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AI ARMY
// THE AI ARSENAL
Tools We Actually Use
No affiliate bullshit rankings. Real tools. Real reviews.
40 tools we've personally battle-tested.
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AI Coding IDEs
AI-powered code editors
4 TOOLS
Cursor
✓ TESTEDAI-first code editor with Composer, MCP, and multi-model support. Powerful but steep learning curve.
editorvscodeclaude
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VS Code + Copilot
✓ TESTEDClassic VS Code with GitHub Copilot.
editormicrosoft
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Windsurf
✓ TESTEDCodeium AI IDE with Cascade for multi-file edits.
editorcascade
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Zed
Fast multiplayer editor with AI built-in.
editorfastrust
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Terminal Agents
CLI coding assistants
5 TOOLS
Aider
AI pair programming in terminal.
cliopensource
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Claude Code
✓ TESTEDAnthropic CLI agent. Agentic coding in terminal.
clianthropic
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Codex CLI
✓ TESTEDOpenAI terminal coding agent.
cliopenai
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Gemini CLI
✓ TESTEDGoogle Gemini in the terminal.
cligoogle
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OpenCode
Open source terminal coding agent.
cliopensource
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Language Models
Chat & LLM platforms
4 TOOLS
ChatGPT
✓ TESTEDOpenAI GPT-4 powered assistant.
🔌 APIchatgpt4
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Claude
✓ TESTEDAnthropic AI. Best for coding and reasoning.
🔌 APIchatreasoning
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Gemini
✓ TESTEDGoogle multimodal AI. Great long context.
🔌 APIchatmultimodal
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Grok
✓ TESTEDxAI unfiltered AI with real-time X data.
🔌 APIchatxai
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Video Creation
AI video generation
8 TOOLS
Haiper
Free AI video generator.
videofree
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Kling
Kuaishou video generation.
videochinese
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Luma Dream Machine
✓ TESTEDFast video generation with great motion.
videomotion
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Minimax/Hailuo
Chinese video AI with great quality.
videochinese
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Pika
AI video generation and editing.
video
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Runway
✓ TESTEDGen-3 Alpha video. Industry standard.
🔌 APIvideogen3
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Sora
OpenAI text-to-video model.
videoopenai
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Veo
✓ TESTEDGoogle video generation via Gemini.
🔌 APIvideogoogle
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Image Generation
AI image creation
11 TOOLS
Civitai
Stable Diffusion models & community.
modelscommunity
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DALL-E 3
✓ TESTEDOpenAI image generation in ChatGPT.
🔌 APIimagechatgpt
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Flux
Black Forest Labs. Great open model.
opensource
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Ideogram
✓ TESTEDGreat for text in images and logos.
textlogos
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Imagen 4
✓ TESTEDGoogle image gen via Gemini API.
🔌 APIgoogleapi
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Leonardo.ai
✓ TESTEDPhoenix model. Great for consistent characters.
🔌 APIcharactersphoenix
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Midjourney
✓ TESTEDBest aesthetic image gen. Discord-based.
artdiscord
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Playground AI
Free image gen with multiple models.
freemulti-model
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SeaArt.ai
✓ TESTEDUncensored/NSFW capable. Great for characters.
nsfwuncensoredcharacters
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Stable Diffusion
✓ TESTEDOpen source. Run locally or via API.
🔌 APIopensourcelocal
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Tensor.Art
SD models online. Good for anime.
animecharacters
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Voice & Audio
TTS, cloning, transcription
4 TOOLS
Descript
AI audio/video editor. Overdub voice cloning.
editingoverdub
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ElevenLabs
✓ TESTEDBest TTS. Voice cloning. Emotions.
🔌 APIttscloning
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OpenAI TTS
✓ TESTEDOpenAI text-to-speech API.
🔌 APIttsapi
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Whisper
✓ TESTEDOpenAI speech-to-text. Best transcription.
🔌 APIstttranscription
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Music Creation
AI music generation
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UX & Design
AI design tools
5 TOOLS
Bolt.new
✓ TESTEDAI app builder. Full stack in browser.
app-builder
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Lovable
✓ TESTEDAI app builder with Supabase integration.
app-buildersupabase
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Replit
✓ TESTEDAI-powered online IDE and deployment.
idedeploy
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UX Pilot
✓ TESTEDAI-powered UX design tool.
uxfigma
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v0.dev
✓ TESTEDVercel AI UI generator. React/Next components.
uireact
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APIs & Infra
Developer platforms
7 TOOLS
Anthropic API
✓ TESTEDClaude API. Best for coding.
🔌 APIclaudereasoning
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Gemini API
✓ TESTEDGoogle API. Vertex AI integration.
🔌 APIgooglemultimodal
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HubSpot
✓ TESTEDCRM, marketing, sales, and service platform.
🔌 APIcrmmarketing
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OpenAI API
✓ TESTEDGPT-4, DALL-E, Whisper, TTS all in one.
🔌 APIgptmultimodal
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Replicate
✓ TESTEDRun any open source model via API.
🔌 APIopensourcemodels
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Wise
✓ TESTEDInternational money transfers and multi-currency accounts.
financetransfers
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Xero
✓ TESTEDCloud accounting software for small business.
accountingfinance
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Research
AI search & research
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