est. 2026 · ranked by clicks · live

The Hot 50

The future of AI is here. These are the 50 hottest AI apps on the planet, ranked by cumulative outbound clicks.
APPS 50 CATEGORIES 9 UPDATED Live HITS OUT 4,530
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PixVerse

VIDEO

40M+ downloads of prompt-to-short-video, built for social feeds.

OUT ▸ 498 VISIT ↗
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RISING

PolyBuzz

COMPANION

40M+ downloads and climbing. Multi-persona character chat that became the next Character.AI story.

OUT ▸ 416 VISIT ↗
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POPULAR

Chai

COMPANION

Pure character chat with a huge community library and quietly massive session times.

OUT ▸ 361 VISIT ↗
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NEW

Tolan

COMPANION

The alien best friend. Gen Z's non-romantic companion of choice and a genuine phenomenon.

OUT ▸ 209 VISIT ↗
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THE OG

ChatGPT

ASSISTANT

The default AI app on earth. 800M+ weekly users and the #1 global download, month after month.

OUT ▸ 131 VISIT ↗
The Top 20
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Claude

ASSISTANT

Anthropic's Fable 5 flagship. The builder's favorite, with the Claude Code and Cowork ecosystem around it.

OUT ▸ 131 VISIT ↗
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EDITOR'S PICK

AI Brand Scaling

ASSISTANT

AI Agency Dashboard for scaling freelance and local brands using high converting funnels with tracking.

OUT ▸ 125 VISIT ↗
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Aurum Titanium

ASSISTANT

Use the latest models available from all of the major AI competitors in one dashboard. Aurum Titanium uses pollinations ai credits which can be earned for free or purchased.

OUT ▸ 118 VISIT ↗
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Runway

VIDEO

Gen-4.5. The filmmaker's pick and a survivor of the pro-video consolidation.

OUT ▸ 83 VISIT ↗
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Udio

MUSIC

Suno's main rival, relaunched under major-label licensing deals.

OUT ▸ 81 VISIT ↗
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Cursor

CODING

The vibe-coding IDE. The tool that defined the category, now valued around $50B.

OUT ▸ 77 VISIT ↗
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Granola

AGENT

The AI notepad that listens to your meetings. Silicon Valley's quiet obsession.

OUT ▸ 77 VISIT ↗
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Windsurf

CODING

The agentic editor with the wildest acquisition saga in AI. Still shipping, still loved.

OUT ▸ 75 VISIT ↗
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zAI GLM 5.3

ASSISTANT

zAI GLM 5.3 is a swiss army knife with speed. Responsible for stopping major AI hack attacks at huggingface zAI is quickly becoming a preferred open sour tool for security and hackers.

OUT ▸ 74 VISIT ↗
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Luma Dream Machine

VIDEO

Ray 3 era. The strongest creative, iOS-native play in AI video.

OUT ▸ 74 VISIT ↗
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Perplexity

ASSISTANT

The cited-answers engine and the strongest Google-replacement narrative in tech.

OUT ▸ 71 VISIT ↗
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Microsoft Copilot

ASSISTANT

The enterprise default, riding Windows and Office distribution into a billion machines.

OUT ▸ 71 VISIT ↗
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Speak

VOICE

The AI language tutor. Conversational practice that actually sticks. Learn new languages by speaking and conversing with AI in real time.

OUT ▸ 66 VISIT ↗
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CapCut

VIDEO

The short-form editor everyone already has, now stuffed with AI generation end to end.

OUT ▸ 65 VISIT ↗
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Character.AI

COMPANION

Still the biggest character platform. Millions of user-made personas, closer to a social network than a chatbot.

OUT ▸ 64 VISIT ↗
The Directory · 21 to 50
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Google Gemini ASSISTANT
Google everywhere. The front door to Veo video, Nano Banana images, and the deepest free tier in AI.
OUT ▸ 63
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Nano Banana Pro IMAGE
Google's image editor that became a brand of its own. The default fix-this-photo tool.
OUT ▸ 63
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Kimi ASSISTANT
Moonshot's K2.5 era. The Chinese lab whose models even power Cursor's in-house Composer.
OUT ▸ 63
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Lovable CODING
Prompt-to-app for non-coders. $6.6B valuation and the face of the vibe-coding boom.
OUT ▸ 62
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NotebookLM AGENT
Audio and video overviews of your own documents. The researcher's cult favorite gone mainstream.
OUT ▸ 62
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Suno MUSIC
Text to full song in a minute, plus Hooks for turning tracks into vertical shorts.
OUT ▸ 61
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Hypnotic LandersUNDERRATED CODING
The AI landing page engine tuned for one thing: conversion. Pages that hypnotize.
OUT ▸ 61
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Grok ASSISTANT
Real-time X data, Grok Imagine, and companion characters that keep it permanently in the discourse.
OUT ▸ 60
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Hailuo VIDEO
MiniMax's high-motion, vivid generation. A fixture at the top of the video arenas.
OUT ▸ 60
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Leonardo AI IMAGE
The production image suite for game art, marketing, and consistent characters.
OUT ▸ 59
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Ideogram IMAGE
Best-in-class text rendering. The logo, poster, and thumbnail machine.
OUT ▸ 59
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Doubao ASSISTANT
ByteDance's chatbot. China's #1 AI app and a top-3 global downloader.
OUT ▸ 57
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Kling VIDEO
Kuaishou's model leads the value-for-quality race in the Chinese sweep of video leaderboards.
OUT ▸ 56
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Gamma AGENT
Prompt to deck or site in one shot. The AI slides default.
OUT ▸ 56
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Midjourney IMAGE
V8 era. Still the most distinctive aesthetic in AI images, now generating video too.
OUT ▸ 55
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Meta AI ASSISTANT
Ambient scale. Baked into WhatsApp, Instagram, and Messenger for billions of people.
OUT ▸ 55
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Nomi COMPANION
The memory king of companions. Remembers details across months, not messages.
OUT ▸ 54
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GitHub Copilot CODING
Still the most-deployed AI coding assistant inside the enterprise.
OUT ▸ 54
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Replika COMPANION
The original AI companion, still one of the most downloaded relationship-style apps.
OUT ▸ 53
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Bolt.new CODING
The fastest browser prototyping in the vibe-coding stack. Idea to preview in minutes.
OUT ▸ 53
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Krea IMAGE
Real-time generation and enhancement. The power user's infinite canvas.
OUT ▸ 53
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Veo 3.1 / FlowHOT VIDEO
4K, native audio, vertical-first, and free monthly generations on every Google account.
OUT ▸ 51
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Talkie COMPANION
Card-style character browsing that feels like scrolling short video. Younger, faster, stickier.
OUT ▸ 51
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v0 CODING
Vercel's interface-first generator. The designer-founder's prototyping tool.
OUT ▸ 51
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DeepSeek ASSISTANT
The open-source frontier model from China that broke the app charts and never fully left them.
OUT ▸ 50
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Remini IMAGE
Photo enhancement and AI portraits. A perennial top-10 photo app by raw downloads.
OUT ▸ 50
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Replit CODING
Idea to deployed app in the browser. The non-coder's full-stack pick, valued around $9B.
OUT ▸ 49
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Seedance / Dreamina VIDEO
ByteDance's leaderboard-topping video models, feeding the whole CapCut ecosystem.
OUT ▸ 48
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ElevenLabs VOICE
The AI voice standard. TTS, cloning, dubbing, and conversational agents in 70+ languages.
OUT ▸ 47
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Manus AGENT
The general agent that runs whole projects end to end: research, slides, sites, shipped.
OUT ▸ 47