Don't just focus on crayfish; you should check out these 100 most popular AI applications!!

Make sure to find applications that suit your specific scenarios. Yesterday, A16Z announced the current top 100 AI products, with 50 web-based and 50 mobile app versions.
Because web applications are more suitable as productivity tools (excluding those emotional companionship chats), let's first take a look at what these AI applications are used for.
1. ChatGPT: Ranks first, a general AI assistant capable of writing, Q&A, programming, and analysis.
2. Gemini: Google's general large model assistant, focused on multimodal and office ecosystems, after all, with Google’s full suite support.
3. Canva: AI design tool, very convenient for posters, PPTs, and graphics.
4. DeepSeek: No need to explain, a shining star from Tokyo University, a versatile AI emphasizing reasoning and coding capabilities with high cost performance.
5. Grok: xAI’s chat assistant, focused on real-time information and internet-style interactions, Elon Musk’s new favorite.
6. Claude: AI assistant from the innovative company Anthropic, excels at long texts, writing, and coding—really impressive, truly top-notch.
7. AI character chat platform, allowing you to converse with various characters, including original characters, virtual lovers, anime/game-style characters, or user-created personas.
8. Perplexity: A must-see, an AI-powered search engine that answers while you search, providing sources, truly making Google and Bing feel the pressure.
9. Notion: Note-taking and document collaboration platform, using AI for summarization, drafting, and knowledge organization.
10. Google AI Studio: A workspace for developers to debug and test Google models, simply put, a place to develop AI applications.
11. Freepik: Design resource platform, now also focusing on AI-generated images and visual creation. As AI era progresses, traditional image libraries will decline, and companies relying on image copyright enforcement will have to “roll back.”
12. Doubao: ByteDance’s versatile AI assistant, for chat, writing, office work, and learning.
13. JanitorAI: (No description provided)
14. Quark: Quark, from Alibaba, an AI search + assistant + learning and office entry point. But after Alibaba heavily promoted Qianwen, Quark’s future is uncertain.
15. Suno: AI music generation, can produce songs from prompts. There are many now, but I first used this one.
16. One-click background removal, foolproof automatic background erasing—who knew one trick could do it all?
17. CapCut: ByteDance’s international version of Jianying, AI video editing, subtitles, effects. It seems ByteDance’s overseas promotion isn’t as aggressive anymore, probably due to lessons learned from “Iron Shell.”
18. Grammarly: As the name suggests, an AI grammar, polishing, and rewriting tool.
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20. QuillBot: An AI writing assistant, originally famous for paraphrasing and polishing, now expanded into a full writing toolkit.
21. Lovable: One-line generator for web pages and apps, using AI to help you build products.
22. PolyBuzz: Still an AI character chat and community interaction platform.
23. Virtual companion + role-playing + adult-oriented interactive content platform, explicitly targeting adult users with less restrictive chat and generation experiences.
24. Kimi: Domestic high-quality AI, strong in long text reading, summarization, search, and writing.
25. Google Labs: A trial platform for various Google AI experimental products.
26. Qwen: Alibaba’s Tongyi Qianwen, a general large model with a development ecosystem.
27. TurboScribe: Transcribes audio/video into text, mainly for transcription and subtitles.
28. Gamma: AI-powered presentation, document, and webpage generation.
29. ElevenLabs: AI voice generation, voice acting, voice cloning.
30. NotebookLM: Google’s powerful tool, feed in data, and let AI summarize, answer questions, create podcasts, and make PPTs.
31. Arena: An AI model competition and leaderboard platform, a community-driven ranking where users compare different AI models and vote.
32. Generative image platform, more focused on anime and image creation, now also covering video generation, character interaction, and creation tools.
33. Hugging Face: The most mainstream AI model community, a place to find models, datasets, and demos.
34. Crushon AI: Adult-oriented emotional companionship and role-playing chat.
35. Meta AI: Meta’s AI assistant, integrated with social and search Q&A, but recently Meta’s large models have cooled off.
36. AI girlfriends, AI boyfriends, role-playing chat, with clear adult orientation, emphasizing “uncensored🤐.”
37. Photoroom: AI photo editing, product images, background replacement—popular with e-commerce.
38. Pixelcut: AI product photo editing, background removal, marketing image generation.
39. Adot: An intelligent search tool for Web3/AI internet.
40. Higgsfield: AI video generation, camera movement, short film creation tools.
41. Cursor: AI programming IDE, strong at coding, editing, and project reading—both enemy and best friend for coders.
42. Civitai: AI painting model and LoRA community, find models and styles.
43. Midjourney: High-quality AI image generation platform, very aesthetic and textured, somewhat slick, once very popular, now somewhat declining.
