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Updated October 25, 2026

New and rising 6

The tools climbing fastest right now. Checked every Monday.

Manus

Up 10 places on world web traffic in August 2026.

+10
OpenRouter

Up 8 places on world web traffic in August 2026.

+8
Qwen

Up 7 places on world web traffic in August 2026.

+7
Hugging Face

Up 7 places on world web traffic in August 2026.

+7
Grammarly

Up 7 places on world web traffic in August 2026.

+7
ElevenLabs

Up 5 places on world web traffic in August 2026.

+5

Sell more 9

Pick what you need: a CRM, a dialer, voice agents, leads or email.

CRM → Close

Calls, emails, texts and deals in one place. Made for small teams that sell on the phone.

Tip: Make a smart view of leads with 0 calls and work it top to bottom every morning.

Or try HubSpot or Pipedrive.

I use Close to run my calls and my clients' calls. I am a Close partner. I don't work for Close.

Power dialer → Nooks

Calls many numbers in a row so you talk more and wait less. 4.8 stars from over 1,000 G2 reviews.

Tip: Block one hour a day at the same time and only call. Record one voicemail and drop it, so you never wait for the beep.

Or try Orum or Trellus.

AI voice agents → Retell AI

Phone agents that answer, call back and book. One of the fastest growing tools on this page.

Tip: Start with one job, like calling back missed calls within 5 minutes. Give it your FAQ and booking link, then listen to the first 20 calls. Only let it call people who asked to hear from you.

Or try Vapi or Synthflow.

Find leads → Apollo.io

A big database of people and companies, with filters and email built in.

Tip: Save one search for your best buyer: one job title, one industry, one company size. Work that list before you build another.

Or try Clay or Sales Navigator.

Phone numbers and emails → FullEnrich

Checks many data sources in a row, so more people come back with a mobile.

Tip: Only look up the people you will really call this week. You pay for what you use.

Or try Prospeo or Wiza.

Cold email → Instantly

Sends from many inboxes and warms them up. 4.8 stars from over 4,000 G2 reviews.

Tip: Send from a second domain, never your main one, and warm each inbox up for 2 weeks before your first send.

Or try Smartlead or lemlist.

LinkedIn outreach → PhantomBuster

Runs LinkedIn steps for you, like connect requests and pulling lists.

Tip: Send about 15 connect requests a day with no pitch in the note. Message people only after they accept.

Or try HeyReach or Waalaxy.

Meeting notes → Fathom

Records, writes notes and pulls out next steps. 5.0 stars from almost 7,000 G2 reviews.

Tip: Right after each call, paste the next step into your CRM with a date, before you open anything else.

Or try Granola or Fireflies.

Booking calls → Calendly

A link people click to pick a time. No back and forth.

Tip: Send your link while they are still on the phone with you, and stay on until they book.

Or try Cal.com or Chili Piper.

Market 9

Ads, video, pictures, voice and content.

Design → Canva

Posts, slides, flyers and short videos from ready made layouts.

Tip: Set up a Brand Kit once with your logo, colors and fonts (Canva Pro). Every new design then starts on brand.

Or try Figma or Adobe Express.

AI video ads → Higgsfield

Makes video ads and scenes from a picture or a line of text.

Tip: Make 5 versions of the same ad with 5 different first lines. Keep the one people watch past 3 seconds.

Or try Creatify or Arcads.

Video of you talking → HeyGen

Turns a short clip of you into an avatar that reads any script.

Tip: Record 2 clean minutes of you talking to the camera for your avatar. Then turn each post you write into a 60 second video.

Or try Synthesia.

Edit short videos → CapCut

Fast phone and desktop editing, with auto captions and templates.

Tip: Turn on auto captions for every clip. Lots of people watch with the sound off.

Or try Descript.

Long video into shorts → Opus Clip

Finds the best moments in a long video and cuts them into shorts.

Tip: Feed it one long video a week, like a call or a talk, and post one short a day from it.

Or try Descript or CapCut.

Make and edit pictures → Gemini

Edits a real photo by asking, and keeps the product looking the same.

Tip: Upload a photo of your product and ask for it on a clean white background. Then ask for 3 scenes where people use it.

Or try ChatGPT or Midjourney.

Voiceovers → ElevenLabs

Natural voices in many languages, plus a clone of your own voice.

Tip: Clone your voice from a minute or more of clean audio. Fix a mistake in a video by typing the new line.

