinsky Lab that makes 5-second clips with matching sound, including lip-synced speech, from a description or a photo.
• Kapwing · toolAn online video editor that works in your browser.
• KeenFace · toolTurns a few photos of a person's head into a detailed 3D head model with 4K textures and 51 facial expression shapes, ready for games, VFX or virtual try-on (MetaHuman-compatible).
• KIRI Engine · toolA phone and web app that turns photos or a video of a real object or room into a 3D model (3D scanning).
• Kits AI · toolMusic-focused voice tools: turn a sung or spoken take into another voice, clone your own singing voice, and split songs into vocals and instruments.
• Kittl · toolA browser design app for logos, merch, packaging and social graphics.
• Klap · toolA web tool that turns a long video, such as a YouTube upload, into short vertical clips for TikTok, Reels and Shorts.
• Kling 2.5 Turbo · modelKuaishou's September 2025 video model behind the Kling AI app.
• Kling 4.0 · modelKuaishou's October 2026 video model behind the Kling AI app.
• Kling AI · toolAn app for making short video clips from a description or a photo, with tools to copy movement from one clip to another and to edit results.
• Kokoro-82M · modelA small, free text-to-speech model that reads text aloud in 54 voices across 8 languages.
• Krea · toolA browser studio that makes and edits pictures and short videos from a description, using Krea's own models plus many from other makers.
• Krisp · toolRuns alongside your video-call apps to remove background noise and echo from your voice, transcribe meetings and write notes.

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• LALAL.AI · toolSplits a song into separate parts such as vocals, drums, bass and guitar, and can clean noise or echo from voice recordings.
• LANDR · toolA toolkit for home musicians: automatic AI mastering to make a finished track sound polished, a stem splitter, a large sample library, plugins, and release to streaming services.
• LatentSync · modelA free, downloadable lip-sync model from ByteDance.
• Lensa · toolA phone photo editor that uses AI for one-tap looks, retouching, removing unwanted objects, sharpening old or dark photos and trying on hairstyles; it can also make stylised avatars of you from selfies.
• Leonardo.Ai · toolA browser app for making and editing pictures and short videos from a description.
• Let's Enhance · toolMakes photos sharper and bigger in your browser: upscales, removes noise and blur, and restores old pictures.
• Lexica · toolA website where you can search a large gallery of AI-made images and make your own from a description.
• LFM3-Audio · modelLiquid AI's small audio model that runs on a laptop or phone.
• Listnr AI · toolA browser text-to-speech tool: paste text and get a voiceover in one of 1,000+ voices and 140+ languages, for videos, audiobooks or podcasts.
• LivePortrait · modelA free, downloadable model from Kuaishou that animates a still portrait by copying the head movements and expressions from another video.
• Looka · toolMakes logo ideas from your business name and style choices, then lets you tweak colours, symbols and fonts.
• Loudly · toolA browser music studio that makes instrumentals or full songs with vocals from a description, and can split songs into parts, remix tracks you own, master them and send them to streaming services.
• LOVO AI · toolA browser tool for making voiceovers from a script, with a library of ready-made voices and the option to clone voices on paid plans.
• LTX Studio · toolA browser workspace from Lightricks for planning and making short films: write or upload a script, turn it into a storyboard, then generate and edit the shots with LTX and other makers' models.
• LTX-Video · modelA downloadable video model from Lightricks that makes short clips from a description, a photo or a bit of video.
• Luma Dream Machine · toolLuma's app for making short video clips from a description or a photo, restyling video you have, and making pictures.
• Luma Photon · modelLuma AI's picture-making model.
• Luma Ray3 · modelLuma's video model for making short clips from a description or a photo, or for restyling a video you already have.
• Lumen5 · toolA browser tool aimed at businesses that turns written text, such as an article or post, into a short social video.
• Luminar Neo · toolPhoto-editing software for computer and phone with AI tools that remove unwanted objects, swap or extend parts of a scene, replace skies, retouch portraits and enlarge photos.
• Lyria 2 · modelGoogle DeepMind's earlier music model, which turns a text description into a short piece of music.
• Lyria 3.5 · modelGoogle DeepMind's newest music model (2026).

