2025 AI Trending Apps Divided per Areas
Get Work Done
GRANOLA - AI notetaker that listens to meetings and automatically formats transcripts into structured notes.
“The best notetaker app for meetings. I've tried everything else. Why I like it: It doesn't join the call and make things awkward, the product is beautifully done, and it has the best transcript and summary features of the tools I've tried.” - Ben Tossell, Founder, Ben's Bites
Wispr FLOW - AI-powered voice dictation tool that converts speech to formatted text.
"This dictation is incredible — I just talk into my Mac. It removes all my uhms and ahs and even automatically formats bullets when it realizes I'm dictating a list." - Ammaar Reshi, Head of Design at ElevenLabs
GAMMA - AI-powered presentation and document creation platform
"I use Gamma for anything I want to 'present' — traditional slide decks, as well as content that might otherwise be a doc or memo. The format is much more interactive and flexible, and the AI editing features are really helpful." - Anish Acharya, General Partner at a16z
ADOBE AI ASSISTANT - powered PDF analysis and interaction tool.
"I summarize and talk to my PDFs using AI all the time. Super helpful." - Scott Belsky, Chief Strategy Officer at Adobe
CUBBY - AI workspace built for collaborative research.
"It's a magical experience to have a centralized workspace built for research. It can transform modalities, search across multiple websites, and allows for in-line AI usage. Plus, the 'generate a tweetstorm' feature is made for VCs." - Zach Cohen, Partner at a16z
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Cora | Join the waitlist
Cora is a new way to manage your inbox. Hidden in your inbox is a melody. Your email tells the story of your life. An epic record of who you talk to and how, of what you worked on, and how you feel, where you've been, and what comes next. What if you could transform your inbox from chaos into a clear story? One that gives you the bottom line, instead of the back and forth. Your inbox wouldn't just deliver email to you— it would deliver you from email.
CORA - AI email assistant that organizes inbox and automates responses (Waitlist as of Dec 29, 2024).
"Not yet released tool from Every. It takes care of a ton of email - it sends me daily reports to say it has handled 90% to 100% of my email. It has rules for different types of emails, archives them, and will draft responses if wanted.” - Ben Tossell, Founder, Ben's Bites
LINDY AI - Platform for building AI agents to automate workflows.
"This reduces the most tedious, time-consuming tasks for my sales team. It allows them to focus on what really matters, such as curating impactful campaigns with clients, taking calls, and sending contracts." - Rowan Cheung, Founder and CEO, The Rundown AI
SPIRAL - AI tool for content organization and engagement.
"We use this in our podcast workflow to generate potential tiles, thumbnail ideas, and summaries of key takeaways from each episode. It's trained on our style, as well as the most successful past episodes." - Lenny Rachitsky, Newsletter writer and podcast host
Build an Audience
DELPHI - Platform for creating AI text, voice, and video clones to engage with audience.
"I built a chatbot trained on all my newsletter posts and podcast episodes. I use it to search stuff I've written about when people ask me questions, and I send them there. The best part is you can call it on the phone and talk to it." - Lenny Rachitsky, Newsletter writer and podcast host
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HeyGen - AI avatar creation and video production platform.
"The AI avatar is trained on my likeness, and it's better than me on-camera. We still do a ton of manual work — scripting, editing, tweaking, adding more b-roll with Gen-3 — but the end result is still 100% better when my avatar presents the news." - Rowan Cheung, Founder and CEO, The Rundown AI
ARGIL - Specialized AI tool for creating social media video avatars.
“One of the best AI clones out there is Argil. Station F founder Xavier Niel used this for a presentation he did at L'Olympia theater in Paris not too long ago." - Roxanne Varza, Director at Station F
PERSONA - Stealth AI agent builder designed specifically for content creators (In development).
