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32 Top AI Apps to Know

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UPDATED BY
Matthew Urwin | Jul 29, 2024

The highly competitive, multi-billion dollar mobile app market has become a
hotbed for artificial intelligence adoption, leading to a proliferation of AI apps.
These days, app users crave personalized experiences, intuitive design and
instant gratification. Incorporating AI into those apps makes it easier for
companies to satiate them. Whether a user wants to edit a photo, learn a new
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 language or transcribe a phone call — there’s usually an AI app for that.

Top AI Apps

• ChatGPT
• Gemini
• Copilot
• Claude

Top AI Apps

ChatGPT

Type of AI app: Chatbot

A leader in the chatbot space, ChatGPT is able to converse with users, answer
given questions and generate new text. ChatGPT is popularly used as a tool to
create written content, like articles, emails, scripts, essays and code. Its
developer, OpenAI, is also responsible for designing AI models GPT-4, DALL-
E and DALL-E 2.

Copilot

Type of AI app: Chatbot

Formerly known as Bing Chat, Copilot is Microsoft’s AI chatbot that’s built

into the Microsoft Edge browser and comes in mobile app form. Copilot is
designed to complete a range of tasks, including answering questions,
retrieving cooking recipes, creating images, planning vacations and even
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capabilities when paying for the Microsoft 365 Copilot version.

Gemini

Type of AI app: Chatbot

Google’s Gemini chatbot is compatible with Android, iPhone and iPad devices.
Users can bounce ideas off of it, generate summaries, get answers to questions
and quickly locate information among Google apps. Gemini comes as a mobile
assistant on Android phones, although Android users can still download the
Gemini mobile app to collaborate with Gemini in 29 different languages.

Claude

Type of AI app: Chatbot

Claude is a chatbot that can handle complex tasks like writing code for
websites, translating text into another language, analyzing images and
maintaining in-depth conversations. Developed by Anthropic, Claude also
balances high performance with strong security features for requirements like
HIPAA compliance and SOC 2 Type II certification. Users can tap into
Claude’s capabilities while on the go using the Claude iOS mobile app.

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Type of AI app: Search

Dropbox makes cloud-based solutions that streamline project collaboration

and allow users to securely store and share files. Its products include Dropbox
Dash, an AI-powered search tool for organizing and sharing content that’s
able to interact with other popular work tools like Microsoft Outlook and
Notion. Dropbox Dash’s features are available via desktop app, web app and
browser extension.

Grammarly

Type of AI app: Writing assistant

Grammarly uses AI to help people produce written communications that are

clear and grammatically correct. For business users, Grammarly’s writing
partner can assist with creating on-brand marketing copy, for example, or
effectively communicating company-wide technical updates. The technology
also has applications for students, offering features to detect plagiarism and
support accurate citations.

Grammarly is Hiring
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Ask AI

Type of AI app: Chatbot

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questions, chat with users and write outlines and other new content based on
text prompts. Ask AI provides various topics to chat about, from business to
entertainment, and can do so across several different languages. It can also
scan and capture text from photos taken by users to start a conversation.

Snap

Type of AI app: Chatbot

Snap is the tech company responsible for the popular Snapchat mobile app,
which allows users to share videos, images and messages that only remain
visible for a limited time. Snapchat’s features include the My AI chatbot that
was built on OpenAI’s ChatGPT technology. Users can exchange messages
with the conversational AI and provide feedback to inform its continued
improvement.

Smartly

Type of AI app: Image generation and editing

With a focus on developing technology for digital marketing, Smartly offers an

AI-powered advertising platform that covers creative production, campaign
launch and management and performance measurement. Its creative tools
include modular image and video templates, generative AI for creating
backgrounds that conform to an ad’s aesthetics and proportions and dynamic
copy creation for producing ads that are optimized across different languages
and dialects.
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Type of AI app: Image generation and editing

FaceApp leverages AI to help users get creative with their selfie editing. On
the app, users can adjust their face’s aesthetic features like makeup, hairstyle
or facial hair, or even change physical features like face shape, gender
characteristics or perceived age. A related app by the same developer, named
FaceApp Video, can apply similar edits and effects for videos.

