a16z Apps Unwrapped

General assistance

Perplexity - AI-powered search engine and research assistant
Claude (Anthropic) - general chatbot, great for projects and sharing work
ChatGPT - you know this one, but check out Advanced Voice Mode to talk to AI

Get work done

Granola - AI notetaker that listens to your meetings and formats the transcript into notes
WisprFlow - AI voice dictation that turns your speech into text in any app
Gamma - make decks, docs, and websites to present your ideas with AI
Adobe - summarize and chat with PDFs
Cubby - AI workspace built for collaborative research
Cora - AI email assistant that organizes your inbox and automates responses
Lindy - build AI agents to automate your workflows

Build an audience

Delphi - AI text, voice, and video clones to chat with your audience
HeyGen - AI avatars to scale your content production or translate your videos
Agril - AI avatars for social media videos
Overlap.Opus - turn your long-form videos into short viral clips with AI
Persona - AI agent builder for creators
Captions - AI avatars and video editing (e.g., auto-captions, correct eye contact)

Build a product

Cursor - AI code editor that knows your codebase
Replit - AI agents to make apps and sites from natural language
Anychat - use any AI model in one place
Codeium - AI-powered autocomplete for your code

Get creative

ElevenLabs - realistic AI voices
Suno.Udio - create songs / music from text prompts
Midjourney.Ideogram.Playground - AI image generation
Runway.Kling.Viggle - AI video generation
Krea - AI creative canvas to make and enhance images and video
Photoroam - AI image editor, great for product photos and visuals

Learn or grow

Roamhub - interactive journal that uses AI to surface insights
GoodInside - parenting co-pilot with personalized support
Ada Health - get an AI-powered assessment of medical symptoms
Ash - personalized AI counselor/coach
NotebookLM - turn any document into an AI podcast
Particle - AI news app that combines multiple articles into summarized stories

Have fun

Remix - social app for creating and sharing AI images and video
Meta Imagine - make AI images of yourself, family, and friends in Meta apps
Grok - chatbot from xAI (use it here!)
Curio - toys for kids to talk to, powered by AI voices