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Promo spaceYour tool hereShowcase your AI tool to thousands of potential users.Limited spots availableLearn moreOn/SpecialContact SalesOn/Special is an AI-powered social media marketing service for small and local businesses, managed entirely through text messages. Owners simply text what's happening, and On/Special creates branded posts using real business photos, sends them back for review and approval, and publishes to Instagram, Facebook, and Google Business Profile. No app, dashboard, or marketing expertise required.Social MediaIntelGraderContact SalesAI-powered grading and learning-intelligence platform that maps student work to curriculum concepts, surfaces mastery gaps, and helps educators review feedback and plan interventions.AI gradingPictro.aiPictro.ai is an AI platform for generating images and videos from text prompts and editing images with conversational instructions.AI image generationUGC AgentUGC Agent helps brands and agencies run AI agents to find Instagram and TikTok UGC creators. It discovers relevant creators, enriches profiles, scores them against your ICP, and exports outreach-ready leads with verified emails.AI AgentsUGCad AIUGCad AI is an AI platform that generates creator-style UGC video ads for e-commerce brands from product links or scripts, using AI avatars, voices, and video-generation tools.AI Video GeneratorAI CMSAICMS.one is an AI CMS for agent-built websites. It turns live URLs, prompts, and brand assets into structured CMS content with visual edit targets, review workflows, media operations, and deploy-ready public sites.AI CMSContent TrueContent True is an AI detection tool that analyzes text and uploaded files to identify likely AI-generated content and provide detailed results.AI DetectionJudgeAIContact SalesJudgeAI is AI normative infrastructure for legal and public-sector AI systems. It models actors, actions, legal constraints, admissible outcomes, causal consequences and calibrated risks before generating legal or policy text, helping teams build auditable, source-grounded and normatively coherent AI workflows.legal AISeed Audio AISeedAud AI is an AI-powered text-to-speech and voice generation platform that converts text into natural-sounding voiceovers for videos, podcasts, audiobooks, advertising, and creative content.AI text-to-speechMeevTrack your brand across every major AI search engine and publish content that earns citationsAI ToolsAI Berkshire SpaceFreemiumAI Berkshire Space turns an open-source investment research framework into a hosted planner for disciplined stock thesis review, four-master analysis, financial rigor checks, quality screens, investment checklist building, and portfolio thesis tracking. The site helps investors and analysts structure research memos before conviction hardens. It is educational workflow support only, not investment advice.AISeedMusic 1.0FreemiumSeedMusic 1.0 is an AI music generator for turning lyrics and style prompts into complete songs with vocals, melody, and accompaniment.ai music generatorFontDanceFreemiumCreate custom font files from style prompts, with exports for TTF and WOFF2 formats for design, branding, and web projects.AI Font GeneratorHireBias AuditHireBias Audit helps employers and HR compliance teams test AI recruiting tools for adverse impact, 4/5 rule flags, NYC Local Law 144 audit evidence, EEOC algorithm audit preparation, and compliance report generation. Teams can use it before adopting or reviewing an AI resume screener, interview scoring model, sourcing workflow, or hiring vendor. The product organizes applicant-flow inputs, protected-group pass rates, risk flags, evidence notes, and report-ready outputs in one workflow.AIString Art GeneratorAn AI-powered browser tool that converts uploaded images into customizable string-art patterns, with previews and export options for physical recreation.AI art generatorHolidayOpsFreemiumAI workspace for cross-border holiday payment risk, reviewed drafts, reminders, exports, and action history.AI payment operationsArvyaContact SalesArvya helps investment banking and private equity teams keep live deal work current across Outlook, Teams, meetings, trackers, CRM, documents, and data rooms. It drafts scheduling replies, buyer tracker updates, CRM logs, meeting notes, weekly updates, follow-ups, and source-cited deal answers for human approval.Investment BankingAI Cleanup DoctorAI Cleanup Doctor is a lead-response cleanup tool for contractors and local service agencies. It reviews where