Or try HeyGen.

Content ideas → Poppy AI

Put videos, posts and notes on one board and ask AI about all of them.

Tip: Add 3 of your best posts and 3 videos from people you look up to. Ask for 10 first lines in your voice.

Or try Jasper.

Music for ads → Suno

Makes a full song or a background track from a few words.

Tip: Ask for a 30 second upbeat track with no words for under your ads. Paid plans let you use songs in ads.

Run the business 9

Writing, research, planning, docs and the boring tasks.

Write emails and docs → Claude

Writes clear and plain, and works well with long files.

Tip: Paste 3 emails you wrote and liked. Ask it to write the next one in the same voice.

Or try ChatGPT or Gemini.

Ask anything → ChatGPT

The most used AI in the world, on web and phone.

Tip: Turn on memory and tell it once what you sell, who buys it and how you talk. Every answer gets more useful.

Or try Gemini or Claude.

Research with sources → Perplexity

Searches the web and shows a link for each fact.

Tip: Ask for the answer as a table with a link next to every number. Click 2 links to check before you use it.

Or try Gemini or ChatGPT.

What is new right now → Grok AI

Reads what people post on X as it happens.

Tip: Ask what people on X are saying today about your industry, and ask for links to the posts.

Or try Perplexity.

Docs and notes → Notion

Docs, notes, tasks and a wiki in one place, with AI built in.

Tip: Make one page per client with their calls and to dos. Ask Notion AI to sum it up before each call.

Or try ClickUp or Airtable.

Slides and pitch decks → Gamma

Turns an outline or a doc into a clean deck in a minute.

Tip: Paste your outline and ask for 8 slides. Pick the theme once at the end, not slide by slide.

Or try Canva.

Connect your apps → Zapier

When something happens in one app, it does a step in another. No code.

Tip: Start with one zap: a new form answer becomes a lead in your CRM and an email to you.

Or try Make or n8n.

Let an agent do a task → Grok Bot

An AI with its own computer that works through tasks while you do other things.

Tip: Give it one boring weekly task, like pulling last week's numbers into a sheet. Check its work the first 3 times.

Or try Manus or Claude in Chrome.

Translate → DeepL

Translations that read like a person wrote them.

Tip: Upload the whole file instead of pasting text, so the layout stays the same.

Or try Gemini.

Build 5

Apps, websites and code, even if you never coded.

Build an app → Claude Code

Builds and changes real software when you ask in plain words.

Tip: Ask it to read your project and write a plan first. Say yes to the plan before it changes any files.

Or try Cursor or Codex.

Build a website → Lovable

Builds a full site or web app from a chat. Its revenue doubled in about 7 months this year.

Tip: Describe one page first: your offer, who it is for and one button. Add more pages after the first one looks right.

Or try Framer or Base44.

Fix code → Cursor

A code editor with AI that knows your whole project.

Tip: Paste the full error and ask for the cause first. Ask for the fix only after the cause makes sense.

Or try Codex.

A database for your app → Supabase

A database, logins and file storage in one place.

Tip: Turn on row level security before anyone else can use your app.

Or try Airtable.

Put it live → Cloudflare Pages

Free hosting for websites, fast all over the world.

Tip: Point your own domain at it once. After that, every update goes live in about a minute.

Or try Vercel.

Learn 3

Get good at something fast.

Learn anything → Gemini

Explains step by step and can quiz you as you go.

Tip: Ask it to quiz you one question at a time and to explain only the ones you get wrong.

Or try ChatGPT or Claude.

Learn from your own files → NotebookLM

Answers only from the files you give it, with a link to the line.

Tip: Add your files, then make an Audio Overview and listen to it on a walk.

Or try Claude.

Learn a language → Duolingo

Short daily lessons, now with AI practice.

Tip: With Duolingo Max, use Video Call to talk out loud for 5 minutes a day.

Or try ChatGPT.

The top 100 100

Score out of 100. It shows how big and how hot a tool is around the world, not how good it is for your job. For that, use the picks above.

