AI tool recommendations: choose reliable tools by task
A top pick and alternatives for 28 common tasks, with pricing and whether each tool opens directly in mainland China
Images and photo editing
Remove or replace image backgrounds
Remove a photo's background and replace it with white or another backdrop, such as product images on white or ID photos with a new background color.
Top pick: PicWish (Zuotang)3 alternativesMake e-commerce product image sets with AI
Turn existing product photos into main images, scene images or a full set of listing images.
Top pick: Meitu Design Studio2 alternativesMake posters, covers and product images
Create well-designed posters or covers without design experience.
Top pick: Gaoding Design3 alternativesGenerate illustrations and images from a prompt
Describe a scene in words and have AI generate the image.
Sharpen blurry photos
A blurry or low-resolution photo needs to be made clearer.
Top pick: PicWish (Zuotang)2 alternativesDesign a logo with AI
Design a logo for a shop, account or project.
Top pick: Recraft2 alternativesVideo, voiceover and music
Edit video and add subtitles
Edit footage, recognize subtitles automatically and proofread them.
Add an AI voiceover to video
Have AI read the script instead of recording a human voice.
Generate video with AI
Generate a video clip from a passage of text or an image.
Top pick: Kling3 alternativesWrite songs with AI
Enter a description or lyrics and have AI generate a song with vocals.
Top pick: Haimian Music2 alternativesRecording and transcription
Turn meeting recordings into minutes
After a meeting, turn the recording into a speaker-labeled transcript and pull out the key points.
Top pick: Tongyi Tingwu5 alternativesConvert video to text and extract scripts
Turn the speech in a video into a transcript for scripts or notes.
Top pick: Tongyi Tingwu3 alternativesTranscribe audio and video on your computer
Turn recordings or videos into text or subtitles, processed on your own computer.
Remove noise and clarify voices in recordings
Phone or meeting recordings with hiss or echo need to be made clearer.
Top pick: Adobe Podcast4 alternativesWriting, reading and translation
Write and edit copy
Write promotional copy, revise drafts, draft headlines and polish sentences.
Top pick: Doubao2 alternativesSummarize long articles and PDFs
Grasp the key points of a long report or paper first, then ask about the details.
Top pick: Kimi4 alternativesTranslate PDFs and foreign-language documents
PDF or Word documents in English or another language need to be translated into Chinese for reading.
Top pick: DeepL4 alternativesRead foreign-language web pages with side-by-side translation
Read web pages in English or another language with the translation alongside the original.
Top pick: Immersive Translate2 alternativesSummarize web pages with an AI browser
Ask questions and organize information while reading several web pages.
Top pick: Quark1 alternativeConvert PDFs into editable text
Extract text, formulas and tables from papers, lecture notes or scanned PDFs for further editing.
Research and papers
Office documents
Make a slide deck
Quickly turn an outline or existing material into a usable presentation.
Write Excel formulas with AI
You know what to calculate but not how to write the formula or function.
Generate mind maps with AI
Turn a topic or an article into a mind map.
Top pick: Xmind2 alternativesGenerate office files with AI
Turn material into editable documents, presentations or spreadsheets.
Newly added
View all →AnyGen
NewAI assistant that generates presentations and office documents and keeps editing them
LM Studio
NewDownload and run large language models locally, with chat and document Q&A
MacWhisper
NewTranscribes audio and video on a Mac, with local models and subtitle export
TurboScribe
NewOnline audio and video transcription, exporting transcripts or subtitle files
Aider
NewEdit code with AI in the terminal, with Git for reviewing changes
VEED
NewOnline video editor that generates and adjusts subtitles automatically
Subtitle Edit
NewOpen-source subtitle editor that uses speech recognition models to generate and proofread subtitles
Tinrec
NewRecords or uploads audio and video, producing transcripts, meeting summaries and to-dos
Microsoft Copilot
NewMicrosoft's AI chat assistant for questions, writing, summaries and finding information
ChatGPT
OpenAI's general-purpose chat assistant for writing, editing, questions and brainstorming
Claude
Anthropic's chat assistant, strong at long-form writing, editing and reading long documents
Kimi
Moonshot AI's chat assistant; upload long documents and ask questions about their content
Doubao
ByteDance's chat assistant for Chinese writing and questions, also available on mobile
DeepSeek
DeepSeek's chat model, strong at reasoning, for Chinese writing and questions
Tokeny
NewDesktop AI assistant that generates slides, spreadsheets, reports and documents on instruction
Manus
NewGeneral-purpose AI agent that independently handles multi-step tasks such as research, reports and websites
Coze
NewByteDance's AI office assistant for multi-step tasks such as writing, slides and spreadsheets
AutoGLM
NewZhipu AI's agent that researches online and produces reports
Genspark
NewGeneral-purpose AI agent for searching, building slides and writing documents
Grok Bot
NewPersonal AI agent from xAI
Comet
NewPerplexity's AI browser, able to browse and take actions on web pages
Dia
NewBrowser with a built-in AI assistant for chatting about, summarizing and writing from the current page
ChatGPT Atlas
NewOpenAI's browser with ChatGPT built in, able to browse and take actions on web pages
Opera Neon
NewOpera's AI browser, able to carry out web tasks
Fellou
NewAI browser that searches, browses and completes multi-step actions
Quark
NewAlibaba's AI search and browser app
Midjourney
Text-to-image tool known for its visual style
Jimeng
ByteDance's image and video generation tool, supporting Chinese prompts
Ideogram
NewText-to-image tool that can render text within images
Photoroom
Automatic background removal and replacement for product photos
Adobe Firefly
Adobe's image generation and editing tool
Canva China
Online design template platform with built-in AI image editing and copywriting
Jianying (CapCut China)
Video editor with built-in subtitle recognition and text-to-speech voiceover
Kling
Kuaishou's video generation tool, creating video from text or images
Runway
Video generation and effects editing
HeyGen
Talking avatars and video translation with dubbing
Hailuo Video
NewMiniMax's video generation tool, creating video from text or images
Pika
Short video generation with a range of effects
Suno
NewGenerates complete songs with vocals from a text description
ElevenLabs
AI voiceover and voice cloning
Adobe Podcast
Removes noise and echo from recordings and improves voice clarity
Udio
Generates music from a text description, with a wide range of styles
Haimian Music
NewGenerates songs from a description or lyrics, supporting Chinese
Miaoxiang
NewQishui Music's AI music creation and distribution platform
Gemini Notebook
NewGoogle's research assistant that answers questions about and organizes imported sources
Feishu Minutes
NewRecords or uploads meeting audio and video, producing transcripts and meeting minutes
Notta
NewMeeting recording and audio/video transcription with AI meeting summaries
Tongyi Tingwu
Audio and video transcription with automatic meeting minutes
Gamma
Generates presentations automatically from an outline
WPS AI
AI built into WPS, available in documents, spreadsheets and presentations
n8n
NewVisual workflow automation platform that connects apps and builds AI agents
Replit Agent
NewGenerates and iterates on web apps in Replit from natural-language descriptions
Cursor
Code editor with integrated AI
GitHub Copilot
Code completion and coding chat inside your editor
Trae
ByteDance's AI coding editor; the China edition offers a Chinese interface
v0
Generates web interfaces and apps from text descriptions