Facetune

Type of AI app: Image generation and editing

For people wanting to make quick edits on their photos and videos, Facetune
is a popular resource. It is commonly used to make skin touch-ups, whiten
teeth, add makeup and alter face shape. The app also has its own avatar
generator, allowing users to level up their selfies with AI-generated costumes,
hairstyles, backgrounds and more.

Lensa

Type of AI app: Image generation and editing

Lensa has taken social media by storm with its ability to generate artistic edits
and iterations of selfies that users provide. Created by Prisma Labs, Lensa
uses neural network, computer vision and deep learning techniques to bring
mobile photography and video creation “to the next level,” according to the
company. The app allows users to make anything from minor edits like
background blurring to entirely unique renderings.
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Type of AI app: Image generation and editing

StarryAI is an AI art generator that can transform a simple text prompt into
an image. To accomplish this, the app relies on two AI models. The first uses a
specific class of machine learning models called GANs, or generative
adversarial networks, to render the artwork creations. The second uses Stable
Diffusion to create artwork and images. StarryAI is one of many text-to-image
generators on the market right now, and allows users to make everything from
AI avatars to NFTs.

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Alexa

Type of AI app: Virtual assistant

Launched in 2014, Amazon’s Alexa uses sophisticated natural language

processing capabilities to not only understand spoken language, but also
generate it through fluent conversations with users. Alexa’s app can also be
paired with accompanying smart devices to control things like smart
thermostats, wearables, televisions and even cars straight from the user’s
phone. Amazon announced in 2023 that, going forward, its voice assistant will
be powered by a new large language model, one designed to better understand
more conversational phrases.
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Type of AI app: Virtual assistant

As a leader in the AI space, Google Assistant is considered to be one of the

most advanced virtual assistants of its kind on the market. Using natural
language processing, it supports both voice and text commands, and can
handle everything from internet searches to voice-activated control of other
devices. The app is compatible with an entire suite of smart devices, including
refrigerators, lights and cars — providing a truly connected Internet-of-Things
experience for users.

Siri

Type of AI app: Virtual assistant

Launched in 2011, Siri is widely considered to be the OG of virtual assistants.

By this point, all Apple devices are equipped with it, including iPhones, iPads,
watches and even televisions. The app uses voice queries and a natural
language user interface to do everything from sending text messages to
identifying a song that’s playing. It can also adapt to a user’s language,
searches and preferences over time.

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Duolingo

Type of AI app: Education

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global languages, all the while providing aspects of gamification to keep users
coming back. By applying AI, Duolingo’s lessons are paced and leveled
specifically for each student according to their performance. It also uses data
and machine learning to make course improvements, taking into
consideration the nuances of various languages.

Duolingo is Hiring
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ELSA Speak

Type of AI app: Education

ELSA Speak uses AI to help users perfect their English speaking skills. With
speech data and voice recognition technology, the app is able to listen to a
user’s accent and applies a color-coded system of red, yellow and green to
identify how close the user pronounced certain words, as well as provide tips
for how the user can improve. The app also includes language proficiency
assessments, personalized curriculum, progress tracking and tailored lessons.

Socratic

Type of AI app: Education

Socratic provides homework help to students in middle and high school. All
they have to do is take a picture of what they are working on with their phone,
and the AI offers visual explanations to help them complete it. Acquired by
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provides assistance in a variety of subjects, including literature, physics,
biology, trigonometry and more.

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Ally Financial

Type of AI app: Personal finance

Ally Financial’s mobile banking app has a text and voice-enabled AI chatbot to
answer questions, handle any money transfers and payments, as well as
provide transaction summaries. Ally also uses AI to streamline its loan
approval process, extracting data from loan documents and comparing them
with multiple databases to confirm applicants’ identity, employment, income
and other pertinent information.

