ChatGPT is getting more impressive every year, but that’s just one app in a sea of possibilities. Right now, there’s a bit of everything for nearly every productivity problem: from new intelligent features on apps you already love, to entirely new platforms with jaw-dropping functionality. I’ve been playing around with AI tools for a while now, and I’ve continued to update this list with lots of research and testing from me and the team at Zapier. With that, here are more than 50 AI productivity tools that will change the way you work.
- Claude:
Anthropic’s safe and creative chatbot, Claude builds Artifacts: it can code simple interactive interfaces, write documents in a separate tab, or even design games for you. Make changes with prompts on the left side of the screen and see them come into shape on the right.
Zapier also integrates with Claude, enabling you to orchestrate sophisticated workflows that combine its reasoning capabilities across your tech stack. For example, you can use AI to analyze contracts or research reports, enrich the output with contextual data, and then distribute those findings across Slack, email, or your internal knowledge base—all without manual intervention. Discover more ways to automate Claude.
- Meta AI:
Meta AI is available across Meta’s social apps globally, and even as a standalone assistant powered by Meta’s latest LLM. You can talk to it in conversations, tag it in chats, generate or edit images, and feed it context from Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger for richer responses.
Meta AI is clearly part of Meta’s vision to weave AI through its social ecosystem. If you’re active on any of Meta’s apps, it’s worth trying—just keep in mind that enabling Meta’s AI features does come with some privacy red flags. You have to sign in with an Instagram or Facebook account to access Meta AI, which means the assistant will pull context from your social data—including private messages—to both tailor responses and train its models.
- Botpress:
Botpress isn’t hard to use, exactly, but it’s definitely built with developers in mind. You’ll likely spend more time reading the documentation here than with most AI tools, but that’s kind of the point: Botpress is made for building serious bots.
The app combines prompts, knowledge bases, tools, and communication channels so you can design custom agents that actually do what you need, whether that’s handling customer chats, running internal workflows, or living on your website as a helpful AI concierge. It also has a great visual builder, as well as plenty of options for data management and integrations.
- Perplexity:
Leading the pack, Perplexity is attracting a lot of attention due to its high-quality answers, great quoting of sources, and staying on topic even as you ask follow-up questions. It uses a combination of Google’s, Bing’s, and proprietary ranking signals to decide which results are best to base the AI response on. It’s really good to use alongside a classic Google search if you’re digging into tricky topics—I’m still amazed by the niche things I found while researching with Perplexity. Curious? Read Zapier’s Perplexity full guide here.
Because Perplexity integrates with Zapier, you can connect it with thousands of other apps, embedding an AI orchestration layer into every step of your daily workflows. For example, you can automatically capture new industry news from Perplexity, have AI generate an executive summary with key takeaways and suggested actions, and share it with your leadership team in Slack. Learn more about how to automate Perplexity.
- Notion:
Notion is a strong workspace for organizing your knowledge, but even if you’re disciplined, important pages will still fall through the cracks. Not anymore with Notion AI: grounded on your data, it generates answers and points you to the sources, revealing that lost insight you recorded in a meeting years ago.
When you connect Notion to Zapier, you can embed Notion into broader, AI-orchestrated workflows that keep Notion in sync with the rest of your business processes. For example, when a new task is added in Asana, you can use Notion AI to draft a project brief, and alert your team in Slack when it’s ready for review. Discover more ways to automate Notion.
Conclusion:
No matter how much of a full-blown AI enthusiast you are, it’s important to remember that these are merely tools. They save you time, spark ideas, and offer new angles. Remember to always use your judgment and keep your attention on the objective of what you’re working on. Also: always start with the problem, not the solution—that way you don’t end up with an AI tools graveyard.
Another big risk: losing too much time feeding prompts to the AI, or generating so much output that it becomes difficult to edit, manipulate, and put together. Sharpen your cutting and editing skills to curb the excess, and you’ll do great.
With all that in mind, it’s time to enjoy. Try out these tools, and see why AI is the next big productivity leap.