1
Claude

Write, plan and work with your files

Web traffic #3 · App Store top 100 in 24 of 24 charts · a16z #2 · Fast growth

85
2
ChatGPT

Chat, write and answer anything

Web traffic #1 · App Store top 100 in 24 of 24 charts · a16z #1 · Growing

84
3
Canva

Design anything

Web traffic #4 · App Store top 100 in 19 of 24 charts · a16z #3 · Growing · G2 4.7 stars

75
4
Gemini

Chat, write and research with Google

Web traffic #2 · App Store top 100 in 17 of 24 charts · a16z #2 · Growing

72
5
CapCut

Edit short videos

Web traffic #32 · App Store top 100 in 22 of 24 charts · a16z #2

61
6
Notion

Docs, notes and wikis

Web traffic #9 · a16z #7 · Growing · G2 4.6 stars

61
7
Grok AI

Chat with what is new right now

Web traffic #7 · App Store top 100 in 16 of 24 charts · a16z #6

60
8
Figma

Design apps and sites

Web traffic #20 · a16z #15 · Growing · G2 4.7 stars

55
9
Suno

Make songs

Web traffic #23 · App Store top 100 in 12 of 24 charts · a16z #7 · Growing

53
10
Perplexity

Search with sources

Web traffic #16 · App Store top 100 in 3 of 24 charts · a16z #9 · Growing

52
11
DeepSeek

Free chat and reasoning

Web traffic #6 · a16z #5

52
12
Doubao

Chat and make media (China)

