AI assistants12 tools
Ranked by who uses them among those still maintained. Each was re-read within the week.
Describe what you need
betaA sentence or two about the job. We read it into the catalogue's own words, then ask about every tool that fits them.
Ranked by use
Figure and bar: visits/mo, estimate · year: online since
- #1
ChatGPT
Answers questions and generates text, images, and code through conversation.
95.2M2015 - #231.6M2017
- #3
Microsoft Copilot
Chat assistant that takes typed prompts and returns generated answers and drafts for users.
5.3MFrom $25.20/user/mo - #4
Perplexity Enterprise Pro (Support)
AI search engine that answers questions from live web sources with citations, with plans for teams and companies.
4.2M - #5
DeepSeek
Language model API for text generation and reasoning tasks.
490kActiveFrom $0.02 per use2023 - #6
Kimi
Serves open-weights large language models through a web chat, an API and a command-line coding agent that accepts image and video input.
184kActive2023 - #7168k2009
- #8161k
- #9
Qwen
Official mobile app for Qwen, offered for download on phones by scanning a QR code.
9.2k - #10
Caddy
Personal AI assistant accessible via text message that manages calendar, reminders, tasks, and messages.
464ActiveFree2025 - #11
Instinct
Personal assistant that connects to your applications and devices to handle tasks like scheduling, reminders, and bookings via text or call.
160 linking domainsActive Grok
Chatbot built on Grok language models that answers questions, generates images, searches the web and writes code.
1.3MQuiet2023
How we read a tool
No votes, no reviews, no vendor claims. Every week a crawler reads each tool's own site and a few public registries, and the words on the card are bands over what it read.
- Use: visits to the site (estimated), installs from npm and PyPI, presence in Chrome's usage report.
- Activity: the newest release on GitHub, npm or PyPI; the newest dated page on the site; open roles on a public jobs board.
- Price: the vendor's own pricing page, read with the date. A figure is printed only when it is on that page.
- The line and the use cases are written by us from the homepage, one tool at a time, and refused when they repeat the vendor's marketing.
How AI assistants read each site — the reading vendors ask us about — is on each tool's own visibility page.