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Mattia Panatta
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Data checked on 15 October 2026

Few tools, well chosen.

There are over 54,000 AI tools. Here are 39: the ones I use, recommend or follow closely, with their strength and their limit. For everything else there's There's An AI For That.

Assistants & reasoning

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Great for
All-round daily use: answers with interactive UI, images, voice, Codex.
Watch out
Go may show ads; the best models (Sol, Astra) are in paid plans.
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Great for
Careful writing, long-document analysis, code, Artifacts and shared docs.
Watch out
Usage limits on 5-hour windows; Opus only on paid plans.
Great for
People living in Gmail, Drive and Docs; video and images via Flow and Nano Banana.
Watch out
Gemini 4 Argon just launched: features vary across countries and plans.

Le Chat (Mistral)

chat.mistral.ai ↗
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European alternative, useful when the provider location matters.
Watch out
A step below frontier models in benchmarks.
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Great for
Reasoning with Grok 4.7, real-time news thanks to X, very natural voice (Grok Voice 3.0), images and video with Grok Imagine. The X Subscription also includes Grok Bot and Cursor.
Watch out
Less filtered tone and recurring moderation controversies; the free tier is tight.
Great for
Already inside WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger: handy for quick questions without installing anything.
Watch out
The new Muse Spark models and the Muse agent are US and Canada only for now; mind what you type in linked chats.

Code, sites & apps

Claude Code

claude.com ↗
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Great for
Coding agent in the terminal and app: builds, tests and fixes whole projects.
Watch out
Works on your files: use Git and review changes.
Great for
Code editor with built-in agents: writes, edits and checks projects, with a choice of top models.
Watch out
Built for people who open the code: for beginners Claude Code or Lovable are simpler. Now also included in the X Subscription.

Codex (OpenAI)

chatgpt.com ↗
Great for
Coding agent inside ChatGPT, parallel tasks in the cloud.
Watch out
Limits depend on your ChatGPT plan.

Google Antigravity

antigravity.google ↗
Great for
Google's agentic development environment, with Gemini 4 Argon.
Watch out
Rate limits tied to your Google AI plan.
Great for
App and site prototypes from a description, no coding needed.
Watch out
Before production, have code, data and security reviewed.
Great for
Build and publish small apps with a database, from the browser.
Watch out
Deployments and databases cost extra.

Research & study

Deep Research (ChatGPT / Gemini / Claude)

chatgpt.com ↗
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Great for
10-30 page reports on a topic, with dozens of sources browsed autonomously.
Watch out
Slow and sometimes verbose; check key figures at the original source.
Great for
Quick, bounded questions with clickable sources.
Watch out
Cited sources can be weak or indirect: always open them.
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Great for
Studying a topic from YOUR sources (PDFs, videos, sites): cited answers, mind maps, audio overviews.
Watch out
Answers only from what you upload: quality depends on your sources.

Docs, slides, sheets

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Great for
Presentations and visual docs from a text or outline in minutes.
Watch out
Check branding, editability and credits before using it for work.

Claude Docs, Slides e Dashboards

claude.ai ↗
Great for
Docs and slides written and edited with the AI, shareable by link. Claude also works right inside Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
Watch out
Dashboards is in beta on paid plans only.

ChatGPT (documenti, fogli e slide)

chatgpt.com ↗
Great for
Creates and edits Word documents, Excel sheets with real calculations and PowerPoint decks to download. ChatGPT also works right inside Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
Watch out
Check formulas and figures: always ask it to show the calculations.

Gemini (Documenti, Fogli e Presentazioni Google)

gemini.google.com ↗
Great for
Built into Google Docs, Sheets, Slides and Drive: writes, summarises and analyses files where they already are.
Watch out
Features inside Google apps depend on your Google AI or Workspace plan.

Microsoft 365 Copilot

microsoft.com ↗
Great for
People already working in Word, Excel, Outlook and Teams.
Watch out
Consumer and business licences differ: check what yours includes.

Images

ChatGPT Images

chatgpt.com ↗
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Great for
Top of the Arena image ranking: legible text in images, conversational edits.
Watch out
Rights and commercial use: read your plan terms.

Grok Imagine

grok.com ↗
Great for
Images and short videos in seconds, even from the same image; top five on Arena for images.
Watch out
Content rules looser than others: be careful with real people, brands and rights.

Nano Banana (Gemini)

gemini.google.com ↗
Great for
Editing existing photos while keeping faces and objects consistent.
Watch out
A "3 Pro" version is in the works (TestingCatalog rumour).
Great for
Fast, precise edits (Krea 3: 2K edits in under 8 s), trainable on a product or style.
Watch out
From $0.03 per image per the announcement: estimate volumes.
Great for
Brings many image (and video) models together in one place: characters consistent across images, custom styles, edits and upscaling.
Watch out
Credit-based, and costs vary with the model chosen: test on a few images first.
Great for
Aesthetics and artistic style, moodboards and concepts.
Watch out
Paid only; less precise on text and exact instructions.

Video

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Great for
One platform with many video models (incl. Seedance) and camera controls.
Watch out
Check continuity, exports and cost per generation.

Google Flow (Gemini Omni)

labs.google ↗
Great for
The top-voted video models on Arena; coherent scenes with audio.
Watch out
Credit-based: Google AI plans include different amounts.

Voice & music

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Great for
Realistic voices, dubbing, voice agents; great in Italian too.
Watch out
Cloning a voice needs the person's consent; commercial licence is paid-only.
Great for
Full songs from a description, with Suno Studio to edit them.
Watch out
Usage rights vary by plan and generation.

Automation & agents

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Great for
Repeatable flows with human approval steps; self-hostable.
Watch out
Hosting and model API costs add up.
Great for
Connecting thousands of apps in a few clicks, no server.
Watch out
Gets pricey at high volume (billed per task).

Attività pianificate (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini)

chatgpt.com ↗
Great for
Recurring reports without extra tools: "every Monday summarise news on…".
Watch out
Check where results go and which connectors access your data.

ChatGPT dots

chatgpt.com ↗
Great for
Always-on personal agent with its own cloud computer: pursues goals for days, uses connected apps and brings you results to approve.
Watch out
On Pro it is not available in the EU, Switzerland and the UK; set carefully what it can do on its own.

Grok Bot

x.ai ↗
Great for
AI "teammates" with a cloud computer that work on sites and apps even without APIs; several bots in parallel and routines taught by demonstration.
Watch out
In beta, usage billed separately; it signs into your accounts: watch out for phishing and permissions.

Claude Duet

claude.com ↗
Great for
Anthropic's proactive agent: a brief every morning, checks every few hours, tasks on its own cloud computer, approval before acting.
Watch out
Waitlisted preview, US only for now; uses your Claude plan limits.

Meta Muse

meta.ai ↗
Great for
Meta's personal agent with a browser in a virtual machine: shopping, bookings and long tasks in the background.
Watch out
US (and Canada) only for now; privacy and transparency concerns (Amazon blocked it).

Local AI & privacy

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Great for
Run open-weights models on your computer: data never leaves the machine.
Watch out
Needs lots of RAM/VRAM; local models trail frontier ones.
Great for
Download and run open models with one command; a base for private automations.
Watch out
Command-line based: some technical comfort helps.

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