Web traffic #10 · a16z #7

50
13
Character.ai

Chat with characters

Web traffic #11 · a16z #8

49
14
Google AI Studio

Try Google's newest models

Web traffic #13 · a16z #11

47
15
Microsoft Copilot

Chat inside Microsoft apps

Web traffic #22 · App Store top 100 in 4 of 24 charts · a16z #6

46
16
Higgsfield

AI video and ads

Web traffic #50 · a16z #5 · Fast growth

44
17
Lovable

Build a site or app by chatting

Web traffic #48 · a16z #8 · Fast growth

44
18
Grammarly

Fix your writing

Web traffic #31 · a16z #4

42
19
Duolingo

Learn a language

Web traffic #28 · App Store top 100 in 21 of 24 charts

42
20
ElevenLabs

Voiceovers and voice agents

Web traffic #43 · a16z #10 · Growing

40
21
Remove.bg

Remove a picture's background

Web traffic #27 · a16z #20

39
22
Kimi

Chat and read long papers

Web traffic #30 · a16z #21

37
23
DeepL

Translate

Web traffic #15

34
24
Qwen

Chat, pictures and video

Web traffic #40 · a16z #24

32
25
HubSpot

CRM and marketing

Web traffic #37 · G2 4.4 stars

30
26
Manus

An agent that does tasks for you

Web traffic #69 · App Store top 100 in 1 of 24 charts · a16z #19 · Growing

28
27
QuillBot

Reword and check writing

Web traffic #51 · a16z #27

27
28
Cursor

Write code with AI

Web traffic #72 · a16z #35 · Fast growth

26
29
Jotform

Forms

Web traffic #36

26
30
Hugging Face

Open AI models

Web traffic #53 · a16z #29

26
31
Quizlet

Study with flashcards

Web traffic #38

25
32
Asana

Tasks and projects

Web traffic #42

24
33
OpenRouter

One key for every AI model

Web traffic #73 · a16z #13

23
34
ClickUp

Tasks and projects

Web traffic #47

22
35
Wix

Websites

Web traffic #52 · G2 4.2 stars

22
36
Adobe Express

Quick designs and posts

Web traffic #63 · a16z #31

21
37
TurboScribe

Turn audio into text

Web traffic #64 · a16z #30

21
38
Picsart

Edit photos

Web traffic #86 · App Store top 100 in 4 of 24 charts · a16z #8

20
39
Gamma

Slides and pitch decks

Web traffic #79 · a16z #30 · Growing

20
40
Otter

Meeting notes

a16z #14 · Growing · G2 4.4 stars

20
41
Replit

Build and host apps

a16z #6 · Growing

18
42
Retell AI

AI voice agents

Fast growth · G2 4.8 stars

18
43
Kling AI

Make video from pictures

App Store top 100 in 1 of 24 charts · a16z #26 · Fast growth

18
44
Vercel

Put web apps live

Web traffic #57

18
45
Supabase

A database for your app

Web traffic #58

17
46
Fireflies

Meeting notes

a16z #35 · Growing · G2 4.7 stars

17
47
HeyGen

Talking video of you

a16z #23 · G2 4.8 stars

16
48
Miro

Whiteboards and maps

Web traffic #62

16
49
n8n

Automations you can host

a16z #45 · Growing · G2 4.8 stars

15
50
Photoroom

Product photos

Web traffic #78 · a16z #36

14
51
Airtable

Databases without code

Web traffic #67

14
52
Runway

Make video from text

App Store top 100 in 2 of 24 charts · a16z #25 · Growing

13
53
NotebookLM

Learn from your own files

a16z #9

13
54
Midjourney

Make pictures

a16z #11

12
55
Meta AI

Chat and make pictures in Meta apps

App Store top 100 in 4 of 24 charts · a16z #18

12
56
Synthesia

Training and explainer videos

a16z #49 · Growing · G2 4.6 stars

12
57
Jasper

Marketing writing

a16z #37 · G2 4.7 stars

11
58
lemlist

Cold email and LinkedIn

Growing · G2 4.6 stars

11
59
Adobe Firefly

Make and edit pictures

Web traffic #76

10
60
Clay

Build and enrich lead lists

Fast growth

10
61
Codex

Fix and write code

Fast growth

10
62
Fathom

Meeting notes

G2 5.0 stars

10
63
Framer

Design and publish websites

Growing · G2 4.5 stars

10
64
Synthflow

No code voice agents

Growing · G2 4.5 stars

10
65
SeaArt

Make art

Web traffic #83 · a16z #42

10
66
Remini

Make old photos sharp

App Store top 100 in 3 of 24 charts · a16z #23

10
67
Meitu

Edit photos and video

App Store top 100 in 2 of 24 charts · a16z #26

9
68
Descript

Edit video by editing text

a16z #21

9
69
Genspark

An agent for research and slides

a16z #40 · Growing

8
70
Creatify

Video ads from a link

G2 4.8 stars

8
71
FullEnrich

Find emails and mobiles

G2 4.8 stars

8
72
Instantly

Cold email

G2 4.8 stars

8
73
Kixie

Dialer and texting

G2 4.8 stars

8
74
Nooks

Power dialer

G2 4.8 stars

8
75
Base44

Build apps by chatting

Web traffic #98 · a16z #46 · Growing

8
76
Apollo.io

Find leads and send emails

G2 4.7 stars

7
77
Calendly

Booking links

G2 4.7 stars

7
78
Close

CRM with calling built in

G2 4.7 stars

7
79
Gong

Call recording and coaching

G2 4.7 stars

7
80
Cal.com

Booking links

G2 4.6 stars

6
81
Chili Piper

Book inbound leads fast

G2 4.6 stars

6
82
Make

Connect your apps

G2 4.6 stars

6
83
Orum

Power dialer

G2 4.6 stars

6
84
Smartlead

Cold email

G2 4.6 stars

6
85
Waalaxy

LinkedIn outreach

G2 4.6 stars

6
86
Attio

CRM

Growing

5
87
Bolt

Build web apps by chatting

Growing

5
88
Granola

Meeting notes

Growing

5
89
HeyReach

LinkedIn outreach

Growing

5
90
Vapi

Build voice agents

Growing

5
91
Wiza

Emails from LinkedIn

G2 4.5 stars

5
92
Zapier

Connect your apps

G2 4.5 stars

5
93
ZoomInfo

Company and contact data

G2 4.5 stars

5
94
PhantomBuster

LinkedIn automation

G2 4.4 stars

4
95
Salesforce

CRM for big teams

G2 4.4 stars

4
96
Webflow

Websites

G2 4.4 stars

4
97
Loom

Record your screen

Web traffic #92

4
98
Lusha

Contact data

G2 4.3 stars

3
99
Pipedrive

Simple CRM

G2 4.3 stars

3
100
Sales Navigator

Find buyers on LinkedIn

G2 4.3 stars

3

How the score works

Web traffic
Up to 40 points. RankmyAI's top 100 AI tools by web visits (Similarweb data). Number 1 gets 40, number 100 gets 0.4. Not in the top 100 gets 0.
App Store
Up to 25 points. Apple's top free and top grossing charts in 12 countries, 24 charts in all. Each chart gives up to 1 point (number 1 gets 1, number 100 gets 0.01).
a16z list
Up to 15 points. Rank on the latest a16z Top 100 Gen AI Consumer Apps (web, mobile or revenue list, the best one). Number 1 gets 15.
Growth
Up to 10 points. 10 if a named source shows revenue or users at least doubled in 12 months or less. 5 for a named 2025 or 2026 growth number or funding round. 0 if none found.
Reviews
Up to 10 points. G2 stars, only with 100 reviews or more. 5.0 stars gets 10, 4.5 gets 5, 4.0 or less gets 0.

