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

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