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• MacWhisper · toolA Mac app that turns recordings, videos and meetings into text on your own computer, so audio need not leave your Mac.
• Mage Space · toolA browser app for making pictures and short videos from a description or a photo, using many open models plus its own tuned ones.
• MAGI-1 · modelA free, open video model from Sand AI that animates a photo, continues an existing clip or makes video from a description, building it chunk by chunk.
• Magic Hour · toolA web app with dozens of quick AI tools on one credit balance: make or restyle video clips, swap faces, sync lips to new audio, animate a photo, and make images, voices and music.
• Magnific · toolBegan as an AI upscaler that makes images sharper and larger while adding detail.
• Marble (World Labs) · toolTurns a description, a photo, a video or a 360 panorama into a 3D world you can walk around, edit and export, for games, film previews or VR.
• Masterpiece X · toolMakes simple 3D characters, animals and objects from a text description in your browser, for prototypes and concept work.
• Meshcapade · toolA German company that turned ordinary video into 3D body motion (motion capture without suits) and made digital human body models.
• Meshy · toolMakes 3D models from a text description or a picture, then can paint textures on them and rig characters so they can move.
• Microsoft Designer · toolMicrosoft's free design app for social posts, cards and invitations.
• Midjourney · toolMakes artistic pictures from a written description, on its website or in Discord.
• Ming-3.0 TTS · modelA small, free text-to-speech model from inclusionAI.
• MiniMax Audio · toolMiniMax's text-to-speech service: a web app and paid API that read text aloud in realistic voices, copy a voice from a 10-second sample, or design a new voice from a description.
• MiniMax H3 · modelMiniMax's newest video model family (2026), successor to Hailuo 02.
• MiniMax Hailuo 02 · modelMiniMax's video model from mid-2025.
• Mirelo SFX · modelMirelo AI's model that watches a video and adds matching sound effects and ambience, keeping or separating any speech, with text prompts for extra off-screen sounds.
• Mischief 1 · modelA very cheap, fast model that animates a still picture into a short clip (5 seconds by default, 480p or 720p), billed from half a US cent a second on fal.
• Mixar · toolA free, open-source 3D editor built on Blender where a chat assistant does modelling and texturing steps for you.
• MMAudio · modelA research model that adds matching sound effects to a silent video clip, or makes sounds from a text description.
• Mochi 1 · modelA free, downloadable video model from Genmo that turns a description into a short 480p clip.
• Moises · toolA practice and production app for musicians: it splits any song into parts like vocals, drums and bass, finds chords, writes out lyrics and changes speed.
• Moonvalley · toolA web app for making short film-style video clips from a description or a photo, with controls for camera moves and for copying movement from a reference clip.
• MOSS-Image · modelA free, open picture model from the OpenMOSS team that makes images from English or Chinese descriptions, tag lists or a JSON layout that places text and objects.
• Move AI · toolRecords how a person moves from ordinary video (an iPhone, or several cameras) and turns it into 3D animation data you can put on a game or film character.
• Mubert · toolMakes royalty-free instrumental background tracks for videos, streams and apps from a short description or a pick of genre, mood and length.
• Munch · toolPaste a link to a long video, such as a YouTube upload, and Munch picks out the most engaging moments and turns them into short, phone-shaped clips for social media.
• Mureka · toolMakes full songs with singing, lyrics and backing music from a short description, in your browser.
• Murf AI · toolA browser studio for turning a script into a voiceover, choosing from a library of ready-made voices in many languages.
• MuseTalk · modelA free, downloadable model that changes the lip movements of a face in a video to match new speech, fast enough to run in real time on a strong graphics card.
• Musicfy · toolLets you make a song sound as if it were sung by a different voice, either one from its library or a custom voice you train from recordings.
• MusicGen · modelMeta's downloadable model that turns a short English description, optionally with a hummed or played tune, into instrumental music clips.
• MyEdit · toolA browser and phone editor with simple AI audio tools: remove or isolate vocals, make music or sound effects from a description, clean up noisy recordings, change your voice and read text aloud.

