KilnInteractive Catalog
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| # | Tool & Vendor | Categories | Best For & Price | Verified | Action |
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| 01 | ChatGPT OpenAI | Everyday writing, data analysis, and a single tab that does many jobs adequately Free tier plus Plus around $20/mo (Sep 2026) | Profile → | ||
| 02 | Claude Anthropic | Long documents, careful edits, and coding work that needs a large context window Pro around $20/mo; Max tiers for heavy agent use (Sep 2026) | Profile → | ||
| 03 | Google Gemini Google | People whose files, mail, and calendar already live in Google Free with Google; Gemini Advanced / Google AI paid add-on (Sep 2026) | Profile → | ||
| 04 | Perplexity Perplexity AI | Questions that need links, not a confident paragraph Pro around $20/mo (Sep 2026) | Profile → | ||
| 05 | Microsoft Copilot Microsoft | Teams already paying for Word, Excel, Outlook, and Teams Free consumer app; Microsoft 365 Copilot is a paid seat (Sep 2026) | Profile → | ||
| 06 | Grok xAI | People who already pay for X and want a more current, informal assistant Bundled with X Premium tiers; standalone apps vary (Sep 2026) | Profile → | ||
| 07 | DeepSeek DeepSeek | Cost-sensitive API use and people who will read the data-residency notes Aggressive free/API pricing versus US labs (Sep 2026) | Profile → | ||
| 08 | NotebookLM Google | Grounding answers in PDFs, notes, and sources you upload Free with Google account; higher limits on paid Google AI (Sep 2026) | Profile → | ||
| 09 | Cursor AnySphere | Daily product work in an AI-native editor, especially multi-file edits Hobby free; Pro around $20/mo; Ultra much higher (Sep 2026) | Profile → | ||
| 10 | GitHub Copilot GitHub / Microsoft | Teams already on GitHub who want the cheapest serious assistant inside VS Code or JetBrains Limited free; Pro around $10/mo; Business/Enterprise seats higher (Sep 2026) | Profile → | ||
| 11 | Claude Code Anthropic | Architecture, debugging, and multi-file refactors from the terminal Bundled with Claude Pro around $20/mo; Max for heavy runs (Sep 2026) | Profile → | ||
| 12 | Windsurf Cognition | Trying an AI IDE with a usable free tier, or prototyping in a VS Code-like app Free quota; Pro around $20/mo after the 2026 Cognition ownership shift | Profile → | ||
| 13 | v0 Vercel | Generating React/Tailwind UI that you then own in a Next.js repo Free credits; paid plans around $20/mo (Sep 2026) | Profile → | ||
| 14 | Replit Agent Replit | Building and hosting a small app without a local toolchain Core around $20/mo; higher tiers for always-on compute (Sep 2026) | Profile → | ||
| 15 | Lovable Lovable | Non-engineers who need a working web app mock that can become a repo Limited free; Pro around $20/mo (Sep 2026) | Profile → | ||
| 16 | Bolt.new StackBlitz | Spiking a front-end in the browser with WebContainers Free daily messages; Pro around $20/mo (Sep 2026) | Profile → | ||
| 17 | Aider Aider (open source) | Terminal-centric developers who want a local agent and a known git workflow Free tool; you pay your own model API | Profile → | ||
| 18 | Cline Cline | VS Code users who want an autonomous agent without switching IDEs Free / BYO key; usage billed by the model provider | Profile → | ||
| 19 | Midjourney Midjourney | Art-directed stills when style matters more than Photoshop round-trip Basic around $10/mo; no serious free plan (Sep 2026) | Profile → | ||
| 20 | Adobe Firefly Adobe | Designers who must stay inside Photoshop, Illustrator, and a commercial license story Generative credits inside Creative Cloud plans (Sep 2026) | Profile → | ||
| 21 | FLUX Black Forest Labs | Developers who want a modern image model in their own product API and partner apps; local weights exist for some versions | Profile → | ||
| 22 | Leonardo AI Leonardo | Game-adjacent concept art and people who want a web UI on top of multiple models Free tokens; paid plans for volume (Sep 2026) | Profile → | ||
| 23 | PhotoRoom PhotoRoom | Catalog photos, marketplace listings, and background removal that has to finish today Free basic; Pro for volume background removal and batch (Sep 2026) | Profile → | ||
| 24 | Runway Runway | Short generative clips and editing experiments with a mature product surface Standard around $15/mo plus credits (Sep 2026) | Profile → | ||
| 25 | Kling Kuaishou | People chasing the current “best motion” demo and willing to use a separate vendor Free trials; paid credits (Sep 2026) | Profile → | ||
| 26 | ElevenLabs ElevenLabs | Product voiceover, localization, and realistic TTS Starter around $6–$12/mo; usage on characters (Sep 2026) | Profile → | ||
| 27 | Descript Descript | Editing podcasts and talking-head video as if they were a doc Free editor; paid for hours and studio features (Sep 2026) | Profile → | ||
| 28 | Otter.ai Otter.ai | Meeting notes when everyone already talks on Zoom Free meeting cap; Pro for more minutes (Sep 2026) | Profile → | ||
| 29 | Notion AI Notion | Teams whose wiki, tasks, and specs already live in Notion Add-on or bundled in paid Notion plans (Sep 2026) | Profile → | ||
| 30 | Grammarly Grammarly | Non-native and native writers who need a always-on editor in the browser Free checker; Pro around the $12/mo band (Sep 2026) | Profile → | ||
| 31 | Jasper Jasper | Marketing teams that want brand voices, templates, and seats, not a single chat box Starts well above the $20 assistant band (Sep 2026) | Profile → | ||
| 32 | Gamma Gamma | First-pass slides when PowerPoint is a tax Free decks with limits; Plus for removal of caps (Sep 2026) | Profile → | ||
| 33 | n8n n8n | Developers who want Zapier-like workflows with less vendor lock and more code Self-host free; cloud paid by executions (Sep 2026) | Profile → | ||
| 34 | Zapier Zapier | Non-developers connecting popular SaaS tools this afternoon Free task cap; paid plans by tasks and premium apps (Sep 2026) | Profile → | ||
| 35 | Lindy Lindy | Hosted “AI employees” for email and CRM busywork Free trial; paid agent seats (Sep 2026) | Profile → | ||
| 36 | Hugging Face Hugging Face | Finding, running, and shipping open models without pretending they are consumer apps Free hub; compute and enterprise paid | Profile → | ||
| 37 | Figma AI Figma | Designers already in Figma who want first-pass layers, not a new tool Included or credited inside Figma paid seats (Sep 2026) | Profile → |