A tool with no number for a part gets 0 for that part. No company pays to be on this list or to move up. The App Store and web traffic parts update every Monday. The rest I check by hand.

Where the numbers come from

Web traffic
RankmyAI, Top 100 AI Tools by Traffic. Similarweb data, August 2026. Pulled every Monday.
App Store
Apple App Store top free and top grossing charts. 12 countries: US, UK, Canada, Australia, India, Japan, Germany, France, Brazil, Mexico, Korea, Indonesia. Pulled every Monday.
a16z list
a16z, The Top 100 Gen AI Consumer Apps, 7th edition. October 5, 2026. Web (Similarweb), mobile (Sensor Tower) and revenue (YipitData) lists.
AI chat traffic
Similarweb, top AI chatbots and tools websites. September 2026.
Mobile users
Sensor Tower, State of AI 2026. June 2026.
App downloads
Appfigures, most downloaded and highest earning apps, August 2026. August 2026.
Reviews
G2 product and compare pages. Ratings as shown on October 25, 2026.
Lovable
Lovable raises $400M at $13.3B. September 2026.
Clay
Clay raises $115M at $7.1B. September 2026.
Retell AI
Sacra, Retell AI at $60M a year, up 650%. April 2026.
Notion
Sacra, Notion at $865M a year, up 82%. July 2026.
Canva
SaaStr, Canva crosses $4B ARR. February 2026.
Figma
Figma Q2 2026 results. August 2026.
ElevenLabs
ElevenLabs raises at $11B. February 2026.
HeyReach
arr.club, HeyReach crosses $19M ARR. October 16, 2026.
lemlist
arr.club, lemlist hits $40M ARR. January 2026.
Close
Close, Introducing Chloe. June 9, 2026.
ChatGPT
TechCrunch, ChatGPT reaches 900M weekly active users. February 27, 2026.
Gemini
Implicator, Google puts Gemini at 1 billion monthly users. August 12, 2026. Earlier 750 million: androidheadlines.com, February 5, 2026.
Cursor
Tech Insider, Cursor at a $60B value. Updated June 29, 2026.
Kling AI
Tiger Brokers news, Kuaishou Q1 2026 Kling revenue. May 27, 2026.
Codex
Constellation Research, Codex passes 5 million weekly users. June 2, 2026. Earlier 2 million: gradually.ai, March 31, 2026.
Higgsfield
Dealroom, inside Higgsfield's dash to $1B ARR. September 29, 2026. Earlier $230M: sacra.com, January 30, 2026.
Genspark
SaaSRise, Genspark closes $100M at $2.6B. June 18, 2026.
Suno
AlphaSignal, Suno raises $400M at $5.4B. June 3, 2026.
Runway
Bloomberg Government, Runway valued at $5.3B. February 10, 2026.
Gamma
Pulse 2.0, Gamma raises $68M at $2.1B. November 10, 2025.
Replit
Trending Topics, Replit raises $400M at $9B. March 12, 2026.
Perplexity
Yahoo Finance, Perplexity ARR tops $450M. April 8, 2026.
Otter
Business Wire, Otter.ai caps 2025. December 22, 2025.
Granola
The Next Web, Granola Series C. March 25, 2026.
Manus
Trending Topics, Meta buys Manus. December 30, 2025.
Synthesia
TechCrunch, Synthesia hits $4B value. January 26, 2026.
Base44
Wix Q2 2026 results. August 2026.
Bolt
Sacra, Bolt at $40M ARR. March 2025.
Framer
Sacra, Framer. August 2025.
n8n
Multiples, n8n. May 2026.
Attio
BeBeez, Attio raises $52M Series B. August 26, 2025.
Vapi
NeuronFeed, Vapi. May 2026.
Synthflow
Tech.eu, Synthflow raises $20M. June 24, 2025.
Fireflies
Yahoo Finance, Fireflies reaches $1B value. June 2025.

Hand-checked numbers (a16z, growth news, G2 stars) were last checked on October 25, 2026. Growth numbers come from company reports and news, and some are estimates from Sacra. The full list of sources is in the notes behind this page.

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