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• Nano Banana 2.1 · modelGoogle's newest Nano Banana picture model (October 2026).
• Narakeet · toolTurns typed text into spoken audio, and can build narrated videos from slides or a script.
• NaturalReader · toolReads documents, PDFs and web pages aloud in natural-sounding voices.
• Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe · modelA free NVIDIA model (October 2026) that turns recordings of up to an hour in 40 languages into text, with timestamps, who-said-what and translation.
• NightCafe · toolA browser app with a big community where you make pictures from a description using many different AI models, and can also make short videos and edit images.
• Notta · toolTurns meetings, calls and uploaded recordings into written transcripts, with AI summaries and translation.
• NVIDIA Broadcast · toolA Windows app that uses your NVIDIA graphics card to clean up your mic and webcam live: removes background noise and echo, blurs or replaces your background, and keeps you centred.
• NVIDIA Parakeet · modelA free speech-recognition model from NVIDIA that turns recordings in 25 European languages into punctuated text with timestamps.

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• OmniHuman · modelA ByteDance model that turns one photo plus a voice or music track into a video of that person talking, singing or moving, from head-and-shoulders up to full body.
• Open-Sora · modelA fully open-source video model (code and weights under Apache 2.0) that turns a description or a photo into a short clip, about 5 seconds long.
• OpenAI Speech API · toolOpenAI's pay-as-you-go developer service for turning text into speech with a set of ready-made voices, and for turning recordings into text.
• OpenArt · toolA web studio that lets you pick from many other companies' AI models to make and edit pictures and short videos, keep a character consistent, and add voice or music.
• OpenAudio S1 · modelA text-to-speech model from the team behind Fish Audio that reads text in 13 languages and lets you add emotion tags like (sad) or (whispering).
• OpusClip · toolCuts a long video, like a podcast or talk, into short clips for social media, adding captions and reframing for phones.
• Otter.ai · toolJoins your Zoom, Teams or Google Meet calls and writes down what is said, with speaker names and an AI summary you can ask questions of.

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• Parler-TTS · modelA free, open text-to-speech model for English where you describe the voice in words (for example 'a calm female voice, very clear audio') and it reads your text that way.
• Pebblely · toolA web app for online sellers: upload a product photo and it puts the item into a new, realistic scene with matching shadows and reflections, ready for shop listings, ads and social posts.
• Phonon · modelGradium's tiny text-to-speech models (October 2026) that run in a browser tab, on a phone or a laptop CPU, reading English, French, German, Spanish or Portuguese with about 100 voices as they generate.
• Photoroom · toolA phone and web app for product photos.
• Picsart · toolA popular photo and video editor for phone and web with many AI tools: make pictures from a description, remove backgrounds, enhance photos, and generate video, voice and music using dozens of other makers' models.
• Pictory · toolA browser video maker that turns an idea, script, web page, document, slide deck or recording into a narrated video with stock footage, captions and AI voices.
• PicWish · toolA photo editing app that removes backgrounds, erases objects, sharpens and enlarges pictures, restores old photos and makes product shots.
• Pika · toolA web app for making short video clips, lengthening clips, swapping things in a scene and adding a matching soundtrack.
• Pixelcut · toolA photo editor for sellers and small brands: remove backgrounds, sharpen and enlarge photos, and make product shots and short ad videos from a description.
• Pixelmator Pro · toolA photo and graphics editor for Mac and iPad, now made by Apple.
• Pixlr · toolA low-cost online photo editor with AI tools: make pictures from text, fill or extend parts of a photo, remove backgrounds and objects, upscale, swap faces and make short videos.
• PixVerse · toolA web and phone app that turns a description or a photo into a short video clip, with extras such as lip sync, sound effects and extending a clip.
• Plask · toolRecords body and hand movement from an ordinary video and turns it into 3D animation you can put on a character, all in your browser.
• Playground · toolA browser design studio that makes logos, social posts, posters and T-shirt graphics from a description, with templates and editing tools.
• PlayHT (PlayAI) · toolAn online text-to-speech service that reads your text aloud in many voices and languages, with multi-speaker dialogue and an option to copy a voice.
• Pollo AI · toolA web app that puts many makers' video and image models in one place, such as Seedance, Veo, Sora, Kling and Wan, plus its own Pollo model.
• Poly (withpoly) · toolPoly used to make tileable textures and materials for 3D models from a text description.
• Polycam · toolA phone and web app that turns photos, video or an iPhone's LiDAR scan into a 3D model, splat or floor plan.