"We're using this stealth agent builder to prototype making GrimesAI more agentic and autonomous outside X, Threads, and Discord. It allows us to generate puzzles and ARG experiences that wouldn't be possible without agentic dynamic UX." - Daouda Leonard, Founder, CreateSafe
CAPTIONS - AI-powered video captioning and enhancement tool.
"We've been creating a lot of shareable videos and podcasts to distribute our ideas more widely. Captions really helped accelerate our production flow — and the auto-generated emojis make it fun." - Bryan Kim, Partner at a16z
VIGGLE - Animate your picture and make your character move.
"Makes it really easy to put your body into AI-generated videos; it's even more fun now that you can put multiple characters into the scene! Making random videos in ridiculous scenes reminds me that a lot of new innovation starts out as toys." - Bryan Kim, Partner at a16z
OVERLAP - Transform long-form videos into shorts
"Being able to create short clips has been really awesome and has helped me get a lot more value out of long-form content: my own, my friends' podcasts and YouTube videos, and Y Combinator's content." - Garry Tan, President and CEO, Y Combinator
PHOTOROOM - AI-powered photo editing and enhancement tool.
"The best photo tool for literally all photo editing needs! I use this whenever I want something professional-looking, but also for some silly edits." - Roxanne Varza, Director at Station F
PLAYGROUND - Create custom designs and graphics with AI.
"I have been creating numerous propaganda posters for SF tech (my Accelerate series), and it's been fascinating to see the results when AI-powered tools bring creativity to life." - Garry Tan, President and CEO, Y Combinator
Build a Product
CURSOR - AI-enhanced code editor.
"It's the era of idea people who can ship, and Cursor enables that. I could not code up any of the apps I wanted to make for myself without Cursor. I think it's going to unleash a new wave of developers." - Ammaar Reshi, Head of Design at ElevenLabs
WINDSURF - AI agent-powered IDE for software development.
"Feels intuitive, but there's obviously something powerful happening under the hood. It lowers the bar for coding with AI, simplifying the need for prompting, file management, and all the thought overhead you have with chat surfaces". - Raiza Martin, Stealth Founder and former Senior AI Product Manager, Google Labs
REPLIT - AI-powered coding platform for building apps from natural language.
"The ability to program and prompt in the same space — with access to powerful APIs (such as Anthropic) and hosting — has changed programming for me from utility to entertainment." - Zach Cohen, Partner at a16z
HF's ANYCHAT - Universal interface for accessing multiple AI models in one place.
“All your AI apps in one place” - Ahsen Khaliq (AK), ML Growth Lead, Hugging Face
Get Creative
ElevenLabs
Free Text to Speech & AI Voice Generator | ElevenLabs
Create the most realistic speech with our AI audio tools in 1000s of voices and 32 languages. Easy to use API's and SDK's. Scalable, secure, and customizable voice solutions tailored for enterprise needs. Pioneering research in Text to Speech and AI Voice Generation.
ElevenLabs - Advanced AI voice synthesis platform.
"It's a great tool that I find myself going back to a lot. I use it mainly for voiceover for my films. It's best-in-class." - Willonius Hatcher, AI storyteller
SUNO - AI platform for creating music and audio content.
"As an AI podcast creator, we love creating custom music intros for episodes that superfans can engage with and spread on social. It used to be too expensive to even do one of these; Suno makes it easy to create multiple custom bangers per hour." - Shawn Wang (SWYX), Author, Podcaster, Founder at Smol.ai
UDIO - AI-powered tools for podcast enhancement and audio production.
"It's the best AI tool to create music. The output is phenomenal and it has allowed me to create some amazing songs." - Willonius Hatcher, AI storyteller
MIDJOURNEY - Advanced AI image generation platform.
"As a lifelong illustrator, I'm aware of the labor that can go into a single image. I've been using Midjourney for every level of concept: from visualizing poetry to storyboarding, to designing clothes, to developing logos based on a rough sketch." - Grimes, CEO at Media Empire
IDEOGRAM - AI image generation with precise editing capabilities.