44. Manus: Once a viral general AI agent, capable of executing tasks and automating workflows.
45. Kling AI: AI video/image generation platform from a veteran factory.
46. VEED: Online video editing tool, AI subtitles, voiceovers, and video trimming.
47. Genspark: AI search + information organization tool, can directly generate answer pages.
48. GigaChat: Russia’s Sber’s general AI assistant, similar to a Russian version of ChatGPT.
49. Poe: An integrated platform that combines multiple AI models, generation tools, and custom bots—an aggregation AI platform.
50. Tools for background removal, image editing, video background removal, and visual generation for e-commerce.
The ranking of all these web applications is based on January 2026 independent visitor (MAU) data, sourced from Similarweb, representing how many different people each product reached in a month.
Next, the mobile versions—since many are similar to web—let’s list them briefly, just to give a quick look—
1. ChatGPT: General AI assistant, capable of chatting, writing, learning, and working.
2. CapCut: Jianying’s international version, AI video editing, very strong in trimming, subtitles, effects.
3. Gemini: Google’s general AI assistant, focused on search, office, and multimodal.
4. Canva: AI design tool, very convenient for posters, PPTs, and graphics.
5. AI Gallery: Focused on AI-generated images and digital art creation, a creative app.
6. Picsart: AI photo editing and design tool, suitable for posters, photos, and assets.
7. Doubao: ByteDance’s versatile AI assistant, for chat, writing, learning, and work.
8. Microsoft Edge: Browser + Copilot, search + Q&A + summarization.
9. Meituan: Surprisingly, Meituan, mainly enhanced by AI for search, recommendations, and local services.
10. Yandex: Russia’s search and tool platform, AI integrated into search and assistant.
11. Remini: AI photo enhancement, restoring blurry photos, old photos, portrait optimization—almost looks like Redmi.
12. Browser: Browser + AI search, summarization, Q&A portal.
13. DeepSeek: Focused on reasoning and coding with high cost performance.
14. Cici: User-friendly AI chat assistant, focused on companionship, Q&A, and light office tasks.
15. Perplexity: AI search engine, provides direct answers with sources.
16. Adobe Lightroom: Photo editing and color correction tool, AI used for background removal, editing, and enhancement.
17. Baidu AI Search: Baidu’s AI search, emphasizing search-as-answer.
18. Grok: xAI’s chat assistant, focused on real-time info and “internet sense.”
19. VN: Mobile video editing tool, focused on short videos.
20. Edits: Instagram’s video editing tool, aimed at creators.
21. Meta AI: Meta’s general AI assistant, embedded in social and search.
22. Meitu: Meitu, AI beautification, editing, and image generation.
23. Copilot: Microsoft’s general AI assistant, strong in office and search ecosystem.
24. Hypic: AI photo beautification tool, quick image output on mobile.
25. Seeke: Focused on AI search/Q&A or content discovery, lightweight assistant.
26. Notion: Note-taking and collaboration tool, AI for summarization, drafting, and knowledge organization.
27. Photomath: Solves math problems by taking pictures, AI helps recognize problems and explain steps.
28. Gauth: Learning support app, solving questions and assisting with homework.
29. Learna AI: AI learning assistant, focused on language learning and education.
30. Wink: Beauty and video beautification tool.
31. Facemoji: Input method/emoticon tool, AI-enhanced expressions, copywriting, and personalized input.
32. Role chat, companionship, and story interaction.
33. Microsoft Bing: Search engine + AI Q&A portal.
34. FaceApp: AI portrait processing, face swapping, aging, hairstyle changes.
35. NOVA: General AI chat app, similar to an AI assistant aggregator.
36. YouCut: Mobile video editing tool, suitable for short videos and Vlogs.
37. Polish: Image editing and beautification tool, focused on filters, posters, and retouching.
38. B612: Selfie camera, beautification, filters, effects.
39. Photoroom: AI product images, background removal, background replacement, popular in e-commerce.
40. PixVerse: AI video generation tool, focused on text-to-video and image-to-video.
41. Hi Translate: AI translation tool, focused on chat translation and multilingual communication.
42. BeautyCam: Beauty selfie camera, photo editing and beautification.
43. Papago: Naver’s translation app, widely used for cross-language communication.
44. Brainly: Learning Q&A community, AI-assisted answering and explanations.
45. PolyBuzz: AI character chat and virtual character interaction platform.
46. AI Mirror: Entertainment app for AI avatars, effects, and costume changes.
47. Mivi: Video templates and music beat-making tools.
48. SNOW: Selfie beautification, filters, and AI effects camera.
49. VivaCut: Mobile video editing tool, suitable for short video production.
50. BeautyPlus: Selfie editing, beautification, and portrait optimization tools.
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The rankings of all these apps differ from the web rankings, based on monthly active users (MAU), with data from Sensor Tower.
After reviewing these applications, I can only say that AI is developing too fast—you might even feel like “a big model a day, a year in human time.”
What we need to do is stay constantly sensitive to new developments, look more, use more, try more—believe in AI’s value but not blindly trust it.
Let’s be little pioneers, mid-level explorers, veterans, and even ancient gods of progress with AI…