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• quso.ai · toolTurns a long video into short captioned clips for social media, with an editor that trims filler words and a scheduler that posts to seven networks.
• Qwen-Image · modelA free, downloadable model from Alibaba's Qwen team that turns descriptions into pictures and is especially good at writing text inside images, including Chinese.
• Qwen-Image 2.1 · modelAlibaba Qwen's downloadable picture model that makes and edits images, including transparent layers, cut-outs and edits marked with circles or masks, from up to 10 reference pictures.

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• Rask AI · toolA web app that translates the speech in your videos into other languages, re-voices them in a copy of the original speaker's voice, and can match lip movements to the new audio.
• Real-ESRGAN · modelA free, open model that makes small or blurry photos bigger and sharper, with extra versions for anime.
• Recraft · toolA design-focused image maker in the browser and on phones.
• Remini · toolA phone app (also on the web) that sharpens old, blurry or low-resolution photos, especially faces, in one tap.
• remove.bg · toolCuts the background out of a photo automatically in one step.
• Renderforest · toolAn online studio for making videos, animations, logos and mockups from templates, now with AI tools that turn a description or picture into a video using several AI video models.
• Replicate · place to run itA pay-as-you-go service for running thousands of AI models by other makers, for pictures, video, speech, music and text.
• Resemble AI · toolUsed to offer voice cloning and text to speech, but has stopped selling voice generation.
• Respeecher · toolMakes your recorded voice sound like a different voice (speech-to-speech), or reads text aloud, using a library of ready-made voices.
• Rev · toolTurns recordings into text using AI, or by paid human transcribers for higher accuracy.
• Revid AI · toolA browser tool for making short social videos (TikTok, Reels, Shorts) from an idea, a web link or a script.
• Riverside · toolA browser studio for recording podcasts and video interviews with remote guests in high quality, then editing them by editing the transcript.
• Rokoko Vision · toolTurns an uploaded video of someone moving into 3D character animation, free to try in your browser.
• Runpod · place to run itRents graphics cards (GPUs) by the second so you can run AI models yourself, plus ready-made endpoints for popular image, video and speech models.
• Runware · place to run itA pay-as-you-go service for developers that runs many makers' AI models through one API, mainly for pictures and video, plus some audio, 3D and text models.
• Runway · toolA browser studio for making short video clips from a description or a still image, and for editing video you already have.
• Runway Gen-4 · modelRunway's video model that keeps the same character, object or place looking consistent across shots, guided by a reference image and a text description.
• RVC (Retrieval-based Voice Conversion) · modelFree, downloadable software that makes a recording or live voice sound like another voice.

