The Best AI Tools for Productivity

Artificial intelligence is changing the way we live and work. You can use AI in many ways to improve productivity, including content creation, and automation and to provide valuable insights on your work. Indeed, researchers found that using tools like chatbots helped increase the productivity of workers by almost 15% at one tech company.

With the capabilities of AI ever-evolving, it’s better to embrace AI rather than fear it. To help get you started, we will look at some of the best AI tools for productivity in the rest of this piece. Spoiler Alert: None of them is ChatGPT. If you want to read more on ChatGPT, see 4 Ways to Use ChatGPT to Help with Time Management.

For now, though, let’s jump in and find out how these different AI tools could help you save time, streamline your workflow, and boost your productivity.

What Are AI Tools for Productivity?

Before we get into the list itself, we should clarify what we mean when we refer to AI tools for productivity.

Artificial intelligence productivity tools automate tasks and increase productivity using AI. These tools can help you create content, enhance text, generate images, create videos, take notes, make transcriptions, create presentations, conduct research, and automate all manner of processes.

By doing so, they help streamline your workflow and make you more efficient and productive.

Without further ado, let’s dive into the list of cool AI tools for productivity.

Jasper

With Jasper, you can concentrate on other things aside from writing content, such as coming up with exciting new ideas.

Jasper includes some cool built-in features to help you create content fast. It also helps you make your content high-quality and accurate.

As well as helping you create excellent content, it can be used for many different types of content from website and social media posts to LinkedIn posts and YouTube scripts. They also have plug-ins for WordPress and Google Drive which are both easy to use.

There are three payment plans available:

• Creator – £30.80 a month.
• Teams – £78.22 a month.
• A custom price for a Business Plan can be negotiated with their sales team.

Calendar

This is a fantastic calendar and scheduling tool. There are many different ways to view your schedule, ranging from daily to yearly. You can view everything that’s going on in one place so you can see all the time slots of your team members which can help you collaborate more effectively and become more productive.

To help you get rid of clutter, Calendar will hide elements or features that you don’t normally use so that the design remains minimalist.

You can view up to 10 calendars at once with a unified calendar feature in the app. This app will sync with numerous other software including Google Calendar, Apple Calendar, Zoom, and Outlook Calendar. You can also view analytics in the app and see where and what you’re spending your time.

Using AI, it learns your habits and makes scheduling suggestions which are suited to you, so you can use your calendar more effectively over time and hopefully become more efficient.

Caladar.com has three plans available:

• The Basic plan, which is free.
• A £15.69 a month Standard plan.
• A £18.83 a month Pro plan.

Wordtune

When you use Wordtune, you paste text into the web-based app and get suggestions on how you can improve it. You can then use AI tools to improve what you’ve written.

You can:

• Select Rewrite and get suggestions for the highlighted portions of text.
• Select formal or casual to alter the tone of the piece.
• Change the length of the text by either adding more detail or summarising the points made.
• Add counterarguments and emphasise your ideas.

There is a free version, a premium version that costs £7.85 a month/£94.23 a year. You can also talk to the team about getting a custom price on Premium.

Neural.Love

This is an AI-powered image creator tool that generates stunning images fast if you use the perfect keywords.

The clearer and more exact your vocabulary is, the better the results. What’s more, you don’t need to download anything because it’s all based on the cloud.

You can generate great images for a work presentation, website, YouTube videos, and more. You can even enhance images, add audio, and create videos and mock-ups.

Neural.Love works on a system of credits. Your credits are renewed automatically every month according to your plan. Your credits last for 1 year.

The packages are as follows:

• Free starter (5 credits).
• £23.55 Subscription (300 credits).
• £45 approx. Pay as You Go (300 credits).

Fliki

It takes a lot to make a good video, and involves many different people, from writers, actors, and editors to videographers and crew. The whole thing can be expensive and time-consuming. Luckily, AI can help.

In Fliki, you can create a new file and type in the lines you wish AI to read. Then select a video to pair with the placeholder. Click on the name if you want to alter the sound of the voice. You can then click play to view the video. After listening to it, you can make changes to the text by highlighting it to make the video more fluid and easier to listen to and take in.

Plans range from free to Premium, with Premium costing approximately £70 a month.

Genei

Genei allows you to work best with documents, web pages, and PDF files and is perfect if you need to deal with lots of documents and data fast.

Genei offers a combination of semantic search, word processor capabilities, features to summarise data and documents, and keyword extraction. This allows you to find information fast, so you need not search through reams of data for so long.

You can also tag words with your chosen definitions, add annotations to articles and organise documents according to project. You can thus manage your research better and free up time to read more.

This AI tool can help boost you work more effectively and become more productive.

Prices start at approximately £9.99 per month, but Genei AI does offer a free trial.

Surfer SEO

This AI tool gives you access to an excellent set of SEU tools, based on the web. If you run an online business, this is the tool for you. Features include keyword research, backlink and competitor analysis, and onsite optimisation. You can also keep tabs on your progress when compared with your competitors using the reporting feature.