Cleo

Type of AI app: Personal finance

Cleo is a chatbot that is specifically designed to provide budgeting assistance

by linking directly to a user’s bank account. Using AI and natural language
generation, the app provides general financial advice as well as unique
messages according to whether a user wants to be “roasted” or “hyped” for
their financial behavior. Cleo also helps users set specific budgets and goals,
track their spending and more.
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Fyle

Type of AI app: Personal finance

Available on both desktop and as a mobile app, Fyle uses AI to simplify

employee expense management. Specifically, it can handle expense reporting,
real-time data extraction, travel requests and advances, analytics and much
more. By directly integrating with any Visa, Mastercard and American Express
card, Fyle provides employees with automatic notifications about
transactions, and allows them to submit their receipts directly through other
apps like Gmail, Outlook and Slack.

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Calm

Type of AI app: Health and wellness

With more than 50 million downloads on the Google Play Store, Calm is one
of the most popular mobile meditation apps on the market today. It offers
guided meditation, sleep and stretching services, as well as music and scenes
to help users sleep, relax or focus. The app also uses Amazon Personalize, a
machine learning-powered tool developed by AWS, to deliver more
individualized experiences and recommendations to users based on their data.
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FitnessAI

Type of AI app: Health and wellness

Available exclusively as an iOS app, FitnessAI uses artificial intelligence to

generate personalized workouts according to a given user’s experience and
goals. With nearly 6 million preset workouts, the AI optimizes sets, reps and
weight for each exercise every time a user works out. Users can also track their
progress over time on the app.

Woebot Health

Type of AI app: Health and wellness

Woebot Health combines decades of psychology research with advanced AI to

assess, chat and respond to users’ symptoms of mental health conditions like
anxiety and depression, according to the company. Woebot is also very
intentional about reminding users that it is a chatbot, not a real person, which
establishes trust among users, according to Jade Daniels, the company’s
director of content.

Youper

Type of AI app: Health and wellness

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users about their emotional struggles, and offers personalized advice and
techniques for how to cope. The app also offers a mood tracker, personality
assessments, a selection of mindfulness exercises and more. Like Woebot,
Youper claims its technology is based on decades of psychological and
evidence-based therapies.

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Google Maps

Type of AI app: Maps and navigation

Google Maps aggregates location data from smartphones, as well as user-

reported data on things like construction and car accidents to monitor the ebb
and flow of traffic, determine an ETA and provide users with the fastest route
to their desired destination. The app also uses advanced machine learning
techniques and analysis of historical traffic conditions to predict traffic
conditions in the near future.

Waze

Type of AI app: Maps and navigation

Although it was acquired by Google in 2013, the Waze app remains a separate
entity from Google Maps, and a top competitor to both its parent company’s
GPS and others. In addition to relying on real-time traffic data shared by its
millions of active monthly users, Waze uses AI and machine learning to
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Google Recorder

Type of AI app: Transcription

Unlike many other AI transcription services, Google’s Recorder is free — so

long as the user has a Pixel smartphone. All they have to do is open the app
and press the large red button to record their call, which is automatically
transcribed at the same time. Once the transcription is complete, users can
search through it, edit it, move around sections and share it either in full or as
snippets with others.

Otter.ai

Type of AI app: Transcription

Available both online and as a mobile app, Otter.ai offers a wide range of
services, including the ability to record Zoom and Google video conferences,
as well as phone calls. It uses artificial intelligence to automatically transcribe
those recordings, breaking them down by speaker. The transcription also
includes an automatically generated outline with corresponding time stamps,
which highlights the key conversation points in the recording and allows users
to jump to them quickly.

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Trint

Type of AI app: Transcription

Trint’s AI transcription services have been used by major news organizations.

Its AI-enabled mobile app allows users to easily record, transcribe and publish
content instantly, as well as leave notes and make edits to the transcription
itself. According to Trint, it can also automatically transcribe in over 40
different languages, and translate completed transcriptions into more than 50
languages.

Read AI

Type of AI app: Transcription

Read AI automatically generates meeting transcriptions and produces

summaries complete with topics, action items and key questions. It also has
the ability to track audience reactions throughout a meeting, so users can
locate moments of peak audience engagement within a transcript.

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Rose Velazquez contributed reporting to this story.

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