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• SadTalker · modelA free, downloadable research model that makes a single portrait photo talk in time with an audio clip.
• Scenario · toolA web studio aimed at game and design teams.
• SeaArt · toolA website and phone app for making AI pictures and short videos from text or images, using many different models.
• Seedance · modelByteDance's video model family.
• Seedream 4.0 · modelByteDance's picture model that both makes images from a description and edits existing ones by instruction, can combine several reference pictures, and outputs up to 4K.
• Seedream 5.0 · modelByteDance's newest picture model family (2026).
• Sesame CSM · modelA free, downloadable speech model built to sound natural in back-and-forth conversation.
• Simli · toolA developer service for adding a live, talking video face to an app or website, such as a support agent or tutor that answers out loud.
• SkyReels V2 · modelA downloadable video model from Skywork that makes clips from a description or a photo and can keep extending a clip to make much longer videos.
• Sloyd · toolA web app for making game-ready 3D models from a text prompt or a picture, then texturing, rigging and animating them.
• Sonix · toolTurns audio and video recordings into editable text transcripts in the browser, and can translate them and make subtitles.
• Sora · toolOpenAI's app for making short video clips with sound from a written description, including putting yourself in scenes.
• Sora 2 · modelOpenAI's video model that made short clips with matching speech and sound from a description or a still image.
• Soundful · toolMakes royalty-free instrumental tracks and beats from a chosen genre template, in your browser.
• SOUNDRAW · toolMakes backing tracks and beats in your browser: pick a genre, mood, length and energy, then tweak the result.
• Soundverse · toolA browser music studio that writes songs with vocals from a text prompt, and can also extend tracks, split songs into parts and clone a voice.
• Speechify · toolReads documents, web pages and scanned text aloud in natural voices, mainly for studying and listening on the go.
• Splice · toolA big subscription library of royalty-free loops and samples, with AI helpers that suggest matching sounds and build layered 'stacks'.
• Spline AI · toolPart of the Spline 3D design app: type a sentence or upload a picture, choose one of four looks, and get a textured 3D model you can light, animate and put on a website or app.
• Stable Audio · toolStability AI's browser app for making music and sound effects from a written description, or reworking audio you upload.
• Stable Audio 2.5 · modelStability AI's closed music and sound model.
• Stable Audio Open 1.0 · modelA downloadable model that turns a short English description into up to 47 seconds of stereo audio.
• Stable Diffusion 3.5 · modelStability AI's downloadable picture model that turns a description into an image, with better text and prompt-following than earlier versions.
• Stable Diffusion web UI (AUTOMATIC1111) · toolA free, open-source program you install on your own computer to make and edit pictures with Stable Diffusion models, through a page in your browser.
• Stable Diffusion XL 1.0 · modelStability AI's 2023 open image model that turns a description into a picture.
• Stable Fast 3D · modelStability AI's downloadable model that turns one photo of an object into a textured, low-poly 3D model in about a second.
• Stable Point Aware 3D (SPAR3D) · modelStability AI's downloadable model that builds a textured 3D model from one picture in about a second.
• Stable Video Diffusion · modelA downloadable model from Stability AI that turns one still picture into a very short clip of a few seconds.
• starryai · toolA phone and browser app that turns a description into a picture in many art styles, and can restyle, enlarge or cut out photos.
• Step1X-3D · modelStepFun's open 3D model maker: it turns one picture into a clean 3D shape, then paints a texture onto it.
• Steve AI · toolTurns a script, blog post or idea into an animated or stock-footage video, with cartoon characters, AI presenters and computer voices.
• Stockimg AI · toolMakes ready-to-use graphics from a description: logos, posters, illustrations, stock-style photos, wallpapers and social posts, with simple editing and social scheduling.
• Submagic · toolAdds animated captions and quick edits to short videos for social media, and can cut longer videos into short clips.
• Suno · toolMakes complete songs, with singing, from a short description or your own lyrics, in a browser or phone app.
• sync. · toolA lip-sync service: give it a video and new speech, and it changes the speaker's mouth to match.
• Synthesia · toolTurns a script into a video with a digital presenter, mainly for training and business videos.
• Synthesys · toolA browser studio for making video adverts and explainer videos from a brief, a web link or your own footage, with stock AI presenters, AI voiceover, images and short AI clips.

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• Tavus · toolBuilds AI video presenters, mostly for developers: a lifelike face you can hold a live video conversation with, or videos read from a script.
• Tensor.Art · toolA community website where people share AI image models and styles and run them in the browser to make pictures.
• Together AI · place to run itA pay-as-you-go cloud service, mainly for developers, that runs many other makers' AI models: chat and code models, plus picture and video models such as FLUX, Seedream and Kling.
• Topaz Gigapixel · toolA Mac and Windows app that uses AI to enlarge photos (up to 6x) while keeping them sharp, and to repair low-quality images and faces.
• Topaz Photo · toolA desktop app for Mac and Windows that uses AI to sharpen, de-noise, enlarge and repair photos, including blurry faces, dust and scratches.
• Topaz Video · toolDesktop software (Mac and Windows) that cleans up and sharpens existing video: upscaling old or low-quality footage to 4K, removing noise, steadying shaky shots and adding frames for smooth slow motion.
• TopView · toolMakes marketing and product videos, including AI presenters that hold or show your product, lip-sync, and voice clones.
• TRELLIS · modelMicrosoft's free, downloadable model that turns a picture (or, less well, a text prompt) into a textured 3D model you can save as a GLB file.
• Tripo AI · toolTurns a text description or one or more pictures into a 3D model in your browser, then can texture it, split it into parts and rig characters for animation.
• TripoSR · modelA free, open model from Tripo AI and Stability AI that guesses a rough 3D shape from a single picture in under a second on a strong graphics card.
• Typecast · toolType a script and pick from a library of AI voices to have it read aloud with adjustable emotion, or turn it into a talking-avatar video.