The plans on offer are:

• Essential (£15.72 a month).
• Growth (£41.45 a month).
• Pro (£58.95 a month).

The prices above are the prices for those plans if you pay annually and get the accompanying discount on the Essential and Growth plans.

Surfer Seo does over users a 7-day free trial so you can see if it suits you before you commit to a paid plan.

Otter

You can capture the audio from meetings, capture slides, and make notes, all using Otter. This makes it easier to produce well-written reports and take accurate lecture or meeting notes. It even lets you include slides for references where necessary.

Moreover, you use it to keep tabs on customer requests and respond to them in a timely manner.

There are four plans on offer, the first of which is free.

If billed each month, the paid plans cost as follows.

• Pro (approx. £13.40).
• Business (approx. £23.55).
• Enterprise (contact sales for pricing).

Todoist

The more tech-savvy among us will know how impractical it is to write out a to-do list on paper. Instead, use the task manager and to-do list app, Todoist, which works across multiple platforms.

With Todoist, planning your day has become easier than ever. You can add different websites to your tasks list and when you switch platforms you can keep all your tasks in the same place, making sure your workflow remains smooth.

You can schedule recurring events, and integrate with your email, documents, and calendar, allowing you to delegate tasks with ease.

There’s a free plan, a £3.20/month Pro plan, and a £4.75/month Business plan.

Read more about to-do lists in “The Eisenhower Matrix and The To-Do List: Which Is Better?”

Growbots

Businesses can gain superb insights to help expand their business with Growbots. It automates your marking processes to help generate more efficient leads.

Growbots can also help you find the best leads and send customised emails at the perfect time to help you increase conversion rates. All you need to do is drag and drop.

If that wasn’t enough, this tool will also analyse how well your email marketing campaign performs with detailed analytics, allowing you to make them more effective.

The three pricing models are:

• Outreach (approx. £38.50 per month).
• All-in-One (approx. £157 per month).
• Pro (you’ll need to contact the sales team for pricing).

Brain.fm

This AI tool lets you create a playlist to suit every mood and situation. It has music to help you sleep and meditate, music designed to help you focus, and is specially designed to work with the pattern of your brain waves to improve mood and concentration.

You can make a playlist depending on the work or activity you’re doing, from work to relaxation.

It costs about £40 per year.

Remail

Email plays a vital role in all our lives. The problem is, that managing your inbox can be tricky and time-consuming.

Remail, a Gmail extension, can simplify it for you.

You can:

• Choose whether you want to send a response, whether it’s positive or negative.
• Draft a message based on input about tone, style, and content.
• Summarise your response in a few words and the AI tool does the rest.

There are four plans available, Free, Starter, Pro, and Pro +. Prices range from approximately £4 a month to £39 a month.

See ‘How to Manage Your Inbox Like a Pro’ for more tips.

Taskade

Taskade can help you manage projects and stay organised by keeping everything you need in one convenient, accessible place.

You can create mind maps, product tasks, workflows, and outlines that all help make sure you never miss anything critical.

Taskade also gives you an overview of the progress you make on a project, and you can access your work from anywhere at any time, making collaboration a cinch.

You can get a free plan with a limited amount of AI credits available each month. If you want a personal and family plan, prices start at £6.30 a month if you’re billed monthly. A business package begins at about £30.60 a month if billed monthly. Both these are cheaper if you pay a yearly fee instead.

Lindy.ai

Lindy.ai can serve as an excellent personal assistant. You can:

• Draft and send emails.
• Manage contracts.
• Take notes in meetings.
• Integrate with all your favourite apps for a better experience.
• Summarise YouTube videos, articles, and podcasts,
• Get a regular briefing from it.
• Automate routine tasks.
• Manage your calendar.

A cool thing this app does is show you which emails are the most important by analysing your inbox, so you can prioritise tasks more easily.

Time Doctor

Whether you work from an office or home, you and all teams you work with can use Time Doctor. By using it, you can stay productive and focused.

Time Doctor tracks your activities and the time spent on work. You then get performance reports. This allows you to improve your productivity by paying attention to the feedback.

If you are using it to monitor a team, you can set up alerts to let them know when they’re working too much or not working enough. What’s more, you can create timesheets and payrolls. You can also create distraction alerts.

If you employ people, they don’t need to install or download anything on their devices for it to work.

The cheapest plan begins at about £4.75 per user, per month, then there’s the Standard plan is £6.65/per user, per month, and the most expensive is the Premium tier, at £13.15, per user, per month.

Wrapping Up

So, there you have it,  details of some of the best AI tools for productivity that we’ve found. Why not choose one or two of your favourites to try today? You might just find that they can speed up your workflows, make life a little easier, make you a more efficient worker, and improve your productivity.

As always, thanks for reading.

*Prices are correct as of August 2023.