paid inquiries can leak after the first click: missed calls, stale form routing, slow follow-up, unclear service-area proof, and CRM handoff gaps. Teams use it to prioritize operational fixes before increasing ad spend.contractor marketingFurWallFreemiumFurWall turns pet photos into custom phone wallpapers across many visual styles for dogs, cats, and other pets. Users upload a pet photo, preview AI-generated wallpaper options, and purchase the final download they like.AIPlaycodeFreemiumPlaycode is an AI website and app builder for small businesses, freelancers, and entrepreneurs. Describe what you need in plain language, then Playcode creates, hosts, and updates live websites and web apps with visual editing, custom domains, and one-click publishing.AI website builderMusikMusik is an all-in-one AI music generator and editing workspace for creating songs, making AI covers, extending tracks, removing vocals, separating stems, and cloning music styles.ai music generatorFable5Fable5 is a Claude-focused token counter and API cost calculator for Anthropic API users. It helps estimate token usage and real API costs before running prompts or long-context workflows, with model pricing references and support for cache read/write, long context, and batch pricing.ClaudeMinutesAIFreeMinutesAI turns pasted meeting or video transcripts into structured summaries, decisions, and action items without adding a bot to calls.AI meeting notesrunwayaleph.netFreeRunwayaleph.net is an AI-powered video editing platform that transforms video content through simple text prompts using latest runway aleph technology. Users can add/remove objects, generate new camera angles, apply style transfers, and modify lighting with professional-quality results in minutes.New Users Get Free Credits Upon RegistrationRunway Aleph,AI,viedoPrompt LibraryFreePrompt Library is a curated collection of structured prompts for ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, marketing, writing, productivity, and business workflows.AI promptsInkfox AIInkfox AI is a free AI image and video generator for creating visuals from text, editing images, removing backgrounds, upscaling, and generating video with multiple AI models.AIPhoto to StickerA browser-based tool that uses a local model to remove photo backgrounds and create transparent sticker PNGs. Users can refine edges, add an outline, and download the result.photo to stickerAnyCrawlerFreemiumAnyCrawler provides web data API infrastructure for AI agents and applications. It supports live web search, page fetching and rendering, clean Markdown extraction, and screenshots through simple API endpoints.AI AgentsTrendShortTrendShort is an AI mini-drama creation workflow for creators who start with scripts, Reddit-style stories, podcast segments, or short drama ideas. It helps structure the story into scenes, create character visuals, generate voice and captions, produce vertical video shots, and export a finished video for Shorts, Reels, TikTok, or mini-drama testing.AI videoGenderSwap AIGenderSwap AI is an online AI photo tool that transforms a portrait into realistic masculine, feminine, and androgynous versions while keeping the person recognizable. It also supports avatar-style results and reveal videos.AIPaper BananaPaper Banana is an AI-powered academic diagram generation platform that helps researchers and academics create publication-quality illustrations from text prompts. Powered by advanced AI models including Gemini and ChatGPT Image, it supports multiple diagram types: - ML Architecture Diagrams: Transformer, agent, RAG, diffusion, GAN, GNN, U-Net, and MoE diagrams - Pipeline & Workflow: Research pipelines, evaluation systems, and feedback loops - Comparison & Mindmap: Decision trees, quadrant matrices, and conceptual maps - Statistical Charts: Benchmark bars, ROC curves, forest plots, and error analyses - Engineering Systems: Control systems, edge-cloud pipelines, and safety layers - Life Science & Medicine: Pathways, experimental panels, and cell cycles - Educational Infographics: Process cycles, timelines, and technical explainers Key features include text-to-diagram generation, image-to-image polish, multiple export formats (PNG, SVG, PDF, PPTX, DrawIO), and reference image support. Whether you are writing a conference paper, preparing a grant proposal, or creating educational materials, Paper Banana provides the tools to produce professional academic diagrams quickly.AIGLM-ImageFreeTransform text-dense, knowledge-rich ideas into crisp, high-fidelity visuals, with