This content originally appeared on DEV Community and was authored by Mounir Mouawad
We’re big fans of the Awesome AI tools list and we all use it to discover new AI tools over at Portia AI. My latest and favourite find is Merlin: A Chrome extension that allows me to ask “how to” questions on any app rather than flipping over to ChatGPT or Claude to ask.
Here are five tools we use a lot and wish were on the Awesome AI Tools list:
Textual – We love spicing up our terminal interface for using the Portia SDK and even non-technical customers love it when I run demos from the terminal now. We all have our favourite terminal flavour of it – I made mine with Atari retro vibes
holler if you’re using Portia and want the code for it!Mistral OCR – We think it’s the best balance of cost, speed and performance for OCR on the market right now. We also admittedly have soft spot for our neighbours across the English Channel over in La France
.Visily – Figma for non-designers, it’s my go-to when brainstorming early UX mocks with front-end engineers and UX designers. I especially love the ability to turn any screenshot into a wireframe because I can bring inspirations to life with some tweaks super quickly.
Podcastfy – I can’t say for sure why they skipped the “i” in their name but we love that they are an open source and equally powerful alternative to NotebookLM. One of our engineers built a bite-sized AI news podcast that I listen to during my commute daily. You can recreate it here using Portia SDK or get the daily podcast on our Discord server’s #ai-news channel.
OpenRouter – We love OpenRouter because it allows you to easily try out new models and load balance between models. We actually got an open source contribution for this one recently, so we should be supporting it
This content originally appeared on DEV Community and was authored by Mounir Mouawad