"Ideogram not only has one of the best models to generate images (and memes), but an editing canvas to get a new level of precision on your work. I use Ideogram for most of my AI visuals." - Marc Andreessen, Cofounder at a16z
RUNWAY ML - AI video generation and animation platform.
"This is my current go-to for AI animation. The recent updates they made with Lip Sync and Act-One allow me to create dynamic AI films." - Willonius Hatcher, AI storyteller
KLING AI - AI Video generation from China with lots of tools.
"This was a huge year for AI video. It's hard to pick just one, but I think Kling has done a particularly good job in building products around their model. The custom face model and virtual try-on are examples of cool recent launches.” - Justine Moore, Partner at a16z
KREA - Comprehensive AI creative platform for image and video creation.
"It makes otherwise boring or repetitive video seem mind-blowing and interesting. By combining Krea's Realtime (LCM) filter with a webcam, I can generate pseudo-real-time visuals for live DJ performances or generative performance art." - Anish Acharya, General Partner at a16z
Learn or Grow
ROSEBUD - AI-powered interactive journaling Mental Health platform.
"Everyone knows the benefits of journaling, but I've struggled to do it consistently. This voice mode integration lets me just yap about my day — it responds and formats everything for me!" - Shawn Wang (SWYX), Author, Podcaster, Founder at Smol.ai
GOOD INSIDE - AI parenting assistant with personalized guidance.
"This parenting co-pilot is trained on a modern parenting framework from psychologist Dr. Becky. It's full of scripts, guidance, and pep talks when needed." - Scott Belsky, Chief Strategy Officer at Adobe
ADA - AI-powered symptom checker and medical assessment tool.
"I love this app for random medical preoccupations. If I get worried about a random symptom, it gives me a better understanding of what it could be before I see a doctor." - Roxanne Varza, Director at Station F
ASH - AI-powered mental health and therapy companion.
"I use Ash daily, as both a journal and a therapist. Their model is highly emotive, and responses mimic a therapist way more convincingly than GPT. The voice-first format really makes me feel like I'm talking to a human." - Zach Cohen, Partner at a16z
NotebookLM - AI tool that converts documents into audio content (and much more).
"When I want to read something but don't have time, I'll make it into a podcast and listen to it while driving." - Amjad Masad, CEO at Replit
PARTICLE - AI-powered news synthesis and personalization platform.
"This is my daily news app. It synthesizes the angle from all sources, then shares the most objective summary in a feed that's increasingly tailored to my preferences." - Scott Belsky, Chief Strategy Officer at Adobe
ELEVENREADER - Converts documents into audio content (part of ElevenLabs).
"I get through so much more of my reading list (books and articles) with Eleven Reader. The voice selection lets me choose my favorite voice for content. And the podcast generation feature has genuinely given me new insights." - Ammaar Reshi, Head of Design, ElevenLabs
Have Fun
REMIX - Social platform for creating and sharing AI-generated art.
"A cool way to browse + share + remix generative art. My favorite feature (which they've since pulled back on) is adding music to a piece of art — it became an unexpected, visual way to discover and share music. I hope they bring it back." - Anish Acharya, General Partner at a16z
META AI - AI image generation integrated into Meta's apps (not available in EU).
"Just type 'imagine me...' to Meta AI in Instagram, WhatsApp, or Messenger and it'll create fun images of you or your family — infinite amounts of fun." - Danny Trinh, Director of Product Design at Gen AI, Meta
xAI - xAI's conversational AI chatbot.
"Long uncensored models!" - Marc Andreessen, Cofounder at a16z
CURIO - AI-powered interactive toys for children.
"I have two Curios for my son — they talk to him and to each other. As the parent, you can custom prompt topics your kid will be interested in while still keeping it flexible. Voice-first experiences will get better and better as the models improve." - Marc Andreessen, Cofounder at a16z