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• Udio · toolMakes songs, including singing, from a text description, and can extend or remix audio you upload.
• Ultimate Vocal Remover · toolA free desktop app that splits a song into parts, such as vocals and instruments, on your own computer.
• Upscayl · toolA free, open-source desktop app that makes small or blurry pictures bigger and sharper using AI.

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• Vectorizer.AI · toolA website that turns a normal picture such as a logo or drawing (PNG, JPG) into vector artwork you can scale to any size, as SVG, PDF, EPS or DXF.
• VEED · toolAn online video editor aimed at social media.
• Veo 3 · modelGoogle's video model that turns a description or a still image into a short clip (usually 8 seconds) with sound, including speech.
• Videoleap · toolA phone and browser video editor from Lightricks with AI extras: turning text into video, AI effects and templates, background and object removal, auto subtitles and image generation.
• Vidnoz AI · toolA browser tool for making presenter videos from a script with stock AI avatars, making a photo talk, cloning your voice and translating videos with lip-sync.
• Vidu · toolA web and phone app for making short video clips from a description, a photo, or several reference pictures that keep the same characters or objects.
• Viggle · toolPuts a character from a picture into a video, copying the movement of the person in the clip, or swaps characters live.
• Vizard · toolTurns a long video into short vertical clips for TikTok, Reels and Shorts.
• Vizcom · toolA design tool for product and industrial designers that turns rough sketches into realistic renders, and can also make simple 3D models and short animations from them.
• Voice-Swap · toolA web studio for turning a sung or spoken recording into another voice from its library, splitting songs into parts, and reading text aloud.
• Voicemaker · toolA browser text-to-speech tool: paste text, pick from a library of voices and languages, and download the narration as an audio file.
• Voicemod · toolA free app that changes how your voice sounds in real time while you chat, stream or play games, with 200+ voices and sound effects.
• Vozo · toolTranslates and dubs videos into other languages, can match lip movements to the new audio, and translates subtitles and on-screen text.
• Vyond · toolA browser app for making animated explainer and training videos with cartoon-style characters, AI presenters and text-to-speech voices.

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• Wan 2.1 · modelA free, downloadable video model from Alibaba's Wan team.
• Wan 2.2 · modelA free, downloadable video model from the Wan team.
• Wav2Lip · modelAn older, free research model that makes the lips in any video match a new audio track.
• WaveSpeedAI · place to run itA pay-as-you-go service for running many makers' AI models: video (Seedance, Wan, Kling, Veo and others), images, speech and music, lip-sync avatars and 3D.
• WellSaid Labs · toolA text-to-speech studio for business voiceovers such as training videos and adverts.
• Whisper · modelA free speech-recognition model from OpenAI that turns recordings into text in many languages and can translate speech into English text.
• Wisecut · toolA browser video editor that trims long talking videos automatically: it cuts silences, adds captions and background music, reframes for phones and pulls out short highlight clips you can schedule to social media.
• Wondershare Virbo · toolWondershare's app for making presenter videos: pick an AI avatar and voice, type a script or paste a product link, and it makes a talking-presenter video.

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• XTTS-v2 · modelA downloadable text-to-speech model that reads text aloud in 17 languages and can copy a voice from a 6-second clip.

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• YuE · modelA free, downloadable model that turns your lyrics and a style description into a full song with singing and backing music, in English, Chinese, Japanese, Korean and more.
• YuE2 · modelThe second version of the free, open YuE song generator.

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• Zebracat · toolTurns a prompt, script or blog post into a finished short video with AI clips, stock footage, a voiceover and captions.