expressive text rendering, precise editing, and powerful text-to-image generation.AI image generatorNoterichFreemiumNoteRich is an offline-first browser note-taking app with AI knowledge search, rich-text and Markdown editing, and peer-to-peer synchronization.AI note-takingRecapo.aiRecapo.ai is a freemium AI video editing tool that helps creators and teams turn recordings and long-form clips into polished short videos faster for social channels and product communication.AI video editingReceipt MakerFreeReceipt Maker is a free online tool that lets you create professional receipts in seconds - no signup, no credit card, no hassle. Choose from 100+ customizable templates, add your business logo, itemize purchases, select currencies, and download your high-quality receipt in preferred format.Document GenerationPaddleOCR Readiness WorkspacePaidPaddleOCR Readiness Workspace is an independent readiness workspace for teams that self-host PaddleOCR, validate Docker and Serving setups, diagnose install errors, and turn document OCR pipelines into auditable runbooks.OCRDigestlyFreemiumDigestly is an AI study hub that turns a student’s own course materials into structured notes, flashcards, quizzes, and exam prep study sets.AI study toolAnimation AIFreemiumAnimation AI is an AI video generation platform that turns text prompts, images, and reference media into polished MP4 videos. It gives creators an easy workflow for text-to-video, image-to-video, and reference-to-video generation, with credits, saved creations, and downloadable results.AI Video GeneratorChaohetiFreemiumChaoheti is an all-in-one AI creation platform for images, videos, presentations, music, voice, PSD layer reconstruction, ecommerce product visuals, and general AI chat workflows. It helps creators, ecommerce teams, designers, educators, and operators generate and edit production-ready creative assets from one web workspace.AI image generationAgentmemoryPaidAgentmemory gives AI coding agents and MCP workflows governed long-term memory for repositories, decisions, procedures, and team handoffs. It is built for teams using Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, OpenAI agents, and agentic development workflows that need persistent recall instead of disposable chat context. Agentmemory helps preserve project knowledge, operating procedures, implementation decisions, review notes, and repeatable workflow memory so teams can keep long-running engineering work organized across sessions.AI coding agentsFigrFreemiumFigr is an AI product designer that understands your existing product. It captures screens, flows, design systems, docs, analytics, and code context to help teams make better UX decisions, map edge cases, write PRDs, and generate Figma-ready designs that fit their product.AI product designDestinyFreemiumAI-powered palm-reading tool that analyzes uploaded hand photos and generates a palm-reading report with a free preview.palmistryXMACNAContact SalesXMACNA cria Funcionarios Digitais com IA para empresas que precisam vender, atender clientes e automatizar processos com mais velocidade. A solucao combina agentes de IA, operacao por WhatsApp, qualificacao de leads, automacao de CRM, memoria de longo prazo e supervisao humana para operar 24/7.AI agentsFerryAPIUsage-basedFerryAPI is a low-cost OpenAI-compatible AI API gateway for global teams. It provides reliable multi-model access, prepaid USD balance, token usage billing, API key management, model availability, quota control, and developer-friendly docs for Chat Completions.AI APIVoxCPM StudioPaidVoxCPM Studio helps product, content, and engineering teams plan VoxCPM voice work before production. Paste a script, choose voice mode and target languages, then receive a readiness score, risk flags, consent checklist, batch plan, and exportable deployment handoff for VoxCPM text-to-speech workflows.VoxCPMWorld-MeetingUsage-basedWorld-Meeting creates private browser-based video meetings with real-time voice translation, translated voice, live subtitles, screen sharing, and guest access by link. It is pay-per-meeting, so hosts can run occasional international calls without buying a monthly subscription.AI meeting translatorMelodyCraft AppFreemiumMelodyCraft App is an AI music app that turns lyrics, prompts, and ideas into full songs, AI covers, and creator-ready music content.ai musicBlack & Gold SEOFreemiumBlack & Gold SEO is an AI-powered SEO platform for audits, AI search optimization, content planning, backlinks, reporting, and one-click site improvements.SEO